The Anthropological Challenges of Marriage in the Light of the Creation in Christ

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-132
Author(s):  
Juan de Dios Larrú Ramos
Keyword(s):  
In Christ ◽  
The Creation

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations

2011 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-505
Keyword(s):  
Integral Relation ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Philosophical Discourse ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Doctoral Dissertations ◽  
The Image Of God

THOU ART is an interdisciplinary and christological aesthetics that theorizes an integral relation among Christ, representation, and the formation of human subjectivity. Through a critical poetics it addresses the space of difference between a theological discourse on the creation of human being in the image of God—understood as creation in Christ, Word (logos) incarnate—and a philosophical discourse on the constitution of human subjectivity.

scholarly journals The Laos tou Theou – an orthodox view of the ‘people of God’

2010 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelo Nicolaides
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Entire Body ◽  
People Of God ◽  
The People ◽  
God's People ◽  
Royal Priesthood ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Orthodox View ◽  
Unique Relationship

The creation of the Ekklesia by the incarnate logos of God created a new and unique relationship with God’s people that allows humanity to enter into the Covenant and to become part of the ‘people of God’ (Laos tou Theou). Who is the Ekklesia? Is it the entire body of believers in Christ? Who are the chosen race, the royal priesthood and the holy nation of God? If the Ekklesia is the new Laos tou Theou, does its being so cancel out the initial covenant given to the nation of Israel? Is the nation of Israel still ‘God’s people’? This article strives to provide answers to the above questions by providing a discourse analytic approach to the theme. It is clear from the research that the Ekklesia remain the Laos tou Theou, comprising the entire corpus of Christ and the entire communion (or fellowship [koinonia]) of all of the disciples of Jesus. Essentially, all baptised believers are part of the chosen race and the royal priesthood, which form the holy nation of God. All of us are equally called by God to belong to his ‘people’.

The Theological Story

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. DeJonge
Keyword(s):  
Political Life ◽  
Political Thinking ◽  
Social Existence ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Theological Vision

This chapter presents the broad outlines of Bonhoeffer’s theological vision as the story in which he embeds his political thinking. It is a story in three acts: God’s creation of the world, creation’s fall into sin, and God’s redemption of creation in Christ. Bonhoeffer writes of the first two acts most poignantly in Creation and Fall, his commentary on Genesis, and the third act receives elaboration in his Christology lectures. To the degree that this three-act story is about the creation, corruption, and redemption of human social existence, it sets the deep background for Bonhoeffer’s thinking about proper and improper forms of political life. Specifically, he outlines proper human sociality as a freedom for each other that is bounded by the absolute freedom of God’s creative word.

scholarly journals Three perspectives on the Sabbath

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francois P. Möller
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Law ◽  
The One ◽  
The Church

There is still confusion in theology and especially among members of the church concerning the fourth commandment and its observance. The following questions could be asked: What is the meaning of the Sabbath? What is the intention of rest on this day? Ought this commandment still be honoured like the other nine commandments of the Law? Does it still have any meaning for the church, or is Sunday a replacement for the Sabbath? The objective is to obtain greater clarity concerning the meaning, contents and application of the Sabbath as presented in both the Old and the New Testament. This is done from a dogmatic emphasis by dividing the Sabbath into three perspectives: The Creation Sabbath (God’s identification with it), the Covenant Sabbath (Israel’s identification with it), and the Atonement Sabbath (the church’s identification with it). This division does not assume three separate Sabbaths, but they are perspectives on the one Sabbath of God. The threefold perspective will contribute to a universal view on the Sabbath as presented in the creation narrative, the nation of Israel, and the church of the New Testament. This universal view is grounded in Christ who is the focal point, contents and connection between the three given perspectives. It is a Christocentric point of view that gives perception on the meaning, observance, application and message of the Sabbath for the church and every believer of our day.

What is Good for Christ is Good for the Cosmos: Affirming the Resurrection of Creation

Pro Ecclesia ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 106385122096733
Author(s):  
Keith Starkenburg
Keyword(s):  
Relative Paucity ◽  
Interpretive Approach ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Good For ◽  
Theological Argument ◽  
Biblical Sources

Many churches and scholars affirm that God renews the cosmos at the eschaton. Some scholars have begun to say the cosmos is resurrected in Christ, without much warrant for that discourse. With a focus on N.T. Wright and Richard Middleton, the article shows why some scholars have begun to say that the creation is resurrected in Christ, along with the relative paucity of an argument for this claim. This article begins to fulfill this need by making a theological argument from biblical sources, utilizing an interpretive approach outlined by David Yeago. It suggests that, for some scholars, the idea that the creation is not destroyed at the eschaton may motivate some resistance to the claim that creation is resurrected.

The Resurrection of Christ and the True Life of All Creatures

2021 ◽  
pp. 119-164
Author(s):  
Mark A. McIntosh
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
Cultural Imaginary ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Mystical Theology

In light of the deep involvement of the divine ideas in the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Christ, it becomes possible to conceive of a new cultural imaginary in which the divine ideas permit mystical theology to hear the embodied reality of all creatures as a communication event. C. S. Lewis’ investigation of the mythopoetic imagination affords us an analogy for the rediscovered use of the divine ideas tradition in the contemplative calling of humankind. Recognizing the creation as, in and of itself, also a means of communion among creatures and between creatures and God, angels and human beings have a particular role in advancing the intelligible meaning of all creatures through the development of a contemplative consciousness. In encountering the crucified yet risen Christ, Christians believe their consciousness of reality is transfigured as they are drawn into the vindicated truth of all creatures in Christ.

According to the Promise

2021 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 293-311
Author(s):  
Matthew K. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Primary Concern ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Gender Categories

Abstract This article analyses Paul’s argument regarding the reception of the Spirit and the creation of a new covenantal identity in Galatians 3:1–6:10 so as to illumine the provocative declaration in Gal. 3:28. Some scholars (e.g., Douglas Campbell) read Paul’s words in Gal. 3:28 as a pronouncement of the dissolution of ethnic, social, or gender categories. However, the pneumatological framework spanning from Gal. 3:1–6:10, within which Gal. 3:28 appears, suggests that Paul’s proclamation is concerned with the new covenantal identity forged through the reception of the Spirit which, rather than abolishing, relativises these categories. Thus, when we consider the structure of Paul’s polemic surrounding Gal. 3:28, we find that Paul’s primary concern is the new identity shared in Christ by all believers through the Spirit, not the removal of distinction or dissolution of ethnic, social, or gender categories.

The role of affect in feelings of obligation

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefen Beeler-Duden ◽  
Meltem Yucel ◽  
Amrisha Vaish
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Sense Of Obligation

Abstract Tomasello offers a compelling account of the emergence of humans’ sense of obligation. We suggest that more needs to be said about the role of affect in the creation of obligations. We also argue that positive emotions such as gratitude evolved to encourage individuals to fulfill cooperative obligations without the negative quality that Tomasello proposes is inherent in obligations.

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