scholarly journals The mining-induced displacement and resettlement: The church as a leaven and ecclesiology in context’s response

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Thomas Resane
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Mining Activities ◽  
Integration Policy ◽  
Identity Integration ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Imbalances ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Church

Natural resources, especially minerals from the earth, are to be protected by humanity. The church, which acts as leaven in the world is called to rise and address the unfriendly mining activities called mining-induced displacement and resettlement (MIDR). The general theory of interpretation of creation account calls for human stewardship in the world. Humans must view themselves as partners with God in preserving and sustaining the cosmos. The communities had suffered negative socio-economic imbalances. The ekklesia in this cosmic chaos is called upon to fulfil four major functions, namely identity, integration, policy, and management as a way of intervention in communities that are victims of these mining activities. This response, ecclesiology in context, is the combination of theological and social-scientific approaches to the development of practical models and strategies for the church’s interaction with modern society and its challenges.

Newton, Einstein and Scientific Theology

1972 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-250
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Torrance
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Human Science ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Church

Everything about us today tells us that we live in a world which will be increasingly dominated by empirical and theoretic science. This is the world in which the Church lives and proclaims its message about Jesus Christ. It is not an alien world, for it is in this world of space and time that God has planted us. He made the universe and endowed man with gifts to investigate and understand it. Just as he made life to produce itself, so he has made the universe with man as an essential constituent in it, that it may bring forth and articulate knowledge of itself. Regarded in this light the pursuit of science is one of the ways in which man exercises the dominion in the earth which he was given at his creation. That is how, for example, Francis Bacon understood the work of human science, as man's obedience to God. Science is a religious duty, while man as scientist can be spoken of as the priest of creation, whose task it is to interpret the books of nature, to understand the universe in its wonderful structures and harmonies, and to bring it all into orderly articulation, so that it fulfils its proper end as the vast theatre of glory in which the creator is worshipped and praised. Nature itself is dumb, but it is man's part to bring it to word, to be its mouth through which the whole universe gives voice to the glory and majesty of the living God.

scholarly journals Menerapkan Matius 5:13 Tentang Garam Dunia di Tengah Era Disrupsi

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-106
Author(s):  
Yonatan Alex Arifianto ◽  
Reni Triposa ◽  
Daniel Supriyadi
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

AbstractSpiritual growth to be a blessing and influence and impact on others cannot be separated from the challenges of life. And it is part of the believer's role to be able to color and make himself a useful person. Yet the church and the believers experienced divisions that created conflict and contention so that the church could not speak or give anything to a divided, corrupted world. With the background of the problem, the author uses a library research method with a descriptive quantitative approach. So the author concludes that the role of believers as the salt of the world in Matthew 5:13, in the midst of an era of disruption, is the first Christianity that does not become tasteless. Second, Christianity must function like salt and third, Christianity must glorify God in its life. By applying to all believers, the role of Christians as the salt of the earth has an impact.Key words: Salt Of The World, Believers, The Role Of Christianity AbstrakPertumbuhan rohani untuk menjadi berkat dan pengaruh serta berdampak bagi sesama tidak lepas dari tantangan kehidupan. Dan hal itu sebagai bagian peran orang percaya untuk dapat mewarnai dan menjadikan dirinya sebagai orang yang berguna. Namun gereja dan orang percaya mengalami perpecahan yang menimbulkan konflik dan pertengkaran sehingga gereja tidak bisa berbicara atau memberikan apa-apa kepada dunia yang terpecah, rusak. Dengan latar belakang permasalahan, penulis menggunakan metode penelitian pustaka dengan pendekatan kuantitatif deskriptif. Maka penulis dengan mendapatkan kesimpulan bahwa   peran orang percaya sebagai garam dunia dalam Matius 5: 13, ditengah era disrupsi adalah pertama kekristenan yang tidak menjadi tawar. Kedua Kekristenan harus berfungsi seperti garam dan yang ketiga, Kekristenan harus memuliakan Tuhan dalam hidupnya. Dengan mengaplikasikan bagi semua orang percaya peran orang kristen sebagai garam dunia yang berdampak.Kata kunci: Garam Dunia, Orang Percaya, Peran Kekristenan 

