The Moral Heart of Vatican II

2020 ◽  
pp. 46-76
Author(s):  
Michael Barnes, SJ
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Traditional Church ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

The background of Vatican II’s pastoral and missionary concerns cannot be separated from what is arguably the Council’s most unexpected and far-reaching document, Nostra Aetate, the Declaration on the relationship of the Church to non-Christian religions. While very often interpreted as changing, not to say reversing, traditional Church-centred soteriology, this chapter argues that Nostra Aetate needs to be understood primarily as an event, a moment of self-understanding on the part of the Church which provokes a radical conversio morum. By calling the Declaration the ‘moral heart of the Council’, the chapter focusses specifically on its original purpose. That the Declaration has opened up a broader interreligious perspective to which all the major religions of the world can relate is testament less to the power of particular theological ideas than to its central conviction that the Church finds its own origins not apart from but through the faith which it shares with the people of the Sinai Covenant.

‘Go to the ant, you lazybones’ (NRSV, Prov. 6:6): The Church and Nonhuman Animals in the World

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-44
Author(s):  
Matthew Barton
Keyword(s):  
Stanley Hauerwas ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

Abstract This article engages with the ecclesiology of Stanley Hauerwas in considering the relationship of church to world within the broader context of God’s creation, which includes nonhuman as well as human animals. In conversation with Hauerwas, an evaluation of understandings of ‘world as creation’ and ‘world as fallen’ gives rise to a new understanding of world, as a public of responsible beings. This understanding produces three questions: what does it mean for nonhuman animals to be perceived by the church as part of the world, how are we justified in advancing such a perception and what are the implications of this? In answering these questions, two distinct classes of responsibility are recognized: animal responsibility, shared by human and nonhuman animals; and responsibility to God, unique to humans. In having responsibility, animals are part of the world to which the church is called to respond; and in responding, to learn as well as to witness.

Church

2019 ◽  
pp. 433-450
Author(s):  
Paul T. Nimmo
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Fourth Section ◽  
The World ◽  
Doctrine Of The Church ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Ultimate Purpose ◽  
Human Institution

This chapter exposits and analyses the central contours of Barth’s mature doctrine of the church, in which the church is innovatively characterized by a twofold ec-centricity—a double decentring of its life and work. In a first section, it considers Barth’s radical understanding of the being of the church in relation to Jesus Christ and the Spirit, and the way in which the church has its originating centre outwith itself, in its being from God. In a second section, it attends to the creative way in which Barth conceives of the church as a divine event, and thereby relativizes the church as human institution. In a third section, it focuses on the significance and content of the human activity of the church, and the provocative way in which Barth locates the ultimate purpose of the church outwith itself, in its being for the world. In a fourth section, the chapter explores in outline some of the critical responses to Barth’s groundbreaking doctrine of the church. Finally, by way of conclusion, the chapter considers the relationship of Barth’s ecclesiology to ecumenical conversation.

Eternity of the world, medieval views of

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.M.M.H. Thijssen
Keyword(s):  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Philo Of Alexandria ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

The problem of the eternity of the world was much debated in Western philosophy from the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries, but its history goes back as far as Philo of Alexandria and the Church Fathers. The principal topic of controversy was the possibility of a beginningless and yet created world. The arguments that fashioned the medieval discussion rested upon assumptions concerning the concepts of eternity and creation. In addition, the issue of eternity intertwined with discussions of the relationship of God to creation, with proofs of the existence of God, with the nature of the material universe and with the nature of infinity. Some of the most ingenious ideas in these debates were obtained from pagan Greek, Islamic and Jewish traditions.

To the results of the discussion about the folklore identity of the Kalmyk tale from “The Captain’s Daughter” by A.S. Pushkin

Neophilology ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 503-511
Author(s):  
Aleksey A. Burykin
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Original Work ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Plot Structure ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Independent Work ◽  
The Relationship

The subject of the work is the Kalmyk fairy tale about the eagle and the raven, which is present in the story of A.S. Pushkin “The Captain’s Daughter” (1836). One group of scientists believes that this fairy tale-parable was composed by A.S. Pushkin himself. We represent those researchers who recognize this fairy tale as an independent work of A.S. Pushkin during a trip to the Orenburg region. Despite the fact that this tale is absent in the manuscripts of A.S. Pushkin and is not identified in the folklore of Russian Kalmyks, there are serious reasons to recognize it as an original work of Kalmyk folklore. This is convinced by the structure of the tale’s plot, which is becoming a series of tales about the relationship of animals, the recording of a similar tale among the Evens – the people of the Tungusic group, the existence of the same tale among the Xinjiang Kalmyks, the availability of information about the Kalmyk woman who told this tale to A.S. Pushkin, the widespread opposition of the eagle and the raven in the folklore of the peoples of the world, the presence of such semantic structures in the indexes of fairy tales and motives of S. Thompson. By the nature of the semantic elements composition and the plot structure, we can judge that neither A.S. Pushkin, nor anyone else could have composed such a fairy tale.

