scholarly journals Die kerk van die Woord

1995 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. B. Boshoff
Keyword(s):  
Divine Revelation ◽  
1 Corinthians ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Public Worship

The church proclaiming the Word. The theme of the church is treated from the perspective of the theology of the Word. 1 Corinthians 5:19 is analyzed in the process. Divine revelation is discussed in the light of its being in the nature of an once-and-for-all event. This leads one to an understanding of the church in which the church best acquits itself of its task in public worship. The task of the church and the relationship between church and being a Christian are then considered.

Revelation, Epistemology, and Authority

2021 ◽  
pp. 169-185
Author(s):  
Paul Avis
Keyword(s):  
Divine Revelation ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

Is there a divine revelation and how might we know that? What mode or form might it take? With what rational and/or imaginative faculties would we perceive it? What is the role of authority, as opposed to personal exploration and discovery, in the interpretation of revelation? Where lies the balance or the relationship between individual and communal receptions of revelation, the believer and the Church? These are some of the profoundly searching questions concerning our knowledge, if that is the right word, of revelation that will be discussed in this chapter. The guiding thread is the epistemology of revelation.

Reconsidering the Coherence of 1 Corinthians 1:10–4:21

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-156
Author(s):  
Timothy A. Brookins
Keyword(s):  
Corinthians 1 ◽  
1 Corinthians ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

Abstract 1 Corinthians 1:10–4:21 is usually seen as a defense against adherents of an “Apollos party,” who have become enamored with Apollos’ “wisdom” and who denigrate Paul as his inferior. This article argues for a different reading of this unit. Some in the church have espoused some kind of “human” wisdom, but not the wisdom of any particular leader. These people were boasting in themselves, not in their leaders. Paul discusses his relationship with Apollos not because there was a rivalry between them or between parties who claimed them as their leaders, but because the relationship between Paul and Apollos embodied the wisdom of Christ crucified and thus offered an antidote to the church’s divisions.

scholarly journals THE ETERNAL “SUBORDINATION” OF THE SON OF GOD?

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-64
Author(s):  
GERALD BRAY
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
1 Corinthians ◽  
Son Of God ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Do So

The relationship between the Father and the Son in the Trinity can be described in terms of “eternal subordination,” but it is unhelpful to do so. The New Testament uses the language of subordination with respect to this relationship only in 1 Corinthians 15:28, and then with a very specific act in mind. The word also has Arian connotations that are best avoided. The submission of the Son to the Father is a voluntary act of mutual love, not something imposed or made inevitable by their personal identities. The divine analogy for the marital bond is that of Christ and the church, not of the Father and the Son.

scholarly journals Die verhouding kerk en wereld/kultuur in die lig van die Pauliniese 'asof nie' (ὡς μή)

1996 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
G. M.M. Pelser
Keyword(s):  
Active Role ◽  
Final Conclusion ◽  
1 Corinthians ◽  
World Culture ◽  
Union With Christ ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Involvement ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cultural Causes ◽  
The Church

The relationship church and world/culture in light of the Pauline 'as if not' (ὡς μή). In this study the question is posed as to whether Paul was of the opinion that, apart from proclaiming the gospel, the church should be involved in cultural matters and even take the responsibility for furthering cultural causes. The bulk of the study is devoted to Paul's advice to his readers in 1 Corinthians 7:17-24, and especially 7:29-31. Concerning the latter passage, the possibility of Stoic influence on Paul is weighed, and, although such influence is not ruled out altogether, it is argued that Paul's advice should rather be seen against the background of his expectation of the imminent end of the world, as well as his conviction that the believer's union with Christ makes any other relationship or involvement a matter of no consequence. The final conclusion of the study is that although Paul did not advocate ascetism or forbade Christians to take part in worldly matters and institutions, he also did not expect them to play an active role in these things or to promote culture. On this basis, it is concluded that Paul may not be used as support for any argument in favour of a cultural involvement or responsibility on the part of the church.

