Ansiedade e Medo: Um estudo exegético-psicológico de Marcos 4,35-41

Author(s):  
Antonio Carlos Ferreira

This book seeks to read the narrative in Mark 4.35-41, focusing on the character of the individuals in order to understand their behavior when facing a dangerous situation in the storm at sea they ask Jesus, “Master, do you not care that we are perishing?” When facing danger, the prevalent emotions are fear, despair and anxiety. Therefore, the exegetical study will be conducted using psychology, a science that studies human behavior and mental processes. Based on the theoretical principles of Bible study as literature, the goal of the present study is to perform an exegetical analysis of the biblical narrative in Mark. The miracle description includes all issues related found in manuals and biblical commentaries with their multivisions. It also includes a parenetic, coeval analysis of the text based on the sciences of human behavior aimed at updating and application in modern life. Therefore, the text exegesis sheds light on the history, the validity of the pericope and update for modern life based on psychology. It applies to the study in question the historical-critical method over the structuralist and fundamentalist.

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory C. Pereira

This article deals with the approach to exegesis of biblical narrative, especially in Exodus, in finding its theological significance for contemporary and relevant biblical interpretation. It shows that the historical-critical method is unable to span the divide between the original context and our contemporary context, and to provide the present relevance of Scripture. After arguing for the validity of a set canonical text, this article shows that biblical narrative in general, and the Exodus narratives in particular, are best explored theologically by means of a canonical approach. It shows that the theological significance translates more easily into life-application. It demonstrates how the Exodus narratives are employed canonically for its theological significance throughout the Bible. It concludes that the Church needs teachers who recognise their responsibility to accurately interpret their whole Scriptures, the Bible, with the necessary historical, linguistic (rhetorical) and theological considerations, and that this is best done in a canonical context - whether we use a synchronic or a diachronic approach.


Author(s):  
Terence Keel

The view that science and religion are necessarily in conflict has increasingly lost favor among scholars who have sought more nuanced theoretical frameworks for evaluating the configurations of these two bodies of knowledge in modern life. This book situates, for the first time, the modern study of race into scholarly debates concerning whether the conflict thesis is a viable analytic framework for assessing the relations between religion and science. Arguing that the conflict model is thoroughly inadequate, this book shows that the formation of the race concept in the minds of Western European and American scientists grew out of and remained indebted to Christian intellectual history. Religion was not subtracted from nor did it stand in conflict with constructions of race developed across the modern life and health sciences. The argument made in this book is based on a reexamination of paratheological texts and biblical commentaries from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, works in early Christian natural philosophy, seminal studies in German ethnology and early nineteenth-century American social science, debates among twentieth-century Progressive Era public health scientists, and contemporary genetic analysis of ancient human DNA. Divine Variations recovers the hidden history of how Euro-American scientists inherited from their Christian ancestors a series of ideas and reasoning strategies about race that profoundly shaped the modern biological construction of human difference.


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Radhey Shyam Kaushal

Attempts are made to highlight and quantify the nonlinearity through mathematical models that arise in the study of certain phenomena in human behavior and experiences. For this purpose, we employ a philosophical atom-like (patomic) model for the dynamics of inner and outer essences of life which in fact constitute the human Being in accordance with the tenets of Vedic science. In particular, the evolution of thoughts and of the so called ‘mindset’ function with respect to the meditation parameter (µ) is studied. The stability analysis of the underlying nonlinear equations is expected to provide the island of peace and pleasure out of the day-to-day actions performed by a person.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-296
Author(s):  
Engkos Kosasih

