Hasil untuk "Practical religion. The Christian life"

Nurhibe Büşra Er

Din ve dinin geleceği uzun yıllardır akademik ve yerel çevrelerce üzerinde tartışılan temel konuların başında gelmektedir. Bu minvalde tartışmanın bir cephesinde klasik sekülerleşme teorileri yer alırken diğer bir cephede dinin bireylerin ve toplumların zihin dünyalarında halen varlığını devam ettiren başat faktörlerden biri olduğu görüşü kabul görmektedir. Ancak son dönemde ortaya çıkan çalışmalar bu iki temel iddianın bambaşka boyutlarını gözler önüne sermektedir. Birçok farklı coğrafyada yeni dini hareketler ve mensuplarını, spiritüel akımları ve ritüelleri yerinde gözlemleyen Ali Köse, 21. Yüzyıl din olgusunu Batı ülkeleri ekseninde incelediği Dinin Geleceği isimli esere hayat vermiştir. Yazara göre artık dünyada ateizm, agnostisizm ya da deizmden daha tehlikeli bir boyut var ise bu da dine ve Tanrı’ya karşı umursamazlık içinde düşünceler geliştiren yeni neslin anlayışı konusudur. Bu noktada kritik ettiğimiz bu eser, Batıda meydana gelen yeni akımları ve düşünceleri alan araştırmaları ve anket verileri ile okuyucuya aktaran nadir çalışmalardan biridir.

Teresa Astramowicz-Leyk, Yaryna Turchyn, Olha Ivasechko et al.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the activities of minilateral alliances, the member states of which are Ukraine and European countries seen through the prism of the security dimension. The definition of minilateralism, the origins of the concept, its strengths and weaknesses are presented. The authors focused on the importance and priorities of mini-alliance cooperation, in particular, the security dimension of Ukraine's cooperation within such alliances as: "The Lublin Triangle", "Associated Trio", "Quadriga", Tripartite Alliance, The Romania-Republic of Moldova-Ukraine Alliance, the Great Britain-Poland-Ukraine Alliance. The criteria of political, economic, military, and sanctions support of Ukraine by the countries-participants of minilateral alliances during the war are presented. The key challenges to the functioning of alliances and promising areas for further cooperation are highlighted. The authors used systemic, institutional, comparative and statistical methods, as well as method of document analysis and case study, to characterize the process of current activation of minilateral alliances within the Ukraine-European countries framework. The research paper summarizes the positive consequences of Ukraine’s minilateral cooperation with European countries, which contribute to overcoming modern security challenges.

Daniel J. Fleming, James F. Keenan, SJ, Hans Zollner, SJ

La publicación de esta obra supone cierta urgencia, una urgencia que a menudo no se encuentra en otro tipo de trabajos teológicos. La verdadera escala del daño a la dignidad humana causado por el abuso sexual dentro de la Iglesia plantea profundos dilemas, tanto para las disciplinas como para aquellos que las practican: ¿Hasta qué punto hemos pasado por alto estos problemas? ¿Por qué nuestros esfuerzos en teología y ética teológica han tardado tanto en abordar estos temas? ¿De qué manera están implicadas la teología y la ética teológica en esta crisis? ¿Qué contribuciones específicas podrían ofrecer estas disciplinas para abordar constructivamente este desafío? Este volumen reúne el trabajo de diversos académicos de distintas partes del mundo, todos ellos dedicados al análisis y la reflexión de estas y otras interrogantes.

Wendy Drozenová

Abstract The aim of the contribution is to outline the ethical foundations in Maritain’s and Novak’s interpretation of human rights in a wider historical context and to assess its meaning for the present, with special regard to our Central European area. The issue of human rights has, in addition to its political aspect, an inherent ethical one. Fundamental human rights relate to the possibility of autonomy of a person as a moral being endowed with reason and striving for a meaningful life. Therefore, these rights have a fundamental role in practical life; however, they have also become an issue of speculative philosophy and theology, where the focus is upon concepts of freedom and reason. Jacques Maritain and Michael Novak were important figures in the advancement of human rights at the international level, with exceptional impacts especially in Central Europe. Both have their roots in Christian humanism, and for both their concept of human relations is derived from Biblical religion and love for one’s neighbour. Novak accepts Maritain’s concepts of a person and human dignity, and he tries to explain his own concept of democratic capitalism in accordance with it.

