scholarly journals Do This in Remembrance of Me Online? Irenic and Elenctic Normativity in Liturgical Studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Marcel Barnard ◽  
Mirella Klomp ◽  
Maarten Wisse
Keyword(s):  
Infinite Field ◽  
Holy Communion ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
Liturgical Studies ◽  
The Way ◽  
Law And Gospel

The authors of this article, two liturgical scholars and a scholar in dogmatics, engaged in a public discussion of whether or not a Holy Communion should be celebrated online. Speaking about the case afterwards, they found that both the discourse of liturgical studies and of dogmatics introduced comparable normative elements. Barnard and Klomp in liturgical studies speak with Ronald Grimes of ‘ritual criticism’ and with Roy Rappaport of ‘The True Words’ as benchmarks that are established by religions in the infinite field of meanings of the rite. Wisse speaks on the basis of the originally Lutheran distinction of Law and Gospel of therapeutic or irenic and elenctic normativity. The authors advocate this distinction as an instrument that opens the way for a discussion about the mystery of life and of the sacraments.

Alfred Watson Memorial Lecture: Public and professional attitudes to risk

1988 ◽  
Vol 115 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-168
Author(s):  
Frederick Warner
Keyword(s):  
Pension Funds ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Medical Negligence ◽  
Professional Attitudes ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
Chernobyl Disaster ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

It is a privilege, Mr President, to be invited to lecture to your Institute, especially in commemoration of Alfred Watson who did so much to establish the firm foundations of your profession. These are of such detail and intricacy that you remain elite and hardly subject to the kind of challenges which more and more affect other professions. Perhaps your time will come as mutterings are heard about your valuations of pension funds and to whom they belong.The subject of this lecture tonight is the way in which risk has forced itself to the front of public discussion and finds the expression in comment almost every day, whether on the issue of vaccine damage to children, medical negligence, the Chernobyl disaster, landslides in Colombia or floods in Bangladesh.

Law and Gospel in Pastoral Care

1976 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 146-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney J. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Pastoral Care And Counseling ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Way ◽  
Law And Gospel

A concern for the demands of the Law and for the message of the forgiveness of sins does not characterize the way most modern, progressive, clinically educated pastors tend to view or practice their ministry with troubled persons. But if our pastoral care is to become more fully responsive and responsible to our theological heritage, and more profoundly related in a Christian way to the persons we serve, it will be necessary to recover the centrality of the doctrine of Law and Gospel in pastoral care and counseling. This article attempts to show why and how it might be done.

scholarly journals Finding Balance and Harmony

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-61
Author(s):  
Benita Lim
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
The Body ◽  
Local Churches ◽  
Holy Communion ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Liturgical Studies ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
British Colonization ◽  
The Face ◽  
Foreign Land

As Christianity arrived on the shores of Singapore closely following British colonization, Western missionaries introduced their interpretation of the Holy Communion into a foreign land and space that was experiencing its first brushes with Western modernity. Contemporaneously, the movement of modernity continues to make an impact upon an important element of life closely intertwined with religious folk practices and culture of locals: food. In the face of modernizing foodscapes and primordial religious backgrounds, converts from Chinese religious traditions to Christianity find themselves navigating the dissonance of Western Holy Communion theologies with the Chinese philosophies of food. How might churches in Singapore begin to respond to the tensions arising when these two philosophical systems meet, and when Christians and churches seem to appropriate “syncretistic” theologies into their liturgical behavior? This article undertakes an interdisciplinary effort by employing social science to explore the modernizing of food in Singapore, as well as engaging Chinese philosophies of food and the body to explain tensions among converts from Chinese religious traditions, and the resistance of local churches towards Chinese understandings of food rituals in the partaking of the Holy Communion. It will also briefly propose that interdisciplinary studies, including liturgical studies, will be essential in developing a more robust theology of the Holy Communion among churches, thereby enhancing its witness within and without.

scholarly journals Videomeemit ja vernakulaari auktoriteetti

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 149-164
Author(s):  
Tero Ahlgren
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Political Discussion ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
Vernacular Culture ◽  
The Way

Videomeemit yhtenä internetmeemien muotona ovat keino osallistua ajankohtaiseen yhteiskunnalliseen ja poliittiseen keskusteluun. Artikkelissani tarkastelen kahden tunnetun videomeemin, Hitler kuulee ja El Risitas, suomenkielisiä toisintoja. Aineistonani on 13 videota, joiden julkaisut ajoittuvat vuosille 2012–2020. Käytän internetmeemin käsitettä Limor Shifmanin määritelmän mukaisesti digitaalisen kulttuurin tarkasteluun sopivana analyyttisenä työkaluna. Monien käyttäjien jakamat ja omaehtoisesti muokkaamat meemit ovat vernakulaaria kulttuuria, ja meemeihin liitetään usein myös spontaanisuus ja reagointi ajankohtaisiin ja arkisiin tilanteisiin. Toisaalta meemien vernakulaarisuus on hybridistä, sillä sen lisäksi, että niiden pohjana käytetään usein tuotetun populaarikulttuurin materiaalia, myös monet viralliset toimijat ovat ottaneet meemit osaksi viestintäänsä. Meemien taitavalla käytöllä on vernakulaaria auktoriteettia, ja niiden vastaanottoon esimerkiksi osana internetissä käytäviä keskusteluja vaikuttaa muun muassa sisältöjen ja käyttökontekstien toimivat valinnat. Meemit mahdollistavat myös julkiseen keskusteluun verrattuna sopimattoman kielenkäytön esimerkiksi seksuaalissävytteisinä tai avoimen rasistisina ja seksistisinä sananvalintoina.   Video memes and vernacular authority: Hitler finds out and El Risitas memes as societal commentary   Video memes as a type of memes are a way to participate in contemporary societal and political discussion. In this article I study the Finnish versions of two well-known memes, Hitler Finds Out and El Risitas: my material consists of 13 videos that have been published between 2012 and 2020. I refer to the concept of meme as defined by Limor Shifman to be a useful tool to analyze digital culture. Shared by many different users, and freely modified, memes are an example of vernacular culture. Memes are also often associated with being spontaneous and a reaction to current and everyday affairs. The vernacularity of memes is also hybrid: memes often use officially produced material from popular culture as their basis but have also become an addition to official communication by different organizations. Skillful use of memes has vernacular authority, and the way memes are responded to as a part of discussion online relies on e.g. proper use of content and context. Videos also offer a chance to choose words that would be deemed improper in public discussion, including openly racist and sexist ones.

