scholarly journals «Eucharist. The Sacrament of the Kingdom» as an Example of the Formation of the Personality and Theological Views of Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann

2021 ◽  
pp. 93-108
Author(s):  
Александр Ермолин
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
History Of ◽  
East And West ◽  
Student Christian Movement ◽  
Final Text

На основании источников рассматривается написание протопресвитером Александром Шмеманом главной книги его жизни - «Евхаристия. Таинство Царства». Цель анализа - проследить изменение отдельных взглядов и суждений отца Александра и историю формирования финального текста его главного богословского труда. Для этого были проанализированы «Дневники» отца Александра и его публикации на страницах «Вестника Русского Студенческого Христианского Движения». Два эти источника (один личного, а другой открытого характера) позволили представить, как шла работа над текстом книги, как многие её аспекты переосмыслялись и переписывались практически до последних дней жизни автора. Многие мысли относительно Евхаристии были опубликованы отцом Александром в «Вестнике». С одной стороны, многие идеи в книге повторяются, например, понимание богословия через богослужение. С другой стороны, «Евхаристия» - это действительно главный труд жизни отца Александра, и в ней он переосмыслил многие аспекты своих взглядов. Одной из сложных глав, которую Шмеман переписывал неоднократно, стала глава «Таинство Святого Духа». Во многом это связано с попыткой автора рассмотреть проблему Востока и Запада, православия и католицизма на страницах данной главы. On the basis of the sources, Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann writes the main book of his life - «The Eucharist. The Mystery of the Kingdom». The purpose of the analysis is to trace the change in individual views and judgments of Father Alexander and the history of the formation of the final text of his main theological work. For this, the «Diaries» of Father Alexander and his publications on the pages of the «Bulletin of the Russian Student Christian Movement» were analyzed. These two sources (one personal and the other open) made it possible to imagine how the work on the text of the book was going on, how many of its aspects were rethought and rewritten almost until the last days of the author’s life. Many thoughts on the Eucharist were published by Father Alexander in the «Bulletin». One of the difficult chapters, which Schmemann rewrote many times, was the chapter «The Sacrament of the Holy Spirit». This is largely due to the author’s attempt to consider the problem of East and West, Orthodoxy and Catholicism on the pages of this chapter.

scholarly journals Quranic Christology in Late Antiquity. ‘Isa ibn Maryam and His Divine Power (Energeia) in the Islamic Revelation

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 979
Author(s):  
Marco Demichelis
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Potential Influence ◽  
Son Of God ◽  
Divine Power ◽  
Early Islam ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

Christology and monotheism have been dogmatically linked in the long history of Islam-Christian dialogue since the beginning of the 8th century. The Qur’an, in an analytical perception of religious otherness, specifically in relation to Christianity, assumed a dual discernment: on the one hand, it adopts a sceptical position because Christians are assimilationist (2: 120, 135, 145; 5: 51), sectarian and made Jesus the son of God (4: 171; 5: 14–19, 73; 9: 30; 18: 4–5; 21: 26); on the other hand, they are commended over the Jews and ‘Isa ibn Maryam has been strengthened with the Holy Spirit by God himself (2: 59, 62, 87, 253; 3: 48; 5: 47, 73, 82, 85, 110). The importance of enforcing the consciousness of a Quranic Christology, specifically where it concerned the potential influence that Christological doctrines such as adoptionism and monoenergism had on early Islam in late antiquity, where it was based on the proto- Islamic understanding of Jesus, and where it was rooted in Patristic orthodox-unorthodox debates, fell into oblivion. How was the Quranic canonization process affected by the ongoing Christological debates of the 7th century? Could Heraclius’ monoenergism have played a concrete influence on Quranic Christology? And in which way did early Kalam debates on God’s speech and will remain linked to Quranic Christology?

scholarly journals The Ascension of Christ and Permanent Ecclesiogenesis: A Contribution to Pneumatological and Eschatological Ecclesiology

2021 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-94
Author(s):  
Andrzej Napiórkowski
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Other ◽  
Holy Trinity ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Temporal Reality ◽  
The One ◽  
The Church

