scholarly journals Eco Valley or New Vraja Dham? Competing Emic Interpretations of the Hungarian Krishna Valley

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 622
Author(s):  
Judit Farkas
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Ecological Aspect ◽  
Sacred Place ◽  
Sustainable Lifestyle ◽  
The One ◽  
Eco Village ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

One of the reasons for the spread of the Western Hare Krishna movement is that it offers several alternatives for the practice of religion: devotees can be full-fledged members of the church in congregations located in complex urban or in simple rural contexts. An example of the latter is Krishna Valley, where approximately 130 Krishna-devotees live austere lives. My paper presents the interpretations of this settlement concentrating on (multiple) internal (emic) views: On the one hand, I will show how the leadership of the church contextualizes and interprets Krishna Valley and how they wish the inhabitants to conceptualize it. On the other hand, I will also show what Krishna Valley means for its ordinary inhabitants and what interpretations those living there attach to it. When I was gathering material for the current paper, Krishna Valley was in flux. The settlement has always favored following a sustainable lifestyle but—due in part to the strengthening of the Hungarian eco-village movement—it was at this time that the conceptualization of Krishna Valley as an eco-village gained momentum. This was the heyday of the Eco Valley Foundation, which was to strengthen the eco-village aspect of the Valley, and in the communication of Krishna Valley the ecological aspect became paramount, drowning out all other interpretations. Not all inhabitants of the village welcomed this change and in response some began to emphasize the interpretation of Krishna Valley as a sacred place. In the current paper, I will present these two processes and the relationship between them through the lens of the interpretations of the members of the community.

scholarly journals La “nave” che salpa verso il paesaggio alpino: villa Borsotti a Balme

ARCHALP ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Dini
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
The Other ◽  
Stone Masonry ◽  
Mountain Landscape ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Local Dialect ◽  
Small House ◽  
The One ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Relationship

"The project for Villa Borsotti, whose construction ended in 1932, is the result of a collaboration between the architect Umberto Cuzzi and the artist Gigi Chessa, who built this small house at the edge of the village of Balme in Val d’Ala di Lanzo, in the area surrounding Turin. The essay focuses on the genesis of the project, with reference to the cultural and professional context within which the protagonists have worked. In terms of the relationship between the external aspect and its location in the Alpine context, the building seems to be characterized by the presence of two apparently opposite tendencies. On the one hand, the building looks for a contextualization in the mountain landscape through the declination in local key of a rationalist language, with a modern use of local dialect, composed of “lemmas” from the Alpine building tradition (stone masonry, wooden infill, bipartition between stone basement and wooden upper floor, etc.). At the same time, thanks to the bending configuration of the plan and the ribbon window, the surrounding environment also “enters” the house and becomes an integral part of it. On the other, the house seems to pursue the effect of alienation from the context through the conscious research of a formal autonomy with which the object “lands” in the natural framework of the valley. Another interesting trait of the house is the treatment of interiors according to the idea of configuring a wrap-around environment in which architecture and interior design are strongly intertwined."

I Doria e la chiesa di San Matteo a Genova nella seconda metà del Duecento

2021 ◽  
pp. 163-188
Author(s):  
Paola Guglielmotti
Keyword(s):  
Large Family ◽  
Urban Families ◽  
The Other ◽  
Small Church ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

The essay addresses the problem of the relationship between large aristocratic families and “noble parishes” in Genoa, by considering the case of the Doria and the church of San Matteo, founded in 1125 and whose reconstruction was planned in 1278. On the one hand, three qualifying aspects of the Doria kinship are examined in order to understand the role of the small church in enhancing the coordination of the group: i.e., positions of leadership and command in the maritime city and in its government; dispersion and presence outside Genoa; numerical strength, residence and leadership. On the other hand, the article considers the insertion of San Matteo in the monastic network (not only in Liguria) headed by the abbey of San Fruttuoso, and how its reconstruction allowed for the diversification of the large family internal and external relevance. The conclusion, thanks to the comparison with the experiences of other important urban families, shows the uniqueness of this case study and how broader and more systematic comparisons should be made, even outside the Genoese context.

scholarly journals Towards a Spiritual Empire: Christian Exegesis of the Universal Census at the Time of Jesus's Birth