Remarks on the Relationship between State and Religion in Hegel [1982]

2020 ◽  
pp. 199-219
Author(s):  
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde ◽  
Mirjam Künkler ◽  
Tine Stein
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Democratic Process ◽  
God's Will ◽  
The Core ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

Is and can religion be seen as a foundation of the modern state? In this article Böckenförde discusses the relationship between state and religion while reviewing Hegel’s main writings on this question. Reconstructing Hegel’s concept of the state, Böckenförde points out that for Hegel, the state is simultaneously universal and historical. It is more than the political system or government—it is the polity in general and the structured form in which the people exist. Moreover, the state is the materialization of the ethical idea as such and the manifestation of how ‘truth’ in history became reality. In Hegel’s view, ‘truth’ is ultimately God’s will in the world. Further, for Hegel, state and religion are two forms of the same substance: reason. Morality and reason are closely intertwined in Hegel. Religion is a source of morality for the people, and the state and the Church are the institutional manifestations of reason. Böckenförde shows that Hegel identifies individual conscience as the core of each person’s freedom; however, Hegel denies a right to an aberrant conscience, indicating a very limited notion of freedom. Finally, Böckenförde discusses Hegel’s philosophy in light of the state today with its separation of state and religion. Since today’s state does not consider religion as part of its foundation, in Hegel’s view it would ‘stand freely in the air’. Böckenförde concludes, contrary to Hegel, that only the democratic process and the people’s agreement on the things that cannot be voted upon can form the basis of the state.

scholarly journals Interpreting The Council: Archbishop Manning and the Vatican Decrees Controversy

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Paul von Arx
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Ecumenical Council ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Roman Catholics ◽  
The Church

Contemporary Roman Catholics have realized in the last thirty-five years that when an ecumenical council has concluded, it is far from over. The interpretation of the decrees of the Second Vatican Council has become today as critical and controverted as the formulation of the decrees was during the Council itself. The present controversies centre on ecclesiology—the nature of the Church—and questions at issue concern continuity and innovation. Did Vatican II, and especially the Decree on the Church in the Modern World, reform the structure and the governance of the Church toward a greater degree of consultation, subsidiarity, decentralization—‘collegiality’, to use the expression of the Council itself? Or was the vision of the Council for the Church in basic continuity with the centralized, papal-monarchial Church of the First Vatican Council? Around these questions centres most of the contention that engages the Church today: debates having to do with the rôle of bishops’ conferences, the operation of the Roman curia, the relationship of the magisterium or teaching authority to theologians.

scholarly journals MYTHICAL ELEMENTS BASED ON TRADITIONAL MALAY LITERATURE TEXT

2019 ◽  
pp. 78-87
Author(s):  
Norazimah Zakaria ◽  
Mazarul Hasan Mohamad Hanapi ◽  
Makmur Harun ◽  
Farra Humairah Mohd
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sociology Of Literature ◽  
Past Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Myth is a very dominant element in traditional Malay literature. The myths are not set forth in an unorganized manner or randomly, but instead are based on the belief patterns that are already in existence, and this reflects the connection of the society’s thinking with elements of animism that serve as the background of their lives before the arrival of other beliefs. Examples of the development of myth stories can be observed in hikayat (literary works) in traditional Malay literature like Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa and Sejarah Melayu. Meanwhile, examples of oral stories are those found in Cerita Rakyat Malaysia (2008). The aim of this article is to identify the functions of myths found in traditional Malay literature. This article will use the Sociology of Literature approach by Plummer, Ken (1997). The approach of this paper draws on to the questions of how myths became the belief of the society and what is the function of myths in traditional Malay literature texts. The functions of myths can be seen based on these questions. Elements of myths in historical works are narrations that are believed by the locals as actual occurrences that have happened in their locality in the past. Hence, the myth stories became the basis and answers to the inquisitiveness of the people of the past time. The other purpose is to uphold the royal dignity. In traditional literature, literature is viewed as the mirror of society and their documents. The role of myth stories is not only to explain their functions in the society but also to reveal the creativity of the writer or orator and the storyteller. But here, the presence of mythical elements explains to us the relationship of the work from the aspect of thoughts and the world view of that society in the past.

scholarly journals THE IMAGE OF DOGS IN RUSSIAN AND CHINESE SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS (BASED ON LEXICOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL)

2020 ◽  
pp. 26-37
Author(s):  
Яньминь Гоу ◽  
Светлана Геннадьевна Коровина
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Spiritual World ◽  
Research Material ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Card Index ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Superstitious Beliefs

