De actualisering van het geloof in een laatste oordeel in het existentiële perspectief van Rudolf Bultmann

2011 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 293-306
Author(s):  
Gea Smit
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Core ◽  
Rudolf Bultmann ◽  
Last Judgment ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
New Form ◽  
Abstract Notion ◽  
Core Meaning

In the New Testament, the belief that the last judgment would arrive soon was paired with an ethical appeal to change one’s attitude or way of life. However, with the expectation of an imminent judgment fading, this connection weakened. This paper investigates whether the existential theology of Rudolf Bultmann offers an inter-pretation that manages to actualise belief in a last judgment for the present day. Bultmann interprets the core meaning of judgment to be that God, with the coming of Jesus Christ into the world, opens the possibility for a new form of true existence for every individual who submits to it. This conception indeed implies an existential importance of the belief in an eschatological judgment for human life in the present. However, a more exact interpretation of the rather abstract notion of this form of true existence seems hard to describe and therefore leaves the question somewhat open.

scholarly journals Patriarchy in the Digital Conjuncture: An Analysis of Google’s James Damore

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Little ◽  
Alison Winch
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
Software Engineer ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
High Status ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Belief ◽  
The World ◽  
New Form

Our case study looks at the events surrounding the sacking ofGoogle engineer James Damore who was fired for authoring a memo which stated that women are biologically less suited to high-stress, high-status technical employment than men. Damore, asserting that his document ‘was absolutely consistent with what he’d seen online’, instantly became an ambivalent hero of the alt-right. Like the men who own and run the companies of Silicon Valley, the software engineer subscribes to the idea that the world can be understood and altered through the rigorous application of the scientific method. And as he draws on bodies of knowledge from evolutionary psychology and mathematical biology, we see how the core belief structures of Silicon Valley, when transferred from the technical to the cultural and social domain, can reproduce the sort of misogynistic ‘rationalism’ that fuels the alt-right. We argue that Damore’s memo is in line with Google’s ideology of ‘dataism’: that is the belief that the world can be reduced to decontextualised information and subject to quantifiable logics.Through its use of dataism, the memo reveals much about the similarities and continuities between Damore, the ideas laid out n his memo, and Google itself. Rather than being in opposition, these two entities are jostling for a place in the patriarchal structures of a new form of capitalism.

scholarly journals Social well-being of converted Muslims in different countries of the world

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (19) ◽  
pp. 171-173
Author(s):  
Olga Maksymenko
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Life Changes ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Hostile Attitude

The tendency to intensify Islamophobia in its various manifestations, from the hostile attitude towards the Muslims to open acts of aggression and calls for hatred and violence against the representatives of this religion - unfortunately, has recently been observed in many countries of the world. Some factors contribute to this: firstly, the inspiration by some unscrupulous media of identifying Muslims with terrorists and extremists, a new wave of fear, caused by reports of numerous crimes by militants of the self-proclaimed "Islamic State" (whose activities generally contradict the spirit of Islam as a peaceful and humanistic religion that recognizes human life of the highest value and equates the killing of one person to the murder of all mankind) and recent attacks with a large number of human victims (in particular, in France and Belgium); and secondly, the reluctance of ordinary people to see in their environment those who differ from them (rejection of "someone else", due to the imaginary division of the world into "we" and "they"). Bearers of another culture are perceived as a threat of violations of the usual way of life, changes in the established system of values. Hence, the sharply negative attitude towards refugees from Syria and other Islamic countries.

The Confession ‘Jesus is God’ in the New Testament

1957 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-299
Author(s):  
A. W. Wainwright
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Rudolf Bultmann ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
World Council

In a chapter of his book Glaube und Verstehen, recently translated into English under the title Essays Philosophical and Theological, Professor Rudolf Bultmann has discussed, by no means favourably, the Christological Confession of the World Council of Churches. The words of the Confession are: ‘The World Council of Churches is composed of Churches which acknowledge Jesus Christ as God and Saviour.’ Bultmann directs his attention chiefly to the confession that Jesus is God. In the New Testament he finds only one verse in which Jesus is un-doubtedly called God. That is John 20.28, in which Thomas addresses Jesus as ‘My Lord and my God!’ In contrast with this single example, there is in Bultmaann's opinion a great amount of evidence that the writers of the New Testament believed that Jesus was subordinate to His Father.