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 16-30
Author(s):  
Tiziana Faitini
Keyword(s):  
Dante Alighieri ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Selection Of

This article focuses on the exegetical interpretation of Luke's narrative of the census (or registration) carried out at the time of Jesus's birth (Luke 2: 1–5). After some brief remarks on the juridical institution of the census (the so-calledprofessio census) in ancient Rome, a selection of the exegetical interpretations of this pericope developed by various ancient and medieval authors is presented. Origen, Ambrose, Orosius, Bede and Bonaventure are discussed, among others. A number of medieval authors, including Dante Alighieri and Bartolus of Saxoferrato, are also considered. The analysis argues, on the one hand, that a spiritualization of the institution of the census occurred and led to the spiritual empire of Christ being seen as replacing the temporal empire of Augustus; on the other, that reference to this institution was used to legitimize political authority in the eyes of believers. This interpretative tradition is thus shown to offer a vivid example of the close intertwining of theological and juridical concepts and practices which has characterized the relationship between the Church and empire from the former's very beginning.

scholarly journals Fallible Authority

Ecclesiology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-178
Author(s):  
Adrian Suter
Keyword(s):  
Church Leaders ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Papal Authority ◽  
The One ◽  
Deontic Authority ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

Old Catholic theologians have often underlined the relationship between papal supremacy and infallibility and the priority of the former: the pope has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, therefore he must be obeyed; but at the same time, he may be obeyed, because he will not mislead the Church due to his infallibility. This article analyses this relationship, applying differentiations on two axes: on the one hand, Bocheński’s typology of epistemic and deontic authority; on the other hand, the notions of personal, formal and constitutional authority. The fact that the infallibility dogma of Vatican i considers papal authority at the same time as epistemic and constitutional authority, is identified as a major weakness of the dogma. The article will then approach the question how church leaders should practise their deontic authority in a context where their (and everybody else’s) epistemic authority is considered to be fallible.

Theologians and the Magisterium: A Proposal for a Complementarity of Charisms through Dialogue

Horizons ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd A. Salzman ◽  
Michael G. Lawler
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
People Of God ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

ABSTRACTArchbishop Bernardin recommended that, in the relationship between magisterium and theologians, two extremes are to be avoided. On the one hand, there should be no imperialism on the part of the magisterium, co-opting theologians merely as mouthpieces for magisterial teachings. On the part of theologians, on the other hand, there should be no secession from the magisterium that would give theologians absolute autonomy and freedom from accountability. This essay analyzes the diverse charisms of magisterium and theologians and argues that they are complementary and that both parties should relate in the dialogue of charity recommended for ecumenical discussions in Pope John Paul II's Ut Unum Sint. This dialogue of charity, the essay further argues, should not be restricted to only magisterium and theologians but should embrace also, for upbuilding the Church, the entire People of God journeying together to the Holy Mystery.

scholarly journals Karol Wojtyła’s Philosophy on the Issue of Modernity

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-185
Author(s):  
Alfred Marek Wierzbicki
Keyword(s):  
Basic Property ◽  
Human Freedom ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethical Dimension ◽  
Turn On ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Modern Thought ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

Karol Wojtyła’s anthropology is characterised by a synthesis of objectivity and subjectivity, and his combination of aletheic and agapic notions. By accepting the modern anthropological turn, on the one hand, he attempted in his works a synthesis of the classic philosophy of being with the philosophy of awareness, and, on the other, he strived to correct the extreme anthropocentrism of modern thought. The author of the article analysed the relationship between Wojtyła’s concept of awareness and subjectivity with the personalistic style of John Paul II’s ministry of “man as the basic path of the Church.” The other pillar of the analysis is the question about the meaning of human freedom. In Wojtyła’s thought and in the teachings of John Paul II, any discussion of freedom as the basic property of a personal being was combined with a reflection on its ethical dimension.

scholarly journals What’s to bullying a bot?

