scholarly journals Studi Deskriptif Prinsip-Prinsip Pelayanan Menurut Efesus 4:11-16

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-58
Author(s):  
Victor Immanuel Rahardjo ◽  
Roberth Ruland Marini
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Son Of God ◽  
Expected Result ◽  
Full Maturity ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

There are many problems in ministry because God's servants do not have principles or standards of service that become a reference so that it has an impact on conflicts of interest so that God's church does not experience growth. Calling and equipping ministers to build up the body of Christ which must be built up to the certain standards and qualities desired by God. By using descriptive qualitative analysis in Ephesians 4: 11-16, it can be explained how the minister is called, equipped to produce unity of faith in the Son of God, produce full maturity and produce a growth rate according to the fullness of Christ. Every believer is required to experience progress and growth in his life both physically and spiritually. This growth has a definite and clear direction that is sourced and focused on Christ Himself. The expected result from understanding the principles of service according to Ephesians 4: 11-16 is the growth of service, both in quantity and quality. That is having the confidence of salvation, a healthy prayer life, perseverance in reading the Word of God, faithfulness in fellowship and the habit of witnessing.

Martin Luther and the Eucharist

1983 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Stephenson
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Son Of God ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Presence ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Bodily Presence ◽  
The Church

Several years before the mode of Christ's eucharistic presence became a controverted issue which would presently provoke a lasting schism among the Churches of the Reformation, Luther could unaffectedly propound the traditional dogma of the bodily presence of Christ in the Sacrament of the Altar as a necessary consequence of the evangelical quest for the sensus grammaticus of the words of institution. The same exegetical method which led to his reappropriation of the doctrine of the justification of the sinner ‘by grace, for Christ's sake, through faith’ obliged him to confess that ‘the bread is the body of Christ’. Already here, in the mordantly anti-Roman treatise On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, Luther has laid his finger on the model in terms of which he will understand the real presence to the end of his days: the consecrated host is the body of Christ, just as the assumed humanity of jesus Christ is the Son of God. The displacement of the scholastic theory of transubstantiation by the model of the incarnate person illustrates the Reformer's allegiance to the Chalcedonian Definition: ‘Luther is really replacing Aristotelian categories by those derived from Chalcedonian christology, to which he remained faithful: “unconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably”.’ While the doctrine of the real presence moved from the periphery to the centre of Luther's theology and piety as the 1520s wore on, his conception of the modality of the eucharistic presence remained constant throughout.

scholarly journals Strategi Misi Orang Percaya dalam Mengaktualisasi Amanat Agung di Era New Normal

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Joko Sembodo ◽  
Sari Saptorini
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Basic Concept ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
The Body ◽  
Great Commission ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
New Normal ◽  
God's Will ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Church leaders and believers often focus too much on their respective churches and pay less attention to the unity of the body of Christ in winning souls. There is an understanding of the basic concept of evangelism that is not properly understood in its application as a witness of Christ. Becomes an obstacle in actualizing the mandate of the Great Commission. Through descriptive qualitative methods, it can be concluded that the essence of the Great Commission and its Challenges will lead believers to maintain the spirituality of believers because with a mature and spiritually mature spirituality they can become examples and role models so that they can actualize the Mission appropriately and in line with God's will. Furthermore, the believer has the knowledge that mission is a testimony of the believer's faith. hence this missiological concept carries the same spirit when Jesus wanted believers to be light and bring the news of salvation.AbstrakPemimpin gereja dan orang percaya tidak jarang terlalu lebih fokus pada gerejanya masing-masing dan kurang memberi perhatian pada kesatuan tubuh Kristus dalam memenangkan jiwa-jiwa. Adanya pengertian konsep dasar penginjilan yang tidak dimengerti secara benar dalam penerapannya sebagai saksi Kristus. Menjadi kendala dalam mengaktualisasi mandat Amanat Agung. Melalui metode kualitatif deskritif  dapat disimpulkan bahwa hakikat Amanat Agung  dan tantangannya akan membawa orang percaya  untuk menjaga  Spritualitas orang percaya sebab dengan kerohanian yang matang dan dewasa rohani dapat menjadi contoh dan teladan sehingga dapat mengaktualisasi Misi dengan tepat dan sejalan dengan kehendak Tuhan. Selanjutnya orang percaya memiliki pengetahuan bahwa misi sebagai kesaksian Iman orang percaya. maka konsep misiologi ini membawa semangat yang sama ketika Yesus menginginkan orang percaya menjadi terang dan membawa kabar keselamatan.