What is the Ascension? Is it merely a narrative of a post-paschal community? In what spatio-temporal reality has it been fulfilled? How should we understand its placement in time: forty days after the Resurrection, and ten days prior to the Descent of the Holy Spirit? The Ascension should be analyzed integrally in connection with the mystery of death and the Resurrection. This paper presents an attempt at deepening New-Testament ecclesiogenesis while also moving away from the narrowed understanding that the Church emerged solely as a result of the words, deeds and person of Jesus Christ. On the one hand, it is a reference to the five stages of the Church's emergence as an event of the entire Holy Trinity in the still-unfinished history of salvation. On the other: it is a presentation of the typically ignored of the Ascension, which is usually reduced to the event of the Resurrection of the glorious Lord. Analysis of the Ascension – performed in the light of ecclesiogenesis – leads to uncovering the pneumatological and eschatological components, which are most interesting in reference to the multi-dimensional establishment of the Church and its mission.

Eugene IV and the First Dissolution of the Council of Basle

1967 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loy Bilderback
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Other ◽  
Essential Singularity ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Prime Determinant ◽  
The Will ◽  
Great Schism ◽  
The Church ◽  
Will Of God ◽  
Divine Guidance

The Council of Basle was officially charged with three basic concerns: the reform of the Church in head and members; the extirpation of heresy, particularly Bohemian Hussitism; and the attainment of peace among Christian Princes. Yet, the Council was most absorbed by, and is most remembered for, a fourth, unscheduled concern. From its outset, the prime determinant of the actions and decisions of the Council proved to be the problem of living and working with the Papacy. In retrospect it is easy to see that this problem was insoluble. One could not expect the efficient functioning of the Church if there was doubt or confusion about the will of God, and the presence of such doubt and confusion was certain so long as even two agencies could gain support for their contentions that they were directly recipient to the Holy Spirit. Singularity of headship was absolutely necessary to the orderly processes of the Church. Yet the contradiction of this essential singularity was implicit at Constance in the accommodation, by one another of the curialists, the protagonists of an absolute, papal monarchy, and the conciliarists, who sought divine guidance through periodic General Councils. This accommodation, in turn, was necessary if the doubt and confusion engendered by the Great Schism was to be resolved. At Basle, this contradiction was wrought into a conflict which attracted a variety of opportunists who could further their ancillary or extraneous ends through a posture of service to one side or the other, and in so doing they obfuscated the issues and prolonged the struggle.

scholarly journals The Deesis row from Piva: A contribution to the study of the iconostasis and icon painting of the monastery of Piva

Zograf ◽  
2014 ◽  
pp. 203-220
Author(s):  
Dragan Vojvodic ◽  
Milos Zivkovic
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Formed Part

The paper is devoted to the chronology of the genesis of the iconostasis and the choros of the monastery of Piva and to the attribution of some of their icons. It presents the hitherto unpublished Deesis row which formed part of the original altar screen and was painted sometime between 1586 and 1604. The Deeisis and the somewhat younger Crucifix (1606) were mounted on the old iconostasis above the despotic icons painted by Longin in 1573/1574. At least one of the two-sided icons from the subsequently made choros (1610/1611) is not his work. For the new carved wooden iconostasis (1638/1639) the Serbian painter Jovan painted the despotic icons and the icon of the Descent of the Holy Spirit in the upper tier. A disciple of his painted the other eleven icons of the Great Feasts.

The Spirit in Mark

Pneuma ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 400-408
Author(s):  
Blaine Charette
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
The Other ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Key Terms

Abstract There are fewer direct references to the Holy Spirit in Mark’s Gospel than in the other gospels. For this reason, there has been much less discussion of the significance of the Spirit to Mark’s theology in comparison with other gospels, particularly Luke and John. Yet in the case of Mark it is not helpful or appropriate to assess the importance of this subject based merely on the frequency of use of certain key terms. Of greater importance is the placement of references to the Spirit within the narrative structure of the Gospel and the manner in which the Spirit is brought into relation to other themes and topics that are central to the interests of the Gospel.