F.C. Uroko

This article reviews the literature on how religious leaders in Nigeria have become complacent and conspire in the corrupt activities of members of their congregations. Church leaders, who are meant to be guardians of ethics and morality, have lost it and are now dining with and covering people of dubious character. Some of these young people who engage in money rituals give money to these pastors, who accept it without inquiry. These young people are revered in the church and receive special prayers and honours. Others, who aspire to the same honours, seek ways to generate quick cash. This study investigates the role of church leaders in the growing ritual activities among Nigerian youths. It concludes by admonishing church leaders to emulate the life of Jesus, who was not afraid to speak the truth to the people whom he was shepherding.  

Bokyoung Park

The paper describes new ways of missional engagement during the Covid-19 pandemic and afterwards in Korea. While Covid-19 is inflicting serious damage on the entire Korean society, the damage to the Protestant churches is serious. The local government’s prohibition of ‘in-person gathering’ for worship resulted in the decrease of membership and endangered the unique paradigm of ‘in-gathering’-centred ecclesiology in Korean Protestant churches. The study tried to understand how local congregations coped with the changed situation in their missional engagement. Three congregations were used as case studies of how the local congregations responded to their missional tasks during the pandemic. With some preliminary assessments from these case studies, the paper suggests three ways of missional engagement of local congregation in Korea during the pandemic and even after the pandemic: 1) engaging personal fellowship using narratives, 2) performing a habitual ethical lifestyle, and 3) embracing the practice of hospitality.

Wojciech Zawadzki

System finansowania parafii i plebanów na terenach żuławskich ukształtował się w średniowieczu i z pewnymi modyfikacjami przetrwał aż do 1945 r. Podstawę tego finansowania stanowiła ziemia uprawna przekazana przez zakon krzyżacki każdej nowo erygowanej parafii. Wraz z pojawieniem się w XVI w. na Żuławach Malborskich luteran i mennonitów w lokalnych parafiach katolickich wzniesiono świątynie, które funkcjonowały poza obowiązującym w Rzeczypospolitej systemem prawnym i ustrojowym. Luterański i mennonicki system kościelny przez okres nowożytny nie dysponował na terenach żuławskich ziemią uprawną i borykał się z tego powodu z problemami finansowymi. Niewiele jednak zmieniło się pod tym względem w XIX w., już pod panowaniem pruskim, nadal bowiem parafie luterańskie nie miały stabilnego statusu ekonomicznego, a parafie katolickie w pełni korzystały z respektowanych przez państwo pruskie praw nabytych. Z tego powodu między oboma wyznaniami od końca XVIII w. do początku XX w. dochodziło do licznych konfliktów z sądowym epilogiem. W najtrudniejszym położeniu prawnym byli jednak żuławscy mennonici, którzy w sytuacji prawnej dyskryminacji ich wyznania przez pruskie prawodawstwo, coraz częściej podejmowali decyzje o emigracji z Prus.

Eun-young Park

The period in which Uchimura Kanzo lived was a time when modern Japan achieved national unity. He experienced a series of victories in the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars, and spent his life under the rapidly growing Japanese militarism that followed. Uchimura, who lived in such an era, constructed a new worldview through Christianity. For Uchimura, in particular, the question of how to reconcile Christianity as a Western religion with his homeland, Japan, was the ideological and practical challenge of his life. Uchimura, as he is well known for his refusal to bow deeply to the Imperial Rescript on Education in the formal ceremony held at the First Higher School, and his insistence on anti-war, seems to have been a prominent figure who clashed repeatedly with the nationalism of his time and was at odds with the state. However, Uchimura was also a Christian and a patriot who loved Japan all his life, as his famous love for the “two Js” (Jesus and Japan) shows. For Uchimura, the “two J's” are a powerful indicator of the inseparability of Christianity from nationalism, and the more strongly he concentrated on the “two J's,” the more contradictory this inevitably became. In this paper, I have considered Uchimura's thought and its meaning from the aspect of his perception of Japan and his so-called view of the nation, bearing in mind that Uchimura's thought was closely related to the situation of modern Japan in which he was situated. For Uchimura, the fact that Christian faith and love for Japan coexisted without any contradiction made it impossible or impractical to penetrate the problematic nature of the emperor state, which had a religious character, as a device to ensure the political legitimacy of modern Japan. In other words, Uchimura's fundamental problematic focus was on Christianity for Japan.

