Justification and Eschatology in Luther's Thought

1969 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-174
Author(s):  
George Wolfgang Forell
Keyword(s):  
Church Of God ◽  
Human Reason ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Doctrine

The juxtaposition of “justification” and “eschatology” in Luther's thought seems at first strikingly inappropriate. Justification is undoubtedly the central concern in Luther's theological effort. It was to Luther “the master and prince, the lord, the ruler and the judge over all kinds of doctrines; it preserves and governs all church doctrine and raises up our conscience before God. Without this article the world is utter death and darkness. No error is so insignificant, so clumsy, so outworn as not to be supremely pleasing to human reason and to seduce us if we are without the knowledge and the contemplation of this article.” Earlier he had written, “This article is the head and the cornerstone, which alone begets, nourishes, builds, serves and defends the church of God.

scholarly journals Hakekat Seksualitas Manusia : Perspektif Gereja Kristen Nazarene di Abad 21 terhadap Praktek LGBT

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-39
Author(s):  
Bakhoh Jatmiko
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Church Of The Nazarene ◽  
The Other ◽  
Church Of God ◽  
Age Changes ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
The Church

Civilization and social structure have dramatically changed in these last several decades. Exponential development of globalization and the growth of technology of communication have transformed values, views and cultures of human civilization nowadays. These are the symptoms of world web wide era; where the local issues can be global discussion in minutes. In one hand, the Church of God should be sensitive to the age changes, does some adaptations and changes to be relevant. In the other hand, the Church of God should not be conformed to this world. Church of the Nazarene as one of the Christian Church denominations in the world is demanded to take the stance to deal with the changes that are happened today especially in LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) issue.

The Church of the Introverts. Why there are no longer such figures as John of Krondtadt among us

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 729-739
Author(s):  
Svetlana V. Lourie
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Natural Man ◽  
The Church ◽  
Psychological Disposition ◽  
New Time ◽  
Secular Life ◽  
Church Doctrine

The article is devoted to the issue of contemporary church, perhaps the church of the recent times, to the issue of its parishioners and the characteristics of their psychological disposition, scope of reading, thought and ideas. Where is the marking line that divides them from the “secular life”, from “good laypeople” who also aspire to be moral? We see this marking line in the realization (awareness) of the conception of the sin and the use of this realization in everyday life. The root of difference between the “ecclesiastical traditionalists” and “ecclesiastical liberals”, that are connected with two diverse theologies and two diverse anthropologies, lies in the different attitude to the conception of sin. The traditionalists support the ascetic church doctrine that now more and more penetrates the parishioners’ life, and the liberals, voluntary or involuntary, absorbed the idea of the Man of the New Time, natural man, who due to the newest tendencies is gradually turning into an “unnatural man”. The disappearance of the concept of sin from the public conscience makes it impossible to deliver such sermons as the Saint Holy John of Kronstadt. The church and the laypeople tend more and more to talk past each other, the ecclesiasts turn more introvertive, unsociable and misunderstood by the world. Jesus Christ also spoke about this phenomenon: “If you were from the world, the world would love its own, but I chose you from the world, so the world hates you”. The tragic aspect of this saying becomes more evident in our time that has certain apocalyptic traits.

What is Catholic Theology?

2016 ◽  
pp. 4-41
Author(s):  
Lewis Ayres
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
Human Reason ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
God's Word ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church ◽  
Theological Thinking

This chapter argues that theological thinking should be considered as intrinsic to the activity of proclamation and as a form of speculation called forth as part of God’s salvific economy. God’s Word not only became flesh and revealed the Father, but Christ and his Spirit also act in his body, the Church, to reform and elevate human reason, to shape our understanding and celebration of revelation. This is so, even as theological thinking is also a human activity that may go astray. Theological thinking contains at its heart a dynamic relationship between attentive interpretation to Scripture and attention to the radical newness brought about by the continuing activity of Christ and the Spirit in the world. At the same time, in attention to the Church’s tradition, the theologian finds a school for the speculative imagination. The final section focuses on the unity and diversity of different theological acts and subdisciplines.

