scholarly journals Yesus Kristus Juru Ruwat Manusia: Sebuah Pendekatan Semiotika dalam Gereja Kristen Jawa

Kurios ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Kristriyanto Kristriyanto
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
The People ◽  
Church Life ◽  
The Church

Ruwatan is a form of ceremony in Javanese society that aims to free man from bad luck or the calamity that would befall him. The term "ruwatan" also appears in the discourse of church life amid the Javanese Christian Church (GKJ) as it is written in the Javanese Bible, the Christian Song of Song (the official book song of worship) and the liturgy. This article aimed to find the understanding of the citizens of the Javanese church about ruwatan and develop it in the concept of thinking and devoting of the people church about Jesus Christ is the Man of Ruwat. The method used is a descriptive sociology of religion and culture. In conclusion, the church is expected to acknowledge, accept and respect the existence of Javanese ruwatan, to keep the existence of ruwatan as part and identity of Javanese society activity including church service.AbstrakRuwatan merupakan suatu bentuk upacara di masyarakat Jawa yang bertujuan untuk membebaskan manusia dari nasib buruk maupun malapetaka yang akan menimpa dirinya. Istilah ”ruwatan” juga muncul dalam wacana kehidupan bergereja di kalangan Gereja Kristen Jawa (GKJ) sebagaimana tersurat pada Alkitab berbahasa Jawa, Kidung Pasamuwan Kristen (buku nyanyian resmi ibadah) dan liturgi. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk menemukan pemahaman warga gereja tentang ruwatan serta mengembangkannya dalam konsep berpikir dan beriman warga gereja tentang Yesus Kristus adalah Juru Ruwat manusia. Metode yang digunakan adalah deskriptif sosiologi religi dan budaya. Kesimpulannya, gereja bersikap mau mengakui, menerima dan menghormati keberadaan ruwatan Jawa, ikut menjaga keberadaan ruwatan sebagai bagian dari aktivitas dan identitas masyarakat Jawa termasuk dalam pelayanan gereja.

Manichaeism and Gnosticism in the Papyri

2011 ◽  
pp. 622-643
Author(s):  
Cornelia Römer
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
The People ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Church

The church fathers were appalled in particular by the Gnostics' condemnation of creation. But the fact that much of their teaching was in many respects not so far from Christian dogma must have disturbed the advocates of the “real” Christian church. In some of these Gnostic systems, Christ was the main savior figure; in others, it was the forefathers of the Old Testament who guaranteed salvation; in Manichaeism, it was the new Messenger of Light, the apostle Mani, who, coming after Christ, would finally give the right revelation to the people and excel Christ in doing so. This article deals with religious groups such as these as they existed in Egypt in the Roman and late antique periods. Papyrology has played a decisive role in our understanding of the religious movements of the first centuries ce in Egypt and elsewhere in the Mediterranean.

scholarly journals Ukrainian Catholicism: The Church-Ritual Aspect

2004 ◽  
pp. 96-105
Author(s):  
S.R. Kyiak
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Byzantine Empire ◽  
Independent State ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Church Life ◽  
The Church

In Ukrainian church life, the influence of the Byzantine Empire, which has existed for over eleven centuries, holds a special place. This unique Greek superpower became the first independent state where faith in Jesus Christ became part of the entire state complex. It was this faith that united Byzantium with the Ecumenical Church, whose center of history was rooted in Rome.

Motivation for Mission

1974 ◽  
Vol os-24 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Jean Skuse
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Church ◽  
God's Work