Atonement and the Work of Christ

2018 ◽  
pp. 84-97
Author(s):  
William J. Abraham
Keyword(s):  
Human Action ◽  
Divine Action ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Action Theories ◽  
Core Meaning

In sorting through how best to understand the work of Christ we need a narrative that captures the core meaning of “atonement” and a way to deploy the various theories that abound in the tradition. At the root of the issue is a narrative of reconciliation that highlights the serious alienation that exists between human agents and God. Fixing this problem requires both divine and human action. Theories of atonement seek to spell out the divine action involved. Each has its own advantage in developing complementary descriptions of what has gone wrong with the world and how to fix it.

scholarly journals Christian-orthodox view of the world and environmental problem

Sabornost ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 13-22
Author(s):  
Ignatije Midić
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Problem ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Orthodox View ◽  
Entire Planet ◽  
Ecological Catastrophe ◽  
The Way

Pollution of environment and the irreversible destruction of nature has become the way of life of the modern world. The consequences of that are obviously tragic for human life and for the survival of the entire planet Earth. This article has an aim to answer the question: what can the Orthodox Church do to stop this problem, if it cannot regain what has already been lost? To answer this question, the author first analyzes the causes of the ecological catastrophe, and then offers a theological answer to the posed problem.

scholarly journals Kultura i mit — iluzje demitologizacji

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
Leszek Kleszcz ◽  
Krzysztof Sztalt
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Protective Atmosphere ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Eternal Return ◽  
Death Of God ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World

One of the most fundamental existential experiences is the “indifference of the world”. Faced with the awareness of the insignificance of human fate, the lack of meaning, the indifference of the world, man creates various strategies of depotentialising reality. One of them is “story-telling”, working on a myth. Nietzsche also believed that “life needs a protective atmosphere woven from illusions, dreams, delusions”, so he tried to create a myth to fill the void left by the “death of God”. He began with Wagner’s “aesthetic myth” and went on to create a “myth of the aestheticisation of existence”. His next attempts to give meaning to human life were the story of the Übermensch and the revitalization of the myth of eternal return. Another myth which can be found at the core of Nietzsche’s philosophy is “the myth of the myth-maker”.

scholarly journals TAUHID SEBAGAI FUNDAMENTAL FILSAFAH EKONOMI ISLAM

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-79
Author(s):  
Elida Elfi Barus
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Economic Agent ◽  
Real Form ◽  
The Real ◽  
Concept Of God ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World

Monotheism (Tauhid) is the core teachings of Islam, but also the core teachings of all religions of the Book. Prophets alternated in God sent to earth real duty to communicate the idea of Tauhid. Tauhid basis of the whole concept and activities of Muslims, whether economic, political, social and culture. The world of view which starts from the concept of God will have implications for the activities of human life in the world as a whole. There are demands that any form of formulations or economic concepts that are formulated to be maintained within the framework of the truth of Tauhid, and there is a belief also that there is a responsibility that must be followed ultimately by each economic agent of any economic activity undertaken. Truth in the monotheistic concept in economic activity by always ensuring consistent with the provisions of Allah is the real form of godly someone as a Muslim. In other words, a choice to the economically Islamically is a consequence someone (ideological reasons). Denying the principles of sharia in economic activity will lead to hypocritical (munafiqun), wickedness (mufasiqun) or even shirk (Syirik).Tauhid adalah inti ajaran Islam, bahkan juga inti ajaran semua agama samawi. Para Nabi dan Rasul silih berganti di utus Allah ke muka bumi sesungguhnya bertugas untuk menyampaikan paham tauhid ini.Tauhid menjadi dasar seluruh konsep dan aktifitas umat Islam, baik ekonomi, politik, sosial maupun budaya.Pandangan dunia yang dimulai dari konsep ke-Tuhanan atau ke-Esa-an Tuhan akan berimplikasi kepada kegiatan kehidupan manusia didunia secara keseluruhan. Ada tuntutan bahwa apapun bentuk formulasi atau konsep ekonomi yang dirumuskan harus terjaga dalam kerangka kebenaran tauhid., dan ada keyakinan pula bahwa ada pertanggungjawaban yang harus dijalani yang pada akhirnya oleh setiap pelaku ekonomi dari setiap aktivitas ekonomi yang dilakukan. Kebenaran dalam konsep tauhid adalah mutlak milik Allah SWT.Menjalankan aktivitas ekonomi dengan senantiasa memastikan sejalan dengan ketentuan Allah SWT merupakan bentuk rill dari keberimanan seseorang sebagai seorang muslim. Dengan kata lain, pilihan (choice) untuk berekonomi secara islami adalah merupakan konsekwensi keberislaman seseorang (alasan ideologis). Mengingkari prinsip-prinsip syariah dalam beraktivitas ekonomi akan membawa pada kemunafiqan, kefasikan atau bahkan kesyirikan.

