Ideological Pressure on the Orthodox Church in Byelorussia in the Early 21st Century

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 86-96
Author(s):  
Alexander D.  Gronsky
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Church Organizations ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Early 21St Century

Byelorussian nationalism seeks to create an alternative spiritual and religious tradition in order to subjugate the activities of the Church organizations to the interests of nationalist ideology. The Byelorussian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and the Greek Catholic (Uniate) Church were elected as “national” Churches. However, they are not national.

scholarly journals God's Makwerekwere: Re-imagining the church in the context of migration and xenophobia

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David N. Field
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Testament ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
New Testament Studies ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Early 21St Century

Mass migration and accompanying xenophobia are characteristics of the early 21st century and as such challenge the church to reimagine its identity. This article analyses migration and xenophobia particularly as they impact South Africa and then proposes the model of the church as God�s Makwerekwere as an appropriate response. In doing so, it examines New Testament images of the church and argues that the church as God�s Makwerekwere is a community in solidarity with the excluded, a community of affirmation of the excluded, a community of reconciliation and a transnational community.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article challenges the traditional discourse used in ecclesiology by proposing the image of the church as God�s Makwerekwere. It roots this proposal in considerations from migration studies and New Testament studies. The aim is to re-imagining the church as a contribution to a transforming ecclesial praxis.

Contemporary and Traditional Voices: Reactions to Same-Sex Marriage Legislation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and the Orthodox Church of Finland

Exchange ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-257
Author(s):  
Pekka Metso ◽  
Laura Kallatsa
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Lutheran Church ◽  
Evangelical Lutheran Church ◽  
Evangelical Lutheran ◽  
The Church

Abstract This article studies the debate on same-sex marriage in the early 21st century, within the two national churches of Finland, the Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Orthodox Church. Legislation facilitating the so-called “gender-neutral marriage” came into effect in Finland in March 2017. In their official teachings, both churches emphasize marriage as a union between a man and a woman. An awareness of the rights of sexual minorities has, however, increased in both churches, and has given rise to the debate on how same-sex marriage should be perceived. While holding on to the traditional view of marriage, both churches have sought ways to recognize and affirm the position of sexual minorities. This has caused tension within the churches. As the majority church, the Lutheran church in particular faces strong pressure to accept same-sex weddings in the church. For the advocates of sexual minorities within the Orthodox Church, recognition of sexual minorities seems to be the main objective, rather than promoting same-sex weddings.

scholarly journals A Transformed Beholder. Objective Beauty as the Impetus for Sanctification in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar

Perichoresis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-265
Author(s):  
Sam Wellbaum
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Proper Place ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Hans Urs Von Balthasar ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
God's Love ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Early 21St Century

A Transformed Beholder. Objective Beauty as the Impetus for Sanctification in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar Here in the early 21st century, beauty is not what it once was. The Enlightenment has left beauty a subjective and inconsequential shade, barely resembling its former existence as a transcendental on par with goodness and truth. Can beauty be restored to what it once was? And if it can, should it? This article argues that 20th century theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar not only answers these two questions with a resounding “Yes!” but also gives the church the tools needed to restore beauty to a place of honor in Christian theology. For von Balthasar, beauty and glory are one in the same. Further, beauty/glory and love are irrevocably connected. When we restore beauty to its proper place, we experience God’s love in a proper way, which in turn leads to sanctification.

Outlining a grammaticalization path for the Spanish formula en plan (de): A contribution to crosslinguistic pragmatics

Linguistics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 1543-1579
Author(s):  
Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Discourse Markers ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Discourse Marker ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Diachronic Study ◽  
Diachronic Development ◽  
The Early 21St Century

AbstractThis article discusses the diachronic development of the Spanish multifunctional formula en plan (with its variant en plan de, literally ‘in plan (of)’ but usually equivalent to English like). The article has two main aims: firstly, to describe the changes that the formula has undergone since its earliest occurrences as a marker in the nineteenth century up to the early 21st century. The diachronic study evinces a process of grammaticalization in three steps: from noun to clause adverbial and then to discourse marker. Secondly, to conduct a contrastive analysis between en plan (de) and the English markers like and kind of/kinda so as to shed new light on the potential existence of a universal pathway of grammaticalization in the emergence of discourse markers.

Survival of cervical cancer patients in Germany in the early 21st century: A period analysis by age, histology, and stage

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 915-921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianhui Chen ◽  
Lina Jansen ◽  
Adam Gondos ◽  
Katharina Emrich ◽  
Bernd Holleczek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cervical Cancer ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Period Analysis ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
The Early 21St Century
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