scholarly journals Kristen etik i et pluralistisk samfund

2016 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-121
Author(s):  
Jeppe Bach Nikolajsen
Keyword(s):  
Martin Luther ◽  
Theological Ethics ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Pluralistic Society ◽  
Strong Emphasis ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Ethical Reflections

In recent decades, a growing number of theologians have discussedthe challenges and opportunities facing the Christian church as Western societies have become increasingly pluralistic. In a number of articles and books, various issues relating to this situation have been discussed. In continuation of this conversation, the article demonstrates that a tradition for a strong emphasis on the universality of theological ethics has existed in the Danish theological tradition, which is exemplified by reference to Martin Luther, Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig and Knud Ejler Løgstrup. Then, the article presents some empirical and theological arguments for the necessity of a stronger articulation of the particularity of theological ethics. Finally, the article shows how a theological position which expresses the particularity of theological ethics, while at the same time maintaining its universal basis, can contribute with some instructive and constructive perspectives on theological ethical reflections in a pluralistic society.

scholarly journals Christian Ethics, Public Debate, and Pluralistic Society

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeppe Bach Nikolajsen
Keyword(s):  
Public Debate ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Theological Ethics ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Pluralistic Society ◽  
The Church

Abstract In all its diversity, Lutheran ethics places a pronounced emphasis on the universal aspects of theological ethics. This article argues that due to the increasing pluralization of many societies in recent decades, however, it is becoming more and more relevant to develop the particular aspects of theological ethics in the Lutheran tradition. Holding together both the universal and particular aspects of theological ethics constitutes a position of relevance for a pluralistic societal situation. Such a position enables the Christian church to maintain its distinctiveness and, at the same time, to be engaged in dialogue with other positions. In this way, the church will at once stand for a tradition-determined distinctiveness and be engaged in a tradition-transcending dialogue. Consequently, this position is characterized by both distinctiveness and openness.

Geld: Seine »ethische« Rationalität

1994 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-133
Author(s):  
Helmut Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Dimension ◽  
Theological Ethics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Handling Methods ◽  
The Many ◽  
Ethical Reflections

AbstractThe thoughts presented here describe the »Reality« of money and its Connections, in the sense oft he point of attachment, to an ethic of »Money«. The respective theological remarks to the descriptions integrate, strenghten and interpret these and thus present perspectives for the handling of money without, however, providing handling methods. A functional view of the social and economic sciences is not sufficient for a description of money by means of (the theological) ethics. Although ethics must have knowledge of this »Rationality«, yet the many methods of talking of and money are an indication for ethical reflections that behind the functional reality of money there lurks an »Ethical« dimension (money, wealth, power;justice, goodness, solidarity; time is money, insatiability, magic, idolatry of money) which require tobe deciphered and interpreted.

scholarly journals LATAR BELAKANG, WARNA DASAR, DAN PENGARUH REFORMASI PROTESTAN TAHUN 1517 | BACKGROUND, BASIC CONTOURS AND IMPACT OF THE 1517 PROTESTANT REFORMATION

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 226
Author(s):  
George Ludwig Kirchberger
Keyword(s):  
Martin Luther ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Contextual Influence ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
World Council ◽  
Reformation Movement ◽  
The Church

