scholarly journals Jansenism in the Modern African Church: The Indigenous Pentecostal Church Tradition in Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Okwudiri Obineche
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pentecostal Movement ◽  
African Independent Churches ◽  
Independent Churches ◽  
Church Tradition

Jansenism is a seventh-century religious movement within the Roman Catholic Church, named after a Dutch theologian Cornelius Jansen, whose work Augustinus (1640) reviewed the major thoughts of Augustine’s theology. Jansenist teachings were associated with harsh moral rigorism against the Jesuits’ Molinist thoughts. It was first condemned by Pope Innocent X in 1653, and finally in 1713 with many French migrants finding refuge in Holland from persecution. However, having retained traces of its teachings in the same Catholic Church that condemned them, Jansenist thoughts have found flourishing ground in the modern churches of Africa, especially among the African indigenous Pentecostal denominations in Nigeria. This indigenous Pentecostal tradition comprises the African Independent Churches, the Aladura movement, and the African Pentecostal movement, whose belief and practices are in line with the five pillars of Jansenism. This work, therefore, proposes that the reality of history lies with the future; whose interpretation of the past is proved by modern reality, and not by the ancient traditions

Newman's Early Roman Catholic Legacy, 1845-1854

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Michael Shea
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
John Henry Newman ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
European Continent ◽  
The Past ◽  
Immaculate Conception ◽  
Over Time

For the past several decades, scholars have stressed that the genius of John Henry Newman remained underappreciated among his Roman Catholic contemporaries, and in order to find the true impact of his work, one must look to the century after his death. This book takes direct aim at that assumption. Examining a host of overlooked evidence from England and the European continent, Newman’s Early Legacy tracks letters, recorded conversations, and obscure and unpublished theological exchanges to show how Newman’s 1845 Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine influenced a cadre of Catholic teachers, writers, and Church authorities in nineteenth-century Rome. The book explores how these individuals then employed Newman’s theory of development to argue for the definability of the new dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary during the years preceding the doctrine’s promulgation in 1854. Through numerous twists and turns, the narrative traces how the theory of development became a factor in determining the very language that the Roman Catholic Church would use in referring to doctrinal change over time. In this way, Newman’s Early Legacy uncovers a key dimension of Newman’s significance in modern religious history.

Images of Eastern Religions and Roman Catholic Identity

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-411
Author(s):  
Enrico Beltramini
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The Other ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Catholic Identity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract While in the past two decades the Roman Catholic Church has reaffirmed an inclusivist stance with respect to other religions, there is reason to explore the question of whether Catholic teaching is as much about offering a definition of what is true in other religions as it is about defining Catholic identity. In this article, I investigate the representations of Eastern religions within ordinary expressions of Catholic teaching between 1990 and 2000, and I show how Catholic teaching seems to adopt a binary ontology in which the representation of the Other serves to define oneself.

Vorbereitungen auf das Reformationsjubiläum 2017

2014 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-151
Author(s):  
Margot Käßmann
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
International Dimension ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Reformation

AbstractIn contrast to past centenaries, the preparation of the 2017 reformation quincentenary is clearly focused on showcasing an ecumenical and international dimension. It is thus intended to take into account the developments of the past decades regarding the Leuenberg Concord and the dialogue with the Roman-Catholic church and the heirs of the Anabaptist movement. The conceptual focus on the reformation and its meaning for today is accentuated equally with the preparation of an event that will, as a public celebration, reveal the ecclesiastical and secular meaning of the reformation.

