scholarly journals Grundtvigs salmer før Luther

1981 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-46
Author(s):  
Jørgen Elbek
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Medieval Latin ◽  
Basic Theme ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Divine Truth

Grundtvig’s Hymns before Luther - A PaperBy Jørgen ElbekThe paper examines a number o f Grundtvig’s reworkings partly of David’s psalms, partly o f the early Greek, medieval Latin and old Danish hymns on the basic theme that, in contrast to the Danish hymnwriters Kingo and Brorson from the 17th and 18th centuries, but in accordance with Hans Christensen Sthen from the 16th century, Grundtvig’s hymnwriting revives the harmony o f nature in the medieval folk-poems, but as a nature that is redeemed and set free by the divine truth - not a holy but a hallowed nature, Den signede dag (The Blessed Day) as the title o f Grundtvig’s best-known hymn goes. In his reworking o f the Latin supplications o f the Holy Spirit, Grundtvig shows how harmony arises between feeling and intellect, so that mankind sees the deeper connection and can realise it in human life. It was Grundtvig’s belief that everyday life should be a divine service - the religious practice that Protestantism otherwise lacked.

scholarly journals Pelayanan Pastoral Dengan Aspek-Aspeknya di Gereja Bethel Indonesia Jemaat Sungai Yordan Surabaya

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-29
Author(s):  
Fatony Pranoto ◽  
Ivonne Eliawaty ◽  
Surja Permana
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Pastoral Ministry ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Jordan River ◽  
New Creation ◽  
New Born ◽  
The Holy Spirit

Pastoral service is a spiritual service and should not be ignored in the pastoral ministry. At GBI the Jordan River Surabaya has provided several models of material services: Money / goods to help congregations in need; Spiritually: introducing people to Jesus Christ and to life in the Holy Spirit or led by the Spirit, new born life becomes a new creation (not only identity / without repentance; Healing: making others healthy, both physical, mental and emotional as well as; Prophetic: changing the way of human life in the structure of society. Improve people’s way of life (especially in rural areas).

Words into Silence

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-249
Author(s):  
Grace Mariette Agolia ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Love Of Neighbor ◽  
Mystery Of God

This essay explores Karl Rahner’s use of silence throughout his writings in relation to central themes of his theology. First, in his reflections about encountering the silent mystery of God in prayer, Rahner discovers that this painful silence may indeed be sacramental of God’s abiding nearness, inviting us to greater faith, hope, and love. Second, Rahner engages the transcendental character of this relationship between grace and freedom through the silence that permeates the existential divine-human dialogue. Third, Rahner’s meditations on Jesus, the silent Word, reveal how Jesus’s surrender in freedom to God’s silence enables our own response to God and participation in Jesus’s salvific “death-into-resurrection.” Fourth, Rahner elucidates the role of silence in ordinary mysticism; patient forbearance, bold proclamation, and love of neighbor are all opportunities for experiencing the grace of the Holy Spirit in everyday life. Finally, these themes converge in Rahner’s thoughts about the importance of silence in the spirituality of the theologian.

Academic Theology in Pastoral Perspective

1993 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen T. Charry
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Secular Age ◽  
Academic Theology

“In our secular age, guidance from any source but self is disdained, the notion of centering one's life in anything—perhaps especially God—appears a bit eccentric, and public discourse is dominated by anger and adversariness. In this atmosphere, Christianity constitutes a refreshing and needed alternative because it does not simply celebrate human life but seeks to transform human persons through the grace of God in Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit.”

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 Makna Hidup Adalah Kristus Berdasarkan Filipi 1 : 21 Dan Implikasinya Bagi Orang Percaya

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-242
Author(s):  
Sri Lina Betty Lamsihar Simorangkir ◽  
Yonatan Alex Arifianto
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Value Of Life ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

