The Necessity and Limit of a Contextual Theology

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-92
Author(s):  
Craig L. Nessan
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contextual Theology ◽  
Culture Period ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
The One

AbstractContextual theology is a necessity, but it also has limits. This is the thesis of Craig L. Nessan in this article. It is a necessity because of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ and the sacramental nature of Christian life. God is always revealed in particular times and places. Nevertheless, argues Nessan, contextual theology is limited by the consistency of God's character and activity. "While it is vital to pay attention to the particularity of God's revelation within a given context, it is equally necessary to affirm the coherence of God's characteristic way of becoming revealed." Careful reflection on the development of Christian doctrine demonstrates the value of attending both to its contextuality and its consistency. Doctrinal expression of faith provides the particularity of contextual expression (a certain language, culture, period) on the one hand, and provides the parameters of orthodoxy (the church's faith) on the other.

Karl Barth, Kirchliche Dogmatik, IV, 3: The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Part 3

1962 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-203
Author(s):  
G. W. Bromiley
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
The Other ◽  
Great Length ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
The One

There is good hope that the present year will see the appearance of the English translation of IV, 3 of the Church Dogmatics, and with it the conclusion of the doctrinal treatment of the atonement1 and the publication of all the Dogmatik thus far available. Necessarily divided into two halves because of its great length, this third part is devoted to the prophetic work of Jesus Christ in reconciliation. It thus represents an original attempt on the part of the author to work out in detail a theme which has often been suggested in earlier theology, but which has never been given the treatment accorded to the priestly work on the one side or the kingly work on the other.

scholarly journals The ethical power of music in the 'Ave Maria' motet by Claudio Monteverdi

2021 ◽  
pp. 174-186
Author(s):  
Senka Belić
Keyword(s):  
Sacred Music ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Claudio Monteverdi ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Ethical Foundation ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
A Chain ◽  
The One

Since ancient times, the concept of ethos has been a distinguished part of cultural heritage, living in various spheres of social, cultural, intellectual and religious life. During the Renaissance, the encounter of rhetorical categories and Christian doctrine opened the space for the manifestation of ethos in sacred music. Ethos is important as a rhetorical category, therefore, as a way to achieve persuasiveness, in which the theory of ethos of the Greek rhetorician Hermogenes of Tarsus will be consulted. Following this theory, which was also known in the Renaissance, a series of counterpoint methods will take form, which may indicate the manifestation of certain subcategories of ethos in music. Having in mind Hermogenes' concept of ethos on the one hand, and the significance of ethos in the Christian figure of Mary on the other, this paper examines a chain of manifestations and, given Hermogenes' subcategories, offers an in-depth reading of the text and music in the motet from the end of the 16th century. It is an early work of Claudio Monteverdi on the words of the Ave Maria prayer, which, according to its religious function and meaning, represents not only a concise appeal to the ethos of believers, but also the ethical foundation of Marian devotions.

scholarly journals Ornament and Decor as Semiotic Elements

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 7953-7956
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Art History ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
External Factors ◽  
The Other ◽  
Culture Period ◽  
Analysis Methods ◽  
History Information ◽  
Chalcolithic Period ◽  
The One

This article considers the worldview, embodied in the decoration on Bronze Age pottery, created by the tribes of the Andronovo culture period (2nd millennium BC) in the territory of Kazakhstan. The Andronovo culture dates back to the Chalcolithic period when communities of the geometric pottery cultures lived here. Pottery was on the one hand utilitarian, and on the other sacral in use, combining elements of sculpture (the shape of a vessel) and painting (decorating an object). In the pro-cess of historical development, in accordance with the regularities of immanent formation and under the influence of external factors, several features of the decoration components emerged. The article contributes to the study of the problems, which remain relevant and require understanding. The opportunities for interpretation of pottery as a source and the use of different analysis methods allow for extracting new ethnological and art history information.

scholarly journals The Whole Nature Of God In The Predestination Dilemma

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-31
Author(s):  
Pangeran Manurung
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
The Core ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Attributes Of God ◽  
The One

