Public Theology in the Market State

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-222
Author(s):  
Dean Drayton
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Wars Of Religion ◽  
New Public ◽  
Market State ◽  
Late Fifteenth ◽  
Public Church ◽  
The Church

AbstractThe accepted view that the modern state arose out of the 'wars of religion' is countered with evidence that the late fifteenth century reification of the state used a new category of religion as a human universal impulse to disempower the church and contain the church within the bounds of the state. As a further five successive forms of the state have come into existence new forms of communal and religious life have emerged: first, religious toleration; secondly, the development of a new 'public' realm; thirdly, the denominational form of church; fourthly, the appearance of mass media; fifthly, the embedding of the private citizen in a media world. In this last context either the church opts to reify the denominational church emphasizing individual democratic religious experience, or it realizes that an eschatological view of the gospel calls it to be a public church with a public theology.

‘Making Public Theology Operational’: Public Theology and the Church

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-226
Author(s):  
Frederike van Oorschot
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Ethical Behaviour ◽  
Implicit Function ◽  
Explicit Function ◽  
Public Church ◽  
The Church

AbstractThis article examines how public theologians aim to bring their theology into the practice of the church. In the first part it analyses the references to the church in the work of contemporary public theologians from the United States and Germany and suggests four different categories for the relations explored (explicit function, implicit function, public church, church as public). In the second part, it discusses three systematic aspects of these relations. First, following Kuyper, it defines the term ‘church’ more accurately. Second, it offers insights into liturgical research in order to help to sharpen the places where and means by which the implicit shaping of individual ethical behaviour in the church takes place, as exemplified in the work of Dirk Smit. Third, it discusses the task of pastors as mediators between church and theology.

Archbishop John Morton and the Province of Canterbury, 1486–1500

1978 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Harper-Bill
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Personal Nature ◽  
Late Fifteenth ◽  
Foster Father ◽  
The Church

The episcopate of John Morton has received little attention from historians, possibly because it falls in time between the traditional interests of medievalists and of reformation specialists. Previous treatments, notably that of dean Hook in his Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury and the biography by Woodhouse, published in 1895 and heavily reliant on Hook, have concentrated on Morton's political role as ‘foster father of the Tudors’, and while Professor Claude Jenkins provided an excellent survey of the Canterbury register, he was more concerned with the evidence which it provides for die condition of the Church in die late fifteenth century than widi the archbishop himself. The purpose of this paper is to outline the salient characteristics of the episcopate and to examine the ecclesiastical policies pursued by Morton. Two qualifications must immediately be added. First, despite the wealth of material in the archiepiscopal register, supplemented by the records of the cathedral priory, there is almost nothing of a personal nature, and as always it is more difficult to estimate the character or sentiments of a fifteenth-century bishop than of his twelfth-century counterpart Secondly, it has been remarked how a hard and fresh look has upgraded the reputation of Hubert Walter, ‘that old model of secular prelacy’.

‘Ista est Jerusalem’. Intertextuality and Visual Exegesis in Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi and Werner Rolevinck’s Fasciculus temporum

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Worm
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Visual Exegesis ◽  
Late Fifteenth ◽  
The Church ◽  
Different Sources

This chapter analyses the circular plan of Jerusalem in Peter of Poitiers' Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi, a synopsis of history widely disseminated and frequently adapted. The plan of Jerusalem reveals how Peter of Poitiers modified and fused different sources, including Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica, to create a visually persuasive image of perfect formal and social order, with six gates foreshadowing the twelve gates of the Heavenly Jerusalem. The visual alignment of the plan of Jerusalem and other diagrams in the Compendium prompts the beholder to reflect on analogies of structures and events, and thus on the order and meaning of history. This argument extends to the late fifteenth-century diagram of the heavenly Jerusalem in Werner Rolewinck's Fasciculus temporum, which functions at the same time as a visualization of the Creed and as an allegorical image of the church, predetermined and eternal.

scholarly journals Von der Trennung zur Communio

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-99
Author(s):  
Piotr Kubasiak
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Political Sciences ◽  
Just Society ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Public Church ◽  
The Church

In view of current political and social challenges, the border between church and state, which was defined in the 19th century, should be reflected in a critical way. As a proposal, one could attempt to re–define this relationship by using the concept of civil society. The political sciences see the church as a part of civil society. The magisterium of the Catholic church and big parts of theology, however, never use this term. In order to better serve its mission, the church with its material and immaterial resources should begin to understand itself as a part of civil society. This requires the church to be transformed into a «public church” and theology into «public theology”, a transformation which will not only help to build a more just society, but will also help the church to fulfil its own mission.

Monasteries, Society, Economy, and the State in the Byzantine Empire

2020 ◽  
pp. 154-167
Author(s):  
Kostis Smyrlis
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The State ◽  
Byzantine Empire ◽  
Regional Economies ◽  
Substantial Role ◽  
Long Period ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Church

The chapter provides an overview of the social, political, and economic functions of Byzantine monasteries from the ninth to the fifteenth century. Relations between monasteries and the state, the Church, and lay society were complex. The monks received donations and protection in exchange for various spiritual and material services. The great landowning monasteries engaged in large-scale agrarian production and trade, and they played a substantial role in local and regional economies. Finally, the chapter addresses the fate and significance of monasteries in the long period of crisis that began in the middle of the fourteenth century and ended with the replacement of the Byzantine by the Ottoman Empire.

“In the Church and in the Chapel”

2014 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Zanovello
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Spatial Features ◽  
Late Fifteenth ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Musical Activities

Detailed payment records and notes preserved in the Archivio di Stato di Firenze allow us to reconstruct the relationship of music and space in the Florentine church of Santissima Annunziata. In the late fifteenth century different musical styles and repertories came to define ritually the composite space of the church, one of the main houses belonging to the mendicant order of the Servants of Mary. This special role of music came into focus in the early 1470s and even more in the 1480s, when subsequent priors increased the musical activities, possibly to negotiate the new spatial features of the church after a consequential remodeling. Music thus helped organize key areas that had undergone architectural transformations, linking each part of the building to the specific rituals performed there through special sounds directed at the likely participants. The remodeling also involved a shift in the balance of power, with private patrons coming to control the virtual totality of the church. Music helped address this problem as well, by acoustically marking and reclaiming certain spaces as the friars' dedicated ritual sites, but also creating in its variety a nuanced representation of the community—both ordained and lay—that frequented the building.

Missional Churches in Secular Societies: Theology Consults Sociology

Ecclesiology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-194
Author(s):  
Thomas Hughson, S.J.
Keyword(s):  
Public Theology ◽  
Church Mission ◽  
Public Church ◽  
Missional Churches ◽  
The Church ◽  
As If ◽  
Public Witness

AbstractThe church is missionary by nature. But what about public church mission in secular societies? Furious religion mobilizing against rebarbative secularity? Withdrawal to seek exemplary perfection? To the contrary, theologically principled consultation with the sociology of J. Casanova on deprivatized religion leads to public witness in modern societies. Public theology can interpret deprivatized religion as an expression of prophetic and kingly elements in church mission. However, sociology leaves the priestly element as if private. What might ecclesiology, missiology, and public theology say about a public aspect of the priestly element in the church's witness in modern societies?

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