scholarly journals Uang dan Keterasingan

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-226
Author(s):  
Nelman Asrianus Weny
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
The Church

Money is, in of itself, an anonymous and neutral force. However, throughgoing capitalization in all dimensions of life has brought humankind to regard the making of money as its sole objective to be achieved by any means necessary. At the same time, the misuse of money breeds alienation. The expression, “Whosoever has the money, has the power,” only exacerbates alienation. As a social reality, alienation presents a confessional challenge to the church, including churches in Indonesia. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, with particular emphasis upon philosophical and theological studies, I argue that the church bears ethical-moral responsibility for overcoming this challenge. The solution that I offer amounts to a “new language” for money within the framework of a “theology of money”: To meet its ministry obligations, the church needs money, yet the church must also combat the idolization of it. To wit, churches must dare to prove that each, whether as individual or institution, is truly free from all forms of monetary idolatry.

scholarly journals Normative character of the principles of Social doctrine of Catholic Church: an evolutional way of formation

2014 ◽  
pp. 142-147
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Moroz
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social Doctrine ◽  
The Social ◽  
Doctrine Of The Church ◽  
The Church

The article of Volodymyr Moroz ―Normative character of the principles of Social doctrine of Catholic Church: an evolutional way of formation - is devoted to the analysis of Catholic Church’s Teaching over the human dignity. Author explores also the process of settling of the principles of common good, subsidiarity and solidarity in the Teaching of Catholic Church. Mentioned principles are investigated in the case of orientation to provide a reverence to transcendent human dignity. Author sums up that all three principles have normative character. That is to say the principles are called to guarantee certain coordination between the social reality and the verities, which were declared by the Social doctrine of the Church.

Five-Dimensional (5D) Modelling of the Holy Aedicule of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Through an Innovative and Interdisciplinary Approach

2017 ◽  
pp. 247-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia Moropoulou ◽  
Andreas Georgopoulos ◽  
Manolis Korres ◽  
Asterios Bakolas ◽  
Kyriakos Labropoulos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
The Church

The Church as Cultural Exorcist

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harvey Cox
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Patterns Of Behavior ◽  
Behavior Based ◽  
The Church

This chapter looks at the contemporary extension of exorcism in the ministry of the church in the secular city. Men must be called away from their fascination with other worlds—astrological, metaphysical, or religious—through which they wrongly perceive the social reality around them, and from habitual forms of action or inaction stemming from these illusions. This is the work of social exorcism. The ministry of exorcism in the secular city requires a community of persons who, individually and collectively, are not burdened by the constriction of an archaic heritage. It requires a community which, if not fully liberated, is in the process of liberation from compulsive patterns of behavior based on mistaken images of the world. In performing its function, the church should be ready to expose the fallaciousness of the social myths by which the injustice of a society is perpetuated and to suggest ways of action which demonstrate the wrongness of such fantasies.

scholarly journals “IN A PLACE PARALLEL TO GOD”: THE DRAFT, THE DEMONIC, AND THE CONSCIENTIOUS CUBIST

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-339
Author(s):  
Nathaniel Berman
Keyword(s):  
John Locke ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
The United States ◽  
Paul Tillich ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Conscientious Objectors ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Saba Mahmood ◽  
The Church ◽  
Critique Of Religion

AbstractThe question “What is religion?” has again been roiling the academy, the courts, and public debate. In 1965, the Supreme Court of the United States opined on this question, deciding the fate of would-be conscientious objectors who would not affirm the existence of God. Relying largely on Paul Tillich, the Court ruled in their favor, expanding the notion of “religious belief” beyond its conventional Western confines. This article reexamines the issues raised in this case by exploring the theology of Paul Tillich, particularly its critique of religion as a separate sphere and its challenge to basic tenets of liberal political theory inherited from John Locke. The article, however, also juxtaposes the religion-expanding aspects of Tillich's thought with his strictures about “demonic” distortions of religion, requiring an excursus into Tillich's notions of the divine/demonic relationship. Tillich's rejection of the compartmentalization of “religion” led him to declare that more religious meaning may be found in putatively “secular” artifacts, such as Cubist art, than in conventionally “religious” symbols and institutions, including the Church. This approach both demands a radically interdisciplinary approach to “religion” and casts a skeptical eye on some putatively “religious” claims. The article concludes by juxtaposing Tillich's anti-essentialist critique of “religion” with more recent, and dramatically different, critiques, particularly those advanced by Talal Asad and Saba Mahmood.

scholarly journals Putting the Age of Criminal and Tort Liability into Context: A Dialogue between Law and Psychology

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuno Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Moral Development ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Tort Liability ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Law And Psychology ◽  
Capacity Responsibility ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe concepts of 'liability age' and 'capacity responsibility' have been widely dissected by researchers in various fields. However, their application to both criminal and tort liability of children remains inconsistent. Furthermore, rarely has an interdisciplinary approach adequately dealt with these concepts and their impact on legal norms. This text investigates the notion of criminal and tort liability age in connection with the notion of capacity responsibility, in relation to children, and further questions the adequacy of the relevant legal norms. This endeavour to improve the applicable legal norms is supported by an analysis of the pertinent findings in the field of psychology, particularly in respect of the moral development of children. Informed by an excursion through the ideas of Piaget, Kohlberg, and Gilligan, among others, regarding the moral development of children, the text also serves to assess the impact of concepts of moral responsibility and maturity, in relation to the development of the legal norms, which determine the age of liability of children. The text concludes with a proposal for a criminal and tort liability age framework, based upon indicative/presumptive age milestones, and an integrated approach to all relevant circumstances in casu.