Trinity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Howard-Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Trinity

The doctrine of the Trinity is central to Christian theology. The part of the doctrine that concerns us here may be stated in these words: although the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are different persons, each is the same God as the other; they are not three Gods, but exactly one God. These words arguably imply a contradiction. For example, if the Father is not the same person as the Son, then the Father is not identical with the Son; thus, if each is a God, there are at least two Gods, which contradicts the claim that there is exactly one God. Analytic theologians have responded to this line of argument and others related to it. Each response aims to model a consistent doctrine of the Trinity, one that provides the resources to reject such arguments while retaining Trinitarian orthodoxy. We can classify these attempts by distinguishing those according to which there is no numerical sameness without identity from those according to which there is numerical sameness without identity. Attempts in the first group tend to raise worries about consistency with orthodoxy. Attempts in the second group tend to raise worries about intelligibility.

Is it possible to discover ‘the one’ intended meaning of the biblical authors?

2014 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-194
Author(s):  
C. Jason White
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Intended Meaning ◽  
Major Purpose ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Objective Meaning ◽  
The One ◽  
Reference Tools

AbstractA major pursuit of biblical studies, especially since the dawn of the Enlightenment, has been to discover the one, intended, objective meaning of the various biblical texts. Over the last several hundred years, a plethora of methodological paradigms, biblical language and reference tools, historical studies, sociological analyses, comparative linguistic investigations, and anthropological and cultural examinations have all been published through many outlets by a host of people for the purpose of finding THE meaning the biblical authors wished to convey to their respective audiences. Although the results of all these works have positively contributed to our knowledge of scripture in profound ways, the problem is this: none can claim that they have actually discovered this one objective meaning. This is not to say, however, that there are not better understandings of scripture which point more adequately to the originally intended meaning, but simply that the best anyone can do is interpret scripture. The consequence of interpretation, though, is the relativity of meaning. In other words, there are several interpretations of scripture which can validly point to the intended meaning of the biblical authors and texts. One purpose of this article, then, will be to explore why it is not possible to find the one intended meaning of scripture, by defining some key concepts (e.g. tradition and presupposition) in the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, who is one of the most influential names in the history of philosophical hermeneutics of the twentieth century, as interpreted by Merold Westphal.Some scriptural interpreters, especially evangelicals, are frightened by the idea that biblical meaning is relative because such a pluralistic approach can lead quickly to the demise of biblical infallibility and authority. A second major purpose of this article will be to help ease such fear by offering a biblically grounded theological justification for the interpretative plurality of scripture by looking at the relativity of meaning through the lens of the doctrine of the Trinity. This justification will suggest that the more we rely upon the Holy Spirit and act out our faith in God through Jesus Christ in and outside of the church, the better our interpretation of scripture will become.

Experiences of Spiritual Visitation and Impregnation: Potential Induction by Frequency-Modulated Transients from an Adjacent Clock

2001 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Persinger ◽  
S. A. Koren
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Complex Form ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Magnetic Anomalies ◽  
Brain Trauma ◽  
Female Adolescent ◽  
Left Shoulder ◽  
Left Handed ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
History Of

A left-handed Roman Catholic female adolescent with a history of early brain trauma reported nightly visitations by a sentient being. During one episode she experienced vibrations of the bed, an external presence along the left side that moved into her body, inner vaginal (not clitoral) and uterine sensations, and the sense of being impregnated by a force she attributed to the Holy Spirit. After the latter experience she felt an invisible baby superimposed upon her left shoulder. Analyses of the measurements for magnetic anomalies within her bedroom indicated an electric clock about 20 cm from her head while she slept. The complex form of the 4 microT magnetic pulses generated by the clock was similar to shapes that evoke electrical seizures in epileptic rats and sensitive humans.

Ecclesiology

2019 ◽  
pp. 224-240
Author(s):  
Tom Greggs
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Corporate Body ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Church

This chapter examines Bonhoeffer’s account of the church and advocates that throughout Bonhoeffer’s corpus there remains a desire to explicate the reality of the church in terms of its structural being with and for the other. This structure exists both internally in terms of its members’ relation to each other, and externally as the church relates as a corporate body to the world. The chapter considers Bonhoeffer’s ecclesiological method; the visibility of the church; vicarious representation; the church as the body of Christ; the agency of the Holy Spirit; preaching, the sacraments, and the offices of the church; and the question of the church in a religionless age.

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