Reframing the World: Toward an Actual Christian Doctrine of Creation

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 388-407
Author(s):  
Willie James Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
The World ◽  
Doctrine Of Creation

Christ, creation and the drama of redemption: ‘The play's the thing . . .’

2009 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-174
Author(s):  
Kimlyn J. Bender
Keyword(s):  
Creative Activity ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
The World ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Christian Understanding ◽  
Doctrine Of Creation

AbstractThe Christian doctrine of creation is predicated upon two convictions: the transcendence of God and the creative activity of God in the world. While recent studies have shown the compatibility of these two seemingly conflicting convictions, the grounding for them has received less attention. This paper argues that a proper Christian understanding of these convictions and their relationship is dependent upon seeing their basis in christology and trinitarian doctrine. It thus traces the close relationship between Christ and creation and that between creation and redemption in scripture, the patristic period and their more recent retrieval in Schleiermacher and Barth, comparing such conceptions to pagan and neo-pagan alternatives for understanding the God–world relation.

scholarly journals Land Pollution in Kenya

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Joseph Mwangi Munyua
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Agriculture Industry ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Doctrine Of Creation

Article 69 (d) of Kenya’s Constitution (2010) encourages public participation in the management, protection, and conservation of the environment. In the context of eco-theology, this article seeks to explore the efficacy of the Christian doctrine of creation in to curbing the evidential land pollution in Kenya. Basically, air pollution, water pollution, and land pollution are the three major kinds of environmental pollution in the world. The term land pollution means the degradation (destruction) of the earth’s surface and soil via human activities. Land pollution is a major problem in Kenya that is caused by various factors such as deforestation and soil erosion, agriculture, industry, mining, landfills, illegal dumping of waste, and construction activities. Some of its devastating effects in Kenya include: water pollution, soil pollution, air pollution, human health problems, decline of tourism, and so forth. Thus, land pollution poses a serious threat to all Kenyans, a phenomenon that serves to justify the necessity of this article. As a doctrinal response, this article endeavours to unveil the Christian doctrine of creation and how it can be utilised to curb the ongoing land pollution in Kenya. In its methodology, this article reviews the appropriate and relevant literature on pollution and eco-theological approach, the exegetical method, the legal-constitutional basis of addressing the subject, and the use of archival resources.

scholarly journals TEOLOGIA E CIÊNCIA EM DIÁLOGO CRÍTICO

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (118) ◽  
pp. 317
Author(s):  
François Euvé
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
The World ◽  
Doctrine Of Creation ◽  
The Impact

Os debates atuais sobre ciência e religião se esclarecem à luz de um percurso histórico que mostre o impacto da doutrina cristã da criação sobre a emergência da ciência moderna. Esta não é somente um conhecimento da ordem eterna do mundo, mas sua transformação possível pelo ser humano. As noções de “natureza” e de “história” se encontram associadas, o que permite articular o conhecimento autônomo do mundo com a acolhida de uma palavra criadora.ABSTRACT: The current debates on science and religion are clarified in the light of an historical course that shows the impact of the Christian doctrine of creation on the emergence of modern science. This is not only an understanding of the eternal order of the world, but its possible transformation by the human being. The notions of “nature” and “history” are found in association with each other which allows for the articulation of the autonomous understanding of the world with the reception of a creative word.

The Standard Doctrine of Creation in Zoroastrian Pahlavi Texts

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
AMIR AHMADI
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Doctrine Of Creation

Abstract The main scheme of creation in Zoroastrian Pahlavi literature is adopted from the Young Avesta. In this scheme Ohrmazd creates the world in the manner of a skillful craftsman who conceives of the form of his product and then fashions it in matter. The number of the constituents of the world and the sequence in which they are created are already fixed in the Avesta. Pahlavi authors draw on Greek philosophical tradition to rationalise their account of the creation of the world. The article also explores some of the complications that their philosophical elaboration of the Avestan scheme occasions.

