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Ribeiro, Claudio De Oliveira. "Por uma teologia integradora. A teologia de Jürgen moltmann em foco." Revista Eclesiástica Brasileira 74, no. 293 (October 19, 2018): 142–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.29386/reb.v74i293.555.
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Destacando linhas centrais da teologia de Jürgen Moltmann, o artigo evidencia sua preocupação ecumência a partir da sustentabilidade e da garantia salvífica da vida, sua pneumatologia integral que articula a vida e a fé, o humano e o divino, e sua visão escatológica, comprometida com o destino que Deus prevê para a história. Moltmann apresenta uma escatologia que realça a mensagem cristã enquanto resposta às possibilidades históricas. Assim, a Teologia da Esperança é uma mensagem atual e relevante, baseada em diferentes contextos sociopolíticos, e que procura ser uma resposta escatológtica para as crises presenciadas no cotidano da sociedade.Abstract: Bringing out some central lines of Jürgen Moltmann’s theology, the article shows his ecumenical preoccupation with the sustainability and the salvific safeguard of life, his integral pneumatology that articulates life and faith, the human and the divine, and his eschatological vision, committed to the fate that God foresees for History. Moltmann presents an eschatology that emphasizes the Christian message insofar as it is an answer to the historical possibilities. Thus, Theology of Hope is a current and relevant message, based on various sociopolitical contexts and that tries to be an eschatological answer for the crises we are seeing in the everyday of society.Keywords: Moltmann. Theology of religions. Pneumatology. Eschatology.
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Shults, F. LeRon. "Spirit and Spirituality: Philosophical Trends in Late Modern Pneumatology." Pneuma 30, no. 2 (2008): 271–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157007408x346410.
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AbstractThis dialogue piece reviews some of the key developments in the doctrine of the Holy Spirit in late modern theology that have contributed to the scholarly and practical integration of pneumatology and Christian spirituality. Shifts in the meaning and use of three concepts — matter, person, and force — have played a particularly influential role in these developments. These trends are illustrated in several recent pneumatological proposals. The final section outlines some new directions for the ongoing task of reforming pneumatology.
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Studebaker, Steven. "The Pathos of Theology as a Pneumatological Derivative or a Poiemata of the Spirit? A Review Essay of Reinhard Hütter's Pneumatological and Ecclesiological Vision of Theology." Pneuma 32, no. 2 (2010): 269–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157007410x509155.
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AbstractReinhard Hütter is a leading theologian who has made important contributions to ecclesiology, pneumatology, and Christian rationality, but his most fundamental one is to the nature of theology and theological method. What makes his work of particular interest to Pentecostals is its attempt to give theology a pneumatological and ecclesiological ground. He suggests that the pathos of theology is doctrina and core church practices; theology receives its character and content from church doctrine and practices. Although successful in respect to his ecclesiological program, his proposal does not give theology a direct pneumatological ground and pathos. Nevertheless, his notion that theology receives its pathos from church doctrine and practices can be adapted to suggest a pneumatological pathos of Christian experience and theology. The result is a proposal that the Holy Spirit conditions the pathos of Christian experience and theology, which provides a theological and explicitly a pneumatological pathos not only for Pentecostal experience and theology but also for the role of Pentecostal experience in developing a uniquely "orthopathic" ecumenical contribution to Christian theology.
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Bergmann, Sigurd. "Fetishism Revisited: In the Animistic Lens of Eco-pneumatology." Journal of Reformed Theology 6, no. 3 (2012): 195–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15697312-12341265.
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Abstract In the context of ecological destruction and the emergence of numerous eco-spiritualities the challenge for Christian theology is to address the question: Where does the Spirit, who liberates nature, take place today? This is addressed in three sections: In a first section pneumatology is revisioned as ecological soteriology while the Spirit is portrayed as a giver and liberator of life. In a second section it is suggested that the doctrine of the Spirit may be reinterpreted in the context of the spatial turn of theology in terms of faith in the Spirit’s inhabitation. The third and concluding section offers an argument for an ecological pneumatology in synergy with animism, an approach which investigates the critical potentials of resisting and overcoming the fetishism of late modern capitalism.
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Asproulis, Nikolaos. "Pneumatology and Politics: The role of the Holy Spirit in the articulation of an Orthodox political theology." Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu 7, no. 2 (August 1, 2015): 184–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ress-2015-0014.
