Formative Ideas of a Theological Vision

2014 ◽  
pp. 33-62
Keyword(s):  
Theological Vision

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Shadle
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire Cosmos ◽  
Natural Ecology ◽  
Theological Vision ◽  
New Framework

The conclusion looks at the teaching of Pope Francis, considering the possibility that it represents the emergence of a new framework for Catholic social teaching. Pope Francis has emphasized that the encounter with Jesus Christ brings about an experience of newness and openness. He has also proposed a cosmic theological vision. His concept of “integral ecology,” introduced in his encyclical Laudato Si’, illustrates how human society is interconnected with the natural ecology of the planet earth and the entire cosmos. He proposes that the economy, society, culture, and daily life are all interconnected “ecologies.” In a speech to the World Meeting of Popular Movements in 2015, Pope Francis also explains how social movements devoted to local issues can nevertheless have a profound effect on the structures of the global economy. In his teachings, Pope Francis presents an organicist and communitarian vision of economic life.

Luke's Alteration of Joel 3.1–5 in Acts 2.17–21

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Blumhofer
Keyword(s):  
Early Church ◽  
Theological Vision ◽  
The Way

This article examines the alterations that Luke makes to his citation of Joel 3.1–5 in Acts 2.17–21. It argues that Luke has chosen various Scriptural co-texts to shape the meaning of Joel's prophecy as it applies to the early church. Thus, the various changes that Luke makes to Joel's prophecy reflect Luke's theological vision for the way in which Israel's eschatological restoration is occurring within the community of the early church.

scholarly journals Vladimir Lossky’s Involvement in the Dieu Vivant Circle and its Ecumenical Journal

2019 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-63
Author(s):  
Viorel Coman
Keyword(s):  
Editorial Work ◽  
Theological Vision

Vladimir Lossky’s theology has been extensively studied by scholars but his commitment to ecumenism still remains an insufficiently researched domain. This article fills this lacuna by shedding light on an important chapter of Lossky’s ecumenical activity: his involvement in the Parisian Dieu Vivant circle and its ecumenical journal. The article argues that Lossky’s editorial work for the Dieu Vivant journal represents an important episode of the ecumenical interactions between the representatives of the Orthodox Neo-Patristic movement and the architects of the French Catholic Ressourcement. Moreover, Lossky’s willingness to be a member of the editorial board of the Dieu Vivant journal cannot be understood apart from the affinity which existed between his theological vision and the agenda of the French periodical: the priority of the eschatological consciousness of Christianity.

scholarly journals Secularism, secularism, godlessness: theological vision of the problem.

2013 ◽  
pp. 68-82
Author(s):  
Ivan Ortynskyy
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
The West ◽  
Financial Situation ◽  
Communist System ◽  
Complete Rejection ◽  
Theological Vision ◽  
Religious Crisis

The religious crisis experienced by the present mankind is neither the first nor the last in its history. But it looks more sharp, more general, and above all - deeper, because it reaches the very roots of religion, God. This crisis is present in the West, where freedom is predominantly dominated and dominated, and where man can develop as it is profitable, as well as in the East, where for decades the communist regime led a persistent and fierce ideological war, trying to eliminate everything that concerned God. It seemed that the fall of the Marxist-Communist system would lead to a violent manifestation of a religious sensation here, responding to the demands of the human spirit. Unfortunately, such hopes were not fulfilled. The atmosphere of a certain freedom soon changed the first signs of enthusiastic religious interest in religious chaos, and finally, as could be foreseen, left a free space for the crazy pursuit of well-being and all the benefits that the Western civilization was embracing. This was the result of a pathetic, even tragic financial situation, which was the consequence of the management of the communist regime and the inevitable legacy of Marxist despotism, which required the complete rejection of religion and its absence in human life.

scholarly journals “The genealogy of the person is inscribed in the very biology of generation”. Towards the heart of the dispute on Humanae vitae

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2(24)) ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
Paweł Bortkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Human Person ◽  
Human Action ◽  
The Body ◽  
Pope John Paul Ii ◽  
Conjugal Love ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Humanae Vitae ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Theological Vision

Since the publication of the encyclical "Humanae vitae" by Paul VI in 1968, a heated discussion has been taking place around this document. It comes alive in a particularly intense way on the occasion of the subsequent anniversaries of the publication of the document. Subsequent decades showed a number of problems related not only to the ethics of marital life and sexual ethics, but also to the concept of conscience or recognition or rejection of the seriousness of the Church's Magisterium. Recent months have brought further opinions of antagonists and protagonists of this document.Among opponents or critics of the encyclical, there are views questioning the teaching that contraception is intrinsically evil. This, in consequence, means accepting the thesis that there are no intrinsically evil acts at all. What is more, it should be noted that every human action is determined in its moral nature only by the proportion between its good and bad effects.In confrontation with these views, the article presents an outline of the anthropological and theological truth underlying "Humanae vitae" which was analysed with insight by St. John Paul II. This allows for the extraction of several basic theses relating to the theological vision of marriage and parenthood: 1) to read the truth about marriage and parenthood, it is necessary to fully recognize the truth about the dignity of the human person, 2) the person realizes fully in the reality of the gift that creates interpersonal communion with the participation of the human body, 3) communion and endowment made with the help of the "sign" of the body are realized in interpersonal conjugal love, 4) the special (though not the only) act of conjugal love is a sexual act, 5) marital logic of being a mutual gift is specific and this is inseparability of the bond between the inter-marital gift (between spouses) and the non-marital gift (between parents and children). Ultimately, this leads to the thought of St. Pope John Paul II, ordering to combine the order of the marriage act with the creative act "the genealogy of the person is inscribed in the very biology of generation".

Nature’s Mathematics

2019 ◽  
pp. 17-36
Author(s):  
Thomas Owens
Keyword(s):  
Material World ◽  
Geometrical Quality ◽  
Mathematical Expressions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Theological Vision

Chapter 1 explores the geometrical quality of Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s imaginative commitments. Focusing principally on The Pedlar, the Guide to the Lakes, and Coleridge’s Notebooks, the chapter locates the origins of Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s geometric visions in a divinely relational language of shapes which they intuited as children to describe the world about them and which moulded their shared Pedlar consciousness in the 1790s. It proposes that Wordsworth and Coleridge sustained the mathematical expressions of the Pedlar’s ethico-theological vision in their dealings with nature and the mind, perceiving in the material world a language of geometric forms which held it together.

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