Double Standards?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Scafi
Keyword(s):  
Human Soul ◽  
Double Standards ◽  
Sexual Imagery ◽  
God's Love ◽  
Christian Understanding ◽  
Medieval Christianity ◽  
The Church

Examining the criticism of the Islamic idea of heaven in medieval Christianity sheds light on the development during this period of the Christian understanding of human marriage as a sacrament of God’s love. For Christians it was marriage that gave full meaning and dignity to sex, and it was precisely the bridal imagery that distinguished their use of sexual imagery from the simplistic sensual renderings of heaven found in Islamic writings. The resemblance between the sacrament of marriage and the divine exemplar was more than a mere analogy: the physical union of a man and a woman within marriage was an actual embodiment of the sacred union between Christ and the Church, Mary and Christ, God and the human soul.

Hospitality at community wells: The life-giving waters of John 4:7–15

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (4) ◽  
pp. 526-535
Author(s):  
Cindy Bolden
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
God's Love ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Church ◽  
Samaritan Woman

Jesus’s encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well is a paradigmatic text for the Church, showing new possibilities for how the Church can engage the world, specifically engagement through invitational conversation and acts of charity at modern-day community wells. A Place at the Table is a pay-what-you-can café in Raleigh, North Carolina. Patrons can pay the suggested price, less than the suggested price, redeem a token worth the cost of a meal, or pay by volunteering at the café. Patrons who are able to “pay it forward” can further support the mission by tipping or buying meal tokens for others. At this café, a space reminiscent of an ancient “community well,” thirsty travelers receive the life-giving waters of acceptance, connection, and sustenance. The custom of hospitality is a life-giving and transformational practice for the Church, a viable and tangible way to connect with its neighbor and draw all persons into the experience of God’s love.

scholarly journals Manifesting the Sacred: John La Farge’s The Lampbearer as a Model for Catholic Presence in the World

Lumen et Vita ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin LaBadie
Keyword(s):  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Present Patient ◽  
American Artist ◽  
God's Love ◽  
The World ◽  
Union With God ◽  
The Church

What does it mean for the Church to be in the world? In this paper, I propose that it means for the Church to be sacred, i.e., all Catholics are called to live sacredly. How is the sacred defined? To answer this question, I look to the American artist, John La Farge (1835-1910), whose works are currently being displayed at Boston College's McMullen Museum. The exhibition examines La Farge's "lifelong efforts to visualize the sacred." Given this, I offer a theological reflection on La Farge's painting of the Wise Virgin in order to elucidate what it means to live sacredly: being in tension between the transcendent and the imminent. In other words, to live sacredly means to be attentive, patient, and faithful to the ultimate coming of God's kingdom, yet also to be present, patient, and concerned with the practical worldly challenges of today. This sacredness begins to manifest God's love and kingdom on Earth even if there is still a longing for God’s full glory which is not yet present. This is how the Church is to be in the world. The Church should be attentive to the numerous challenges on Earth while remembering her ultimate end is union with God in Heaven. To forget this latter point would make the Church a mere NGO detached from God while to forget the former would make the Church an arthritic institution detached from those who suffer. Therefore, all Catholics are called to live in the tension between the transcendent and the imminent.

Quodlibet III

2019 ◽  
pp. 252-310
Author(s):  
Turner Nevitt ◽  
Brian Davies
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Virtue ◽  
Original Sin ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
Moral Virtues ◽  
Sacred Scripture ◽  
The Church

This chapter presents Thomas Aquinas’s Quodlibet XII, which dates from his second Parisian regency (the second time Aquinas functioned as a master in Paris). It contains Aquinas’s answers to questions about were about God, angels, and heaven. Specifically, the questions deal with: God’s existence; God’s power; God’s predestination; angels; the heavens; the human soul; human knowledge; consequences of human knowledge; the sacrament of baptism: the sacrament of penance; an effect of the sacraments; the identity of the Church; the intellectual virtue of truth; the moral virtues; restitution: the office of commentators on sacred scripture; the office of preachers; the office of confessors; the office of vicars; original sin; actual sins of thought; actual sins of action; and punishments.

William Tyndale's Use of History as a Weapon of Religious Controversy

1962 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Pineas
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Religious Controversy ◽  
Medieval Chronicles ◽  
Medieval Christianity ◽  
The Church

In their struggle against the Church of Rome, a number of sixteenth century English reformers became students of ecclesiastical and secular history. To support their contention that the Roman Church had deviated from New Testament principles, these reformers studied the available records concerning the dogma and ritual of primitive and early medieval Christianity. To prove their charge that for eight hundred years the Church of Rome had usurped the temporal power of European and English rulers, they turned to the medieval chronicles.

Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius, 348–after 405 CE

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cillian O'Hogan
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Latin Poetry ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
Northern Spain ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Middle Ages

Aurelius Prudentius Clemens was a Christian Latin poet who wrote in a variety of genres and metres. Born in northern Spain, in 348ce, he had a career in public administration before retiring to write poetry. His major works include the Liber Cathemerinon (poems keyed to the liturgy and religious calendar), Psychomachia (an allegorical epic on the battle between Virtues and Vices for the human soul), and the Liber Peristephanon (lyric poems in praise of the early martyrs of the church). Prudentius was particularly influenced by the works of Virgil and Horace, and aimed in his poetry to combine the form and language of classical Latin poetry with the message of Christianity. The most important Christian Latin poet of late antiquity, Prudentius was extremely influential throughout the Middle Ages.

scholarly journals Rowan Williams

2018 ◽  
pp. 504-524
Author(s):  
Mike Higton
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
God's Love ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Church

Rowan Williams’s ecclesiology is shaped by his account of the spiritual life. He examines the transformation of human beings’ relationships to one another, driven by their encounter with God’s utterly gracious love in Jesus Christ. The church is the community of forgiven people generated by Christ’s resurrection. It is animated by its constant exposure to God’s love in Christ in word and sacrament. It is held to that exposure by its doctrinal discipline. It is a community in which members go on learning from one another how to go more deeply into that exposure. For Williams, the church’s commitment to unity and its commitment to truth go together: truth cannot be discovered without holding together in unity to learn from one another; and proper ecclesial unity is unity in this search for truth.

New Age Spirituality and the Integrity of Christian Education and Youth Ministry

2000 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Wright
Keyword(s):  
Christian Education ◽  
Youth Ministry ◽  
New Age ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Dance Culture ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Christian Understanding ◽  
Gospel Message ◽  
New Age Spirituality ◽  
The Church

THE AGENDA OF Christian education and youth ministry has been dominated in recent years by a concern to relate the Gospel across cultural boundaries. Such a relational hermeneutic needs to be supplemented with a hermeneutic of resistance in situations in which the culture of those to whom the Gospel message is addressed is incompatible with the integrity of Christian faith. Contemporary dance culture is identified as just such a context. Its post-modern and new-age credentials may be traced back via romanticism to traditions of esoteric gnosticism fundamentally opposed to the Christian understanding of reality. This is especially the case in its rejection of meta-narrative, reliance on the immediacy of experiential sensibility, and failure to achieve an adequate anthropology of being-in-relationship. However, the possibility of a Christian hermeneutic of resistance is undermined by a failure of the church to hold fast to an adequate Christian stance in these areas.

scholarly journals The Image of an Architect and Masonic Symbols in Works by Milorad Pavić

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoriana Huk
Keyword(s):  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Golden Section ◽  
Dynamic Structure ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
Divine Proportion ◽  
Short Novel ◽  
Work Concept ◽  
Open Work ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Church

The paper analyzes works by the Serbian postmodernist writer Milorad Pavić. It attempts to prove that he possesses knowledge of royal art and uses masonic symbols in his writing related to geometry and architecture, including the radiant delta, compass, masonic gloves, and clepsydra. It is assumed that under the influence of these particular ideas, the writer creates the leading image of an architect and the motif of construction as freemasons believe in the Great Architect of the Universe. In the short novel Damascene, according to speculative masonry’s beliefs, the building of the church projects the building of a temple in a human soul. M. Pavić, as an architect, creates a structure of every novel, which he identifies with the golden section. This paper finds special symbols of the divine proportion in his prose, including snail’s shells, pyramids, and violins. A dynamic structure as an embodiment of the open work concept and a broad spectrum of themes provide artistic communication with a creative recipient. A reader has an opportunity to choose their own style of reading and solving textual puzzles because Pavić’s prose represents a wide variety of themes, symbols, images, and allusions that embody the secrets of Freemasonry, allowing for various interpretations.

scholarly journals Duch miłości w nauczaniu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 24-39
Author(s):  
Sylwester Jaśkiewicz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
The Bible ◽  
God's Love ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Church

Cardinal Wyszyński continues teaching about the Holy Spirit as love and as a gift, which comes from the Bible and patristic tradition (eg St. Augustine). The basic text of his reflections on the God of Love are the words from the First Letter of St. John: “God is love” (1 Jn 4: 8, 16). He reads these words, or the shortest definition of God, from the perspective of the Christian and his life experience. In the Holy Spirit, God communicates as love. To be gifted and loved by God means for man to elevate him to the supernatural order. The Holy Spirit, who in the interior life of God is the Love of the Father and the Son, in his self-giving to the world (ad extra), pours God’s love into human hearts (Rom 5: 5), enlivens and dynamises human life. Love as a proprium of the Holy Spirit is also the criterion of Christian identity and of the Church. Important threads of the discussed issue are also the spiritual motherhood of Mary and the establishment of her as the Temple and Bride of the Holy Spirit.

scholarly journals LGBT dalam Perspektif Alkitab Sebagai Landasan Membentuk Paradigma Etika Kristen terhadap Pergaulan Orang Percaya

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Christian Bayu Prakoso ◽  
Yonatan Alex Arifianto ◽  
Aji Suseno
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
The Other ◽  
Faith Formation ◽  
The Social ◽  
God's Love ◽  
Access Information ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
The Church

The LGBT phenomenon is increasingly spreading among the wider community. The existence of social media allows everyone to access information quickly and easily. The church, which is directly related to the social environment, also takes an attitude towards this phenomenon. There are many different attitudes raised by a particular church or denomination. Therefore, this paper aims to find out carefully about the Bible's view of LGBT as the basis for forming a Christian ethical paradigm. The result of this research is that LGBT acts are a sin in God’s view. God does not want people to commit LGBT acts. But on the other hand, as an agent that embodies the application of God's love, the church is required to continue to follow LGBT people and provide faith formation and preventive measures to the congregation.

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