Is Nothing Sacred? 1 Timothy and Clergy Sexual Abuse

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-327
Author(s):  
Marie M. Fortune
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
First Century ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Clergy Sexual Abuse ◽  
Current Discussion ◽  
Pastoral Letters ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
A Current

1 Timothy and the Pastoral Letters appear to be efforts to codify structure and roles in the early church. These efforts largely reflected the patriarchal social structures of the time and as such are not relevant to the twenty-first-century church. But some of the concerns identified herein, for example expectations of church leaders, are useful for a current discussion. What is missing is any acknowledgement of the potential for identified church leaders to take advantage of vulnerable congregants, particularly women and children. How might the writer of 1 Timothy have addressed this serious problem in the churches?

1 Clement’s View of Ministerial Appointments in the Early Church

2012 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Moriarty
Keyword(s):  
Local Church ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
First Century ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Greek Text ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Intended Meaning ◽  
History Of ◽  
Local Leaders ◽  
Do So

Abstract The document known as the First Epistle of Clement, probably written towards the end of the first century, provides some of the scant available documentary evidence about the early development of the Christian ministry. It contains an outline history of the passing down of authority, but the relevant part of the Greek text has ambiguities which have led various scholars to propose five broadly different views, or interpretations, of Clement’s intended meaning. These were examined in relation to Clement’s purpose, an approach which relied primarily on evidence internal to the epistle, and had not been considered in detail before. Only one of the five views was found to make Clement’s argument reasonably consistent with his aims, and this view also made his lack of clarity understandable. Thus Clement’s intended message in the ambiguous section was that the first local church leaders were appointed by the apostles, and when some of these local leaders died, replacement appointments were made by people who had been given the authority to do so from outside the local church.

Music and Memory: The Tlatelolco Refrain

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Kun
Keyword(s):  
State Violence ◽  
First Century ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
Octavio Paz ◽  
Mexican History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rock Bands ◽  
To Come ◽  
Musical Memory ◽  
A Current

Ever since the 1968 student movements and the events surrounding the Tlatelolco massacre, Mexico City rock bands have openly engaged with the intersection of music and memory. Their songs offer audiences a medium through which to come to terms with the events of the past as a means of praising a broken world, to borrow the poet Adam Zagajewski’s phrase. Contemporary songs such as Saúl Hernández’s “Fuerte” are a twenty-first-century voicing of the ceaseless revolutionary spirit that John Gibler has called “Mexico unconquered,” a current of rebellion and social hunger for justice that runs in the veins of Mexican history. They are the latest additions to what we might think about as “the Mexico unconquered songbook”: musical critiques of impunity and state violence that are rooted in the weaponry of memory, refusing to focus solely on the present and instead making connections with the political past. What Octavio Paz described as a “swash of blood” that swept across “the international subculture of the young” during the events in Tlatelolco Plaza on October 2, 1968, now becomes a refrain of musical memory and political consciousness that extends across eras and generations. That famous phrase of Paz’s is a reminder that these most recent Mexican musical interventions, these most recent formations of a Mexican subculture of the young, maintain a historically tested relationship to blood, death, loss, and violence.

Magnetic resonance imaging in study of lungs

2019 ◽  
pp. 10-23
Author(s):  
T. A. Akhadov ◽  
S. Yu. Guryakov ◽  
M. V. Ublinsky
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Resonance Imaging ◽  
Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Medical Society ◽  
Resonance Imaging ◽  
Iodinated Contrast ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Mri ◽  
A Current ◽  
Lung Mri

For a long time, there was a need to apply magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique for lung visualization in clinical practice. The development of this method is stimulated by necessity of the emergence of an alternative to computed tomography, especially when radiation and injection of iodine-containing contrast agents are contraindicated or undesirable, for example, in pregnant women and children, people with intolerance to iodinated contrast. One of the reasons why lung MRI is still rarely used is lack of elaborated standardized protocols that would be adapted to clinical needs of medical society. This publication is a current literature review on the use of MRI in lung studies.

Resources for a Democratic Catholic Church

Horizons ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-226
Author(s):  
Eugene C. Bianchi
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Church History ◽  
First Century ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Church Reform ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Democratic Tradition ◽  
Catholic History ◽  
Reform Needs

AbstractThis article explores sources in the Christian tradition that can be helpful for re-shaping present Roman Catholic ecclesial polity. The underlying theme is that the Catholic Church, in order to enhance efforts at church reform, needs to re-structure itself from a monarchical polity to a democratic one. A theological subtheme argues that the monarchical polity is not mandated by the gospel, but is rather a creature of history. Furthermore, the monarchical polity is a root cause obstructing reform in specific areas. By selecting loci from early church history to the present time, democratic movements and ideas are highlighted as constituting an important part of Catholic history. Certain of these loci have not yet been examined for their democratic potential. This democratic tradition can be a springboard for moving toward a democratic church in the twenty-first century.

Clergy Sexual Abuse: Theological and Gender Perspectives

2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Cozzens ◽  
William Schipper ◽  
Merle Longwood ◽  
Marie M. Fortune ◽  
Elaine Graham
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Clergy Sexual Abuse ◽  
Gender Perspectives ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals The Subtleties of Dissolution and Regeneration of Cellulose: Breaking and Making Hydrogen Bonds

BioResources ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 3811-3814 ◽  
Author(s):  
Björn Lindman ◽  
Bruno Medronho
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Bonding ◽  
Hydrogen Bonds ◽  
Hydrophobic Interactions ◽  
Cellulose Dissolution ◽  
Solution Behavior ◽  
Current Discussion ◽  
Scientific Controversies ◽  
A Current

Cellulose dissolution and regeneration are old topics that have recently gained renewed attention. This is reflected in both applications – earlier and novel – and in scientific controversies. There is a current discussion in the literature on the balance between hydrogen bonding and hydrophobic interactions in controlling the solution behavior of cellulose. Some of the key ideas are recalled.

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