Mariusz Chrostowski

The Right-wing populism in Poland faces multiple challenges with respect to Religious Education. This is a complex issue, given it is not only about school education supporting pro-democratic positions in the modern generation of students, but also the fact that today’s populists have participated in long-term and complex educational processes of a similar nature. In this sense, the aim of this article is to seek an answer to the question of how Religious Education in Poland—with all of its theoretical and cognitive background rooted in the Christian vision of God and human and the world—can contribute to the elimination of the alliance of the right-wing populist perspectives from the dominant religion of the nation. The article will explain how practical educational opportunities will help students to understand the political strategy of populists, decipher their presentations and approaches, and so shape a positive attitude towards democracy as a desired ideological system within government and social life.

Christar Arstilo Rumbay, Roger Parengkuan

The personality of Satan shares massive discussion together with fluctuation. The debate plays surround his figurity and personality. Biblical period denotes distinct knowledge. This essay attempts to delve and explore the personality of Satan in the period of Midian-Persian to New Testament time especially in the Gospel. This research is a qualitative work that occupying literatures, articles and books to re-construc the personality of Satan. As the result,  the sociological infuences of Midian-Persian significantly contribute the knowledge of God’s people. They considers Satan as a symbol of war enmity. Further, in the Gospel period, Bible writters supply various of personality to describe Satan’s existence.

Andrew Kim

Review of Nicholas Kahm, _Aquinas on Emotion’s Participation in Reason

Kim Humphrey, Stephanie Edwards

The concept of haunting is one that holds deep potential for our current moment. In this paper, to speak of haunting is to speak about our connection to the transcendent spirits that move among us – that essence that indicates the nature of individuals, events, and lives that continue beyond their instantiations of concrete, material being. When read in the light of theology, here informed by psychology and trauma studies, our ghosts can help us identify our mistakes, our pain, our confusion, our questions, and even our inheritances, rather than brushed off as trite or a useless trope. In adopting a hermeneutic of haunting this paper begins the task of tackling the scale and depth of the clerical sex abuse crisis: first as event, and also as ongoing inheritance. The paper unfolds in three parts. First, the starting point is naming that clerical sex abuse haunts the Church today, a specter over all of the faithful that too often goes unrecognized. Second, is exploring how this abuse lingers concretely in our biology—as we are beginning to understand our biological selves as connected across time, with particular regard to traumatic experiences. Third, is revealing how the definitive wound of clerical sex abuse and its ghostly remnants call forth concrete practices of conversion and care for the victimized. With these strands in hand, the paper weaves a loose fabric that speaks to the haunted reality of the current and future Church, specifically how the bodies of its members carry the damage wrought by abuse, and how the Church acts as a shaming and shamed subject in ways that inform our communal identity and our interpretation of the call to conversion.

G. Hill

William E. Reiser

Nesochi Awujo

Anna Strhan

E. Heath

Andrzej Derdziuk

Poverty, perceived as a lack of basic consumer goods, gives rise to a whole range of outcomes which affect not only the material dimension of human existence, but also influence social relations and references to spiritual values. Attitudes which could be associated with involuntary and unacceptable poverty include: doubt in the Divine Providence, bitterness, jealousy and envy, blaming others, lack of gratitude and in perceiving good, laziness, lack of initiative, escalating demands, gluttony and greed as well as meanness. However, joy, peace, freedom and solidarity with the poor, as well as work and enterprise, are symptoms of evangelical attitudes of the poor in spirit. Attitudes to poverty point to a wide range of human behaviours towards possessions and in effect, reveal an individual’s sense of value.

L. P. Quinteros, J. Bustamante