scholarly journals Pendekatan Interpretasi Teologis Kitab Suci dan Prasuposisi-Prasuposisi Teologis di Baliknya

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-160
Author(s):  
Carmia Margaret
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Theological Interpretation ◽  
People Of God ◽  
Normative Function ◽  
The People ◽  
Royal Priesthood

Cukup banyak tokoh dan tulisan yang berupaya memperkenalkan, mendiskusikan, dan menunjukkan cara kerja pendekatan Interpretasi Teologis Kitab Suci atau yang lebih dikenal sebagai Theological Interpretation of Scripture (TIS), tetapi tidak banyak yang sebenarnya menbedah pemikiran-pemikiran teologis-filosofis di baliknya.  Tulisan ini akan memperkenalkan natur, esensi, dan karakteristik khas pendekatan TIS melalui beberapa konviksi pembentuk yang melatarbelakanginya, yang dapat diibaratkan sebagai “DNA” bagi pendekatan TIS dan sekaligus membedakannya dari pendekatan-pendekatan tafsir lainnya.  Pendekatan TIS agaknya paling baik dipahami sebagai pembacaan yang dilakukan di dalam dua konteks, yaitu konteks teologis dan ekklesial.  Dalam konteks teologis, pendekatan TIS percaya bahwa Kitab Suci sebagai tulisan yang bersifat sakral, Kitab Suci adalah medium komunikasi Ilahi kepada umat di sepanjang sejarah bahkan hingga hari ini, Kitab Suci memiliki kesatuan dalam seluruh bagiannya dengan Yesus Kristus sebagai pusat dan pengikat, dan Kitab Suci paling baik dibaca dengan kesadaran akan lensa teologis pembacanya.  Dalam konteks ekklesial, pendekatan TIS menekankan keimaman rajani seluruh anggota tubuh Kristus sebagai pembaca teks, keniscayaan komunitas di dalam pembacaan, dan fungsi normatif teks yang bertujuan menghasilkan transformasi dalam kehidupan umat. There are plenty figures and writings that attempt to introduce, discuss, and show the workings of Theological Interpretation of Scripture (TIS) as an approach in reading the Holy Scripture; however, not many that actually dissect the theological-philosophical thoughts laid behind it. This paper will discuss the nature, essence, and characteristics of the TIS approach through some of the forming convictions behind it, which can be said as "DNA" for the TIS approach and at the same time, differentiates it from other interpretive approaches. The TIS approach seems best understood as a reading that happened in two contexts, namely theological and ecclesial contexts. In a theological context, the TIS approach believes that the Scripture is a sacred writing, the Scripture is a medium of divine communication to people throughout history even today, the Scripture has a unity in all its parts with Jesus Christ as the center and binding, and the Scripture is best read with an awareness of theological lenses of the reader. In an ecclesial context, the TIS approach emphasizes the royal priesthood of all members of the body of Christ as readers of the text, the necessity of the community of believers in reading, and the normative function of the text aimed at producing transformation in the lives of the people of God.

Die kerk in die Nuwe Testament

1995 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
G. M.M. Pelser
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
People Of God ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The People ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Church

The church in the New Testament The article explores the documents of the New Testament in search of the concept church' and finds that,  in a nutshell, the answers are as follows: the  Spirit-controlled, charismatic togetherness of people 'in Christ' (Paul); cross-bearing followers of Jesus (Mk); the people of God on their way through history (Lk-Ac); the faithful locked in battle with Satanic powers, but with the expectation of occupying the heavenly Jerusalem (Rv); the  community with which Christ became solidary, and which is heading for its heavenly place of rest (Reb); the poor but pious community, putting their faith into practice (Ja); the body of Christ in which his universal reign can be experienced (Col); the sphere in which salvation is  realized (Eph); disciples following Jesus as God-with us, experiencing the  rift between synagogue and church (Mt); friends and confidants of Christ, living at loggerheads with the synagogue (In); the household of God, governed by householders (Pastorals); and the socia-ly ostracized elect of God whose way of life should be a demonstration of their otherness as Christians (1 Pt).

