On Earth as in Heaven: Corresponding to God in Philippine Context

1989 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Brendan Lovett
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Integral Scale ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Good ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Church ◽  
Insight Into

This article attempts to dispel confusion about the demands of faith and the concrete path of witness by promoting a better understanding of the dynamics of the integral human good. The article falls into two sections: Part One is devoted to illuminating the Law of the Cross under which the Church should operate; Part Two follows on the realisation that living in accord with this Law demands insight into the dynamics of the integral human good. Life under the Law of the Cross is actualised in the concrete mission of establishing the integral scale of values in human-earth and inter-human relations, establishing the appropriate relation between the social infrastructure and the cultural superstructure of society. This serves to clarify the dynamics of historical salvation and the concrete paths to be followed in participating in such salvific process.

scholarly journals Verses of Faith and Devotion. Seeing, Reading, and Touching Monumental Crucifixes with Inscriptions (12th–13th century)

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 397-421
Author(s):  
Matko Matija Marušić
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Church ◽  
Insight Into

The paper discusses a group of monumental crucifixes from the 13th-century East Adriatic and Italy, pained or executed in low relief, that display a verse inscriptions on the transverse limb of the cross. The main scope of the paper is to examine the provenance of the text inscribed in order to yield clearer insight into their function, use and original location in the church interiors. The paper specifically aims at analyzing three monumental crucifixes from the East-Adriatic city of Zadar which, although have already been the subject of a respectable number of studies, have not attracted attention as objects of devotion. My interest, therefore, is turned towards verse inscription as their distinctive feature and, as I shall argue, a key aspect in understanding their function. Examining the nature of the text displayed, iconography and materiality of these crucifixes, my main argument is to demonstrate how these objects provoked a multi-faced response from their audience, since were experienced by seeing, hearing and touching respectively.

scholarly journals The Social Background of 1 Corinthians 1-4

Perichoresis ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (s2) ◽  
pp. 27-40
Author(s):  
Corin Mihăilă
Keyword(s):  
Social Background ◽  
1 Corinthians ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
The People ◽  
Household Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
Unique Identity ◽  
Large Household ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Church

Abstract The social structure of the Corinthian ecclesia is a reasonable cause for the dissensions that had occurred between her members. The people from the higher social strata of the church may have sought to advance their honor by desiring to extend their patronage over those teachers in the church that could help them in that regard. This situation was aided by the fact that the members of the Christian community have failed to allow the cross to redefine the new entity to which they now belonged. Rather, they perceived the Christian ecclesia according to different social models that were available at that time in the society at large: household model, collegia model, political ecclesia, and Jewish synagogue. As a result, the apostle Paul, in the first four chapter of 1 Corinthians, shows how the cross has overturned the social values inherent in these models. He argues that the Christian ecclesia is a new entity, with a unique identity, and distinct network of relations, which should separate those inside the Christian community from those outside.

scholarly journals “Hopeful Gradualness” and Ecclesial Mission

Lumen et Vita ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas Briola
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Precise Meaning ◽  
Humanae Vitae ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Church

On October 13, 2014, the remarkable midterm Relatio post Disceptationem of the 2014 Synod on the Family invoked the legge di gradualità on four occasions. This “law of gradualness” would later be dropped from the final Relatio Synodi, though inarguably its vestiges remained. Simultaneously the locus of disappointment, apprehension, and excitement, the term’s precise meaning remained and continues to remain unclear. Taking the principle to be what Ladislas Orsy would term a “seminal locution” and thus in need of further explication, this paper will examine the law of gradualness through a diachronic lens. It will trace the term’s evolution from its initial emergence around Humanae vitae during the late 1960s and early 1970s, to its reserved acceptance into ecclesiastical parlance in the 1980 Synod on the Family and Familiaris Consortio, to its unique use this past October at the 2014 Synod. It is the contention of this paper that the 2014 Synod marked a new expansion of the term, away from its previously primary, if not exclusive, contentious identification with Humanae vitae. Though maintaining many of its previous connotations, seen in light of Francis’s papacy, the law of gradualness has become fundamentally a foundation and spirituality for the church’s mission to the world. Reflecting God’s own pedagogy revealed most clearly in Jesus Christ, the law of gradualness requires an ecclesial lens of hope. It is a hope that a merciful and authentic encounter with people where they actually are can prompt genuine conversion and growth. The church, as sacrament, is dauntingly tasked to imitate this divine logic that balances the acceptance of the Incarnation with the demands of the Cross. Ultimately then, applying gradualness to the church’s own pilgrim life, this is an eschatological hope that likewise stimulates ongoing ecclesial conversion and so enables authentic growth, accompaniment, dialogue, and mission.

