scholarly journals «Honest and Noble People» in the Russian Church of the 15th -16th Centuries: the Peculiarities of Self-Identification

2021 ◽  
pp. 314-326
Author(s):  
А.С. Усачев
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
General Rule ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Long Period ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

В работе рассматриваются особенности самоидентификации ряда русских служилых землевладельцев знатного происхождения XV–XVI вв. после принятия пострига. По-казано, что некоторых из них (Вассиана (Патрикеева), ростовского архиепископа Иоасафа (Оболенского), Иосифа Волоцкого) отличала «картина мира», характерная для представителей знати. Однако это были исключения. Как правило, в ходе длительного периода подготовки руководителей Церкви (не менее 2–3 десятилетий) их связь со «своей» социальной средой ослабевала и, соответственно, говорить о непосредственной связи между их статусом в миру и в Церкви вряд ли возможно. The article deals with the peculiarities of the Russian landed gentry’s self-identification in the 15-16th centuries after taking of monastic vows. The author shows that some of them (Vassian (Patrikeev), the Rostov archbishop Iosaf (Obolensky), Iosif Volocky) shared the worldview typical for the nobility. But in these cases, we face with the exception to the general rule. The long period of the church leaders’ preparation (no less than 2-3 decades) usually had impact on weakening the ties with their social environment. That’s why it is impossible to speak about the connection between their status in the world and in the Church.

Conflict and Financial Scandal on History, Culture, and Politic

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (03) ◽  
pp. 20628-20638
Author(s):  
Anik Yuesti ◽  
I Made Dwi Adnyana
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Spiritual World ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The World ◽  
Financial Scandals ◽  
Financial Transparency ◽  
The Church ◽  
Transparency And Accountability

One of the things that are often highlighted in the world of spirituality is a matter of sexual scandal. But lately, the focus of the spiritual world is financial transparency and accountability. Financial scandals began to arise in the Church, as was the case in the Protestant Christian Church of Bukti Doa Nusa Dua Congregation in Bali. The scandal involved clergy and even some church leaders. This study aims to describe how the conflict occurred because of financial scandals in the Church. The method used in this study is the Ontic dialectic. Based on this research, the conflict in the Bukit Doa Church is a conflict caused by an internal financial scandal. The scandal resulted in fairly widespread conflict in the various lines of the organization. It led to the issuance of the Dismissal Decrees of the church pastor and also one of the members of Financial Supervisory Council. This conflict has also resulted in the leadership of the church had violated human rights. Source of conflict is not resolved in a fair, but more concerned with political interests and groups. Thus, the source of the problem is still attached to its original place.

scholarly journals 'n Nuwe ekumeniese geloofsbelydenis?

1987 ◽  
Vol 43 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 72-85
Author(s):  
B. J. Engelbrecht
Keyword(s):  
Church Leaders ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Church Unity ◽  
Reformed Church In America ◽  
The World ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Church

A new ecumenical confession of faithRecently theologians, church leaders and even churches from all over the world expressed the desirability of a new confession of faith, preferably an ecumenical confession. The Reformed Church in America proposed a new confession with their Song of Hope. They still maintain large parts of their 16th century reformed confessions but the following motives played a role in their desire for a new confession:• The necessity to correct the existing, 'old' confessions in the light of modem scientific Bible-research, e g on the doctrine of predestination.• The need for additional confession-pronouncements on modern-day issues and experiences, unknown to the church in the 16th century.• The desirability of a new form (language) to communicate with modem man.• The sensitivity of the churches of today towards church-unity and the trends living in the oikouménè, e g their social awareness.We then proceed to treat the motives why a reformed Church überhaupt needs and forms a confession. In the light of these motives the question arises whether our Church really needs a new confession today; is the exposition of the existing confessions in theology, catechesis, preaching and modem church-hymns not enough to translate and communicate the existing confessions to modem man and to address modern-day issues?

scholarly journals Violence in post-apartheid South Africa and the role of church and theology

2004 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
C.F.C. Coetzee
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Revolutionary Violence ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Church

South Africa is known as one of the most violent countries in the world. Since the seventeenth century, violence has been part of our history. Violence also played a significant role during the years of apartheid and the revolutionary struggle against apartheid. It was widely expected that violence would decrease in a post-apartheid democratic South Africa, but on the contrary, violence has increased in most cases. Even the TRC did not succeed in its goal to achieve reconciliation. In this paper it is argued that theology and the church have a great and significant role to play. Churches and church leaders who supported revolutionary violence against the apartheid system on Biblical “grounds”, should confess their unbiblical hermeneutical approach and reject the option of violence. The church also has a calling in the education of young people, the pastoral care of criminals and victims, in proclaiming the true Gospel to the government and in creating an ethos of human rights.