‘By the Lips of Foreigners’: Disclosing the Church in 1 Corinthians 14:20–25

Ecclesiology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 306-321
Author(s):  
David S. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
1 Corinthians ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
The Church ◽  
Public Worship

1 Corinthians 14:22 offers the contextually counter-intuitive statement that, in the liminal space of public worship, ‘tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers’. Commentators often contradict this allocation by stating that the ‘conversion’ in 14:24–25 shows the importance of offering intelligible signs to outsiders. This essay argues that such interpretation obscures the semiotics of prophecy ‘for believers’, which can only be understood through fuller exploration of the substrata of texts invoked both by the citation of Isaiah 28:11–12 in 14:21 and the clear allusion to Isaiah 45:14 in 14:25. From the latter text, an evocative relocation within the Isaianic corpus, I show that the disclosure of the church’s identity requires the recognition of the outsider. The essay concludes by contrasting the versatility of Pauline ecclesiology to ecclesial models of ‘diaspora’ and ‘host’.

Revelation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Abraham
Keyword(s):  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Papal Infallibility ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Tradition

This chapter provides a philosophical and theological analysis of Newman’s understanding of divine revelation. It looks schematically at the work of Locke on revelation while clarifying how Newman provides an alternative to Locke’s proposal. Part of the genius of Newman was to argue for a revised account of reason and thereby create space for the ongoing viability of robust forms of Christian faith and practice. His revised account of reason also created space for a fresh rendering of the nature and significance of divine revelation. The chapter also explores the place of the Church, tradition, papal infallibility, assent, and reason in the articulation and reception of divine revelation, the relationship between Scripture and revelation, and the place of revelation in the academic discipline of theology.

The Liturgy

2015 ◽  
pp. 262-276
Author(s):  
Pamela Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Church History ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Public Worship

Liturgy, the Church’s public worship, embodies the faith of the Church, and has been drawn on as a source for theology from the early centuries of Church history. This article considers the Church’s theology of the liturgy—how the liturgy functions as vehicle through which God extends his saving action accomplished in Christ to each generation by the power of the Holy Spirit-as well as the relationship between liturgy and theology. It then discusses elements of the outward form of the liturgy and their meaning. Finally, there is consideration of characteristics of Vatican II’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, including its treatment of the nature of the liturgy, the role of the Word in the liturgy, and the relationship between liturgy and conversion.

Dryden’s Post-Revolutionary Theology of Providence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John West
Keyword(s):  
Human Action ◽  
Intellectual Context ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

For Dryden, enthusiasm often signalled transcendence from the earthly and glimpsing the divine. The chapter examines the fate of this idea by tracing his late thinking about the relationship between providence and human action. The Hind and the Panther (1687) presents providence as mysteriously distant from humanity and inspiration as mediated through the Church. After the 1688 Revolution, such a view stood in contradistinction to the rhetoric of special providential intervention commonly used by Williamites. Dryden sometimes condemns this rhetoric as enthusiasm. His recurrent preoccupation in the 1690s is not militant Jacobitism, however, but learning to live in exile and suffering. The chapter argues that mystical Catholicism linked with Jansenism provides an intellectual context for this turn in Dryden’s thought. It reads this mysticism in Dryden’s late translations of Juvenal, Persius, Virgil, and Ovid which reflect on how contemplative reflection of God’s mysterious providence could help navigate a corrupt world.

Revelation, Tradition, and Inspiration

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald O’Collins, SJ
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Self ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Present Experience ◽  
Living Tradition ◽  
The Church

This chapter spells out the complex interrelationship between the divine self-revelation, the tradition that transmits the prophetic and apostolic experience of that revelation, and the writing of the inspired Scriptures. Primarily, revelation involves the self-disclosure of the previously and mysteriously unknown God. Secondarily, it brings the communication of hitherto unknown truths about God. Revelation is a past, foundational reality (completed with the missions of the Son and Holy Spirit), a present experience, and a future hope. Responding with faith to divine revelation, the Old Testament (prophetic) and then New Testament (apostolic) witnesses initiated the living tradition from which came the inspired Scriptures. Tradition continues to transmit, interpret, and apply the Scriptures in the life of the Church.

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