Gender

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Tanner
Keyword(s):  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Father And Son ◽  
Traditional Doctrine

This chapter puts the theological use of father and son language in the traditional doctrine of the Trinity into perspective by showing that this language has a limited theological point and no exclusive privilege. These terms cannot stand on their own, moreover, without threatening to bring with them serious misunderstandings. As with every set of terms used to discuss the relationship between the first and second persons of the Trinity, the connotations of this one need to be severely modified in ways the simple use of the terms themselves cannot convey. While Anglicanism itself may be loath to change its liturgy, its favourite theological literature gives the whole church reason to reconsider that reluctance. By discussion of patristics, the role of Mary, the mother of Jesus, it seeks to show how gender can be reconceived.

scholarly journals The Nature of Theology and the Extent of the Atonement

Perichoresis ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Stephen R. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
Gregory Of Nyssa ◽  
2 Corinthians ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
Scriptural Exegesis ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
English Baptist ◽  
The Trinity

Abstract This article considers the post-Reformation debates over the extent of the Atonement. It traces the origins of these debates from the articles of the Arminian Remonstrance of 1610 through the declarations of the supporters of the Synod of Dort in 1618-19. The debate is then considered in relation to an English Baptist context, and specifically the exegetical dispute over the meaning of the word ‘all’ in 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 and Romans 3:23-4. Three options are examined and the various difficulties in arbitrating between these various interpretations. Recognising these difficulties, the article goes on to explore the relationship between scriptural exegesis and theology with reference to the formulation of the ecumenical doctrine of the Trinity in the fourth century. It argues that while theology should always attempt to be consistent with the exegetical data on occasion it proves inconclusive, as in the case of the debate over the extent of the atonement. In such cases the role of theology becomes one of mediation as it seeks a way of reading the texts of Scripture that allows them to be heard without contradicting each other. Again, this is illustrated from the fourth century and the Christology of Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa. Returning to the question of atonement with this understanding of the task of theology the article seeks to propose a way to reconcile the biblical texts which speak of the atonement as both universal and limited.

The Vocabulary of the Septuagint and the Church Fathers

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-132
Author(s):  
Gilles Dorival
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
Ex Nihilo ◽  
Hapax Legomenon ◽  
Creation Of Matter ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity

The role of the Septuagint in the building of the Christian identity during the first Christian centuries is more important than it is generally said. The word ‘testament’ or ‘covenant’, for example, comes from the Septuagint, via the New Testament. The Greek and Latin liturgies are filled with references to the Septuagint. The same is true in the case of the Christian spirituality: for instance, the concept of the Christian life as a migration comes from the Septuagint. The Christian hermeneutics is indebted to the Greek Bible: even if knowledge of the allegorical method comes from the Greek philosophers (and Philo), support could be found for it in the verses of the Greek Bible. Finally, the theological vocabulary of the Christians was founded upon the Greek Bible. For instance, in the case of the doctrine of the Trinity, the word ‘person’ comes from the Septuagint. Furthermore, some passages of the Greek translation gave rise to theological interpretations which are not possible on the grounds of the Hebrew text. In Gen 1:2, the Septuagint reads ‘the earth was invisible and unorganized’ and this came to be quoted both in support of the creation of matter ex nihilo. In Exod 17:16, where the Hebrew has a difficult hapax legomenon, the Greek speaks about the ‘hidden hand’ with which the Lord makes war against Amalek; this ‘hidden hand’ played a role in the Christian doctrine of the Logos, which is hidden in the Old Testament.

scholarly journals Trends in missional ecclesiology

2012 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelius J.P. Niemandt
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Missional Church ◽  
Missional Ecclesiology ◽  
Missional Theology ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
World Mission ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity

Missional ecclesiology emerged as one of the significant trends in mission studies and ecumenical discussion in the last couple of years. What were these trends in missional ecclesiology? What kind of missional theology formed and fuelled the renewed interest in missional ecclesiology? What impact flowed from the important ecumenical events in 2010 (Edinburgh 2010 World Mission Conference, World Communion of Reformed Churches and Lausanne III)? This article explained the term ‘missional church’ and explored missional theology as participating in the life of the Trinity and thus mission as ‘joining in with the Spirit’. It explained the relationship between ecclesiology and missiology. The trends in missional ecclesiology were tracked by focusing on an incarnational approach to the church; relationality in the community of believers; the role of the kingdom of God; discernment as the first act in mission; imago Dei and creativity; the ecclesia and local community and finally mission and ethics.

