Empowering as a Missional Concept vs. Empowerment as a Political Ideology

AbstractThe article contrasts the meaning of empowerment in a political ideological perspective with a Christian mission understanding of empowering as a process of reaching out to the other with the love of the triune God; Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It is argued that as far as the developing world is concerned there are many reasons for an empowering process in Christian mission, and one of them is an existing identity crisis facing churches in the developing countries (sometimes referred to as third world churches). The article also undertakes to work with a proposition that states that the solution to a perceived paternalism from the churches in the developed world over those in developing nations does not necessary lie in a moratorium call, however, it should be found in embracing a notion of empowering that creates an attitude of partnership between both churches. Three basic principles are proposed that should under gird this process; namely, Unconditional acceptance, Unconditional respect, Unconditional dignity. An African tale is given to illustrate the basic working assumptions and presuppositions of this article.

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THE MODERN PENTECOSTAL DOCTRINE OF HEALING

The Educational Discourse a collection of scientific papers ◽

10.33930/ed.2018.5007.6(6-7)-9 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 90-104

Author(s):

Mykhaylo Mokiyenko

Keyword(s):

Holy Spirit ◽

Third World ◽

Physical World ◽

The Other ◽

The Third ◽

The Holy Spirit ◽

The Third World

The value of healing in the Pentecostalism was especially strengthened by the missionary empathy of the Pentecostal, especially in the Third World countries. New worldview and theological challenges force “ the Movement of the Holy Spirit” to partially revise the attitude towards healing, which was expressed in the theological “legitimization” of medicine, the denial of the universality of healing, extended ideas on the emotional and psychosomatic component of man. The present Pentecostalists tend not to complain that not all are healed, but to rejoice because someone is healed. In an attempt to see the supernatural interference of God in the conditions of sin and the doom of the physical world, baptized by the Holy Spirit must appeal to one and the other.

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Trinitarian Paradigm for Dialogue

Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration ◽

10.1515/pepsi-2016-0007 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 22 (1-2) ◽

pp. 125-139

Author(s):

Andrzej Derdziuk

Keyword(s):

Interpersonal Communication ◽

Holy Spirit ◽

Social Reality ◽

Spiritual Experience ◽

The Other ◽

Human Being ◽

Holy Trinity ◽

Spiritual Nature ◽

Triune God ◽

The Holy Spirit

Abstract A dialogue as a social reality consists, first and foremost, in communication between those who realize that they are called to notice and to accept the other and to treat him or her with proper respect. Such a dialogue may be motivated either by the desire to share the good or by the willingness to avoid conflict. The aforementioned approaches are marked by distinctly different attitudes, which are not only rooted in two different methodologies and have two different aims, but they also encompass two diverse procedures. More importantly, engaging in dialogue may also be motivated by realizing one’s own mission in life, i.e. acting in harmony with the spiritual nature of the human being, who is a relational being. Upon realizing his or her likeness to the Triune God, i.e. the inseparable communion of the Divine Persons, a Christian discovers that the Holy Trinity constitutes the model and source for his or her own involvement in maintaining relationships with other people. Chiara Lubich, the founder of the Focolare Movement was a contemporary thinker, who had realized and creatively developed the human vocation for unity in the likeness of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. This movement, founded by Lubich, has both lay and consecrated members who are devoted to building the culture of unity based upon promoting dialogue as a tool for interpersonal communication. The aim of this article is to present the spiritual experience of Chiara Lubich, which marks the origin of this new concept of a dialogue rooted in the mystery of Divine unity.

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The challenges of development of Journalism in Nigeria

Journal of Social Sciences (COES&RJ-JSS) ◽

10.25255/jss.2013.2.1.35.40 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 35

Author(s):

Felix Olajide Talabi

Keyword(s):

Third World ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Developing Nations ◽

Development Theory ◽

The Third ◽

Library Research ◽

The Press ◽

The Third World ◽

Developed World ◽

The Way

Development journalism is perceived as alternative journalism that primarily focuses onnational development especially in the third world countries. This paper examines the reasons fordissociation from the advancement perspective of the developed world, the challenges faced bydevelopment journalism and discusses the way the nation should go to attain her desire in thecommittee of nations Library research was used to generate secondary data for this paper. Thewriting is anchored on the theoretical proposition of development theory of the press whichpersuades the developing nations to engage in development journalism. The paper suggests thatNigeria press should generate and manage contents to help society build consensus for the neededchanges and growth.