scholarly journals Boże Serce w misterium swojego otwarcia na współczesny świat

Sympozjum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1 (40)) ◽  
pp. 159-184
Author(s):  
Eugeniusz Ziemann
Keyword(s):  
Modern World ◽  
Sacred Heart ◽  
Special Place ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Church ◽  
Sacred Heart Of Jesus

God’s Heart in the mystery of its opening to the modern world Is the reverence and cult of the Sacred Heart of Jesus still topical in the mission of the Church? The text „God’s Heart in the mystery of its opening to the modern world” is an attempt to answer the question above. Biblical depiction of the word „heart” has basically symbolic and allegoric meaning. Repeatedly this word appears in connection with the word „love” both in regard to God and human. Incarnated God, the Word of the Father, became truly human with the loving heart and he redeemed the world. The Heart of Jesus pierced with the soldier’s spear on the cross is still open to the present day with his love. A special place in this regard is given to spreading the idea of the social kingdom of the Heart of Jesus and the civilization of love. Abstrakt Czy nabożeństwo i kult Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa są wciąż aktualne w misji Kościoła? Próbą odpowiedzi na to pytanie jest tekst Boże Serce w misterium swojego otwarcia na współczesny świat. Biblijne ujęcie słowa „serce” ma zasadniczo znaczenie symboliczne i przenośne. Wielokrotnie występuje w połączeniu ze słowem „miłość” zarówno w odniesieniu do Boga, jak i człowieka. Wcielony Bóg, Słowo Ojca, stał się prawdziwym człowiekiem o kochającym sercu i odkupił świat. Serce Jezusa przebite włócznią żołnierza na krzyżu jest wciąż otwarte na współczesność przez swoją miłość. Szczególne miejsce pod tym względem zajmuje szerzenie idei społecznego królestwa Serca Jezusa oraz cywilizacji miłości.

scholarly journals Paixão da relação – paixão da falta

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (249) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Hadwig Ana Maria Müller
Keyword(s):  
Human Relations ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Intimate Life ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Insight Into

O sofrimento dos pobres se associa muitas vezes a dons relacionais evidentes. O termo “paixão” expressa esse laço entre uma pobreza dolorosamente vivida e uma riqueza humana muitas vezes admirável. Esta experiência – relida aqui a partir da noção lacaniana de “falta” – encontra-se no coração da relação dos pobres para com Deus e de Deus para com os pobres. Mais ainda, ela está no coração de toda escuta, pois não há relação sem escuta, nem escuta sem desejo, e, então, sem falta. A partir disso, deixando-nos guiar pela revelação bíblica acolhida na fé, é possível pressentir algo da vida íntima de Deus, viver diferentemente nossas relações humanas e o dinamismo da missão sobre a base de uma inteligência renovada de Igreja-comunhão.Abstract: The suffering of the poor often brings in its wake a clear gift for human relations. The term “passion” expresses this connection between a painfully endured poverty and a – sometimes astonishing – human richness. This experience – examined here in the light of the Lacanian concept of “manque” – can be found in the relationship between the poor and God and between God and the poor. Moreover, this experience is at the core of every act of listening, for there is no relationship without listening, no listening without desire and no desire without “manque”. With this in mind, a re-reading of the Bible can help us to have a better understanding of God’s intimate life and, through this, to experience our human relations differently. It can also give us a new insight into the dynamics of a mission that has as basis a renewed vision of the Church as communion.

