scholarly journals WhatsApp Group Sebagai Ruang Percakapan Pastoral di Masa Pandemi Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 480-495
Author(s):  
Antonius Denny Firmanto
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Family Ministry ◽  
Christian Life

Abstract. This study discussed pastoral activities during the Covid-19 pandemic through WhatsApp group as pastoral space. It investigated group-based communication in WhatsApp based on a survey toward the Catholic Family Ministry in the Diocese of Malang. The result was that the conversations in the WhatsApp group in form of reflections, shared links, inspiration, prayers, and information showed that the ecclesiastical community has the courage to be present and involved in human life today. Conversations in WhatsApp groups taught and shared Christian values that opposed to individualism, consumerism, and hedonism, as well as to be a space to proclaim the values of Christian life, namely: love, care, fellowship, justice, peace, solidarity, sharing and living hopefully to God the source of life.Abstrak. Penelitian ini mendiskusikan aktivitas pastoral selama masa pandemi Covid-19 yang menggunakan WhatsApp group sebagai ruang pastoral. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode survey. Studi ini mensurvey percakapan yang terjadi di Whatsapp group komunitas Catholic Family Ministry Keuskupan Malang. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa percakapan dalam WhatsApp group berupa renungan, share link, inspirasi, doa, dan informasi menunjukkan bahwa komunitas gerejawi berani hadir dan terlibat dalam hidup manusia pada masa kini. Percakapan dalam WhatsApp group menampilkan nilai Kristiani yang melawan individualisme, konsumerisme dan hedonism di ruang digital, dan sebaliknya, menjadi ruang menyuarakan nilai-nilai kehidupan Kristiani, yaitu: cinta kasih, perhatian, persekutuan, keadilan, perdamaian, solidaritas, berbagi serta hidup penuh pengharapan kepada Allah Sang Sumber Hidup.

Law in Doctrine and Life According to Martin Luther

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Risto Saarinen ◽  
Derek R. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Golden Rule ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
God's Will ◽  
Rabbinic Judaism ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
The Law ◽  
The One

The law both is and functions in Martin Luther’s theology. To the extent that it simply is, the law is wholly good, just, and pure. It reveals God’s benevolent providence for creation by instantiating structures of human relationships, natural processes, and social arrangements within which human life and all of creation can flourish. Luther regards the essential character of the law in a way reminiscent of the haggadah tradition of Rabbinic Judaism, where the law is a narrative which reveals features of the lawgiver. Under the conditions of sin, however, the law can be experienced as wrath by humans who cannot fulfill what it requires, and who suffer as a result of their own transgression of the Word of God or as a result of the transgressions of others. It functions thus as a curb against wickedness and as a means of exposing sin to be sin. Its continued presence in the life of the believer is necessary, as Luther clarified in his various debates with Johann Agricola and the so-called “Antinomians.” When the law is understood only in its antinomy with the gospel, the life-affirming elements of the law are occluded, even as the gospel’s life-redeeming elements are thereby rendered clear. While numerous fine distinctions can be found in Luther’s theology of the law, it maintains a basic unity-in-diversity. God wills singly in dealing with human beings as his creatures. Therefore “civil law,” the Decalogue, and other manifestations of the law are facets of the one will of God for the flourishing of creation. Recent Pauline scholarship has criticized Luther for eisegesis on Paul’s view of the law; Luther needed to see his contemporary Roman partisans as Paul’s legalistic Jewish opponents, they say, and so he read Romans as a critique of 16th-century “works righteousness.” This view ignores the fact that Luther (and Augustine) viewed the post-conversion Paul as “continent” in doing the works of the law, neither weak-willed nor perfectly virtuous. Law is necessary for doctrine, but it is also important for the “Christian life” because it helps the believer to understand the reciprocity that underlies interpersonal relationships, seen especially in the “golden rule” that functions as the epitome of the Christian life. The radical receptivity (i.e., passivity) that characterizes the life of faith in believers enables the experience of God’s will, understood as law or command, in a constructive and beneficial way. While Christian life should employ a “faith approach” rather than a “law approach,” genuine faith in God does, in fact, reveal the true meaning of the law. This might be called the “second use of the gospel” in that God’s command (Gebot), viewed in light of the gospel, becomes a source of guidance for the Christian life, the ten commandments, the double love command, and the Sermon on the Mount chief among them.

