scholarly journals Pantheistic versus Participatory Christologies: A Critical Analysis of Richard Rohr’s Universal Christ in Light of Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on John

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Michael A. Dauphinais

Abstract This essay will present Richard Rohr’s central claims about Jesus Christ and the presence of God in creation and then consider them in light of Aquinas’s teachings with particular attention to his Commentary on John. This essay attempts to show that Rohr’s claims are incomplete and ultimately misguided and that Aquinas’s participatory account of creation and the Incarnation allows him to cultivate an awareness of God’s presence in all of creation while also maintaining the salvific uniqueness of the Incarnation.

Author(s):  
Graham Ward

Revelation cannot be approached directly. It is mediated all the way down. That is not just because of ‘sin’. Though sin is the manifestation of our alienation from God—an alienation overcome by God’s reconciling operations in salvation—a diastema between Creator and creation still pertains. There is no immediate encounter with the Word of God available to us as such. It is always mediated to us through human words and human acts, stories (biblical and autobiographical) and material practices, the Church and its liturgies, and the cultures we inhabit that shape us. The voice of the Lord comes to us in and through the darknesses and ambivalences of our various unredeemed and yet to be redeemed states. We are addressed, continually addressed, by God’s transformative grace, by his love and mercy, in and through our condition as created. The voice is accommodated to that condition, and can be accommodated because the Word of God is written into creation, coming finally, and intensively, in Jesus Christ. So the voice can be heard: makes itself available to be heard. But the eternal presence of God pro nobis (where the ‘we’ is not just humankind but all God’s creatures, pace Barth), the eternal presence of God-with-us that is the touchstone and content of revelation, bubbles up intrinsically through the obscurities of created and creative experience.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bráulio Lobo da Silva

The present work aims to present the ecclesiological dimension of baptism in Lumen Gentium, in view of an ecclesiology of communion. God in his magnificence creates all things in view of the salvation of the cosmos. To make this, he relies on the contribution of human action. From human freedom God wants to save by making them the sign and sacrament of salvation for other humans. Hence, he has constituted a people to be the light and presence of God inside of humanity. This same people constituted, as God's property, had been prepared to receive Jesus Christ to fulfill salvation, generating from within themselves the new people of God who is the Church. Thus, baptism constitutes the human being as a new creature regenerated in Christ, forming the new people of God, making him a child of God and a member of the Church. As the mission of God continues in the Church and in every baptized person, all the people of God have the privilege of helping in salvation. In this way, every baptized person has his radical equality in virtue of the dignity of baptism, where all are missionary disciples. Thus, as a people of God, the laity is an ecclesial subject and a missionary disciple because he is a baptized, participant in the divinity of Jesus Christ and the director of the kingdom and salvation of God in the world.


2000 ◽  
Vol 56 (2/3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. I.C. Heron

The article focuses on the similarities and differences between Friedrich Schleiermacher's and Karl Barth's views on the task and nature of dogmatics. It shows that Schleiermacher sought to awaken in his hearers an awareness of the immediate presence of God, a presence achieved and fulilled in Jesus Christ and emanating from him as "the union of the divine essence with human nature in the form of the common Spirit which animates the corporate life of believers". Barth aimed by contrast to speak of the transcendent power of the Word of God in Jesus Christ, which he identified as "the humanity of God," as the true ground, object and goal of Christian theology. In this sense, both identiied the essential substance of the faith christologically and, at the same time, as contemporary.


1985 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hughes Oliphant Old

The Old Testament psalms of praise, which expressed the awe and joy of being in the presence of God, presented the early Christians both text and model for the expression of their joy that in Jesus Christ God had revealed himself.