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Basil of Caesarea, Inseparable Operations, and the Divinity of the Holy Spirit

Evangelical Quarterly ◽

10.1163/27725472-09204002 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 92 (4) ◽

pp. 312-327

Author(s):

Torey J. S. Teer

Keyword(s):

Holy Spirit ◽

Historical Context ◽

The Other ◽

Trinitarian Theology ◽

Common Features ◽

Triune God ◽

The Holy Spirit ◽

The Common

Abstract Basil of Caesarea is one of the most prominent pro-Nicene theologians and defenders of the Holy Spirit. One of the common features of pro-Nicene theology is the doctrine of inseparable operations—that all acts of the triune God in creation are undivided. But what role did the inseparability principle play in Basil’s trinitarian theology, especially regarding the Holy Spirit? Examining Basil’s historical context and his major works Against Eunomius and On the Holy Spirit, this article argues that the doctrine of inseparable operations is a critical and proper element in the bishop’s trinitarian theology and, therefore, is vital to his defending the Holy Spirit’s co-divinity alongside the Father and the Son. Basil’s coherence of the inseparability axiom with the other elements of pro-Nicene theology thus serves as a fitting case study of classical trinitarianism. His legacy has become our inheritance.

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Whither the people in the ASEAN Community?

Regions & Cohesion ◽

10.3167/reco.2020.100306 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 43-57

Author(s):

See Seng Tan

Keyword(s):

Southeast Asia ◽

Political Ideology ◽

Management Development ◽

The Other ◽

Asean Member ◽

Derechos Humanos ◽

The People ◽

Droits Humains ◽

The One ◽

The Individual

Abstract: The longstanding effort to develop a people-based regionalism in Southeast Asia has been shaped by an inherent tension between the liberal inclination to privilege the individual and the community under formation, on the one hand, and the realist insistence on the primacy of the state, on the other. This article explores the conditions and constraints affecting ASEAN’s progress in remaking Southeast Asia into a people-focused and caring community in three areas: disaster management, development, and democratization (understood here as human rights). Arguably, the persistent gap in Southeast Asia between aspiration and expectation is determined less by political ideology than by the pragmatic responses of ASEAN member states to the forces of nationalism and protectionism, as well as their respective sense of local and regional responsibility.Resumen: El esfuerzo histórico para desarrollar un regionalismo basado en las personas del sudeste de Asia ha estado marcado por una tensión fundamental entre la inclinación liberal de privilegiar el individuo y la comunidad y la insistencia realista sobre la primacía del estado. Este artículo explora las condiciones y limitaciones que afectan el progreso de la ASEAN en la reestructuración de Asia sudoriental en una comunidad centrada en el cuidado de las personas en: gestión de desastres, desarrollo y democratización (i.e., derechos humanos). La brecha persistente en el sudeste asiático entre la aspiración y la expectativa está determinada por las respuestas pragmáticas de los miembros de la ASEAN sometidos a las fuerzas del nacionalismo y proteccionismo, así como su respectivo sentido de responsabilidad local y regional.Résumé: L’effort historique pour développer un régionalisme fondé sur les peuples en Asie du Sud-Est a été marqué par une tension fondamentale entre l’inclination libérale qui privilégie, d’une part, l’individu et la communauté et, d’autre part, l’insistance réaliste sur la primauté de l’État. Cet article explore les conditions et les contraintes qui nuisent aux progrès de l’ANASE dans le cadre d’une refonte de l’Asie du Sud-Est en une communauté centrée et attentive aux peuples dans trois domaines : la gestion des désastres, le développement et la démocratisation (en référence aux droits humains). Le fossé persistant en Asie du Sud-Est entre les aspirations et les attentes est vraisemblablement moins déterminé par l’idéologie politique que par les réponses pragmatiques des États membres de l’ANASE soumis aux forces du nationalisme et du protectionnisme ainsi que par leur sens respectif de la responsabilité locale et régionale.

