AUX FONDEMENTS DE L’INSTITUTION ECCLÉSIALE: LA POSITION DE SAINT PIERRE PARMI LES APÔTRES (MT 16, 13–20) ET SON RETENTISSEMENT Á L’ÉPOQUE APOSTOLIQUE ET PATRISTIQUE

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-105
Author(s):  
Jacek Wojda
Keyword(s):  
Special Role ◽  
Church Community ◽  
Special Place ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

Big activity passed Popes, with the least Francis Bergoglio, is a question about receptiontheir lives and action, especially in times of modern medium broadcasting. Sometimes presentedcontent could be treated as sensation, and their receptiveness deprived of profound historical andtheological meaning. This article depends of beginnings of the Church, when it started to organizeitself, with well known historically-theological arguments. Peter confessed Jesus as the Christ andgot special place among Apostles. His role matures in young Church community, which is escapingfrom Jewish religion.Peter tramps the way from Jerusalem thru Antioch to Rome, confirming his appointing to thefirst among Apostles and to being Rock in the Church. Nascent Rome Church keeps this specialPeter’s succession. Clement, bishop of Rome, shows his prerogatives as a successor of Peter. Later,bishop of Cartagena, Cyprian, confirms special role both Peter and each bishop of Rome amongother bishops. He also was finding appropriate role for each of them. Church institution, basedon Peter and Apostles persists and shows truth of the beginnings and faithfulness to them innowadays papacy.Methodological elements Presented in the introduction let for the lecture of Gospel and patristictexts without positivistic prejudices presented in old literature of the subject.

scholarly journals Soviet Modernity: Stephen Kotkin and the Bolshevik Predicament

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNA KRYLOVA
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Master Narratives ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Collective Property ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

‘Modernity’ has long been a working category of historical analysis in Russian and Soviet studies. Like any established category, it bears a history of its own characterised by founding assumptions, conceptual possibilities and lasting interpretive habits. Stephen Kotkin's work has played a special role in framing the kind of scholarship this category has enabled and the kind of modernity it has assigned to twentieth-century Russia. Kotkin's 1995Magnetic Mountainintroduced the concept of ‘socialist modernity’. His continued work with the concept in his 2001Kritikaarticle ‘Modern Times’ and his 2001Armageddon Avertedmarked crucial moments in the history of the discipline and have positioned the author as a pioneering and dominant voice on the subject for nearly two decades. Given the defining nature of Kotkin's work, a critical discussion of its impact on the way the discipline conceives of Soviet modernisation and presents it to non-Russian fields is perhaps overdue. Here, I approach Kotkin's work on modernity as the field's collective property in need of a critical, deconstructive reading for its underlying assumptions, prescribed master narratives, and resultant paradoxes.

scholarly journals A celebração da Palavra de Deus restaurada pelo Vaticano II: autêntica ação litúrgica e celebração do Mistério Pascal de Cristo