<b>Abstract:</b> This article illustrates the background of. and reasons for, the Reformation, the basic contours of Luther’s theology and the Reformation movement he initiated, and the influence of the Reformation movement on the present situation. A brief description of the post-Reformation inter-Christian Church controversies for approximately 400 years is also presented, highlighting the fact that the theology of the time was unaware of the contextual influence of a text as the deepest reason for the controversy. The hermeneutical consciousness of the twentieth century led theology to overcome various inter-Christian Church controversies by showing that different and seemingly contradictory formulas could express the same truth, provided that each was placed in its original context. The author proposes as an example of the influence of the events of the Reformation on the present situation, the very important issue of religious freedom in situations such as Indonesia with a variety of religions and beliefs. In concluding the author gives advice on how different Christian Churches can learn from each other, so that they remain active in renewing the Church according to the ecclesia semper reformanda principle. <b>Keywords:</b> Reformation, Martin Luther, ecumenical, interChristian Church relationship, World Council of Churches. <b>Abstrak:</b> Artikel ini menggambarkan latar belakang dan alasan peristiwa Reformasi, warna dasar teologi Luther dan gerakan Reformasi yang dibangunnya, serta pengaruh gerakan Reformasi terhadap situasi dewasa ini. Deskripsi singkat kontroversi antar-Gereja Kristen pasca-Reformasi selama kurang lebih 400 tahun juga dimuat di sini dengan menampilkan kenyataan bahwa teologi waktu itu tidak menyadari pengaruh konteks atas suatu teks sebagai alasan terdalam lahirnya kontroversi itu. Kesadaran hermeneutis membuat teologi pada abad XX itu sanggup mengatasi pelbagai kontroversi antar-Gereja Kristen dengan membuktikan, rumusan yang berbeda dan bertentangan bisa menyatakan kebenaran yang sama, asalkan masing-masing ditempatkan dalam konteksnya yang asli. Sebagai suatu contoh pengaruh peristiwa Reformasi atas situasi dewasa ini, pengarang mengemukakan kebebasan beragama yang sangat penting dalam situasi seperti di Indonesia dengan anekaragam agama dan kepercayaan. Pada tempat terakhir penulis memberikan anjuran tentang bagaimana Gereja-gereja Kristen yang berbeda bisa saling belajar, agar mereka tetap aktif membarui Gereja seturut prinsip ecclesia semper reformanda. <b>Kata-kata kunci:</b> reformasi, Martin Luther, ekumene, relasi antar-Gereja Kristen, World Council of Churches.

Witnessing Whiteness

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristopher Norris
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Racial Climate ◽  
Theological Ethics ◽  
Shared Resources ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
American Christianity ◽  
Black Liberation Theology ◽  
American Churches

Witnessing Whiteness analyzes the current racial climate of American Christianity and argues for a new ethics of responsibility to confront white supremacy. Examining the current manifestations of racism in American churches, exploring the theological roots of white supremacy, and reflecting on the ways whiteness impacts even well-meaning, progressive white theologians, this book diagnoses the ways that all of white theology and white Christian practice are implicated in white supremacy. By identifying the roots of white supremacy within the church’s theology and practice, the book argues that the Christian church has a particular—and particularly acute—responsibility to address it. Witnessing Whiteness uncovers this responsibility ethic at the convergence of two prominent streams in theological ethics: traditionalist (white) witness theology and black liberation theology. Then, employing their shared resources and attending to the criticisms liberation theology directs at traditionalism, it proposes concrete practices to challenge the white church’s and white theology’s complicity in white supremacy.

Lecture épistémologique et éthique des sociologies du quotidien

1981 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-440
Author(s):  
Alberto Bondolfi
Keyword(s):  
Human Science ◽  
Direct Object ◽  
Theological Ethics ◽  
Reflec Tions ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Ethical Reflections

The «everyday» is not the direct object of any one human science. It is rather a kind of substrata within each discipline. But, on reflection, is not the notion of the everyday capable of challenging the currently established division of knowlege? Sarting from this question, the author of this article proposes some epistemological and ethical reflections which initiate a pro cess of inter-disciplinarity or even trans-disciplinarity. His remarks must therefore be understood as an attempt to compare what is stated by «theories of the everyday» and certain reflec tions found in philosophical and theological ethics.

Martin Luther’s Understanding of Earlier Reformers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip N. Haberkern
Keyword(s):  
Martin Luther ◽  
Church History ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
History Of ◽  
Institutional Church ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Church Councils ◽  
Over Time