The Church and American Catholics

2019 ◽  
pp. 304-324
Author(s):  
Chester Gillis
Keyword(s):  
Church Leaders ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Marketplace Of Ideas ◽  
Intended Audience ◽  
The Public ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Pastoral Letters ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church ◽  
The U.S

This chapter shows that the Second Vatican Council called the whole church to engage the world in a spirit of joy and hope. The U.S. Catholic bishops—following an unprecedented process of consultation with other citizens—gradually adopted a prophetic stance as world citizens rather than imperial monarchs. In the 1980s, the U.S. bishops attracted global notice via their pastoral letters on nuclear weaponry and economic justice. There were no more bars to the church's wholehearted participation in the public arena, but the bishops' intended audience—especially including many Catholics—now ascribed an advisory role at best to these shepherds' teachings. Church leaders operated within a competitive marketplace of ideas—ideas warily assessed by consumers regardless of their source.

The Parable of the Cursed Chicken (1974–Present)

2019 ◽  
pp. 260-273
Author(s):  
Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Church Members ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Community Norms ◽  
The World ◽  
True Jesus Church ◽  
The Church

In the charismatic culture of the True Jesus Church in contemporary China, extraordinary occurrences are expected within the mundane circumstances of modern life. The church community’s claimed access to miraculous power strengthens the legitimacy of church ideology and church government. These charismatic experiences, often framed in reference to the Bible, inject vitality into church members’ shared life and the organizational structures holding them together. At the same time, church leaders attempt to carefully define and regulate charismatic experience in order to preserve community norms and maintain optimal levels of tension with surrounding society. At the level of individual practice, the church’s emphasis on Christian separation from the world results not in withdrawal, but in engagement with nearly every aspect of everyday life.

scholarly journals Holistic Ministry based on the Synoptic Gospels and Relevance to Contemporary Generation

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
Matius I. Totok Dwikoryanto ◽  
Muner Daliman ◽  
Hana Suparti ◽  
Paulus Sentot Purwoko
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Christian Education ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Synoptic Gospels ◽  
Holistic Ministry ◽  
Present Generation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Goal Direction ◽  
The Church

Holistic service for youth and youth is the basic thing today because youth and youth are the present generation for the future of the church. By using descriptive qualitative methods, it can be concluded that the holistic ministry for youth and youth carried out by church leaders is able to build today's generation that continues to have an impact on the world and is also expected to bring Christian education that has one clear and definite goal/direction, namely knowing, loving , believe in, obey and serve God according to His will and plan and for His glory.

scholarly journals The beauty of spiritual leadership: A theological-aesthetical approach to leadership

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Volker Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Church Leadership ◽  
Spiritual Leadership ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Theological Aesthetics ◽  
Spiritual Leaders ◽  
Preliminary Note ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
Christian Leaders ◽  
The Church

The aim of this article is to investigate two links between beauty and leadership: What is beautiful about spiritual leadership? Why should spiritual leaders bother about beauty? This study was motivated by the Bible verse 1 Timothy 3:1 and the observation that, at least in the German context, church leadership is no longer seen as a beautiful task. After a preliminary note on theological aesthetics, the paper discusses several approaches towards the link between aesthetics and transformation of the world, among them God becoming beautiful by Rudolf Bohren and Christianity, art and transformation by John de Gruchy. The article finally argues that: (1) spiritual leaders are beautifying the church and beyond and (2) spiritual leaders should strive for beauty as diligently as they strive for truth and goodness. Statement (1) is drawn from the propositions that (a) the spirit is the real leader of the church, (b) church leaders are partaking in the work of the spirit and (c) the spirit is beautifying the church and beyond. This is a theological statement, not a phenomenological one. A small poll provides some answers to the questions: ‘what is beautiful about leading?’ and ‘what is not beautiful about leading?’ An example of a German kindergarten illustrates some benefits of an aesthetical approach.Contribution: This article focuses on the neglected area of aesthetics in the context of leadership. It aims to encourage Christian leaders to fight against the ugliness of the world and make the world more beautiful.

