Book Review: Spiritual Formation as if the Church Mattered: Growing in Christ through Community

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-232
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Formation ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Church ◽  
As If

scholarly journals Teach Me What I Do Not See: Lessons for the Church From a Global Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 193979092199260
Author(s):  
Steven L. Porter ◽  
Kelly M. Kapic ◽  
Ruth Haley Barton ◽  
Richard Peace ◽  
Diane J. Chandler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Spiritual Formation ◽  
Local Church ◽  
Church Leadership ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Church ◽  
Human Finitude

In an attempt to learn from COVID-19, this essay features six responses to the question: what did COVID-19 teach us, expose in us, or purge out of us when it comes to spiritual formation in Christ? Each response was written independently of the others by one of the coauthors. Diane J. Chandler focuses in on how COVID-19 exposed grievous inequities for ethnic groups in the American church and broader society. Kelly M. Kapic reminds us of the goodness of human finitude and how COVID restrictions have forced many of us to embrace our limitations. Siang-Yang Tan reflects on eight lessons he has learned during this pandemic year in his role shepherding a local church. James C. Wilhoit calls us to consider the structures that are needed for local church leadership to make wise and godly decisions in times of crisis. Richard Peace draws our attention to what might be learned from the forced monasticism brought about by COVID-19 quarantines. Finally, Ruth Haley Barton pauses to consider the interdependence of human life that has been dramatically illustrated by this pandemic. While these six responses certainly do not exhaust all there is for the church to learn from COVID, we present them in the spirit of “O Lord, teach us what we do not see” and hope they will inspire your own reflections.

A Wesleyan-Ignatian Approach to Spiritual Formation: A Case Study in Jesuit Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-464
Author(s):  
Luisa J. Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Christian Education ◽  
Spiritual Formation ◽  
Formation Model ◽  
Jesuit Higher Education ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
Education Today ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Church

Christ’s call to unity in the Church is an imperative for Christian education today. An ecumenical approach to spiritual formation reaffirms a common shared identity rooted in Christ, and strengthens a common witness in a troubled world. Through an examination of Wesleyan and Ignatian Christian education, a complementary holistic discourse emerges. This article explores a Wesleyan-Ignatian model of spiritual formation that is holistic in nature: engaging cognitive thinking, inward journey, and an outward expression of faith. Furthermore, this article provides a case study applying this ecumenical spiritual formation model in a Jesuit higher education setting.

scholarly journals Nasie, volk, religie en die kerk as ellips van versoenende verskeidenheid

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Active Role ◽  
European Context ◽  
In Christ ◽  
19Th And 20Th Century ◽  
Rip Van Winkle ◽  
The Church ◽  
As If

Nation, ’ethnic people’ (das Volk), religion and the church as ellipse of reconciling diversity. This article examines the 19th and 20th century European context wherein religion was practiced. In a ‘Rip-Van-Winkle’ manner it is as if this context had no influence on the Afrikaans speaking church in South Africa. The isolation, that was the result of the apartheid ideology, lead to the Afrikaans speaking church in South Africa not internalising ecumenicity. It is argued that for the church to be able to take an active role in reconciling diversity and therefore contributing to social cohesion in South Africa, the church needs to transcend being a ‘nation’ church. This is possible by respecting culture and diversity, while recognising the priority of salvation in Christ. This is the ellipse of being church.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Mason
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Communal Experience ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Church ◽  
Francis Of Assisi

This chapter locates Rossetti in the context of the book’s ecotheological argument, which traces an ecological love command in her writing through her engagement with Tractarianism, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the Church Fathers, and Francis of Assisi. It establishes her Anglo-Catholic imagining of the cosmos as a fabric of participation and communal experience embodied in Christ. The first section reads Rossetti in the context of current Victorian ecocriticism, which underplays the role of Christianity in the development of nineteenth-century environmentalism. The next sections question critical readings of Rossetti as a reclusive thinker and argue instead for an educated and politicized Christian for whom indifference to the spiritual is complicit with an environmental crisis in which the weak and vulnerable suffer most. This introduction also refers to the wider field of Rossetti studies and introduces her reading of grace and apocalypse as a major contribution to the intradiscipline of Christianity and ecology.

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