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Rethinking the use of disruptive pop-up encounters for transformation: A missional reading of Acts 8:26–40

Missiology An International Review ◽

10.1177/00918296211003516 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 009182962110035

Author(s):

Thinandavha Derrick Mashau

Keyword(s):

Holy Spirit ◽

Search For Meaning ◽

Christian Mission ◽

Global Context ◽

The Holy Spirit ◽

Normal Feature

Socio-economic, political and religious pop-ups are a normal feature in the global context. While some are disruptive and annoying, others can be very useful. This article, through a missional reading of Acts 8:26–40, seeks to draw missiological lessons from disruptive pop-up encounter(s) in this text. A missional reading of Acts 8:26–40 discovered that the Holy Spirit is not only the author of Christian mission, but also the pop-up Spirit of God, who prompted pop-up encounters between two strangers whose pop-up experience became an encounter that transformed their search for meaning, understanding, transformative ecclesiologies and the praxes thereof. Therefore, disruptive pop-up encounters, creatively embraced and used, are able to generate encountering conversations that are liberating and transforming.

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Adopting Technology in Third World Classrooms: Students' Viewpoint about Computers in Science Teaching and Learning

Journal of Educational Technology Systems ◽

10.2190/mh1h-r8vl-vyfa-mtjl ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 327-334 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Olugbemiro J. Jegede ◽

Peter Akinsola Okebukola

Keyword(s):

Grade Level ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Third World ◽

Economic Status ◽

Effective Strategies ◽

School Subjects ◽

Nigerian Students ◽

Senior Secondary ◽

Developed World

The use of computers in education, which has emerged as a result of the considerable growth in information technology, has several implications for the global search for effective strategies in teaching school subjects. In contrast to what happens in the developed world, several developing countries like Nigeria are yet to fully appreciate the full benefits of computers and their usage in every day life. In Nigeria the Federal Government has only just taken the bold step to introduce computers into some selected classrooms as a modest beginning to the full scale use of computers in the society. The literature is replete with accounts indicating that the importation of several ideas into environments other than where they have been developed or meant, has often caused pedagogic and cultural problems. The paradigm of constructivism argues for the need to begin any instructional endeavor with pupils constructing their own knowledge using prior knowledge. This proposition motivated this study with the aim of seeking information that could be relevant to the effective introduction and use of computer in Third World classrooms. What for example, do Nigerian pupils perceive as the role of computers in the classroom? What is their concept of a computer and do they nurse any apprehensions? What sociocultural consequences would this have? This study was designed to gather and provide answers to these and other related questions. Using a four-part questionnaire with a total of 29 items, data were collected from a sample of 200 senior secondary one (grade level 10) students from the Lagos metropolitan area. The results of this study strongly suggest that the majority of Nigerian students: welcome and are enthusiastic about the introduction of computers into their classrooms; are concerned about their socio-economic status; demonstrate possession of computers have significant effect on their attitudes; and most of the students nurse some social and cultural apprehensions regarding the presence of computers in their classrooms.

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Eugene IV and the First Dissolution of the Council of Basle

Church History ◽

10.2307/3162571 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 36 (3) ◽

pp. 243-253 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Loy Bilderback

Keyword(s):

Holy Spirit ◽

The Other ◽

Essential Singularity ◽

The Holy Spirit ◽

Prime Determinant ◽

The Will ◽

Great Schism ◽

The Church ◽

Will Of God ◽

Divine Guidance

The Council of Basle was officially charged with three basic concerns: the reform of the Church in head and members; the extirpation of heresy, particularly Bohemian Hussitism; and the attainment of peace among Christian Princes. Yet, the Council was most absorbed by, and is most remembered for, a fourth, unscheduled concern. From its outset, the prime determinant of the actions and decisions of the Council proved to be the problem of living and working with the Papacy. In retrospect it is easy to see that this problem was insoluble. One could not expect the efficient functioning of the Church if there was doubt or confusion about the will of God, and the presence of such doubt and confusion was certain so long as even two agencies could gain support for their contentions that they were directly recipient to the Holy Spirit. Singularity of headship was absolutely necessary to the orderly processes of the Church. Yet the contradiction of this essential singularity was implicit at Constance in the accommodation, by one another of the curialists, the protagonists of an absolute, papal monarchy, and the conciliarists, who sought divine guidance through periodic General Councils. This accommodation, in turn, was necessary if the doubt and confusion engendered by the Great Schism was to be resolved. At Basle, this contradiction was wrought into a conflict which attracted a variety of opportunists who could further their ancillary or extraneous ends through a posture of service to one side or the other, and in so doing they obfuscated the issues and prolonged the struggle.