scholarly journals Adam Pastor, Antitrinitarian Antipædobaptist

1917 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 73-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Henry Newman
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Church Membership ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Infant Baptism ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Traditional Doctrine

The intellectual, social, and religious upheaval of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries of which the Renaissance and the Protestant Revolution were phases, along with the decidedly skeptical tendency of the Scotist philosophy which undermined the arguments by which the great mysteries of the Christian faith had commonly been supported while accepting unconditionally the dogmas of the Church—together with the influence of Neoplatonizing mysticism which aimed and claimed to raise its subjects into such direct and complete union and communion with the Infinite as to make any kind of objective authority superfluous:—all these influences conspired to lead many of the most conscientious and profoundly religious thinkers of the sixteenth century to reject simultaneously the baptism of infants and the traditional doctrine of the Trinity. Infant baptism they regarded as being without scriptural warrant, subversive of an ordinance of Christ, and inconsistent with regenerate church membership. Likewise the doctrine of the tripersonality of God, as set forth in the so-called Nicene and Athanasian creeds, involving the co-eternity, co-equality and consubstantiality of the Son with the Father and the personality of the Holy Spirit, they subjected to searching and fundamental criticism.

C. S. Lewis, Augustine, and the Rhythm of the Trinity

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22
Author(s):  
Charles Stanley Ross
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Direct Reading ◽  
Lewis Bases ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Third Person ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Father And Son

Although C. S. Lewis was reticent about holding himself up as an expert in theology, in Mere Christianity he explains the relationship between the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit in a characteristically metaphorical and lucid way. Lewis bases his theology on a direct reading of a passage in Augustine’s De civitate Dei to which he added the explanatory metaphor of the ‘dance’—an image scholars have begun to notice in his fiction—to bring alive to his readers the ‘spirit’ of love between the Father and Son that, as Augustine said, became the third person of the Trinity

The Plight of the Relative Trinitarian

1988 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy W. Bartel
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Law ◽  
The One ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Traditional Doctrine

According to the Law of Non–Contradiction, no statement and its negation are jointly true. According to many critics, Christians cannot serve both the orthodox faith and the Law of Non–Contradiction: if they hold to the one they must despise the other. And according to an impressive number of these critics, Christians who cling to the traditional doctrine of the Trinity must despise the Law of Non–Contradiction. Augustine's statement of this doctrine poses the problem as poignantly as any.

‘Thy word is truth’: the role of faith in reading scripture theologically with Karl Barth

2009 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-92
Author(s):  
Paul D. Molnar
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
General Trend ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Paul Tillich ◽  
Knowledge Of God ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Justification By Faith ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Trinity

AbstractFollowing the thinking of Karl Barth, this article demonstrates how and why reading the Bible in faith is necessary in order to understand the truth which is and remains identical with God himself speaking to us in his Word and Spirit. After developing how faith, grace, revelation and truth are connected in Barth's theology by being determined by who God is in Jesus Christ, this article explains why Barth was essentially correct in claiming that we cannot know God truly through a study of religious experience but only through Christ himself and thus through the Spirit. I illustrate that for Barth the truth of religion simply cannot be found in the study of religion itself but only through revelation. That is why he applied the doctrine of justification by faith both to knowledge of God and to reading scripture. In light of what is then established, I conclude by briefly exploring exactly why the thinking of Paul Tillich, and three theologians who follow the general trend of Tillich's thinking (John Haught, John A. T. Robinson and S. Mark Heim), exemplify the correctness of Barth's analysis of the relation between religion and revelation, since each theologian is led to an understanding of who God is, how we reach God and how the doctrine of the Trinity should be understood that actually undermines Barth's emphasis on the fact that all knowledge of God and all doctrine should be dictated solely by who God is in Jesus Christ.

Jonathan Edwards's social Augustinian trinitarianism: an alternative to a recent trend

2003 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Studebaker
Keyword(s):  
Recent Trend ◽  
Social Models ◽  
The Social ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Traditional Doctrine

