God's People Made New

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
RACHAEL J. POWELL
Keyword(s):  
God's People

The Woman of Tekoa

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina E. Kozlova
Keyword(s):  
Death Toll ◽  
God's People

This chapter focuses on the woman of Tekoa (2 Sam. 14) and argues that her speech points out a pattern of David’s previous misconducts (profiled in ANE literature as the royal deviance principle) that endangered his family and YHWH’s people. Using the ominous phraseology in v. 14 (we are like water spilled on the ground), and reinforcing its tie to ancient maledictions, the woman parades before David a horrid demise of a nation due to its monarch’s failure to rectify inner-dynastic feuds. By placing her curse-related imagery into a lament-based petition, the woman protests its fulfilment in the ensuing chapters in the Absalom saga. Since the entirety of 2 Sam. 14 is supplemented with grief-related artifices, the woman’s speech functions as an act of mourning for the cumulative death toll of God’s people under David’s kingship.

Samson Agonistes and the “Tragedy” of the Apocalypse

PMLA ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 85 (5) ◽  
pp. 1050-1062 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara K. Lewalski
Keyword(s):  
Book Of Revelation ◽  
Samson Agonistes ◽  
End Of History ◽  
God's People ◽  
The World ◽  
The End Of History ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Wrath Of God ◽  
Church Government

Milton's references in the preface to Samson Agonistes and in The Reason of Church Government to the Book of Revelation as tragedy have great significance for his drama. His cited authority, David Pareus, and several other Protestant commentators identified the Book of Revelation as tragedy on the basis of form (the alternation of dramatic episodes and Choruses) and subject—the spiritual combat of the Elect with Antichrist and their torment and suffering at his hands throughout all time, reversed only at the end of history when they share Christ's Apocalyptic victory over him. Protestant exegates often linked the Samson story typologically with the Book of Revelation, presenting Samson as type of the suffering Elect and the exercise of Samson's vocation as Judge (deliverer of God's people and executor of the wrath of God upon His enemies) as type of the Elect judging the world with Christ at the last day. This context assists the interpretation of Milton's Samson, bringing into focus its treatment of Samson's judgeship. The Samson Apocalypse link also brings a new perspective to certain moot questions: the date of the play, the interpretation of Samson's character, the presence of contemporary political reference, the nature of the drama's tragic effect.

Blood, Death, and the Holy in the Leviticus Narrative

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan D. Bibb
Keyword(s):  
Literary Structure ◽  
God's People ◽  
The World ◽  
Narrative Frame ◽  
The Law

After briefly discussing the final literary structure of Leviticus, this chapter considers three parts of the book in light of particular themes: blood ritual and mythic drama in chapters 1–7 and 11–15; life, death, and ambiguity in chapters 8–10 and 16; and holiness and God’s people in chapters 17–27. By embedding ritual instructions within a mythical-narrative frame, the authors/editors of Leviticus created a sacred timeless and authoritative world that resists challenge from dissent and doubt. However, narratives interspersed within the ritual texts expose ambiguities within the system and raise questions about the ability of the law to accomplish its purposes. In the second half of Leviticus, the world of “holiness” is expanded and reframed in order to apply to the whole community, a recognition that priestly ritual is a cosmic reality that is broader and more transformative than what happens only in the tabernacle.

scholarly journals A Discussion on the Religious Response to the Problem of Evil in Ghana Today

2020 ◽  
pp. 253-256
Author(s):  
Peter Addai-Mensah
Keyword(s):  
Problem Of Evil ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
The Bible ◽  
God's People ◽  
The Problem Of Evil

The existence of God is taken for granted by many believers. God is described as all good and all loving. The Bible tells believers that everything that God created was good and that God was so satisfied with the work of creation that God rested on the seventh day – cf. Gen. 1:31. This statement raises the question of the existence of Evil. Evil is a reality. The existence of Evil raises a lot of philosophical as well as theological questions such as: how can a benevolent God allow God’s people to suffer? Why should an omnipotent God allow Evil to exist?. This article discusses the problem of Evil. It takes a critical look at the different forms of Evil and the havoc that Evil causes. Finally, it examines how the believer in God can respond to the prevalence of Evil in Ghana today.

scholarly journals Posługa kapłanów w postanowieniach duszpasterskiego Synodu Archidiecezji Lwowskiej i Diecezji Łuckiej 1995-1997

2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 43-58
Author(s):  
Jan Dyduch
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Canon Law ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Church Life ◽  
God's People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Priestly Ministry ◽  
The Church

Synod of the Archdiocese of Lvov, inaugurated 16th January 1995, concluded 21st January 1997, became the brilliant event in the Archdiocese’s dramatic history of the last decades. The Synod assumed the renewal of the Church of Lvov and Luck on a basis of the teaching of the Second Vatican Council and the provisions of Canon Law. The renewal of the Church life requires the renewal of priestly ministry. The Synod of Lvov turns priests’ attention to their participation in the triple mission of the Church. They take part in the teaching mission when they preach the Gospel, teach catechism and evangelize by means of mass media. They fulfil their mission of sanctification when they administer sacraments and take care ofreligious practices and piety of the faithful. While guiding God’s people and performing manifold cure of souls, they carry out their pastoral mission.

scholarly journals Teologi, Studi Biblika, dan Misi

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-131
Author(s):  
Ailsa Barker
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Missio Dei ◽  
People Of God ◽  
Biblical Story ◽  
Ministerial Training ◽  
The People ◽  
God's People ◽  
Missional Engagement ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Church

Missional hermeneutics is the interpretation of Scripture as it relates to the missionary task of the church. Four elements comprise a missional hermeneutics: 1) the missional trajectory of the biblical story being the foremost element, which also underlies the other three, 2) a narrative throughout Scripture centered on Christ and intended to equip the people of God for their missional task, 3) the missional context of the reader, in which attention moves from the task of equipping to the community being equipped, a community that is active, and 4) a missional engagement with culture and the implications thereof. Through the life of God’s people an alternative is offered, together with an invitation to come and join. Because the separation of theology from the mission of the church has distorted theology, all theology needs to be reformulated from the perspective of missio Dei and from the realization that the church is a sent community, missional in its very being. A missional hermeneutics bears implications upon the congregation, worship, preaching, discipleship, education, ministerial training, and the missionary task in multicultural contexts.

The Social History of Satan, Part Three: John of Patmos and Ignatius of Antioch: Contrasting Visions of “God's People”

2006 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine H. Pagels
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Book Of Revelation ◽  
The Social ◽  
God's People ◽  
History Of

At the climactic moment of the cosmic drama in the book of Revelation, the seer tells how two great portents appeared in heaven, the first a woman “clothed with the sun”(12:1). Asin a dream, the scene changes, and he sees her pregnant, “crying out in the agony of giving birth,” being menaced by a “great red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns on each of its heads” (12:3); thus the seer pictures Israel in danger, confronting her enemies, the foreign oppressors.

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