AbstractThe meaning of life is an important element in mental health and the functions of human life. A person may experiences despair and lost the certainty of life when he does not have meaning, purpose and value of life. The meaning of Paul's life based on Philippians 1: 20-21 shows only to the person of Christ. Christ became the beginning of his life. The encounter that brought repentance and life under the guidance of the Holy Spirit became the basis of the meaning of Paul's life. With descriptive qualitative methods and analyzing the text of the verse, provide information on the purpose of writing and provide an understanding that Christ must be the center of the life of believers. Longing to glorify Christ, and prioritizing life for Christ, not feel ashamed to preach the gospel and realize that death in God is a profitable thing are the guidance in living a life focused on God. Keyword: Christ; the meaning of life; the Holy Spirit; the believer. AbstrakMakna hidup merupakan elemen penting dalam kesejahteraan atau kesehatan mental dan fungsi hidup manusia. Seseorang mengalami putus asa dan tidak memiliki kepastian hidup di saat tidak mempunyai makna, tujuan dan nilai hidup. Makna hidup Paulus berdasarkan Filipi 1:20-21 menunjukkan hanya kepada pribadi Kristus. Kristus menjadi awal dari kehidupannya  setelah  perjumpaan yang membawa pertobatan serta hidup dalam pimpinan Roh Kudus menjadi dasar dari makna hidup Paulus. Dengan metode kualitatif deskriptif dan menganalisa teks ayat tersebut, dapat memberikan informasi tujuan penulisan serta memberi pemahaman bahwa Kristus harus menjadi pusat kehidupan orang percaya. Kerinduan memuliakan Kristus, dan memprioritaskan hidup bagi Kristus, serta tidak merasa malu memberitakan Injil dan menyadari bahwa kematian dalam Tuhan adalah hal yang menguntungkan. Maka hal itu menjadi pegangan dalam menjalani hidup fokus kepada Tuhan. Keyword: Kristus; Makna Hidup; Roh Kudus; Orang Percaya

Faith and Virtue Formation

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Formation ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Moral Formation ◽  
Communal Life ◽  
Divine Grace ◽  
Theological Virtues ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Church

The Christian tradition offers a robust and compelling vision of what it is for human life to be lived well. The essays in this volume articulate various aspects of that vision in ways that will deepen understanding of the virtues and virtue formation. These essays will also inspire and guide readers, Christian and non-Christian alike, in their efforts to grow in virtue. Topics addressed include the value of studying the vices for moral formation; the importance of emotion and agency in virtue formation; the connections between certain disabilities and virtue; the roles of divine grace, liturgy, worship, and the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit in Christian virtue formation; the formation of infused virtues, including the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love; the roles of friendship and the communal life of the Church in cultivating virtue; and new philosophical and theological reflections on some largely neglected virtues. Exemplifying an interdisciplinary approach, the contributors to this volume draw on philosophical, theological, and biblical wisdom, along with insights from contemporary psychology and rich narrative examples, in aid of becoming good. By providing deeply insightful and edifying reflections on the prospects, processes, and practices of moral and spiritual formation, this volume demonstrates that when it is at its best moral philosophy not only can illuminate, but also can practically guide and inspire the formation of virtue.

scholarly journals T.F. Torrance: Union with Christ through the Communion of the Spirit

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin M. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Response ◽  
Union With Christ ◽  
Major Topic ◽  
Primary Literature ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Hypostatic Union ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Fait Accompli

Union with Christ is a heuristic, over-arching rubric for the discussion of many themes in Torrance’s soteriology. Union with Christ, however, has not been a major topic in Torrance studies. The purpose of this article is to address this inadequacy. The present article provides an overview of Torrance’s discussion of incarnational reconciliation and ‘vicarious humanity’ of Jesus Christ. According to Torrance, the hypostatic union is a dynamic, atoning union in which humanity is cleansed of sin and brought into sanctifying union with God. Throughout his earthly life, Jesus acts ‘vicariously’, reconciling humanity to God and sanctifying every stage of human life, so that union with Christ is fully and objectively accomplished for all humanity in Jesus. All aspects of Christian life, including faith, justification and sanctification are fully realised for all in the incarnate life of Christ. The objective union, established in the incarnation, is subjectively realised in the life of the believer through the communion of the Holy Spirit. In response to the objective reality of grace, believers are summoned to take up the cross and follow Jesus. Torrance’s assertion of union with Christ as a fait accompli in the incarnation and vicarious act of Christ raises questions regarding the subjective human response to salvation as well as the issue of universalism. Content is based on a review of primary literature published by Torrance over a span of more than 40 years as well as a review of recent secondary resources that include some aspect of the subject.

