scholarly journals A comunhão eclesial e a possível Conferência Nacional dos Católicos Leigos

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (250) ◽  
pp. 243
Author(s):  
Aloísio Lorscheider
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Santo Domingo ◽  
National Conference ◽  
Lumen Gentium ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament

Inspirando-se nos documentos do Vaticano II (especialmente na “Lumen Gentium”) e em Santo Domingo (“o protagonismo leigo”), sem esquecer o que nos revelam os textos neotestamentários sobre a comunhão eclesial e as funções múltiplas e diversificadas que os membros do Cristo Místico desempenham no mundo, Dom Aloísio, Cardeal-Arcebispo de Aparecida, se pergunta: É ou não é possível uma Conferência Nacional dos Católicos Leigos (CNCL)? A atuação evangelizadora dos leigos, recomendada na Exortação Apostólica “Christifideles Laici”, pode ou não pode ser organizada e coordenada por uma Conferência Nacional? O autor responde que “sim”, com vigor e clareza, e afirma: uma CNCL “não é só possível, jurídica e teologicamente falando, mas é até desejável”.Abstract: Inspired by the Vatican II documents (specially by “Lumen Gentium”) and by Santo Domingo (“the lay protagonism”), not forgetting what has been revealed to us by the New Testament passages on ecclesial communion and the multiple and diversified roles that the members of the Mystical Christ play in the world, in this paper Don Aloísio, Cardinal-Archbishop of Aparecida, asks himself whether a National Conference of the Catholic Lay (CNCL) is actually viable. Might the evangelizing role of laymen, recommended by the Apostolic Exhortation “Christifideles Laici”, be organized and coordinated by a National Conference? The author’s answer to these questions is a clear and forceful “yes” and he assures us that, “juridically and theologically speaking, a CNCL is not only possible but even desirable”.

Forgetting the power of leaven: The historical method in recent New Testament theology

2014 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-104
Author(s):  
Seth Heringer
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Ernst Troeltsch ◽  
Theological Understanding ◽  
Synthetic Work ◽  
At Will

AbstractErnst Troeltsch and Heikki Räisänen have raised significant challenges to the way New Testament theology handles the relation of history and theology. Troeltsch pushed Christian scholars to apply the historical method's three principles of criticism, analogy and correlation consistently to their work and thus embrace empiricism. Räisänen continues this trajectory by splitting New Testament theology into its descriptive and reflective tasks, resulting in a programme which questions the unity of the canon, the appropriateness of prescription and the role of church authority in New Testament theology. With these challenges in mind, this article examines four recent New Testament theologies to see how they use the historical method. It finds that these works exhibit different ad hoc ways of using the historical method, picking it up and setting it down at will. Peter Balla accepts New Testament theology as descriptive and historical while claiming it can also be theological by studying the content in the New Testament. Despite this embrace of the historical method, Balla remains uncomfortable with bare empiricism and pushes back on its naturalism. Georg Strecker splits the world into two: one part which can be investigated by the historical method and another part which lies outside its normal subject matter. The result is that he uses the historical method everywhere except where his main theological concern lies – Jesus’ resurrection. I. Howard Marshall similarly holds the historical method to be necessary for New Testament theology but largely ignores it in light of narrative-theological concerns. Frank Matera takes a purposefully literary approach to New Testament theology and generally ignores the historical method. He does invoke it, however, when the text becomes difficult and alternative readings must be found. The methodological inconsistency demonstrated by these New Testament theologies leads the article to conclude that this type of historical New Testament theology is a failed enterprise. A theological understanding of history based on work by Murray Rae is then proposed as an alternative which allows for methodological consistency in synthetic work on the New Testament.

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.

Jewish Women’s Life and Practice in the World of the New Testament

2019 ◽  
pp. 219-237
Author(s):  
Tal Ilan
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Rabbinic Literature ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Gender Research ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament

The women of the New Testament were Jewish women, and for historians of the period their mention and status in the New Testament constitutes the missing link between the way women are portrayed in the Hebrew Bible and their changed status in rabbinic literature (Mishnah and Talmud). In this chapter, I examine how they fit into the Jewish concepts of womanhood. I examine various recognized categories that are relevant for gender research such as patriarchy, public and private space, law, politics, and religion. In each case I show how these affected Jewish women, and how the picture that emerges from the New Testament fits these categories.