Contemporary Edwards scholars frequently use the threeness – oneness paradigm to interpret his trinitarianism. The threeness – oneness paradigm maintains that the trinitarian traditions and particular theologians within the traditions reduce to an emphasis on either divine unity/substance or plurality/persons. Eastern Cappadocian trinitarianism and Western theologian Richard of St Victor use the social analogy and represent the threeness trajectory. The Western Augustinian tradition uses the psychological analogy and represents the oneness trajectory. Amy Plantinga Pauw's writings are the most thorough interpretations of Edwards's trinitarianism in terms of the threeness – oneness paradigm. She concludes that Edwards employed both the psychological and social models of the trinity. She argues that Edwards's genius lies in his ability to draw on both the psychological and social models of the trinity. In contrast, I maintain that the threeness – oneness paradigm is an overgeneralized understanding of the trinitarian traditions and, as such, unsuitable as a template to interpret Edwards's trinitarianism. Moreover, Edwards did not employ two models of the trinity, but one – the Augustinian mutual love model. Edwards's use of the Augustinian mutual love model reflects his continuity with the dominant Western Augustinian trinitarian tradition and early Enlightenment apologetics for the traditional doctrine of the trinity.

scholarly journals PERSEPSI KHALAYAK PADA VIDEO IKLAN THAI LIFE INSURANCE VERSI “ I WANT MORE TIME ” TERHADAP PERAN AYAH DAN ANAK LAKI-LAKI DALAM KELUARGA

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-85
Author(s):  
Fahmi Rizki Fajar
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Father And Son

AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan memahami persepsi khalayak pada video iklan Thai Life Insurance versi “ I WantMore Time “ terhadap peran ayah dan anak laki-laki dalam keluarga. Iklan ini menceritakan hubungan daninteraksi ayah sebagai orang tua tunggal dan satu anak laki-lakinya dalam keluarga. Fokus dari penelitianini adalah pada pemaknaan khalayak yang memiliki latar belakang berbeda dalam dua keluarga terhadapiklan tersebut. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode analisis resepsi. Analisisresepsi dipilih untuk mendapatkan temuan yang mendalam. Ada tujuh orang yang menjadi narasumberdari penelitian ini. Ketujuh narasumber terbagi menjadi dua keluarga tersebut memiliki latar belakang yangberbeda untuk mendapatkan data yang akurat. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan dalam penelitianini adalah dengan wawancara yang mendalam melalui Forum Group Disccusion (FGD) dan studi pustaka.Penelitian ini menggunakan teori Negosiasi Muka dari Stella ting Toomey. Hasil penelitian ini menyatakanbahwa peran ayah dan anak laki-laki dalam video iklan Thai Life Insurance versi “ I Want More Time “ memilikikesamaan dengan peran ayah dan anak laki-laki di kehidupan sehari – hari dalam konteks keluarga, hal inipernah dialami sendiri oleh narasumber laki-laki sebagai ayah dan anak serta didukung oleh penuturaninforman lainnya.Kata Kunci : iklan, i want more time, persepsi khalayakAbstractThis study aims to understand the audience perceptions on the Thai Life Insurance video version  “I WantMore Time” to the role of father and son in the family. This ad tells about the relationship and interaction,the father as a single parent and one of his sons. The focus of this study is on the meaning of the audiencethat has different background. This study used a qualitative approach with the method of reception analysis.Analysis reception was selected to obtain deep findings. There are seven audiences who became the sourcethis research. The seven speakers are divided into two families that have different backgrounds to obtainaccurate data. The data collection techniques used in this study are through in-depth interviews throughGroup Disccusion (FGD) forums and literature studies. This study uses the Advocacy of Stella ting ToomeyAdvance theory. The results of this study shows that the role of fathers and boys in the Thai Life Insurance advideo version “I Want More Time” has similarities to the role of father and son in everyday life in the context of the family, it has been experienced alone by informants as fathers and children and supported by other informants’ narratives.Keywords: advertising, thai life insurance, audience perception

scholarly journals An African Interpretation of Paul’s Understanding of The Holy Spirit

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (32) ◽  
pp. 426
Author(s):  
David T. Ejenobo
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Critical Method ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
God The Father ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Trinity

The doctrine of the trinity has generated a lot of controversies down the centuries among New Testament scholars. The problem generated by scholars to dissect the Personhood of God has resulted in various shades of interpretations on the relationship between God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. It is against this background that this paper seeks to examine Paul’s understanding of the Holy Spirit viewed against the backdrop of the doctrine of the Trinity. This study adopted the textual critical method to examine the various nuances of Paul’s allusion to the Holy Spirit with a view to situating them within a proper understanding of the concept of the trinity. The author discovered that for Paul there is no personality distinction between God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, since man encounters these “persons” in the spiritual realm. Applying the hermeneutical method of contextual interpretation, the author is of the opinion that for the African, conceptualizing God within the realm of the Spirithood of God would be a more practical way of describing the activities of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit than the Western conceptualization of the Three Persons in on Godhead.

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