scholarly journals A THEOLOGICAL SUPPORT, FROM CHALCEDON, TO THE SHROUD IMAGE NATURAL FORMATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 42-48
Author(s):  
Giovanni FAZIO ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Image Formation ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Divine Nature ◽  
Natural Formation ◽  
Ecumenical Council

The fourth Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon (451 AD) sanctions, for the Holy Church very important conclusions regarding the nature of Christ. The above results do not contrast, but rather open to a natural formation of the Shroud body image. This occurs because it was affirmed in Chalcedon that Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, has two natures, one human and one divine, “inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably”, which coexist in one person (hypostasis). Consequently, the monophysitism of Eutiche and of the Egyptian, Syrian and Armenian Churches, was rejected. Now, the Resurrection of the Nazarene is a Transcendental event that, according to those like us who support the natural formation of the Shroud body image, acted only on the corpse leaving the burial linen in the Immanent, under the dominion of the natural sciences. So, the Miracle of the Resurrection shows the divine nature of Christ, while the Shroud body image formation, the human one.

scholarly journals PHYSICAL OR THEOLOGICAL APPROACH TO INVESTIGATE THE SHROUD IMAGE FORMATION BY UV RADIATION?

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 53-58
Author(s):  
Giovanni FAZIO ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Corona Discharge ◽  
Uv Radiation ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Image Formation ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Photochemical Processes ◽  
Vacuum Uv Radiation ◽  
Vacuum Uv

In this article, we ask ourselves if it is possible that Corona Discharge or Vacuum UV radiation may have been the tools to produce the Shroud body image. We are convinced that both are not appropriate mechanisms. In fact, the start of these processes is based on inconsistent hypotheses for the natural sciences, although all that follows is rational, reasonable and acceptable. However, the big initial mole remains. The complexity of this situation is such that it seems to be in a world in part Transcendent and in part Immanent. Therefore, independently from the possible results that in a next future could be obtained, due to identified photochemical processes, the Scientific Method cannot accept both the hypotheses and, consequently, the experiments. The same is also for the Theological approach which discards both proposals

Church Dogmatics by Karl Barth

1962 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-83
Author(s):  
Daniel L. Deegan
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Divine Providence ◽  
Theological Interpretation ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Universal Rule

In this third part of volume III of his Dogmatics Barth sets forth the doctrine of divine providence as the objective and universal rule of God which establishes and encompasses but does not absorb the existence of the person or community which becomes the object of His preservation. Barth's steadfast aim has been to produce a theology dominated by its object, Jesus Christ. This part of the Dogmatics is no exception, for here he argues that the order of being and the order of knowledge start with the event of God's action in Christ. Hence he does not speak of a natural theology with an independent cosmological interest in the work of divine preservation, for he insists that Scripture is differently orientated. It does not witness simply to the highest being as first cause; it witnesses primarily to the Lord of history, the God of the Covenant. This means that the doctrine of providence does not become a Weltanschauung. What Barth says concerning this problem in C.D.III.3 should be read in conjunction with C.D.III.2, pp. 3ff. Because he affirms that the central concern of theology is the relation of God and man established in Jesus Christ he regards cosmology as a peripheral concern arid draws the line against attempts to integrate scientific views and theological interpretation into a comprehensive Weltanschauung. Yet he readily admits that the natural sciences which know their limits have their appropriate place in elucidating the nature of man against the background of creation.

Revisiting a pure stochastic mechanism to explain the body image formation on the Linen of Turin

2016 ◽  
Vol 108 (9) ◽  
pp. 1552-1555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Fazio ◽  
Giuseppe Mandaglio ◽  
Antonio Anastasi
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Image Formation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Stochastic Mechanism

scholarly journals The pre-history of the incarnation of Jesus Christ in the Christology of T.F. Torrance

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin M. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Human Response ◽  
Extensive Discussion ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Primary Literature ◽  
History Of

T.F. Torrance is widely known for his dialogue between theology and the natural sciences. His Christology, however, merits greater attention in the academic literature, particularly in regard to his important discussion of the prehistory of Jesus Christ’s incarnation in the nation of Israel. The purpose of this article is to address this inadequacy. The present article provides an overview of Torrance’s discussion of the mediation of revelation and reconciliation in Israel and relates it to Jesus Christ’s incarnation. Content is based on a review of the primary literature published over a span of more than 40 years, as well as a review of the relatively few secondary resources that include an extensive discussion of this subject matter. Torrance’s discussion of the prehistory of the incarnation in Israel provides the biblical-historical background for his Christology. For Torrance, divine self-disclosure and human response in the context of God’s covenant interaction with Israel constitute a two-fold but unitary movement of mediation in Israel that is ultimately embodied and enacted in the person and life of Jesus Christ. As Torrance argues, Jesus Christ incorporates in his incarnate person, life, death and resurrection the prehistory of the mediation of revelation and reconciliation in Israel. Torrance’s discussion of the prehistory of the incarnation in Israel provides a helpful hermeneutical framework for understanding the purpose, meaning and goal of God’s covenant interaction with Old Testament Israel as a preparation for the advent of Jesus Christ.

