Nudged by Nathan Following a Lessing line in interfaith theology?

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Petrus P. Kruger
Keyword(s):  
Research Study ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Sensitive Area ◽  
Apostle Paul ◽  
The World ◽  
Grand Vision ◽  
As If

Whereas a widespread malaise about the truth quality of much written and spoken communication had in our times apparently also infected the sensitive area of theological interfaith discourse, an injunction like the following of the apostle Paul receives renewed urgency: ‘the ‘kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power’ – against the background of the apostle’s own display of kingdom power ‘as if in a theatre’ (see 1 Cor 4:9, 20). The objective of this research study was to probe whether the recent leaning towards a more ‘dramatic mode of theologizing’ might be conducive to preventing the Christian interfaith discourse from descending into powerless talk about the kingdom of God. It, moreover, hypothesised that a ‘doing of the truth’ (in the Johannine sense of the phrase) – analogous to the faithful improvisation of an original theatrical script (in this instance: Holy Scripture) – could add value to the truth - claiming of Christianity in its encounter with Jews and Muslims. The method was followed for analysing the famous Enlightenment literary drama of Lessing, Nathan the Wise, to find a possible cue for proceeding in such a direction, and if found – to heuristically build thereon for such a real-life, contemporary interfaith discourse. The result was that Lessing’s ‘Parable of the Three Rings’ yielded some cue, which, however, was found to be deficient. Only filtered through Barth’s razor-sharp evaluation of the beautiful Lessing drama and then fitted into a Barthian view of the ‘Light and the lights’, which was, for its part, adapted to Calvin’s grand vision of the world as theatrum Dei gloriae, the cue could be moulded to be acceptable for our purpose. A notion of historical-dramatic interfaith encounter thus emerged, where truth is not precluded in undecided tolerance but preluded in expectation of its full eschatological uncovering. Employing this – reframed – ‘Nathan nudge’, a conclusionary sketch could be given of a theological interfaith contest, conducted as if biblical truth resounded through the Christian’s whole body in an interactive ‘inter-play’ with Jews and Muslims. This conclusion was highlighted by some improvisatory, preludial, hospitable and Christocentric accents inherent in such a rendering.Contribution: This article showed one way out of the impasse that threatens a form of interfaith truth claiming constructed around ‘mere words’ – which, moreover, are deemed to be ‘final’. By proposing a preluding – and yet not precluding – of Christian truth, it hopes to add value to interfaith kingdom theology that really matters.

scholarly journals The Book of Life in the hermeneutics of Johann Georg Hamann

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-44
Author(s):  
V. Kh. Gilmanov
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The World ◽  
As If

In this article, I consider the philosophy of the Book in the context of reflections on her­meneutics in the works of the 18th-century Königsbergian thinker Johann Georg Hamann. Hamann’s bibliocentric hermeneutics treats the ‘philosophy of the Book’ as the question as to whether the experience of truth as such is possible. In the light of his hermeneutics, the fate of ontology is a function of the quality of reading since its dialogical nature directly determines a person’s special hermeneutic responsibility towards all that exists. In being the Book of Life, all that exists communicates with the human being as if it were the Book. It does so within the complex dialectics of objectivation in the epistemological linguisticality of a prophet, a scien­tist, or a poet and, through them, reaches out to countless generations of the Reader, who is voluntarily or involuntarily involved in the existential fate of the ontological dialogue. The ‘death of the Book’, or the transformation of the Book into a simulacrum, may confirm the diagnosis given by many modern philosophers: the world of culture is turning into an autoch­thonous flicker of hybrid quotations ruins.

scholarly journals Kontribusi Teori Etika Al-ghazali Untuk Pendidikan Orang Dewasa

el-Tarbawi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-122
Author(s):  
Abdul Karim ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Specific Method ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Ethical Concept ◽  
The World ◽  
Important Position ◽  
General Method

Akhlak (morality) is one of the three basic frameworks of islamic teachings (akidah, syari'ah and akhlak) which have important position. Moral expression is concrete evidence of the application and embodiment of aqidah and syari'ah, thus, represents the quality of Muslim’s faith. This research is a qualitative research conducted with literature study. This study seeks to explain the ethical concept of al-Ghazali and its application in the world of adult education, as explained by al-Ghazali in his works. The author limited the writings of al-Ghazali which are used as the basis for this research study, only to works written in the last years of his life, especially when he lived life as a Sufi. This research found that al-Ghazali divided adult education methods into two, general and specific. The general method applies to everyone and the specific method applies specifically to everyone based on the results of self-introspection.