Notes in the History of Sir Jerome Alexander Second Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and Founder of the Alexander Library, Trinity College, Dublin

1872 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 220-240
Author(s):  
Charles Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Will ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

The Will of Sir Jerome Alexander, a parchment transcript of which is preserved in the Chief Probate Office, Dublin, is a document of more than ordinary interest; even with its cumbrous repetitions we owe no apology for producing it in full:–“In the name of God Amen. I, Sr Jerome Alexander of the City of Dublin, one of the unprofitable servants of Almighty God, being of a perfect sound disposing memory, praised bee God, this three and twentieth day of March in the yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the Second of that name by the grace of God of England, Scotland, Fraunce and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c. the two and twentieth, and hereby renounceing and admitting and declareing all former Wills and Testaments by mee at any time heretofore made to bee utterly void & of none effect, doe declare this to bee my last true Will and Testament in manner & form following and doe now soe declare it to bee. And first of all I resigne my soul into the hands of Jesus Christ my blessed Saviour and Redeemer, confidently trusting and assureing myselffe in by and through his onely merritts and mediation to receive life everlasting; and I doe hereby profess myselfe to dye as I have allways lived, a sonne of the Church of England, which is the most absolute and best forme of government in all the world,’ twere to bee heartily wished that it were practised in all the Churches of Christendome, and my body I commend unto the earth from whence it came to receive decent and comely buryall, without any greate pompe or ceremonies whatso-ever, not doubting but at the last day it shall bee raised againe and united unto my soule with it for to partake of immortall and everlasting happiness.

Walter Brueggemann, Prophetic Imagination, and the Productive Science of Homiletics

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-181
Author(s):  
Derek Knoke
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
The World ◽  
Prophetic Imagination ◽  
Walter Brueggemann ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Church

This review asks to what degree Walter Brueggemann locates biblical interpretation within homiletics, particularly where homiletics is defined as a ‘productive science’ – the goal of which is to make or create something. To the degree this is true, biblical interpretation is not determined by an a priori referent, whether that referent be a closed rationality of social scientific description (or historical reconstruction) or whether that referent be a resistant theological ideology which one imposes on the text. Rather, such a hermeneutic – a productive hermeneutic – would be determined by a desired goal or outcome. Homiletics, thus defined, is a means to an end – an end achieved by naming God as an acting subject in the world to bring about said goal or outcome. This review suggests that Brueggemann’s biblical interpretation can be described in this way and that a productive hermeneutic may be both social scientifically viable and beneficial for the church.

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.

scholarly journals Diabetes With Co-Morbidities Of Covid19 Using Covid19 Lungs Images

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1156-1164
Author(s):  
Vadthe Narasimha, Et. al.
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Recovery Period ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
World Health Organisation ◽  
World Health ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Severe Effect ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

Diabetes is a nightmare disease to fight, and it's prevalence of diabetes is been increasing every single day worldwide, India seems recording a high number of cases. As a condition, diabetes can also invite other health problems, COVID-19 being one of them. COVID-19 that's reputed to have emerged out of Wuhan (China) has generated a severe effect on nearly each modern society of the planet. As a result of issues due to this specific wellness catastrophe all around the Earth, that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced it's a international outbreak. COVID-19 is still a state that will get worse with co-morbidities. Researches snare that individuals Afflicted by diabetes Experience with worse results, possess a higher Danger of seriousness, and extended recovery period. In this paper we are trying to study and analyse the impact of covid-19 on the diabetic patients using the lung chest images. This study helps the doctors to understand more about the patients and overcome serious factors. We use Deep Learning methods to study the images and co-morbidities of diabetics with covid-19.

scholarly journals Gubitak transcedencije i nastojanje oko sigurnosti unutar svijeta

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dušan Travar
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
Specific Manner ◽  
The One

