scholarly journals Paulus Sang Pendidik

JURNAL KADESI ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
David Ming

This article wants to Examine the teaching of Paul as a leading writer and educator who has the authority of Christ in his teaching. Where the Apostle Paul was an Apostle of Christ who preached the gospel of truth to non-Jews. Apart from being an Apostle, he is also an extraordinary teacher, through his teaching many souls are won, many teachers are born, even many churches of God were established through the ministry of the Apostle Paul. Through a personal experience encounter with Christ Jesus the Lord. Being the main Apostle in the writing of the New Testament. In his teaching. First: his teaching brought many people to a new understanding of Christ. The second gives a living testimony to those who hear it as a powerful form of evangelism. The research method that the author uses is quantitative with a theological approach. Where in this article, the author describes the Apostle Paul apart from being an educator and teacher as well as being a evangelist. The findings of this study are as a method of preaching the gospel of Christ. It is very important to imitate the Apostle Paul who has the ability as a teacher and educator so as to produce the next generation for the continuity of God's church in the ministry for the congregations it serves.

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-44
Author(s):  
Tri Astuti

The news of the New Testament can be summarized as; God wants us to be His children, in the image of His likeness. The problem is how can believer achieve the God's goal of becoming a new human being? In Ephesians 4: 23-32 Paul explains about how believer can have a true new human spirituality. The purpose of this research is to find out how believers can have true new human spirituality. The research method used is a qualitative biblical approach by using historical and grammatical analysis. The results found several important behaviors that need to be done by believers to experience the renewal of the quality of the spiritual mind, in order to grow into a new human being desired by God, that is, speaking according to the truth, controlling anger, working optimally and behaving affectionately. 


Author(s):  
Д.К. АСРАТЯН

Письма патриарха Константинопольского Николая Мистика архиепископу Аланскому Петру – основной документальный источник по истории христианства на Северном Кавказе в X в. Изучение «Аланского досье» патриарха Николая сохраняет актуальность в связи с ростом интереса к духовной истории народов Кавказа, находившихся на стыке цивилизаций, религий и культур и сформировавших под их влиянием собственные самобытные национально-культурные традиции. Основным методом исследования стало сопоставление лексических и семантических средств, используемых апостолом Павлом и патриархом Николаем в двух различных, но соотносимых исторических и религиозных контекстах. Цель исследования – выявление жанровых и литературных связей писем патриарха с книгами Нового Завета. Научная новизна заключается в обосновании лингвистических, семантических и богословских параллелей между письмами Николая и посланиями апостола Павла, особенно пастырскими (1-2 Тим и Тит). Хотя сравниваемые тексты хронологически разделены почти тысячелетием, отмечается типологическое сходство исторических контекстов, в которых они были написаны (духовный наставник – ученик в епископском сане – молодая христианская община из «варваров», нуждающихся в просвещении). В интерпретации Николая миссия – это именно тяжкий труд, но совершаемый по прямому повелению Бога и ради награды свыше, и в этом смысле патриарх вполне укоренен в новозаветной традиции. Как показали результаты исследования, риторическая и богословская насыщенность писем Николая Мистика не снижает их историческую ценность, однако для корректной интерпретации необходимо учитывать их литературный характер. Letters of Nicholas Mysticus, Patriarch of Constantinople, to Peter, Archbishop of Alania, remain the chief documentary source for the history of Christianity in the North Caucasus in the 10th century. The study of the "Alan Dossier" of Patriarch Nicholas remains relevant due to the growing interest in the spiritual history of the peoples of the Caucasus, who lived at the crossroads of civilizations, religions and cultures and formed their own distinctive national and cultural traditions under such diverse influence. The main research method was the comparison of lexical and semantic means used by the Apostle Paul and Patriarch Nicholas in two different, but correlated historical and religious contexts. The purpose of the study is to identify genre and literary connections between the letters of the Patriarch and the books of the New Testament. Scientific novelty lies in the substantiation of the linguistic, semantic and theological parallels between the letters of Nicholas and the letters of the Apostle Paul, especially the pastoral ones (1-2 Tim and Titus). Although the compared texts are chronologically separated by almost a millennium, there is a typological similarity in the historical contexts in which they were written (a spiritual mentor - a bishop student - a newly formed Christian community of “barbarians” in need of education). In the interpretation of Nicholas, mission is a hard work, but it is done at the direct command of the God and is rewarded from above, and in this sense, the Patriarch is completely rooted in the New Testament tradition. As the results of the study have shown, the rhetorical and theological richness of the letters of Nikolas the Mysticus does not diminish their historical value, yet for correct interpretation it is necessary to take into account their literary character.


