Trust and Aspiration

2020 ◽  
pp. 157-186
Author(s):  
Hillary Kaell
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Christian Organizations ◽  
Audit Culture ◽  
Participatory Techniques ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Successful Outcomes ◽  
Short Section

This chapter traces how Christian sponsorship organizations adapt secular audit culture. It begins by exploring how sponsors frame aspirations for foreign children's futures. The chapter then turns to modes of verification. Since sponsors cannot personally verify the results of their giving, they expect detailed facsimiles in the form of audits, graphs, and Better Business Bureau or Charity Navigator reports. Yet very few sponsors actually consult these documents. Instead, they and the organizations they support cultivate multifaceted modes of trust-creation using measures of success that might at first seem divergent, such as financial audits, answered prayers, and children's smiles. Sponsors also rely on aspirational talk and on affective participatory techniques. The chapter concludes with a short section about sponsors' hopes and fears for the world as a whole. Throughout, it underlines God's bridging power: U.S. Christians view the (Holy) Spirit and (divine) Love as the forces that keep Christian organizations honest, animate sponsor–child relationships, and move human beings toward successful outcomes.

The Goodness of Home

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Marandiuc
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Middle Term ◽  
Human Love ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Theological Argument

The question of what home means and how it relates to subjectivity has fresh urgency in light of pervasive contemporary migration, which ruptures the human self, and painful relational poverty, which characterizes much of modern life. Yet the Augustinian heritage that situates true home and right attachment outside this world has clouded theological conceptualizations of earthly belonging. This book engages this neglected topic and argues for the goodness of home, which it construes relationally rather than spatially. In dialogue with research in the neuroscience of attachment theory and contemporary constructions of the self, the book advances a theological argument for the function of love attachments as sources of subjectivity and enablers of human freedom. The book shows that paradoxically the depth of human belonging—thus, dependence—is directly proportional to the strength of human agency—hence, independence. Building on Søren Kierkegaard’s imagery alongside other sources, the book depicts human love as interwoven with the infinite streams of divine love, forming a sacramental site for God’s presence, and playing a constitutive role in the making of the self. The book portrays the self both as gifted from God in inchoate form and as engaged in continuous, albeit nonlinear becoming via experiences of human love. The Holy Spirit indwells the attachment space between human beings as a middle term preventing its implosion or dissolution and conferring a stability that befits the concept of home. The interstitial space between loving human persons subsists both anthropologically and pneumatologically and generates the self’s home.

The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament

1948 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-240
Author(s):  
G. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Classical Expression ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Church

In its classical expression Christianity means a new life which God makes available for all who become apprentices of His Son Jesus Christ. Now sinful men cannot unaided appropriate the blessings of that life. Besides the message of the Prodigal who “ came to himself” the Gospel exhibits in the Cross divine love that has entered the far country and suffers the ordeal inevitably imposed there by human sin. Really to hear the Gospel is to respond in penitent love to the God who was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. But how shall men hear unless there be preachers? The Gospel by God's gracious provision is brought to each new generation by those who enter into the apostolic tradition; apostolic, because in history we depend upon those who were the first eye-witnesses of Jesus and His resurrection. Nevertheless the apostles preached under the authority of the Holy Spirit who testifies to Christ and proceeds from the eternal life of the Father and the Son (see John 14.26; 15.26 f.). Paul the apostle preached in the power of the Spirit (Rom. 15.19; 1 Cor. 2.4); it was God who had given apostles to the Church, inspiring them with wisdom and knowledge (1 Cor. 12.8, 28). We find similar testimony in Eph. 3.5 (a revelation disclosed to the apostles and prophets by the Spirit); 1 Pet. 1.12, which links preaching and inspiration; and Acts where we read of men filled with the Spirit, like Stephen and Philip, going out as evangelists.

scholarly journals SAKRAMEN BAPTIS SEBAGAI SAKRMEN KESELAMATAN DAN PERSEKUTUAN PARA MURID KRISTUS

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-128
Author(s):  
Ola Rongan Wilhelmus
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Good News ◽  
Evil Spirit ◽  
Disciples Of Christ ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Spirit Baptism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
God's Grace