The "world view" influences the basic determination of man to the extent that all phenomena and events, all scientific problematizations and socio-cultural processes and, not least, human existence itself are networked into a coordinating system which is enmeshed in the "here present" or in the "otherworldly". Knowing one’s enmeshment in the otherworldly offers to man the possibility to experience in a specific manner the dangers and the risks of human existence and not to take the world as the only reality. Christianity demythologized the world and with the Biblical creative injunction addressed to man to subjugate the Earth it contributed to progress as a path of discovering and controlling the world. However, regardless of the nature of security within the world, progress is immanently prone to risk ("the remaining risk"). The loss of the otherworldly in modern society, on the one hand, contributes to the growing attenuation of endangerment of life but, on the other, man is becoming more and more insecure despite the enormous efforts devoted to security. This can ultimately lead to a point where "progress" is experienced as a power which endangers security and which needs to be curtailed.

scholarly journals Christian “anarchism” of three cosmists (st. Francis of Assisi, N.F. Fedorov, Pope Francis)

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-57
Author(s):  
M. Мadej-Cetnarowska
Keyword(s):  
Sacred Space ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Typical Representative ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
Time Distance ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
The Church ◽  
Francis Of Assisi

The philosophy of three prominent Christian thinkers is considered: St. Francis of Assisi, Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov and Pope Francis. Despite the time distance, each of them sets forth common ideas. It is claimed that the link between these individuals is the philosophy of cosmism. A typical representative of this trend is Nikolai Fedorov, but thinking in the categories of cosmism is also noted in the works of St. Francis of Assisi and Bishop of Rome. It is proposed to call them Christian anarchists who violate the fossilized structure of the church and society. The specificity of their anarchism is emphasized, devoid of negative features, built in the image of Christ and leading to the renewal of the sacred space, the Earth. The basic concepts of each of the three Christian anarchists are considered. The analysis of their philosophy allows for the formulation of the thesis that the ideas they propose to restructure the world and society are based on the principle of Christ – “not by force, but by love”.

The Reconstruction of Religion

1919 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-342
Author(s):  
Edward Farwell Hayward
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
World War ◽  
Human Spirit ◽  
The Earth ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

In the process of world readjustment incident to the war no department of man's life is likely to remain unaffected. Probably the more deeply we go into human nature, the more profound will be the reactions. On the surface the earth will not be the same. The scars which the Thirty Years' War left upon Europe have not yet been wholly effaced. Although the World War did not last as long, its far greater intensity and destructive force insure a vaster modification of outward nature. We already begin to see how powerfully government, society, and industry are to be affected. The whole order of life is being subjected to new pressures and set in new directions. The programme of education will have to be rearranged to meet the demands of a young manhood which has been tested ideally and practically as no other has ever been tested. Is it then likely that religion, that last resort of the human spirit, can hope to escape the challenge of the hour? To indicate certain tendencies which are already apparent and to point out the probable changes which they foreshadow—one can hardly hope to do more at this time—is the purpose of this article. It will have to do not merely with the attitude of the popular mind toward religion in general, but more particularly with the demand which it is likely to make upon the Church as the depositary and working instrument of religion.

scholarly journals The impact of mediatization in the healing ministry of African preachers

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonny Eli Zaluchu
Keyword(s):  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Healing Ministry ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Adaptive Step ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Church

Healing service happens everywhere. However, the healing service practice in Africa, as practised by several preachers from South Africa, Nigeria, Malawi and Zimbabwe, is more phenomenal and has a significant impact towards the Christianity in the world. One of the impacts is the emergence of religious tourism. This study observes that the service success is supported by two things, namely a deep understanding and the strong foundation on the theology of biblical healing, which trigger the presence of faith, on the one hand, and on the other hand the presence of invisible but very real support from the power of media popularising this practice to all over the world. It is concluded that even though it must be tightly controlled, mediatisation is an adaptive step to introduce the mission of the church and news related to the Bible to the modern society. Christianity has to accept this step as the updated step.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article takes an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach to media’s role and uses in today’s Christian ministry. The presence of the media and its optimisation for evangelism are supported by global theology.

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