Depersonalization disorder

2012 ◽  
pp. 774-776
Author(s):  
Nick Medford ◽  
Mauricio Sierra ◽  
Anthony S. David
Keyword(s):  
Illicit Drugs ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Related Phenomenon ◽  
Acting Out ◽  
Depersonalization Disorder ◽  
Primary Disorder ◽  
Dsm Iv ◽  
Neurological Conditions ◽  
As If

Depersonalization, a term coined by Dugas in 1898, is defined in DSM-IV as ‘an alteration in the experience of self so that one feels detached from and as if one is an outside observer of one's outside mental processes or body’. Brief, self-limiting experiences of depersonalization commonly occur in healthy people in the context of fatigue, intense stress, or during/after intoxication with alcohol or illicit drugs. However, some people experience chronic depersonalization of a disturbing intensity, causing significant distress and impacting on quality-of-life and daily functioning. This may occur as a primary depersonalization disorder (DPD), or in the context of other psychiatric or neurological conditions. In this chapter, we consider the primary disorder, although some sections are also relevant to secondary depersonalization. The depersonalization experience is one of feeling strangely altered and unreal, in a way that sufferers often find very hard to convey. It is often accompanied by the related phenomenon of derealization, in which the person's surroundings are experienced as somehow remote and lacking immediacy and vibrancy, as if the world itself has become oddly unreal. Patients with persistent depersonalization and derealization often use the analogy of feeling as if they are on the set of a play or film, where nothing is real and they are acting out a role rather than living a real life.

scholarly journals The Kingdom of God and those who have not heard the contents of Scripture

2003 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Kruger
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Mental Capacity ◽  
First Century ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Apostle Paul ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Invisible

Article 2 of the Belgic Confession deals with the following issue: By what means does God make Himself known to us? The first part of Article 2 that echoes the teaching of Calvin via the Gallic Confession reads as follows: “We know Him [God] by two means: First by the creation, preservation and government of the universe, which is before our eyes as a most elegant book, wherein all creatures, great and small, are characters (read: letters – MAK) leading us to see clearly the invisible things of God, even his everlasting power and divinity, as the apostle Paul says (Rom. 1:20). All which things are sufficient to convince men and leave them without excuse.” This article of 1561 agrees with Calvin’s Institutes of 1559 (1, V, 1) and the early Reformed Confessions before the Canons of Dordt (1618-1619). It seems as though, after Calvin, a doctrine of insufficiency regarding this first means of revelation gradually developed. In the Westminster Confession of 1647 this means of understanding God’s revelation (i.e by receiving God’s communication through the creation, preservation and government of the universe) was explicitly interpreted as insufficient. Man’s inherent ability to know God by means of his own mental capacity, the so-called light of nature, that remained after the Fall, was also regarded as insufficient. The issue of whether the interpretation of Article 2A had not been changed in the first century after Calvin should therefore be seriously considered by Reformed churches. Furthermore, the church of today, situated in a world that experiences such phenomenal scientific and technological changes, should ask what relevance Article 2A of the the Belgic Confession has for the church and the world.

scholarly journals MEMPROMOSIKAN PERUMPAMAAN DALAM MENGAJAR AGAMA KATOLIK

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 352-360
Author(s):  
Agustinus Wisnu Dewantara
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
The World ◽  
As If

Jesús preached the kingdom of God. Many of his parables begin: The kingdom of God  is like….” But what exactly is the kingdom of God? Parables are enigmatic stories. Metaphorically they are set beside the idea of a kingdom of God, but idea the idea of kingdom is itself mysterious. Everyone who hangs around churches has heard of the parables of Jesus. They are familiar. They have been allegorized, psychologized, and sometimes reduced to pointed “lessons” on moral behavior. But mysteriously, after twenty centuries they still generate retelling and still are puzzling. Maybe the today teacher who preach must be converted. The today teacher cannot preach about the kingdom of God as if it were something somewhere out in the world beyond us. Remember, the kingdom of God is a happening, and people live within its happening. Instead we (and many teacher today) must speak the kingdom of God (and also religion preaching) happening all around us.

scholarly journals MODERN MYTH AS A MEANS OF CONSTRUCTING REALITY

2018 ◽  
pp. 134-138
Author(s):  
Valentina Lvovna Tikhonova
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Burden ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Female Audience ◽  
Modern Myth

The myth in the modern sociocultural space bears an important cultural and social burden, has many forms and manifestations and is used by modern man consciously and with specific goals. The influence of mythology on modern society is ambiguous. An example is the illusory picture of the world produced by Russian television series intended for a female audience. The low quality of these products and the unified standard of the plot based on the archetypical images of the characters, are capable of playing on the psyche of viewers susceptible to the offered illusions, on the one hand, comforting, on the other - leading away from real life. The fact of the existence of myth in the modern cultural space, its relevance in the world of social relations proves the reality of the existence and functioning of mythological thinking.

