Practical Theology of Saint John of Kronstadt

2020 ◽  
pp. 63-76
Author(s):  
Михаил Степанович Иванов
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Pastoral Ministry ◽  
Saint John ◽  
Cross Of Christ ◽  
Theological Orientation ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Important Note ◽  
Phd Thesis

в статье анализируется богословская направленность пастырского служения святого праведного иоанна кронштадтского. При этом опровергаются ошибочные представления, согласно которым протоиерей иоанн, будучи всецело погружённым в душепопечение о всероссийской пастве, никогда не занимался богословием. такие представления привели к тому, что «для русского богословия, - как отмечает прот. г. Флоровский, - значение прот. иоанна ещё до сих пор вполне не опознано». далее прослеживается творческий путь отца иоанна как студента духовной академии, анализируются его кандидатская диссертация «о кресте Христовом», его дальнейшие размышления о божественном домостроительстве и святой евхаристии. При этом делается важное замечание: протоиерей иоанн профессиональным богословом действительно никогда не был, потому что как пастырство, так и богословие для него были не профессией, а призванием. на этом фоне как раз и выявляется специфика богословского творчества, присущая отцу иоанну. The article analyzes the theological orientation of the pastoral Ministry of Saint John of Kronstadt. At the same time, erroneous ideas are refuted, according to which Archpriest John, being completely immersed in the spiritual care of the all-Russian flock, never engaged in theology. Such views led to the fact that «for Russian theology, as prot. G. Florovsky,- the value of the prot. John has not yet been fully identified». Further, the author traces the creative path of father John as a student of the Theological Academy, analyzes his PhD thesis «On the Cross of Christ», and his further reflections on the Divine economy and the Holy Eucharist. At the same time, an important note is made: Archpriest John was never a professional theologian, because both pastoral care and theology were not a profession for him, but a vocation. Against this background, the specificity of theological creativity inherent in father John is revealed.

scholarly journals Pendampingan Pastoral Dengan Paradigma Spiritual Care Pada Pernikahan Beda Agama

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-35
Author(s):  
Robinson Simanungkalit
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Pastoral Theology ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Pastoral Ministry ◽  
Qualitative Research Method ◽  
Contemporary Perspective ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

AbstrakPernikahan beda agama adalah sebuah fenomena dan realita yang tidak bisa dihindari. Fenomena ini telah menimbulkan berbagai reaksi bahkan kontroversi dari berbagai kalangan. Apologetika Teologipun berkembang untuk merespons fenomena ini. Terlepas dari kontroversi dan apologetika yang berkembang, isu ini telah menjadi sebuah konteks berteologi khususnya dalam perspektif Teologi pastoral yang kontekstual dan kontemporer. Metode penelitian yang dipakai dalam penelitian ini adalah metode penelitian kualitatif deskriptif melalui studi literatur. Tujuan penulisan artikel ini adalah untuk melihat bagaimana pendampingan pastoral dengan paradigma spiritual care yang menekankan prinsip person centered dihubungkan dengan fungsi-fungsi pendampingan pastoral.AbstractDifferent religion marriage is quite a phenomenon and an unavoidable a reality. This phenomenon has provoked various reactions and even controversies from various circles. Theological apology has also evolved to respond to this phenomenon. Despite the growing controversy and apologetics, this issue has become a theological context especially in the contextual and contemporary perspective of pastoral theology. The research method used in this study is a descriptive qualitative research method through literature studies. The purpose of writing this article is to see how pastoral ministry with a spiritual care paradigm that emphasizes the principle of person centered is associated with pastoral care functions.Kata kunci: Pendampingan pastoral, paradigma spiritual care, pernikahan beda agama

Pastoral Care of the Congregation

1997 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-394
Author(s):  
Gene Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Group Therapy ◽  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Pastoral Ministry ◽  
Important Resource ◽  
Congregational Care ◽  
Emotional Dimension

Focuses on the pastor's care of the congregation. Draws on group therapy and practical theology; and critiques two conflicting practical theology views of the pastor's personhood seen in relation to pastoral ministry. Presents a third alternative. Argues that the emotional dimension of the pastor's personhood is an important resource the pastor can use for congregational care.

