Jeremy Taylor on the Practice of Theology

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-47
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Kruger
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Moral Improvement ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
Jeremy Taylor ◽  
Practical Nature

This article seeks to highlight the practical nature of the work of Jeremy Taylor, developing his understanding of the place of theoretical knowledge in its relation to moral living. I argue that Taylor is devoted to the realization of the theoretical in everyday life, and does not overemphasize the moral to the detriment of the theological. In exploring this argument, I analyze his description of the practice of the presence of God and the contemplation of the eternal, two examples from his work of the integration of the theoretical with the practical for the sake of moral improvement.

scholarly journals THE CONCEPT OF MARIFAT IN SUFISM

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-20
Author(s):  
NILUFAR TUYCHIEVA
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Philosophical Thinking ◽  
Special System ◽  
Moral Improvement ◽  
Divine Knowledge ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Practical Life ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The theoretical foundations of Sufism, as well as spiritual and psychological exercises, methods of self-improvement tempering were developed at the beginning of the IX century. By the same period, the concepts of tariqah, ma’rifah, and haqiqah were formed, based on which a special system of views of tasawwuf was created. One of the main features of tasawwuf is that it is not limited to theoretical knowledge and principles applied in practical life with the help of tarikahs. This trend, called tasawwuf in theory, is called tariqah in practice. Tasawwuf originally comes from an ascetic movement that emphasized practice. Sufs believe that theoretical knowledge alone is not enough to understand Suf issues. In their opinion, through dhikr, mujahadah, and riyadah, the soul gains purity, which makes it possible to comprehend these issues. The article lists the stages and degrees of spiritual development, the paths that must be passed to comprehend the Creator. In conclusion, we can say that at the stage of asceticism the concept of ma’rifah is not used in tasawwuf. The reason for this is that even though ascetics adhered to seclusion and abstinence, they were deprived of love and divine knowledge. They did not have such qualities as philosophical thinking, striving for spiritual and moral improvement, foresight. The goal of the ascetics was to fnd forgiveness on the day of judgment and attain the bliss of paradise promised in the Qur’an through worship. According to the Sufs, worship for reaching paradise is a form of greed. A Suf should not have self-interest either in this world or on the day of judgment. The only desire of a Suf should be to see the appearance of the Creator

scholarly journals Moral Memories and the Belief in the Good Self

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew L. Stanley ◽  
Felipe De Brigard
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Personal Beliefs ◽  
Moral Goodness ◽  
Immoral Behavior ◽  
Moral Improvement ◽  
Unethical Behaviors ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
Moral Transgressions ◽  
Over Time

Most people believe they are morally good, and this belief plays an integral role in constructions of personal identity. Yet people commit moral transgressions with surprising frequency in everyday life. In this article, we characterize two mechanisms involving autobiographical memory that are utilized to foster a belief in a morally good self in the present—despite frequent and repeated immoral behavior. First, there is a tendency for people to willfully and actively forget details about their own moral transgressions but not about their own morally praiseworthy deeds. Second, when past moral transgressions are not forgotten, people strategically compare their more recent unethical behaviors with their more distant unethical behaviors to foster a perception of personal moral improvement over time. This, in turn, helps to portray the current self favorably. These two complementary mechanisms help to explain pervasive inconsistencies between people’s personal beliefs about their own moral goodness and the frequency with which they behave immorally.

scholarly journals Preaching as art (imaging the unseen) and art as homiletics (verbalising the unseen): Towards the aesthetics of iconic thinking and poetic communication in homiletics

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Louw
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
God Images ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
Power Of God