Joseph Ratzinger

2018 ◽  
pp. 448-466
Author(s):  
Theodor Dieter
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Local Churches ◽  
People Of God ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Joseph Ratzinger ◽  
The Church ◽  
Point Of Reference

Ratzinger’s ecclesiology is a Eucharistic ecclesiology: the church is the people of God existing from the sacramental Body of Christ and thus becoming the ecclesial Body of Christ. Therefore the church is communio: the communion at the table with Christ and among the believers, and also a communion of local churches (communio ecclesiarum) that is the basis for the collegiality of the bishops. The spiritual and institutional dimensions of the Body of Christ are mutually interwoven. In every particular church the universal church is present; its representation and the point of reference in doctrinal matters for all is the pope. The church serves the presence of the Word of God in the world in such a way that the Word as it is witnessed to in Holy Scripture is communicated to all by authorized witnesses. Witness (content) and witnesses are inseparable, as succession and tradition are mutually interrelated as form and content.

Beyond acedia and wrath: life during the climate apocalypse

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-207
Author(s):  
A. Robert Hirschfeld ◽  
Stephen Blackmer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
People Of God ◽  
Prodigal Son ◽  
Rightful Place ◽  
The People ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Ecological Disturbances

In a time when climate change and other ecological disturbances wreak havoc upon both human and natural “households,” how can the people of God respond beyond anger and acedia, or sloth? Easy as it is to be paralyzed by the magnitude of the problems, and tempting as it is to resort to anger and blame, could we follow the prodigal son in “returning to ourselves” and being restored to our rightful place in the household of God? The authors’ experiences with the River of Life Pilgrimage and Church of the Woods provide concrete examples of how the human members of the Body of Christ can be restored to kinship with our non-human sisters and brothers in Christ through immersion, song, praise, and sharing of bread and wine.

Roots into the Future: Recovering Gregorian Chant to Renew the Church's Voice

2006 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-54
Author(s):  
Smith Richard A.
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
First Century ◽  
Gregorian Chant ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Spiritual Power ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
People Of God ◽  
The People ◽  
Musical Excellence ◽  
The Church

In the Christian church, the people are the body of Christ. Somehow in the last half-century of reinventing, reimagining, re-creating, reviving, renewing, and restoring ourselves in the rush to become or stay “relevant,” that identity has frequently become blurred or lost altogether. Music in the church has been both a victim and a cause of this corrupted identity. Gregorian chant is well worth considering as a model for recovery in twenty―first―century worship. Its spiritual power and musical excellence may lead us to recover our voice as the people of God.

scholarly journals Investigating the Holy Eucharist and the term ‘people of God’ according to the Eastern Orthodox Church

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelo Nicolaides
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
People Of God ◽  
The People ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
God's Grace ◽  
The Church

This article unpacks aspects of the Eucharist and how it is understood in various churches using a literature study methodology. It also looks at the notion of the “people of God’. The Greek word εὐχαριστία (eucharistia), means "thanksgiving", appears fifteen times in the New Testament and is a critical aspect of the Christian faith. The weekly celebration of the Eucharist on Sunday’s is an requisite activity of the Church because the Eucharist establishes the Church as the Body of Christ. The Eucharistic celebration is also known as the Divine Liturgy and is believed to impart the actual Body and Blood of Christ to the faithful. In the act of communion, the entire Church, those past, present, and even forthcoming are unified in eternity. It is the source of her life, the superlative act of her thanksgiving and of her sacrifice of praise to the creator God. The Holy Eucharist is the very core of Christian life, and the means by which each believer is nourished by God's grace and tender mercy. At the Divine Liturgy, the Church is continuously changed from a human community into the Body of Christ, the temple of the Holy Spirit, and the holy People of God.

Pentecostal Ecclesiologies

2018 ◽  
pp. 334-358
Author(s):  
Amos Yong
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
People Of God ◽  
Pentecostal Movement ◽  
The People ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Charismatic Christianity ◽  
The Church

What can be said about ‘pentecostal ecclesiology’ when there are arguably many ‘pentecostalisms’ and just as many ecclesial forms across the world of pentecostal-charismatic Christianity? This chapter provides a basic sketch of such phenomenological diversity and then moves to present as a viable candidate for pentecostal ecclesiological reflection a pneumatological framework of the church as renewed by the Spirit and always renewing. The first section provides some historical perspective on the classical pentecostal movement The second and third sections argue that pentecostal ecclesiological dynamism is inspired largely by its pneumatic spirituality; they map emerging ecclesiological tendencies under the rubrics ‘the church as the charismatic fellowship of the Spirit’ and ‘the church as the people of God, the body of Christ, and the temple of the Holy Spirit’. While the former reflects some of the renewal distinctives about pentecostal ecclesiological self-understanding, the latter situates the pentecostal understanding of the church within the mainstream of ecclesiological developments.