On African Theology

1984 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Hastings
Keyword(s):  
Christian Theology ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
African Theology ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The World ◽  
Edward Schillebeeckx ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Doctrine

Edward Schillebeeckx in The Understanding of Faith (1974, 154) defined or described theology as ‘the critical self-consciousness of Christian praxis in the world and the church’. Others may prefer another definition, but it can be agreed that Christian theology is not revelation and it is not church doctrine; both of these while inevitably formulated within time yet lay claim to, and acquire, a certain degree of timelessness which is neither possible nor desirable for ‘theology’. Theology rather requires a continuous contemporaneity. It is a ‘critical self consciousness’ — an extended intelligent response of men of faith both to the word of God and to their own world. At times it may appear to concentrate more upon that word, as found in the Scriptures, while interpreting and applying it aptly and acutely in the light of contemporary culture; at other times theology will appear to concentrate more upon the contemporary world, or upon some part of it decisively significant for this theologian or the group of christians of which he or she forms part, interpreting it and judging it in the light of scripture. Behind appearances theology, to be true to itself, has always to do both.

scholarly journals HAKEKAT SEKSUALITAS MANUSIA : PERSPEKTIF GEREJA KRISTEN NAZARENE DI ABAD 21 TERHADAP PRAKTEK LGBT

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bakhoh Jatmiko
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Church Of The Nazarene ◽  
The Other ◽  
Church Of God ◽  
Age Changes ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
The Church

Civilization and social structure have dramatically changed in these last several decades. Exponential development of globalization and the growth of technology of communication have transformed values, views and cultures of human civilization nowadays. These are the symptoms of world web wide era; where the local issues can be global discussion in minutes. In one hand, the Church of God should be sensitive to the age changes, does some adaptations and changes to be relevant. In the other hand, the Church of God should not be conformed to this world. Church of the Nazarene as one of the Christian Church denominations in the world is demanded to take the stance to deal with the changes that are happened today especially in LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) issue.

A.J. Tomlinson’s Emerging Ecclesiology

Pneuma ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-389
Author(s):  
Harold D. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Church Of God ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Western North Carolina ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Church

AbstractThis study seeks to engage the question of how A.J. Tomlinson formulated the theological platform that influenced the ecclesiologies of various Churches of God. The cast includes R.G. Spurling and R. Frank Porter, a forgotten figure but one who, together with Spurling, organized the Holiness Church at Camp Creek in western North Carolina on May 15, 1902. I will argue that, absent the intervention of A.J. Tomlinson on June 13, 1903, the work of Spurling, Porter, and W.F. Bryant would have suffered the ill-fated demise common to hundreds of like works in Appalachia. Yet Tomlinson was more than an organizer; he was also someone who influenced the mission adopted by the early Church of God (Cleveland, TN). This article has particular relevance in the face of awakened sensitivities to Pentecostal ecclesiology in the light of the Edinburgh 1910 centenary celebrations around the world and the World Council of Churches’ working document, Nature and Mission of the Church. Here I will frame the discussion as a response to Dale Coulter’s article, “The Development of Ecclesiology in the Church of God (Cleveland, TN): A Forgotten Contribution?” in Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 29, no. 1 (2007): 59-85.

Calvin as an Ecumenical Churchman

1988 ◽  
Vol 57 (S1) ◽  
pp. 43-55
Author(s):  
John T. McNeill
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Church Of God ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

Many years ago, almost on my first acquaintance with Calvin, I was impressed by a phrase in that last brief letter of his to his old companion in labor and battle, William Farel:Live mindful of our union which, as it has been useful to the Church of God, so its fruits await us in heaven.We may begin here, though it is where Calvin's work ended. His friendships, labors, struggles, and studies had as their aim to be “useful to the Church of God.” It was in Geneva that they had been fellow-laborers, but it is not merely to the Church of Geneva that he thinks their labor to have been useful. It was a contribution to a far wider community, the Church of God, that has no boundaries narrower than the communion of believers, the divine society extending over all the world and throughout all the ages of mankind's history. The Holy Catholic Church was for him a universal reality, however hidden from men's eyes through the prevailing abuses and the proud assumptions of those who claimed to rule and speak for the Church.

