scholarly journals Utviklingstrekk i organisering og ledelse i Den norske kirke

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-82
Author(s):  
Stephen Sirris ◽  
Harald Askeland ◽  
Frank Grimstad
Keyword(s):  
Lay Persons ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Managerial Positions ◽  
Organizational Features ◽  
The Church

This chapter provides an account of central aspects in the modern development of organization and leadership in the Church of Norway. By narrating the growth of organizational, managerial and professional dimensions embedded within the church, it analyzes three specific trends. Democratization refers to the emergence of councils on various ecclesial levels and the influence of lay persons supplementing pastoral authority. Corporatization denotes increased attention to organizational features including leadership and clarification of its mandate. Professionalization links to specialization of work and the growth of congregational staffs, including administrative and managerial positions. Our review of central processes shows that the trends are parallel, although some are stronger than others in specific epochs. These trends emphasize increased interaction and cooperation.

The Governing Body of the Church in Wales: Recent Legislation

1995 ◽  
Vol 3 (17) ◽  
pp. 432-433
Author(s):  
Thomas Glyn Watkin
Keyword(s):  
Governing Body ◽  
Lay Ministers ◽  
The Third ◽  
Lay Persons ◽  
The Church

At the April 1995 meeting of the Governing Body, the Constitution of the Church in Wales was amended in accordance with decisions taken by the Governing Body in September 1994. It had been resolved that stipendiary clerics and non-stipendiary clerics under seventy years of age should not receive fees for taking services in vacant incumbencies, but that retired clerics, readers and non-stipendiaries over the age of seventy should receive such fees. All should receive travelling expenses. The Maintenance of Ministry Scheme was accordingly amended to reflect these decisions by minor amendments to section 6 (1) (h) and section 6 (3) of the Scheme and the replacement of sections 4 and 5 of the Third Schedule thereto. The Governing Body had also agreed that a maximum of two lay persons per diocese should be included in the Maintenance of Ministry Scheme, which provides for the payment of ministers, provided that these were accredited lay Ministers licensed by the diocesan bishop to engage in the work of mission and ministry in a parochial or diocesan capacity. The lay persons concerned were to be counted as serving clerics for the purposes of allocating monies among the dioceses. The Maintenance of Ministry Scheme has again been amended to effect these decisions, this time by the introduction of a new paragraph (k) in section 6 (1) – the existing paragraphs (k) to (m) being redesignated (1) to (n) as a result – and by the introduction of a new paragraph (e) into section 6 (2).

Bálint Sándor a boldoggá avatás küszöbén

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-83
Author(s):  
Dávid Péter Garai
Keyword(s):  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Lay Persons ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
The Church

This article explores the life of a lay person, Sándor Bálint (1904-1980), who lived an exemplary Christian life and whose process of beatification is currently underway. As a renowned professor and researcher of religious ethnography, a devoted politician, as well as a faithful Christian, Bálint served his country and every person he met with persistent and humble love. His life can be seen as a true realisation of the teaching of the Second Vatican Council concerning sainthood and the role of lay persons in the Church and society.

The Tithe-Heresy of Friar William Russell

1976 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Craig A. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Lay Persons ◽  
History Of ◽  
Parish Churches ◽  
Parish Clergy ◽  
Clear And Present Danger ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church ◽  
At Will

The growth of subjectivity in the religious life of the later Middle Ages, in discipline and worship as well as doctrine, both without and within the corporation of the clergy, was an important motif in the history of the Church in England. A more personal interpretation of religious obligations affected even matters of bedrock importance to the life of the organized church, such as the duty of tithing. Of particular interest in this connection in England was the cause célèbre created in London in the 1420's by a maverick Franciscan, William Russell, who preached that under certain conditions lay persons might devote their personal tithes at will to any pious or charitable use. Russell's sermon led to his condemnation as a heretic. But the reasons for the extraordinary controversy that he stirred up become clear only when one recognizes the place of his sermon in a long dispute between the parish clergy of London and their parishoners about the precise obligation of personal tithes in the city.The prosecution of William Russell before Archbishop Henry Chichele and the Convocation of Canterbury was an odd affair and, in spite of their prolixity, its records leave unsolvable riddles for medievalists. The process against Russell comprises the longest trial in Archbishop Chichele's register—perhaps in that of any medieval Archbishop of Canterbury. Minutes of the prosecution and wordy ancillary documents fill all or parts of twenty-six folio pages of the register (fifty-two printed pages in the splendid printed edition of E.F. Jacob). Yet in reading this material one gathers hardly more than a crabbed impression of the learned proofs and literary citations that Russell mustered in defense of this teaching on personal tithes. What is most striking to a reader of this transcript is the vehemence with which Archbishop Chichele and his clergy in the Convocation prosecuted this errant friar, in whose sermon they saw a clear and present danger to the endowment of London parish churches.

