scholarly journals Duszpasterstwo Kościoła w Polsce wobec postępującego pluralizmu społeczno-kulturowego

2018 ◽  
pp. 187-201
Author(s):  
Adam Przybecki
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Pastoral Ministry ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Pastoral Work ◽  
Significant Challenge ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
The Church

The progressive social and cultural pluralism in Poland remains a significant challenge for the pastoral work of the Church. Its origins could already be seen in the late 1970s, when Poland was still under the leadership of the Communist Party. The article discusses the ongoing process of social and cultural pluralism and the consequences that result from it, for the pastoral ministry of the Church in Poland. The author tries to describe this process and then introduces the main thoughts of the Church's teaching regarding the phenomenon in question. At the end, he formulates proposals that can become an impulse for Polish pastoral ministry.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Pelayanan Kunjungan Pastoral Terhadap Pertumbuhan Rohani Jemaat

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Mikha Agus Widiyanto ◽  
S Susanto
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
Pastoral Ministry ◽  
The Church

This research aim to test the influence of pastoral visiting ministry to the spiritual growth of the church. Research executed in Gereja Kemah Injil Indonesia of Tenggarong, Kutai Kartanegara District, Kalimantan East. The results showed that there was an influence of pastoral visiting ministry on the spiritual growth of the congregation as indicated by the correlation coefficient of 0.340 which was significant at α = 0.05. Pastoral visiting ministry will bring the pastor closer to the congregation that he serves, making the pastoral ministry effective, thereby impacting the spiritual growth of the congregation. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji pengaruh pelayanan kunjungan pastoral terhadap pertumbuhan rohani jemaat.Penelitian dilaksanakan di Gereja Kemah Injil Indonesia Tenggarong, Kabupaten Kutai Kartanegara, Kalimantan Timur. Hasil penelitian diperoleh bahwa terdapat pengaruh pelayanan kunjungan pastoral terhadap pertumbuhan rohani jemaat yang ditunjukkan melalui koefisien korelasi sebesar 0,340 yang signifikan pada α = 0,05. Pelayanan kunjungan pastoral akan mendekatkan gembala dengan jemaat yang dilayaninya, membuat pelayanan penggembalaan menjadi efektif, sehingga berdampak pada pertumbuhan rohani jemaat.

Priest Peter Ilyinsky (1871-1938): Educator, publicist, confessor

2019 ◽  
pp. 286-292
Author(s):  
Николай Сергеевич Черепенин
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Pastoral Ministry ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Crucial Point ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

Изучение жизненных обстоятельств священнослужителей первой половины XX в. является важной составляющей изучения истории Русской Православной Церкви. Оно позволяет детально проследить некоторые процессы и явления, происходившие в Церкви того периода, на конкретных примерах. Данная статья посвящена священнику Петру Ильинскому, около сорока лет прослужившему на сельском приходе. Его служение раскрывается в статье в хронологическом порядке: педагогическая и хозяйственная деятельность пастыря дополняется описанием его публицистических трудов и заканчивается описанием его семьи и исповеднического подвига. Данная работа служит свидетельством незаурядного пастырского служения священника Петра в переломный момент жизни нашего государства и в достаточной мере иллюстрирует историческую эпоху конца XIX - первой половины XX веков на конкретном примере. The study of the life circumstances of clergymen in the first half of the 20th century is an important part of the study of the history of the Russian Orthodox Church. It allows us to trace in detail some of the processes and phenomena that took place in the Church in that period, using concrete examples. This article is about the priest Peter Ilyinsky, who served forty years in a rural parish. His ministry is presented in chronological order: his teaching and economic activities are followed by a description of his publicist writings and ending with a description of his family and confessional deeds. This work is a testimony to the extraordinary pastoral ministry of the Priest Peter at a crucial point in the life of our nation, and illustrates the historical era of the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century with concrete examples.

Public Catholicism

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Matovina
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Civic Responsibility ◽  
Pastoral Work ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The Church ◽  
Ordinary Means

This chapter explore how the growing Hispanic presence makes the ramifications of moral and social issues more imminent in numerous parishes. In this context, Catholic teachings such as those on justice and civic responsibility are more salient when embodied in local organizing initiatives that enable grassroots people to address community concerns and participate in the decision-making processes affecting them and their families. Arguably, the most significant contribution Latino Catholics make to public Catholicism is the various ways they reveal that the sometimes-harsh realities of everyday pastoral work are the ordinary means through which the church lives out its mission to transform lives, communities, and society.