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-80
Author(s):  
Merel Keijsers ◽  
Christoph Bartneck ◽  
Friederike Eyssel
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Aggression ◽  
Experimental Manipulation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Conversational Agents ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract In human-chatbot interaction, users casually and regularly offend and abuse the chatbot they are interacting with. The current paper explores the relationship between chatbot humanlikeness on the one hand and sexual advances and verbal aggression by the user on the other hand. 283 conversations between the Cleverbot chatbot and its users were harvested and analysed. Our results showed higher counts of user verbal aggression and sexual comments towards Cleverbot when Cleverbot appeared more humanlike in its behaviour. Caution is warranted with the interpretation of the results however as no experimental manipulation was conducted and causality can thus not be inferred. Nonetheless, the findings are relevant for both the research on the abuse of conversational agents, and the development of efficient approaches to discourage or prevent verbal aggression by chatbot users.

scholarly journals Średniowieczne drzwi brązowe i ich cykle obrazowe jako wyraz liturgii : analiza wybranych przykładów

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dariusz Tabor
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
The Other ◽  
Symbolic Representations ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Symbolic Images ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

The medieval bronze doors and its pictorial cycles as an expression of liturgy: analysis of selected examples The principal goal of this paper is to discovery a relationship between pictorial pro-grams of bronze doors of some european churches and the liturgy celebrated in these churches. There is a group of doors, that have been decorated with images represent-ing scenes of Old and New Testament. These are doors from Hildesheim, Verona, Płock and doors made by Bonanus of Pisa – from cathedrale of Pisa and cathedrale of Dariusz Tabor CR122 Monreale. Its pictorial cycles reveal some balance between images of Old and images of New Testament. On the one hand the Old Testament pictures seems to forecast the events of New Testament. On the other hand the doors of Płock, Piza and Monreale have strictly christological image program, although at the beginning of narative Old Testament elements were also introduced. All these programs are the result of the theological knowledge and sensitivity of clergymen, who designed them at that time. Lech Kalinowski interpreted church doors as a symbole of Christ. However only the alegorical interpetation of liturgy, having its origine in the carolingian culture, can give answer to the question on the relationship between images of doors and liturgy. The course of liturgy and its acts were understood as a recontrsuction of events of Christ’s life. So the background of the pictorial, christological cycles of bronze doors was a christological interpretation of the liturgy. However it is not only the matter of presenting the episods of life of Christ, but also of visualization of two mysteries – the Mystery of Incarnation and the Mystery of Salvation. The Gniezno door with the life cycle of saint Afdalbert, th doors of Trani and of Ravello, made by Barisanus, where hagiographic and symbolic representations predominate, as well as the door of Augsburg, whose symbolic images make many difficulties in reading them, are the exceptions and special cases. There are considerable difficulties in finding theirs connections to the liturgy celebrated in the church. Therefore they must be researched in a special way in the future

Torah and Dogma: A Comment

1968 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-105
Author(s):  
W. D. Davies
Keyword(s):  
Past History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

The suggestion has often been made recently that the relationship between Judaism and Christianity can be adequately described in terms of a “schism.” This suggestion is worthy of serious consideration. It has much to commend it. It promises new possibilities (badly needed in view of past history), because “schism” can be healed. But its mere attractiveness and beneficial potential should not blind us to the problems involved. Because the term “schism” presupposes an underlying unity, its use to describe the relation between the two faiths preserves an emphasis which, in our given situation, where the dependence of the Church on the Synagogue is not sufficiently recognized, is too easily lost. And yet, without very careful definition, the term “schism” may be misleading. Who are to be called schismatics? Is it Christians for leaving Judaism or Jews for rejecting the Christian Messiah and his people? As will become apparent in the following pages, there are two extreme positions to be avoided. On the one hand, that which regards the relationship between Judaism and Christianity at the present time as so close that that relationship is merely schismatic, and, on the other hand, that which regards that relationship as one of unrelieved antithesis.

Christus Virgo

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-27
Author(s):  
Sissel Undheim
Keyword(s):  
Moral Status ◽  
The Other ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
The One ◽  
The Church

The description of Christ as a virgin, 'Christus virgo', does occur at rare occasions in Early Christian and late antique texts. Considering that 'virgo' was a term that most commonly described the sexual and moral status of a member of the female sex, such representations of Christ as a virgin may exemplify some of the complex negotiations over gender, salvation, sanctity and Christology that we find in the writings of the Church fathers. The article provides some suggestions as to how we can understand the notion of the virgin Christ within the context of early Christian and late antique theological debates on the one hand, and in light of the growing interest in sacred virginity on the other.

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