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Abstract In this paper an attempt is made to discuss the importance of the Holy Spirit in the development of an Orthodox political theology, by bringing into critical dialogue the recent contributions of two of the most known Orthodox theologians of the young generation, namely A. Papanikolaou and P. Kalaitzidis. It is commonly recognized that the Holy Spirit is closely related both to the very “constitution of the whole Church” in virtue of the Eucharistic event, as well as to the everyday charismatic lives of individual Christians due to the various forms or stages of ascetism. In this respect a careful comparative examination of these two important works, would highlight some invaluable elements (Eucharistic perspective, eschatological orientation, historical commitment, ethical action, open and critical dialogue with modernity etc.) toward a formulation of a comprehensive and urgently necessary political theology. This sort of political theology should have inevitable implications for the Christian perception of the communal and the individual ecclesial life. This “theo-political” program proposed by the two thinkers and founded on a robust Pneumatology, could be perfectly included, following the apostolic kerygma and the patristic ethos, into a new way of doing (Orthodox) Christian theology, that takes as its starting point the grammar of the self-Revelation of God in the ongoing history of salvation (“Church and World Dogmatics”).
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Yong, Amos. "A P(new)Matological Paradigm for Christian Mission in a Religiously Plural World." Missiology: An International Review 33, no. 2 (April 2005): 175–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182960503300204.
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In this essay, the author summarizes previous work done (by himself and others) in the formulation of a theology of religions approached from the standpoint of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit (pneumatology), assesses the implications of such a pneumatological theology of religions for Christian mission in the religiously plural world of the twenty-first century, and responds to some of the most important critical questions regarding Christology, soteriology, and the doctrine of revelation that have been raised in response to this project so far.
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Schaefer, Marym. "Lex orandi, lex credendi: Faith, doctrine and theology in dialogue." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 26, no. 4 (December 1997): 467–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000842989702600403.
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This article, the 1996 presidential address given to the Canadian Theological Society, outlines the interdisciplinary nature of liturgical studies with focus on aspects of particular interest to theologians. The changing relationship of the terms in the frequently cited axiom lex orandi [ est] lex credendi is explored. As a kind of theological case study new approaches to the présence of Christ and the Holy Spirit in the Christian liturgy are set out to show what theology of liturgy might offer christology and pneumatology. Finally, observations about some feminist rituals are offered from the perspective of a liturgical theologian.
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Doe, Norman. "THE CATEGORY “LEGAL THEOLOGY” AND THE STUDY OF CHRISTIAN LAWS." Journal of Law and Religion 32, no. 1 (March 2017): 64–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jlr.2017.13.
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Theology, the study of God, consists of a network of subdisciplines: biblical theology, moral theology, ecumenical theology, and so on. Each branch of theology has its own distinctive object of study, methods, and purposes. For example, pneumatology studies the Holy Spirit, practical theology uses the pastoral cycle, and liberation theology seeks to transform unjust societal structures that oppress the marginalized. Each branch of theology has its own distinctive community of scholars. It is a common view (though perhaps a contested one, as between the different church traditions) that the main purpose of Christian theology is to proclaim the Gospel of Christ. The branches of theology, in turn, are vehicles for each of this core purpose. Legal theology could become a branch of theology with its own distinctive objects of study, methods, and purposes. What follows explores these themes, how the subdiscipline of legal theology might be defined and developed in the context of the study of the systems of law, order, and polity, of churches across the Christian traditions that deal with, for example, forms of regulation, ministry (lay or ordained), governance (institutions and functions), discipline, doctrine, worship, rites, property, and external relations. It does so as to the following. (1) The object of study: legal theology should at its core be about the relationship between theology and church law—more particularly, the relationship between church law and each of the other branches of theology. (2) The method of study: legal theology may involve the theological study of church law and/or the legal study of theology using standard juristic methods (such as text and context, critical, historical, analytical) as well as methods used in the other branches of theology (3) The purpose of study: the development of a community of scholars collaborating with a view to its impact on ecclesial practice. Theology is indispensable to a full understanding of the place of law in the life of the church; and law provides evidence to test the propositions of theology in the practical life of the church as this is translated through norms to action.
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ADHINARTA, YUZO. "THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE CHURCH’S SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY." UNIO CUM CHRISTO 4, no. 1 (April 23, 2018): 83–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.35285/ucc4.1.2018.art5.
