scholarly journals The Concept of Spiritual Warfare and the Christian World View from the Viewpoint of ‘Reformed Life Theology’

Life and Word ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-46
Author(s):  
Pilkyun Kim
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Spiritual Warfare ◽  
Christian World View

God and Mammon

1997 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 242-247
Author(s):  
Lamin Sanneh
Keyword(s):  
Market Efficiency ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
World View ◽  
Household Economy ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Economic Strategies ◽  
Personal Dignity ◽  
Christian World View

AbstractThe modem market economy, maintains Lamin Sanneh in his Forum Paper, has shifted the emphasis in economy from the idea of the sustainable "household" (economy in its etymological meaning) to the accumulation and exchange of goods and services for profit. Market efficiency has taken primacy over human solidarity and personal dignity, and is thus in conflict with the fundamental Christian world view. Theology needs to level a critique at such economic strategies, particularly because the proponents of such strategies often appeal to biblical and gospel principles for justification. But, as scripture makes clear, there can be no "Gospel of Wealth" at the expense of the poor and marginalized of this earth.

scholarly journals The commandment of love in Kierkegaard and Caputo

2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Knut Alfsvåg
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Unconditional Love ◽  
Christian World View

SummaryWhat is the relation between the gospel of unconditional grace and the commandment of unconditional love, and what are the conditions for realizing the commandment when a Christian world view can no longer be taken for granted? These questions are here explored by means of Kierkegaard’s

scholarly journals Letters and the Topography of Early Christianity

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith M. Lieu
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
World View ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Letter Writing ◽  
Temporal Distance ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Christian World View ◽  
As If

While embedded in contemporary letter-writing conventions, early Christian letters were also instrumental in the creation of a distinctive Christian world-view. Fundamental to letters of all types, ‘real’ and fictional, is that they respond to, and hence negotiate and seek to overcome, actual and imagined spatial and temporal distance between author and recipient(s). In practice and as cultural symbols, letters, sent and transmitted in new contexts, as well as letter collections, produced in the Christian imagination new trans-locational and cross-temporal dynamics of relationality that can be mapped onto the standard epistolary topoi – ‘absent as if present’, half a conversation, a mirror of the soul.

scholarly journals Kenōsis in sexuality

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David T. Williams
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Biblical Authority ◽  
Marriage And Divorce ◽  
Imitation Of Christ ◽  
Christian World View

Recent decades have witnessed both a shift in sexual standards, and the loss of the Biblical authority which has traditionally motivated them. This has been the case even with Christians. It is therefore necessary to suggest a new motive for morality, especially in this area. A possibility is the idea of the imitation of Christ, adopting the principles on which he acted, which can be summed up as kenōsis, or self-limitation. Jesus was fundamentally limited through being incarnate; human beings are likewise limited, also with regard to their sexuality. Jesus adopted the practice of self-limitation, seen in his humility; Christians, in imitation of him, likewise should practise self-limitation. Indeed, the manifestation and practice of sexuality is fundamentally limited in any case by its very nature. If the principle of kenōsis is applied in the areas of marriage and divorce, and in related issues such as homosexuality or chastity, it serves to underpin what is a traditional set of practices in a way consistent with a Christian world-view.

scholarly journals Cú Roí and Svyatogor: A Study in Chthonic

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 64-74
Author(s):  
Grigory Bondarenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
World View ◽  
Sir Gawain ◽  
Christian World View

Both Early Irish and Russian mythological traditions demonstrate a particular example of an extraordinary character showing supernatural features as well as the features of a chthonic monster: it is Cú Roí mac Daire on the Irish side, and Svyatogor on the Russian side. We have to be careful before arguing that these two mythological characters reflect one particular archetype of a monstrous chthonic creature (cf. views expressed by Henderson (1899) in Ireland and Putilov (1986) in Russia); on the contrary, one has to consider both heroes as complex and independent entities who appear in the two quite distinct mythologies (Early Irish and Russian). This is especially true in relation to the Russian tradition of bylinas which have been preserved orally until the first published editions of the nineteenth century. An authentic term for bylina among Russian performers was starina (‘ancient story, history’, an exact equivalent of OI senchas). Both the Early Irish and Russian mythological traditions as they have survived in the textual forms (notwithstanding the differences of their background) bear clear traces of a Christian world-view which makes it even more difficult to establish certain pre-Christian religious or ritualistic patterns allegedly connected with the characters discussed. Nevertheless, archetypal typological similarities between these two heroes make them look like distorted reflections of an ancient chthonic creature/titan, well known in the basic myth. For example, the Indian myth of the heroic god (deva) Indra who fights the arch-titan (asura) (Namuci or Vṛtrá) was one of the sources for Coomaraswamy’s interpretation of ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’, a mediaeval romance based on ‘beheading game’ reflected in the early Irish tale Fled Bricrenn (Coomaraswamy 1944: 105-106). The aim of the present paper is to trace these typological similarities which sometimes will lead us to different characters and plots both in Early Irish and in Russian material.

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