Protestants and Anglicans

2019 ◽  
pp. 248-260
Author(s):  
Arun W. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Methodist Church ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Minority Ethnic Groups ◽  
Independent Churches

Asian churches created numerous and vigorous Christian communities that by the seventh century were spread from Iran to China, India and Sri Lanka. Over the centuries, Roman Catholic Church, various Orthodox churches from both the Western and Eastern/Southern branches of Christianity, Protestant churches, and most recently Pentecostal and Independent churches have established churches in South and Central Asia. In Central Asia, the smattering of Protestants today mostly belong to various minority ethnic groups such as the German Lutherans and Korean Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians. However, converts from other groups are joining Protestant churches. In none of the countries is Christianity the religion of the majority of the population; and among Christians in each country, confessional Protestants and Anglicans consist of a minority of believers. This leaves them socially and politically vulnerable to the majority population and to governments. Confessional Protestant and Anglican churches can be of foreign populations, identified with a particular region (e.g Tamil Nadu Lutherans), or spread across the nation (national churches such as the Methodist Church in India). Confessional Protestant and Anglican churches provide South and Central Asia add richness and complexity of Christian life and diversity to the church universal.

scholarly journals On the date of and reasons for the writing of Theodosius’s life of St Sava

2017 ◽  
pp. 3-20
Author(s):  
Branislav Todic
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The Other ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

The Old Serbian writer Theodosius wrote his Life of St Sava according to the older hagiography composed by Domentianus in 1253/4. Both authors were Hilandar monks and wrote the hagiographies of the first Serbian archbishop on Mount Athos. Unlike Domentianus?s work, Theodosius?s Life has not been dated with precision. Helpful in establishing the date of his Life of St Sava are its manuscript copying tradition and reception in Serbian literature and the analysis of its content. This paper shows that from 1317 the Serbian writers Nicodemus and Daniel II drew on Theodosius?s hagiography, which pushes its date further back into the past. On the other hand, the content of the Life suggests that it was written between 1284 and 1292 because it refers to the river Sava as Serbia?s border with Hungary (which it became in 1284), and describes the monastery of Zica as it was before the destruction it sustained in 1292. Both pieces of information have long been noticed and properly explained. Helpful in establishing the date of writing with more precision may also be an examination of the reasons which led to the writing of a new hagiography of St Sava only thirty years after the one written by Domentianus. Among several possible explanations proposed so far, the one discussed in detail here is the different attitude of the two hagiographers towards Rome and the Roman Catholic Church. In Theodosius?s case, it is markedly disapproving. Therefore, the assumption that the union of Lyon (1274-1282) and the developments on Mount Athos linked with it were the reason for writing a new hagiography is accepted and strengthened with further arguments. The new Life gave a much more idealized hagiographic portrayal of St Sava and enriched his image with a new perception of Orthodoxy which made sense only at the time of the triumphant mood inspired by the failure of the union. The proposed conclusion is that Theodosius did not begin writing his Life of St Sava until after 1285, when the condemnation of the patriarch John Bekkos of Constantinople and his teachings put an end to the union of Lyon. The Life could not have been written much after that year either because its tendentiousness had lost all significance already in the 1290s.

The Reports of the Sicherheitsdienst on the Church and Religious Affairs in Germany, 1939–1944

1971 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald D. Wall
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
The Past ◽  
Confessing Church ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Church ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The volume of literature on the Kirchenkampf is expanding at an accelerating rate. Several bibliographical articles have already appeared, the most recent of which is by the Canadian scholar, John S. Conway. Of the 63 titles of books, articles, and collections discussed by Conway, 47 were published in the 1960s. Nearly all studies of the Kirchenkampf either defend or criticize the church in varying degrees. Most of the older accounts, as Conway points out in the introduction to his own comprehensive study, were written by clergymen and historians who actually participated in the Kirchenkampf. These scholars selected those facts which demonstrated that the church steadfastly, if not always effectually, opposed National Socialist tyranny in word and deed. The larger volume of Protestant works emphasized the activity of the Confessing Church, while the unaccountably smaller number of Roman Catholic accounts focused upon particular bishops and priests who protested courageously and suffered imprisonment or martyrdom. During the past ten years, however, a small group of mostly younger historians have published works sharply critical of the Roman Catholic Church in particular. These historians, the most prominent of whom are Gordon Zahn, Hans Müller, and Guenter Lewy, assert that the Roman Catholic Church failed to exert the kind of moral and political leadership which might have mitigated the horrors of National Socialism.

