scholarly journals Cristãos: chamados à santidade

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ademir Eing ◽  
Paulo Sergio Chaves
Keyword(s):  
Christian Theology ◽  
Theological Virtues ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Wire ◽  
God's Grace ◽  
Concrete Reality ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

O fio condutor que perpassa todo o caminho da santidade evangélica,que se concretiza a partir da aceitação do universal chamado à santidade, com oauxílio da graça de Deus, é constituído pelas virtudes teologais, dentre as quaisdestaca-se a caridade. Na realidade, elas são necessárias para compreendera existência cristã, já que remetem às duas grandes balizas do discípulo deCristo, isto é: a sua relação com Deus e com o próximo. A vida do crente estáorientada para a transcendência. No entanto, o cristianismo postula um vínculonecessário entre vida sobrenatural e realidade concreta. Ora, a compreensão deDeus, enquanto totalmente Outro, constrói-se a partir do rosto do próximo, istoé, o ‘outro imediato e palpável’. Portanto, é fundamental para a teologia cristã--católica ter sempre bem presente a importância do chamado à santidade feitoa todos os cristãos, não só os consagrados e consagradas, e sua acuidade paraa Igreja nos dias de hoje. Urge auxiliar o cristão em sua busca de resposta aDeus, que não se dá individualisticamente, mas sim comunialmente, enquantomembro do corpo eclesial, dando testemunho do Evangelho, buscando a santidadee praticando as virtudesPalavras-chave: Graça. Virtudes. Santidade. Igreja. Cristãos.Abstract: The wire that passes through all the way to evangelical holiness,which is concretized from the acceptance of the universal call to holiness, withthe help of God’s grace, is constituted by the theological virtues, among whichis highlighted charity. Actually, they are necessary to understand the Christianexistence, since they refer to the two great beacons of Christ’s disciple, that isto say: his relation with God and with the neighbor. The believer’s life is orientedtoward transcendence. However, Christianity postulated a necessary link betweensupernatural life and concrete reality. Now, the understanding of God, while totally. Other, is built from the face of the neighbor, that is, the ‘immediate and palpableother’. Therefore, it is fundamental for Catholic-Christian theology to alwayskeep in mind the importance of the call to holiness made to all Christians, notonly the consecrated ones, and their acuity for the Church in the present day. Itis urgent to help the Christian in his search for a response of God, which is notgiven individually, but communally, as a member of the ecclesial body, givingtestimony of the Gospel, seeking holiness and practicing the virtues.Keywords: Grace. Virtue. Holiness. Church. Christians.

scholarly journals Christian Theology in the Post-Modern Era

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul F. Knitter
Keyword(s):  
Christian Theology ◽  
Theological Method ◽  
Reign Of God ◽  
The Times ◽  
It Ethics ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Church ◽  
Moral Convictions ◽  
The Way

Responding to postmodernity as one of the “signs of the times”, Christians will have to carry out a balancing act between commitment to their own convictions and openness to those of others. This has implication for five areas of Christian theology and praxis. In theological method, we must recognise that all our beliefs are symbols that tell us something but never everything about God, self, world. In christology, we understand and follow Christ as the Way that is open to other Ways. The Church will be seen as a community that seeks a Reign of God that will always be more than what we now know of it. Ethics will be based on the principles and practice of non-violence: full commitment to moral convictions joined with genuine respect and compassion toward the convictions of others. Such a theology will need to be rooted in a spirituality in which we are “absolutely” committed to truths that we recognise are always “relative” - a truly eschatological spirituality that is always “on the way”.

scholarly journals “MELAMPAUI DUNIA LATIN : KEMURIDAN DAN KEWARGAAN DALAM TEOLOGI PUBLIK KEKRISTENAN ASIA”

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 265
Author(s):  
James Haire
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Third ◽  
Asian Society ◽  
Pauline Theology ◽  
Christian Discipleship ◽  
Concrete Reality ◽  
The Church

