Life in the Diaspora: Christian interpretation of Esther in dialogue with Judaism

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-179
Author(s):  
Barry A Jones
Keyword(s):  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
The Holocaust

Christian interpretation of Esther has historically been limited by Christian bias against Judaism and by the teaching of Christian supersessionism. Reconsideration of this history in the aftermath of the Holocaust and in light of the new circumstances of post-Christendom provides an opportunity to reconsider the message of the book for Christian faith and ministry. The article describes how the unique diaspora perspective and theology of Esther provide resources for Christian ethics and discipleship in a post-Christian era.

scholarly journals Peran Pendidikan Etika Kristen dalam Media Sosial di Era Disrupsi

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-46
Author(s):  
Mesirawati Waruwu ◽  
Yonatan Alex Arifianto ◽  
Aji Suseno
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Ethics Education ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
And Function ◽  
Meaning And Function ◽  
The Impact

The limitless development of social media, its meaning and function have begun to shift, no longer as a means of establishing relationships, communication, but at the stage of losing the role of ethics and morals, even disputes have occurred triggered by debates from communicating in social media. The purpose of this study is to describe the role of Christian ethics education in relation to the impact of social media development in the era of disruption. Using descriptive qualitative methods with literature literature can find solutions for believers in facing moral decadence due to social media abuse by knowing the era of disruption and ethical challenges from the wrong use of social media can affect moral decadence so that Christian ethics education on a biblical basis can bring modern humans. Believers in particular have become bright in social media and their use in accordance with Christian faith in this era of disruption.

scholarly journals Vergeving in het “Onze Vader”: Een bijbels-theologische pastorale benadering

2007 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiny Van der Schaaf
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Faith Communities ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Lord's Prayer ◽  
The Us ◽  
Victims Of Violence ◽  
God's Grace

The petition for forgiveness in the Lord’s Prayer from a biblical theological pastoral perspective The Lord’s Prayer has a prominent place in the lives and liturgies of Christian faith communities. The petition for forgiveness in the prayer is accompanied by what seems to be a condition: “Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sinned against us”. This “condition” can be a stumbling block for victims of violence perpetrated by people “who sinned against” them. The aim of the article is to provide a liberating perspective on the Lord’s Prayer so that it can contribute to the healing of women who have been sexually violated. Firstly, the concept “forgiveness” in the Old and New Testament is investigated. This leads to an investigation of the ethics of forgiveness in light of Levinas’ criticism of the Christian ethics of forgiveness. Narrative insights point to the possibility of reinterpreting the “us” in “forgive us our sins”. This liberates “victims” of violence to feel included in God’s grace and forgiveness, even though they may find it difficult or impossible to forgive the perpetrator.

A Reformational Christian Overview on Suffering, Guilt, Failures, and Related Issues in Psychiatry

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douw Breed ◽  
C.W. van Staden
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Detailed Application

This chapter aims to provide the psychiatrist and ethicist with an understanding of reformational Christian ethics as it pertains to the faith of the believing patient in a psychiatry context. We introduce three reformational principles and apply them cursorily to diagnostic and therapeutic issues in clinical practice, followed by a more detailed application to the topic of suffering owing to mental disorder. Understanding reformational ethics may aid the psychiatrist towards a better relationship with the believing patient and equip him for engagement on issues of guilt, remorse, whether being punished by God, and whether mental disorder results from failure in faith. Clarity on these issues may bring consolation to the believing patient. That applies also to the issue of suffering owing to mental disorder, for which we present a scholastic reformational exegesis of Colossians 1:24, exemplifying the premises and methods for examining issues of reformational Christian faith and mental disorder.

Christian Ethics and the Being of God

1969 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-89
Author(s):  
Keith Ward
Keyword(s):  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Concern For Others

I. Is there anything distinctive about Christian ethics? Many recent writers have claimed that there is, but have at the same time denied that this distinctiveness depends upon the truth of any factual assertions about the being of God. Some have gone even further, and claimed that the Christian faith is nothing but commitment to a distinctive ethic—of concern for others, or ‘agapism’—and does not involve any belief about the existence of supernatural beings.

Christian Martyrdom and Christian Violence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew D. Lundberg
Keyword(s):  
Just War ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Self ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Majority Opinion ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Way ◽  
Christian History

What is the place—if any—for violence in the Christian life? This book explores this question by analyzing a paradox of mainstream Christian history, theology, and ethics: at the heart of the Christian story, the suffering of violence stands as the price of faithfulness. From Jesus himself to martyrs who have died while following him, at the core of Christian faith is an experience of being victimized by the world’s violence. At the same time, the majority opinion for most of Christian history has held that there are situations when the follower of Jesus may be justified in inflicting violence on others, especially in the context of war. Do these two facets of Christian ethics and experience—martyrdom and the just war—represent a contradiction, the self-defeating irony of those who follow a Lord who refused to defend himself taking up deadly weapons? In arguing that they do not, the book contends that any meaningful coherence between a theology of martyrdom and commitment to a just war ethic requires shifts away from a common heroic conception of Christian martyrdom and a common secularized realpolitik conception of necessary violence. Instead, it requires a view of martyrdom that acknowledges even the martyrs as subject to the ambiguities of the human condition, even as they present a compelling witness to Jesus and the way of the cross. And it requires an approach to justified violence that reflects the self-sacrificial ethos of Jesus displayed in the lives of true Christian martyrs.

