scholarly journals Openbaring 21:1−8 in teks en prediking

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Bothma
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Book Of Revelation ◽  
New Jerusalem ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Heaven And Earth

Openbaring 21:1-8 bring ’n belangrike wending in hierdie boek. Die koms van ’n nuwe hemel, ’n nuwe aarde en ’n nuwe Jerusalem word aangekondig. Die oue is verby. Die nuwe het gekom. Hoe behoort Openbaring 21:1-8 uitgelê, vertolk en verstaan te word? Hoe behoort daar oor hierdie teks gepreek te word? Hierdie en nog meer vrae word in hierdie artikel bespreek. Vanweë onder andere die literêre genre daarvan, stel die boek Openbaring unieke uitdagings aan diegene wat dit wil uitlê, verstaan en daaroor wil preek. Deur Openbaring 21:1-8 en homiletiese teorie met mekaar in verband te bring, word hierdie Skrifgedeelte vir die prediking ontgin. Deur die benutting van ’n literêr-estetiese benadering tot prediking in ’n skuiwende kultuur – soos deur Cas Vos en Cas Wepener ontwikkel – word die nuwe hemel en aarde, die nuwe Jerusalem en die lied ‘Hot Gates’ met mekaar gekombineer om nuwe betekenismoontlikhede te ontdek. Deur intertekstueel en inkulturerend te werk te gaan, word parameters vir die uitleg en verstaan van Openbaring 21:1-8 geformuleer en voorstelle vir die prediking van hierdie Skrifgedeelte word gemaak.Revelation 21:1-8 in text and preaching. Revelation 21:1-8 presents an important turning point in this book. A new heaven, a new earth and a New Jerusalem are introduced. The old has passed. The new has come. How should Revelation 21:1-8 be read, interpreted and understood? How should this text be preached? These and other questions are asked in this article. Because of its literary genre, amongst other factors, the Book of Revelation poses unique challenges to anyone who wants to interpret and understand or preach about it. Revelation 21:1-8 is investigated by engaging the text and homiletic theory with each other. By utilising a literary-esthetical approach to preaching in a changing culture – as developed by Cas Vosen Cas Wepener – the new heaven and earth, the new Jerusalem and the song ‘Hot Gates’ are engaged with one another in order to find possible new meanings. By working intertextually and inculturating, parameters for the explanation and understanding of Revelation 21:1-8 are explicated and suggestions with regard to preaching this text are made.

scholarly journals Openbaring 21:1−8 in teks en prediking

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Bothma
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Book Of Revelation ◽  
New Jerusalem ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Heaven And Earth

Openbaring 21:1-8 bring ’n belangrike wending in hierdie boek. Die koms van ’n nuwe hemel, ’n nuwe aarde en ’n nuwe Jerusalem word aangekondig. Die oue is verby. Die nuwe het gekom. Hoe behoort Openbaring 21:1-8 uitgelê, vertolk en verstaan te word? Hoe behoort daar oor hierdie teks gepreek te word? Hierdie en nog meer vrae word in hierdie artikel bespreek. Vanweë onder andere die literêre genre daarvan, stel die boek Openbaring unieke uitdagings aan diegene wat dit wil uitlê, verstaan en daaroor wil preek. Deur Openbaring 21:1-8 en homiletiese teorie met mekaar in verband te bring, word hierdie Skrifgedeelte vir die prediking ontgin. Deur die benutting van ’n literêr-estetiese benadering tot prediking in ’n skuiwende kultuur – soos deur Cas Vos en Cas Wepener ontwikkel – word die nuwe hemel en aarde, die nuwe Jerusalem en die lied ‘Hot Gates’ met mekaar gekombineer om nuwe betekenismoontlikhede te ontdek. Deur intertekstueel en inkulturerend te werk te gaan, word parameters vir die uitleg en verstaan van Openbaring 21:1-8 geformuleer en voorstelle vir die prediking van hierdie Skrifgedeelte word gemaak.Revelation 21:1-8 in text and preaching. Revelation 21:1-8 presents an important turning point in this book. A new heaven, a new earth and a New Jerusalem are introduced. The old has passed. The new has come. How should Revelation 21:1-8 be read, interpreted and understood? How should this text be preached? These and other questions are asked in this article. Because of its literary genre, amongst other factors, the Book of Revelation poses unique challenges to anyone who wants to interpret and understand or preach about it. Revelation 21:1-8 is investigated by engaging the text and homiletic theory with each other. By utilising a literary-esthetical approach to preaching in a changing culture – as developed by Cas Vosen Cas Wepener – the new heaven and earth, the new Jerusalem and the song ‘Hot Gates’ are engaged with one another in order to find possible new meanings. By working intertextually and inculturating, parameters for the explanation and understanding of Revelation 21:1-8 are explicated and suggestions with regard to preaching this text are made.