Abstract: This article looks at the issues of discipleship and citizenship in the context of Asian Christianity in terms of “belonging”. The concept of discipleship refers to the concept of belonging within the church, while the concept of citizenship refers to belonging within the nation-state. Thus the issue of belonging within these two spheres is a sub-set of the questions relating to public theology within Asian Christianity. The first issue considered is the question as to what extent the assumptions of public Christian theology actually are the assumptions of post-Enlightenment western Christian theology alone, and therefore have only very indirect links with Asian Christianity. The second issue is the intercultural nature of Christian theology, and its implications for public theology, including discipleship and citizenship. The third issue is the reality of Asian society and Asian Christian theology, particularly public theology. Where Christianity is a minority (albeit, large minority), what is the contribution of a public Christian theology to the debates of civil society? In this section the author looks at the concrete reality of violence in Asia, and seek to analyse how the dynamics of Pauline theology frequently used in Asia engage with the fact of violence. Finally the article seeks to answer the question as to what we can learn from Asian Christian contexts on the interaction of faith and culture in relation to Christian discipleship and engaged citizenship. Keywords: kekristenan, budaya, teologi publik, gereja, lokal, global, Asia, reformasi.

Teilhard's Vision and the Environment

Horizons ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-67
Author(s):  
Brennan R. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Source Power ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTPierre Teilhard de Chardin was a pioneer in integrating modern science and Christian theology. He was also a mystic who throughout his life and writings attempted to share the ways in which the divine was the source, power and goal of all creation and to point out how spirit glowed within all of matter. Teilhard's vision of the earth can be most helpful today as we attempt to restore and sustain our environment. In this article I will explore Teilhard's deep reverence for the cosmos and humanity, as well as his views on how God's power works through Christ and the church. Along the way I will suggest how this vision might be linked to our contemporary concerns for our environment. I will close with some recommendations for updating Teilhard's vision so that it might better serve our present day needs.

ITALIAN IDENTITY: CATHOLIC RESPONSES TO SECULARIST DEFINITIONS, c.1910–48

Modern Italy ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 52-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Logan
Keyword(s):  
Italian Society ◽  
The Face ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

In united Italy, assertions by Catholic militants about their nation's true identity have been bound up with polemic against secularist forces and with claims about the position due to the Church in Italian society. They have insisted that Italy's authentic traditions are Catholic and that her true greatness resides in her being the heart of Christian civilization. Hostile or threatening ideologies, e.g. idealist philosophy and Communism, have been stigmatized as alien to Italian tradition. In the face of Fascism, with which the ‘Catholic world's’ relations were ambivalent, there was a major ideological campaign to assert a Catholic definition of the keyword romanità. The way in which Catholic theoreticians have defined the ‘nation’ in organicist terms have been linked to strategies of ideological defence against state forms, whether liberal or Fascist, perceived to be overweening.

Theological virtues

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. Mann
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Insufficient Evidence ◽  
Philosophical Theory ◽  
Apostle Paul ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Theological Virtues ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Will ◽  
The One ◽  
God's Grace

The three theological virtues of faith, hope and love, referred to frequently by the apostle Paul in his letters, play an indispensable role in Christian theorizing about a person’s duties with respect to God. Thomas Aquinas is responsible for the most thorough and influential philosophical theory of the theological virtues. According to him, faith, hope and love are virtues because they are dispositions whose possession enables a person to act well to achieve a good thing – in this case, the ultimate good of salvation and beatitude. Without them, people would have neither the awareness of nor the will to strive for salvation. Despite the fact that they are infused in persons by God’s grace, one can wilfully and culpably fail to let them develop. Faith for Aquinas is the voluntary assent to propositions about God that cannot be known by the evidence available to the natural capacities of humans. Other theologians, such as Martin Luther and Søren Kierkegaard, deny the assumption that faith is primarily cognitive or propositional in nature, insisting instead that it is trust in God. Kierkegaard even challenges the presupposition that faith is logically continuous with natural knowledge. There has been much debate in the second half of the twentieth century as to whether it is ever rationally permissible to believe something on the basis of insufficient evidence. According to Aquinas, hope for one’s salvation requires that one already have faith. Hope requires that one remain steadfast in the face of despair on the one hand and presumption on the other. Aquinas models the virtue of love on one strand of Aristotle’s notion of friendship. Love of God entails desiring the good that God has to offer, seeking to advance God’s goals, and communicating one’s love to God. Love for others follows from the realization that they are also created with good natures by God.

