The Taming of the Canaanite Woman: Constructions of Christian Identity in the Afterlife of Matthew 15:21-28. By Nancy Klancher. Studies in the Bible and Its Reception, 1. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. Pp. ix + 317; plates. Cloth, $140.00.

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-74
Author(s):  
Catherine Sider Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Christian Identity ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Canaanite Woman

scholarly journals Pendidikan Karakter Kristen Melalui Kebudayaan Manusia Toraja

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pince Parung
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Civilizing Process ◽  
Diverse Culture ◽  
Christian Beliefs

Abstrac: Education cannot be separated from culture. Because education occurs in society and this education is a civilizing process. This culture itself is the basis for the formation of the community's personality. The character of the Toraja people, for example, is strongly influenced by the surrounding culture. And the majority of Toraja people adhere to Christian beliefs. Christian character is a picture of Christian identity. Christian character comes from the Bible as a source of truth for every believer. Attention is needed to build Christian character in the midst of Toraja's diverse culture. How the culture in Toraja can be a forum for educating Christian character. This paper will examine Christian character education in the context of Toraja culture.

scholarly journals Duch miłości w nauczaniu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 24-39
Author(s):  
Sylwester Jaśkiewicz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
The Bible ◽  
God's Love ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Church

Cardinal Wyszyński continues teaching about the Holy Spirit as love and as a gift, which comes from the Bible and patristic tradition (eg St. Augustine). The basic text of his reflections on the God of Love are the words from the First Letter of St. John: “God is love” (1 Jn 4: 8, 16). He reads these words, or the shortest definition of God, from the perspective of the Christian and his life experience. In the Holy Spirit, God communicates as love. To be gifted and loved by God means for man to elevate him to the supernatural order. The Holy Spirit, who in the interior life of God is the Love of the Father and the Son, in his self-giving to the world (ad extra), pours God’s love into human hearts (Rom 5: 5), enlivens and dynamises human life. Love as a proprium of the Holy Spirit is also the criterion of Christian identity and of the Church. Important threads of the discussed issue are also the spiritual motherhood of Mary and the establishment of her as the Temple and Bride of the Holy Spirit.

Christian Literary Identity and Rhetoric about Style

2020 ◽  
pp. 231-250
Author(s):  
Morwenna Ludlow
Keyword(s):  
Christian Identity ◽  
Literary Identity ◽  
Literary Style ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Moral Qualities ◽  
Christian Discourse

How was Christian identity related to literary style? Ancient authors wanting to establish their discourse as morally serious would lay claim to plain (or sublime) speech, whilst depicting their rivals’ words as over-elaborate. Questions of style thus became associated with moral qualities, especially in philosophers’ ‘rhetoric about rhetoric’. Then Christians laid claim to the plainest of all styles: that (supposedly) of the gospel. This chapter argues that all such claims about style are rhetorical, because they are based on the slippery notion of the ‘appropriate’ and are not absolute but comparative. In fact, Christians used all three stylistic modes (‘plain’/‘slender’, ‘pleasant’, and ‘majestic’/‘sublime’) and identified them in the Bible. Their claims about their own and their opponents’ styles thus need to be read with an awareness of how they are being used rhetorically in attempts to establish claims about true Christian discourse and morally superior speakers.

scholarly journals “With Length of Days I Will Gratify Him”

Scrinium ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-61
Author(s):  
Geoffrey D. Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Value Of Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
The Bible ◽  
High Regard ◽  
The One ◽  
High Place

Abstract The Bible has a variety of perspectives on old age. On the one hand, as exemplified in Ps 91(90):16 and 92(91):15, old age is a sign of God’s blessing and the elderly are held in high regard as valuable, while on the other, as exemplified in Ps 39(38):5; 71(70):9; and 90(89):10, life is seen as fleeting and length of days as insignificant and the elderly fear neglect. The psalms held a high place in Augustine’s Christian identity. This paper explores Augustine’s use of these verses to consider the extent to which his religious outlook shaped his perspectives on ageing, as well as addressing the question of whether or not he was aware of the conflict between the two perspectives. It will be argued that Augustine was not interested in the contradictions presented by the psalmist, and that he interpreted all the verses through an eschatological framework, such that an evaluation of the meaning and value of life is to be found only through a perception of eternity.

“Defining Sacred Boundaries”

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Benga
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
Sharp Line ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Common Life ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
The Third ◽  
Mixed Marriages ◽  
The Bible

AbstractThe present paper examines the criteria by which the Christian communities of Syria demarcated themselves from the pagan society, on the basis of the Didascalia Apostolorum, a „church order” of the third century. The article shows that the theoretical Christian monotheism had countless practical consequences for the daily lives of the early Christians. The ban on idolatry, which had initially led Christianity into isolation, became an important pillar of the new Christian identity. From this perspective, the following areas of delimitation are examined: baptism as a criterion of delimitation from the pagan world; the rejection of pagan literature; the mixed marriages between Christians and pagans; balnea mixta etc. The touchstone of the delimitation criteria is the Bible with its provisions against idolatry and immorality. The boundary between the two antique religions appears in daily life to be an area in which common life was possible, rather than a very sharp line.