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thiago Faccini Paro ◽  
André Luiz Massaro
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Specific Character ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Paschal Mystery ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo principal estudar os fundamentosteológicos e pastorais da Celebração da Palavra de Deus, resgatada peloConcílio Vaticano II. Os objetivos específicos desse trabalho são: apresentar aimportância da Celebração da Palavra de Deus no trabalho de evangelização daIgreja, apontando a inconsistência das resistências e incompreensões a respeitodo assunto. A Celebração da Palavra de Deus em sua estrutura é um valor herdadodos judeus, desde as grandes assembleias do primeiro Testamento (Cf. Ex19,24 e Ne 8,1-12) para a escuta da Palavra, até a estrutura da celebração noculto sinagogal (Lc 4,14-21), foi celebrada pelos primeiros cristãos, perdeu-sesua prática na história e foi restaurada pelo Vaticano II. Ela tem sua característicaespecífica e não é simplesmente um substitutivo da Celebração Eucarística. Ametodologia dessa pesquisa faz referência bibliográfica aos principais títulossobre o assunto na atualidade. Esse é o caminho percorrido dessa pesquisa:Faz-se análise da realidade, reflexão dos conceitos e desdobramentos práticos epastorais. Verifica-se, portanto, que, constatada a sacramentalidade da Palavrae da assembleia reunida, a Celebração da Palavra de Deus é autêntica açãolitúrgica e celebração do mistério pascal de Cristo. As famílias, como igrejas domésticas, podem ser bem mais evangelizados quando descobrirem a dimensãoorante da Palavra celebrada.Palavras-chave: Palavra de Deus. Assembleia. Ação Litúrgica. Mistério Pascal. Vaticano II.Abstract: This research has as main objective to study the theological andpastoral foundations of the Celebration of the Word of God, rescued by theSecond Vatican Council. The specific objectives of this work are: to present theimportance of the Celebration of the Word of God in the work of evangelizationof the Church; Pointing out the inconsistency of the resistances and misunderstandingsabout the subject. The Celebration of the Word of God in its structure isa value inherited from the Jews: from the great assemblies of the first covenant(cf. Ex 19,24 and Ne 8,1-12) to the listening of the Word, to the structure ofthe celebration in the The synagogue worship (Lc 4,14-21) was celebrated bythe early Christians, their practice in history was lost and restored by VaticanII. It has its specific character and is not simply a substitute for the EucharisticCelebration. The methodology of this research makes reference bibliographicalto the main titles on the subject nowadays. The way forward of this research:analysis of reality, reflection of concepts and practical and pastoral developments.It is verified, therefore, that the sacramentality of the Word and the assembledassembly have been verified, the celebration of the Word of God is authenticliturgical action and celebration of the paschal mystery of Christ. Families, likehouse churches, can be much more evangelized when they discover the prayingdimension of the Word celebrated.Keywords: Word of God. Assembly. Liturgical Action. Pascal Mystery. Vatican II.

scholarly journals ’n Pastoraal hermeneutiese lees van Paulus se briewe: 1 Tessalonisense as toetsgeval

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaco Putter
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Church Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Paul's Letters ◽  
Difficult Situations ◽  
Interactive Dynamic ◽  
The Church ◽  
Cognitive Areas ◽  
The Way ◽  
Church Communities

Paul’s letters, filled with pastoral content, are illustrating how he founded the church communities, shaping them and caring for them with various techniques. Paul shaped these communities within their own contexts after they had received and accepted the gospel. The outcome was that such a church community and its individuals created their own worldview from which they viewed and experienced the world. It is argued here that their worldview influenced the individuals’ and groups’ identity, values, norms and actions. All these aspects influenced each other in an interactive dynamic way with interdependence as a result. If one aspect changes, it affects all the other areas. These aspects are rooted in the individual’s emotive and cognitive areas. Paul addresses this in his letters by referring to these two areas on a constant basis by reflecting on how the converts had to change the way they thought and lived in order to imitate Christ. This motivated them to endure difficult situations they found themselves in. When reading Paul’s letters with this in mind a new pastoral understanding of it emerges, as illustrated with reference to 1 Thessalonians.

Sons of the Prophets: Domestic Clerical Seminaries in Late Georgian England

2014 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 318-330
Author(s):  
Sara Slinn
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Northern Province ◽  
North West ◽  
Classical Education ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Entrants ◽  
Georgian England ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

The late Georgian Church was not exclusively the preserve of the graduate clergyman: Oxford and Cambridge universities produced too few graduates to supply all the titles for orders. My current study of ordination records indicates that between 1780 and 1839 about one in four new entrants to the Church had no degree and that the majority of ordinands in Wales and the Northern Province were non-graduates, generally termed by contemporaries as ‘literates’. Why is this relevant to the subject of the household? The answer lies in the way in which these non-graduates prepared for ordination. There were various well-trodden routes: for instance in Wales and north-west England some grammar schools provided tertiary level study. But most non-graduate clerical aspirants followed a schoolboy classical education with private study, often assisted by a clergyman. This essay is concerned with a subsection of this type of preparation, the domestic clerical seminary, in which students prepared for ordination while residing in a clergyman’s family. It will consider the markets for such institutions, the nature of the pre-ordination training provided by them, and what a recognition of the operation of these seminaries contributes to an understanding of the channels through which emerging currents of ideology and professional practice flowed in this period.