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This article responds to criticisms regarding pneumatology and the church’s social responsibility that are often joined and directed at Reformed tradition and theology. We will argue that, as reflected by its confessional standards, the Reformed tradition inherits a comprehensive doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Moreover, it also provides rich materials for Christian guidance and reflection on the church’s social responsibility. Therefore, if local churches neglect their social responsibility, it must not be because of the lack of the church’s teaching on its social responsibility; rather, the cause of this neglect has to be sought elsewhere.
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Lavallee, Marc Henri. "Practical Theology from the Perspective of Catholic Spirituality: A Hermeneutic of Discernment." International Journal of Practical Theology 20, no. 2 (November 1, 2016): 203–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2014-0055.
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Abstract This article examines practical theological hermeneutics through the lens of Catholic spirituality. Key to understanding the movement from description to analysis to revised praxis is the ways in which interpretive communities understand the connections between divine reality and human reality. In light of this, the article explores the relationship between epistemology and pneumatology found within Christian tradition by proposing an approach to practical theological hermeneutics rooted in the Ignatian practice of spiritual discernment. By doing so, this article seeks to contribute the potential contours of a distinctive Roman Catholic contribution to practical theology, and in a broader sense, show how the practice of discernment presents studies and methods in practical theology with a way of understanding connections among practical wisdom, habitus, research, and theological interpretation.
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S, Suranto. "Perspektif Teologia Sistematik untuk Tugas Pelayanan Pendidikan Teologi." SANCTUM DOMINE: JURNAL TEOLOGI 2, no. 1 (December 8, 2019): 71–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.46495/sdjt.v2i1.11.
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This paper is a systematic theology design which is underlying the role of theological education. In this paper, the author put the Bible as the primary basis and it will be developed with the support of various books from Christian education authors. The experiences of more than twenty years of service in Bible College are also coloring this paper. Theological basis from various dimensions such as anthropology, Christology, Pneumatology, Ecclesiology and Eschatology is regarded as important as theological education for churches today. By this effort, theological education will step on the true basis and can carry out the duty of its call.
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Muers, Rachel. "The Holy Spirit, the voices of nature and environmental prophecy." Scottish Journal of Theology 67, no. 3 (June 26, 2014): 323–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930614000143.
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AbstractI argue for the theological plausibility of reading contemporary environmental concern as a response to the prophetic voices of nonhuman nature, and in that sense as a movement of the Holy Spirit.The literature on pneumatology and the environment tends to concentrate either on the Spirit's role in creation (and the continuities between creation and new creation) or on the ecclesial location of the Spirit's transformation of material reality. While these approaches are sound and necessary, neither appears fully to address the specific theological challenge of the contemporary environmental movement and of contemporary environmental stress, as a historical moment between humanity and nonhuman nature. Pneumatology needs to take account of the specific ways in which the environment becomes an issue for theology and society, and of the historical ‘discernment of spirits’ involved in Christian and theological responses to the environmental crisis.In an attempt to address this need, I take up the now well-developed theological claim that nonhuman nature is a subject, rather than the backdrop of salvation-history, and develop it in relation to the idea that prophecy as the work of the Spirit both reveals and realises God's history with creation. I draw on Eugene Rogers’ approach to pneumatology by exploring the non-identical repetitions of pneumatology's paradigmatic narratives, but, going beyond Rogers, I trace these repetitions in nonhuman and extra-ecclesial realities – in ‘the environment’. The main paradigmatic pneumatological narratives considered in this article are those related to prophecy, and in particular to the miraculous extension of gifts of speech and hearing; rereading these narratives in the contemporary environmental crisis leads to an account of how the ‘voices’ of nonhuman nature are heard as prophetic speech that summons response. In a final section, I turn to another paradigmatic pneumatological narrative – that of Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness – and propose, in dialogue with Donald MacKinnon and others, that it offers a starting-point for theological responses to the experience of despair, loss and failure in the context of environmental concern.
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Van Den Toren, Benno. "The Relationship between Christ and the Spirit in a Christian Theology of Religions." Missiology: An International Review 40, no. 3 (July 2012): 263–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182961204000304.