Pengaruh Pembinaan Rohani Gereja Berdasarkan Efesus 4:17-24 Terhadap Gaya Hidup Konsumerisme Pemuda Gereja Pantekosta di Indonesia Theofilus Blitar

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Santy Sahartian
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Spiritual Formation ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

The spiritual formation by the church that the writer meant is coaching as an action and effort by church leaders in improving the quality of spirituality as best as possible, so that distancing themselves from the world and sin, uniting themselves with the death and resurrection of Christ, surrendering and offering to God will be seen from his lifestyle daily.This research was conducted to prove the hypothesis which there is presumably the influence of church's spiritual guiding based on Ephesians 4:17-24 on the consumerism lifestyle of the youth church. The population as well as the sample in this study were 60 respondents involved young people of Pentecostal Church in Indonesia Theofilus Blitar. The method used is a descriptive-quantitative, which the collected data been processed and analyzed using a statistic application of SPSS 19, so that obtained a result of rxy value was 0.532. This meant there is a significant and mediate influence between the church's spiritual formation based on Ephesians 4: 17-24 on consumerism lifestyle of the youth of the Pentecostal Church in Indonesia Theofilus Blitar.AbstrakPembinaan rohani oleh gereja yang dimaksud penulis adalah pembinaan sebagai tindakan dan upaya oleh pemimpin gereja dalam meningkatkan kualitas kerohanian sebaik mungkin, agar menjauhkan diri dari dunia dan dosa, mempersatukan diri dengan kematian dan kebangkitan Kristus, menyerahkan dan mempersembahkan diri kepada Allah akan terlihat dari gaya hidupnya sehari-hari. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk membuktikan hipotesis tentang adanya pengaruh pembinaan rohani oleh gereja berdasarkan Efesus 4:17-24 terhadap gaya hidup konsumerisme pemuda gereja. Populasi sekaligus sampel dalam penelitian ini berjumlah 60 responden yang melibatkan pemuda – pemudi Gereja Pantekosta di Indonesia Theofilus Blitar. Metode yang digunakan adalah deskriptif-kuantitatif, di mana data yang diperoleh diolah dan dianalisis dengan bantuan aplikasi statistik SPSS 19, sehingga diperoleh nilai rxy adalah 0,532. Artinya, ada pengaruh yang signifikan dan sedang antara pengaruh pembinaan rohani oleh Gereja berdasarkan Efesus 4:17-24 terhadap gaya hidup konsumerisme pemuda Gereja Pantekosta di Indonesia Theofilus Blitar.

Pacific Apostle

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David O. McKay
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Presence ◽  
Fact Finding ◽  
The Church

The year-long fact-finding mission of Mormon apostle David O. McKay and his traveling companion Hugh J. Cannon to the colonies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was one of the most significant moments of the twentieth century for Mormonism. Although the contemporary church has grown to become a global presence, the early decades of the last century found missionaries struggling to gain converts abroad. For the church’s leadership, it was a pioneering endeavor to visit, observe, and fellowship with the church’s expanding global constituency in the Pacific. Other general authorities had visited individual church missions at various times—especially across Europe. None, however, had ever circumnavigated the globe, using the Pacific as a focal point of travel. In today’s information age, where such visits occur almost weekly for many senior church leaders, the significance of such an expedition is easy to overlook. When McKay was called in October 1920, no one knew the tour would eventually form many of the most important initiatives he had undertaken when he became church president three decades later. McKay’s rich and vivid account of his and Cannon’s 61,646-mile around-the-world journey illustrates the roots of Mormonism’s globalization. His diary account is without doubt one of the more significant texts in the historical cannon of global Mormon studies.

scholarly journals Orthodox orthodoxy in the world of religious postmodernity

2005 ◽  
pp. 189-207
Author(s):  
Oleksandr N. Sagan
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Human Life ◽  
World Culture ◽  
Long Period ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church ◽  
A Current

After a long period of apology for the new "symphony" of the Church and the Soviet authorities since the mid-1960s. Ukraine has begun to understand the latest trends in Orthodoxy. At the same time, a current emerged in world culture, which was later dubbed the postmodern. Amorphous at first, a phenomenon that manifested itself more quickly in literature and the visual arts, for several decades, has left its mark on other spheres of human life, including and religious, including Orthodoxy

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