The Church, the World, and the Kingdom of God a Study in Alienation

1962 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-21
Author(s):  
M. Dunlop
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

scholarly journals PKM KATEKESE TENTANG MENGHAYATI NILAI KERAJAAN ALLAH DALAM ERA DIGITAL BAGI ANGGOTA KMK. ST. MARTINUS PAROKI PERSIAPAN ST. MARINUS PU’URERE

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-41
Author(s):  
Aurelius Fredimento ◽  
John M. Balan
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Energy ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Flowing Water ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Church

The development and the progress of media communication at the present is a fact of the knowledge and the technology development that must be accepted. It presence like the flowing water which has a fast current that brings also two influences both positive and negative that must be accounted for the members of the Catholic Students Community Of St. Martinus Ende (KMK St. Martinus Ende). Both positive and negative influences the media community like a kinetic energy or a power attraction that attract  them in a tiring ambiquity. Let them walk alone without escort of a decisive compass where they should have a rightist attitude and responsible. On the point, the guidance and assistance of the church is an  offering  if the church will be born a generation  of the future  of the  church  that is mature and has a certain quality  based  on the growth  and the development  of acuteness and inner  to determine the attitude to the development of media communication. The process of sharpening of mind and the sharpeness of the participants can be realized by giving some activities such as: awareness, deepening and even  the sharpeness of the actor of  media communication as an  alternative of reporting work of the God Kingdom for human beings. It becomes the main moving spirit or activator  for the board of KMK Of St. Martinus Ende  to plan and boring  about the activity of catechism. The activity rise the method of Amos.  By this method, the participants are invited to build a deeply reflection that based on thein real experiences about the media communication, while keep on self opening to the God planning will come  to them  and  give them via  the commandment of God.  The commandment  of God  come to light, inspiration, motivate, power and critics to the  participants about the using of the media communication as a media of the commandment of the kingdom of God  to the world that is more progress and development lately.

Justification Through New Creation

2001 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-217
Author(s):  
Frank D. Macchia
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
New Creation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

Despite significant ecumenical discussion on justification, what is still needed is a trinitarian understanding of the doctrine that is filled out by the Holy Spirit's work to bring about justice through new creation. This view seeks to move beyond the preoccupation with meritorious works indicative of the forensic model of justification and to concentrate instead on the life-transforming righteousness of the kingdom of God. Both Luther and Paul support the idea of justification as achieved through the Spirit's work in the death and resurrection of Christ to deliver the oppressed and to make all things new, thus fulfilling redemptive justice for all of creation and between creation and God. Such righteousness is reckoned to us in faith as bearers of the Spirit of new life and is lived out in the here and now as the church seeks to be agents of new life in the world.

scholarly journals Die karakter van die kerk in perspektief van huidige teologiese besinning

1990 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-208
Author(s):  
P. C. Potgieter
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Community Of Faith ◽  
Ecclesiastical Law ◽  
The World ◽  
Theological Thought ◽  
The Church ◽  
Apostolic Community

The character of the church - a perspective on current theological thought The role of the church in society is currently much focused upon in theological thought. The author analyses various characteristics of the church with reference to views of well known theologians. As community of faith it is the body of Christ revealed very visibly in the world representing the kingdom of God. For that very reason the idea of a national church is unacceptable. The church is one, catholic and apostolic community, even particularly in its visible form. Though Scripture gives no clear guidelines on the structure of the church, there are many general biblical norms to be considered in ecclesiastical law and government.