scholarly journals Hermeneutiek, Schriftgezag en Triniteit

1999 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Wentsel
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Triune God ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Specific Meaning ◽  
The Right

Hermeneutics, the authority of Scripture and the Trinity of God In order to evaluate a scholarly theological publication any student has to be conversant with the philosophical, confessional and social-contextual suppositions (prejudices, apriori’s, the so-called “glasses”) forming the background and frame of interpretation as applied by the author. The presence of suppositions is sometimes predominate and clear, sometimes subordinate and hidden. H. Berkhof for instance, applies at least six sets of apriori’s in his interpretation of the Bible (see Christelijk geloof – 1973). Underlying the use of these interpretative “glasses” a student has to locate the deepest religious source, the point of departure. Apriori’s can, however, be bad and good. The author of this article is convinced of the necessity of applying at least twelve suppositions in the interpretation of the Bible. In this article the following suppositions will thus be stressed: (1) The Bible is considered as the book of Gods revelation. (2) The fact that the Holy Spirit inspired prophets, apostles, evangelists and collectors (= theopneustia) is supported. (3) The term “Word of God” has a specific meaning as Logos of creation, prophecy, commandment, gospel and so on. (4) The supposition that the Bible is the book of God’s covenant implies that the berit is uniting all the different books and all loci of the Christian faith. (5) In order to interpret the Bible in a just way it is necessary to be reborn. (6) The right balance between the value of the Old and the New Testament should be upheld. It should also be confessed that Jahweh (= He is present for us) is the triune God. (7) The normativity of the whole Bible should be acknowledged in relation to the main contours of God’s revelation (and not only in isolated texts) and even in relation to changing cultural background of the Pésachfeast, the sacrifice-torah and the structure of the covenant. (9) In our interpretation of the Bible we should be on the alert for influences of the devil in opposition to the Holy Spirit. (10) For twenty centuries we have already been members of the Church, the body of Christ. Individualism within the body of Christ can thus imply an underestimation of the work of the Holy Spirit. (11) We remain one Ekklèsia and must listen to the interpretation of the Bible by all churches. (12) The Lord is king over all domains and spheres of life. He also reigns over (leaders of) political, educational and societal-structural affairs, as well as over heads of industry.

Joseph Ratzinger

2018 ◽  
pp. 448-466
Author(s):  
Theodor Dieter
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Local Churches ◽  
People Of God ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Joseph Ratzinger ◽  
The Church ◽  
Point Of Reference

Ratzinger’s ecclesiology is a Eucharistic ecclesiology: the church is the people of God existing from the sacramental Body of Christ and thus becoming the ecclesial Body of Christ. Therefore the church is communio: the communion at the table with Christ and among the believers, and also a communion of local churches (communio ecclesiarum) that is the basis for the collegiality of the bishops. The spiritual and institutional dimensions of the Body of Christ are mutually interwoven. In every particular church the universal church is present; its representation and the point of reference in doctrinal matters for all is the pope. The church serves the presence of the Word of God in the world in such a way that the Word as it is witnessed to in Holy Scripture is communicated to all by authorized witnesses. Witness (content) and witnesses are inseparable, as succession and tradition are mutually interrelated as form and content.