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This article explores the recent turn in the theology of religions, visible in diverse quarters, to pneumatology as a way to foster a greater openness to the work of God the Holy Spirit in non-Christian religions. It gives particular attention to the work of Jacques Dupuis (Roman Catholic), George Khodr (Orthodox) and Clark Pinnock (Evangelical Protestant). It argues that recognition of the work of the Holy Spirit allows for an exploration of a variegated activity of God outside the boundaries of the church that cannot be reduced to his presence as Creator or as non-incarnate Word. It, therefore, also allows for dialogue in which commitment to God's supreme revelation in Christ can be combined with an openness to learn from other religious traditions. It does at the same time point to the need to frame the attention for the wider work of the Spirit in the context of the one plan of salvation of the triune God such as not to separate the “two hands of God.” It argues that the work of the Spirit outside the boundaries of the church remains directed to the eschatological salvation inaugurated by Christ and, therefore, also to the church as the “first fruits” of the eschaton and as the community where this salvation is proclaimed and embraced.
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Gonwa, Janna. "A Trinitarian Pneumatology for a Rich Understanding of Salvation: Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Spirit and Salvation: A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World." Expository Times 128, no. 9 (May 11, 2017): 459. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0014524617700314.
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Nodes, Daniel J. "Dual Processions of the Holy Spirit: Development of a Theological Tradition." Scottish Journal of Theology 52, no. 1 (February 1999): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930600053461.
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The theology of the Holy Spirit waited through the early Christian centuries until the main doctrines regarding the Trinity and the person of Christ had been forged. Even then pneumatology was introduced ‘by the back door’, in Theodore Campbell's phrase, that of how the Son was placed in the Father, Son and Spirit confession. While prayers to the Spirit were not lacking in the earliest liturgies, still, at Nicea the doctrine ‘had been disposed of in lapidary brevity’, as Jaroslav Pelikan has described the credal line, ‘and we believe in the Holy Spirit’. ‘Nor does there seem to have been a single treatise dealing specifically with the person of the Spirit composed before the second half of the fourth century’. After Nicea, however, controversy concerning the Spirit erupted ‘with a vengeance’, producing the same kind of energy that had accompanied the Christological debates. Pneumatomachi, Tropici, and Macedonians, though losers in the fight for orthodox doctrine on the Spirit's nature, had mounted formidable campaigns, as Arians had done over the relationship of Christ to the Father. But disagreement over the Spirit had an even greater impact than Arian opposition in that the filioque remains a principal difference between the Catholic and Orthodox, and now Catholic and Anglican, creeds.
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Cartledge, Mark J. "Spirit-Empowered ‘Walking Alongside’." Journal of Pentecostal Theology 27, no. 1 (March 12, 2018): 14–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17455251-02701002.
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The gift of the Holy Spirit to the disciples in John’s Gospel, expressed in the so-called Paraclete sayings (John 14–16), indicates that certain capacities will be given to the disciples of Jesus Christ for the benefit of their witness to the world. This article reflects on these pneumatological texts, brings them into conversation with the discourse of public theology, that is, theology that seeks to address issues in the public domain of wider civil society, outside the sphere of the church. In particular, by taking the metaphor of ‘walking alongside’, this study explores the ways these texts inform the manner in which Renewal (Pentecostal and Charismatic) Christians, believing in the empowerment of the Holy Spirit for service to the world, may frame their pneumatology of engagement for the sake of others.
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Yong, Amos. "The Spirit bears witness: pneumatology, truth, and the religions Portions of this paper were originally presented to the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Toronto, Canada, 2022 November 2002, under the title Toward a P(new)matological Paradigm in Christian Theology of Religions. I am grateful to the audience for their questions and remarks. Thanks also to Dan Magnuson, Barry Linney, and especially David Woodruff, for helping me think through some of the issues raised in the discussion about objective and absolute truths. Of course, they should not be imputed with the views advocated here." Scottish Journal of Theology 57, no. 1 (February 2004): 14–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930603001285.
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GOULD, GRAHAM. "Pneumatologie in der alten Kirche. By Wolf-Dieter Hauschild and Volker Henning Drecoll. (Traditio Christiana. Texte und Kommentare zur patristischen Theologie, 12.) Pp. lix+372. Bern: Peter Lang, 2004. £48. 3 906768 73 2; 0172 1372." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 56, no. 3 (July 2005): 539–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022046905274389.
