scholarly journals Penitência cotidiana. Uma verdade a ser recordada

2018 ◽  
Vol 76 (302) ◽  
pp. 402-427
Author(s):  
Francisco Taborda
Keyword(s):  
Historical Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Lay Persons ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
In Christ

Síntese: Nos seis-sete primeiros séculos, procurava-se o perdão dos pecados em formas cotidianas de obter a reconciliação que Deus nos oferece em Cristo. A forma elaborada, conhecida na pesquisa histórica como “penitência canônica” (sacramento da penitência), era reservada para poucos pecados gravíssimos, exigia penitências rigorosíssimas que duravam anos e não podia ser repetida. Em compensação, as formas cotidianas (escuta da Palavra de Deus, esmola-oração-jejum, confissão a leigos, a eucaristia como sacramento do perdão) eram muito valorizadas e recomendadas. Se essas formas cotidianas forem novamente valorizadas, não haverá razão para lamentar-se sobre a chamada “crise da confissão”. O estudo é precedido por uma reflexão antropológica sobre a reconciliação (o “fazer as pazes”) no âmbito humano.Palavras-chave: Penitência cotidiana. Escuta da Palavra de Deus. Esmola. Oração. Jejum. Confissão a leigos.Abstract: In the first six to seven centuries forgiveness from sins was sought by way of quotidian forms to obtain the reconciliation that God in Christ offers us. The elaborate form, known in historical research as “canonical penance” (the sacrament of penance) was reserved for a few serious sins, demanded severe penances that lasted years, and could not be repeated. On the other hand, the quotidian forms (listening to the Word of God, alms giving-prayer-fasting, the confession to lay persons, the Eucharist as a sacrament of forgiveness) were highly recommended and valued. If these forms were newly valued, there would not be any reason to lament the so-called “crisis of confession”. This study is preceded by an anthropological reflection regarding reconciliation (“making peace”) in the context of human relations.Keywords: Quotidian penance. Listening to the Word of God. Alms giving. Prayer. Fasting. Confession to lay persons.

The Search for Ideas in Historical Investigation

1981 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
William O. Aydelotte
Keyword(s):  
Formal Methods ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Lunatic Fringe ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Historical Investigation ◽  
Formal Arrangement ◽  
Analytical Tools

There has been over the last several decades an active campaign for the use of systematic methods in historical research, particularly for the verification of contentions by the most rigorous means that our information and our analytical tools, quantitative ones when possible, can provide. It is probably correct to say that by now this battle is largely won, in principle at least. Few historians still object to formal arrangement of the evidence or to counting, even if many of them do not do things quite this way themselves. Methods that a generation ago were regarded as outrageous and on the lunatic fringe of scholarship are no longer controversial. It is true that a few diehards in the profession still protest against these innovations. On the other hand, some at the opposite end of the methodological spectrum contend that we have not gone far enough—that historical projects have not maintained acceptable technical standards and that ventures of historians into formal methods have been elementary and intellectually sloppy (Kousser, 1977). It is proper that these questions should be raised and no doubt there is room for improvement. Yet at least scholars have become aware of the value of systematic research and have begun to discuss in constructive fashion what needs to be done to make it more effective.

scholarly journals Naming and nurturing reality from a heart renewed by grace

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fritz W. De Wet
Keyword(s):  
Theological Reflection ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The One ◽  
Creative Forces

This contribution investigates the unbearable tension between the homiletical act of naming reality (with the promise of exposing, challenging and/or triggering creative forces in it) on the one hand, and neglecting this same reality on the other hand, thereby causing it to return to an ignored, unchallenged and degenerated state. The author focuses on tension fields that are generated when preachers embark on the activity of naming realities in their proximate contexts and how they position, withdraw or distance themselves in a certain way when problematic elements (for instance the glaring and seemingly unbridgeable inequality in the situation of Dalits) are opened up by the act of naming. By means of a theological reflection on the renewal of the heart by God’s act of grace in Christ, the author attempts to identify key markers for a homiletic theory that will be able to link the act of naming reality with the act of nurturing (rather than neglecting) this named reality.