Can Christian Faith Survive Auschwitz?

Horizons ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-26
Author(s):  
Darrell J. Fasching
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
Good News ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Book Of Job ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Temple

AbstractThis paper argues that, for both Jews and Christians, the Holocaust represents a hermeneutic rupture. After Auschwitz, Jews find their belief in the God of history called into question. And Christians find their past interpretations of the Gospel as good news called into question, when forced by the Holocaust to see that it has been used to justify 2000 years of persecution, expulsion, and pogrom against the Jewish people. For Christians to acknowledge the Holocaust as hermeneutic rupture is to give it the authority of a new hermeneutic criterion for interpreting the Gospel, in which nothing is the word of God which denies the covenantal integrity of the Jewish People. The Holocaust forces a redefinition of the “canon within the canon” in which Paul's letter to the Romans and the Book of Job become central texts. Romans becomes the cornerstone of post-Holocaust theology because it predates the fall of the temple and the emergence of the anti-Judaic myth of Christian supercession and affirms the ongoing election of the Jewish people. And after the Holocaust, the Book of Job takes on new meaning as an allegory, only a desacralized Christianity which demythologizes some of its most sacred traditions in order to affirm human dignity and Jewish integrity can survive Auschwitz with any authenticity.

scholarly journals O Deus único, o pluralismo e a libertação do imaginário. Quando únicos se tornam um

2018 ◽  
Vol 76 (303) ◽  
pp. 617-643
Author(s):  
Francys Silvestrini Adão
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Theology ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Trinitarian Theology ◽  
Existential Analysis ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The One ◽  
The Stranger ◽  
Biblical Sources ◽  
Biblical Figures

Síntese: Neste artigo, o A. propõe um itinerário teológico aberto à sensibilidade contemporânea, a partir de uma relação entre a singularidade e a pluralidade humanas e a confissão de fé cristã em um Deus único. Para isso, são apresentados alguns discursos sobre o “Único”, partindo de uma análise etimológico-existencial dos termos unicidade e unidade, antes de expor a dinâmica do modo cristão de confessar a unicidade de Deus, bem como as críticas daqueles que não partilham a mesma fé. Em seguida, diante da crítica contra a possível violência dos monoteísmos, propõe-se uma volta às fontes bíblicas, em busca de inspiração e de conversão do imaginário cristão sobre o Único, revisitando algumas “imagens” que perpassam o Antigo e o Novo Testamentos. Finalmente, desenvolve-se uma breve reflexão sobre o modo de existência cristã neste mundo plural. Neste percurso, as figuras bíblicas do estrangeiro, da viúva e do órfão mostrar-se-ão fundamentais para uma nova compreensão da revelação do modo divino de ser “único para os outros”.Palavras-chave: Monoteísmo. Pluralismo. Teologia bíblica. Teologia trinitária. Ética cristã.Abstract: In this article, the Author proposes a theological itinerary open to the contemporary sensitivity, starting with a relationship between the human singularity and plurality and the confession of Christian faith in one God. For this, we present some discourses about the “One”, beginning with an etymological-existential analysis of the terms oneness and unity before exposing the dynamics of the Christian way of confessing God’s oneness as well as the criticism of those who do not share the same faith. Next, in view of the criticism against the possible violence of monotheisms, we propose a return to biblical sources in search of inspiration and the conversion of the Christian imagery about the One, revisiting some “images” that pervade the Old and New Testaments. Finally, we develop a brief reflection about the Christian way of life in this plural world. In this course, the biblical figures of the stranger, the widow and the orphan will prove to be fundamental for a new understanding of the revelation of the divine way of being “one for the others.”Keywords: Monotheism. Pluralism. Biblical theology. Trinitarian theology. Christian ethics.

scholarly journals Election in Christ in Schleiermacher’s Christian Faith and Christian Ethics

Open Theology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Vander Schel
Keyword(s):  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Divine Grace ◽  
Narrow Focus ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Historical World

AbstractSchleiermacher’s treatment of election criticizes the narrow focus on individual salvation and emphasizes the primacy of divine grace. Yet more than merely offering a revision of this controversial doctrine, Schleiermacher’s position illuminates the larger correlation of grace, history, and soteriology in his theology. This essay examines Schleiermacher’s novel understanding of grace and history by attending to the subtle theme of the “supernatural-becoming-natural” in his thought. In contrast to rationalist and supernaturalist theologies in his day, his Christian Faith and Christian Ethics offer a historically-minded treatment that focuses on the original instance of grace in history: the appearance of the redeemer. Schleiermacher depicts the relatively supernatural influence of Christ as transforming the natural and historical world from within, drawing creation to its divinelyordained completion. This dynamic highlights Schleiermacher’s work as an innovative contribution to ongoing discussions of grace and redemption in modern and contemporary systematic theology.

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