scholarly journals Building Eco-Theological and Bio-Centric Approach to Environmental Ethics: John B. Cobb’s Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-48
Author(s):  
Md. Abu Sayem
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Moral Foundation ◽  
Christian View ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Religious Perspectives ◽  
Theological Understanding ◽  
Theological Thought

This paper discusses John B. Cobb’s interpretation of Christian ecological moral foundation based on his “process theological” understanding as well as his critics to traditional Christian view of human supremacy over non-human creatures. It aims to explore Cobb’s eco-theological understanding based on bio-centric environmental approach and explore why his eco-theological thought becomes significant for the ongoing discourses on environmental ethics, especially from religious perspectives. This research also describes how Cobb’s idea could be working for sustainability of environment. In so doing, this paper enriches the current discussions on environmental ethics from Christian eco-theological perspective.

You Don’t Look Like a Baptist Minister: An Autoethnographic Retrieval of ‘Women’s Experience’ as an Analytic Category for Feminist Theology

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Wigg-Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theology ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
The Self ◽  
Women's Experience ◽  
Crisis Of Representation ◽  
Theological Understanding ◽  
Theological Thought

This article constructs and deploys a set of autoethnographic narratives from the author’s experience as a Baptist minister to critically retrieve the category of ‘women’s experience’ for feminist theological construction. Autoethnography, as a response to the crisis of representation in the Humanities, uses personal narratives of the self to reveal, critique and transform wider cultural trends. It therefore provides helpful tools for analysing, critiquing and transforming theological thought and practice. Following the article’s methodological sections, the constructive sections use the crafted autoethnographies to re-frame Rowan Williams’s vision for how church and world co-constitute each other towards God’s just ends. Whereas Williams argues that this co-constitution occurs through processes of interactive transformative judgment, the feminist theological understanding argued for here founds the process instead on interactive, transformative grace.

Reading the Fourfold Gospel From the Two Creation Stories in Genesis: A Creation Theological Understanding of the Fourfold Gospel for Holistic Mission

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-183
Author(s):  
Joel Suh-Tae Yun
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Missio Dei ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Divine Healing ◽  
Holistic Mission ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Fourfold Gospel ◽  
Theological Understanding ◽  
Creation Stories

The Fourfold Gospel of regeneration, sanctification, divine healing, and the Second Coming was introduced to Korea in the early 20th century and played a crucial role in developing the Korea Holiness Churches. It seems, however, that the previous understanding of the Fourfold Gospel has some limitations in helping Christians to participate in missio Dei. Because missiological hermeneutics of the Fourfold Gospel has focused mainly on the theology of redemption, it has frequently led to a narrow understanding of missio Dei. Through the reading of the two creation stories in Genesis, we can recognize that God’s creative works already have redemptive meanings and that His redemptive works already have creative/creational meanings. In this sense, it is also possible to see the Fourfold Gospel from a creation theological perspective. This understanding may positively motivate Christians to participate in missio Dei to restore and complete God’s creation as his vicegerents and stewards.

The Priority of XAPIΣ

1973 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darrel J. Doughty
Keyword(s):  
Rudolf Bultmann ◽  
Theological Understanding ◽  
Theological Thought

Rudolf Bultmann organizes his entire presentation of the theology of Paul with reference to πίστις. His discussion falls into two parts: (a) man prior to the revelation of πίστις and (b) man under πίστις. The diverse conceptuality of Paul thus finds its unity in the interpretation of πλστις, i.e. man in the light of πίστις. The structure of Bultmann's presentation is grounded in the presupposition that all theological understanding ‘has its origin in faith’, and that even man's existence prior to faith ‘is retrospectively seen from the standpoint of faith’. With regard to the theological thought of Paul, however, this very structure subtly pre-empts consideration of a fundamental exegetical question: From what standpoint is ‘faith’ itself interpreted by Paul? The question is whether the organization of Paul's theology in such a way, with reference to πίστις, does not obscure the christological character of the apostle's thought. Bultmann's observation that in the theology of Paul ‘every assertion about Christ is also an assertion about man, and vice versa’, may be valid. What we are concerned about, however, is the ‘vice versa’. It is certainly legitimate to interpret Paul's theology with reference to the apostle's own anthropological emphasis. But in Bultmann's presentation it does not become clear in what way Paul's assertions about man, and in particular Paul's interpretation of ‘faith’, are also christological.5

scholarly journals Empowerment of Korean women from a postmodern Practical Theological perspective