The Politics of the Nonviolent God: Reflections on René Girard and Karl Barth

1998 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Hunsinger
Keyword(s):  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cross Of Christ ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Church ◽  
Secondary Consequence ◽  
As If

Doctrines of the atonement in Christian theology, as Marlin E. Miller has pointed out, ‘usually limit their concern to reconciliation with God and, at most, consider reconciliation with others a secondary consequence of reconciliation with God’. Too often, in other words, the vertical aspect of reconciliation is allowed to overshadow its horizontal aspect. The vertical aspect of the atonement as it pertains directly to God is often treated in isolation as if its ethical implications were of no great importance. The reverse defect, however, would also appear to be widespread. Christian ethics as we know it today often seems to proceed as if the atoning work of Christ were of little or no relevance to its deliberations on human affairs. The social or horizontal aspect of reconciliation thereby eclipses its vertical aspect. Yet if the cross of Christ is indeed the very center of the center of the Christian gospel, as the church has historically believed, then how can it fail to determine the substance of Christian ethics as well as that of Christian theology? Moreover, how can the centrality of the cross fail to orient them both in any attempt to specify their inner unity, order and differentiation?

The Holy Spirit in 1 Corinthians

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-42
Author(s):  
Jack Levison
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Spiritual Gifts ◽  
1 Corinthians ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Church ◽  
Insight Into

Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians is the last word on the Holy Spirit—or so it would seem, with its copious discussions of the Spirit in relation to the cross, the church, spiritual gifts, and resurrection. Yet this letter is anything but straightforward, and its take on the Spirit is anything but spiritual. Earthy, tenacious, and sensible, yes—but spiritual? Not in the sense of otherworldly and unearthly. If insight into the Holy Spirit can be wrested from this letter—and it certainly can—it seeps from fractures and surfaces in ambiguity, where sarcasm, practicality, and competing claims to experience collide.

Daily Routine, Food and Faith. To Yu.F. Samarin’s Thesis on “Formalism” of the Church Life in the Pre-Petrine Period

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 268-279
Author(s):  
Abbot Vitaly Utkin
Keyword(s):  
Daily Routine ◽  
Eating Patterns ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
Old Believers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Church Life ◽  
The Church

With reference to Yu. F. Samarin’s thesis on “Formalism” of the Church Life in the Pre-Petrine Period, the article examines the issue of the role of fasts, eating patterns and daily routine in general among most radical groups of Old Believers. The author of the article draws the conclusion that such conceptions were rooted in the Pre-Nikon Russian religious (monkish) traditions. The author pays special attention to the social and political aspect of the connection between food and payer for the Tsar in the context of the “spiritual Antichrist” teaching.

The Samarin Family and the Parish Question in the Russian Empire. 1860s–1910s

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 235-246
Author(s):  
Alexey L. Beglov
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Church Life ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Church ◽  
Do So

The article examines the contribution of the representatives of the Samarin family to the development of the Parish issue in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The issue of expanding the rights of the laity in the sphere of parish self-government was one of the most debated problems of Church life in that period. The public discussion was initiated by D.F. Samarin (1827-1901). He formulated the “social concept” of the parish and parish reform, based on Slavophile views on society and the Church. In the beginning of the twentieth century his eldest son F.D. Samarin who was a member of the Special Council on the development the Orthodox parish project in 1907, and as such developed the Slavophile concept of the parish. In 1915, A.D. Samarin, who took up the position of the Chief Procurator of the Most Holy Synod, tried to make his contribution to the cause of the parish reforms, but he failed to do so due to his resignation.

Some reflections on social structure: Theoretical and practical aspects

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 1063-1078
Author(s):  
T.N. Skorobogatova ◽  
I.Yu. Marakhovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Service Industry ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
The Impact

Subject. This article discusses the role of social infrastructure in the national economy and analyzes the relationship between the notions of Infrastructure, Service Industry and Non-Productive Sphere. Objectives. The article aims to outline a methodology for development of the social infrastructure of Russia's regions. Methods. For the study, we used the methods of statistical and comparative analyses. The Republic of Crimea and Rostov Oblast's social infrastructure development was considered as a case study. Results. The article finds that the level of social infrastructure is determined by a number of internal and external factors. By analyzing and assessing such factors, it is possible to develop promising areas for the social sphere advancement. Conclusions. Assessment and analysis of internal factors largely determined by the region's characteristics, as well as a comprehensive consideration of the impact of external factors will help ensure the competitiveness of the region's economy.

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