Menno Simons

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scot Mcknight
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Sacramental Theology ◽  
Infant Baptism ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Love Of God ◽  
Institutional Church ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

This chapter addresses the Anabaptist theology of the sacraments of Menno Simons. The way the Anabaptists viewed the sacraments took considerable courage because it could be life-threatening and lead to their martyrdom. Nevertheless, Simons advocated personal conversion and regeneration versus simply participating in the institutional church, believers’ baptism versus infant baptism, and all believers receiving both the bread and wine at Eucharist versus only clergy receiving the wine. Moreover, he maintained that baptism “accomplished nothing in sacramental terms” but was rather an act of obedience to Jesus’s command and example. Eucharist in his view did not involve any “re-sacrificing” of Christ, nor did the bread and wine undergo transubstantiation into the Body and Blood of Christ—rather, it was an expression of the love of God for the church. Thus the sacramental theology of Menno Simons and the Anabaptists could essentially be deemed non-sacramental.

The Justified Body: Hauerwas, Luther and the Christian Life

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-78
Author(s):  
Justin Nickel
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Sacramental Theology ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Stanley Hauerwas ◽  
The One ◽  
God's Grace ◽  
Ethical Significance ◽  
The Way

Stanley Hauerwas and others argue that Luther’s understanding of justification denies the theological and ethical significance of the body. Indeed, the inner, spiritual person is the one who experiences God’s grace in the gospel, while the outer, physical (read: bodily) person continues to live under law and therefore coercion and condemnation. While not denying that Luther can be so read, I argue that there is another side of Luther, one that recognizes the body’s importance for Christian life. I make this argument through a close reading of Luther’s reflections on Adam and Eve’s Fall in his Lectures on Genesis (1545) and the sacramental theology in ‘Against the Heavenly Prophets’. For this Luther, disconnection from our bodies is not a sign of justification but rather the sin from which justification saves us. Accordingly, justification results in a return to embodied creatureliness as the way we receive and live our justification.

Authority, Mission, and Institution: A Systematic Consideration of Matthew 28.18-20 in Karl Barth's Doctrine of Baptism

Ecclesiology ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Travis McMaken
Keyword(s):  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
Infant Baptism ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

AbstractMany of Barth's most faithful and devoted interpreters have taken issue with his unapologetically non-sacramental account of baptism in CD IV/4 and his attendant rejection of infant baptism. While many questions have been raised concerning the veracity of the exegesis that Barth produces in support of his position, little attention has been paid to the way in which Matthew 28.18-20, when systematically considered, relates to his account of baptism. Taking the themes of authority, mission and institution as analytic tools, this paper examines the role played by the Matthean passage throughout the Church Dogmatics period, and considers how these themes relate to Barth's rejection of infant baptism. It is suggested in conclusion that understanding baptism as the 'sign of the gospel' allows us to move beyond Barth's rejection of infant baptism without abrogating his concern for mission.

scholarly journals Knowledge of the self facing the experience of illness by cancer and palliative care

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. e021211
Author(s):  
Francielly Zilli ◽  
Stefanie Griebeler Oliveira ◽  
Franciele Roberta Cordeiro ◽  
Juliana Graciela Vestena Zillmer
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Recognition ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Experience Of Illness ◽  
Therapeutic Activities ◽  
The Way

Introduction: The illness of an oncological disease provides experiences capable of modifying the body and the subjects' ways of life. Objective: To analyze how the knowledge of the self occurs facing the experience of illness by cancer and palliative care. Methods: This is a qualitative case study research based on post-critical theories, specifically in Foucault Studies. The participants were six patients who were experiencing cancer and palliative care, linked to a home hospitalization service. The data were collected from March to June 2018, based on open interviews, participant observation, and speech instigation through the use of occupational therapist therapeutic activities. The analysis occurred based on problematizations. Results: From the statements, different ways of getting sick were identified, from diagnosis to their approach to death, causing changes in the body, way of living, and in the perception of oneself from a life-threatening disease. Conclusion: Finally, we concluded that different ways of experiencing cancer and palliative care provided different modes of subjectivation. The lack of self-recognition was confronted by bodily changes and consequently by limitations, so the way this experience was lived reflected in the way they thought about the end of life.

scholarly journals Understanding Paedobaptism In Light Of African Theological Context.

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 293-305
Author(s):  
Eston Kinyua Njeru & Dickson K. Nkonge
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Extensive Reading ◽  
Full Membership ◽  
Infant Baptism ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
The Church

The study had a purpose of understanding paedobaptism in light of African theological context. The study is theoretically informed by inculturation theory that is well propounded by Mbiti (1969) and Bediako (1995). The researcher used qualitative methods of data presentation, descriptive and analytical research. Random and cluster selection design was used to sample hundred women of different age groups. He also targeted 50 men of the age between 30-60 years. The study also targeted 50 clergy of the two genders. Extensive reading of relevant literature was done to investigate efficacy of infant baptism. Interview and questionnaire was the method of data collection used in the study, prominent Church leaders and theologians were interviewed. The researcher then examined all data obtained from questionnaires and interview guides. It was coded appropriately and organised for analysis. Various correction tests were run using the SPSS (statistical packages for social sciences). The data was converted into mean, frequencies and percentages. This was used to generate tables and data. The study found out that all the clergy understood the real meaning of baptism as an act of strengthening faith, giving assurance and giving a title. A big percentage of the laity referred baptism as a means of attaining full membership into the church and just acquiring a name. The study recommended that the church needs to educate her members on the meaning of baptism, which is not only having a name and being a member of the church but for a holistic growth of the body of Christ.