Working up to the wire…

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-206
Author(s):  
Philippa Smethurst
Keyword(s):  
Psychotherapeutic Processes ◽  
Internal Structures ◽  
The Wire ◽  
Power And Energy ◽  
Time Boundary ◽  
The Way

This is a reflection on the power of endings and time boundaries, exploring the way that time can act as a catalyst in psychotherapeutic processes. The article describes the ending processes with five clients. These occurred simultaneously due to the author’s relocation. Some responses illuminate hitherto hidden and intractable internal structures, and in others the intensity of the limit acts an impetus for the client to grasp something new. Drawing on Power’s comprehensive book: Forced Endings in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (2016), the author reflects on the power and energy springing from the setting of the time boundary and the different dynamics created in client and therapist. There is acknowledgement of the pressure that this can create in the therapist and also there are reflections about what ultimately may be achieved.

The Church as a Sacrament in a Time of Pandemic: The Philippine Experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-280
Author(s):  
Rhoderick John Suarez Abellanosa
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Social Instability ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

The declaration of enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in various provinces and cities in the Philippines did not impede the Catholic Church from celebrating its sacraments and popular devotions. Mired with poverty and various forms of economic and social limitations, the presence of God for Filipinos is an essential element in moving forward and surviving in a time of pandemic. Predominantly Roman Catholic in religious affiliation, seeking the face of God has been part of Filipinos' lives whenever a serious disaster would strike. This essay presents how the clergy, religious and lay communities in the Philippines have innovatively and creatively sustained treasured religious celebrations as a sign of communion and an expression of faith. In addition to online Eucharistic celebrations that are more of a privilege for some, culturally contextualised efforts were made during the Lenten Season and even on Sundays after Easter. This endeavour ends with a reflection on the Church as the sacrament of God in a time of pandemic. Pushed back to their homes, deprived of life's basic necessities and facing threats of social instability, unemployment and hunger, Filipinos through their innovative celebrations find in their communion with their Church the very presence of God acting significantly in their lives.

Vérités et Mensonges

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-224
Author(s):  
Erik Gunderson
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Self ◽  
Faithful Representation ◽  
Political Subject ◽  
Concrete Reality ◽  
Hermeneutic Process ◽  
The Way

This is a survey of some of the problems surrounding imperial panegyric. It includes discussions of both the theory and practice of imperial praise. The evidence is derived from readings of Cicero, Quintilian, Pliny, the Panegyrici Latini, Menander Rhetor, and Julian the Apostate. Of particular interest is insincere speech that would be appreciated as insincere. What sort of hermeneutic process is best suited to texts that are politically consequential and yet relatively disconnected from any obligation to offer a faithful representation of concrete reality? We first look at epideictic as a genre. The next topic is imperial praise and its situation “beyond belief” as well as the self-positioning of a political subject who delivers such praise. This leads to a meditation on the exculpatory fictions that these speakers might tell themselves about their act. A cynical philosophy of Caesarism, its arbitrariness, and its constructedness abets these fictions. Julian the Apostate receives the most attention: he wrote about Caesars, he delivered extant panegyrics, and he is also the man addressed by still another panegyric. And in the end we find ourselves to be in a position to appreciate the way that power feeds off of insincerity and grows stronger in its presence.

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