The problem in this paper lies in the polemic that arises in the understanding of double predestination, especially regarding the theological dilemmas in it. On the one hand, God is described as a cruel and inhuman God when only choosing some people to be saved, and on the other hand Christian doctrine recognizes that God does indeed choose some people to love. The purpose of writing this essay is to prove that a comprehensive approach can reduce theological dilemmas and conflicts when discussing the formulation of predestination. The research method used is literature study, by describing the core of Calvin's double predestination and reviewing it by involving the interrelated attributes of God. The results of this study prove that when the concept of predestination is reviewed by involving the attributes of God as a whole, it appears that God cannot be called an arrogant God when choosing humans in the project of salvation.

scholarly journals MENGIMANI YESUS KRISTUS SANG PEMBEBAS: SUATU UPAYA BERKRISTOLOGI DALAM KONTEKS PEMISKINAN GEREJA INDONESIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-91
Author(s):  
Meki Mulait
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Religious Plurality ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

In the Gospels there are various titles for Jesus. The name is given by the peoples of his name when he meets Jesus. There are times when they call Jesus “Christ the Son of the living God” (Matthew 16:16). They also call Jesus a teacher or rabbi. Jesus is also called the savior of the world for delivering salvation from God to the world. The meaning of Jesus’ titles based on the encounter provides an opportunity for the reflection of Christology in the context of different problems. Jesus the Liberator who is to be reflected in this article is a part of Christological reflection in the context of mission tension and religious plurality and culture on the one hand and socio-political issues and impoverishment on the other. Jesus liberator becomes an alternative reflection of christology in response to the question.   Dalam Injil ada berbagai sebutan untuk Yesus. Sebutandiberikan oleh orangorang yangberjumpa dengan Yesus. Suatu waktu mereka memanggil Yesus “Kristus Anak Allah yang hidup” (Matius 16:16). Ada juga yang menyebut Yesus sebagai seorang Guru atau Rabi. Yesus juga disebut Penyelamat Dunia karena Dia diutus Allah untuk menyelamatkan dunia. Arti gelar-gelar Yesus yang didasarkan pada perjumpaan itu, memberi kesempatan bagi refleksi Kristologi dalam konteks persoalan yang beragam. Yesus Pembebas yang akan dibahas dalam artikel ini merupakan bagian dari refleksi Kristologis dalam konteks ketegangan antara misi dan pluralitas agama dan budaya di satu sisi dan masalah sosial-politik dan pemiskinan di sisi lain. Berhadapan dengan ketegangan dialektis di atas, dalam artikel ini penulis nenawarkan refleksi tentang Yesus Pembebas.

The Trinity

2020 ◽  
pp. 141-169
Author(s):  
Michael C. Rea
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Problem ◽  
The Other ◽  
Material Constitution ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
Greek Tradition ◽  
The One ◽  
The Trinity

The Christian doctrine of the Trinity poses a serious philosophical problem. On the one hand, it seems to imply that there is exactly one divine being; on the other hand, it seems to imply that there are three. There is another well-known philosophical problem that presents us with a similar sort of tension: the problem of material constitution. After an examination of two classificatory schemes (the Latin tradition which traces its historical roots through the western church. and the Greek tradition which traces its roots through the eastern church) this chapter argues that a relatively neglected solution to the problem of material constitution can be developed into a novel solution to the problem of the Trinity.

The Book of Revelation: The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Rowland
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Book Of Revelation ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
Book Of Daniel ◽  
The Many