2003 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eun Ok Jeong ◽  
Yolanda Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Korean Women ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
Privileged Status ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Religious Perspectives ◽  
Practical Theological ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of the article is to discuss the situation of Korean women from political, social, cultural and religious perspectives in a postmodern context. Postmodernity implies a denial of the “absolute”, including “absolute power” of men over women. Heideggerian thinking rejects the modernistic privileged status of the Cartesian subject. In this article postmodern anti-foundational, anti-totalizing, and demystifying cate-gories are used to critique patriarchy in Korean society and literature in order to analyze social movements and cultural-religious values in Korea. It discusses a representation of sexual difference and values by means of feminist literary criticism. The article consists of a reflection on the relationship between theory and praxis in feminist Practical Theology, Korean women’s experience, the epistemology of post-modernity, and the empowerment of Korean women.

scholarly journals Truth Communication in Times of Digital Abundance: A Practical Theological Perspective

Open Theology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 420-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Schlag
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Basic Question ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Practical Theological ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Theological Understanding

Abstract Digital providers inundate their users with an abundance of words, as well as pictorial and iconic information that has long become almost unmanageable. In terms of religious communicative usage, there are some indications that a new, perhaps even disruptive quality is being introduced into these digital practices, particularly with regard to truth communication. For both the individual actors and their places of lived religion and religious communication, the claim to truth expressed in each case is influenced by the very dynamics of digital use. Against this background, the basic question arises of whether a practical-theological reflection in the mode of a critical observation of these digital dynamics is conceivable at all. Therefore, I examine the current dynamics of digital media use in more detail by focusing on the anthropologically and theologically relevant concept of “searching” in a fundamental sense. The question arises of whether the implied, highly intensive and independent religious search developments are actually able to represent and promise in their entirety that “truth” which can be meaningfully searched for and found according to theological understanding. From these reflections on a practical public theology, some exemplary consequences for the field of religious educational practice are subsequently pointed out. I argue that, in the sense of cultivating critical perception and interpretation competence, an awareness of the significance of this abundance of analogous expressions and behaviors should be created in concrete educational processes. But an awareness should also be created of the relevance of developing an identity and a personal relationality in the digital world, shaped by the theological idea not only of “searching,” but of “finding” and “being found.”

scholarly journals Sacramental view of creation: Denis Edwards on God’s presence in natural world

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Roszak
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Divine Action ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Great Merit ◽  
The Relationship

This review article summarises and engages critically with two books published by ATF Press in 2017 and 2020. One of them is Denis Edwards’s book that reflects his theological approach to nature, divine action and environmental ethics. The second book is a series of papers inspired by his theological approach. The great merit consists of establishing a fresh meaning of nature from the theological perspective. The article gathers three main themes present in the book: the meaning of nature, the inclusive character of the theology of nature and the relationship between God and nature from the Trinitarian perspective.Contribution: The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the recent development of the theology of nature and the share Denis Edwards had in it. The theology of nature needs to be ‘extended’ in order not just to include the relationship between the human and God, but the goal of the entire creation, and to point to the theological reasons for such an approach.

scholarly journals Personhood and Sexuality – Systematic-theological Reflextions and Perspectives

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 334-357
Author(s):  
Markus Iff
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Ethical Orientation ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Theological Understanding

Abstract The author deals with the topic of personhood/human being and sexuality from a systematic-theological perspective and seeks the link between theological and human sciences. He reflects on different approaches to the phenomenon of sexuality, discusses anthropological and sociological conditions, taking into account the insights of contemporary human sciences. He then presents the basic principles of a biblical-theological understanding of sexuality and reflects the outcome hermeneutically. The insights of the human sciences on the phenomenon of sexuality are thereby perceived and brought into their meaning, but also questioned from the point of view of theology. Finally, he outlines the context of personhood/human being and sexuality in a systematic-theological perspective that can serve as a theological-ethical orientation for interpreting and dealing with sexuality.

