scholarly journals Saving Humanity: Despair and Death as Pedagogical Challenges while Caring about Human Existence

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-207
Author(s):  
Julita Orzelska
Keyword(s):  
Human Existence ◽  
Paul Tillich ◽  
Entire Life ◽  
Viktor Frankl

The concepts analysed in this paper pertain to despair and death, since these are insufficiently present in pedagogical narrations. Despair and death, which accompany our existential experience throughout our lives, are most frequently treated one-sidedly, pejoratively, and presented as an expression of human evil. The thoughts of Paul Tillich, Viktor Frankl, Vittorino Andreoli and Krystian Lupa open a space for understanding despair and death as existential challenges a person needs to be capable of facing and should treat as valuable experience; an experience which creates an opportunity for a new dimension in our own appreciation of life.For this reason, an existentially oriented education seems to enable serious thought about a person in the context of their entire life.

scholarly journals The goal of Christian virtue ethics: From ontological foundation and covenant relationship to the Kingdom of God

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Solomon Yiu ◽  
Koos Vorster
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Moral Life ◽  
Paul Tillich ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Presence ◽  
Final Good ◽  
The Right

This article examined what constitutes Christian virtue ethics and its goal of highest human good. Christian virtue is a reality that is ontologically rooted in the grace of God through the atonement of Christ to envision the final good of creation. This view is drawn on the tripartite division of faith, hope and love as well as Paul Tillich’s ontological focus on the acclaimed quality of the virtue of love in relation to, and unity with, the virtues of power and justice as the ultimate reality in the divine ground for human existence. Christian believers must reunite the virtues which are received from God and by which Christians transformed in reality as new beings in the pursuit of the supreme goodness. Michael Horton’s covenantal model revealed a human being’s encounter with God, not only meeting, but recognising a stranger (a genuine ‘otherness’) under a covenant that was initiated by the grace of God with an awareness of his presence that was always immanent. A covenantal approach is used to describe the divine ‘presence’ and ‘absence’ as ethical and relational in getting the right conception and direction for our purpose from God. It also deals with the question of how our moral life is related to God and fellow humans toward the final goodness which is the highest good of the Kingdom of God. This article concluded with the coming rule of God’s imminent Kingdom as the true ultimate end of human beings and the eschatological fulfilment of humanity in goodness. The emphasis of the eschatological ethics lays on the theocentric futurity of the Kingdom directing Christians to the goal of the ultimate ideal and shaping the present existence of a Christian life.Hierdie artikel ondersoek Christelike deugde-etiek en die doelwit van die hoogste menslike heil. Christelike deug is ’n realiteitsontologie wat veranker is in God se genade deur die versoening van Christus om sodoende die uiteindelike heil van die skepping te visualiseer. Die siening is gebaseer op die drieledige verdeling van geloof, hoop en liefde. Verder is dit gebaseer op Paul Tillich se ontologiese fokus op die prysenswaardige deug van liefde in verhouding en in eenheid met die deugde van mag en geregtigheid as die uiteindelike realiteit van die mens se bestaan. Christen-gelowiges moet die deugde wat hulle van God ontvang en waardeur hulle vernuwe word, versoen met die realiteit as nuwe wesens wat na die hoogste heil soek. Michael Horton se verbondsmodel wys dat die menslike konfrontasie met God nie net ’n ontmoeting is nie, maar ook die herkenning van ’n vreemdeling, ’n gans Andere, binne ’n verbond wat deur die genade van God geïnisieer word. Daar bly ’n bewustheid van sy teenwoordigheid wat altyd immanent is. ’n Verbondsbenadering beskryf die goddelike ‘teenwoordigheid’ en ‘afwesigheid’ as eties en relasioneel tot die verkryging van die regte verstaan van God self. Die verbondsbenadering gee ook ’n begrip van hoe ons morele lewe tot God en ons medemens verbind is tot die finale heil wat uiteindelik die heil van die Koninkryk van God inhou. Die artikel sluit af met die toekomstige regering van God se immanente Koninkryk as die ware uiteinde van die mens en die eskatologiese verwesenliking van goedheid. Die klem van eskatologiese etiek lê in die teosentriese toekomsgerigtheid van die Koninkryk − wat vir Christene die rigting na die doel van die uiteindelike ideaal aandui en wat die huidige bestaan van ’n Christen bepaal.

scholarly journals Sofrimento espiritual, busca de sentido e espiritualidade

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 333
Author(s):  
Anete Roese
Keyword(s):  
Paul Tillich ◽  
Viktor Frankl

O presente texto faz uma análise da situação espiritual de nossa época. Trata da angústia, da falta de sentido e do adoecimento espiritual como manifestações típicas do sofrimento da nossa era e desta sociedade. O sofrimento espiritual da humanidade compõe o quadro de sintomas que denotam a alienação do ser humano, uma ansiedade espiritual profunda, a negação da dimensão espiritual e, por outro lado, uma busca de sentido e de espiritualidade autêntica. A busca pelo entendimento desse sofrimento e a busca por um sentido e por uma experiência espiritual é uma tarefa da qual a ciência ainda deverá se ocupar longamente, e é o campo de tangência deste texto. Um diálogo mais efetivo entre psicologia, teologia, filosofia e outras ciências é fundamental para uma compreensão mais consistente da existência humana. Os autores de referência são Viktor Frankl, Paul Tillich e Jacob Levi Moreno. 