Bibliographical Essay: The Coleccion SepSetentas

1979 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-389
Author(s):  
María Del Carmen Velázquez
Keyword(s):  
Historical Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Style Of Writing

The Coleccion SepSetentas which was published by the Departamento de Divulgación de la Secretaría de Educación Pública during the recent presidential term of Lic. Luis Echeverria (1970-1976), contains many volumes of interest to historians. However, it should be noted that of the 315 volumes, which form this Colección, some are readily identifiable as historical while there are some which were not written by historians or not written explicitly to narrate past events. In great measure this style of writing corresponds to the modern tendency (as Alejandra Moreno Toscano asserts vol. 143) to supplement historical research with the findings of anthropologists, sociologists, economists, geographers and urbanists. On the other hand, some authors in SepSetentas state that they will study human groups or anthropological problems, systems and structures, but since they use the historical method, their volumes are useful also to the historian.

scholarly journals Word and Spirit in the Confessions of the European Reformation

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
Henk van den Belt
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Mutual Relationship ◽  
Internal Work ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Radical Reformation ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Relationship

Protestant spirituality is characterized by the mutual relationship between Word and Spirit. The doctrinal formulations of this relationship in the confessions of the Reformation period show that this specific feature of Protestant spirituality originated from the opposition to Rome and the Radical Reformation. The objections by Protestants against the mediaeval view that grace was infused through the sacraments led them to emphasize that faith was worked by the Spirit, in the heart. On the other hand, their objections against spiritualizing tendencies in the Radical Reformation led them to emphasize that faith was a matter of trust, based on the external Word. This two-sided tension led to a nuanced view of the relationship between the external Word of God and the internal work of the Spirit. In Lutheran and Reformed theologies this led to different spiritualities. The author traces these developments by analysing several Protestant confessions of the Reformation period.

Participation in Christ

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Eastman
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Participation In Christ ◽  
The One

For Paul, human participation in Christ is inaugurated and sustained by God’s apocalyptic incursion into the realm of sin and death through the incarnation and death of Christ in solidarity with sinful humanity. Human personhood is constructed in union with larger powers—on the one hand, sin, and on the other hand, the grace of God in Christ. Through Christ’s interchange with humanity under the power of sin, to the point of death on a cross, humanity is set free from sin’s power and joined with Christ.

L’incarnation du verbe de Dieu entre niceisme et arianisme au IVe siècle

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 75-103
Author(s):  
Lucian Dîncă ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Nicene Creed

The Incarnation of the Word of God between Niceism and Arianism in the IVth century. The incarnation of the Word is the main theme debated by St. Athanasius throughout his theological and dogmatic works. First, incarnation theology has an anti-pagan connotation, as pagans derided Christians’ faith in the incarnation of the divine Logos, and, on the other hand, the Alexandrian bishop developed the theme of the incarnation against the Arians who denied the divinity of the Son and promoted a “creationist” doctrine of Christ. Between niceism and arianism, the theology of the incarnation knew several forms of theological expression, starting from the Arians, followers of Arius, to the neo-Arians, reinvented by Aetius and Eunomius, passing through the theology of the Homeans, who claimed the resemblance of the Son to the Father, to it culminated in the Homoiousians, those who came closest to the dogma of the Nicene Creed and who would finally embrace Niceism. The Cappadocians use in their theology of the incarnation the intuitions and arguments of Athanasius to overcome any other doctrine that would oppose or contradict the Niceno homoousian dogma, the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father, namely, the Son is God like Father. Keywords: incarnation, Trinity, dogma, homeism, homoousianism, Arianism, niceism, Athanasius, council, ousia, theology, heresy, orthodoxy, Logos, Son, Father.

scholarly journals Hukum Utama Dalam Mempersiapkan Khotbah

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-34
Author(s):  
Hasanema Wau
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
The Past ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
The One ◽  
Academic Degrees