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The Deesis row from Piva: A contribution to the study of the iconostasis and icon painting of the monastery of Piva

Zograf ◽

10.2298/zog1438203v ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 203-220

Author(s):

Dragan Vojvodic ◽

Milos Zivkovic

Keyword(s):

Holy Spirit ◽

The Other ◽

The Holy Spirit ◽

Formed Part

The paper is devoted to the chronology of the genesis of the iconostasis and the choros of the monastery of Piva and to the attribution of some of their icons. It presents the hitherto unpublished Deesis row which formed part of the original altar screen and was painted sometime between 1586 and 1604. The Deeisis and the somewhat younger Crucifix (1606) were mounted on the old iconostasis above the despotic icons painted by Longin in 1573/1574. At least one of the two-sided icons from the subsequently made choros (1610/1611) is not his work. For the new carved wooden iconostasis (1638/1639) the Serbian painter Jovan painted the despotic icons and the icon of the Descent of the Holy Spirit in the upper tier. A disciple of his painted the other eleven icons of the Great Feasts.

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REKONSTRUKSI IJTIHĀD DALAM ILMU UṢŪL AL-FIQH

Al-Ahkam ◽

10.21580/ahkam.2012.22.2.9 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 161

Author(s):

Rokhmadi Rokhmadi

Keyword(s):

Islamic Law ◽

The Other ◽

Basic Principles ◽

The Law ◽

The Way

Al-Qur’an and Sunnah, needs of understanding and extracting optimally, so that the contents of law can be applied for the benefit of people. The way- to understand and to extract the contents in these two sources- called ijtihād. Thus, ijtihād is needed on istinbāṭ of law from many arguments of the texts (naṣ), eventhough it is qaṭ’ī in which the uṣūliyyūn have agreed that it is not the area for re-extracting to the law (ijtihādiyyah). The problem in this case is that even a qaṭ’ī argument according to the most of uṣūliyyūn has not been qaṭ’ī argument in the other uṣūliyyūn opinion. Reconstruction of ijtihād becomes an alternative, with some considerations: First, weight and tightening the requirements to become a mujtahid, which is almost impossible controlled by someone at the present time; Second, the increasing complexity of the problems faced by the ummat which is very urgent to get the solution; Third, let the period without ijtihād (vacuum of mujtahid) is contrary to the basic principles of Islamic law are always sāliḥ li kulli zamān wa makān. This paper present to discuss further about the urgency of the reconstruction of ijtihād in the challenge of modernity.***Al-Qur<ins cite="mailto:hasan" datetime="2015-02-17T11:11">’</ins>an maupun <ins cite="mailto:hasan" datetime="2015-02-17T11:11">s</ins>unnah sangat membutuhkan pemahaman dan penggalian secara optimal agar isi kandungan hukumnya dapat diterapkan bagi kemaslahatan umat. Cara untuk menggali dan mengeluarkan isi kandungan yang ada dalam kedua sumber tersebut dinamakan ijtihād. Ijtihād sangat dibutuhkan pada setiap isti<ins cite="mailto:muthohar" datetime="2015-01-29T05:30">n</ins><del cite="mailto:muthohar" datetime="2015-01-29T05:30"></del>bāṭ hukum dari dalil naṣ, sekalipun dalil naṣ tersebut bersifat qaṭ'ī yang oleh para uṣūliyyūn sudah disepakati tidak menjadi wilayah untuk dijitihadi lagi. Permasalahannya adalah bahwa sesuatu dalil naṣ yang sudah bersifat qaṭ'ī sekalipun oleh sebagian besar uṣūliyyūn, belum tentu dipandang qaṭ'ī oleh sebagian uṣūliyyūn yang lain. Rekonstruksi ijtihād menjadi sebuah alternatif, dengan beberapa pertimbangan: Pertama, berat dan ketatnya persyaratan-persyaratan menjadi seorang mujtahid, yang hampir tidak mungkin dikuasai oleh seseorang pada masa sekarang; Kedua, semakin kompleksnya permasalahan yang dihadapi oleh ummat yang sangat mendesak untuk mendapatkan solusi; Ketiga, membiarkan satu periode tanpa ijtihād (kevakuman mujtahid) adalah bertentangan dengan prinsip dasar hukum Islam yang selalu sāliḥ li kulli zamān wa makān. Tulisan ini hadir untuk mendiskusikan lebih jauh tentang urgensi rekonstruksi ijtihād dalam menghadapi tantangan modernitas.***Keywords: ijtihād, qaṭ'ī, ẓannī, uṣūl al-fiqh

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