scholarly journals THE OPPOSITION BETWEEN LAW AND GRACE IN THE SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE OF PIERRE BEZUKHOV IN WAR AND PEACE BY L. N. TOLSTOY

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 194-208
Author(s):  
Alexander Kondratiev ◽  
Kirill Merinov
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Moral Choice ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Spiritual Tradition

The problem of understanding Russian literature implies a grasp of the author’s concept of a human being, rooted in the spiritual tradition of Russian culture. Scientific analysis of the artistic refraction of the religious and philosophical opposition between Law and Grace, the divine power that saves from sin, in the formation of the character expands the idea of the semantic depths of the work, which open up new meanings in the “big time”. The idea of War and Peace was conditioned by the challenges of the cultural and historical turning point in the spiritual experience of the Russian people. In assessing events and people, Tolstoy is guided by the Christian tradition of the Russian culture. The previously undisputed assessment of the blessed results of Pierre Bezukhov’s spiritual biography needs to be clarified based on the conclusions and provisions of the Christian basis of Russian literature. Prince Andrey and Bezukhov were not accepted by the high society, but managed to find common ground. However, Bolkonsky’s interest in lawmaking faded after meeting Natasha, and when the war began, he refused Kutuzov’s proposal, felt responsibility for the doomed soldiers, forgave Kuragin in a Christian way and asked for the Gospel before dying, while Bezukhov never became Peter Kirillovich and was focused on self-determination in the subordinate spheres of earthly life, actualizing the importance of human efforts for the transformation of society. Bezukhov had never made a moral choice between Law and Grace, unlike Bolkonsky, who blessed his son. Thus, the title of the book appeals to the eternal Christian opposition of Law, or war, and Grace that is peace.

The Maturation of a New Literary Genre

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabry Hafex
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Modern School ◽  
History Of ◽  
Major Figure ◽  
Formative Years

The arrival of Lashin1on the Egyptian literary scene in the 1920s marked a turning point in the history of the short story: he was an outstandingly vigorous pioneer who developed the genre and brought its formative years to a close. His writings represent the culmination, in both form and content, of the work of previous writers and of his contemporaries. He was also the major figure of a versatile literary group, Jama⊂at al-Madrasa al Haditha (the Modern School), which played a decisive role in developing the Egyptian short story, extending its reading public, and shaping the characteristics of the new sensibility of that period. This group did not start as a proper literary school as the name implies, but rather as a gathering of enthusiastic young writers whose common dream of issuing a paper of their own, to express their views and publish their unconventional works, took almost a decade to be realised.

Manuscripts of the Book of Revelation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garrick V. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Critical Edition ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Holy War ◽  
Book Of Revelation ◽  
New Jerusalem ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

The book of Revelation is a disorienting work, full of beasts, heavenly journeys, holy war, the End of the Age, and the New Jerusalem. It is difficult to follow the thread that ties the visions together and to makes sense of the work’s message. This book argues that one way to understand the strange history of Revelation and its challenging texts is to go back to its manuscripts. The texts of the Greek manuscripts of Revelation are the foundation for the words that we encounter when we read Revelation in a modern Bible. But the manuscripts also tell us what other ancient, medieval, and early modern people thought about the work they copied and read. The paratexts of Revelation—the many features of the manuscripts that help readers to navigate and interpret the text—are one important point of evidence. Incorporating such diverse features like the traditional apparatus that accompanies ancient commentaries to the random marginal notes that identify the identity of the beast, paratexts are founts of information on how other mostly anonymous people interpreted Revelation’s problem texts. This book argues that manuscripts are not just important for textual critics or antiquarians, but that they are important for scholars and serious students because they are the essential substance of what the New Testament is. This book illustrates ways that the manuscripts illuminate surprising answers to important critical questions, like the future of the critical edition in the digital age, the bibliography of the canon, and the methods of reception history.