Becoming the Song of Christ

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-150
Author(s):  
Alex Fogleman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Moral Formation ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
The Will ◽  
Stages Of Learning ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

While the connections between exegesis, music, and moral formation are well known, what Augustine’s use of particular metaphors reveals about his theology that more literal renderings do not is less clear. This article explores how Augustine’s use of musical metaphors in Enarratio in Pslamum 32(2) illuminate his understanding of the relationship between grace and human virtue. After first offering a doctrinal description of the rightly ordered will and its Christological foundation, Augustine proceeds to narrate the Christian life as one of various stages of learning to sing the “new song” of Christ. He interprets references to the lyre and psaltery as figures of earthly and heavenly life, and then exegetes the psalm’s language of jubilation as laudatory praise of the ineffable God. The chief contribution of the musical metaphors here are twofold. First, they enable Augustine to display the mysterious process of the will transformed over time. Second, the musical figures help Augustine account for how a human will, encompassed in time, can align with the will of an eternal God whose will is ultimately inexpressible. Augustine’s musical exegesis is able to gesture towards the profound mystery of human life in time and its relation to an eternally un-timed God.

scholarly journals Metafora soli w Biblii i literaturze wczesnochrześcijańskiej

Vox Patrum ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 221-243
Author(s):  
Mieczysław Celestyn Paczkowski
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Christian Literature ◽  
The Way

The article presents the complex symbolism of salt that was strongly in­fluenced by the rites and beliefs of the pagan and the biblical world as well as early Christian literature. The salt is an element present in every aspect of human life (food, medicine and religious cults). It played an important role in sacrifices and offerings of Old Testament. For this reason, Jesus’ use of this metaphor was extremely familiar to His followers. On the biblical bases the various allegorical motifs of salt were present in Christian authors. Metaphors associated with the salt became precise and rich. Salt was a symbolic figure of wisdom, moral cleanness and incorruptibility. God’s salt enabled one to triumph over the spiritual enemy. The Fathers taught to point others to the way of life, to show how they might be preserved from death and destruction. They pointed out how the purpose of Christian life depended on their spiritual saltiness.

Pilgrimage as Moral and Aesthetic Formation in Augustine’s Thought

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Stewart-Kroeker
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Ethical Thought ◽  
The World ◽  
Return Journey ◽  
Human Desire ◽  
Embodied Practice ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Augustine’s dominant image for the human life is peregrinatio, which signifies at once a journey to the homeland—a pilgrimage—and the condition of exile from the homeland. For Augustine, all human beings are, in the earthly life, exiles from their true homeland: heaven. Only some become pilgrims seeking a way back to the heavenly homeland, a return mediated by the incarnate Christ. Becoming a pilgrim begins with attraction to beauty. The return journey therefore involves formation, both moral and aesthetic, in loving rightly. This image has occasioned a lot of angst in ethical thought in the last century or so. Augustine’s vision of Christian life as a pilgrimage, his critics allege, casts a pall of groaning and longing over this life in favor of happiness in the next. Augustine’s eschatological orientation robs the world of beauty and ethics of urgency. In this book, Stewart-Kroeker sets out to elaborate Augustine’s understanding of moral and aesthetic formation via the pilgrimage image, which she argues reflects a Christological continuity between the earthly journey and the eschatological home that unites love of God and neighbor. From the human desire for beauty to the embodied practice of Christian sacraments, Stewart-Kroeker reveals the integrity of Augustine’s vision of moral and aesthetic formation, which is essentially the ordering of love. Along the way, Stewart-Kroeker develops an Augustinian account of the relationship between beauty and morality.

scholarly journals Treenighed og gudbilledlighed

1992 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-115
Author(s):  
Kim Arne Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Publishing Firm ◽  
Creation Theology ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
Late Works ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity

Trinity and Man as an Image of God.By Kim Arne PedersenRegin Prenter: »Grundtvig’s Doctrine of the Trinity.  In: N.F.S. Grundtvig Theologian and Teacher of The Church«. Published by the Committee for Church and Theology, 1983 (out of sale). »The View of the Church«. Published by the Committee for Church and Theology, on commission by the publishing firm Savanne, Christiansfeld, 1983.This review compares Professor, dr. theol. Regin Prenter’s late works on Grundtvig with the Danish theological traditions of this century. Although Prenter doesn’t intend to discuss the modern interpretations of Grundtvig, he indirectly polemicizes against Kaj Thaning’s and K.E. Løgstrup’s readings of Grundtvig as separating Christianity and human life, understanding life as created and because of that free to be lived on its own conditions. Opposite this tradition, which is inspired by Secularisation theology and is an important part of Danish Creation theology, Prenter emphasizes that the true human life is a Christian life, reborn in baptism and flourishing from the Eucharist. Human life follows a Trinitarian structure and the incarnation reunites the human life with the divine Trinity. Although Prenter criticizes Danish Creation theology, he also agrees with this tradition in stressing that human life has to be based on thrust in God as Creator and Father. Prenter interprets the divine Trinity as a personal living relationship between God as Father and God as Son, which implies a dimension of knowledge. Because of this dimension of knowledge, Prenter – like the Danish Creation theology - is aware of the metaphysical theme in Grundtvig’s theology. The reviewer agrees with Prenter in stressing this theme, but at the same time criticizes him for finding the roots of Grundtvig’s Trinitarian structure in Grundtvig’s Augustine readings and not in Grundtvig’s - critical - interactions with the philosophy of Schelling. In his attack on Schelling Grundtvig develops a Trinitarian structure based on man’s faculties of knowledge and founded in the aseite'of God as Father. Being aware of this, Prenter was able to expound also the ontological motives in Grundtvig’s theology.

scholarly journals Parabolic Life: Toward an Ethics of God’s Apocalypse

2021 ◽  
pp. 095394682110313
Author(s):  
Philip G. Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Moral Life ◽  
Moral Action ◽  
Theological Ethics ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Paul Ricœur

Christian ethicist Nancy Duff has suggested that an apocalyptic hearing of the gospel elicits a parabolic understanding of the Christian moral life. How might the theological basis and rationale of this claim be elaborated? What is it about human life funded by the gospel of God’s apocalypse in Jesus Christ that makes ‘parable’ an apt description of the quality of its action? And how might these notions be elaborated to enrich our understanding of responsible moral action more generally? This article explores these questions by way of a running conversation with the work of J. Louis Martyn, Christopher Morse and Paul Ricoeur. It concludes by showing the salience of these themes in relation to Bonhoeffer’s later reflections upon the distinctive quality of Christian life in the wreckage of Christendom. Overall, the solid currency of a parabolic construal of the character of Christian moral action for the present pursuit of theological ethics is recommended.

Biosecurity: tools, behaviours and concepts

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 449-452
Author(s):  
Alan MacLeod ◽  
Nicola Spence
Keyword(s):  
Plant Protection ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Early Warning Systems ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Surveillance Programs ◽  
Harmful Organisms ◽  
The One ◽  
Biosecurity Practices

COVID 19 has raised the profile of biosecurity. However, biosecurity is not only about protecting human life. This issue brings together mini-reviews examining recent developments and thinking around some of the tools, behaviours and concepts around biosecurity. They illustrate the multi-disciplinary nature of the subject, demonstrating the interface between research and policy. Biosecurity practices aim to prevent the spread of harmful organisms; recognising that 2020 is the International Year of Plant Health, several focus on plant biosecurity although invasive species and animal health concerns are also captured. The reviews show progress in developing early warning systems and that plant protection organisations are increasingly using tools that compare multiple pest threats to prioritise responses. The bespoke modelling of threats can inform risk management responses and synergies between meteorology and biosecurity provide opportunities for increased collaboration. There is scope to develop more generic models, increasing their accessibility to policy makers. Recent research can improve pest surveillance programs accounting for real-world constraints. Social science examining individual farmer behaviours has informed biosecurity policy; taking a broader socio-cultural approach to better understand farming networks has the potential to change behaviours in a new way. When encouraging public recreationists to adopt positive biosecurity behaviours communications must align with their values. Bringing together the human, animal, plant and environmental health sectors to address biosecurity risks in a common and systematic manner within the One Biosecurity concept can be achieved through multi-disciplinary working involving the life, physical and social sciences with the support of legislative bodies and the public.

Human Life Is Group Life

1980 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 416-417
Author(s):  
HOWARD B. ROBACK
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Group Life
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