scholarly journals Medellín, à luz do Vaticano II: Qual é a missão da Igreja dentro do continente Latino-americano?

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thiago Faccini Paro ◽  
André Luiz Massaro
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
The Other ◽  
Disciples Of Christ ◽  
Economic Dependence ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
The Church ◽  
People Today ◽  
The Way

Resumo: Essa pesquisa tem como objetivo, apresentar a resposta que Medellín deu aocontinente americano sob a luz do Vaticano II, em relação aos graves problemas que caracterizama vida de seu povo. Por um lado, a miséria, opressão, dependência econômica,política e cultural, e, de outro, um desejo e clamor de misericórdia e libertação, de umpovo impaciente por mudanças e transformações. O homem e a mulher são sujeitos datransformação do continente, como a Igreja pode ajudá-los; qual é a sua missão ? A metodologiadessa pesquisa faz referência bibliográfica aos principais títulos sobre o assunto.O caminho a ser percorrido será: análise da história e da realidade, reflexão de conceitose desdobramentos práticos e pastorais. A Igreja não poderá nunca se esquecer que: “Asalegrias e as esperanças, as tristezas e as angústias dos homens de hoje, sobretudodos pobres e dos que sofrem, são também as alegrias e as esperanças, as tristezas e asangústias dos discípulos de Cristo; e não há realidade alguma verdadeiramente humanaque não encontre eco no seu coração.”(GS 01)Palavras-chave: Medellín. Igreja. Vaticano II. Pobre. Missão.Abstract: This research aims to present the answer Medellin gave the American continentin the light of Vatican II, in relation to the serious problems that characterize the lives ofhis people. On the one hand, misery, oppression, economic dependence, political andcultural, and the other, a desire and cry for mercy and release of an impatient peoplefor change and transformation. The man and woman are subjects of the transformationof the continent, as the Church can help them; what is your mission? The methodologyof this research is bibliographical reference to the main titles on the subject. The way togo is: analysis of the history and reality, reflection concepts and practical and pastoraldevelopments. The Church can never forget that: “The joys and the hopes, the griefs andthe anxieties of people today, especially the poor and those who suffer, are also the joysand hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of disciples of Christ; and there is no reality trulyhuman fails to raise an echo in their hearts.” (GS 01)Keywords: Medellin. Church. Vatican II. Poor. Mission.

Circulation of St. Isaac of Nineveh’s Ascetical Homilies outside the Church of the East. Part I: History of Scholarship

2020 ◽  
pp. 144-159
Author(s):  
Алексей Дмитриевич Макаров
Keyword(s):  
Church Community ◽  
East Part ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Church Of The East ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Scholarship ◽  
Additional Support ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