Intertextuality as a Means of Negotiating Authority, Status, and Place—Forms, Contexts, and Effects of Quotations of Christian Texts in Nineteenth-Century Missionary Correspondence from Yorùbáland

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-149
Author(s):  
Sandra Nickel
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Face ◽  
Southwest Nigeria ◽  
Church Missionary Society ◽  
Difficult Situations

From the early 1840s, Church Missionary Society agents were active in the Yorùbá mission in what today is Southwest Nigeria. Both European and African missionaries—often former slaves who had converted to Christianity—corresponded with the Society, and in their writing frequently used quotations from the Bible and other core Christian texts. These quotations were recontextualised (Fairclough 2003) in the missionaries’ writing and formed intertextual bonds (Blommaert 2005) between their correspondence and the original texts. For the missionaries these bonds provided solace and meaning in difficult situations, established their status and authority as proficient theologians in the face of their European audience, and explicitly linked them with the Christian narrative of ‘spreading the word’. Especially for the Yorùbá agents, this practice of creating intertextuality was a means of negotiating and affirming their African-Christian identity, thus establishing and expressing their new place in the Christian tradition.

Christian Mission in the Contemporary World: A Dialogue between 1 Peter and Postcolonial Critics

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-145
Author(s):  
Josiah D. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Christian Identity ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Christian Mission ◽  
1 Peter ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Theology Of Mission ◽  
Colonial Text ◽  
Contemporary Context

Abstract The modern missions movement’s relationship with colonialism has brought to light many problems with contemporary conceptions of Christian mission. For many, the Bible often becomes, in the words of Tinyiko Sam Maluleke, the “colonial text par excellence.” This paper seeks to highlight – in dialogue with postcolonial critics – how 1 Pet 2:9–17 can instead provide the foundation for a theology of mission relevant to the contemporary context. First Peter distinctively anchors Christian mission in one’s Christian identity and clarifies how that identity transforms one’s relationship to one’s culture as well as to power structures in that culture. In doing so, 1 Peter eschews a triumphalist attitude and instead embodies values shared by theorists of postcolonial mission, namely narrativity, mutuality, and humility.

The Homosexual Body Without Apology : a Positive Link Between the Canaanite Woman in Matthew 15:21-28 and Homosexual Interpretation of Biblical Texts

2002 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 118-134
Author(s):  
Lilly Nortjé-Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Family Systems ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
Canaanite Woman

AbstractA homosexual reading of biblical texts involves the rereading and re-examining of those passages that condemn homosexuals. It is the questioning of traditional interpretation of these passages and the identification of heterosexism and homophobia of biblical scholars. Homosexual persons are searching for positive links between the Bible and homosexuality. In this article, two models, namely the purity and family systems set as examples of a theology of inclusion and resistance, are illustrated by the story of the Canaanite woman. She places herself outside the patriarchal structures by being unclean, silent and passive. Although, this woman is framed by culture and doctrine, she is resisting exclusivity from the community of believers.

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Biblical Interpretation

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Church History ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Bible ◽  
God's Word ◽  
Sacred Scripture ◽  
The Church

The Bible was the lifeblood of virtually every aspect of the life of the early churches. The essays in this Handbook explore a wide array of themes related to the reception, canonization, interpretation, uses, and legacies of the Bible in early Christianity. A first group of studies examines the material text transmitted, translated, and invested with authority, and the very conceptualization of sacred Scripture as God’s word for the Church. A second group looks at the culture and disciplines or science of interpretation in representative exegetical traditions. A third group of essays addresses the remarkably diverse literary and non-literary modes of interpretation, while a fourth group canvasses the communal background and foreground of early Christian interpretation, where the Bible was paramount in shaping normative Christian identity. A fifth group assesses the determinative role of the Bible in major developments and theological controversies in the life of the churches. A sixth group returns to interpretation proper and samples how certain abiding motifs from within scriptural revelation were treated by major Christian expositors. A seventh and final group of studies follows up by examining how early Christian exegesis was retrieved and critically evaluated in later periods of church history. Along the way, readers will be oriented to the major resources for, and issues in, the critical study of early Christian biblical interpretation.

Coloring Jesus: Racial Calculus and the Search for Identity in Twentieth-century America

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 64-82
Author(s):  
Craig R. Prentiss
Keyword(s):  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Black Madonna ◽  
Pan African ◽  
The Social ◽  
Broad Array ◽  
Twentieth Century America

Though typically seen as representing two ends of an ideological spectrum, the Shrine of the Black Madonna Pan-African Orthodox Christian Church and the Christian Identity movement both filter their biblical exegesis through the prism of racial imaginations shaped by American culture. This article argues that while each movement is commonly classified as propagating extremist perspectives, they are engaged, in fact, in hermeneutical strategies that have an ancient pedigree and are grounded in practices of social exclusion and separation commonplace in the Bible. Though the social boundaries created by both groups bear no apparent relation to the social and cultural realities of the ancient Israelites, their theologies——often shocking to some——are more profitably understood as ordinary and even predictable patterns of thought within a broad array of Christian imaginings.

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