scholarly journals Mark, the Gospel of the suffering Son of Man: An encouragement directed to a despondent religious minority in the city of Rome

2002 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
F.P. Viljoen
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of Mark ◽  
Good News ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Close Link ◽  
Son Of Man ◽  
Peter The Great ◽  
Great Leader ◽  
The Way

In his narrative the author of this Gospel starkly emphasizes the humiliation and suffering of Jesus as the Son of Man (i.a. 10:45). In doing so, Mark emphasizes that Jesus’ way to be the Christ is the way of suffering. In several instances Mark describes Jesus’ disciples’ ignorance of this fact. Special focus is placed on the ignorance of Peter when confessing Jesus as the Christ. The point of departure for this article is that the Gospel of Mark was written to a specific believing community. It is argued that Rome, rather than Syria or Galilee, most probably was the Sitz im Leben and reason for the second Gospel. Furthermore it is reasoned that the context of Rome provides a relevant hermeneutical key to the understanding of the text of this Gospel. Seen from this perspective, Mark purposefully emphasized the humiliation and suffering of Jesus on his way to glory in order to encourage his despondent readers during or directly after the persecution in the days of Nero 64 CE. Evidence from tradition has indicated that Peter, the great leader of the Christian community in Rome, died as a martyr. This left the Christians in Rome without a leader, fearful and discouraged. The Gospel displays evidence of a Petrine eyewitness account that implies a close link between this apostle and Mark. Although at first Peter did not realize the necessity for Jesus to suffer, the Gospel of Mark clearly explains it with its focus on the passion narrative. Jesus had to walk the way of suffering. In Mark the word “way” is used in a significant manner to indicate that Jesus’ via dolorosa had implications for Peter and still has implications for all those who follow Him by confessing Him as the Christ. Christians are called to follow in his footsteps with suffering and endurance. Accordingly, Mark adds a paradoxical connotation to the term “Gospel”. “Gospel” is the good news of the salvation in Jesus. This message, however, is also concomitant with suffering and even the loss of life.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Schaflechner
Keyword(s):  
Second Step ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
Important Place ◽  
The Way

The conclusion harmonizes the overarching themes of the book, providing a final look at the dramatic relationship between identity, change, and solidification for Pakistan’s largest religious minority at its most important place of worship today. The conclusion first sketches the site’s and the residing Devi’s history as well as the pilgrimage’s ancient origin. In a second step, the author summarizes how recent infrastructural and organizational developments caused the ritual journey to undergo significant changes resulting in novel practices performed on the way to and at the shrine. Finally he sums up how these alterations lead to a solidification of the Hinglaj tradition, which is directed toward establishing some kind of unity among the various narratives and practices occurring in the valley.

Street-level bureaucracy revisited

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Monteiro
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Specific Task ◽  
Simple Task ◽  
Street Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

In social work practice, keeping records of encounters with clients is a routinized practice for documenting cases. This paper focuses on the specific task of obtaining the prospective clients’ correct address for filling in a standardized personal report form. My analysis focuses in the way both the client(s) and the social worker cooperatively orient to the practice of writing addresses, showing how this apparently simple task is multimodally implemented within interaction, and how it can generate some complications and expansions. A special focus will be devoted to difficulties encountered by clients to give their address in an adequate way, as well as to the transformation of this activity from an individual to a collective task.

scholarly journals The voices that Ezekiel hears

2010 ◽  
Vol 196 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Stein
Keyword(s):  
Son Of Man ◽  
The People ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Command Hallucinations ◽  
The Way

Like any prophet, Ezekiel hears the voice of God and it is his prophetic task to relay God's message onto the people. He hears the voice of God more often (93 times) than any other prophet, and the way God addresses him as ‘son of man’ or ‘mortal’ is also unique. Ezekiel experiences a variety of other auditory phenomena, including command hallucinations which are not described in any other prophet, 3:3 ‘He said to me; mortal eat this scroll that I give to you and fill your stomach with it. Then I ate it; and in my mouth it was as sweet as honey.’

scholarly journals Reassessing Justin Martyr’s Binitarian Orientation In 1 Apology 33

Perichoresis ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-53
Author(s):  
Stephen O. Presley
Keyword(s):  
Unique Case ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
The Way

Abstract Many scholars argue that Justin is either inconsistent or confused in his view of the Spirit in relation to the Logos. The most decisive section in this discussion is 1Apol. 33, where Justin appears to confuse the titles and unify the functions of the Logos and the Spirit. This essay argues that this apparent confusion is conditioned by Justin’s particular christological reading of Isaiah 7:14 in order to meet the demands of his own understanding of the apostolic faith. The interpretation of Isaiah 7:14 is a unique case with multiple external hermeneutical pressures imposing upon his exegesis, including those coming from competing Jewish exegesis, Greco-Roman mythology, and Marcionite interpretations. At the same time, Justin reads scripture within his own Christian community. Justin’s exegesis of Isaiah 7:14 attempts to account for these external pressures by focusing upon the particular Lukan terminology of ‘Power’ rather than ‘Spirit’ in Luke 1:35, which downplays the function of the Spirit in the incarnation in order to demonstrate that the Logos has come in power. This exegetical move exposes him to binitarian allegations, but does not suggest that Justin is, in fact, a binitarian. What this suggests, however, is that in 1Apol. 33 Justin actually resists confusing the Logos and the Spirit even when a text uses the language of ‘Spirit’, because his exegetical concern is focused on the Logos coming in power. Justin’s exegetical treatment of Isaiah 7:14 and Luke 1:35 reflects the way he is reasoning through the textual and theological complexities of the christological interpretation of scripture and does not suggest that he confuses the functions of the Logos and the Spirit.