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Boaheng, Isaac. "Exploring the Theology of Selected Hymns: Towards an African Christian Theology of Mission." E-Journal of Music Research, January 13, 2021, 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.38159/ejomur.2021211.
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This paper explores the theological message embedded in the hymns: “The incarnate God appeared” and “Come Holy Spirit, come now”. Theological findings from these hymns are used to formulate an African Christian theology of mission based on thematic areas such as the trinitarian dimension of mission, the centrality of the cross in mission, mission as the core mandate of the Church and mission as incarnational agapaō. By this, the paper makes the message of the selected hymns accessible to the global Christian community, promotes the development of hymnody in the African church and at the same time provides a paradigm for Christian mission in the 21st century African society. This is a literature research that uses data from books, theses, journal articles, among others. The findings indicate that hymns constitute a great tool for the missionary enterprise of the church, therefore Christian hymns should be developed and promoted. It is recommended that, for Christian mission in Africa to be meaningful and relevant to Africans, it must endeavor to address the existential issue in African societies. Key Words: Africa, Hymns, Christology, Mission, Pneumatology, Theology
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Magezi, Vhumani, and Christopher Magezi. "Pastoral care and healing in Africa: Towards an Adamic Christological practical theology imagination for pastoral healing." HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 72, no. 2 (June 2, 2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v72i2.3467.
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This article argues that the challenge and need for relevant ministry models is critical for effective Christian ministry and pastoral ministry as practical life ministry. It establishes an Adamic Christological model as a paradigm that provides a practical effective ministerial approach in Africa, particularly within the context of pastoral care and healing. This framework reveals Christ’s complete identification with African Christians in their contextual sufferings as the New Adam without compromising authentic gospel reality. In employing the Adamic Christological framework as the anchor for African pastoral and healing ministry, a model for African Christians’ daily response to their various contextual sufferings is constructed. This responsive model bridges the gap between the ascension of Christ and the interim period of Christianity by instituting God’s ongoing personal presence in believers’ suffering through the Holy Spirit (pneumatology) as an encouraging and comforting reality that should enable Christians to cope in their suffering. It is argued that this Adamic Christological framework provides a practical theological model that contributes to healing and hope in pastoral care through practical knowing that impacts and imparts meaning in life.
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Urbaniak, Jakub. "Holiness without the holy One(s): Towards an ‘evental’ account of holiness." HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 72, no. 4 (May 31, 2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v72i4.3485.
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Should holiness be conceived as a predicate (an attribute), a state (a mode of being) or an event (a process)? It can certainly be understood as God‘s primary attribute. This is how much of classical Christian theology sees it. It can also be thought of as a particular modus of existence shared by God and the holy ones (the saints and the angels), as attested by much of Christian tradition and popular imagination. A more dynamic view of holiness can be found in Scripture and throughout Christian theological tradition; and yet, in the modern era, it has been overshadowed by the first two tendencies. This article offers a tentative enquiry into an ‘evental’ account of holiness by drawing from (1) Niels Gregersen’s and Elizabeth Johnson’s reflection on ‘deep incarnation’ and ‘deep resurrection’ as well as (2) John B. Cobb’s and Marjorie Suchocki’s process theology of the Spirit. Firstly, the ‘from above’ approach to holiness, prevailing in modern Christian theology, is briefly discussed based on John Webster’s understanding of holiness as God’s personal moral relation to humanity. Secondly, I suggest an alternative ‘from below’ approach to holiness based on Gregersen’s and Johnson’s deep Christology. Thirdly, Cobb’s and Suchocki’s take on ‘creative transformation’ and Suchocki’s original appropriation of Cobb’s insights on process pneumatology are used as a hermeneutic key to reinterpret holiness as an ‘evental’ category. Finally, the notion of the holiness of life is reconsidered in light of my proposal.
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George, Sam, and Prof Dr Godfrey. "Motus Dei (The Move of God): A Theology and Missiology for a Moving World." Pharos Journal of Theology, May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.46222/10216.
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This article engages Christian doctrines to introduce and develop the concept of Motus Dei by arguing that God of the Bible is continually on the move and as one who beckons his followers to come alongside to see what God is doing in the world. Thus, the mission is about moving with God to see all things made new as we harmonize our wandering steps to be in sync with a moving God. The mission is following God, moving in, and catching up with God in many different cultural and geographical spaces all over the world, and to grow in our appreciation of God’s work in, through and around us as we move. The authors venture into the domains of theology (proper), anthropology, soteriology, pneumatology, and eschatology, as they attempt to construct a new theology and missiology for a world in motion. The work draws from the rich resources of the Christian faith to try to comprehend God and His work in a world of unprecedented human mobility and consequent societal and global transformations brought about by what is now considered an ‘age of migration’.