Baptism is a sacrament instituted and used by God Himself through Christ to purify, sanctify and to save human being out of  the power of evil spirit. Baptism celebration maintaining in a proper and faithful manner will be brought about the fullness grace and favor of God to the Catholic faithful. The experiences of the Catholic faithful regarding God’s grace and favor should not be only responded by full faith but also be properly responded by full action to bring it to the entire nations and human races. The Catholic Church as a communion of Christ disciples has been sent and guided by the Holy Spirit to spread out such grace and favor of God to all nations. Pastoral assembly of Surabaya Diocese conducted in 2019 strongly articulated that Baptism is a mean exactly used by God Himself to channel His grace and salvation to the entire human beings. Hence, the Disciples of Christ have to fully respond it by full faith and opened hart.  Christ Himself has sent His disciples to collectively spread out the grace, favor and salvation of God to all over the world.  This good news has to be brought firstly to the inner circle of the Catholic families, neighbours, communities, parishes, and diocese then to the society in general.

Cosmic Liturgy: The Theological Dignity of Creation as a Basis of an Orthodox Ecotheology

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 332-344
Author(s):  
Daniel Munteanu
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Material World ◽  
New Creation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Orthodox Theology

AbstractOne of the most important contributions of Orthodox theology to ecotheology consists in its understanding of matter as an expression of the divine rationality. The logoi of the world are connected with the divine Logos and have an inner aspiration towards communion with God. Maximus Confessor’s view of the material world as potential church leads to a cosmic ecclesiology with direct significance for the overcoming of our contemporary ecological crisis. His theology of creatio originalis and of the new creation as transfigurated universe allows us to speak about the theological dignity of matter as the ‘home of God’, as well as a field of dialogue between creator and human beings. The Orthodox spirituality, as spirituality of theosis, of the transfiguration of matter through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is deeply ecological and, at the same time a source for a culture of healing communication, dialogue, love and respect of the ecosystems as expression of God’s rationality.

scholarly journals The Ta’wīl of the Wise Qur’ān and the Ismāʿīlī Madhhab: An Academic Review

2017 ◽  
pp. 01-09
Author(s):  
Dr. Faquir Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human History ◽  
Islamic Schools ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Academic Review

Ta’wīl is one of the most important topics of the glorious Qur’ān. All Islamic schools of thought, such as theologians, jurists, mystics and philosophers have written extensively about its necessity, possibility and impossibility. In the Ismāʿīlī madhhab, a branch of Shīʿah Imāmi Islam, ta’wīl is a necessity because of the very nature of the Divine Word. The greater part of it is allegorical and symbolic, which without authoritative ta’wīl leads the seekers of wisdom to confusion and perplexity. Thus, Almighty God has provided tanzīl together with its ta’wīl. In the former spiritual realities are expressed in physical allegories, whereas in the latter, their veils are gradually removed to facilitate obedient seekers of wisdom to reach their realities. Many Qur’ānic verses indicate the abstruse nature of tanzīl and the source of ta’wīl, such as (3:7; 18:65-82). Since ta’wīl is a perennial need of human beings, God by breathing the Holy Spirit (ruḥu’l-qudus, 15:28-30) into Ḥaẓrat Adam and by teaching him all the names (2:30) prepared him to undertake tanzīl and appointed his asās to help him in his task by undertaking its ta’wīl. This system of guidance or Divine sunnat has continued throughout human history (3:33-34). In the holy Prophet’s time Ḥaẓrat ʿAlī was responsible for the Qur’ān’s ta’wīl as he was for its tanzīl. Further, since ta’wīl comes gradually (7:52-53), in order to continue it, the holy Prophet left his progeny after him together with the Book of Allāh. In the Ismāʿīlī madhhab, the line of the holy Prophet’s progeny continues and they, as the rāsikhūn fi’l-ʿilm and ulu’l-amr, have continued to do the Qur’ān’s ta’wīl to guide the jamāʿat in the ever-changing exigencies of the world to enable them to practise Islam irrespective of place or time. Keywords: Qur’ān, Ta’nzil, Ta’wīl, MuÍkamat, Rāsikhūn fi’l-ʿilm

The Goodness of Home

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Marandiuc
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Freedom ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Middle Term ◽  
Human Love ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Need ◽  
Relational Space

Bringing together the strands of the book’s argument, the chapter proposes that a relational home is both anthropological and pneumatological, enabling human freedom. Kierkegaard’s divine middle term understood here as the Holy Spirit, who inhabits the attachment space between human beings, holds the relational space in place, preventing its implosion or dissolution and making it a space of belonging, which befits the concept of home. It is suggested that Jesus’s embodied life provides the pattern for meeting human need and desire, as Jesus is both needful of and a generous giver of human love while simultaneously the most perfect union of human and divine loves working in tandem. The chapter proposes that the self is cocreated and sustained by relational homes that mediate and participate in the streams of divine love that originate in God, reach human lives, and empower human beings to become channels of such love toward other people.