A Charity of Mutuality and Hospitality: L'Arche's Witness to Catholic Theology

Horizons ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-68
Author(s):  
Brent Little
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Pastoral Ministry ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
The Church

Through the writings of Jean Vanier, this paper encourages Catholic theologians to examine critically their theological sources and their own rhetoric for the context of developmental disabilities. Specifically, this thought experiment is an invitation for the Catholic academy to consider how its theologies of charity can assist the church to reflect on its pastoral ministry to people with developmental disabilities. Some Catholic discourse is built on an assumed one-directional concept of charity that emphasizes the agency and gifts of the giver over the receiver. Such a one-sided model of hospitality tends to emphasize the giver as the person without developmental disabilities, whereas the person with disabilities is described as the receiver of hospitality; their own gifts and agency thereby are either unacknowledged or downplayed. This paper argues, instead, that Catholic theologies of charity, particularly regarding developmental disabilities, should be built on a mutuality that affirms each person's agency to be both a giver and a receiver of charity.

Is the Pastoral Ministry Bad for One’s Spiritual Health?

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-52
Author(s):  
Eric Sorenson
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Ministry ◽  
Spiritual Health ◽  
First Century ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Vocational Ministry ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Church ◽  
Unique Context

It was a universal conviction among the leaders of the ancient church that vocational ministry is attended by certain spiritual hazards that threaten to undo the very soul of the minister. This notion is revived in William Paley’s 1795 sermon, “Dangers Incidental to the Clerical Character.” The pastoral ministry, he warns, is comprised of “dangers inherent to the very nature of our profession.” In this ordination sermon, Paley not only identifies certain spiritual hazards, but he traces their roots to the unique context and responsibilities of daily ministry. A close reading of Paley’s sermon highlights its clear relevance to ministers in the twenty-first century, who, like all ministers throughout the history of the church, are constantly exposed to the spiritual dangers lurking in ministry itself. Such a close reading also reveals practical means by which today’s minister can be constantly vigilant to overcome these dangers.

scholarly journals Treća životna dob kao subjekt pastoralnoga djelovanja – mogućnosti i perspektive

Diacovensia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-504
Author(s):  
Stanislav Šota
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Pastoral Work ◽  
Third Age ◽  
Aged People ◽  
The Third ◽  
General Decline ◽  
The World ◽  
Religious Associations ◽  
The Church

Given that the population in Europe and Croatia is increasingly getting older, and the pastoral work of people in the third age is a relatively new term, the article firstly analyzes the question why people of this age group are partially put (left) aside by pastoralists and pastoral workers in pastoral discourse in Croatia. The nature and characteristics of the third age in life presented in the first part show that the third age pastoral care includes the pastoral work with the most mature middle-aged people struggling with many life difficulties and stresses: separation from their children, the need for making personal and lifestyle adjustments, especially after retirement, after children moving out or after the loss of a life partner, as well as experiencing fast and progressive weakening of biological, psychological and mental health dimensions, a drop in life energy, strength, and general decline in vital and all other functions. Old age as a gift and possibility is depicted through several biblical characters as an evangelizing and pastoral possibility, opportunity and call to a God filled and more meaningful life. The second part presents the third age in the world and in the mentality of the society and the Church. By looking at the contemporary life context, we can state that words like old age, dying and death have become foreign in everyday discourse and that is just one of the many reasons why the third age people are often left to the side, and forsaken by their own families, society, friends and relatives, and partially forgotten also by the Church. In the world of the dictatorship of relativism, materialism, secularization, anarchism, atheism, subjectivism, individualism, and the selfie-culture, it is extremely difficult and demanding to accomplish the pastoral of the third age people. The Church, especially in Croatia, doesn't have a sufficiently designed, thought out, planned out and programmed systematic pastoral care which would include third age people. The new concept of pastoral discourse regarding the pastoral of the third age should develop in two basic directions: the first direction should consider to what extent can the third age be a subject of pastoral activity, and the second direction, based on pastoral sociology and demographic trends, should strive to recognize the third age as an object of pastoral activity. Besides the object, the third age can also be the subject of pastoral activity at different levels, areas and dimensions, especially at the parish level, the deanery level in some ways, at the regional level and (arch)diocesan level, in areas of apostolate, parish pastoral councils, charitable activities, liturgy, families, religious associations and movements, and work with Christians that have distanced themselves.

scholarly journals Struggles for the Character of the Roman Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989

Eurostudia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-73
Author(s):  
Miroslav Tížik
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
State Socialism ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
The Church