Throughout his career as a reformer, Martin Luther often framed his critiques of the institutional Church and his original doctrinal formulations with references—both implicit and explicit—to earlier reformers. Whether turning to medieval German mystics for the terminology to describe true penitence or Bohemian heretics for proof that others had identified the papacy as the seat of Antichrist, Luther consistently embedded himself within a tradition of religious reform as he elaborated his theology and ecclesiology. Both Luther himself and many contemporary scholars have primarily understood the earlier figures whom Luther invoked as “forerunners” whose initiatives and theological insights only reached their culmination with Martin Luther’s reformation. Such a characterization of the individuals and movements that Luther invoked as precedents for his reforms, however, potentially limits our understanding of the myriad, evolving categories that Luther employed in describing his fellow reformers, and it also obscures our understanding of the specific rhetorical uses to which they were put. It is therefore time to re-examine the multiple ways in which Luther understood his relationship to earlier reformers, and especially how that relationship came to serve as a key foundation for the construction of a counter-history of the Christian church by Martin Luther and his followers. The most significant individual for Luther’s reorientation of sacred history was Jan Hus (d. 1415), the Bohemian preacher and professor who was burned at the stake by the Council of Constance. From the Leipzig Debate up until the sermons preached on Luther’s death, Hus served as the most proximate and spectacular example of the risk and reward that came from opposition to the papal Antichrist. Over time, Luther’s numerous references to Hus reflected an evolution in his perception of the Bohemian martyr; in short, Hus graduated from a predecessor and saint to a prophet of Luther’s reforms, and his death served as a pointed warning that reformers ought not trust church councils. Jan Hus was exceptional in terms of how substantially and often Luther engaged with his theology and death. Luther’s eventual conclusion that Hus embodied the broader history of God’s faithful followers on Earth was, however, ultimately emblematic of his conception of church history as founded upon the proclamation of divine truth by individuals who refused to countenance its suppression.

scholarly journals Fundamentalisme Agama Sebagai Tantangan Bagi Negara

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 274
Author(s):  
Mathias Daven
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
State Politics ◽  
Religious Fundamentalism ◽  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Absolute Truth ◽  
Pluralistic Society ◽  
Religious Convictions ◽  
Violent Conflicts

The 16 th Century Protestant Reformation, triggered by Martin Luther and fellow reformers, eventually resulted in violent conflicts between various Church movements and their individual political supporters. These conflicts brought about a new awareness in the European peoples of the time, that the moralization of politics based on the truth of one religious group/Church always represents a clear threat to the life of a pluralistic society. The function of state politics is to guarantee life in peace together, with freedom and justice, among people who have differing religious convictions and who wish to establish a country together. On the contrary, religious fundamentalism is the greatest enemy of a country in so far as it attacks the principle of state secularism and fights for a return to state politics as an issue of “right or wrong”. To the extent that fundamentalism rejects the autonomy of the political system and enforces without compromise its own absolute truth on others, it is a clear threat to peace. <b>Keywords:</b> Reformation, Church, Fundamentalism, State, Politics, Truth, Peace --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reformasi Protestan pada abad XVI yang dipelopori Martin Luther dengan kawan-kawan berujung pada konflik peperangan antargereja yang berbeda dan masing-masing pendukung politisnya. Konflik tersebut memunculkan kesadaran baru dalam masyarakat modern Eropa kala itu bahwa moralisasi politik berdasarkan kebenaran iman suatu agama selalu merupakan ancaman nyata bagi kelangsungan masyarakat yang heterogen. Tugas politik kenegaraan ialah menjamin hidup bersama secara damai dalam kebebasan dan keadilan dari orang-orang yang mempunyai latar belakang keagamaan dan keyakinan yang berbeda dan bertekad membangun suatu negara bersama. Sebaliknya fundamentalisme agama merupakan musuh utama negara sejauh ia melabrak prinsip sekularitas negara serta mengembalikan politik kenegaraan sebagai perihal “benarsalah”. Sejauh fundamentalisme menolak otonomi sistem politik dan memaksakan tanpa kompromi kebenaran absolut yang diyakini pada pihak lain, ia merupakan ancaman nyata bagi perdamaian. <b>Kata-kata kunci:</b> Reformasi, Gereja, Fundamentalisme, Negara, Politik, Kebenaran, Perdamaian

Christian Ethics, Lutheran Tradition, and Pluralistic Society

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeppe Bach Nikolajsen
Keyword(s):  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Theological Ethics ◽  
Pluralistic Society ◽  
Ethical Position

SummaryIn the Lutheran tradition, the particular aspects of theological ethics have often been overlooked, if not outright denied. Thus, it is not uncommon for Lutheran theologians to emphasize the universal aspects of theological ethics and to downplay its particular aspects, even to the point of arguing that a Christian ethics does not exist. Against this background, the article gives several arguments for drawing Lutheran ethics in a direction that will allow its particular aspects to be more clearly articulated. It also presents certain features of Luther’s ethical position that might foster an understanding of the particular aspects of Lutheran ethics. Building on this, the article points to a contemporary Lutheran position of relevance to a pluralistic society.

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