Статья посвящена проблеме рецепции Первого собрания сочинений известного аскетического писателя Церкви Востока Исаака, епископа Ниневийского, христианами других конфессий. Исследование разделено на три части, первая из которых представляет собой критический обзор этой проблемы в научной литературе. Автор исследования ставит целью подробно проанализировать проблему рецепции Первого собрания св. Исаака за пределами Церкви Востока и выявить малоизученные аспекты той трансформации, в результате которой подвижник Церкви Востока стал одним из наиболее авторитетных святых для Сиро-Халкидонской и Сиро-Яковитской Церквей. На основании проведённого исследования автор делает вывод о том, что в своем историческом развитии исследование вопроса о конфессиональной принадлежности св. Исаака прошло несколько этапов. Первый характеризуется безусловным доверием к интерполированному яковитскому житию. Переход ко второму этапу произошёл после нахождения и публикации в 1892 г. «Книги целомудрия» Ишоʿднаха, епископа Басрского, и безоговорочном принятии аутентичности сообщаемых им сведений о св. Исааке. После этого события в науке утвердился консенсус о принадлежности св. Исаака к Церкви Востока, который нашёл дополнительное подтверждение в текстологическом и богословском анализе Первого собрания. Вслед за этим встал вопрос о том, кто стоит за созданием альтернативной редакции, в которой большая часть элементов, указывающих на несторианское происхождение автора, была нивелирована. П. Беджан и большинство исследователей вслед за ним считали, что за искажением стояли сиро-яковиты. Позиция же И. Осэрра, утверждавшего, что это могли сделать только мелькиты, оставалась без внимания вплоть до 2016 г., когда Г. М. Кессель, независимо от Осэрра, убедительно доказал истинность данного утверждения. После этого дискуссия по вопросу адаптации аскетических сочинений св. Исаака перешла на этап прояснения различных деталей трансформации первого собрания св. Исаака при пересечении конфессиональных границ. Isaac, bishop of Nineveh, belongs to the Church of the East’s most famous ascetic authors. This three-part study explores the way how the First Part of his writings was adopted in other Syriac Christian communities. The first part offers a review of the scholarship of the issue. Makarov offers a detailed study of how Isaac’s First Part reached beyond his own church community. He identifies the issues that need exploration before one attempts to found out how the famous Nestorian ascetic became so greatly admired by both Byzantine and Syriac Jacobite Orthodox Churches, to which he had never belonged. Makarov concludes that historically there have been several positions regarding Isaac of Nineveh’s actual church adherence. The first one was based on a totally uncritical approach to the interpolated Jacobite Life of Isaac. The second position was inaugurated after Bishop Ishoʿdnah of Basrah’s Book of Chastity had been discovered. The new source, which was also treated rather uncritically, initiated the widespread consensus that Isaac of Nineveh belonged to the Church of the East. That view received additional support from more recent studies of the First Part. As a consequence, a question arose who created the alternative redaction, in which any evidence for Isaac’s Nestorian connections was either erased or altered. According to Paul Bejan and other scholars who shared that view, it was the Jacobites who had altered the text. Irénée Hausherr’s claim that the altering could have been done only by the Melkites received little notice until 2016 when Grigory Kessel, independently from Hausherr, proved it true. That however did not put the debate over the alterations in Isaac’s ascetic writings to an end. The scholars still disagree on how exactly the First Part was changed as the texts crossed borders of different Christian communities.

Devotional Practices and the Development of the Church Building

2021 ◽  
pp. 330-350
Author(s):  
Nebojša Stanković
Keyword(s):  
Research Directions ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Religious Architecture ◽  
Devotional Practices ◽  
Church Building ◽  
Christian Worship ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Byzantine Church ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

Orthodox Christian worship and devotions determined the planning, organization, and form of religious architecture in Byzantium. However, a church does not merely house religious events; it also has an impact on the way they are accommodated within a defined space. This chapter presents Byzantine church building as it was understood by its users and developed in relation to various segments of liturgical ritual and forms of devotion. An effort is made to address all periods, include developments in regions outside the capital, and examine some manifestations beyond the church building. At the end, there is an overview of issues and problems in the study of the subject, and of potential research directions in the field.

scholarly journals A reforma da Igreja nos documentos das assembleias gerais do episcopado latino-americano

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (295) ◽  
pp. 653-666
Author(s):  
José De Jesús Legorreta
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Church Reform ◽  
The Subject ◽  
America Latina ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