The Aggiornamento Framework

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Shadle
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
John Xxiii ◽  
Historical View ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

The official social teaching of Popes John XXIII and Paul VI and the Second Vatican Council embraced secularization—what they called the “legitimate autonomy” of the world. It also recognized the intrinsic value of human work and humankind’s increasing mastery over the created world. The “aggiornamento framework” proposed in their teaching envisions the church as open to the modern world. This framework proposes a humanistic vision of development, including the human person’s material, social, and spiritual dimensions. The aggiornamento framework also presents a historical view of social development, recognizing both that humankind can transform the institutions of society and that God is present in history and leads humankind onward through history to the Kingdom of God.

scholarly journals ‘n Kerk wat getuig, is ‘n kerk wat leef. ‘n Ekklesiologiese perspektief op die missionêre karakter van die kerk - Deel II

2004 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-441
Author(s):  
D J Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
The Other ◽  
Western World ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
The World ◽  
Missionary Church ◽  
Biblical Perspective ◽  
The Church

In the first of these two articles  we focused on  the Biblical perspective of the missionary church. The focus in the second article is on the ecclesiology. It is essential to remember that the church is rooted in the kingdom of God. Jesus Christ himself and his ministry was the beginning of the kingdom of God (Mark 1:15). The church exists not  for her own sake, but  for the world for whom Jesus was crucified. This is the vantage point  for a missionary church at the end of the Christendom paradigm. The missionary character of the church (the church as an apostolic church) and eschatology were not always in die focus of the theology of the reformed churches in the Western world. Of the four notes or marks of the church as one, holy, catholic and  apostolic, apostolic is  the norm for the other three. Apostolicity is a precondition and a result for the church as a missionary church. The message of a missionary church  is the only real answer in the search for meaning in this world.

scholarly journals Olhando para o horizonte

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (260) ◽  
pp. 831
Author(s):  
José Comblin
Keyword(s):  
Construction Project ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
New Construction ◽  
The Church

O mundo muda. A Igreja não muda. O eclesiocentrismo afeta todos os níveis da instituição católica, inclusive as comunidades eclesiais de base. Por isso, falta a mística de Jesus e os pentecostais e outras religiões oferecem uma mensagem que atrai mais. Precisamos de um novo projeto de construção do reino de Deus porque o projeto de ressuscitar a cristandade está condenado ao fracasso. O clero não poderá nem constituir nem dirigir o novo projeto. Precisamos de um novo carisma, uma nova categoria de evangelizadores. Podemos provisoriamente dar-lhe o nome de missionários. O novo projeto terá que enfrentar claramente o modelo da sociedade atual. Será uma Igreja presente no mundo como sal da terra e luz do mundo, no meio dele e não na parte de fora. Os pobres de hoje são os negros da África, vítima de um racismo mundial. Ali vai começar o novo projeto.Abstract: The world changes. The Church doesn’t. Ecclesiocentrism affects all levels of the Catholic institution, including the basic ecclesiastic communities. For this reason, the mystic of Jesus is missing, and pentecostalists and other religions offer a more attractive message. We need a new construction project of the kingdom of God, since the project of resuscitating Christendom is doomed to failure. The clergy can neither constitute nor lead the new project. We need a new charisma, a new category of evangelists. We can call them provisorily missionaries. The new project will have to face clearly the model of the current society. It has to be a Church that will be present in the world like the salt of the earth and the light of the world, being part of the world, not outside it. The poor today are the blacks from Africa, victim of the world racism. That’s where the new project will begin.

The Church: Towards a Common Vision

Exchange ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-249
Author(s):  
Radu Bordeianu
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Common Vision ◽  
The Way

The 2013 convergence document, The Church: Towards a Common Vision (ctcv) incorporates several aspects of the response of the Napa Inter-Orthodox Consultation to The Nature and Mission of the Church (nmc) which, as its subtitle suggests, was A Stage on the Way to a Common Statement, namely The Church. Eastern and Oriental Orthodox responders (jointly!) point to the imprecise use of the term, ‘church’, the World Council of Churches (wcc)’s understanding of ‘the limits of the Church’, and to the ‘branch theory’ implicit in nmc, an ecclesiology toned down in ctcv. Bordeianu proposes a subjective recognition of the fullness of the church in one’s community as a possible way forward. Simultaneously, Orthodox representatives have grown into a common, ecumenical understanding of the relationship between the Kingdom of God and the church’s work for justice; attentiveness to the role of women in the church; and accepting new forms of teaching authority in an ecumenical context. The positions of various churches are no longer parallel monologues, but reflect earnest change and convergence.

