Contextual Formation: The Challenge Of Forming Lay Ministers In The Church Of Hong Kong

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria YEUNG
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Lay Ministers ◽  
The Church

Gospel and Order in the Rule of St Benedict

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-203
Author(s):  
Norman Boakes
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Lay Ministers ◽  
The Church

Members of the Church of England are part of an ordered Church with a given liturgy. That order is deeply embedded in our story and today all clergy and lay ministers function and carry out their ministries on the authorisation of the bishop of the diocese. The Church of England is an institution which has its rules, laws and codes of conduct. Because we have no doctrinal formulations of our own, the liturgy in the Church of England expresses much of our theology. While there have been many changes in liturgy, a given liturgy, or a liturgical structure within which certain texts are prescribed, is part of how we are.

In Search of True-ness: Dialogue Between Political Localism and Theological Ecumenism in Post-Umbrella Movement

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lap Yan Kung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Political Structure ◽  
The Core ◽  
The People ◽  
Universal Suffrage ◽  
The Church

Abstract Seeking for true-ness is the core concern of the people of Hong Kong during the Umbrella Movement. That search starts from the political structure (true universal suffrage), and continues through into the formation of identity (true Hongkongese). This article illustrates how the Umbrella Movement has provided the people of Hong Kong with an experience of a truthful politics which is different from the current realpolitik. It sets out to see Hong Kong as their homeland, while developing a new language in terms of political localism. Nevertheless, there is a tendency for such political localism to become too narrow, exclusive and sentimental. The ecumenicity of the church interpreted in the light of Wolfhart Pannenberg’s theology is a different social imaginary. It can challenge both the inclination to narrowness and exclusivism of political localism, and the authoritarianism of the Chinese authorities. It possesses the potential to enrich the people of Hong Kong by allowing them to see that the unity of humankind (creation) is the ground of politics.

The Entanglement between Religion and Politics

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Fuk-tsang Ying
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
State Relations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Online Sources ◽  
The Church

Abstract The relationship between religion and social movements is an important topic in the study of religion and society. This paper uses various textual and online sources to examine the role of Christianity in the anti-extradition bill movement that took place in Hong Kong from April to September 2019. The anti-extradition bill movement, which later evolved into a much wider movement against totalitarianism, has caused churches to grapple with church-state relations in the post-handover era. This paper employs the notion of “public religion” as an analytical framework to examine the process of the “deprivatization” of Christianity in Hong Kong. How does the ongoing contestation, both within and outside the church, reflect the challenges faced by Christianity when entering the public sphere? By answering the above questions, we will be able to explicate the religio-political significance of the protest movement in Hong Kong.

Governing Body of the Church in Wales

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-87
Author(s):  
Matthew Chinery
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Church

The April meeting was held while the Anglican Consultative Council was meeting in Hong Kong, and the Governing Body received a video message from Dr Heather Payne and the Ven Mary Stallard, its two representatives. In his presidential address to the September meeting, the Archbishop of Wales spoke of the challenges facing the Church and said that those who challenged the Church, asking sometimes uncomfortable questions, deserved to be taken seriously. He also highlighted some of the initiatives that the Church in Wales was undertaking as part of the acknowledgement that the status quo for ministry in Wales was unlikely to meet the needs of the province in the decades ahead.

The Governing Body of the Church in Wales: Recent Legislation

1995 ◽  
Vol 3 (17) ◽  
pp. 432-433
Author(s):  
Thomas Glyn Watkin
Keyword(s):  
Governing Body ◽  
Lay Ministers ◽  
The Third ◽  
Lay Persons ◽  
The Church

At the April 1995 meeting of the Governing Body, the Constitution of the Church in Wales was amended in accordance with decisions taken by the Governing Body in September 1994. It had been resolved that stipendiary clerics and non-stipendiary clerics under seventy years of age should not receive fees for taking services in vacant incumbencies, but that retired clerics, readers and non-stipendiaries over the age of seventy should receive such fees. All should receive travelling expenses. The Maintenance of Ministry Scheme was accordingly amended to reflect these decisions by minor amendments to section 6 (1) (h) and section 6 (3) of the Scheme and the replacement of sections 4 and 5 of the Third Schedule thereto. The Governing Body had also agreed that a maximum of two lay persons per diocese should be included in the Maintenance of Ministry Scheme, which provides for the payment of ministers, provided that these were accredited lay Ministers licensed by the diocesan bishop to engage in the work of mission and ministry in a parochial or diocesan capacity. The lay persons concerned were to be counted as serving clerics for the purposes of allocating monies among the dioceses. The Maintenance of Ministry Scheme has again been amended to effect these decisions, this time by the introduction of a new paragraph (k) in section 6 (1) – the existing paragraphs (k) to (m) being redesignated (1) to (n) as a result – and by the introduction of a new paragraph (e) into section 6 (2).

Christianity and Ancestor Practices in Hong Kong: Toward a Contextual Strategy

1989 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry N. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
Ancestor Worship ◽  
Chinese Churches ◽  
Biblical Faith ◽  
The Church

Christianity's response to ancestor worship remains a live issue throughout Asia, including Hong Kong, where residents sense a need for cultural continuity, where traditional rites have gradually been secularized, but where the church continues to depend on Western thought-forms and customs. A viable contextual strategy should simultaneously accommodate traditional forms and values, reinterpret them in the light of Christian theology and ethics, and innovate forms which are consistent with biblical faith, with the Chinese cultural heritage, and with emerging social values. By accommodating, reinterpreting, and innovating, the Chinese churches can express their cultural loyalty, maintain biblical integrity, and pursue the transformational goal of contextualization.

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