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, or the Apocalypse of John, has been extraordinarily influential in Christian life and theology. For example, because of the many hymns sung by the heavenly host, Revelation has, like Isaiah 6:3, been particularly influential on liturgy and also music, for instance, the setting of Revelation 5:12, “Worthy is the Lamb that was Slain,” in Handel’s Messiah. It is one of two biblical apocalyptic texts (the other being the book of Daniel in the Hebrew Bible). Apart from the opening words, a dominant theme of Revelation is prophecy, and its imagery emphasizing what John “saw” on Patmos suggests that the form of prophecy in the first century ce included a significant visionary element, akin to earlier biblical exemplars such as Ezekiel 1:40–48 and Zechariah 1–8. The interpretation and reception of Revelation are closely linked. Like other biblical prophetic books, it became a reservoir for understandings of the future, but alongside it there developed a role as a way of unmasking the imperfections in church and society. This article uses the evidence of its reception to understand the nature and meaning of the book, its theological antecedents, and its relationship to other early Christian writings. Its role as an eschatological guide as well as its importance for political theology, complementing what we find in Daniel, are considered. It has also inspired artists down the centuries, from the time of the first illuminated Apocalypses, and this rich visual tradition captures something of importance about the book itself and the visionary stimulus it has provided.

Locating European Mission in a Wounded World in Deep Transformation

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-353
Author(s):  
Robert Schreiter
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Mission ◽  
Building Community ◽  
The One ◽  
Prophetic Witness

Abstract This article explores the challenges to engaging in Christian mission in Europe in these times. It takes as two defining characteristics of the current moment woundedness and the need for deep transformation. The woundedness of Europe is marked by the consequences of globalization which, on the one hand, give people the sense of losing control over their own world and, on the other, the influx of migrants and refugees escaping political and economic disorder in Asia and Africa. A spirituality of woundedness, based on the wounds of Jesus Christ, is offered as a basis for attending to wounds as a missio ad vulnera. The profound transformation to which Europe is called will require a spirituality based on conversion, kenosis, building community, and prophetic witness.

Kimbanguism Going Astray

Exchange ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-364
Author(s):  
Heinrich Balz
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

AbstractThe doctrinal controversy within the Kimbanguist Church, Église de Jésus-Christ sur la Terre par son Envoyé Spécial Simon Kimbangu, reached a new climax in July 2008: Moderate teaching on the person of Simon Kimbangu on the one hand and on the divine Trinity on the other, which had been the church's official doctrine since 2005, was solemnly revoked by an assembly in Nkamba, D.R. Congo and by the church's leader, the Chef spirituel, to be replaced more or less directly by the common popular Kimbanguist belief: Simon Kimbangu is God, the Holy Spirit incarnate. But the theologians who had formulated the former moderate teaching do not accept this new turn in the Kimbanguist Church's doctrine. The article gives the arguments and strategies of both sides and reflects on the possible future development of the Kimbanguist Church.

Two Forgotten Creeds

1913 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-315
Author(s):  
Benjamin Wisner Bacon
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Short Interval ◽  
The Other ◽  
Son Of God ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Faithful Servant ◽  
The One

For the modern theologian there is an all-encompassing bond of perfectness in the New Testament in the doctrine of the Logos, found in the Johannine gospel and epistles. It links together the christology of the Synoptic writings, Mark, Matthew, Luke-Acts, and that of the epistles. It combines the primitive doctrine of Jesus the faithful “Servant” of God, glorified and exalted to God's right hand—a doctrine of “apotheosis,” as Baur called it—with the Pauline doctrine of “incarnation,”—Christ a pre-existent being, agent of creation, in the form and likeness of God, but self-emptied and abased, made for a little while lower than the angels, that for the suffering of death he might be made eternally higher than they, heir and lord of the creation. In the one—the Petrine christology, as we may call it because it is mainly represented in the speeches of Peter in Acts 2–5—the residence in heaven is an episode. God has taken up his faithful Servant for a short interval to his own right hand, delivering him out of the power of death, that, when his people have repented of their wicked rejection of him, he may send him again as the Christ, to restore the kingdom to Israel and reign forever on the throne of David in the renewed and glorified Jerusalem. In the other christology—the Pauline—the residence on earth is the episode. The drama's beginning and ending is in heaven. Viewed thus “under the aspect of the eternal” the brief period of abasement, poverty, and suffering, undertaken for the “reconciliation” of the animate world, is scarcely a moment of time. For our sakes the eternal Son of God “became poor,” he emptied himself and took upon him the form of a slave, and became obedient unto death, yea, even the (slave's) death of the cross; but therefore also “God highly exalted him and gave him the Name which is above every name, that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

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