Histories and Anti-Histories

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Nockles
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Church ◽  
A Current

The historiography of the Oxford Movement has been characterized by contention and partisanship. Hagiographical accounts have been offset by a vigorous tradition of ‘anti-histories’. Both sides often used the past to support a current party or denominational position, a characteristic that was evident in the commemorations of the centenary of the Oxford Movement in 1933. Another key division occurred within the pro-Tractarian accounts between those who viewed the Oxford Movement primarily as the origin of the Anglo-Catholic revival within the Church of England and those who viewed it as finding its natural terminus in the conversion of its followers to the Roman Catholic Church.

International Religious Demography

2011 ◽  
pp. 364-382
Author(s):  
Todd M. Johnson ◽  
Brian J. Grim
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Demographic Surveys

The academic field of religious demography is in the early stages of development. Although there are thousands of sources for international religious demography, ranging from censuses and demographic surveys to statistics collected and reported by religious groups themselves, little has been done by scholars in religion, sociology, or other disciplines to collect, collate, and analyze these data over the past decades. Secondary sources for religious demography, such as Wikipedia or the CIA Factbook, are woefully inadequate and riddled with contradictions and errors. Despite these problems in handling and interpreting religious data, international religious demography is a growing field of study. In the past twenty-five years, an enormous amount of data has been collected and analyzed. New sources of information include government censuses, surveys and polls, records kept by religious communities, scholarly monographs, and Roman Catholic Church and religion yearbooks and handbooks. This article, which looks at sources and methodology related to international religious demography, also discusses the evolution of the World Christian Database and the World Religion Database.

scholarly journals Experiência religiosa: da Reforma Protestante ao avivamento pentecostal

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Jonas Dos Santos Júnior ◽  
André Luís Da Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
Pentecostal Movement ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Precise Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
New Perspective

Resumo: Para uma análise precisa da atual sociedade como um produto humanohistoricamente construído, é necessário considerar a Reforma Protestantecomo um dos seus principais marcos. A experiência religiosa é o que dá origema qualquer fenômeno religioso, que posteriormente é organizado em ritos e doutrinas.Nessa perspectiva, é mister observar que os principais acontecimentosoriundos da Reforma são frutos de uma nova perspectiva da relação entre o fiele o sagrado. Esta é caracterizada, principalmente, pela relação individual entreo fiel e o sagrado, livre das mediações da Igreja Católica Romana. No séculoXX, surgiu no meio protestante o Movimento Pentecostal, que transformou ocenário cristão mundial com sua nova vivência do sagrado, denominada batismono Espírito Santo.Palavras-chave: Experiência religiosa. Protestantismo. Pentecostalismo.Abstract: For a precise analysis of the present society as a human producthistorically constructed, it’s necessary to envisage the Protestant Reformation asone of its principal landmarks. Religious experience gives origin to any religiousphenomenon, which is afterwards organized in rites and doctrines. In this perspective,it’s necessary to observe that the main results from the Reformation arefruits from a new perspective of the relation between the faithful and the sacred.This is characterized mainly by an individual relation, free from the mediations ofthe Roman Catholic Church. In the XX century, aroused in the protestant milieuthe Pentecostal Movement, which transformed the world Christian scenery withits new experience of the sacred, called the baptism in the holy Spirit.Keywords: Religious experience. Protestantism. Pentecostalism.

The Economics of Sainthood (A Preliminary Investigation)

2011 ◽  
pp. 190-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Barro ◽  
Rachel M. McCleary ◽  
Alexander McQuoid
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Science Reasoning ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
Major Activity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Term Data

Saint making has been a major activity of the Roman Catholic Church for centuries. The pace of sanctifications has picked up noticeably in the past several decades under the most recent two popes, John Paul II and Benedict XVI. This article explores the economics of sainthood, applying social science reasoning to understand the Church's choices on numbers and characteristics of saints, gauged by the location and socioeconomic attributes of the persons designated as blessed. It analyzes long-term data on canonization (approval as a saint) and beatification (final stage of qualification for canonization) by the Catholic Church since 1588, when official Vatican records began.

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