Soteria

1953 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 406-416
Author(s):  
R. McL. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Good News ◽  
Early Church ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Love Of God ◽  
Wrath Of God

In the Gospel according to St. John it is written that ‘God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have ever-lasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.’ In these familiar words is summed up the message of the Bible as a whole, and of the New Testament in particular. In spite of all that may be said of sin and depravity, of judgment and the wrath of God, the last word is one not of doom but of salvation. The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is a Gospel of salvation, of deliverance and redemption. The news that was carried into all the world by the early Church was the Good News of the grace and love of God, revealed and made known in Jesus Christ His Son. In the words of Paul, it is that ‘God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself’.

scholarly journals St Augustine’s interpretation of 1 Cor 7:1–6: An expository study

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-176
Author(s):  
Jude Chiedo Ukaga ◽  
Valentine A. Inagbor ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Society Today

The various aspects of Christian Liberty and of the life of the Christian in the world are linked in a singular way in Paul’s pronouncements on marriage, as is found in 1 Cor 7:1–7 ff. Our choice of St. Augustine in the numerous contemporary scholarly attempted hermeneutics of 1 Cor 7:1–7 is that he adopts and elaborated an already existing tradition on sex and marriage. Moreover, this text in the New Testament is the only one that speaks explicitly of the significance of conjugal intercourse. The interpretation of this text or passage has to an extent determined the development of the church’s tradition. Thus, the importance of the passage has to be considered. In Cor 7:1, Paul starts answering the questions the Corinthians put to him. Verse 1 reads: “Now concerning the matters about which you wrote”. The first of these questions concerns marriage. According to the superscription of this work, Augustine’s interpretation of 1 Cor 7:1–7 has implications for Christians in the contemporary world. In as much as it raises numerous problems to our contemporary understanding of marriage and sexuality, the problem of sexuality characterized our society today.

scholarly journals Dilema Kekerasan dalam Ayat-ayat Kitab Suci

MELINTAS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-39
Author(s):  
Staniselaus Eko Riyadi
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Violent Acts ◽  
Biblical Texts

Violence is a crime condemned by religions, but religions in the world are apparently involved in some kind of violence. It has been considered problematic that some scriptural texts are showing violent acts that seem to be ‘authorised’ by God, even ‘allowed’ by God, or celebrated by the people. How should we understand such problematic texts? Is there any violence authorised by God? Christianity has been dealing with the interpretation of violent acts in biblical texts from the Old Testament as well as from the New Testament. This article suggests that violence in the biblical texts must be understood within the context of defining religious identity of Israel among the other nations that have their own gods. Scriptures do not promote violence, but has recorded the historical experiences of Israel in their confrontation with other nations. Therefore, violence in the biblical texts cannot be referred to as a sort of justification for any violent acts by religions in our multireligious and multiethnic society.

scholarly journals The role of title and epigraph in the essay “The Vision of Mirza” by Joseph Addison

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-45
Author(s):  
Iurievna Makarova Liudmila
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Joseph Addison ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Epic Poem ◽  
Comprehensive Examination ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
The Subject

The object of this research is the essay “The Vision of Mirza” by Joseph Addison. The relevance of studying J. Addison's essay is substantiated by undue attention to his works in the Russian literary studies, as well as the need for tracing the dynamics in the genre of vision in the Age of Enlightenment. The subject of this research is the title and epigraph as parts of the work that determine its structure and artistic distinctness. Analysis is conducted on the images of the viewer, visionary hero, and his guide, chronotope of the essay and allusive links. The essay is based on the combination of systemic-structural, comparative-historical, and hermeneutic methods. The novelty consists in the fact that the comprehensive examination of the role of the title ensemble within the structure of the essay allows reconstructing the link of the essay with the traditions of the medieval genre of vision manifested in the traditional topic and consistent motifs, imagery system, space and time arrangement, and dialogical structure of the text. The author provides interpretation to the allusive links between J. Addison's essay and Greco-Roman mythology, epic poem “The Aeneid” by Virgil, and psalms from the New Testament, and “The Voyage of St. Brendan”. It is established that the dialogue set by the epigraph passes through the entire plotline of the essay and reveal the characters of its participants. The extensively presented Christian theme alongside the images from ancient mythology and Virgil’s texts are essential for the author to express the enlightening program.

scholarly journals Armoedekultuur: Die leefwereld van die Nuwe Testament en die situasie in Suid-Afrika vandag

1996 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andries Van Aarde
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Culture Of Poverty ◽  
Economic Statistics ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Social Scientific

Culture of poverty: The world of the New Testament then and the situation in South Africa today. In this article poverty in the world of the New Testament is explained in the  light of the social dynamics of the first century Eastern Mediterranean. The focus is on the sub-culture of the disreputable poor. Features of a culture of poverty are reflected upon from a social-scientific perspective in order to try to understand why poverty is intensifying in South Africa today. The article aims at identifying guidelines for Christians in using the New Testament in a profound way to challenge the threat of poverty. The following aspects are discussed: the underdevelopment of third-world societies over against the technical evolution in first-world societies during the past two hundred years, economic statistics with regard to productivity and unemployment in South Africa, the social identity of the disreputable poor, poverty within the pre-print culture of the biblical period, and the church as the household of God where Christians should have compassion for others.

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