Let us recognize at the outset that we are talking about a complex picture. Any generalization about “all missionaries” or “missionaries as a whole” is likely to be erroneous. We would also recognize that the role of mission is changing, and is constantly being re-examined in the light of new understandings and challenges. We would also admit that it is unlikely that there is a single motivation - that what drives people in different directions depends on so many of life's circumstances. And yet we need to examine our motives very carefully, to identify some as clearly being the wrong motives and to ask the question which was submitted to me for this paper: “How can we get ‘turned-on’ to do God's work today? Why is a Christian compelled to share what he/she knows of what God has done in Jesus Christ?” A motive, of course, is any consideration which moves the will, that which drives us to certain actions, and directs us towards particular goals. Motivation depends so much on the goal and vice versa. The two are almost inseparable. “Mission” or “missions” refer to the special task to which an individual or groups is destined. The usual connotation in the Christian Church involves being sent out by God or the church charged with responsibility for such functions as preaching the gospel, teaching the Word, healing the sick, proselytizing the heathen, and introducing the appropriate rites and ceremonies to accompany these functions. These are the traditional tasks of mission. We talk too of partnership in mission, sharing Christian communities, of involving ourselves in the secular processes. Our missionary motivation is intimately bound up with our understanding of what mission is all about. If we see mission as extending the Christian Church this will call forth one kind of motivation. If it is to be involved in the raising of the level of humanness of all God's creatures the motivation will be different.

The People of God, Discipleship and Ministry in the Anglican Church Today and Tomorrow

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
John Littleton
Keyword(s):  
Potential Outcomes ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
People Of God ◽  
Parish Ministry ◽  
The People ◽  
The Church

Abstract People of God is a well-known biblical term used to describe and understand the inclusive, holistic and serving nature of the Christian Church. Currently, members of the worldwide Anglican Communion are discussing discipleship and ministry. This paper explores the deep connection between describing the church as the People of God and the practice of discipleship and ministry. That exploration occurs through an examination of the considerable literature on the topic, and by discussing discipleship and ministry in light of understanding the church as the People of God. Discoveries made from the journey may surprise. Suggestions for church practice emerged with implications for: ecclesial language; parish ministry and mission; the processes of Anglican Diocesan Synods; and potential outcomes for the 2022 Lambeth Conference.

Hallpike’s Formative Years

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Baloh
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Health Resort ◽  
Hindu Temple ◽  
The People ◽  
Hill Station ◽  
The Church ◽  
Nose And Throat

Charles Skinner Hallpike was born in 1900 in Muree, a small hill station and health resort in the northernmost part of India (now a part of Pakistan). He was baptized at the Church of St. James in Delhi. This was one of the three places of worship—a Hindu temple, a mosque, and a Christian church—built by Hallpike’s great-grandfather, James Skinner. Hallpike began his medical training at Guy’s Hospital in 1919. After graduating from medical school, he was appointed House Surgeon to T. B. Layton in the Ear, Nose and Throat Department at Guy’s Hospital. He took his Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of London and followed with his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. Hallpike had a reputation of being rather unapproachable, but he was comfortable with his clinical peers and had a protective attitude to the people who worked for him.

Early Medieval Charity

1952 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 285-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances J. Niederer
Keyword(s):  
Christian Church ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The People ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Church

Among the multitudinous and pressing problems faced by the Christian Church during the early medieval centuries one of the greatest was the feeding of the poor. Subjection to war, to famine, to the general anarchy of the times, had doubled the misery of the people and made them even more dependent upon public charity. Quite early it became evident that this must be an organized charity, that the problem was not being met by individual Christian action. A homily of Chrysostom (347–407) deplores the laxity of his contemporaries: “It is with you all that the treasure of the Church should be, and it is your cruelty that causes her to be obliged to possess and to deal in houses and lands.

scholarly journals Certificate of the Holy Unity

2016 ◽  
pp. 26-28
Author(s):  
Editorial board Of the Journal
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Church Of Christ ◽  
Church Of God ◽  
People Of God ◽  
The People ◽  
Spiritual Authority ◽  
Triune God ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Church ◽  
As If

