scholarly journals What Is 'Victory' in the Orthodox Christian Ethics of War?

Labyrinth ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-144
Author(s):  
Petar Bojanić
Keyword(s):  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Ethics Of War ◽  
The Way

The text reconstructs the protocol of 'victory' as part of the interruption of enmity and establishment of temporary peace. Different understandings of the enemy and enmity imply that victory in war and cessation of conflict can essentially determine the way war is conducted, and that they follow rules of war. Victory is supposed to be a crucial moment that characterizes the ethics of war. Particular testimonies and thematizations of victory in the Orthodox Christian tradition can provide an intro-duction into a potential ethics of war that could ensure a new relationship towards the enemy and killing the enemy.

scholarly journals Renewing the Nous: Watchfulness and Praying

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-295
Author(s):  
Hendi Hendi
Keyword(s):  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Christian Spirituality ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
The Way

Abstract. This paper is a review of renewing and guarding the nous in the Philokalia teaching. The Philokalia is a collection of spiritual texts written between the fourth and fifteenth centuries by the monks of the Orthodox Christian tradition. Christian spirituality is very concrete and practical not mysterious or abstract. Its various aspects are described well in the Philokalia but the Philokalia remains relatively unknown while people seek to satisfy their thirst by consuming from the heresies teaching that ever existed from the beginning of time. One of the most important spiritual aspects that needs to be re-discovered today is renewing the intellect or nous. The fathers of Philokalia concern much on the renewing and guarding the nous. The way to renew the nous is only guarding the nous with all nepsis (prosoche) and praying (proseuche). They emphasized nepsis or watchfulness because the arch - enemy of the soul is a certain kind of thought which they described with the word logismoi. Nepsis and praying are the way to contend against the logismoi and the passions.

Receptive Ecumenism and Discerning the Sensus Fidelium: Expanding the Categories for a Catholic Reception of Revelation

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 559-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ormond Rush
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Mutual Exchange ◽  
Lumen Gentium ◽  
Sensus Fidelium ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The Way

The benefits of the approach of “receptive ecumenism” are becoming increasingly appreciated within ecumenical circles. A primary focus is the way a particular Christian tradition can learn from another and, in a mutual exchange of gifts, receive gifts that have not been part of one’s own tradition. This essay views this dynamic in terms of recognizing differing “senses of the faith” that the Holy Spirit has brought forth within the baptized of different churches. It proposes that Catholic discernment of the sensus fidelium, as presupposed in Lumen Gentium 12, should also include the sensus fidei of other Christians, and that ecumenical dialogues play a crucial role in that ecclesial discernment.

The Light of the Flame

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleni Bintsi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

This chapter presents a study of light, in particular light produced by flame, by investigating the most representative lighting devices used in preindustrial Greece. The symbolism of lighting devices in traditional Greek society, used either out of necessity or in ritual ceremonies and customs as well as in representations in art and in social discourse, is examined to reveal aspects of that society, its common beliefs, and its social differentiation. The oral literature, the myths and sayings still in use in Greek language, are studied as cognitive instruments, as forms of thought, to understand the way people interpret the world and act within it. Finally, the oil lamp, and its ceremonial use in Modern Greek society, which is closely connected to the Orthodox Christian rituals, is interpreted as a symbol that represents national and cultural identities.

Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition: Christian Ethics after MacIntyre

Pro Ecclesia ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 374-375
Author(s):  
Nancey Murphy ◽  
Brad J. Kallenberg ◽  
Mark Thiessen Nation
Keyword(s):  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Christian Tradition

Animals and Innocents

2003 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 559-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Wall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
John Calvin ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Friedrich Schleiermacher ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
United States Today ◽  
Meaning And Purpose

This article develops a Christian ethics of child-rearing that addresses the plight of children in the United States today. It seeks greater clarity on what Christians should view as child-rearing's larger meaning and purpose, as well as the responsibilities this meaning and purpose impose on parents, communities, churches, and the state. The article first explores three major but quite distinct models of child-rearing ethics in the Christian tradition—those of Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, and Friedrich Schleiermacher—and then proposes a new “critical covenant” that appropriates these traditions, in conjunction with feminist and liberationist critiques, into a publicly meaningful Christian ethics of child-rearing for today.

scholarly journals MOTIFS OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS IN ZACHARIAS TOPELIUS POETRY

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-49
Author(s):  
MARIA KAZAKOVA ◽  
STEFANIIA KHMYLOVA
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
World View ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Christian Morality ◽  
Dominant Set ◽  
Biblical Texts

The article analyzes the motifs of Christian ethics in the poetry of a Finnish poet, writer, historian, and journalist Zacharias Topelius, whose artistic world view was shaped under the influence of the ideological and aesthetic Christian tradition. The relevance of the topic is determined by the growing interest in studying the representation of the motives of Christian morality in the works of European writers, as well as by the fact that the topic has not been sufficiently studied in Russia. References to the biblical texts enable us to trace the spiritual development of Topelius’s lyrical hero into the conscious cognition of his purpose. The author identifies the dominant set of Christian motifs represented by the motifs of purification and humility of soul through suffering. It is proved that Topelius’s works form a consistently built individual author’s model of the artistic embodiment of the main provisions of Christianity.

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