Poisonous Honey or Pure Manna: The Eucharist and the Word in the “Beehive” of Marnix of Saint Aldegonde

1992 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 382-393
Author(s):  
F. E. Beemon
Keyword(s):  
Lord's Supper ◽  
The Body ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Popular Audience ◽  
Theological Message

With the publication of his Den Byencorf der H. Roomische Kercke (The Beehive of the Holy Roman Church) in 1569, the Netherlandic Calvinist Marnix of Saint Aldegonde launched a satirical attack onthe clergy, polity, and sacramental practice of Catholicism. Though the fame of the book and its author have been eclipsed, they were both well known during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuriesas shown by the frequency of publication. Marnix's task, in common with other sixteenth-century religious propagandists, was to communicate a theological message to a popular audience. The success of this effort depended on reaching across the separation between systematic theology and folk religiosity. The object was not original theology, nor even doctrinal subtleties, but the creativeuse of common terms to explain divergent schemes of basic dogma. Because the subject was more religious than theological, the separation between Latin and the vernacular cultures could be bridged by the use of metaphors common to both high and popular culture. In this, Marnix's work is distinguished by his use of the metaphors of beehive, honey, and manna to explain the differences between the Catholic Eucharist and the Calvinist Lord's Supper. The use of manna is not surprising as one would expect it to be a common image; however, the metaphors of hive and honey are less expected. While the former is clearly biblical in origin, the apiary metaphors are not. Thus, Marnix relies on the common sociocultural context of the beehive to instruct a popular Dutch audience in a fundamental difference between Calvinism and Catholicism. By identifying the Catholic host with polluted honey, Marnix defends the necessary presence of the Word for the Calvinist Lord's Supper, which he portrays as pure manna. Rather than feeding on the body of Christ, Marnix argues, the true Church feeds on the Word of God, which is present in the Calvinist wafer.

Kingdom and Church in the thought of Martin Butzer

1955 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-59
Author(s):  
T. F. Torrance
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Biblical Hermeneutics ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Lutheran Theology ◽  
Justification By Faith ◽  
The Face

History has not yet taken its full measure of Martin Butzer who must be adjudged as standing within the sphere of Reformed rather than Lutheran theology, not only because of his masterful influence on Calvin or Calvin's considerable influence on him, but because his pioneer work in Biblical hermeneutics and patristic study helped to shape the whole Reformed Church. If Luther's theology is to be interpreted over against the development of Western thought particularly in its medieval form, that of Butzer is to be understood in terms of the Catholic Church and patristic theology of the first six centuries, for here we have a great attempt to get behind medievalism and, as Calvin put it, writing from Strasburg, to restore the face of the ancient Catholic Church. In further contrast to the Lutheran position Butzer's theology is more broadly based on the teaching of Scripture. Ephesians, Galatians and the Johannine writings, for example, are interpreted together, and so the Biblical ideas of election and adoption into the Body of Christ are placed alongside the doctrines of rebirth and justification by faith, and they are thought into each other, while the ministry of the Gospel, as well as the Gospel itself, becomes a de fide matter. It was in line with this that, while Luther laid all the stress upon the Word of God, Butzer (to be followed by Calvin) invariably stressed the Word and Spirit in their inseparable conjunction.

scholarly journals Il mistero dell’incarnazione nel commento al “Simbolo Apostolico” di san Quodvultdeus di Cartagine

Vox Patrum ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 119-130
Author(s):  
Bazyli Degórski
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Active Role ◽  
The Body ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Son Of God ◽  
Language Spread ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Simple Language ◽  
The Trinity

The first Commentaries to the “Apostolic Symbol”, written in a quite simple language, spread about the IV century among the Latin Churches, which were ac­customed to use professions of faith reproducing the “Roman Symbol”, a model for the textus receptus of the “Symbol” so called “of the Apostles”, an excellent summary of the revealed truths. St. Quodvultdeus of Carthage, in his Sermones de Symbolo, comments the first article of the “Apostolic Symbol” by affirming that it contains the whole faith in the Trinity and the plan of salvation. In commenting the second article, St. Quodvultdeus of Carthage explains how the Incarnate Son is the Messiah announced by the prophets of the Old Testament. Such Incarnation constitutes the second birth of the Word of God after that from the Father without any participation from a mother. He further highlights the great dignity of Mary, playing a quite active role in the work of the Incarnation by gi­ving birth to her Creator. The coming of the Son of God into the world was carried out in a miraculous way, by the work of the Holy Spirit and without the participation of man. For this reason Mary remains virgin and the true Son of God becomes a true man, while still remaining equal to the Father in his divinity. By assuming the human nature in the Incarnation, the Son of God took on Himself all that constitutes a true hu­man being: the soul and the body, already redeemed and sanctified in the very moment of the Incarnation.

