The Influence of the Bible in Shaping the Negative Viewpoint of Korean Christians towards Nature

2020 ◽  
pp. 001452462095054
Author(s):  
Hyunte Shin
Keyword(s):  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Total Destruction ◽  
The World ◽  
Biblical Literalism ◽  
Theological Thought

This paper proposes that the tremendous influence of certain brands of Western theology, historical premillennialism and premillennial dispensationalism, associated with the biblical literalism and dispensationalism which the early western missionaries to Korea taught to the early Korean Protestants, was one of the causes of indifference towards environment. Premillennialism, especially, premillennial dispensationalism has several key doctrines which lead to a negative attitude towards the environment: that the natural world is destined to be totally destroyed by God’s judgment and the devoted believers will be caught up (rapture) in the air from this wicked world in order to be with Christ prior to the great tribulation and then, will return to reign over the world forever. These doctrinal constructs bring certain eschatological N.T texts into clear and central focus, such as (Mk 13:24-27; 1Thess 4:13-5:11; Heb 12:25-29; 2 Pet 3:1-13; Rev 6:12-27; 8:1-13) which advocate these doctrinal constructs. At the same time, other eschatological N.T texts such as (Mk 1:12-13; Rom 8:19-23; Rev 21:1-7, 22:1-5) which illustrate cosmic renewal or reconciliation of all creation are marginalised. The Hermeneutical principles or doctrinal lenses of historical premillennialism and premillennial dispensationalism have shaped biblical interpretation among the early Korean Protestant Christians. This interpretive tradition and preunderstanding of N.T. eschatological texts permeated deeply into the theological thought and perception of Korean Christians towards nature. Such an abiding tendency of interpretation of the eschatological texts in the N.T. shapes Korean Christians’ attitude and indifference towards contemporary environmental issues today. Thus, we need to change both the key doctrinal constructs from the total destruction of earth’s ecosystems to reconciliation of all creation by God’s action in Christ and the central texts from those that seem to highlight earth’s destruction to those that indicate renewal and reconciliation in order to reconfigure the tradition in an ecological direction.

scholarly journals Die ontmoeting van wêrelde en die beginsel van sola Scriptura

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Reformed Tradition ◽  
Normative Power ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
Fusion Of Horizons ◽  
Point Of Departure

The meeting of worlds and the principle of sola Scriptura. Rather than function as a catalyst for unity, the Bible can be the cause of conflict among Christian believers. The Bible is also often the reason for strife, specifically in the Reformed tradition, even though Protestants uphold the creedal truism of sola Scriptura and though the authority of the Bible is seen as selfmandatory, transcending the normative power of ecclesiastical or confessional traditions. This article focuses on biblical interpretation as both a cause of disunity and a possible means to achieve greater unity. The point of departure is that biblical interpretation consists of a fusion of horizons; it is primarily about the fusion of two horizons, namely that of the Bible and that of the reader. However, both these horizons represent a great diversity of perspectives. A variety of readers interpret the Bible from diverse contexts. The Bible itself also communicates a diversity of ideas. Even the notion ‘Jesus Christ’ does not function as a unified or unifying concept. The article proposes that the idea of ‘Jesus’ cause’ (Sache Jesu) could provide continuity between the world of the reader and the world of a biblical passage.

scholarly journals 'What These Cryptic Symbols Mean': Quotation, Allusion, and John Darnielle's Biblical Interpretation

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-128
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Mountain Goats ◽  
The World ◽  
Interpretive Methods ◽  
Christian Rock ◽  
Biblical Songs

AbstractThe Mountain Goats' repertoire of biblically-themed songs displays a salutary resistance to oversimplifying dichotomies. Their catalogue defies the imperative to fit into the "Christian rock"-vs.- mainstream "secular rock" market niches while at the same time it does not fit conveniently into the biblical-critical world's fascination with characterising certain interpretive methods as "legitimate" and others as "illegitimate." The Mountain Goats' songs don't challenge these dichotomies head-on, but they demonstrate the allusive richness available to an interpreter freed from rigid obeisance to these idols of the market and the library. Whereas in many popular interpretations, the Bible figures as an oracular repository of sacred law, or as a textbook of science and metaphysics, or a sourcebook for general spirituality, the Mountain Goats' biblical songs draw on the Bible as an all-too-human expression of how the world is (and will be), even when the appearances suggest otherwise. In cultivating a wide range of songs that reflects the Bible's characteristic underdetermination, the Mountain Goats make the moral and theological ambivalence of the Bible audible again without resolving that ambivalence into consoling or deplorable platitudes, theological dogmas or historical facts.