scholarly journals The Creation of the Diocese of Bacolod in 1932

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 162-165
Author(s):  
Miguel Avellaneda, OAR
Keyword(s):  
Good News ◽  
Parish Church ◽  
San Sebastian ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Negros Island ◽  
The Way

The creation of a mission territory evangelized for many decades or centuries by Augustinian Recollect missionaries into an apostolic vicariate or diocese was always an occasion for jubilation for them and crowing glory of their efforts.  This was the case of the Diocese of Bacolod in Negros Island whose evangelization was entrusted to them in 1848. Thus the Recollect priests of the welcomed the good news and the arrival of the newly consecrated first local ordinary of Bacolod, Bishop Casimiro Lladoc, and his Manila entourage that included the Apostolic Delegate Guglielmo Piani, Bishop McCloskey of Jaro, and Father Leoncio Reta at Talisay parish church on 24 October 1933, earnestly urged parishioners to greet him along the way to the Recollect-built San Sebastian Cathedral and feted him with programs, speeches, and festive meals.

Adapting Education to the Needs of Pharmacists and Pharmaceutical Scientists

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-42
Author(s):  
Bruno Sepodes ◽  
João Pedro Rocha ◽  
Maria-Eduardo Figueira
Keyword(s):  
Workforce Development ◽  
International Federation ◽  
Pharmacy Education ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Academic Goals ◽  
The Future ◽  
Global Vision ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Specific Cluster ◽  
The Way

The purpose of this chapter is to further explore how the global vision for the future of pharmacy education shared by many stakeholders and catalyzed by the launch of the workforce development goals by the International Federation of Pharmacy (FIP) was transformed into a specific cluster of academic goals. In this chapter, the expected impact of the Pharmaceutical Workforce Development Goals in academia and pharmacy education will be further explored, with a special focus on a consensual group of statements that would be become known as “The Nanjing Statements.” The chapter explores how all these factors contributed to the change of the way the pharmaceutical workforce is educated, and how the challenge is currently being met.

Martina L. Weisz, Jews and Muslims in Contemporary Spain: Redefining National Boundaries. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2019. 189 pp.

2021 ◽  
pp. 300-302
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Comparative Framework ◽  
Collective Self ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Cultural Negotiations ◽  
Contemporary Spain ◽  
The Way

This chapter studies Martina L. Weisz's Jews and Muslims in Contemporary Spain: Redefining National Boundaries (2019). This book aims to analyze “the place granted to Jews and Muslims in the construction of contemporary Spanish national identity, with a special focus on the transition from an exclusive, homogeneous sense of collective self toward a more pluralistic, open and tolerant one, in a European context.” This narrative of progress, however, is challenged by the excellent information provided in the book itself, which shows how these processes have been filled with contradictions and deep ambivalence, both historically and in the present, and how exclusionary nationalism has not been left behind. One of the book's richest contributions is its Jewish/Muslim comparative framework, which, as the author argues, is not usually undertaken. Ultimately, this book contains an abundance of useful information and insights for all those interested in Spain's relationship with its Muslim and Jewish minorities, the political and cultural negotiations of multiculturalism in Spain, and the way these relationships are affected by international events and diplomatic concerns.

The Space of Freedom in a Context of War, Exile and Endless Instability: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Autobiographical Narratives on Catalan Exile

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 346-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narcís Iglésias-Franch
Keyword(s):  
Historical Data ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Autobiographical Narratives ◽  
Close Link ◽  
The Way

Abstract In the recent numerous publications on the autobiographies of Catalan writers who went into exile in 1939, themes such as memory, identity crisis or travel have been studied in depth. In this article, I propose a sociolinguistic interpretation of a series of autobiographical works by exiled authors such as Xavier Benguerel, Lluís Ferran de Pol and Antoni Rovira i Virgili. According to the theoretical framework of sociolinguistic studies, autobiographical narratives can be analysed using three different approaches: first, the way authors narrate how ‘things’ are or were; second, how ‘things’ or events were experienced; and, finally, the ways in which ‘things’ or events are narrated. Language is not only historical data or an individual experience which authors narrate in their autobiographical narratives. This sociolinguistic approach to the autobiographical narratives of Catalan exiles shows the close link between language and identity, and between language and morality.

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