The Arbores of Joachim of Fiore

1956 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 124-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjorie Reeves
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Tree Of Life ◽  
Young Shoot ◽  
Garden Of Eden ◽  
New Jerusalem ◽  
Jewish Thought ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Christian Thought ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
Joachim Of Fiore

The image of the tree has been powerful in the human imagination and therefore fruitful as a source of metaphor. In ancient mythologies it appears as a cosmic symbol and it is entwined, root and branch, in Christian thought. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil overshadows Man's fall; the ‘Tree’ of the Cross dominates his salvation; the Tree of Life, which sheltered him in the Garden of Eden, heals him in the New Jerusalem. In the great prophetic image of Isaiah, the turning-point of history becomes the young shoot of an ancient tree:And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse and a branch shall grow out of his roots.In course of time, too, the great crisis of wickedness also appears in Jewish thought under the same figure:And there came forth out of them a sinful root, Antiochus Epiphanes. Again, in Jewish thought good men are trees that flourish:And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season, his leaf also shall not wither.

Narrative Features of the Book of Revelation

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
James L. Resseguie
Keyword(s):  
Character Traits ◽  
Book Of Revelation ◽  
People Of God ◽  
New Jerusalem ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
Road Signs ◽  
The People ◽  
The World

Four narrative features of the book of Revelation are the focus of this article: masterplot, characters and characterization, architectural and topographical settings, and numerical symbolism. Masterplots are skeletal stories belonging to cultures and individuals that clarify questions of identity, values, or the understanding of life. The masterplot of Revelation is a quest story of the people of God in search of the new promised land, the new Jerusalem. Characters either aid or hinder the questers’ sojourn. Hybrid characters, which blend character traits from the world below with characteristics of this world, or combine the human with the inhuman, underscore the dangers the exodus-people, the followers of the Lamb, encounter on their trek. Other characters—such as the angel of Rev 10—advance their quest with a MacGuffin. Architectural and topographical settings—such as Babylon, the new Jerusalem, the desert, and the sea—amplify peril and solace on the journey. Symbolic numbers are road signs that warn the exodus-people of dangers or proffer divine succor and protection.

The Spirit in the Book of Revelation

2020 ◽  
pp. 239-255
Author(s):  
John Christopher Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Spirit Possession ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Book Of Revelation ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

This piece offers a review and assessment of scholarly trends in the study of the role of the Spirit in the book of Revelation focusing on five major sections. The identity of “the seven Spirits” of God as either angelic beings or the singular Spirit of God is explored. The phrase “I was in the Spirit” is examined as a literary structural marker and as a description of John’s experience of the Spirit, which has been explained as an ecstatic or trance like state, as spirit possession, as denoting a prophetic revelatory experience, and/or as indicating a context of worship. The “in the Spirit” phrase is also explored in relationship to John’s activity of writing “in the Spirit” to determine if such writing should to be understood as a literary fiction or as an actual expression of the church’s spiritual experience. An examination of “the Spirit of Prophecy” explores the issue via the identification of the book’s literary genre and its relationship to: the witness or testimony of Jesus, the phenomenon of prophecy in the church, pneumatic witness, and pneumatic discernment. A final section focuses upon the way in which Jesus and the Spirit are both interconnected and distinct characters within the book.

The Oxford Handbook of the Book of Revelation

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Greek Text ◽  
Book Of Revelation ◽  
People Of God ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
New Jerusalem ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
State Of Research

The Oxford Handbook of the Book of Revelation is the premier reference work for the study of Revelation. Part 1 gives attention to the literary features of the book, including its narrative and rhetorical aspects, imagery, hymns, use of the Old Testament and distinctive Greek style. Part 2 considers the social context in which Revelation was composed and first read, including its relation to Roman rule, Jewish communities, Greco-Roman religions, and various groups of Jesus followers. Part 3 explores major topics in theology and ethics, including God, Jesus, and the Spirit; perspectives on creation, evil, and violence; and the portrayal of Babylon, new Jerusalem, and the people of God. Part 4 deals with the book’s history of reception and influence, including the transmission of the Greek text and inclusion in the New Testament canon, patterns of interpretation in antiquity, middle ages, and modern period, and Revelation’s impact on liturgy and music. Part 5 turns to emerging trends in interpretation, including the use of feminist, African American, and post-colonial perspectives. With contributions from leading international scholars, the volume offers authoritative essays on the current state of research that will help to shape the direction of future studies in the field.

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