Media sosial saat ini berhasil membentuk kekuatan besar dalam membentuk perilaku manusia dalam kehidupan modern yang dinamis ini. Belakangan ini, media sosial merupakan fenomena baru yang sangat digandrungi masyarakat modern tanpa mengenal usia dan afiliasi sosial apapun. Alih-alih menggunakan untuk hiburan semata, tapi menjadi bumerang bagi diri sendiri. Masyarakat perlu mengetahui dibalik kebebasan media sebagai alat ekspresi diri dalam berpendapat, tetap ada berbagai ranah aturan serta etika yang harus dipenuhi. Dengan demikian pengguna medsos harus bersikap adil (tidak berlebihan) dalam menyikapi berbagai hal yang didapatkan, jangan sampai sikap keberpihakan terhadap sesuatu membuat kita terjebak dalam lubang kemadharatan dari medsos. Hadirnya tulisan ini diharapkan ada sikap yang berbeda dari para pengguna medsos, yaitu berfikir dan bersikap moderat terhadap hal-hal yang beredar di medsos, terutama moderat dalam hal beragama. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif, yang mana data yang dibutuhkan hanya sebatas dokumen-dokumen yang dianalisis sesuai dengan kebutuhan penelitian. Hasil dari penelitian ini bahwa bagaimana caranya seseorang sebagai pengguna medsos harus bisa menerapkan sikap wasaty atau adil dalam mengambil segala yang ada di dalamnya. Masyarakat (user medsos) harus bisa memilah dan memilih apa yang seharusnya diterima dan apa yang seharusnya ditolak.  Hal ini terlebih terhadap hal-hal yang berbau dengan masalah agama, seperti berbagai doktrin jelek yang tersebar melalui medsos. Dengan demikian, masyarakat harus bisa menyaring berbagai informasi yang masuk dan harus bersikap moderat terlebih dahulu terhadap berbagai informasi tersebut, sebelum pada akhirnya memutuskan untuk mengambil sikap. Kata Kunci: Literasi, Moderasi, Media Sosial.   Abstract Social media is currently successfully forming a great force in shaping human behavior in this dynamic modern life. Lately, social media is a new phenomenon that is loved by modern society without knowing any age and social affiliation. Instead of using it for entertainment, but backfire for yourself. Society needs to know behind the freedom of the media as a means of self-expression in opinion, there are still various domains of rules and ethics that must be met. Thus the user of social media must be fair (not excessive) in responding to various things that are obtained, do not let the attitude of partiality towards something makes us trapped in the pit of harm from the social media. The presence of this article is expected to have a different attitude from the users of social media, which is to think and be moderate about things that are circulating in the social media, especially moderate in matters of religion. This study uses qualitative methods, where the data needed is only limited to the documents analyzed in accordance with research needs. The results of this study that how a person as a social media user must be able to apply a attitude of fairness or fairness in taking everything in it. Society (user social media) must be able to sort out and choose what should be accepted and what should be rejected. This is especially true of matters related to religious matters, such as various bad doctrines spread through social media. Thus, the community must be able to filter the various information that comes in and must be moderate to the various information before finally deciding to take a stand. Keywords: Literacy, Moderation, Social Media


Shibboleth ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Marc Redfield

In the Book of Judges, the Gileadites use the word shibboleth to target and kill members of a closely related tribe, the Ephraimites, who cannot pronounce the initial shin phoneme. In modern European languages, shibboleth has come to mean a hard-to-falsify sign; it has also acquired the ancillary meanings of slogan or cliché. The word thus seems keyed to the waning of the logos in an era of technical reproducibility—to the proliferation of technologies and practices of encryption, decryption, exclusion and inclusion that saturate modern life. It is therefore useful to examine closely the inherited meaning of shibboleth as test-word. A relatively rare word, it figures powerfully at a crucial moment in William Faulkner’s Absalom! Absalom! and above all in poems by Paul Celan and in Jacques Derrida’s study of Celan. Subsequent chapters will read these texts carefully, together with the Biblical narrative.


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-152
Author(s):  
Ahmad Saifuddin

Psychology is a science that studies about soul or psychiatric, mental processes, and personality through behavior and a series of other scientific methods. As a science that studies human behavior in a broad context, psychology has many branches and paradigms. On the other hand, the increasing psychological problems make research and psychology evolve rapidly. The impact of the rapid development of psychology is the emergence of Islamic psychology. Initially, Islamic psychology considers itself as a madhhab. However, nowaday Islamic psychology tries to reinforce its identity. One of them is by establishing the department of Islamic Psychology according to Regulation of the Minister of Religious Affairs No. 33 of 2016. This article tries to discuss about psychology and Islamic psychology, both scientific and college majors, which then is ended with a discussion about Islamic psychology ambiguity as a major. The used method is literature review and interview. The result shows that a lot of less precise points (occurred) on the establishment of Islamic Psychology majors; so that the Islamic psychology as a major needs to be reviewed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Ross

AbstractUse of network models to identify causal structure typically blocks reduction across the sciences. Entanglement of mental processes with environmental and intentional relationships, as Borsboom et al. argue, makes reduction of psychology to neuroscience particularly implausible. However, in psychiatry, a mental disorder can involve no brain disorder at all, even when the former crucially depends on aspects of brain structure. Gambling addiction constitutes an example.


2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Gantman ◽  
Robin Gomila ◽  
Joel E. Martinez ◽  
J. Nathan Matias ◽  
Elizabeth Levy Paluck ◽  
...  

AbstractA pragmatist philosophy of psychological science offers to the direct replication debate concrete recommendations and novel benefits that are not discussed in Zwaan et al. This philosophy guides our work as field experimentalists interested in behavioral measurement. Furthermore, all psychologists can relate to its ultimate aim set out by William James: to study mental processes that provide explanations for why people behave as they do in the world.


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