Predictors of Lipid Peroxidation as a Criterion for the Diagnosis of Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma

2021 ◽  
pp. 113-121
Author(s):  
L. S. Pavlova ◽  
I. R. Gazizova ◽  
V. N. Alekseev ◽  
Yu. A. Alekseev
Keyword(s):  
Lipid Peroxidation ◽  
Visual Field ◽  
Primary Open Angle Glaucoma ◽  
Open Angle Glaucoma ◽  
World Health ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Open Angle ◽  
Quality Of Vision ◽  
The World

This review of modern literature presents the issue of early diagnosis of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) which is one of the most important problems in ophthalmology. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of glaucoma patients all over the world ranges from 60.5 to 105 million people, and in the next 10 years it will increase by another 10 million. The subtle onset of the disease usually leads to late diagnosis, since visual field defects are often first detectable by visual field testing when 25–35% of retinal ganglion cells have already been lost. In modern studies, it has been established that the cell death in POAG is accompanied by oxidative stress. It is considered a key factor indicating the pathological process of a fairly large number of chronic diseases of the whole body, including complicated eye pathologies and inflammatory processes. The resulting free radicals oxidize lipids and phospholipids which leads to their peroxidation and triggers damage to cell membranes. The lipid peroxidation is one of obligatory processes occurring in neurodegenerative conditions including POAG. Modern technologies analyzing lipid peroxidation may accelerate the diagnosis, to identify glaucoma biomarkers at an earlier stage, and as a result to maintain quality of vision more efficiently. These studies were carried out in different countries and using different methods such as serological proteomic analysis, chromatography and mass spectrometry, and new technological approaches such as MultiOmics. The study of the protein profile, lipase activity, nitric oxide concentration, activity of carbonic anhydrase enzyme, malondialdehyde (MDA) and other compounds are also very informative. Various fluids were taken as a basis for the study: tears, aqueous humor of the anterior chamber, blood and its components. Together these technologies enable to evaluate the oxidative process in different ways. Earlier diagnosis of glaucoma is very important as it will enable to maintain the quality of vision for a longer time and reduce the rate of the disease progression. Keywords: primary open-angle glaucoma, lipid peroxidation, lacrimal fluid, serum.

Exploring Citizenship: Unit 4 My Heritage

EDIS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (5) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
John Rutledge ◽  
Joy C. Jordan ◽  
Dale W. Pracht
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Development Program ◽  
The Real ◽  
Volunteer Leaders ◽  
Youth Development Program ◽  
Major Revision ◽  
The World ◽  
Individual Needs

 The 4-H Citizenship Project offers the opportunity to help 4-H members relate all of their 4-H projects and experiences to the world around them. The 4-H Citizenship manuals will serve as a guide for 4-H Citizenship experiences. To be truly meaningful to the real-life needs and interests of your group, the contribution of volunteer leaders is essential. Each person, neighborhood, and community has individual needs that you can help your group identify. This 14-page major revision of Unit IV covers the heritage project. Written by John Rutledge, Joy C. Jordan, and Dale Pracht and published by the UF/IFAS Extension 4-H Youth Development program. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/4h019

Correction of functional constipation in patients with limited mobility after stroke

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 53-55
Author(s):  
M. S. Turchina ◽  
M. V. Bukreeva ◽  
L. Yu. Korolyova ◽  
Zh. E. Annenkova ◽  
L. G. Polyakov
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Chronic Constipation ◽  
Functional Constipation ◽  
Cerebrovascular Diseases ◽  
Medical Rehabilitation ◽  
Stroke Patients ◽  
Limited Mobility ◽  
Complete Restoration ◽  
The World

Currently, the problem of early rehabilitation of stroke patients is important, since in terms of the prevalence of cerebrovascular diseases and disability after suffering a stroke, Russia is one of the first places in the world. The complex of medical rehabilitation of such patients should provide for the early and most complete restoration of all body functions, patient education for lost skills, re-socialization of the patient and improvement of the quality of life. One of the factors contributing to a significant reduction in the quality of life after a stroke is the development of chronic constipation. The article reflects the modern methods of correction of chronic constipation in patients with limited mobility.

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