scholarly journals Postcolonial theory as a hermeneutical tool for Biblical reading

2008 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lazare S. Rukundwa
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

In this article, postcolonial theory is presented as a tool for Biblical interpretation, in an attempt to find colonial intentions (be they political, cultural or economic) that informed and influenced the writer’s context. Although criticism has been levelled at the church and other religious institutions for having, consciously or unconsciously, facilitated colonial conquests and imperial establishment all over the world, postcolonial theory calls them to a constructive reading that enables readers to see the concerns of the universal mission of justice. Postcolonial theory, as a tool for Biblical interpretation, deals with the Bible as a “cultural product” in time and space. However, as part of socio-scientific method, postcolonial theory encounters some crucial translation problems such as ethnocentrism and anachronism. Nevertheless, whatever hermeneutical tool the reader uses, it must yield two important things from Scripture reading: discovering life and discovering faith.

Gnostic Biblical and Second Sophistic Homeric Interpretation

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-217
Author(s):  
Austin Busch
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Joint Analysis ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Second Sophistic ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
Two Bodies

Abstract Gnostic biblical interpretation closely resembles, from a formal perspective, Second Sophistic interpretation of Homeric Epic, which no less than the Bible constituted canonical scripture in late antiquity. This becomes apparent when one compares rewritings of Homer in Philostratus’ Heroicus and in Dio Chrysostom’s Trojan Oration to biblical revision in the Secret Book of John, the Nature of the Rulers, and On the Origin of the World. This essay accounts for this resemblance with reference to ancient rhetorical textbooks and model compositional exercises (progymnasmata), which treat a rhetorical tactic identified as ἀνασκευὴ (“refutation”). It also ponders the implications and interpretive possibilities of joint analysis of these two bodies of late antique scriptural revision.

Postcolonial Biblical Criticism and Feminist Studies

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Scholz
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

After Two-Thirds World Bible scholars connected postcolonial theories with biblical studies in the early 1990s, it took another decade for postcolonial feminist Bible scholars to examine the Bible and its interpretation as part of past and present colonial and gender-oppressive structures of domination. Postcolonial feminist interpretations have proliferated in three main areas: (1) theoretical considerations about the nature, purpose, and goals of postcolonial feminist exegesis; (2) text-centered readings of particular biblical books, chapters, and themes or characters; and (3) some considerations on (post)colonial biblical interpretation histories with attention to sexism and gender issues. Challenges remain for postcolonial feminist exegetes. Yet, overall, postcolonial feminist exegetes continue to be called to make important scholarly contributions in solidarity with the ongoing struggles of bringing justice, peace, and the integrity of creation into the world.

scholarly journals Pelestarian Alam sebagai Perwujudan Mandat Pembangunan: Suatu Kajian Etis-Teologis

Kurios ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Kalis Stevanus
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Critical Problem ◽  
Crucial Issue ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The World