scholarly journals ANALISIS SEMIOTIK PADA IKLAN-IKLAN AQUA DI MEDIA TELEVISI

Paramasastra ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bunga Diantirta Yapati Puteri
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
The Body ◽  
The People ◽  
The Right ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The analysis of this paper is related to the myth analysis of the adevertisements of Aqua water drink that are advertised in the television. Relating to this, these myth of Aqua has sent the messages to the readers’ mind. These myth can the readers’ mind to choose something and make a decision. In those advertisements of Aqua, the myth are sent by considering the location of video advertisement, colors choosing, ornamemts adding, time settings, choosing of musics, the characters of actors or actress, the compny image, and choosing of sentences that can persuade the readers to buy the Aqua product and specfifically make this myth becomes one of factors of influencein buying something. This analysis uses the library study to know and to observe the phenomena or conditions in producing the video advertisement of the water drink product. For this, the qualitative data are used to know the description of the myth of the product advertised and its supporting factors. The descriptive qualitative analysis is applied to analyse these data. The result of research proves that the majority of myth that involved in the advertisement can mention Aqua is the best hygiene water drink the people consume. These advertisements of Aqua can make the audiences or people believe that Aqua is the right water drink for the body health, especially in reducing dehydration and increasing the concentration of the person that consumes it.

scholarly journals The Theology of Hiddenness: J. L. Schellenberg, Divine Hiddenness, and the Role of Theology

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-122
Author(s):  
Marek Dobrzeniecki ◽  
Derek King
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Original Sin ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Son Of God ◽  
Divine Hiddenness ◽  
Doctrine Of The Church ◽  
Hiddenness Of God ◽  
The Church

The paper explores Pascal’s idea according to which the teachings of the Church assume the hiddenness of God, and, hence, there is nothing surprising in the fact of the occurrence of nonresistant nonbelief. In order to show it the paper invokes the doctrines of the Incarnation, the Church as the Body of Christ, and the Original Sin. The first one indicates that there could be greater than nonbelief obstacle in forming interpersonal bonds with God, namely the ontological chasm between him and human persons. The assumption of the human nature by the Son of God could be seen as a cure for this problem. The doctrine of the Church shows it as an end in itself, and in order for the Church to have meaning and to exist there has to be nonbelief in the world. Finally, the dogma of the Original Sin shows that there is no category of purely nonresistant nonbelief. The paper also addresses Schellenberg’s “accommodationist strategy” from the perspective of the Christian theology and in the last part it investigates what should be the influence of the fact of the hiddenness on theology’s take on the divine revelation.

Double Affirmation: Medievalism as Christian Apologetic in the Arthurian Poetry of Charles Williams

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-96
Author(s):  
Sørina Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
European History ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Female Figure ◽  
Century Poetry ◽  
Charles Williams ◽  
Embodied Theology

In his unfinished cycle of Arthurian poems, Charles Williams developed a totalizing mythology in which he fictionalized the Medieval. First, he employed chronological conflation, juxtaposing events and cultural references from a millennium of European history and aligning each with his doctrinal system. Second, following the Biblical metaphor of the body of Christ, Blake’s symbolism, and Rosicrucian sacramentalism, he embodied theology in the Medieval landscape via a superimposed female figure. Finally, Williams worked to show the validity of two Scholastic approaches to spirituality: the kataphatic and apophatic paths. His attempts to balance via negativa and via positiva led Williams to practical misapplication—but also to creation of a landmark work of twentieth century poetry. . . . the two great vocations, the Rejection of all images before the unimaged, the Affirmation of all images before the all-imaged, the Rejection affirming, the Affirmation rejecting. . . —from ‘The Departure of Dindrane’ —O Blessed, pardon affirmation!— —O Blessed, pardon negation!— —from ‘The Prayers of the Pope’

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