Author(s):  
Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Ali Khan

The perfect meaning of God's attributes is far beyond the realm of human experience, therefore, the issue has been discussed in the all three divine religions and many theologins have their points of views on this important issue. As far as the christian concept of the attributes of lord is concerned, the author of the article William Joseph Hill has not given any clear idea regarding the attributes in the Christian religious thought which can be accepted as the proper attributes of God. The basic reason for that is the existance of controversial beliefs and thoughts in christianity regarding the attributes of lord and Jesus Christ.The doctrine of Trinity is also one of the main reason due to which the Christians are facing a lot of ambiguity about the nature and attributes of God and thus a big confusion in chirstian theology surfaced while dedicating attributes to God and Jesus and this thing paved the way for a great and infinite controversy. It seems that the author Joseph Hill was also not clear about it. Some of the attributes mentioned in the new testament show their linkage to God while others to Jesus. Attributes like goodness, immanence, Grace, Justice, Holiness, Mercy, Ominipotence etc appear in the new Tastement but yet no one can clearly say whether these are related to God or Jesus Christ. Keywords: Christianity, Sub-Continenet, Islam, Malabar, Jesus


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Rogério L. Zanini

O Papa Francisco instituiu, em 2016, o Dia Mundial dos Pobres. Nos três anos seguintes, emitiu, em cada ano, uma carta-mensagem enfatizando a necessidade de a Igreja colocar os pobres, prediletos de Jesus Cristo, no centro de sua missão. Por um lado, o mundo dos pobres se apresenta com uma multiplicidade de expressões: rostos marcados pelo sofrimento, pelas injustiças sociais, pelos bolsões de pobreza próximos de mansões e sendo repelidos por muros e esquemas de alta segurança. Por outro lado, os pobres, sob o olhar da fé que brota do Deus revelado por Jesus Cristo, são para o cristianismo a presença do próprio Deus na história. Assim, os pobres não são apenas destinatários de uma boa ação, de alguns gestos improvisados de caridade, mas, ao contrário, na relação com os pobres se toca com as mãos a carne de Cristo. Este artigo reflete sobre essas questões a partir das cartas do Papa para o Dia Mundial dos Pobres, tendo como chave-interpretativa o conceito de pobreza fruto da Conferência de Medellín (1968), que se dá em uma perspectiva tríade: pobreza como carência, fruto de injustiças; a pobreza evangélica que precisa ser buscada como lembram os profetas e o próprio Jesus de Nazaré; e pobreza como realidade de solidariedade e missão intrínseca da vida da Igreja.   Abstract Pope Francis established the World Day of the Poor in 2016. Since then, he wrote, each year, a letter-message emphasizing the need for the Church to place the poor, favorites of Jesus Christ, in the center of her mission. On the one hand, the world of the poor presents itself with a multiplicity of expressions: faces marked by suffering, social injustices, areas blighted by poverty living close to mansions and being repelled by walls and high security schemes. On the other hand, the poor, under the sight of faith, which springs from the God revealed by Jesus Christ, are the presence of God Himself in history. Thereby, the poor are not only recipients of a good deed, some improvised gestures of charity, but, on the contrary, in the relationship with the poor, we touch with our own hands the flesh of Christ. This article reflects on those questions, based on the papal letters for the World Day of the Poor, and taking as a hermeneutical key the concept of poverty established in the Medellín conference (1968) in a triad perspective: poverty as a lack and a fruit of injustice; the evangelical poverty that needs to be pursued as the prophets and Jesus of Nazareth remember; and poverty as a reality of solidarity and an intrinsic mission of the Church's life.


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-26
Author(s):  
Pradeepa M ◽  
Shobha Ramaswamy

The creator of nature, the God is the Father of all, the Creator of the Universe and the Supreme Deity.He is also the Father of Jesus Christ and Saviour to His followers. God is seen in many ways, through miacles, such as the appearance of the butterfly when a crew is desperately lost at sea, the rainbow as a covenant toNoah, the actions of the raven and the dove. The present paper focuses on the presence of God in The History of the World in 10½ Chapters by the contemporary British novelist, Julian Patrick Barnes. The novel with ten and a half chapters represents the trust and faith towards the Supreme Power by means of water. Barnesrefers Him directly, indirectly or through the use of metaphor in every story of the novel. The paper draws attention on the actions of the God in the chapters of the novel with regard to nature.


2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 126-126
Author(s):  
Matthew E. Nielsen ◽  
Danil V. Makarov ◽  
Elizabeth B. Humphreys ◽  
Leslie A. Mangold ◽  
Alan W. Partin ◽  
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