scholarly journals Towards a narrative theological orientation in a global village from a postmodern urban South African perspective

2004 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 568-583
Author(s):  
Johann-Albrecht Meylahn
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Global Village ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
Urban South ◽  
Cross Of Christ ◽  
Theological Orientation ◽  
African Perspective ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Sacred Story

This article was motivated by two of the major challenges which I believe congregations are facing within  the context of ministry, namely postmodernity and globalization. After seeking a fuller description of these two challenges I sought  a theological orientation within such a context (postmodern global village) as well as an ecclesiological  praxis that could be transformative and redemptive within such a context. I  believe to have found in the narrative orientation an appropriate way for doing theology in the postmodern context. The climax of this journey (story) is in the fusion of horizons between the theory-laden questions of descriptive theology and  the historical texts of the Christian faith within the narrative orientation. I discovered that truly transformative and redemptive praxis is only possible within  language communities  narrative communities). These narrative communities cannot exist in isolation, but are continuously confronted and relativised by the stories of other communities in the global village and therefore these language communities need to be open to the fragmentation and pluralism of the global village, otherwise they will not be able to respond to the reality of the globalization and postmodernity. The narrative communities needed a story (sacred story) that did not deny the reality  of fragmentation  and pluralism, but could incorporate this reality into its story. I found this story in the story of the cross and  therefore refer to the narrative communities as communities  of  and under the cross  of Christ. These ideas formed the basis for a transformative praxis within a specific congregation, namely Pastoral Redemptive Communities. These narrative communities are not an answer to the postmodern global village, but they do offer a way of proclaiming Christ crucified and allowing the deconstruction of the cross to create a community which is a redemptive alternative to the reality of the postmodern global village. This journey was a critical journey in dialogue with other disciplines (economics, philosophy, psychology and sociology) thereby opening it up for further dialogue within these other sciences as well as dialogue with other religious communities.

Hostility to Hospitality: Authors’ Response

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-152
Author(s):  
Michael J. Balboni
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Holistic Care ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Constructive Criticism

AbstractThis article offers a brief response to constructive criticism of the book featured in this edition of Spiritual Care. Hostility to Hospitality argues that the role of spirituality within the care of sick patients, despite clear empirical evidence demonstrating its importance, remains deeply contested because of bias against religious communities. Deeply flawed conceptualizations of the nature of religion and the secular camouflage how a society's commitment to immanence functions like a spirituality. A secular framework weakens how spiritual communities can positively influence medical institutions or socialize professional guilds in caring for the whole patient. The diminishment of communities that champion compassion as a chief end, pave a way for hostile economic, technological, and bureaucratic forces to suppress our ability to fully care for patients in body and soul. Rather than being neutral as purported, the secular structures of medicine manipulate and use pastoral care for its own immanent ends. Hostility to Hospitality argues that unless pluralism is embraced, allowing for a diversity of religious communities to influence the structures of medicine, compassionate and holistic care will increasingly become unlikely as impersonal social forces increase.

scholarly journals The early Browning: Pastoral care in a pluralistic age and the method of practical moral inquiry

2012 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Hestenes
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Moral Inquiry ◽  
Past President ◽  
The Past ◽  
International Academy

The past president of the International Academy of Practical Theology, Prof. Donald Browning, has written books and articles across a wide variety of topics concerning the correlation of many great fields of knowledge, including theology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, practical theology, ethics, family therapy and ecology over the past 40 years. Prof. Browning passed away on 03 June 2010. This left the author of this article with a desire to begin to reassess some of Browning’s earlier reflections regarding his vision of pastoral care in a pluralistic age and the importance of his method of practical moral inquiry.