scholarly journals Carl Olof Rosenius’ teologi med særligt henblik på hans kirkesyn

2016 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-40
Author(s):  
Flemming Kofod-Svendsen
Keyword(s):  
Northern Sweden ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Holy Communion ◽  
Free Church ◽  
Evangelical Christian ◽  
Spiritual Leader ◽  
Lutheran Theology ◽  
Revival Movement ◽  
Law And Gospel

Carl Olof Rosenius, son of a vicar, grew up in Northern Sweden, where his family was active in a revival movement inspired by Lutheran theology. Early in life he decided to become a clergyman, but due to sickness and bad financial circumstances he never managed to complete his theological studies. He became a lay preacher and a very influential editor of the edifying magazine Pietisten [The Pietist]. Through this he became the spiritual leader of the emerging revival movement known as new evangelism. His theology was strongly influenced by Luther’s understanding of law and gospel. He had a particular spiritual gift to minister the gospel to awakened and seeking persons so they might come to live an evangelical Christian life. He wanted to promote a revival movement within the Swedish Church and rejected all separatism and the idea of forming a free church, just as he was against lay people’s celebration of Holy Communion. He rejected the incipient Baptist Movement and broke with Evangelical Alliance. Some of his disciples chose to form free churches.

A William IV Chalice

1999 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 406-408
Author(s):  
Brian Taylor
Keyword(s):  
English Reformation ◽  
Book Of Common Prayer ◽  
Holy Communion ◽  
Regular Method ◽  
Fourth Lateran Council ◽  
Common Prayer ◽  
The Way

One of the pastoral consequences of the English Reformation was a change in the way that the viaticum was administered. For many centuries the sacrament had been reserved in churches, and this had been compulsory since the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. Holy communion was taken to the sick and dying, often accompanied with much ceremonial, but now this was brought to an end. Every edition of the Book of Common Prayer had contained a form for ‘the communion of the sick’, a celebration of the eucharist in ‘a convenient place in the sick man's house’. The 1549 book also had provision for what we should now call ‘communion by extension’, taking the consecrated elements to the sick after a celebration in church, but that disappeared in 1552, and is disallowed by a strict following of the rubric in 1662. William Kennedy long ago argued that communion by extension had probably been legal after 1552, but that he had found no mention of it in the visitation papers of the period. ‘With infrequent communions provided in the year – three or four, or twelve at the most – the opportunities for ‘carrying the communion’ to the sick were very few, and communion by means of a private celebration became the regular method.’

Liturgical undoing: Christ, communion, and commodified bodies

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-361
Author(s):  
Khalia J. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Free Market ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Holy Communion ◽  
Chattel Slavery ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Way

During the years of chattel slavery in the USA, Black bodies were commodified. This article pays particular attention to the commodification of female Black bodies and the way in which the participation of the Christian community in Holy Communion undoes the capitalistic, free market enterprise of commodification by setting bodies and communities of faith free from the abuse and bondage as we begin to live into the fullness of the body of Christ. At the table of Communion, we are undone and through the gracious gift of Christ’s body we are reclaimed as the creation of the divine—a creation that God looks upon and calls good.

scholarly journals Understanding the Role of Racism in Contemporary US Public Opinion

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-169
Author(s):  
Katherine Cramer
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Political Inequality ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
Racial Resentment ◽  
Contemporary Context ◽  
The Way

In the contemporary context, it is inescapable that racism is a factor in US public opinion. When scholars take stock of the way we typically measure and conceptualize racism, we find reason to reconceptualize the racial resentment scale as a measure of perceptions of the reasons for political inequality. We also see reason to move beyond thinking of racism as an attitude, toward conceptualizing it as a perspective. In addition, we see reason to pay closer attention to the role of elites in creating and perpetuating a role for racism in the way people think about public affairs. The study of racism is evolving in parallel with the broader public discussion: toward a recognition of the complex and fundamental ways it is woven into US culture and political life.

scholarly journals Celebrating the sacrament of Holy Communion during COVID-19: A Methodist perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wessel Bentley
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Methodist Church ◽  
Holy Communion ◽  
Worship Services ◽  
Church Polity ◽  
Special Collection ◽  
Ongoing Dialogue ◽  
The Way

This article forms part of the change agents special collection. It investigates the way the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) has engaged the question of practicing Holy Communion in the context of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown. Mainly using communiques by the Office of the Presiding Bishop and contributions made by clergy and laity on the practice of online worship services, and Holy Communion in particular, the article not only describes points of contention but also matters for consideration in balancing church polity whilst being contextually present and relevant. The article then celebrates the work of the Doctrine, Ethics and Worship Commission (DEWCOM) of the MCSA in potentially providing a way forward for the denomination that holds polity and relevance together in meaningful tension.Contribution: This research contributes to the ongoing dialogue within the Methodist Church of Southern Africa on how the sacrament of Holy Communion should be practiced in the context of a social lockdown as precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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