scholarly journals Protesoptogte en die rol van die Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk

1991 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
I. W.C. Van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
The State ◽  
Magic Formula ◽  
The People ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
The Church

Protest marches and the role of the Nederduitsch Hervonnde Church This artic le deals with the phenomenon of protest against the state. The fact that resistance and protest have always been part of social reality is pointed out. For this reason the state, particulary a democratic state, should provide scope for legitimate protest and protest marches. However, protest marches are not a magic formula for bringing about justice. Protest marches themselves are an extremely ambivalent matter. It is the responsibility of the church to guide the people and the nation in such a way that they will strive for attainable ideals within the bounds of possibility.

Theology and Social Theory

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Mawson
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
The Church

This chapter examines how Bonhoeffer sets up his engagement with social theory. While Bonhoeffer’s initial decisions with respect to social theory have been widely criticized, this chapter demonstrates that these are, in fact, theologically motivated, and are defensible precisely on this basis. This includes Bonhoeffer’s distinction between the disciplines of social philosophy and sociology’, as well as his preference for formal over historical approaches to sociology. This chapter also provides a preliminary outline of how Bonhoeffer’s engagement with social theory is governed by a theological dialectic or ‘concept of reality’, an understanding of social reality itself as ruptured or fragmented in terms of states of creation, sin, and reconciliation. This is one of the central claims in this monograph: Bonhoeffer’s engagement with social theory and study of the church are governed by this dialectic.

In, not of: The theological task and the mission of the church

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 320-332
Author(s):  
Kate Tyler
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Sociocultural Environment ◽  
Bounded Set ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Missional Identity ◽  
Theological Task ◽  
The Church

This article demonstrates how an interdisciplinary approach to thinking about mission allows for a more dynamic definition of who belongs to the Christian community. It argues that the church ought to understand its relationship to its sociocultural environment not in terms of who is “in” and “out” but in terms of the One toward whom this community is oriented, and the corresponding movement towards or away from this center. This will be done by bringing the exegesis of John 17:14–19 and Romans 12:1–2 into an interdisciplinary dialogue with Paul Hiebert’s “bounded-set” and “centered-set” models in order to show how the centered-set model provides a more theologically nuanced and faithful depiction of the church’s missional identity. Additionally, the trinitarian theologies of Thomas Torrance and Lesslie Newbigin will be added to this conversation to further demonstrate how Hiebert’s centered-set model, in partnership with a trinitarian ecclesiology which focuses upon participation, fellowship, and communion, reduces the stark divide of “in” and “out,” instead defining belonging to the Christian community with reference to the God who gathers and calls the church together.

Faith and Virtue Formation

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Formation ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Moral Formation ◽  
Communal Life ◽  
Divine Grace ◽  
Theological Virtues ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Church

The Christian tradition offers a robust and compelling vision of what it is for human life to be lived well. The essays in this volume articulate various aspects of that vision in ways that will deepen understanding of the virtues and virtue formation. These essays will also inspire and guide readers, Christian and non-Christian alike, in their efforts to grow in virtue. Topics addressed include the value of studying the vices for moral formation; the importance of emotion and agency in virtue formation; the connections between certain disabilities and virtue; the roles of divine grace, liturgy, worship, and the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit in Christian virtue formation; the formation of infused virtues, including the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love; the roles of friendship and the communal life of the Church in cultivating virtue; and new philosophical and theological reflections on some largely neglected virtues. Exemplifying an interdisciplinary approach, the contributors to this volume draw on philosophical, theological, and biblical wisdom, along with insights from contemporary psychology and rich narrative examples, in aid of becoming good. By providing deeply insightful and edifying reflections on the prospects, processes, and practices of moral and spiritual formation, this volume demonstrates that when it is at its best moral philosophy not only can illuminate, but also can practically guide and inspire the formation of virtue.

Marriage Symbolism and Social Reality in the New Testament

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Rebecca Solevåg
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Church ◽  
Second Coming

The profound and complicated marriage symbolism pervading the medieval West has its roots in the Bible, and particularly a set of images in the New Testament. In Ephesians 5 it is argued that ‘the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church’ (Eph 5:23). Further, both the gospels and the Apocalypse metaphorically describe Christ as a bridegroom (e.g. Matt 22:2–14; Luke 12:36–38; Rev 19:7–9). This chapter seeks to disentangle the two rather distinct images of (1) patriarchal marriage mapped onto the organizational structure of early Christ-believing communities and (2) bridegroom at wedding feast mapped onto the second coming of Christ. These two images mix and merge even in some of the New Testament texts, whereas other texts treat them separately, and with different emphases. The chapter presents the most relevant passages and discusses the various uses and contexts.

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