scholarly journals Humans as Social Being and Part of Nature

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-90
Author(s):  
Regine Kather
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Ethical Orientation ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Social Standard ◽  
Technology Changes ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Different Cultures

Humans are, as Cassirer has demonstrated, an animal symbolicum that interprets the world by means of signs. Since the second half of the 20 th century the relation of cultures is influenced strongly by modern technology: On the one hand, nearly every culture is longing for modern technology to achieve a more comfortable life; and, on the other, modern technology changes the way of life deeply. At first sight technology seems to be a neutral instrument, a mere tool that is compatible with every way of life and does not interfere into religious and ethical orientation. But it is definitely an expression of cultural values; it produces completely new wishes and hopes and undermines inevitably traditional forms of life – a process, which implies great dangers and opportunities. First, humans must reflect on their way of life consciously and decide autonomously between alternatives; secondly the growing social standard leads to the destruction of nature which is the basis of human life. Though living in different cultures, humans have the ethical obligation to preserve nature – for their own and nature‟s sake.

scholarly journals “Eternity roll’d wide apart”: The Creation of the World and Man in William Blake’s The [First] Book of Urizen in Light of Emanuel Swedenborg’s The Last Judgment

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Csaba József Spalovszky
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
William Blake ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Creation Myth ◽  
Last Judgment ◽  
The World ◽  
Emanuel Swedenborg ◽  
Inner World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Creation Stories

Beginnings are usually regarded as either hard or energizing times that set our inner world in motion. However, there is a beginning that is more important for humanity than any other: the origin of human life and of the world. The knowledge of our origin and the mystery concerning the beginning of the world have been the most intriguing and most engaging issues since man became aware of their own physical and spiritual existence. For many centuries, it was the duty of religion to provide humanity with a teaching about their origin and the foundation of human dignity. However, the 18th and 19th centuries were critical in the treatment of the biblical creation stories in Europe. The debate between misinterpreted creation myth accounts and scientific theories led to a sharpening confrontation between religion and science, but it also divided the believers and resulted in the birth of new theories. Emanuel Swedenborg, an influential theologist of the period, wrote detailed commentaries and genuine tractates related to the topic that influenced the ideology and art of William Blake, a versatile and ingenious artist and thinker of the era, whose influence is still significant today. The aim of this study is to highlight the parallels and contrasts between Blake’s Genesis myth and Swedenborg’s teachings, mainly through the unusual pairing of The [First] Book of Urizen and The Last Judgment, to show the connection between Swedenborg’s unorthodox views and Blake’s ideas about the creation of man and the world.

scholarly journals قتل اور خودکشی ،اسلام اور بدھ مت :تقابلی مطالعہ

rahatulquloob ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 189-197
Author(s):  
Muhammad Sulaiman Nasir ◽  
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Core Issue ◽  
The Right ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Present World

The sanctity of human life is the core issue in almost all religions of the world. In the present world scenario, human beings are suffering a lot. Human life is at risk. The most important and precious figure in society is human beings as it is the greatest creature of Almighty Allah. Buddhism and Islam both emphasize the sanctity of human life. The stress laid by the teaching of Islam on the sanctity and respect of human life can be understood by the fact that Islam does not allow the killing of people who are not physically involved in the war. Islam also against suicide. Similarly, the teaching of Buddha has emphasized the holiness and sanctity of human life. According to the philosophy of non-violence in Buddhism (Ahimsa), Killing of human beings is far from Buddhist’s creed even they are against the killing of insects. In Buddhism, “The nonviolence is one of the five precepts of Dhamma, which form the right action, right views and right-thinking on Eightfold Path. This article focuses on the teaching of Buddhism and Islam, a comparative study regarding killing and suicide as these topics are closely related to the sanctity of human life.

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