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.

What is “Toxic Masculinity” and Why Does it Matter?

2020 ◽  
pp. 1097184X2094325
Author(s):  
Dr. Carol Harrington
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
The Early 21St Century ◽  
Men's Movements

Coined in late 20th-century men’s movements, “toxic masculinity” spread to therapeutic and social policy settings in the early 21st century. Since 2013, feminists began attributing misogyny, homophobia, and men’s violence to toxic masculinity. Around the same time, feminism enjoyed renewed popularization. While some feminist scholars use the concept, it is often left under-defined. I argue that talk of toxic masculinity provides an intriguing window into gender politics in any given context. However, feminists should not adopt toxic masculinity as an analytical concept. I consider the term’s origins, history, and usage, arguing that it appears in individualizing discourses that have historically targeted marginalized men. Thus, accusations of toxic masculinity often work to maintain gender hierarchies and individualize responsibility for gender inequalities to certain bad men.

scholarly journals Folk music quotations and allusions in Latvian composers' neo-romantic symphonic music in the last decades of the 20th century and early 21st century

New Sound ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 213-238
Author(s):  
Jānis Kudiņš
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Specific Question ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Symphonic Music ◽  
The One ◽  
The Early 21St Century

This article focuses on the one specific question about folk music quotations and allusions in the symphonic music of Latvian composers in the last third of the 20th century (from the 70s) and the early 21 st century. Several Latvian composers (e.g. Romualds Kalsons, Pēteris Butāns, Pēteris Vasks, Pēteris Plakidis, Juris Karlsons) in their NEO-romantic symphonic works reflects interesting cases of Latvian folk music quotation, quasi quotation or allusion. Overall these are cases that show the composer's ability to actively use and create a similarity with Latvian folk music. However, this aspect raises the following questions. What kind of local (Latvian) traditions regarding folk music use (in general) are represented by Latvian composers? Why, at the end of the 20 th century and the early 21st century, have several composers continued to use folk music quotations or create folk music allusions? What symbolizes the folk music quotations and allusions in the context of the postmodern period's characteristic musical aesthetic and stylistics? It is hoped that this analysis will provoke a fruitful exchange of views on this question from different aspects.

scholarly journals Verbal Projection of Comparable Translations of a Detective Story

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Yan Wang
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Language Use ◽  
The Other ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Detective Story ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Classical Chinese ◽  
The Early 21St Century

Abstract Based on the systemic functional framework, this paper attempts to compare verbal projection in two comparable translated texts of a detective story entitled A Scandal in Bohemia, one from the early 20th century (henceforth TT1) and the other from the early 21st century (henceforth TT2). Approximately one hundred years apart, these two translations are strikingly different in their language use, with classical Chinese being used in TT1 and plain (colloquial) Chinese being used in TT2. By analysing and comparing the lexicogrammatical features of the verbal clauses in the two translated texts, this paper summarises the choices made by the translators in these two different historical moments: when translating the source text, TT1 translators show more flexibility by incorporating more addition and omission into their translation than TT2 translators.

Faith in the New Testament

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
New Testament ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Lexical Semantics ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Major Subject ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Pauline Theology ◽  
Pauline Studies ◽  
The Early 21St Century

Faith language is prevalent in the New Testament (NT; esp. pistis, pisteuō), but only in the early 21st century did this topic become a major subject of scholarship (leaving aside the pistis Christou debate, which has attracted steady interest and scholarship since the middle of the 20th century). Interest in NT faith language intersects with numerous fields and disciples including classics, lexical semantics, Septuagint studies, and vigorous debates in Pauline studies and Pauline theology.

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 Remembering and Forgetting Winnipeg: Making History on the Strike of 1919

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor Stace
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
The State ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Winnipeg General Strike ◽  
General Strike ◽  
The Early 21St Century

This article examines the approaches that historians, beginning in the mid 20th century and into the early 21st century, used to write about the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. It focuses on five major works: The Winnipeg General Strike by D.C. Masters; Confrontation at Winnipeg by David J. Bercuson; The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925 edited by Craig Heron; and When the State Trembled: How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike by Tom Mitchell and Reinhold Kramer. It identifies where the monographs depart from one another in interpretation; as well as where they remain the same. Given the layers of complexity, the interpretation of the event becomes especially salient in the 21st century as its 100th anniversary steadfastly approaches and the question of how should it be publicly presented in 2019 requires an answer soon (which the paper also addresses)

scholarly journals Neighbourhood and Sociocultural Values in the Lithuanian Ritual Year

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 51-66
Author(s):  
Rasa Paukštytė-Šaknienė ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
The Common ◽  
Sociocultural Values ◽  
The Early 21St Century

Research into the community customs in the second half of the 20th century and the early 21st century in villages, towns, and cities near Vilnius allowed to distinguish two types of neighbourhoods: distant (official) and close (informal) ones. The first one was determined by territorial proximity, the second is revealed in more than just territory. The former is exposed also as a group formed around common interests, people, who are free to choose to spend leisure time or celebrate special occasions together. The festive communication results in sort of a ritual year of the neighbours, covering the common neighbours’ celebrations of life cycle as well as calendric cycle festivals and holidays. A close neighbourhood based on spending leisure time and celebrating together in some cases determines certain differences between neighbours of different religions. I’ll look at this process analyzing different types of settlements, showing the development of neighbourhood relations during the last 60 years.

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.

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