A sermon today (here) is built from a text written thousands of years ago and addressed to a specific person or community. Serious efforts are needed to bridge the cultural gap between today's readers and first readers. Two temptations to watch out for: first, focus on exploring and describing various historical arguments. The sermon focuses on patterns of interpretation of the biblical texts relating to the past in the area of ​​Israel and beyond. Second, the focus is to be relevant, so that it ignores what the author intends, what is understood by the recipient of the letter. The Scriptures are not a letter that is only able to be solved by an expert in a line of academic degrees. On the one hand it must find out the meaning of the text (for writers and readers), on the other hand it must find principles that can be applied now and here. Balance is a demand! The Word of God speaks to all generations, so it is not enough to rediscover the original meaning of a passage without describing the significance of the passage for today. Abstrak Indonesia Sebuah khotbah hari ini (di sini) dibangun dari teks yang ditulis ribuan tahun yang lalu dan ditujukan kepada orang atau komunitas tertentu. Upaya serius diperlukan untuk menjembatani kesenjangan budaya antara pembaca saat ini dan pembaca pertama. Dua godaan yang harus diwaspadai: pertama, fokus mengeksplorasi dan mendeskripsikan berbagai argumen sejarah. Khotbah berfokus pada pola penafsiran teks-teks alkitabiah yang berkaitan dengan masa lalu di wilayah Israel dan sekitarnya. Kedua, fokusnya harus relevan, sehingga mengabaikan maksud penulis, apa yang dipahami penerima surat. Kitab Suci bukanlah surat yang hanya bisa diselesaikan oleh seorang ahli di bidang akademis. Di satu sisi harus mencari tahu makna teks (bagi penulis dan pembaca), di sisi lain harus menemukan prinsip-prinsip yang bisa diterapkan sekarang dan di sini. Keseimbangan adalah permintaan Firman Tuhan berbicara kepada semua generasi, jadi tidaklah cukup untuk menemukan kembali arti asli dari suatu bagian tanpa menjelaskan pentingnya bagian tersebut untuk hari ini.  

„Es sind ja nicht Lesewort, sondern Lebewort drinnen“ (Martin Luther). Ein protestantischer Beitrag zur performanzorientierten Schriftauslegung

2021 ◽  
pp. 241-257
Author(s):  
Christian Hild
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
The Other ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Word Of Life

Martin Luther emphasized the vitality of the Word of God as a “word of life” (“Lebewort”) on the grounds that one of its characteristics is that it be heard and used by people. This is how the Reformer deliberately distinguished himself from the Pope’s sole authority to interpret the Holy Scripture – the Pope who reduced the Word of God to a “reading word” (“Lesewort”), and thereby suppressed its inherent performativity, preventing the Word of God from reaching people. On the one hand, Luther’s perspective valuably brings to light the text performance of the writings of the Old and New Testament, and on the other hand, gives us the opportunity to draw attention to the topicality and “life” (or „livingness”) of the Word of God. For Protestant religious education focuses on this living vitality in order to mitigate the increasing alienation of students from the language of Holy Scripture by means of a stress on the performative uses of the Word of God.

Women and the Teaching Office According to Calvin

1994 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-510
Author(s):  
Robert White
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Male Leadership ◽  
The Church ◽  
Literary Circles

Few aspects of Paul's teaching have proved more controversial in recent times than his injunction that women should neither speak (lalein) nor teach (didaskein) in church assemblies (1 Cor. 14.34–35; 1 Tim. 2.11–12). To those seeking to promote the ministry of women in the church, the apostle's words appear as a personal expression of opinion founded on patriarchal prejudice, on rabbinic conservatism or on purely local considerations of strategy, motives which are of little more than documentary interest in the current debate. To proponents of the principle of male leadership, on the other hand, Paul's instruction forms part of a normative, enduring evangelical tradition which is often assumed to bear not only on the order of the church but on the order of creation itself. In these circumstances it is instructive to examine Calvin's treatment of the subject as found not only in his major dogmatic work, The Institute of the Christian Religion, but at various places in his sermons and commentaries. Our purpose here is not to make Calvin the arbiter of what, in his own day, was a highly marginal question – outside of court and literary circles, equality of the sexes was not a serious Renaissance concern – but rather to understand how he interpreted Paul's teaching in the context of a creation which God was already renewing and of a church where all were already made one in Christ.

scholarly journals Miners' Houses: South Wales and the Great Northern Coalfield, 1880–1914

1980 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Daunton
Keyword(s):  
Historical Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Personal Interest ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One ◽  
Spoil Heaps

Accidents of personal biography are perhaps not the most sensible way by which to select topics for historical research, yet it was a fortuitous move from Cardiff to Durham which created an initial curiosity about the character of the coalfields in the two areas. No one could miss the difference of landscape between, on the one hand, the linear communities stretching along the deep and narrow South Wales valleys, amidst soaring mountains and spoil heaps and, on the other hand, the sprinkling of nucleated pit villages within the drab, undulating topography of County Durham. The belief that a comparison of these areas might be a topic of more than purely personal interest arose from two considerations.

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