St. Augustine of Hippo

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas L. Humphries
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Sacramental Theology ◽  
Augustine Of Hippo ◽  
Infant Baptism ◽  
Visible Sign ◽  
Church Father ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Mystery Of God ◽  
The Church

This chapter examines the sacramental theology of Augustine of Hippo, the great Western Church Father who emphasized the mystery of God and the fruit of love, and identified sacraments as “visible sign that connect us to the mystery of our saving God.” Baptism was to occur only once in a believer’s life and marked not only the entrance of the believer into the Church but also the believer’s identity with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Augustine encouraged infant baptism and considered marriage and ordination to be sacraments as well. In addition, for Augustine, “the Eucharist is the summit of sacramental theology because it is so obviously and closely connected to the Incarnate Christ himself and because it is a visible sign that connects us to the mystery of salvation in Christ which is fulfilled in love.” Augustine’s work on the sacraments was in many ways seminal and has continued to influence Christian sacramental theology ever since.

scholarly journals Reality of presence in virtually mediated sacramentality: Has sacramental theology sustained us?

2022 ◽  
pp. 000332862110603
Author(s):  
Lizette Larson-Miller
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Sacramental Theology ◽  
Eucharistic Theology ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Real Presence ◽  
The One ◽  
The Church

The global pandemic has impacted the liturgical life of the church by forcing worshiping communities to turn to online liturgies in lieu of gathering together as the body of Christ in one place and time. But the ongoing theological reflection has been particularly concerned with sacramental liturgy online. How can incarnate matter-filled ecclesial sacraments be celebrated without being “in-person”? This article suggests that the ritual and sacramental effects of the pandemic brought an already-existing lack of catechesis on sacramental theology to the surface by exploring two connected conversations: on the one hand, eucharistic theology and the meaning of “real presence” in a time of Internet religion, and on the other hand, the effects of the insidious inculturation of consumerism and commodification highlighted in the “liturgy on demand” world of online ritual and ritual online.

Mission as Dialogue

1997 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 228-240
Author(s):  
Joy Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Christian Mission ◽  
Love Of God ◽  
Reign Of God ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis Forum Paper argues along with Michael Amaladoss and Paul Knitter that the practice of interreligious dialogue, while not replacing the duty of proclamation of the gospel, is an essential part of Christian mission. As the church moves from an "ecclesiocentric" understanding of salvation to an understanding shaped by the Reign of God, it recognizes that dialogue is the way that the church fulfills its mission in a non-Christian or pluralistic environment. Christians need to partner with other believers for the sake of God's Reign while witnessing by their lives and commitment to the truth to the power of the gospel and the love of God in Jesus Christ.

Disability and the Gifts of the Spirit: Pentecost and the Renewal of the Church

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amos Yong
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
Disability Rights Movement ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe interface between the disability rights movement and renewal Christianity has been one of missed opportunities in part because of the centrality of healing in renewal Christian circles. This essay delineates the challenges that occur at this intersection and charts the way toward a renewal theology of disability in dialogue with J. Rodman Williams, one of the leading theologians of the charismatic and neo-Pentecostal movements. Central to such an endeavor is the articulation of an inclusive ecclesiology derived from the Pauline metaphor of the body of Christ animated by the Spirit's diverse giftings amidst and through the church's many members.

scholarly journals The Reciprocal Causation of the Eucharist and the Church: A Critical Analysis from Catholic Theological Perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 318-324
Author(s):  
Francis Appiah-Kubi
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Sacramental Theology ◽  
Reciprocal Causation ◽  
Holy Communion ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
The Church ◽  
Catholic Theological

The Catholic Church believes in the intrinsic and inseparable bond of the Holy Eucharist and the Church. In reference to its dogmatic Constitution, Lumen Gentium paragraph 11 (LG 11) the Church professes that the Eucharist, which is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, is “the source and summit of Christian life.” Each of these two sacraments effects and builds each other. This implies that as the church celebrates the Eucharist, the members as they partake in the Holy Communion manifest concretely their unity and become one body of Christ. This article seeks to underscore the indissoluble reciprocal causality of the Eucharist and the Church, while it stresses on the Eucharist as the origin, the being, and the destiny of the Church. The study drums home critically the idea that the Eucharist builds the Church, and the Church makes the Eucharist. These are but two complementary terms, the Body of Christ, the Church which lives and continuously builds itself up through the Eucharist, Body of Christ. This great theological theme is one of the central points of a deeper interest in Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Anglican ecclesiology. However, the paper examines critically the reciprocal causality between the Church and the Eucharist from the Catholic perspective as proposed by H. de Lubac, a French theologian. It finally treats the interpenetration of the Eucharist as the Body of Christ and the Church as the Body of Christ from the perspective of sacramental theology.

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