scholarly journals JEZUS CHRYSTUS, NASZA NADZIEJA

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Andrzej Dziuba
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
New Covenant ◽  
New Evangelization ◽  
The People ◽  
Paschal Mystery ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The One

Questions about man, his freedom and liberation, are very important for human existence. Jesus Christ and His paschal mystery are the roots of Christian hope. Jesus is hope’s bearer, however He requires our trust. Jesus Christ fulfills in Himself all the Messianic promises, especially the one of salvific newness of life in the New Covenant, also called the new humanity. The central sign of this newness is the coming of God’s Kingdom. The universality of the Resurrection’s gift brings us hope that all human beings might experience new life. The salvific gift refers to the renewal of the world in the renewal of all men. And yet, the voice of the culture of death—which is the negation of man, his dignity and his hope—is loudly heard in today’s world. The culture of life, on the other hand, brings real hope, especially when it is marked by respect for life. The Christian attitude is one of thanking and praising the Lord in the power of the Holy Spirit. Christ is the hope of the people,of the world, and, therefore, of the new evangelization.

Moral Formation in Christ, the Beautiful Beloved

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Stewart-Kroeker
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Moral Formation ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Loving Relationship ◽  
Falling In Love

Christ’s healing of humanity consists, crucially, in forming human beings for loving relationship with himself and others. In this respect, Christ also takes the role of the beautiful beloved. Believers become pilgrims by falling in love with the beautiful Christ by the initiative of the Holy Spirit, who cleanses their eyes to see him as beautiful and enkindles desire in their hearts. By desiring and loving the beautiful Christ, the believer is conformed to him and learns to walk his path. Desiring the beautiful Christ forms a believing community shaped aesthetically and morally for a particular way of life: pilgrimage to the heavenly homeland. Formation is both earthly and eschatological, for so too is the journey and the activity of the pilgrim.

John Carroll and the Appeal to Evidence: A Pragmatic Defense of Principle

1988 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 298-309
Author(s):  
Joseph M. McShane
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
Divine Providence ◽  
Active Intervention ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
New Republic ◽  
John Carroll ◽  
The Church

Throughout his career John Carroll supported the American religious settlement with surprising and consistent enthusiasm. Indeed, his enthusiasm for the religious liberty of the new republic seemed to be boundless. Thus he never tired of celebrating and advertising its benefits. He assured American Catholics that it was “a signal instance of [God's] mercy” and a product of the active intervention of Divine Providence and the Holy Spirit, who have “tutored the minds of men” in such a way that Catholics could now freely worship God according to the “dictates of conscience.” Flushed with pride, he even predicted that if America were wise enough to abide by the terms of this providential arrangement, the nation would become a beacon to the world, proving that “general and equal toleration…is the most effectual method to bring all denominations of Christians to an unity of faith.” Finally, confident that the extraordinary freedom accorded American Catholics would make the American church “the most flourishing portion of the church,” he urged European states and churches to follow America's inspired lead.

scholarly journals Knowing the Father

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David. T. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Charismatic Movement ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Greek Thought ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Trinity

The emergence of the Charismatic movement has generated a new awareness and interest in the Person and work of the Holy Spirit, but has also brought a realisation that there is a still-neglected Person of the Trinity, the Father. Part of the reason for this lies in the historical development in the doctrine of the Trinity, which led to a belief that external actions of God are not differentiated between the Persons, and also in the fact that the Father only generally acts in the world by Son and Spirit, so has no clear role. It seems natural to attribute creation to the Father, but even here, the Bible sees the Son as the actual creator. Nevertheless, the Father can be seen as the source of the concepts and means behind the material; interestingly there are hints of this in classical Greek thought and other faiths. This is ongoing, perhaps particularly in the evolutionary process of the world. Thus, paralleling the incarnation, the Father is present in the material universe, as its ethos. He can also be seen to be affected by creation, sharing in its nature in his kenōsis, and in its suffering. Creation then inspires a sense of wonder not only from its existence, extent and nature, but from its interactions and underlying concepts; this is worship of the Father. Sin is then when this is overlooked, or when actions disrupt it; these are an offence to the Father.

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