scholarly journals Christian Unity, or the Kingdom of Heaven

1892 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 55-78
Author(s):  
Thomas Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Church Of Christ ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Kingdom Of Heaven ◽  
The World ◽  
Christian Love ◽  
Christian Unity ◽  
The Church ◽  
Better Than

No one can doubt that, if the Christian Church were one in spirit, and one in organization for work, she would fulfil her appointed mission better than she does. Indeed, since the establishment of brotherly love is a chief part of that mission, so long as that love is wanting, so long she fails in her mission. It may be safely said that no single cause so effectually obstructs Christianity within the Church, and none so prevents its acceptance outside, as the schisms and enmities whereby she is divided against herself. While she thus offers a ready text to her critics, detractors, and opponents, how can she hope to conquer the world for brotherly love?Whatever weighty reasons there may have been in days gone by for rending to pieces the Christian body; whatever advantages may have seemed likely to spring therefrom, that rending, being an absolute belying of the Christian spirit, was, in itself, an unmixed evil. The Church that had so far lost the spirit of Christian love, as not to be ready to bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, rather than fall to pieces, was not the Church of Christ. No corruption or abuse, however glaring, could ever constitute a sufficient excuse for schism or revolt. Schism may be allowable in every other institution: in the Church of Christ it is forever forbidden; for the reason that her very essence is the unity of brotherly love, and where that fails, she fails. As St. Ignatius says: “If any one followeth one that maketh a schism, he doth not inherit the kingdom of God.” (Philad., iii.)

scholarly journals The Kingdom of God and those who have not heard the contents of Scripture

2003 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Kruger
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Mental Capacity ◽  
First Century ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Apostle Paul ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Invisible

Article 2 of the Belgic Confession deals with the following issue: By what means does God make Himself known to us? The first part of Article 2 that echoes the teaching of Calvin via the Gallic Confession reads as follows: “We know Him [God] by two means: First by the creation, preservation and government of the universe, which is before our eyes as a most elegant book, wherein all creatures, great and small, are characters (read: letters – MAK) leading us to see clearly the invisible things of God, even his everlasting power and divinity, as the apostle Paul says (Rom. 1:20). All which things are sufficient to convince men and leave them without excuse.” This article of 1561 agrees with Calvin’s Institutes of 1559 (1, V, 1) and the early Reformed Confessions before the Canons of Dordt (1618-1619). It seems as though, after Calvin, a doctrine of insufficiency regarding this first means of revelation gradually developed. In the Westminster Confession of 1647 this means of understanding God’s revelation (i.e by receiving God’s communication through the creation, preservation and government of the universe) was explicitly interpreted as insufficient. Man’s inherent ability to know God by means of his own mental capacity, the so-called light of nature, that remained after the Fall, was also regarded as insufficient. The issue of whether the interpretation of Article 2A had not been changed in the first century after Calvin should therefore be seriously considered by Reformed churches. Furthermore, the church of today, situated in a world that experiences such phenomenal scientific and technological changes, should ask what relevance Article 2A of the the Belgic Confession has for the church and the world.

scholarly journals Writing the Kingdom of God in South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Martin
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Native Land ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

John de Gruchy’s The Church Struggle in South Africa was a bold attempt to write the story of the kingdom of God in his native land. While it stood toward the beginning of his written work, the themes laid down in it have followed De Gruchy’s writings up to the present. They have also sketched the story of South Africa from the climax of the struggle to end Apartheid to the present travails to realize its promise. This article takes up the final chapter in that work, comparing it to another great theological attempt to write the kingdom of God: H. Richard Niebuhr’s The Kingdom of God in America. It follows that chapter through its disappearance in the third edition of The Church Struggle, to its re-emergence in The End is Not Yet. The article is especially interested in De Gruchy’s eschatological retrieval of Bonhoeffer’s tension between the ultimate and the penultimate, and in the question of God’s trinitarian reality shaping the world – and us as community of anticipation.

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