The article investigates the hypothesis that preaching implies more than merely verbalising, proclaiming and rhetoric reasoning. Preaching is fundamentally the art of poetic seeing; an aesthetic event on an ontic and spiritual level; that is, it provides vocabulary and images in order to help people to discover meaning in life (preaching as the art of foolishness). In this regard, preaching should provide God-images that open up the dimension of aesthetics and provide vistas of the ‘unseen’. The iconic dimension of preaching is about symbols and metaphors that help people to ‘see’ in everyday life (a poetic gaze) the presence of God in such a way that tragic events, the awareness of death and the anguish about the fear for loss and rejection become events for signifying life and for healing (the quest for wholeness). It is argued that practical theology should be about a liturgy of life. In this regard, the ‘ugliness of God’ becomes an aesthetic category in a Christian spiritual approach to iconography. In order to do this a critical approach to praxis thinking should probe into the realm of paradigms, especially paradigms that describe the ‘power of God’. Due to the assumption that the depiction of God’s power was predominantly influenced by the Serapis, Zeus and Roman cult (Emperor mystique), a paradigm shift from omni-categories (pantokrator) to bowel categories (passio Dei) in the homiletic depiction of God is proposed.

scholarly journals The Readiness of the Population to Provide First Aid in Emergency Situations and its Effectiveness

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-166
Author(s):  
A. L. Dorofeev
Keyword(s):  
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
First Aid ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Eastern State ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Medical University ◽  
Far Eastern

The work assesses the psychological readiness to provide first aid in everyday life, assesses theoretical knowledge on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and assesses practical actions for providing first aid in simulated conditions on the basis of the Far Eastern State Medical University.The study involved 44 people. 59.09% were trained at various stages of their life in providing first aid. According to the respondents, 27.27% are confident in the skills of first aid. Complex correct mastery of first aid techniques was demonstrated only by 4 people (9.09%).

Thriving in Academia: Understanding and Managing the Complexities of Faculty Work

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketevan Mamiseishvili
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Faculty Work ◽  
College And University ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
University Settings

In this paper, I will illustrate the changing nature and complexity of faculty employment in college and university settings. I will use existing higher education research to describe changes in faculty demographics, the escalating demands placed on faculty in the work setting, and challenges that confront professors seeking tenure or administrative advancement. Boyer’s (1990) framework for bringing traditionally marginalized and neglected functions of teaching, service, and community engagement into scholarship is examined as a model for balancing not only teaching, research, and service, but also work with everyday life.

Moving Forward

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet B. Ruscher
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Spatial Metaphors ◽  
The People ◽  
Stationary Objects ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Affective Forecasts

Two distinct spatial metaphors for the passage of time can produce disparate judgments about grieving. Under the object-moving metaphor, time seems to move past stationary people, like objects floating past people along a riverbank. Under the people-moving metaphor, time is stationary; people move through time as though they journey on a one-way street, past stationary objects. The people-moving metaphor should encourage the forecast of shorter grieving periods relative to the object-moving metaphor. In the present study, participants either received an object-moving or people-moving prime, then read a brief vignette about a mother whose young son died. Participants made affective forecasts about the mother’s grief intensity and duration, and provided open-ended inferences regarding a return to relative normalcy. Findings support predictions, and are discussed with respect to interpersonal communication and everyday life.

Mental Contrasting of Future and Reality

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Oettingen ◽  
Doris Mayer ◽  
Babette Brinkmann
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Brief Intervention ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Metacognitive Strategy ◽  
Mental Contrasting ◽  
Low Expectations

Mental contrasting of a desired future with present reality leads to expectancy-dependent goal commitments, whereas focusing on the desired future only makes people commit to goals regardless of their high or low expectations for success. In the present brief intervention we randomly assigned middle-level managers (N = 52) to two conditions. Participants in one condition were taught to use mental contrasting regarding their everyday concerns, while participants in the other condition were taught to indulge. Two weeks later, participants in the mental-contrasting condition reported to have fared better in managing their time and decision making during everyday life than those in the indulging condition. By helping people to set expectancy-dependent goals, teaching the metacognitive strategy of mental contrasting can be a cost- and time-effective tool to help people manage the demands of their everyday life.

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