The Kerygma of Romans

1971 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-328
Author(s):  
James P. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
People Of God ◽  
The People ◽  
World Mission ◽  
Obedience Of Faith

In the historical situation out of which Paul wrote, his kerygma offers the people of God, now reconstituted through Jesus Christ, a world-consciousness and calls them to a world-mission to bring about the obedience of faith among all nations.

Missiological Reflections on Difference: Foundations in the Gospel of Luke

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-79
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Glanville
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Gospel Of Luke ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Entire Body ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Racial Ethnic

AbstractThis paper explores missiological reflections on the Gospel of Luke for valuing differences in order to develop an understanding of human identity. Our identity in Jesus Christ supersedes racial, ethnic, and social identity and is based on an understanding of difference that affirms the uniqueness of each individual.A perspective that values human dignity and the dignity of difference, as per Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, stands in sharp contrast to the biblical images of Pharisees who separated themselves from the sinners, tax-collectors, and others. Likewise, Jesus, himself, in the Gospel of Luke, sets his message of the Kingdom of God over against the perspective of differences that established divisions as taught and practiced by the Pharisees. Andrew Walls and Paul Hiebert expound the need to value the contributions of other cultures to the understanding of God which will enrich the entire Body of Christ. Together these perspectives provide a foundation for exploring biblical passages for missiological reflections on difference.Missiological implications of difference that value human dignity are drawn and applied to relationships within the body, crossing cultural barriers with the message of Jesus Christ, and interfaith dialogue.

Martin Luther and the Eucharist

1983 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Stephenson
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Son Of God ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Presence ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Bodily Presence ◽  
The Church

Several years before the mode of Christ's eucharistic presence became a controverted issue which would presently provoke a lasting schism among the Churches of the Reformation, Luther could unaffectedly propound the traditional dogma of the bodily presence of Christ in the Sacrament of the Altar as a necessary consequence of the evangelical quest for the sensus grammaticus of the words of institution. The same exegetical method which led to his reappropriation of the doctrine of the justification of the sinner ‘by grace, for Christ's sake, through faith’ obliged him to confess that ‘the bread is the body of Christ’. Already here, in the mordantly anti-Roman treatise On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, Luther has laid his finger on the model in terms of which he will understand the real presence to the end of his days: the consecrated host is the body of Christ, just as the assumed humanity of jesus Christ is the Son of God. The displacement of the scholastic theory of transubstantiation by the model of the incarnate person illustrates the Reformer's allegiance to the Chalcedonian Definition: ‘Luther is really replacing Aristotelian categories by those derived from Chalcedonian christology, to which he remained faithful: “unconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably”.’ While the doctrine of the real presence moved from the periphery to the centre of Luther's theology and piety as the 1520s wore on, his conception of the modality of the eucharistic presence remained constant throughout.

scholarly journals Mission to the Gentiles: The construction of Christian identity and its relationship with ethics according to Paul

2012 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Nicklas ◽  
Herbert Schlögel
Keyword(s):  
Coordinate System ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
The Body ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Ethical Decisions ◽  
In Christ

Paul allowed pagans to become members of the newly founded communities of Christ-believers and thus members of God’s covenant people, Israel, without becoming circumcised. However, even if many of the ‘pagan Christians’ who became members of the new messianic movement had a background as God-Fearers in the frame of diaspora synagogues, the radicalism of their ‘step in faith’ can hardly be overestimated. With their turn from different pagan cults and their gods to the mysterious God of Israel and his crucified and risen Son, Jesus Christ, a whole coordinate system of human relationships, expectations, hopes and norms must have changed. This paper explores the construction of Christian identity and its relationship with ethics according to Paul. It is illustrated how Paul himself describes the system of changed relationships: turning away from the idols towards the living God, being in Christ or – together with others – part of the ‘body of Christ’. Moreover, these three dimensions of new relations – to God, to Christ and to the fellow believers in Christ – correspond to three reference points for ethical decisions in Pauline communities: the command to love one another, the idea of human conscience (as a voice coming from God) and the idea of the ‘ethos of Christ’.

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