Исследование русских и китайских культур полезно для выявления интернационального и национального. В статье дан сопоставительный анализ китайских и русских примет, содержащих номинацию собака, с позиций лингвокультурологии. Реконструкция паремиологической картины мира помогает понять соотнесенность зоонимической лексики с менталитетом народов двух стран и оценить особенности их мировосприятия. В качестве материала исследования послужила авторская картотека, состоящая из 44 русских и 23 китайских примет, извлеченных из лексикографических источников методом сплошной выборки. Анималистический образ, легший в основу паремий, дал возможность классифицировать приметы с точки зрения доминантной составляющей действия номинации собака как в антропоцентрической, так и в фенологической направленности, выявлено численное превосходство паремий представленных групп. Рассмотрены возможности образования семантического поля «собака» в русской и китайской языковой системе. Дается описание паремий с точки зрения религиозных убеждений, климатических особенностей; приведена оценка единиц, схожих в плане содержания, но различных в плане выражения. Показано, как русские и китайские обычаи находят отражение в приметах как культурно заряженных текстах. Практическая значимость данного исследования заключается в том, что наблюдения и выводы могут быть полезны для расширения знаний о взаимосвязи зоонимической лексики, используемой в составе паремий, с духовным миром и культурой людей разных национальностей. It is important to study the Russian and Chinese cultures in order to identify the international and national about them. The article provides a comparative analysis of Chinese and Russian signs containing the dog nomination from the standpoint of linguoculturology. Reconstruction of the paremiological picture of the world helps to understand the correlation of zoonymic vocabulary with the mentality of the people of the two countries and assess the features of their perception of the world. The author’s card index, consisting of 44 Russian and 23 Chinese signs, extracted from lexicographic sources using a continuous sample, was used as the research material. The animalistic image that formed the basis for proverbs, gave the opportunity to classify the signs in term of the dominant orientation of the action of the dog nomination in both anthropocentric and phenological patterns, the numerical superiority of the paroemias of the groups represented was revealed. The article considers the possibilities of forming the semantic field «dog» in the Russian and Chinese language systems. The description of paroemias is given from the point of view of religious beliefs, climatic features, and the assessment of units that are similar in terms of content, but different in terms of expression. It is shown how Russian and Chinese customs reflect in signs as culturally charged texts. The practical significance of this study is that its observations and conclusions can be useful for expanding knowledge about the relationship of zoonymic vocabulary used in the composition of paroemias with the spiritual world and culture of people of different nationalities.

scholarly journals The Effect of Patriarkat Ideology and the Relationship of Women's Flores Towards Local Culture Preservation

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 428-440
Author(s):  
Benedikta Yosefina Kebingin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Preservation ◽  
World War ◽  
Cultural Interpretation ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The People ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

Research taken location in the region of Flores were in the paint with the culture of patriarchy is written under the theme "Influence of Ideology Patriarchate and the Women's Keberperanana Flores on the Local Cultural Preservation". The life of the people of Flores has been well-established and strict in patriarchal culture since the time of the World War. In the course of time it cannot be denied that the way of viewing women and their involvement has certainly undergone some changes. Nevertheless, still needed an affirmation by deepening and cultural interpretation from time to time. The writer as a nun Congregation Imitationis Jesus (CIJ) has recorded the growth and development of women's place in the Church and in Flores society. CIJ since inception and ala s an establishment atantion against women and its role. The role of the CIJ sisters for and with women struggles so that women have a place and opportunity to play a role in building lives according to their capacities. So in this writing used the method of library research with historical- theological approach. From the results of this study concluded that changing in gender equality discope patriarchal culture growing along with the climate of Christian life baby too new languages that were previously not commonly used, or which appear in a new way.

scholarly journals „Laboratorium dialogu” czyli o dialogowaniu w katechezie

Sympozjum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol XXIV (2 (39)) ◽  
pp. 39-50
Author(s):  
Mieczysław Polak
Keyword(s):  
Human Relationships ◽  
The World ◽  
Ecclesial Ministry ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

„Laboratory for dialogue”, that is, dialogue in catechesis Dialogue is one of the fundamental human relationships. It is also of particular importance in the life of the Church. The article tries to answer the question whether catechesis is a space for dialogue. It first shows the dialogue of salvation as a relationship between God and man. Then it presents the relationship of the Church to the world, which is a relationship of dialogue. Since catechesis is at the service of God’s dialogue of salvation and is an ecclesial ministry, it is therefore also dialogical. There is, however, a specificity of this dialogue, which is based on the spirituality of dialogue. This vision of catechesis is contained in the new Vatican Directory for Catechesis, which describes it as a „laboratory for dialogue”.

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