scholarly journals Penderitaan Kristus Sebagai Wujud Solidaritas Allah Kepada Manusia

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Sonny Zaluchu
Keyword(s):  
Church History ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
The Church ◽  
Suffering God

Abstract: This article is a contemporary theology study about an idea of suffering God. Although there were some notion of suffering God in the church history, yet this remain important to be reconstructed today’s in considering the suffering of believers nowadays. This article is a literature research using methodology with qualitative approach, considered developing phenomenons surrounded churches, and analyzed it with biblical reflection of an idea of God’s suffered. As the conclusion, with biblical and theological phenomenon analysing, the suffered of Christ must be understood from a big God’s plan upon human being.Abstrak: Tulisan ini merupakan sebuah kajian Teologi Kontemporer tentang ide Allah yang menderita. Walaupun ada banyak pendapat atau pemikiran teologis tentang Allah yang menderita di sepanjang sejarah gereja, namun ide ini tetap penting untuk dikaji kembali pada masa kini, dengan mempertimbangkan konteks penderitaan orang percaya di masa kini. Penelitian ini merupakan literasi dengan menggunakan metode pendekatan yang bersifat kualitatif, mempertimbangkan fenomena yang berkembang di sekitar gereja, dan menganalisisnya dengan pendekatan refleksi biblikal atas ide Allah yang menderita tersebut. Pada akhirnya, melalui analisis biblikal dan fenomena teologis, maka penderitaan Kristus harus dipahami dari sebuah rancangan Allah yang besar atas manusia.

scholarly journals Bahasa Lidah dalam Ibadah Bersama Berdasarkan I Korintus 14

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Murni Hermawaty Sitanggang
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
1 Corinthians ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
Speaking In Tongues ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Church Service ◽  
The Church

Abstract: Speaking in tongues in the chruch service together has become a controversy for a long time.  Some considered it as a positive thing because of its special gift. Otherwise, many views of its contemporary as negatively, doubted it as from God. This article is a literature research with a qualitative approach using an exposition methode on 1 Corinthians 14. The aim of this research is to show clearly Pauline conception of speaking in to tongue amid the church service teogether. The conclusion is that speaking in tongue must be followed by a gift of interpreting, in order to edify people. Thus, the gift shall be useful amid God’s church. Abstrak: Penggunaan bahasa lidah dalam ibadah bersama telah lama menjadi sesuatu yang menimbulkan pro dan kontra.  Ada yang menganggapnya sebagai sesuatu hal positif sebab dianggap sebagai salah satu dari karunia rohani yang istimewa.  Akan tetapi, tidak sedikit yang memandang negatif karena meragukan bahasa lidah kontemporer memang berasal dari Tuhan. Artikel ini merupakan penelitian literatur dengan pendekatan kualitatif yang menggunakan metode eksposisi pada 1 Korintus 14. Tujuannya, untuk menunjukkan konsep Paulus tentang bahasa lidah dalam ibadah bersama sesuai dengan teks 1 Korintus 14. Kesimpulannya, bahasa lidah dalam ibadah bersama haruslah diikuti dengan karunia menafsirkan bahasa lidah, agar jemaat dapat dibangun. Dengan demikian karunia dapat berfungsi dalam gereja Tuhan.

scholarly journals Traversing a Tightrope between Ecumenism and Exclusivism: The Intertwined History of South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church and the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian in Nyasaland (Malawi)

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 176
Author(s):  
Retief Müller
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Church History ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Christian Nationalism ◽  
The Church ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

During the first few decades of the 20th century, the Nkhoma mission of the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa became involved in an ecumenical venture that was initiated by the Church of Scotland’s Blantyre mission, and the Free Church of Scotland’s Livingstonia mission in central Africa. Geographically sandwiched between these two Scots missions in Nyasaland (presently Malawi) was Nkhoma in the central region of the country. During a period of history when the DRC in South Africa had begun to regressively disengage from ecumenical entanglements in order to focus on its developing discourse of Afrikaner Christian nationalism, this venture in ecumenism by one of its foreign missions was a remarkable anomaly. Yet, as this article illustrates, the ecumenical project as finalized at a conference in 1924 was characterized by controversy and nearly became derailed as a result of the intransigence of white DRC missionaries on the subject of eating together with black colleagues at a communal table. Negotiations proceeded and somehow ended in church unity despite the DRC’s missionaries’ objection to communal eating. After the merger of the synods of Blantyre, Nkhoma and Livingstonia into the unified CCAP, distinct regional differences remained, long after the colonial missionaries departed. In terms of its theological predisposition, especially on the hierarchy of social relations, the Nkhoma synod remains much more conservative than both of its neighboring synods in the CCAP to the south and north. Race is no longer a matter of division. More recently, it has been gender, and especially the issue of women’s ordination to ministry, which has been affirmed by both Blantyre and Livingstonia, but resisted by the Nkhoma synod. Back in South Africa, these events similarly had an impact on church history and theological debate, but in a completely different direction. As the theology of Afrikaner Christian nationalism and eventually apartheid came into positions of power in the 1940s, the DRC’s Nkhoma mission in Malawi found itself in a position of vulnerability and suspicion. The very fact of its participation in an ecumenical project involving ‘liberal’ Scots in the formation of an indigenous black church was an intolerable digression from the normative separatism that was the hallmark of the DRC under apartheid. Hence, this article focuses on the variegated entanglements of Reformed Church history, mission history, theology and politics in two different 20th-century African contexts, Malawi and South Africa.

Summary Report on The Church History Self-Study Project, 1958–1959

1960 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-117
Author(s):  
Franklin H. Littell
Keyword(s):  
Church History ◽  
Summary Report ◽  
Self Study ◽  
The Church

scholarly journals Book Review: IV. Church History: Freedom in the Church

1907 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 647-650
Author(s):  
Albert Henry Newman
Keyword(s):  
Church History ◽  
The Church

Why Is There So Much Christianity in the United States? A Reply to Sommerville

2002 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 858-864 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Hollinger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Church History ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Secular Culture ◽  
The North ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Church

If we are going to explain the slow pace of de-Christianization for the United States relative to other industrialized societies in the North Atlantic West, we might well begin with the church-state relationship. The absence of an established church in the United States has enabled religious affiliation to function, like other voluntary organizations in “civil society,” as mediators between the individual and the nation. I conimented on this rather old idea in a book C. John Sommerville is kind enough to cite in another connection, Science, Jews, and Secular Culture, but since he does not take up this point, I will develop it a bit further here, before reacting to Sommerville's other concerns as expressed in his refreshingly fair-minded rejoinder to my essay in the March 2001 issue of Church History.

scholarly journals Historiese teologie in ʼn veranderende konteks

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wim A. Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Church History ◽  
Church Polity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Missions History ◽  
History Of Theology ◽  
Historical Theology ◽  
History Of Biblical Interpretation ◽  
The Church ◽  
Precarious Situation

In this contribution, the author reflects on historical theology as theological discipline. After a short introduction to the precarious situation of church history as a theological discipline in South Africa and the question of faith and history, the contribution presents an analysis of Gerhard Ebeling’s 1947 publication on church history in which he proposed that church history should be understood as a history of Biblical interpretation. Based on some of the principles Ebeling delineated, the author proposes that historical theology could be applied to five areas of research: prolegomena, history of the church, history of missions, history of theology and church polity. The point is made that historical theology, when properly structured and presented, could play a major role in enriching the theological and ecclesial conversation and in assisting the church in the process of reformation and transformation.Keywords: Gerhard Ebeling; Hermeneutics; Church History

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