scholarly journals Telaah Kritis Konstruktif Struktur dan Isi Pemahaman Bersama Iman Kristen dalam Perspektif Lutheran

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Riris Johanna Siagian
Keyword(s):  
Christian Faith ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Constructive Analysis ◽  
Church Unity

The Understanding of  Together Christian Faith was the second document of the four of church unity document (DKG), was published by the resource department of Indonesia Church Communion. This document has seven chapters, the first chapter is talking about God, and the last chapter is talking about the Holy Bible. Since this document was published as a document of together in Indonesia in 1984 at Ambon, for churches have good awareness to get a theology for together in understanding. Nowadays, Indonesia has many problems about how to manage many persons with much different religion. For goal by doing a constructive analysis in Lutheran perspective for this document is very important to prepare this document to be relevant in many situations especially in multicultural, ethnic and religious context in Indonesia.AbstrakPemahaman Bersama Iman Kristen (PBIK) adalah dokumen kedua dari  empat bagian  Dokumen Keesaan Gereja (DKG), yang diterbitkan oleh Litbang Persekutuan Gereja-gereja di Indonesia. Dokumen ini terdiri dari 7 bab. Bab I, memuat  tentang Allah, dan bab terakhir yakni bab 7, memuat tentang Alkitab. Sejak ditetapkan sebagai Pengakuan Iman Bersama di Indonesia tahun 1984 di Ambon, bagi gereja-gereja makin tumbuh kesadaran akan pentingnya satu teologi yang dapat dipahami bersama sehingga aksi oikumenis dapat dilakukan dalam kehidupan beragama di Indonesia. Telaah kritis konstruktif dari perspektif Lutheran  atas dokumen ini dilakukan terutama untuk mempersiapkan agar dokumen ini tetap relevan menghadapi berbagai persoalan sosial dan kecenderungan di tengah-tengah masyarakat yang multikultural dalam konteks Indonesia.

scholarly journals Calvin’s view on church discipline and unity: a South African perspective

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
P.J. Strauss
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
John Calvin ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Church Members ◽  
Church Discipline ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Church Unity ◽  
African Perspective ◽  
The Church

The reformer John Calvin, born in 1509, considers discipline and unity as two essential aspects of the Christian church. According to him, the bond of church discipline is a way to unite church members in the truth of the Word and the Christian faith based thereupon. If discipline is exercised with exaggerated strictness and without compassion, tolerance and love, it can break the unity. Because church unity is essentially a unity of faith, or a unity in the truth of the Word, discipline can sever adulterated elements that threaten the unity from the church. Discipline, if correctly ap- plied, builds the unity of the church as a unity in religious truths.

The Religious Transmission of Evolutionary Theory in Meiji-Era Japan

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Clinton Godart
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Meiji Period ◽  
Meiji Era ◽  
Mediating Factor ◽  
Religious Transmission

Religion was a crucial mediating factor in the early transmission of evolutionary theory to Japan. Even before the Meiji period, certain evolutionary ideas appeared within a religious context. Evolutionary theory and Christianity arrived in Japan in the same period, and conflict ensued as the early conveyors of evolutionary theory, such as Edward S. Morse and Ernest Fenollosa presented the theory as one that delegitimized Christianity; simultaneously, several important Christian missionaries and Japanese Christian thinkers, presented science and Christian faith as part of one package necessary for the modernization of Japan.

The state of the churches in Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-174
Author(s):  
Darrell Richard Jackson
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Christian Service ◽  
The Many

Frequently, one-sided and reductionist accounts of the Christian faith in Europe portray a picture of ecclesial decline and erosion of orthodox belief. Such accounts typically fail to allow for the potential reversal of religious fortunes, overlook the more nuanced accounts of religiosity, secularity, and spirituality, are ignorant regarding the likely impact of immigrant faith upon European Christianity, and are blind to the many churches that are innovating and establishing creative communities of faith that are awakening, re-awakening, and sustaining authentic Christian faith. This article provides a basis for examining many of these factors, and suggests that Europe’s highly diverse and complex socio-religious context is simultaneously pre-secular, secular, and post-secular. In this context, the churches of Europe have faced many challenges but find, in equal measure, many opportunities for witness and Christian service.

