scholarly journals God's Makwerekwere: Re-imagining the church in the context of migration and xenophobia

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David N. Field
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Testament ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
New Testament Studies ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Early 21St Century

Mass migration and accompanying xenophobia are characteristics of the early 21st century and as such challenge the church to reimagine its identity. This article analyses migration and xenophobia particularly as they impact South Africa and then proposes the model of the church as God�s Makwerekwere as an appropriate response. In doing so, it examines New Testament images of the church and argues that the church as God�s Makwerekwere is a community in solidarity with the excluded, a community of affirmation of the excluded, a community of reconciliation and a transnational community.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article challenges the traditional discourse used in ecclesiology by proposing the image of the church as God�s Makwerekwere. It roots this proposal in considerations from migration studies and New Testament studies. The aim is to re-imagining the church as a contribution to a transforming ecclesial praxis.

Faith in the New Testament

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
New Testament ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Lexical Semantics ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Major Subject ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Pauline Theology ◽  
Pauline Studies ◽  
The Early 21St Century

Faith language is prevalent in the New Testament (NT; esp. pistis, pisteuō), but only in the early 21st century did this topic become a major subject of scholarship (leaving aside the pistis Christou debate, which has attracted steady interest and scholarship since the middle of the 20th century). Interest in NT faith language intersects with numerous fields and disciples including classics, lexical semantics, Septuagint studies, and vigorous debates in Pauline studies and Pauline theology.

Ideological Pressure on the Orthodox Church in Byelorussia in the Early 21st Century

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 86-96
Author(s):  
Alexander D.  Gronsky
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Church Organizations ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Early 21St Century

Byelorussian nationalism seeks to create an alternative spiritual and religious tradition in order to subjugate the activities of the Church organizations to the interests of nationalist ideology. The Byelorussian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and the Greek Catholic (Uniate) Church were elected as “national” Churches. However, they are not national.

scholarly journals A Transformed Beholder. Objective Beauty as the Impetus for Sanctification in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar

Perichoresis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-265
Author(s):  
Sam Wellbaum
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Proper Place ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Hans Urs Von Balthasar ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
God's Love ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Early 21St Century

A Transformed Beholder. Objective Beauty as the Impetus for Sanctification in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar Here in the early 21st century, beauty is not what it once was. The Enlightenment has left beauty a subjective and inconsequential shade, barely resembling its former existence as a transcendental on par with goodness and truth. Can beauty be restored to what it once was? And if it can, should it? This article argues that 20th century theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar not only answers these two questions with a resounding “Yes!” but also gives the church the tools needed to restore beauty to a place of honor in Christian theology. For von Balthasar, beauty and glory are one in the same. Further, beauty/glory and love are irrevocably connected. When we restore beauty to its proper place, we experience God’s love in a proper way, which in turn leads to sanctification.

Outlining a grammaticalization path for the Spanish formula en plan (de): A contribution to crosslinguistic pragmatics

Linguistics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 1543-1579
Author(s):  
Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Discourse Markers ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Discourse Marker ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Diachronic Study ◽  
Diachronic Development ◽  
The Early 21St Century

AbstractThis article discusses the diachronic development of the Spanish multifunctional formula en plan (with its variant en plan de, literally ‘in plan (of)’ but usually equivalent to English like). The article has two main aims: firstly, to describe the changes that the formula has undergone since its earliest occurrences as a marker in the nineteenth century up to the early 21st century. The diachronic study evinces a process of grammaticalization in three steps: from noun to clause adverbial and then to discourse marker. Secondly, to conduct a contrastive analysis between en plan (de) and the English markers like and kind of/kinda so as to shed new light on the potential existence of a universal pathway of grammaticalization in the emergence of discourse markers.

Survival of cervical cancer patients in Germany in the early 21st century: A period analysis by age, histology, and stage

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 915-921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianhui Chen ◽  
Lina Jansen ◽  
Adam Gondos ◽  
Katharina Emrich ◽  
Bernd Holleczek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cervical Cancer ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Period Analysis ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
The Early 21St Century
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