Apresenta-se neste artigo uma análise da maneira como foi colocado o tema de conversão e/ou da reforma da Igreja na América Latina nos documentos emanados pelas Conferências Gerais do Episcopado Latino-americano, a partir da assembleia de Medellín, em 1968. Para isso, faz-se uma breve apresentação da referência eclesial-teológica de cada Conferência, para, em seguida e a partir de cada referência, assinalar os grandes eixos pelos quais se coloca o tema em questão.Abstract: In this paper an analysis is presented of the way as it has been raised the issue of the conversion and reform of the Church in Latin America, in the documents issued by the General Conference of Latin American Bishops from Medellín Assembly in 1968. They made a brief presentation of Ecclesial Theological framework of each conference and then proceed to put in that frame the great axes through wich the subject arises in question.Keywords: Latin American Church. Reform of the Church. Ecclesiology. Assemblies.

scholarly journals Skrifgebruik en Skrifgesag in die postmodernistiese konteks

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Janse van Rensburg
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Church Community ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

Scripture use and Scriptural authority in the postmodernist context. This article focused on the burning issue of the authority of Scripture and the way that it is currently used in the Christian and theological community. The research was necessitated by the gap between academic epistemology and the use of the Bible in religious activity. The research illustrated how a different understanding of the authority and interpretation of the Bible caused a clear division in church and society, particularly in the Reformed churches. The aim of the research was to illustrate the current abuse of the Bible in religious debate to legitimise pre-conceived convictions on theological and ethical issues. It was found that, even within the Reformed tradition, the opposing use of Scripture has caused diversity in the church community; thereby causing a serious break in the unity of the church. During the research process, it became clear that a radical new approach to Scriptural interpretation opposed the traditional Reformed understanding of the application of the Bible as per the three main confessions of the Reformed faith. What influenced such a radical new way of Scriptural authority? It was found that an analysis of philosophical systems, leading to the postmodern era, clearly prepared the way for an approach to search for the so-called true meaning of the text behind the text. This new approach was juxtaposed against the Reformed use of Scripture in the immanent text of the Bible and application thereof in the Reformed confession.Contribution: All over the world and also in South Africa, the church community seems to be drawn into a battle for survival. Many church members have lost their faith, abandoned the church membership or moved on to other religions, mainly due to the way Scripture is currently viewed and applied. Unless the confusion in the understanding of the Bible is cleared, the process will deteriorate rapidly. In particular, the theological training of ministers and pastors needs careful consideration. Some academics have denounced their faith in the existence of God in favour of a post-theistic conviction. Students are taught that the Bible is not the Word of God, but human words about God. Such convictions have caused great confusion in church communities. It is envisioned that this research, published in a scientific journal, will underline the urgent need for the church, in general, and the Reformed faith, in particular, not to ignore the seriousness of the matter.

scholarly journals Liturgiczna eklezjologia sakramentu kapłaństwa w obrządku wschodnim

2010 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Przemysław Nowakowski
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Church Community ◽  
Community Influence ◽  
Equal Importance ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Church

The subject matter of the above paper is the role and position of the Church community in the rite of ordination to the priesthood in the byzantine tradition. It has been considered the split of the orthodox ministers into the church ministers (lower ordination) and ordained ministers (higher ordination). The influence of the local community upon the election of the candidates to priesthood has been weakened with time and nowadays within the Orthodox Church only the local bishop decides about the appointment of the new ministers and only the imposition of hands is regarded as the sacramental rite. The contemporary liturgy of ordination, however, has preserved some significant elements reminding us about the former equal importance of the community influence, who used to elect by offering to God and at the same time to accept their shepherds. This role of the Church is expressed by three main parts of the rites: 1) the election of a candidate, 2) the imposition of hands of the bishop and prayer, 3) the reception of ordination and of the newly ordained. Out of the presented liturgy of ordination one can draw the outline of the eastern ecclesiology of the sacrament of ordination, already elaborated by Prof. N. Afanasiev. This kind of liturgical ecclesiology may be of some help to the contemporary Church in regaining her more active role in electing and apointing her ministers and shepherds.

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