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Van Wyk, J. H. "What are the key characteristics of a Christian life? A comparison of the ethics of Calvin to that of Augustine and their relevance today." In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi 44 (July 26, 2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ids.v44i0.179.
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Augustine and Calvin are two of the greatest (western) theologians of all times and it is illuminating and inspiring to investigate what they have to teach as far as Christian life is concerned. Augustine never wrote a work on Christian ethics in the modern sense of the word but from his many writings we can easily deduce what the key characteristics are. He accepted the natural virtues of philosophers (prudence, for- titude, temperance and justice) but subordinated them to the “infused virtues” of faith, hope and love. Special attention was also paid to inter alia happiness, humility and truth. Calvin, on the other hand, although following Augustine in many aspects of theology, rejected the virtue ethics of the Greek philosophers and developed a Christological ethics within the broader context of pneumatology. The key characteristics of a Christian life are self-denial, cross-bearing and meditation on the future life – and of course the correct enjoyment of the present life. Although we appreciate much of what the two church fathers have to say, we live in a totally different world context today, facing challenges of far greater proportions, like economical uncertainty, political instability and an immense ecological crisis. Morality is chal- lenged today as never before in world history. Today we have to rethink the relevance of Christian life not only from an individual personal perspective but also in terms of broader social Christian ethics.
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Louw, Daniel J. "On facing the God-question in a pastoral theology of compassion: From imperialistic omni-categories to theopaschitic pathos-categories." In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi 49, no. 1 (March 4, 2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ids.v49i1.1996.
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Many scholars in the 20th century warned against static, ontological and metaphysicalschemata of interpretation, stemming from Hellenistic thinking with its impact on God images in Christian reflection. Against the background of new spiritual and philosophica lphenomena like apatheism and anatheism, the question regarding the appropriateness o fexisting categories for God within the framework of pastoral theology surfaces. A paradigm shift from omni-categories to pathos-categories is proposed in order to deal with issues like human suffering, dignity and justice. In this regard, theopaschitic theology can play adecisive role in the reframing of existing static God-images stemming predominantly from the Roman-Greco world. The notion of a ‘sustainable God’ is introduced in order to reframe God’s compassionate presence (ta splanchna) in terms of a continuum of infinitive interventions (infiniscience and the pneumatology of to-be-with).Die dinamika van die God-vraagstuk in ’n pastorale teologie van medelye en omgee: Vanafimperialistiese omni-kategorieë na teopasgitiese patos-kategorieë. Navorsers het telkemale in die twintigste eeu teen die impak van statiese, ontologiese en metafisiese skemas van interpretasie gewaarsku. Teïstiese denke is grootliks deur Hellenistiese denkkategorieë bepaal. Teen die agtergrond van nuwe filosofiese verskynsels soos apateïsme en anateïsme en die invloed daarvan op die verskillende vorms van spiritualiteitsdenke, duik die vraag op na die toepaslikheid en relevansie van bestaande, geykte denkkategorië vir die Christelike verstaan van God. Die vraagstuk van lyding, menswaardigheid en geregtigheid stel nuwe eise aan ’n pastorale teologie wat met kontekstuele lewensvraagstukke erns maak. In die lig hiervan word ’n paradigmaskuif in teologisering, vanaf omni-kategorieë na patos-kategorieë voorgestel. Dit word beredeneer dat ’n teopasgitiese teologie ’n belangrike bydrae kan lewer om statiese Godskonsepte, wat grootliks vanuit die Romeinse en Griekse denkwêreld gekom het, in die rigting van ’n meer dinamiese Godsverstaan te skuif. Die gedagte van die ‘volhoubaarheid van God’ word aan ’n nuwe verstaan van die medelye van God (ta splanchna) verbind. Vandaar die voorstel vir ’n paradigmaskuif vanaf almag en alwetendheid na ’n patosvolle, infinitiewe omgee-identifikasie (die pneumatologiese volhoubaarheid van daar-wees-vir).