Lately, the attention and awareness of humankind to protect and maintain environmental sustainability are increasing. Environmental damage today is a big problem and is global, which is now an increasingly critical problem. The world is experiencing the danger of an ecological crisis. This article is intended to describe the Church's ethical-theological attitude in addressing environ-mental issues today is a very crucial issue to consider. Using research that uses qualitative research using descriptive methods based on the Bible and also using library research by analyzing literature both books and journals that discuss environmental issues. Based on ethical-theological studies, it can be concluded that humans are the managers of nature, and preservation of nature is as an implementation of love for others. By understanding this, it is hoped that the Environment, which has been entrusted to humans, needs to be managed wisely, responsibly and productively as possible for the needs and progress of future generations. Abstrak Akhir-akhir ini perhatian dan kesadaran umat manusia untuk menjaga dan memelihara kelestarian lingkungan hidupnya semakin meningkat. Kerusakan lingkungan hidup dewasa ini merupakan isu besar dan bersifat global (mendunia), yang kini menjadi masalah yang semakin genting. Dunia sedang menghadapi bahaya krisis ekologis. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk memaparkan sikap etis-teologis Gereja dalam menyikapi isu tentang lingkungan hidup dewasa ini menjadi isu yang sangat krusial untuk diperhatikan. Adapun pende-katan penelitian yang penulis gunakan adalah penelitian kualitatif dengan menggunakan metode deskriptif berdasarkan Alkitab dan juga menggunakan penelitian kepustakaan dengan cara menganalis literatur baik buku maupun jurnal yang membahas permasalahan lingkungan hidup. Berdasarkan kajian etis-teologis diperoleh kesimpulan bahwa, manusia adalah pengelola alam, dan pelestarian alam adalah sebagai implementasi kasih kepada sesama. Dengan pemahaman ini, diharapkan lingkungan hidup yang telah dipercayakan kepada manusia, perlu dikelola secara bijak, bertanggungjawab dan seproduktif mungkin untuk kepentingan dan kelangsungan generasi mendatang.

scholarly journals Certain Critical Observations on Importance of Environmental Education in Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (VII) ◽  
pp. 2705-2707
Author(s):  
Bharti Dwivedi
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Specialized Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Harmful Substances ◽  
Irreparable Damage

Environmental pollution is one of the greatest problems that the world is facing today. This is Increasing with every passing year and causing grave and irreparable damage to the environment potentially harmful substances e.g. pesticides, heavy metals and hydrocarbons are often released into the environment. Environmental education provides the necessary skills and specialized knowledge to meet the challenges related to it. The main purpose of this education is to provide knowledge, to create awareness, to create an attitude of contemplation and to provide the necessary skills to control the environmental Environmental Education helps in building the natural world, gives knowledge and method to solve complex environmental issues which also gives advancement to productive economies and harmony among communities.

Rembrandt Reads the Gospels: Form, Context and Theological Responsibility in New Testament Interpretation

1997 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clive Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Constructive Theology ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Biblical Scholar ◽  
Road Story ◽  
The Church

Art is part of the history of the church, and relates to spirituality and to the practical expression of Christian faith. It illustrates theological loci and biblical themes. Often, the art which fulfils this function does so with the conscious intent of the artist; sometimes not. Attempts have been made, however, to argue that art not only illustrates theology, but also contributes to it. Even so, systematic theologians and biblical scholars — when they do talk to each other — still converse on the basis of largely word-centred approaches to their tasks. I am neither systematic theologian nor biblical scholar, precisely because I attempt to keep a foot in both camps. I am even less of an art critic. Yet it is clear that in the world of art there is a whole area of exploration yet to be ventured into not only historically (have we really sufficiently explored how biblical interpretation and doctrinal theology have been influenced by art?) but also from the perspective of constructive theology (what contribution can art past and present make to the very reformulation and expansion of Christian doctrine?). This paper offers a brief reading of three paintings by Rembrandt, of the Emmaus Road story in Luke 24.13–35. The theological significance of the changing interpretations of the passage is drawn out and the implications of the use of the paintings, in terms of the creative use of the Bible in Christian theology.

A Māori Girl Watches, Listens, and Learns – Coming of Age from an Indigenous Viewpoint: Mauri (Merata Mita, 1988)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fox
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Indigenous Woman ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Force ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines Merata Mita’s Mauri, the first fiction feature film in the world to be solely written and directed by an indigenous woman, as an example of “Fourth Cinema” – that is, a form of filmmaking that aims to create, produce, and transmit the stories of indigenous people, and in their own image – showing how Mita presents the coming-of-age story of a Māori girl who grows into an understanding of the spiritual dimension of the relationship of her people to the natural world, and to the ancestors who have preceded them. The discussion demonstrates how the film adopts storytelling procedures that reflect a distinctively Māori view of time and are designed to signify the presence of the mauri (or life force) in the Māori world.

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