The Philosopher's Progress: C.S. Lewis' Intellectual Journey from Atheism to Theism

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-143
Author(s):  
Norbert Feinendegen
Keyword(s):  
Christian Faith ◽  
Philosophical Position ◽  
Absolute Idealism ◽  
Intellectual Journey ◽  
Philosophical Progress ◽  
Philosophical Understanding

Although Lewis describes his intellectual journey to the Christian faith in Surprised by Joy and The Pilgrim's Regress, the actual steps of his progress from Atheism to Theism are still a matter of controversy. Based on Lewis' letters, his diary All My Road Before Me and recently published sources (in particular ‘Early Prose Joy’), this paper gives an outline of the main steps of Lewis' philosophical progress during the 1920s. The first part sketches the five main stages Materialism, Realism, Absolute Idealism, Subjective Idealism, and Theism, and submits a proposal for their dating. The second part describes these stages in greater detail and discusses the reasons that urged Lewis to adopt a new philosophical position at a particular time. It will become apparent that a thorough philosophical understanding of these stages is an indispensable prerequisite for any serious effort to establish a chronology of Lewis' intellectual progress during these years.

Hope’s Movement toward Love in More and Aquinas

Moreana ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 40 (Number 153- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 159-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter M. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Thomas More ◽  
Church Unity

How do we ever arrive at loving an enemy? In the life of Thomas More, we witness such a change of heart. His antagonism toward those who threatened church unity is well known, but, from his prison cell, he confesses to a love for all. More’s understanding of hope helps us to learn something about the nature of this transformation. In a frame of mind that suggests the teachings of Aquinas, he despairs of his own merits and, after entrusting himself to God, he finds reason to hope for the hopeless, both for himself and all others, even his enemies.

Charismatic Movements, State Relations and Public Governance in Sierra Leone

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-256
Author(s):  
Joseph Bosco Bangura
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Church Development ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
State Relations ◽  
New Church Development ◽  
The Church

Sierra Leone has seen the rise of Charismatic movements that are bringing about greater levels of co-operation with the state. This new church development aims at renewing the Christian faith and projecting a more proactive role towards public governance. This ecclesial development shows that African Pentecostal/Charismatic theology appears to be moving away from the perceived isolationist theology that once separated the church from involvement with the rest of society. By reapplying the movement's eschatological beliefs, Charismatics are presenting themselves as moral crusaders who regard it as their responsibility to transform public governance. The article probes this relationship so that the Charismatic understanding of poverty, prosperity, good governance and socio-economic development in Sierra Leone can be more clearly established.

The Beginnings of Islam in Afghanistan

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arezou Azad
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Political System ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Early Islam ◽  
History Of ◽  
Initial Conversion ◽  
The Way

Covering the period from 709 to 871, this chapter traces the initial conversion of Afghanistan from Zoroastrianism and Buddhism to Islam. Highlighting the differential developments in four regions of Afghanistan, it discusses the very earliest history of Afghan Islam both as a religion and as a political system in the form of a caliphate.  The chapter draws on under-utilized sources, such as fourth to eighth century Bactrian documents from Tukharistan and medieval Arabic and Persian histories of Balkh, Herat and Sistan. In so doing, it offers a paradigm shift in the way early Islam is understood by arguing that it did not arrive in Afghanistan as a finished product, but instead grew out of Afghanistan’s multi-religious context. Through fusions with Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, early Abrahamic traditions, and local cult practices, the Islam that resulted was less an Arab Islam that was imported wholesale than a patchwork of various cultural practices.

“Proclaiming Together”? Convergence and Divergence in Mainline and Evangelical Evangelism, 1945-1967

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-76
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Berg
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Relative Priority ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Mainline Denominations ◽  
Convergence And Divergence ◽  
Protestant Christians ◽  
Dividing Line

By now, it is a commonplace of the American religious scene that the majority of the nation's white Protestant Christians are split into “two parties.” The ideological dividing line runs between “mainline” denominations—Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians—and a bevy of conservative denominations and groups, but it also cuts through the mainline itself, which contains a substantial contingent of conservatives.Among the two parties' numerous disagreements, theological and political, few have run deeper and longer than their difference over the meaning and importance of evangelism, the activity of “proclaiming the gospel” to those outside the Christian community. Is the church's prime call in this regard to seek conversions to the Christian faith, or is it to show the love of Christ by working for charitable goals and social justice? A well-known 1973 study of Presbyterian clergy found that the greatest polarization between self-described “conservatives” and “liberals” came over the relative priority of evangelism and social action. Indeed, the fight over these goals was an important (though by no means the only) factor precipitating the “split” early in this century.

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