scholarly journals Exorcism in Mark’s Gospel: Implications of Jesus’ Perspective for Today

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Olusola Igbari
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Church Of God ◽  
The World ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Evil Spirits ◽  
Areas Of Concern ◽  
The Church

Exorcism is a theological term which has engaged the minds of some New Testament Scholars in recent times atleast in last three decades. It is a universal phenomenon. Research has discovered that some churches especiallyorthodox ones have not paid much cognizance to this aspect of Jesus’ ministry. This paper is an attempt to investigatewhat exorcism is and how is this ministry being addressed by the contemporary church using St. Mark’s narratives asthe framework. Humans daily demands for a paradigm shift by the church to also engage in deliverance ministryinstead of the focus on “prosperity message.” The Church should be aware that prosperity message can not havedesired effect until lives of humans enjoy maximal health that can make life worthy living. Jesus in St. Mark’sGospel showed examples of how and what the Church of God should address on the presence of evil spirits ordemonic forces in the world of evil that is ravaging the lives of many within God’s creation. This paper tried toidentify salient areas of concern in addressing the issue of exorcism especially in the 21st Century Church. The realityof the existence of evil spirits and demonic forces which cannot be contended. If human person needs to achieve hisdestiny in life according to God’s purpose, then issues that can hinder the fulfilment of that destiny should be keenlyaddressed by individuals or the church to whom the gift of exorcism is deposited.

The Missionary Significance of the Sacraments

1967 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
J. M. Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
Lord's Supper ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Holy Trinity ◽  
Means Of Grace ◽  
The World ◽  
Individual Candidate ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Doctrine

Expositions of the Sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist usually concentrate on their meaning as between God, the Church itself and the individual candidate or communicant. J. S. Whale, for example, in Christian Doctrine1 speaks of the Communion as (a) Memorial, (b) the Mediation of God's Presence, and (c) the Union of the Historical with what is beyond History. Or again, the Scottish Manual of Church Doctrine2 defines Baptism as follows: ‘The outward part in this Sacrament is washing with water in the Name of the Holy Trinity. The inward part is “engrafting” into Christ, regeneration, remission of sins, and giving up to God.’ The Lord's Supper is explained3 as a supreme act of worship, a commemoration, the oblation of all possible praise, the utmost act of prayer and intercession, and a supreme means of grace. Only at the very end of the Chapter on Ordinance do we find these words4: ‘Further still, Christ is the propitiation not for our sins only but for the sins of the whole world. Laying hold of Him for its own need, the soul apprehends its debt to remember the need of the world without, for which Christ also died.’ This thought, which makes the Communion a reminder of the need to evangelise only, has a very strong flavour of pietism and ‘separateness’. One could find oneself at one with this even when celebrating in the secrecy of the Catacomb.

‘Dens of loitering lubbers’: protestant protest against cathedral foundations, 1540–1640

1972 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 231-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Cross
Keyword(s):  
Church Of God ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
The World ◽  
Church In The World ◽  
The Church

In A View of Popishe Abuses which enlarged upon the corruptions remaining in the English church, already itemised by protestant radicals in An Admonition to the Parliament of 1572, the writer dwelt at some length upon the iniquities of cathedral foundations.We should be too long to tell your honours of cathedral churches, the dens aforesaid of all loitering lubbers, where master dean, master vicedean, master canons or prebendaries the greater, master petty canons or canons the lesser, master chancellor of the church, master treasurer, otherwise called Judas the pursebearer, the chief chanter, singingmen, special favourers of religion, squeaking choristers, organ players, gospellers, pistellers, pensioners, readers, vergers etc. live in great idleness and have their abiding. If you would know whence all these came, we can easily answer you, that they came from the pope, as out of the Trojan horse’s belly, to the destruction of God’s kingdom. The church of God never knew them, neither doth any reformed church in the world know them.

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