Faith in Deaf Culture

2005 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 304-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Broesterhuizen
Keyword(s):  
Life Experiences ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Deaf Culture ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Deaf People ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Traditional Church ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Lay Persons ◽  
The Church

[Deaf people often have been outsiders in a hearing Church. The message of the Church has not reached Deaf people because the language, symbols, culture of the traditional Church, and the view of Church people on deafness were remote from the culture and daily life experiences of Deaf people. In several countries, new developments are going on. Deaf people are themselves playing the central role, as full participants of all the gifts inherent to baptismal priesthood. Typically hearing views on deafness are left behind, deafness is discovered as a strength, Deaf lay persons build up the Church; Sign Language becomes a sacral language. In this liberating development Deafhood is a locus theologicus, a source of knowledge about God: it is a matter of enculturation and indigenizaiion of Christian faith in Deaf culture. Faith discovers the positive values, the “seeds of the Word” in Deaf culture and thereby enriches the universal Church.]

scholarly journals Wybory biskupów w świetle korespondencji Grzegorza Wielkiego

Vox Patrum ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 395-409
Author(s):  
Janusz Lewandowicz
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Electoral Process ◽  
Holy See ◽  
Gregory The Great ◽  
Lay Persons ◽  
Good Reputation ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Church

Having presented briefly the context in which the Church found herself, as well as the criteria required of candidates to episcopacy, the author discusses problems related to the promotion of bishops, based on selected examples extracted from the correspondences of Pope Gregory the Great. It shows that His Holiness was aware of the significant role played by episcopal elections in the Church’s life. His interventions in this matter were to ensure that local sees were assigned to appropriate candidates, i.e. those of good reputation, outstanding in good morals and possessing the expertise required in Sacred Scriptures and Catholic doctrines. Procedures implemented by Pope Gregory the Great with the aim of achieving this goal involved, amongst other things gathering information about the candidates to the episcopacy as well as the inclusion of the entire local clergy and all the lay faithful in the electoral process. Such a policy undertaken by His Holiness in promoting episcopates was aimed at strengthening their ties with the Holy See. This proved to be influential, especially during the institutional and structural destruction in Western Italia and threats from the Lombards, who wanted to destroy the well-established traditional Roman order. To avoid all forms of manipulation by lay persons in ecclesiastical matters, this policy excluded the possibility of promoting a layman to the episcopacy. Where there were difficulties in solving electoral issues, Gregory the Great often personally appointed candidates from the local clergy or from the Roman clergy. Pope Gregory the Great also reserved the right of preconisation of the elected bishops.

Difficult texts: Genesis 2.18 and 2.24

Theology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 121 (6) ◽  
pp. 437-440
Author(s):  
Agana-Nsiire Agana
Keyword(s):  
Lay Persons ◽  
Good For ◽  
The Church

It has long been argued on the basis of Genesis 2.18 that marriage is incumbent on all adults. With ministers and lay persons in the church urging that ‘it is not good for man to be alone’, the unmarried are frequently looked upon with ridicule, suspicion and outright disdain. However, an exegetical analysis of Genesis 2.18 does not support the view that marriage is a universal imperative.

Spiritual Healing, Sick Kids and the Law: Inequities in the American Healthcare System

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 269-299
Author(s):  
Janna C. Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Medical Science ◽  
Spiritual Healing ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
Human Need ◽  
East End ◽  
The Church

Main Street in Sarasota, Florida. A high-tech medical arts building rises from the east end, the county's historic three-story courthouse is two blocks to the west and sandwiched in between is the First Church of Christ, Scientist. A verse inscribed on the wall behind the pulpit of the church reads: “Divine Love Always Has Met and Always Will Meet Every Human Need.” This is the church where William and Christine Hermanson worshipped. It is just a few steps away from the courthouse where they were convicted of child abuse and third-degree murder for failing to provide conventional medical care for their seven-year-old daughter.This Article is about the intersection of “divine love” and “the best interests of the child.” It is about a pluralistic society where the dominant culture reveres medical science, but where a religious minority shuns and perhaps fears that same medical science. It is also about the struggle among different religious interests to define the legal rights of the citizenry.

Ideas and Leaders in Contentious Politics: One Parish Priest in El Salvador's Popular Movement

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 76-101
Author(s):  
PETER M. SANCHEZ
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Parish Priest ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Resource Mobilisation ◽  
The Church

AbstractThis paper examines the actions of one Salvadorean priest – Padre David Rodríguez – in one parish – Tecoluca – to underscore the importance of religious leadership in the rise of El Salvador's contentious political movement that began in the early 1970s, when the guerrilla organisations were only just beginning to develop. Catholic leaders became engaged in promoting contentious politics, however, only after the Church had experienced an ideological conversion, commonly referred to as liberation theology. A focus on one priest, in one parish, allows for generalisation, since scores of priests, nuns and lay workers in El Salvador followed the same injustice frame and tactics that generated extensive political mobilisation throughout the country. While structural conditions, collective action and resource mobilisation are undoubtedly necessary, the case of religious leaders in El Salvador suggests that ideas and leadership are of vital importance for the rise of contentious politics at a particular historical moment.

Effective Clinical Interviewing

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline T. Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Speech Language Pathologist ◽  
Lay Persons ◽  
Clinical Interviewing ◽  
Client Management

Speech, language, and hearing professionals rely on many individuals to provide information about a client. Management programs, in part, are devised, modified, and evaluated according to responses obtained from the client, family members, educators, and other professional and lay persons who have contact with the client. The speech-language pathologist has the responsibility of obtaining pertinent, complete, unbiased information about clients. This article provides an overview of the essential elements of an interview.

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