Afterword: Redeeming Sin

Shadow Sophia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 223-226
Author(s):  
Celia E. Deane-Drummond
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Trinity

This brief commentary articulates a link between the second and third volumes in this series and points to a discussion of the work of redemption, grace, the Holy Spirit, and participation in the Trinity. Such a discussion forms the theological backdrop to understanding the life of graced virtue when perceived through the experience of faith. Sergii Bulgakov’s works present an aesthetic account of wisdom and participation in God that still carries some risk of pulling away from a grounded, rooted, and fully earthed perspective on human life. Disincarnate cultural trends towards transhumanism draw on science, but amount to impoverished secular accounts of redemption. All such eschatologies need to be reminded of the material, bodily, and grounded nature of human life in our creaturely contexts, so that even graced virtue which pulls away from immersion in a multispecies framework fails as fully redemptive virtue.

Russian Religious Aesthetics in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 361-378
Author(s):  
Victor V. Bychkov ◽  
Oleg V. Bychkov
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Artistic Creativity ◽  
Important Principle ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit

At the turn of the twentieth-century Russian culture experienced a spiritual-religious Renaissance, which was accompanied by a rise of religiously oriented aesthetics. Generally, this aesthetics amounted to an awareness of the highest role that aesthetic experience, and in particular art, plays in human life and culture. Within this aesthetics, beauty, the beautiful, art, artistic creativity and symbols, and the artist-creator were viewed in a spiritually heightened and almost sacred way. Beauty was considered as the highest value and often as an essential trait of God himself, Sophia, the Wisdom of God, the Holy Spirit, the Theotokos, or the Universal Church. Beauty was also considered to be the most important principle of the existence of the human race, or as an essential and divine foundation of culture and art. Art itself was conceptualized as divinely inspired creativity, and the artist as a divinely chosen conduit of spiritual ideas and images, which can be expressed exclusively in artistic forms; as a theurge, whose mind and hand are guided by divine powers. Finally, this aesthetics viewed artistic creativity as that ideal paradigm which, by providing aesthetic principles, serves as the foundation of human life, of the culture of the future, and of the final stage of the divine creation of the world—the creation of the Kingdom of God on earth—that will be taken over by artists-creators-theurges.

scholarly journals Church Models for the 21st Century

Kairos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-91
Author(s):  
Stanko Jambrek
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Cattle Breeding ◽  
God's Will ◽  
The Bible ◽  
God's Word ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Church

In order to have a fruitful understanding of the nature of the Church, the Bible uses a variety of pictures, which when taken together form Church models by which believers live and act by. We have reviewed Church models in three categories: the first category is taken by Church models which are formed today by our everyday life; the second one are Church models which have been created by man throughout history; and third, the Church models which have a foundation in the Word of God. Church models formed by everyday life and man-made Church models can be used as negative examples of models to be changed and avoided, especially models of the Church as an institution and as a denomination. The Bible shows a particular reality and nature of the Church by using numerous different pictures from everyday life. These include pictures from the ownership system; the picture of the way the human body works; pictures from premarital, marital, and family life; pictures from architecture, agriculture, cattle breeding, fishery, and citizenship and patriotism. Each of the used pictures communicates one or more God’s truths in a way that is experientially very close and familiar to the listeners and readers. These pictures reflect life and point towards life. The 21st century Christianity needs to adopt and apply Biblical pictures of Church which, when taken together, form the Biblical Church model. As we establish this model, we need to focus on God and His purposes and plans for a specific time, place, and culture. Our communication with God needs to be completely open, and the Church needs to be prepared to follow God’s plans and the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The Biblical Church model contains God’s (immutable) and human (mutable) elements. God is immutable, which is why anything that is permanent and immutable in Church comes from God, and what can and needs to be changed is anything that came from people. The human elements need to be aligned with God’s Word and the Holy Spirit’s guidance, so that the Church would be able to obey God’s will fruitfully.

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