The Essence of Christianity and the Cross of Christ

1914 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 538-594
Author(s):  
Benjamin B. Warfield
Keyword(s):  
New Haven ◽  
Liberal Theology ◽  
Religious System ◽  
The World ◽  
Cross Of Christ ◽  
The Face ◽  
Divinity School ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Right

In a recent number of The Harvard Theological Review, Professor Douglas Clyde Macintosh of the Yale Divinity School outlines in a very interesting manner the religious system to which he gives his adherence. For “substance of doctrine” (to use a form of speech formerly quite familiar at New Haven) this religious system does not differ markedly from what is usually taught in the circles of the so-called “Liberal Theology.” Professor Macintosh has, however, his own way of construing and phrasing the common “Liberal” teaching; and his own way of construing and phrasing it presents a number of features which invite comment. It is tempting to turn aside to enumerate some of these, and perhaps to offer some remarks upon them. As we must make a selection, however, it seems best to confine ourselves to what appears on the face of it to be the most remarkable thing in Professor Macintosh's representations. This is his disposition to retain for his religious system the historical name of Christianity, although it utterly repudiates the cross of Christ, and in fact feels itself (in case of need) quite able to get along without even the person of Christ. A “new Christianity,” he is willing, to be sure, to allow that it is—a “new Christianity for which the world is waiting”; and as such he is perhaps something more than willing to separate it from what he varyingly speaks of as “the older Christianity,” “actual Christianity,” “historic Christianity,” “actual, historical Christianity.” He strenuously claims for it, nevertheless, the right to call itself by the name of “Christianity.”

Three Emerging Spiritual Practices in the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care (CASC): From Pastoral Care and Counselling to Multi-Faith, Evidence-Based Spiritual Care and Psycho-Spiritual Therapy

2021 ◽  
pp. 154230502110366
Author(s):  
Thomas St. James O’Connor ◽  
Elizabeth Meakes
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Process Theology ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
Spiritual Therapy ◽  
Integrated Psychotherapy ◽  
The Relationship

Describes the relationship between practice and theory (praxis) along with an examination of changes in the last 40 years in the praxis of pastoral care and counselling in the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care (CASC) that led to spiritual care and psycho-spiritual therapy. Developments in spiritual practices include growth in multi-faith, evidence-based spiritual care, and spiritually integrated psychotherapy (psycho-spiritual therapy). Suggests further areas of research and reflection including process theology.

scholarly journals Meditation and perception: some notes on the psychology of religious mysticism

1970 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 34-46
Author(s):  
Hjalmar Sundén
Keyword(s):  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Physiological Conditions ◽  
Saint John ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mystical Experiences ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Difference ◽  
John Of The Cross

The study of mysticism must be carried on with more attention paid to the meditative techniques used by mystics and to the problems of perception. In this paper the author presents some remarks on the difference between Saint Teresa and Saint John of the Cross, and then mentions some recent studies of meditation and some problems of perception. If meditative techniques have become of great importance in psychotheraphy, the organismic approach of the "mindcurers" and their results will permit us to complete phenomenological descriptions of mystic conscious states with more exact information of their physiological conditions. In this way "mystical experiences" in general can be seen as results of meditative techniques and we need not regard "an hysterical predisposition" of the subject as their necessary condition.

scholarly journals Paradoks Salib: Keindahan Wajah Kemuliaan Allah

MELINTAS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-94
Author(s):  
Joko Umbara
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Tree Of Life ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
God's Love ◽  
Cross Of Christ ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Tragic Drama

An experience of the cross of Jesus Christ in Christian theology brings the sense of paradox. Christ’s death on the cross reflects the fate of humanity within the context of Christian faith. The cross is also seen as a mystery that tells the tragic story of humans who accept their punishment. However, the cross of Jesus Christ also reveals meanings that challenge Christians to find answers in their contemplation of the cross. The cross becomes a stage for human tragic drama, which might also reveal the beauty of death and life. It is the phatos of humanity, for every human being will die, but it is also seen as the tree of life hoped for by every faithful. On the cross is visible God’s self-giving through the love shown by the crucified Christ. God speaks God’s love not only through words, that is, in the teachings of Jesus Christ, but also through Christ’s loving gesture on the cross. The cross of Christ is the culmination of God’s glory and through it, God’s glory is shown in the beauty of divine love.

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