After the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia came to power in 1948, power struggles followed between political parties and long-running internal struggles within the country’s Roman Catholic Church over the church’s character and organizational structure. These struggles related not only to purely theological issues, but also to the ideals of communism (and, later, socialism), the Communist Party and its program. The internal plurality within the church throughout the whole period of the people’s democracy and state socialism in Czechoslovakia calls into question the dualistic image of struggles between the church and the Communist Party, and it complicates the image of the church as a victim of the Communist regime. In particular, the crucial periods from 1948 to 1952 and from 1968 to 1969 suggest that, throughout much of the communist period there persisted tensions between the higher and lower clergy and there were diverging views on how the church should function; these tensions took on a diversity of shapes and varied in intensity.

CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE BAPTIST MOVEMENT’S DIVISION IN UKRAINE

2019 ◽  
pp. 108-113
Author(s):  
Oksana Vysoven
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Special Services ◽  
The Government ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Prayer Meetings ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The Church

The article analyzes the causes and consequences of the split in the evangelical-Baptist environment in the 1960s; found that one of the main causes of the split in the bosom of evangelical Baptist Christians was the destructive influence of state authorities on religion in general, and Christian denominations in particular when initiated by state bodies of the union of Protestant religious communities under the auspices of the All-Union Baptist Council Church for organization under control of special services bodies; it has been proved that the conflicts between the leadership of the Verkhovna Rada and the Council of Churches were artificial. The confrontations among the believers were mainly provoked by SSC agents and secret services, and were only in the hands of the Communist Party regime, which helped him control events, pacify some and repress others; it is proved that under the influence of the movement for the independence of the church from the state headed by «initiators», the regime has been operating since the second half of the 1960s. gradually began to ease the pressure on officially registered communities of evangelical Baptist Christians. Prayer meetings began to be attended by teens, and ordinary members and members of other congregations were allowed to preach. As a result of these changes and some easing of tensions between the church and the government, many believers and congregations began to return to the official union governed by the ACEBC, without wishing further confrontation; it is shown that the internal church events of the 60's of the twentieth century, which were provoked by the SSC special services and led to the split of the EBC community, reflected on the position and activities of the EBC Church and in the period of independence of Ukraine, the higher leadership of the split community (the ACEBC and the Church Council) and could not reconcile and unite in a united union. This significantly weakens their spiritual position in today's globalized world, where cohesion and competitiveness play an important role.

Christian Base Communities in Burkina Faso: Between Church and Politics

2001 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magloire Somé ◽  
Cecily Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Pastoral Work ◽  
The Church ◽  
Upper Volta

AbstractDuring the last decade, Christian Base Communities (Communautés chrétiennes de base, CCBs), which first emerged in Burkina Faso (then Upper Volta) in 1970, have played an important part in the strategy for pastoral work and evangelisation of the Catholic Church's hierarchy in that country. The article examines the origins and development of the CCBs, their relationship with Burkina Faso's political, educational and social structures, the contribution they could make to a renewed and distinctively African Church. It concludes that, largely because of a lack of autonomy, they have not yet achieved their aims either within the Church or in the promotion of democracy, though these remain real possibilities.

scholarly journals Holistic redemptive pastoral ministry in the fragmented transit hall of existence

2010 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann-Albrecht Meylahn
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Ministry ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Grand Narrative ◽  
Narrative Space ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Alternative Future ◽  
The Church

The grand narratives have all but gone – what is left are numerous narratives, each addressing a certain aspect of our lives; there is a different narrative for our professional lives, another for our family lives, for our social lives and yet another for our spiritual lives. We find ourselves in this ‘transit hall’, forever changing flights or trains, depending on which narrative sphere we are entering or leaving. In each narrative we take on a different character, defined and shaped by the specificities of that narrative. Thus, ‘transition’ in the sense of change can no longer be understood as only linear, but as constant and multidimensional. With the use of Lacan’s discourse theory, this fragmented existence will be unpacked and a redemptive alternative sought.This paper is an attempt to address this multi-narrative existence without imposing yet another grand narrative. Thus it focuses on offering a narrative space that is, (1) holistic, in the sense that it addresses all the different narratives, (2) pastoral, in that it addresses the person and (3) redemptive, in that it offers something new, meaningful and hopeful. Such a narrative space moves the church from its ‘ghetto mindset’, where traditions and values are maintained, to being fully open and vulnerable to the present reality, whilst yearning for the Messianic to reveal an alternative future.

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