scholarly journals Empowerment: A Theological Perspective

1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-263
Author(s):  
C. R. Dickson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sound Theory ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Theological Understanding

It is generally accepted that sound practice must be informed by sound theory. This maxim applies also with reference to the concept empowerment which is in vogue within South Africa today. Therefore it is argued here that for empowerment to be effective it must be underpinned by a sound theological understanding of powerlessness. After exploring the use of the term power (powerlessness), its occurrence and meaning in Psalm 82 is examined, concluding with an attempt at formulating a theological definition of powerlessness.

scholarly journals ‘Tre store højtider’: Et strukturelement i en salme af Grundtvig

2009 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-164
Author(s):  
Aage Schiøler
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Lord's Supper ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Structural Element ◽  
Christian View ◽  
Natural Man ◽  
Poetic Expression ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
Theological Thought ◽  
The Church

‘De store højtider’: Et strukturelement i en salme af Grundtvig[‘The great solemnities ’: A structural element in a hymn by Grundtvig]By Aage SchiølerTwo characteristic quotations from Grundtvig serve as guidelines in an analysis of the original, unpublished form of the Pentecostal hymn Blossom now, ye fields of the Church [Opblomstrer nu Guds kirkevange] from the early 1840s, and of its development through a second form (1843) to the hymn from 1853 now in use: The sun now shines in all its splendour [I al sin glans nu stråler solen]. The first quotation, from a Whitsun sermon of 1862, mentions the three fundamental manifestations of Christian faith (proclamation of the Gospel, Baptism, and the Lord's Supper) which Grundtvig calls ‘The three great solemnities’ and links with two other triads both taken from Paul’s epistles: righteousness, peace, and joy; and faith, hope, and love. The second quotation, two stanzas from a short hymn of 1837 on Christ’s Resurrection and Ascension, states three unavoidable conditions in human life: dependencies upon time, upon place, and upon human fellowship.As a precondition for understanding the Pentecostal hymn as a statement of faith, it is also necessary to discuss Grundtvig’s acceptance of the two doctrines: Original Sin (which is expressed in terms of “natural man” suffering “an early accident” which cannot “be repaired in a natural way”) and Redemption exclusively in Christ.Each of the three unavoidable conditions is aligned with one of ‘the three great solemnities’ and their associated triads, and thus the ‘solemnities’ serve to clarify the structure of the hymn’s three successive forms. It is found that, although the hymn grows by two stanzas in two stages, the main structure is preserved because the enlargements occur as additions of, first, joy, and, secondly, love - both of which are seen by Grundtvig as aspects of the third ‘great solemnity’, the Lord’s Supper, and both of which are connected with human fellowship. In the process, the hymn’s language is changed into a more homogeneous metaphorical style, emphasising the personal, existential aspect of Christian faith in contradistinction to its institutional appearance; and the original mood of wish and expectation is altered into the hopeful conviction that a new, revived future has already taken foothold within the Danish Church.The outcome is a spectacular integration of original theological thought and convincing poetic expression that reveals the redeeming and relieving effect of a Christian view of life vis-a-vis the basic conditions of human existence; and it places the hymn as an all but prescribed part of the main service in the Danish Church on Whitsunday.

scholarly journals The Word in the Christian Religious Tradition

1998 ◽  
pp. 102-108
Author(s):  
I. V. Bogachevska
Keyword(s):  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Religious Consciousness ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Theological Understanding ◽  
Theological Thought ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

The problem of the Word in Christianity is one of the key, affecting the core of the dogma and pervading its practice. Theological thought gave answers, different from secular science, to questions about the functions of the word in God-knowledge and its role in the religious life of the individual and the Church. Any study of the language of religion can not ignore this experience. Our goal is not to assess the truth of the theological understanding of the relationship between human language and Divine reality, but to trace the specificity of the Christian use of language as a means of religious cognition and the way of expressing the religious consciousness of believers, to analyze the Christian theological concept of the Word, the role of the word in Holy Scripture and Sacred Tradition, and the truth of religious texts, the role and meaning of the word in the Christian religious tradition.

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