scholarly journals Oneness and ‘the church in Taiwan’

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-69
Author(s):  
Gareth Paul Breen
Keyword(s):  
Object Oriented ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
Group Unity ◽  
The Church

Abstract Worldwide followers of the late Chinese Christian reformers Watchman Nee and Witness Lee share a central concern with human-divine ‘oneness’, but there are different understandings in different localities about how such oneness works. I utilize one such difference by analyzing group unity in Euro-America using Taiwanese understandings of oneness, which involve things (selfsame unities) but not relations. Experimenting with Dumontian, Strathernian, and object-oriented anthropologies, I show that anthropological analysis is currently possible (a) by emphasizing things, (b) by emphasizing relations, and (c) entirely without relations. Anthropology entirely without things, however, has not yet been achieved. I conclude by suggesting reasons why we might want to attain this final possibility in our approach to things and/or relations.

scholarly journals Oneness and ‘the church in Taiwan’

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-69
Author(s):  
Gareth Paul Breen
Keyword(s):  
Object Oriented ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
Group Unity ◽  
The Church

Worldwide followers of the late Chinese Christian reformers Watchman Nee and Witness Lee share a central concern with human-divine ‘oneness’, but there are different understandings in different localities about how such oneness works. I utilize one such difference by analyzing group unity in Euro-America using Taiwanese understandings of oneness, which involve things (selfsame unities) but not relations. Experimenting with Dumontian, Strathernian, and object-oriented anthropologies, I show that anthropological analysis is currently possible (a) by emphasizing things, (b) by emphasizing relations, and (c) entirely without relations. Anthropology entirely without things, however, has not yet been achieved. I conclude by suggesting reasons why we might want to attain this final possibility in our approach to things and/or relations.

scholarly journals A REFORMA PAPAL, A CONTINÊNCIA E O CELIBATO ECLESIÁSTICO: CONSIDERAÇÕES SOBRE AS PRÁTICAS LEGISLATIVAS DO PONTIFICADO DE INOCÊNCIO III (1198-1216)

2002 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andréia Cristina Lopes Frazão Da Silva ◽  
Marcelo Pereira Lima
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
General Character ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Ideal

Do século XI ao XIII, o papado liderou o movimento reformador que buscava uma transformação na organização da Igreja e da própria sociedade. Dentre as muitas questões que receberam a atenção do papado neste período, encontrava-se a preocupação com a moral clerical, em especial no tocante à continência e ao celibato, visando a um controle do corpo dos religiosos em prol da discretio. A preocupação central é discutir como, na prática legislativa, o ideal da continência e do celibato clerical foi apreendido. Neste sentido, nessa investigação, optou-se por estudar dois tipos de documentos legislativos: os cânones lateranenses I, II, III e IV, textos normativos de caráter geral, e as correspondências pontifícias do período do pontificado Inocêncio III (1198-1216). Abstract During the XI to the XIII centuries, the papacy led the reformer movement that looked for a transformation in the organization of the church and of the own society. Above the subjects that received the attention of the papacy in this period were the atention to the clerical moral, especially concerning the continence and the celibacy, seeking a control of the body of the religious persons in prol of the discretio. Our central concern is to discuss as, in the legislative practice, the ideal of the continence and of the clerical celibacy was apprehended. In this sense, in our investigation, we opted for studying two types of legislative documents: the canons lateranenses I, II, III and IV, normative texts of general character, and the papal correspondences of the period of the pontificate Innocent III (1198-1216).

Biblical Theology and Preaching

1958 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-405
Author(s):  
Donald G. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Theology ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Church

Biblical theology is difficult, if not impossible, to define. In broadest terms, however, we may say that it is the conviction that the central concern of the Church is with the Word of God in the Bible.

Justification and Eschatology in Luther's Thought

1969 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-174
Author(s):  
George Wolfgang Forell
Keyword(s):  
Church Of God ◽  
Human Reason ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Doctrine

The juxtaposition of “justification” and “eschatology” in Luther's thought seems at first strikingly inappropriate. Justification is undoubtedly the central concern in Luther's theological effort. It was to Luther “the master and prince, the lord, the ruler and the judge over all kinds of doctrines; it preserves and governs all church doctrine and raises up our conscience before God. Without this article the world is utter death and darkness. No error is so insignificant, so clumsy, so outworn as not to be supremely pleasing to human reason and to seduce us if we are without the knowledge and the contemplation of this article.” Earlier he had written, “This article is the head and the cornerstone, which alone begets, nourishes, builds, serves and defends the church of God.

Spiritual Healing, Sick Kids and the Law: Inequities in the American Healthcare System

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 269-299
Author(s):  
Janna C. Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Medical Science ◽  
Spiritual Healing ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
Human Need ◽  
East End ◽  
The Church

Main Street in Sarasota, Florida. A high-tech medical arts building rises from the east end, the county's historic three-story courthouse is two blocks to the west and sandwiched in between is the First Church of Christ, Scientist. A verse inscribed on the wall behind the pulpit of the church reads: “Divine Love Always Has Met and Always Will Meet Every Human Need.” This is the church where William and Christine Hermanson worshipped. It is just a few steps away from the courthouse where they were convicted of child abuse and third-degree murder for failing to provide conventional medical care for their seven-year-old daughter.This Article is about the intersection of “divine love” and “the best interests of the child.” It is about a pluralistic society where the dominant culture reveres medical science, but where a religious minority shuns and perhaps fears that same medical science. It is also about the struggle among different religious interests to define the legal rights of the citizenry.

Ideas and Leaders in Contentious Politics: One Parish Priest in El Salvador's Popular Movement

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 76-101
Author(s):  
PETER M. SANCHEZ
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Parish Priest ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Resource Mobilisation ◽  
The Church

AbstractThis paper examines the actions of one Salvadorean priest – Padre David Rodríguez – in one parish – Tecoluca – to underscore the importance of religious leadership in the rise of El Salvador's contentious political movement that began in the early 1970s, when the guerrilla organisations were only just beginning to develop. Catholic leaders became engaged in promoting contentious politics, however, only after the Church had experienced an ideological conversion, commonly referred to as liberation theology. A focus on one priest, in one parish, allows for generalisation, since scores of priests, nuns and lay workers in El Salvador followed the same injustice frame and tactics that generated extensive political mobilisation throughout the country. While structural conditions, collective action and resource mobilisation are undoubtedly necessary, the case of religious leaders in El Salvador suggests that ideas and leadership are of vital importance for the rise of contentious politics at a particular historical moment.

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