Love, Suffering, and Gratitude for Existence

2019 ◽  
pp. 46-69
Author(s):  
Rick Anthony Furtak
Keyword(s):  
Human Existence ◽  
Willingness To Accept ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Entire Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Historically Situated

This essay examines the transformation of Raskolnikov’s characteristic emotions toward his crime and toward his entire life in the world. Specifically, I argue that it is through Raskolnikov’s capacity to feel guilt over a particular deed that he overcomes his ambivalent emotions toward the limits of finite human existence. His commission of a crime and the subsequent experience of guilt allow him to redefine his predominant attitude toward the world. For much of the novel, Raskolnikov seems to wish that he could hover tentatively above finite existence rather than be immersed in it, but through his experience of guilt Raskolnikov develops his potential to care for others. His eventual guilt and remorse for what he has done are thus not only about the murder: these emotions show Raskolnikov’s willingness to accept the intricate ways in which he is implicated in a finite, temporal, historically situated existence. Only thus can Raskolnikov wholeheartedly begin a morally accountable life among others. What is affectively at issue for Dostoevsky’s protagonist, as I will show, is the tension between his general antipathy for the world and his capacity to love.

Existentialist theology

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Stephen Evans
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Paul Tillich ◽  
Human Individual ◽  
German Philosopher ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Existentialist theology is a term used to describe the work of a number of theologians, chiefly from the twentieth century, whose writings were strongly influenced by the literary and philosophical movement known as existentialism. Because of the diversity of the movement, it is difficult to say much that is illuminating about existentialist theology as a whole. In general, however, these theologians attempt to understand God in relation to the situation of the concretely existing human individual. Their analysis of human existence is one that emphasizes the freedom of individuals to shape their own identities through choices, and the paradoxical, ambiguous or even absurd character of the reality that humans encounter. Religious faith is seen as closely related to feelings of alienation and despair; faith may grow out of such emotions or it may provide the key to overcoming them, or both these relations may be present at once. Though the designation of any particular theologian as ‘existentialist’ is a controversial matter, Karl Barth, Rudolf Bultmann and Paul Tillich are among the more important thinkers whose work exhibits existentialist themes. The entire movement has been strongly influenced, directly or indirectly, by the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher-theologian Søren Kierkegaard, while the works of the Russian novelist Fëdor Dostoevskii and the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, both from the late nineteenth century, have also been important.

When Theory Collides with Practice: One Day in the Life of a Middle School Counselor

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2156759X0500900
Author(s):  
Holowiak-Urquhart Chris ◽  
Elizabeth R. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
School Counselor ◽  
Counselor Educators ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Viktor Frankl ◽  
The World ◽  
Personal Qualities

Viktor Frankl (1984) stated, “One of the main features of human existence is the capacity to rise above such conditions, to grow beyond them. Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible and of changing himself for the better if necessary” (p. 133). Effective counselors do this daily, rising above conditions, seizing opportunities to change the world of the youth with whom they work, and, in so doing, changing themselves. One counselor records her day as it happened, illus-trating the roles and personal qualities that often are overlooked by counselor educators and researchers but are common to many school counselors. The names have been changed to protect confidentiality.

The Life of Viktor Frankl

1998 ◽  
Vol 43 (7) ◽  
pp. 465-465
Author(s):  
Mark L. Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Viktor Frankl

The Darwin-God dilemma: A totemic approach to the meaning of life and human existence.

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-361
Author(s):  
Yueh-Ting Lee ◽  
Matt Jamnik ◽  
Kortney Maedge ◽  
Wenting Chen
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Human Existence

The ‘Faithful Deacon’ and the ‘Good Layman’: The First Converts of the UMCA and Their Responses to Mission Christianity

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-156
Author(s):  
Alice T. Ott
Keyword(s):  
Central Africa ◽  
Entire Life ◽  
Cholera Epidemic ◽  
Freed Slaves

The first African converts of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa were five freed slaves, who had been given to the mission by the Sultan of Zanzibar in 1864. Their stories provide a microcosm of varying responses to mission Christianity by both clerical and lay Christians. One convert, Arthur Songolo, quickly rejected mission Christianity outright. Three converts embraced the UMCA's primary goal and were trained to serve as missionaries on the African mainland. One of them, subdeacon George Farajallah, died during the cholera epidemic of 1870, before he could be assigned to a mission post. Francis Mabruki served as a missionary, but ultimately left the UMCA, in part due to paternalism in the mission. John Swedi served faithfully his entire life as a deacon on the African mainland and in Zanzibar. Robert Feruzi appropriated the UMCA's goal for lay Christians. He was a reliable employee and consistent Christian throughout his secular career, which included participation in two of Henry Morton Stanley's African expeditions.

Paul Tillich on Socialism and Nationalism

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (Part_1) ◽  
pp. 97-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Baum
Keyword(s):  
Paul Tillich
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