In the name of the triune God, we are gathered at the next Cathedral in Berenshit, in the church of St.. Mykodlaya, Mitropolit, and bishops of the Greek rite, proclaim to eternal memory: Seeing that the monotony of the Church of God in the gospel and the teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ is based on one Peter, as if on a stone, so that the Church of Christ would stand firmly under the rule and leadership of his one, so that in one body there was one head, and in one house only one master and the bearer of God's favor, placed over the people of God, to care for the order and goodness of all, and because this order, which began from the Apostolic times, continued in the Divine Church continuously . Therefore, all the Eastern Patriarchs in the affairs of faith and in the reception of the spiritual authority, as well as in the episcopal courts and responses, have always been related to the successor of St. Peter, the Holy Pope, as is evident from the Ecumenical Councils and the rules of the Holy Fathers. This is satisfactorily proved by other Slavic letters, which have already been translated into Greek from ancient times, as well as by the holy Fathers of the Eastern Churches. They all recognize this holy throne of Peter, his privilege and his authority over bishops of the whole world.

The Ethiopian Embassy in 1895, the Church and State Relations and Ideological Searching of the Conservatives at the Close of the 19th Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 411-419
Author(s):  
Alexander Yu. Polunov
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Church And State ◽  
African State ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Common People ◽  
The People ◽  
Church Life ◽  
State Relations ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Church

The article examines the religious and symbolic aspects of the Ethiopian Embassy (mission) to Russia (1895) in the context of church and state relations and ideological searching of Russian conservatives in the end of the 19th century. The visit of the Embassy to Russia aroused special interest of the Ober-Procurator of the Most Holy Synod K.P. Pobedonostsev who saw the people of the African State as supporters of the patriarchal values, so important for him, such as – patriarchal simplicity, devotion to traditions, genuine religiousness. For Pobedonostsev the embodiment of those values in Russia were the establishments related to his activities as head of the clerical office (primarily church schools for common people), that’s why he attached special importance to the visits of the African guests to those schools in the course of their mission. The visits were meant to reveal the spiritual kinship of the Christians from that distant country with Russian church life and consolidate their attraction to Russia.

A Dimensão Eclesiológica do Batismo na Lumen Gentium

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bráulio Lobo da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Human Action ◽  
People Of God ◽  
Mission Of God ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
Lumen Gentium ◽  
The People ◽  
Child Of God ◽  
In Virtue Of ◽  
The Church

The present work aims to present the ecclesiological dimension of baptism in Lumen Gentium, in view of an ecclesiology of communion. God in his magnificence creates all things in view of the salvation of the cosmos. To make this, he relies on the contribution of human action. From human freedom God wants to save by making them the sign and sacrament of salvation for other humans. Hence, he has constituted a people to be the light and presence of God inside of humanity. This same people constituted, as God's property, had been prepared to receive Jesus Christ to fulfill salvation, generating from within themselves the new people of God who is the Church. Thus, baptism constitutes the human being as a new creature regenerated in Christ, forming the new people of God, making him a child of God and a member of the Church. As the mission of God continues in the Church and in every baptized person, all the people of God have the privilege of helping in salvation. In this way, every baptized person has his radical equality in virtue of the dignity of baptism, where all are missionary disciples. Thus, as a people of God, the laity is an ecclesial subject and a missionary disciple because he is a baptized, participant in the divinity of Jesus Christ and the director of the kingdom and salvation of God in the world.

The Influence of Mother Wisdom on Augustine

Open Theology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 238-247
Author(s):  
Kitty Bouwman
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Ben Sira ◽  
Church Father ◽  
Wisdom Theology ◽  
Divine Mother ◽  
The Church

Abstract The Book of Ben Sira was popular in the early Christian church and influenced the Church Father Augustine (354–430). He adopts the person of Wisdom as a divine mother and adapts her within the context of the early Christian church. He links to Mother Wisdom a wisdom theology, in which Jesus is her envoy. Augustine describes Mother Wisdom as an eternal nourishing divine mother. She has a permanent revelatory status by continuously giving life-giving power, which she mediates through Jesus of Nazareth. He presents her grace which she has prepared for the competentes (the candidates for Baptism), who are working towards initiation into Christian Faith. Mother Wisdom serves as hostess in biblical Wisdom literature. For Augustine, Jesus Christ has taken this place. Mother Wisdom serves instead the angels and the spiritual persons as a representative of divine nourishment.

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