scholarly journals A public theology discourse in practice: Perspectives from the oeuvre of Yolanda Dreyer

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Criticism ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Friedrich Schleiermacher ◽  
Abuse Of Power ◽  
Critical Hermeneutic

This article can serve as an overview of the work of Yolanda Dreyer, or as an introduction to her work, by conversing with her as a public theologian in the tradition of Schleiermacher. The article highlights her passion to listen to the voices that are normally ignored or to hear what needs to be heard to transform discourses. It investigates the contribution of Yolanda Dreyer to public theology with regard to the newspaper columns she has been writing for more than 17 years. It compares aspects of her public theology with the theology of Friedrich Schleiermacher, which can be characterised by an internalised spirituality and a critical hermeneutic of suspicion towards the abuse of power. Gender injustice and cultural criticism are prominent themes within Dreyer’s public theology. She emphasises the vocation to speak out, but also the necessity to listen. These contributions also characterise Dreyer as a pastor-theologian.

scholarly journals Th e Leibholz-Schmitt connection’s formative influence on Bonhoeffer’s 1932–33 entry into public theology

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karola Radler
Keyword(s):  
National Socialism ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Abuse Of Power ◽  
Communal Life ◽  
Habilitation Thesis ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Public Opposition

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s brother-in-law Gerhard Leibholz’s insight into the Fascist theory of the state’s messianic leadership and myth of creating communal life became a major source of information for Bonhoeffer. Leibholz had gained this knowledge in close jurisprudential cooperation with Carl Schmitt as is evidenced by Leibholz’s 1929 habilitation thesis which at the same time intersected with Bonhoeffer’s academic work. Their original political leanings towards authoritarianism, Volk, and Vitalism were revised by Bonhoeffer and Leibholz in November 1932 through stepping out into a coordinated public opposition to the approaching political changes. But both only recognized the populist xenophobic destructiveness of such a life, hidden beneath the myth of unity, once Schmitt turned to National Socialism in early 1933. Bonhoeffer’s theology, built on the Leibholz-Schmitt discourse, remains a call for vigilance against the abuse of power, populism, and xenophobia, and continues to call for seeking God-revealed life.

Constructing a Public Comparative Theology: Examining Ernst Troeltsch through a Critical Hermeneutic Lens

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-235
Author(s):  
Paul Chung
Keyword(s):  
Public Theology ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Comparative Theology ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Multiple Modernities ◽  
Critical Hermeneutic ◽  
Ernst Troeltsch ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Contemporary Context ◽  
Responsible Manner

Abstract This article explores Ernst Troeltsch’s potential contribution to a Christian public theology. It does so by way of a case being made for a public comparative theology. For this purpose I reconsider investigating Troeltsch’s sociological method through a critical hermeneutic lens provided by Hans G. Gadamer’s hermeneutics and Jürgen Habermas’ sociology of a lifeworld. Through this hermeneutical mediation I propose a more comprehensive understanding of Troeltsch’s project, and how it can bring relevancy to a public theology that takes into account the comparative study of religions in our pluralist context. Troeltsch’s work will thus be hermeneutically refined in a socially responsible manner in keeping with the reality of multiple modernities and the religious humanism in our contemporary context.

Concerning the abuse of power by an official

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-110
Author(s):  
Ihor Oheruk
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Code ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Abuse Of Power ◽  
Government Functions ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Criminal Legislation ◽  
Logical Semantic

Purpose. The purpose of the work is to analyze the application of the second and third parts of Article 3692 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine to officials in the context, that defines them by the Criminal Code of Ukraine in the note to Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Methodology. The methodology includes a comprehensive analysis and synthesis of the available scientific and theoretical material and the formulation of relevant conclusions and recommendations. In the course of the study, the following methods of scientific knowledge were used: terminological, logical-semantic, system-structural, logical-normative. Results: in the course of research the cause of criminalization of such act as "abuse of power" is considered, the subject of the specified criminal act which has the features of "an official" in the context, that defines it by the note to Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is analyzed and the main ways of committing criminal acts, that are provided for in this article of the Criminal Code of Ukraine are identified. Originality. The study found, that one of the key conditions for the opportunity to influence officials, that are authorized to perform government or local self-government functions, is the position held by the official and the related opportunities. Therefore, taking into account the opinion of the scientists, that the subject of crimes, that are provided for by the second and third parts of Article 3692 is special, the peculiarities of which is the cumulative feature, that denotes, that such person is not endowed with the status of an official, well-founded need to specify the criminal legislation of Ukraine in terms of the application the second and third parts of Article 3692 of the Criminal code of Ukraine concerning officials in the context, that defines them by the criminal legislation of Ukraine in the note to Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Practical significance. The research results can be used in lawmaking in the improvement of anti-corruption legislation.

Covering in the Public Eye

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Anne McLarney
Keyword(s):  
Public Culture ◽  
Cultural Criticism ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Veil

This chapter explores the life and writings of three main personalities who contributed to shaping an aesthetics of veiling in disparate but analogous ways. In their writings and their performances of a public self, these writers construct a sense of the psychic space that the outward sign of the veil helps cultivate. This psychic space, this spiritual interiority, is created by veiling but also by the words, discourses, narratives, and images of the veil in public culture and public circulation. Each writer has been profoundly invested in the politics of performance—in television (Kariman Hamza), film (Shams al-Barudi), and theater and cultural criticism (Safinaz Kazim). These three early exemplars were pivotal in formulating the ideological and conceptual contours of the genre. They set down motifs and described psychic transformations that would become classic signposts on the path to veiling. Their narratives envisioned new kinds of Islamic media in which the visual signifier of the veil would become ascendant.

Comprender lo femenino desde la propuesta filosófica de Friedrich Schleiermacher

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 305-322
Author(s):  
Catalina E Elena Dobre
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Schleiermacher ◽  
Friedrich Schlegel

En este trabajo nos proponemos analizar la propuesta del concepto de femenino en el pensamiento de Friedrich Schleiermacher, un análisis no muy común cuando se trata de uno de los principales teólogos modernos. Sin embargo, pocos saben que Schleiermacher ha sido entre los primeros filósofos que eleva el tema de lo femenino a objeto de reflexión filosófica. Por lo cual, nos proponemos, partiendo de su escrito llamado Cartas Confidenciales a la novela Lucinde de Friedrich Schlegel, comprender el valor de la virtud femenina necesaria crear comunidad y cultura. Para esto, primero presentaremos un breve contexto en el cual surge el pensamiento de Friedrich Schleiermacher; después expondremos la intención y el mensaje de la novela Lucinde de Friedrich Schlegel, para de allí analizar cuál fue la intención de Schleiermacher al escribir la Cartas Confidenciales y como llega a considerar que uno de los principios fundamentales de la vida ética es una virtud femenina. La vigencia de esta propuesta de Schleiermacher para nuestros tiempos es muy importante para hacernos comprender hoy que lo femenino no se tiene que imponer mediante una ideología de género, sino que la mujer tiene que aprender descubrir y valorar lo valiosos en su propia naturaleza para así contribuir, como siempre lo ha hecho, al desarrollo de la cultura.

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