Author(s):  
Clyde E. Fant ◽  
Mitchell G. Reddish

Crete is the largest and most southerly of all the Greek islands. It is also one of the most visited, due to both its beauty and its famous ancient sites. By far the best-known of these attractions is the spectacular Palace of Knossos, reconstructed over a period of thirty-five years by its discoverer, Sir Arthur Evans, who put more than a million dollars of his own money into the work. Scholars have criticized his reconstruction as a fanciful and not altogether accurate representation of the original, but millions of tourists delight in being able to see more at an ancient site than foundations, scattered stones, and a few columns. But Knossos is not the only dramatic ruin of antiquity on the island. Gortyna and Phaistos should not be missed, and for Christians the harbor of Kaloi Limenes (called Fair Havens in the New Testament) is a place of importance in the life of the Apostle Paul. Likewise, the Basilica of St. Titus at Gortyna commemorates the ministry of Titus, a Greek convert who was a disciple of Paul (Gal 2:3), as described in the New Testament book of Titus. Furthermore, Iraklion possesses an archaeological museum second only to the National Museum in Athens. The only site on Crete mentioned in the Bible, though Crete itself was said to be the place of the ministry of Titus (Titus 1:5), is the harbor of Kaloi Limenes (Good Harbor), referred to in the Book of Acts as Fair Havens (Acts 27: 8). After two thousand years, the site is known by the same name today. Even in New Testament times the place was distinguished only as the harbor for the nearby city of Lasea, a flourishing commercial city in the Roman period. Today the tranquil bay in its remote location harbors nothing more than sunbathers who visit its beaches to enjoy the beautiful waters of the Mediterranean. The site can be reached best by automobile, or by taking a bus from Iraklion to Moires/Mires.


2020 ◽  
pp. 17-36
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Siker

Understanding the contextual worlds within which the New Testament perceptions of sin arose is crucial. The immediate context for early Christianity was the Jewish world out of which Jesus also operated, which included Jewish understandings of sin especially as delineated in the Jewish Scriptures and as addressed within the sacrificial cult of the Jerusalem Temple. But in turning to the Apostle Paul and other later New Testament writers, it is equally important to understand the moral worlds envisioned in Greco-Roman religiosity and philosophy. In this realm, sin as moral failure was much less prominent than sin as ignorance or error in judgment. As Christianity moved into the second century and beyond we find understandings of sin that retain both Jewish and Greco-Roman sensibilities regarding human sin.


Author(s):  
Pierre Jordaan

When the New Testament is interpreted, directly preceding literature is largely neglected. The dialectical terms, discourse and contra-discourse do not often surface in research on this period. This is especially the case with reference to women. Jesus Ben Sira (ca. 196 BCE) as well as other wisdom writers had quite a negative view of women. Although it has previously been argued that this negative discourse on women was challenged by Judith, this article goes further: the Additions to Esther and Susanna are added as possible challenging discourses. It is argued that these texts convincingly confront Ben Sira’s negative views and add substantial value to the worth and status of women. During the CE, both Jesus Christ and the Apostle Paul had a mainly positive view of women. Positive ideas and allusions from texts are pointed out that might have their roots in the Apocrypha. Lastly, this article argues that the disputed Pauline letters contain a swing back towards Jesus Ben Sira’s negative view of women.


