Faith Journey of Bhutanese Nepali Refugee Diaspora in St. Louis

2021 ◽  
pp. 137-152
Author(s):  
Stanish Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Faith Journey

scholarly journals The Holes of an Ordinary Life

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 163-176
Author(s):  
John Moran ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Natural Cycle ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Anna Karenina ◽  
True Love ◽  
Faith Journey ◽  
Natural Life

Many modern readers of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina view Anna’s passionate and scandalous romance with Vronsky as tragically heroic insofar as she desires nothing more than true love at any cost. These readers tend to view the story of Levin’s faith journey as inconsequential. This paper argues that such a reading is counter to Tolstoy’s intended message. Tolstoy intended to write a novel about the challenges of Christian faith in nineteenth century Russia. In doing so, he rewrote Paul’s Letter to the Romans in a manner consistent with his own emphasis upon the importance of the natural life—a life which embraces the natural cycle of birth and death and avoids the artificiality of urban, cosmopolitan life.

Discerning what God is doing among His People Today: A Personal Journal

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-46
Author(s):  
Wonsuk Ma
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Global South ◽  
Just World ◽  
Ecumenical Movement ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Pentecostal Movement ◽  
Church Unity ◽  
The World ◽  
Faith Journey ◽  
People Today

This article begins with the personal faith journey of the author nurtured in Korean Pentecostalism. Christ is the best thing that can happen in life. The author’s faith journey becomes a missionary journey. It leads to the discovery that there are two types of mission: centred on ‘life after death’ (soul saving) and mission as struggle for ‘life before death’ (a just world). The next step is to realise that the two have to go together. The 20th-century mission has been marked by the World Missionary Conference of Edinburgh 1910 and the Pentecostal movement. The former has led to the ecumenical movement, which has truncated mission into the discussion on church unity. The missionary fervour of the Pentecostal movement has resulted in unprecedented expansion of Christianity in the global South but completely ignored Christian unity. Today we see signs of the two beginning to converge.

Public Conversion, Private Reason, and Institutional Crisis

2018 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
Meghan Sullivan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Institutional Commitment ◽  
Grand Jury ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Sex Abuse ◽  
Knowledge Of God ◽  
Divine Hiddenness ◽  
Faith Journey ◽  
Institutional Church ◽  
The Church

Following the 2018 Pennsylvania grand jury report, which detailed the sexual abuse of clergy members, many have questioned the value of personal institutional commitment to the Catholic Church, preferring instead more individualistic expressions of faith. Alongside the sex abuse crisis, the age of free information makes the Church’s epistemology appear antiquated. This article explores the individualistic versus community-based practice of Catholicism, drawing a distinction between private conversion versus public conversion. The article offers a defense of public conversion, arguing it explains the rationality of conversion and offers a solution to the problem of divine hiddenness. Using details from her own faith journey, Sullivan explores why God graces us with less perspicuous knowledge, causing subluminous conversions, as opposed to the more glaring, which leads to luminous conversions. Sullivan suggests that we obtain knowledge of God by loving one another, which takes place in the framework of the institutional Church. She subsequently uses this Church-making theodicy to offer five ideas about how we might engage the Church institutionally as Catholic philosophers.

Nourishment for our Journey: The Pentecostal Via Salutis and Sacramental Ordinances

2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Archer
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
People Of God ◽  
Means Of Grace ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Faith Journey

AbstractSacramental ordinances are community acts of commitment ordained by Christ as means of grace with particular symbolic significance for our Pentecostal identity (story) and faith journey (via salutis). By locating the sacramental ordinances in the Pentecostal story, the sacramental ordinances take on a spiritual-metaphorical-narrative nature. The metaphorical and narrative nature of the sacraments gives the Holy Spirit opportunity to work redemptively in our lives by strengthening the community in her journey (via salutis) thus (re) shaping Pentecostal identity as the eschatological people of God.

scholarly journals A Crisis of Faith, Scary Popes, and William Gladstone

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Jackson ◽  
Class of 2018
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Common Life ◽  
William Gladstone ◽  
Crisis Of Faith ◽  
Faith Journey ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Religion In Public Life

William Gladstone presided as Prime Minister of Great Britain on four separate occasions between 1868 to 1894. Gladstone was preoccupied both personally and politically with religion, and his personal faith journey reflected the larger crisis of faith occurring in Britain in the nineteenth century as secularism and urbanization began to erode the place of faith in common life. Many scholars have referred to this period as the “Victorian Crisis of Faith.” This paper examines his personal diaries and extensive writings to understand his zest for religion, primarily regarding the supposed papal aggression of 1850 in Great Britain and his personal faith crises. The significance of this paper is that it highlights how both personally and politically this key leader was working to understand the role of religion in public life in nineteenth-century Great Britain.  

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