Introduction to Pastoral Letters

1 Timothy ◽  
2014 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Letters

Idealized Motherhood: Examples of the Gendered Worldview of the Pastoral Letters

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 294-304
Author(s):  
Annette Huizenga
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Pastoral Letters

In the Pastoral Letters, the roles and practices of mothering in a domestic household serve as benchmarks for the general instructions on how “one ought to behave in the household of God” (1 Tim 3:15). This article examines several passages in 1–2 Timothy and Titus in which the author employs an idealized and stereotypical view of motherhood in order to persuade female believers to fulfill this socially-appropriate condition and to restrict them from leadership positions in the community.

Progressive White Catholics in the South and Civil Rights

2018 ◽  
pp. 83-110
Author(s):  
Mark Newman
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The South ◽  
Higher Educational Institutions ◽  
Civil Rights Organizations ◽  
Pastoral Letters ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Catholic Organizations ◽  
Diocesan Priests

A progressive minority of white Catholics in the South strove to counter segregationist arguments and, when necessary, to persuade and pressure southern prelates to inaugurate and enforce desegregation. The progressive minority included some ordinaries, religious and diocesan priests, nuns, editors of diocesan newspapers, faculty and students at seminaries and Catholic and secular higher educational institutions, and laity. Progressives disseminated their message through pastoral letters, sermons, classes, editorials, articles and letters in the diocesan press, pamphlets and newsletters. With the approval of their ordinaries, progressives often formed Catholic organizations, most commonly interracial councils, to disseminate their message. Sometimes progressives cooperated with or joined civil rights organizations, and a few participated in civil rights protests. Despite the opposition of militant Catholic adherents of Jim Crow, progressive prelates positively influenced the views of some Catholic segregationists. Although progressive priests and laity lacked the authority of prelates, they also helped change some segregationists.

Jesus and Paul

2021 ◽  
pp. 139-170
Author(s):  
Donald Senior
Keyword(s):  
Literary Form ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Pastoral Letters ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Paul's Letters

The writings of Paul form a major part of the New Testament. This includes not only the so-called undisputed letters of Paul but also other letters attributed to him in antiquity that might have been written by later disciples of Paul citing him as author to evoke his apostolic authority. This chapter describes what we know of Paul’s life, beginning with his strong Jewish identity as well as his roots in the Greco-Roman world. Paul himself cites his inaugural visionary experience of the Risen Jesus as a decisive turning point in his life, leading him ultimately to be an ardent proclaimer of the gospel to the Gentile world. Paul’s letters to various early Christian communities in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean world served as extensions of his missionary efforts. Although fashioned in a different literary form than the gospel narratives, Paul’s letters also portray Jesus’s identity as both rooted in Judaism and exhibiting a unique transcendent character and purpose. Paul’s Christology focuses intensely on the significance of Jesus’s death and resurrection. The so-called deutero-Pauline Letters extend Paul’s theological vision; in the case of Colossians and Ephesians, situating the redemptive and reconciling role of Christ within the cosmos, and, in the case of the Pastoral Letters, bringing Paul’s exhortations about the life of the Christian community to some of the developing challenges of the late first-century church.

scholarly journals SOB A AUTORIDADE DO PASTOR E A SUJEIÇÃO DA ESCRITA: OS BISPOS DO SUDESTE DO BRASIL DO SÉCULO XVIII NA DOCUMENTAÇÃO PASTORAL

2002 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Torres-Londoño
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Period ◽  
Church Members ◽  
Pastoral Letters

O objetivo deste artigo é recuperar a atuação dos bispos do Sudeste do Brasil no período colonial, a partir de suas cartas pastorais. A análise de um conjunto de 130 documentos das três dioceses desta região, colocam em evidência uma das principais preocupações dos bispos durante o século XVIII: a necessidade de legitimar sua autoridade nas comunidades. Nesse processo, o ato da escrita constituiu-se num dos mecanismos privilegiados pela sua relação com o clero e fregueses. Abstract This article seeks to understand the acting of the bishops in the southeast of Brazil, on the colonial period through their pastoral letters. The analysis of 130 pastorals documents, for three episcopacies, points out that one of the principal interest of the bishops during the century XVIII. Was to create mechanisms to legitimate their authority on the community. By using the “writing” these bishops reached priests as well as church members reinforcing their authority.

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