2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacobus Kok ◽  
Walter P. Maqoma

This article reflects on the doctrine of humanity to explore that God created humankind in his image and likeness, and this means that all human beings have an inherent capacity to know the difference between good and bad, and between right and wrong. Thus, all human beings have an innate ability to be ethical, as the God who created them is good, and so becomes the source of their ethics. This article title highlights the interrelationships between identity, ethics, and ethos. These three related analytical categories, within the New Testament, show the necessity for an interdisciplinary approach in treating questions of the origin of humanity. This article incorporates reflections in the studies of anthropology, philosophy, and theology and draws from the writings of Apostle Paul, in his Corinthian Correspondence, as he instructed them on how they ought to relate, and what would be their roles within the broader scope of God�s original intention for humanity. In this attempt, he made reference to the anthropological identity of the imago Dei, and he shows that the perfect expression of the imago Dei is Christ Jesus; thus, this is the image they ought to emulate. Therefore, this article investigates �The imago Dei weltanschauung as narrative motif within the Corinthian correspondence�.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This research gives the perspective of the presupposition of the imago Dei as presented in the New Testament as the framework of understanding ethics, as it appears within the formation of an anthropological horizon. In relation to accepting the message of the New Testament, this article shows how the imago Dei worldview underpins Pauline ethics and can serve as a framework of understanding an anthropological ethical paradigm.Keywords: Imago Dei; Corinthian; Paul


EMPIRISMA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lemwang Chuhwanglim

The term charisma had been used and continues to use by many people in different context. There is charisma in social, political, sports, culture and other modern leadership who have made many great impacts in winning people’s minds and hearts. This paper aims to analyze the meaning of Charisma in the Christian tradition and how it influences in society until today. In doing so the article aims to see both negative and positive aspects and influence of charisma in different Christian social context. Though the article may not give an absolute picture of the Christian tradition charisma being understood among other Christian denominations, it gives people to revisit the origin of the term Charisma and its evolution in the New Testament by the Apostle Paul. Hence, this article will analyze the meaning of Charisma in the Christian tradition and how it influences in Christian society until today and the authority of God being interpreted by charismatic group within and outside the Church.Keywords: Charisma, Holy Spirit, Grace


2007 ◽  
pp. 38-52
Author(s):  
Pavlo Yuriyovych Pavlenko

Even in the superficial reading of the New Testament, the fact that all the texts attributed to the Apostle Paul are too different not only in their creed, but also in their orientation to representatives of the Hellenistic world is striking. In contrast, the Gospels, the Epistles of James, Peter, John, Judas, and the Epistle to the Jews, and the Book of Revelation, are focused solely on the Jewish reader, have a clear, Jewish attitude. In one way or another, they constantly emphasize that Jesus of Nazareth is a Jewish Savior.


2015 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 310-330
Author(s):  
Kendra Haloviak Valentine

The Whore of Babylon as a graphic scriptural image stirs the imaginations of contemporary readers and preachers of the New Testament Apocalypse. But how does one explain the dissonance between the book’s depiction of a powerful female prostitute living in luxury and the utter vulnerability of prostitutes at the time the book was written? The disconnect raises questions concerning the purpose and implications of such imagery. What aspects of culture, recent history or personal experience might the writer have drawn upon? This paper suggests important new connections to the figure of Cleopatra as an interpretive key. The Ptolemaic queen of Egypt, remembered as both leader and legend, provided important cultural memory behind the imagery used by the author of the book of Revelation. The power, threat and ultimate demise of Cleopatra made the imagery of the whore of Babylon particularly gripping at the end of the first century.


2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-306
Author(s):  
Bart J. Koet

Abstract Birgir Gerhardsson’s Memory and Manuscript (1961) challenged the field of New Testament Studies by arguing that both the New Testament and rabbinic traditions were originally oral traditions that ‐ even after being written down ‐ continued to be transmitted orally. Although Gerhardsson’s book met severe criticism initially, this article shows that more than half a century after its first publication, Gerhardsson’s work has found positive reappraisal in modern scholarship, even though it is outdated in several aspects. After sketching both the outline of the book and its reception this article discusses the personal experience of the author in studying and teaching Gerhardsson’s important study.


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