scholarly journals A recepção (receptio) da Reforma na Igreja católica

2017 ◽  
Vol 77 (305) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Benedito Ferraro
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Ecumenical Movement ◽  
The Common ◽  
Ecumenical Council ◽  
The Church

Síntese: Pontuando um panorama de constantes movimentos de reforma e de conflitos no interior da Igreja de Jesus Cristo, com realce para o movimento da Reforma luterana, o Autor apresenta igualmente o movimento contrastante de unidade e comunhão na diversidade. Nos últimos tempos, particularmente após o Concílio Ecumênico Vaticano II, emerge e prevalece o movimento ecumênico, ou seja, a consciência de que a Igreja sempre se encontra em processo de novas formas, como também, e principalmente, de comunhão na diversidade a partir do comum seguimento de Jesus Cristo e da missão evangelizadora por ele confiada a seus seguidores. Por isso, advoga a continuidade e a consolidação do espírito ecumênico.Palavras-chave: Igreja católica. Reforma luterana. História. Conflitos. Ecumenismo.Abstract: Punctuating a panorama of constant movements of reform and conflicts inside the Church of Jesus Christ, with emphasis on the movement of the Lutheran Reform, the author introduces the equally contrasting movement of the unity and communion in the diversity. In recent times, particularly after the Vatican II Ecumenical Council, there emerges and prevails the ecumenical movement, that is, the consciousness that the Church always finds itself in the process of new forms, as well and mainly, in that of the communion in the diversity based on the common following of Jesus Christ and on the evangelizing mission given by Him to his followers. For this reason, it advocates the continuity and the consolidation of the ecumenical spirit.Keywords: Catholic Church. Lutheran Reform. History. Conflicts. Ecumenism.

Could God Become Man?

1989 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
Richard Swinburne
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Solid Material ◽  
Material Object ◽  
Human History ◽  
Divine Nature ◽  
Characteristic Shape ◽  
Essential Nature ◽  
Oak Tree ◽  
Rational Individual ◽  
The One

The central doctrine of Christianity is that God intervened in human history in the person of Jesus Christ in a unique way; and that quickly became understood as the doctrine that in Jesus Christ God became man. In AD 451 the Council of Chalcedon formulated that doctrine in a precise way utilizing the current philosophical terminology, which provided a standard for the orthodoxy of subsequent thought on this issue. It affirmed its belief in ‘our Lord Jesus Christ, … truly God and truly man, … in two natures … the distinction of natures being in no way annulled by the union, but rather the characteristics of each nature being preserved and coming together to form one person’. One individual, one thing that is; and being a rational individual, one person. An individual's nature are those general properties which make it the sort of individual it is. The nature of my desk is to be a solid material object of a certain shape; the nature of the oak tree in the wood is to take in water and light, and to grow into a characteristic shape with characteristic leaves and give off oxygen. Chalcedon affirmed that the one individual Jesus Christ had a divine nature, was God that is; and it assumed that the divine nature was an essential nature.

scholarly journals Maria no cinquentenário do Vaticano II

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (287) ◽  
pp. 557
Author(s):  
Maria Lina Boff
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Lumen Gentium ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Ecumenical Council

A proposta deste artigo é sublinhar a antiga linhagem bíblica de Maria de Nazaré, a mulher histórica do Novo Testamento, a qual recebe o título de “filha predileta do Pai” no oitavo capítulo da Constituição Lumen gentium do Concílio Ecumênico Vaticano II. Este título não é só dado a Maria de Nazaré, mas a toda mulher que é chamada a anunciar a Boa Nova de Jesus Cristo Ressuscitado. A Autora coloca em evidência a missão que o Ressuscitado deu às mulheres na manhã da ressurreição e cunha esta missão como “mandato indicativo” dado a todas as mulheres que fazem a experiência do Ressuscitado: a de anunciar a todo o ser humano a Boa Notícia de que Jesus está vivo e que foi encontrado por seus discípulos na Galiléia. E conclui com o Documento de Aparecida que afirma: a fé de nossos povos se expressa numa espiritualidade trinitária, cristocêntrica e mariana. Os bispos falam desta piedade popular como de uma grande riqueza e de uma maneira legítima de nosso povo manifestar sua fé. Este é um dos desafios que teólogos e teólogas encontram na prática pastoral cotidiana.Abstract: The objective of this article is to highlight the old Biblical lineage of Mary of Nazareth, the historical woman of the New Testament, who receives the title of the “Father’s favourite daughter” in the eighth chapter of the Constitution Lumen gentium of the Ecumenical Council Vatican II. This title is given not only to Mary of Nazareth, but to every woman called to announce the Good Tidings of Jesus Christ Resuscitated. The Author brings to the fore the mission that the Resuscitated gave to the women in the morning of the resurrection and calls this mission an “indicative mandate” given to all women who live through the Resuscitated’s experience: that of announcing to every human being the Good Tidings that Jesus is alive and that he was found by his disciples in the Galilee. And it concludes with the Document of Aparecida that states: the faith of our peoples expresses itself in a Trinitarian, Christocentric and Marian spirituality.

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