“To Make the World One in Christ Jesus”

2018 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-592
Author(s):  
Gavin James Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Transnational Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Imperial Expansion ◽  
Protestant Christianity ◽  
In Christ

Scholarship on nineteenth-century missionary encounters emphasizes either how native converts “indigenized” Christian doctrine and practice, or how missionaries acted as agents of Western imperial expansion. These approaches, however, overlook the ways both missionaries and converts understood Protestant Christianity as a call to transnational community. This essay examines the ways that American Protestants and East Asian Christian converts looked for ways to build a transpacific communion. Despite radically different understandings of Christian scripture, and despite the geopolitics of empire, U.S. and East Asian Protestants nevertheless strove to bring together diverse theologies and experiences into a loosely defined, transnational Protestant community.

The Politics of Mercy against Neoliberal Sacrifice

Send Lazarus ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 164-204
Author(s):  
Matthew T. Eggemeier ◽  
Peter Joseph Fritz
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
Middle Term ◽  
Environmental Destruction ◽  
The World ◽  
Doctrine Of Creation ◽  
The Stranger

This chapter responds to the neoliberal crises described in chapter 3 in light of the theology of mercy developed in chapter 4. First, theological ideas provide theoretical-critical leverage over against the neoliberal vision for the world: the doctrine of creation, imago dei, the freedom of Christ, and the hospitality of Christ. Second, a principle from CST or secular discourse (if the Catholic church has not developed an adequate response) offers a long-term goal for civilization: universal destination of goods and abolitionism. Finally, corporal works of mercy respond to neoliberal sacrifices: against environmental destruction, visiting the sick; slum proliferation, feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, and clothing the naked; mass incarceration, ransoming the captive; and mass deportation, welcoming the stranger. These works must be made political not only as direct action, but also as an interlocking strategy over the short-term, middle-term, and long-term for social transformation.

Averroism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sten Ebbesen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Faith And Reason ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual

‘Averroism’, ‘radical Aristotelianism’ and ‘heterodox Aristotelianism’ are nineteenth- and twentieth-century labels for a late thirteenth-century movement among Parisian philosophers whose views were not easily reconcilable with Christian doctrine. The three most important points of difference were the individual immortality of human intellectual souls, the attainability of happiness in this life and the eternity of the world. An ‘Averroist’ or ‘Radical Aristotelian’ would hold that philosophy leads to the conclusions that there is only one intellect shared by all humans, that happiness is attainable in earthly life and that the world has no temporal beginning or end. Averroists have generally been credited with a ‘theory of double truth’, according to which there is an irreconcilable clash between truths of faith and truths arrived at by means of reason. Averroism has often been assigned the role of a dangerous line of thought, against which Thomas Aquinas opposed his synthesis of faith and reason. The term ‘Averroism’ is also used more broadly to characterize Western thought from the thirteenth through sixteenth centuries which was influenced by Averroes, and/or some philosophers’ self-proclaimed allegiance to Averroes.

scholarly journals ‘No One Can Serve Two Masters’: The Unity of Philosophy and Theology in Ricœur’s Early Thought

Open Theology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 320-331
Author(s):  
Barnabas Aspray
Keyword(s):  
Early Career ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Personal Distress ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
Ex Nihilo ◽  
Doctrine Of Creation ◽  
Existentialist Philosophy ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract While the French philosopher Paul Ricœur is not usually thought of as an existentialist, during his early career he engaged deeply with existentialist thought, and published two articles on the relationship between existentialism and Christian faith. Ricœur’s attempts to relate philosophy and theology often led to great personal distress, which he occasionally referred to as “controlled schizophrenia,” in which he struggled to remain faithful to both philosophical and theological discourse without compromising one for the sake of the other. This essay first explores the influence of existentialist philosophy on Ricœur before surveying how Ricœur understood existentialism, and how in his view it transforms the relationship between philosophy and theology. It then shows how Ricœur is ultimately able to retain his “dual allegiance” to both discourses through active hope in how the Christian doctrine of creation ex nihilo testifies to their original and final unity.

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