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Tunytsya, Yu, and M. Gaykovskyy. "Church and social problems." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 4 (December 10, 1996): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/1996.4.80.
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Under such general name on the basis of the Lviv Polytechnic University every two years scientific international conferences take place. In September of this year she was devoted to the problem "Human person and spiritual values". At the conference, 45 scientific reports were heard and discussed. The huge potential of Christianity in the formation, education and spiritualization of the human person and the Ukrainian society was pointed out.
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Paul, Alice. "The Church and Social Problems (1910)." Clinical Sociology Review 18, no. 1 (June 30, 2023): 12–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.36615/csr.v18i1.2543.
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Any inquiry into the condition of the churches to-day must consider the gulf existing between the church and the working class. We hardly realize, I think, that by a great section of the proletariat our religious organizations are regraded as the stronghold of hypocrisy and oppression. We hardly realize the bitterness that that these workers fell toward us as they repeat once again: “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers. Therefore, shall ye receive the greater damnation.”
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Schansberg, D. Eric. "Social Problems, Public Policy, the Church and the Common Good." Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 28, no. 1 (2016): 42–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jis2016281/23.
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From professional pundits to casual observers, there are deep concerns about the state of American society and profound doubts about its future. Political cynicism is ascendant--and yet, the desire for politicians to “do something” remains. What role can public policy have in addressing the largest social problems and their causes? And beyond public policy, what are the potentially effective means in terms of social institutions, including the Church? Although public policy offers some promise, its usefulness is generally exaggerated. Its costs are typically subtle and often ignored. Knowledge of consequences and tradeoffs is insufficient, and the motives of political agents are less than pure. And many dilemmas, by their nature, cannot be ably addressed by politics and policy. In contrast, a resurgence in civil society--particularly the Church--holds more promise. Even in a time of potential “exile,” the Church is called to pursue the holistic welfare of society and enhance the common good.
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Rante, Yakob Sampe. "Telaah Kritis terhadap Fungsionalitas Gereja Toraja Berdasarkan Kritik Sosio-Religi Karl Marx." Journal of Education, Humaniora and Social Sciences (JEHSS) 4, no. 1 (June 24, 2021): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.34007/jehss.v4i1.556.
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This study aims to critique and evaluate the church's functionality, namely the church in its social function. The Toraja Church is still not here to carry out its real social function. As a result, various kinds of social injustice that are produced from culture settle right within the sphere of the church. The church exists only as a producer of the imagination: directing the imagination, without fixing problems on earth. This study uses a qualitative method with a literature observation approach. As a basis, the theory used in this research is Karl Marx's socio-religious criticism theory. The essence of this criticism is not rejection of religion, but rejection of religious practices which merely produce illusions, so as not to solve the problems experienced by society, especially Christians, as a result, society becomes alienated. The Toraja Church is required not to solve problems through imagined solutions, but instead to bring concrete liberating solutions in society. The church should be a real medicine where there is a sick soul due to the chaos of the world. With the revival of church functionality, the church has become a strong fortress for the community towards peace.
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Sánchez Manríquez, Karin. "¿Acción social católica o intervención social estatal? El rol del Estado en la resolución de la Cuestión Social según la Iglesia Católica chilena a inicios del siglo XX." Revista de Historia y Geografía, no. 37 (January 30, 2018): 67. http://dx.doi.org/10.29344/07194145.37.1073.
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ResumenEl objetivo de este artículo es analizar el desarrollo del pensamiento católico chileno sobre el rol del Estado para enfrentar la Cuestión Social a principios del siglo XX. Se argumenta que la Iglesia Católica chilena le daba al Estado un rol secundario en la solución de la Cuestión Social. Pese a reconocer la necesidad de establecer normativas legales para solucionar los problemas entre patrones y obreros, la realización de obras en favor de los trabajadores correspondía a iniciativas privadas que el Estado debía fomentar, lo que la Iglesia denominaba “Acción Social Católica”. Esta preferencia por un Estado con una acción social limitada mostraba a una Iglesia que seguía considerándose como la institución rectora de la sociedad en tanto su accionar incluía tanto la vida terrena como también la vida después de la muerte. El Estado, al centrarse sólo en problemas terrenales, era una institución de rango menor, cobijada por la Iglesia. Se estudiarán textos escritos por sacerdotes de la jerarquíaeclesiástica chilena sobre el rol del Estado en la resolución de los problemas sociales y sobre la discusión en la esfera pública de dos leyes sociales: la ley de habitación obrera de 1906 y la ley de descanso dominical de 1907.Palabras clave: Iglesia, Estado, Cuestión Social, Legislación Social.Catholic social action or State social intervention? The role of the State in the resolution of the Social Problem according to the Chilean Catholic Church at the beginning of the 20th CenturyAbstractThe objective of this article is to analyze the development of Chilean Catholic thinking about the role of the State in facing the Social Problem at the beginning of the 20th Century. It is argued that the Chilean Catholic Church gave the State a secondary role in the solution of the Social Problem. Despite recognizing the need of establishing legal regulations to solve problems between employers and workers, the performance of works in favor of workers corresponded to private initiatives that the State should promote, what the Church called “Catholic Social Action”. This preference for a State with limited social action showed a Church that continued to be considered as the governing institution of society, as its actions included both earthly life and life after death. The State, by focusing only on earthly problems, was an institution of lower rank, sheltered by the Church. The research studied some texts written by priests of the Chilean ecclesiastical hierarchy dealing with the role of the State in the resolution of social problems and the public discussion about two social laws: the 1906 Working Class Law and the 1907 Sunday Rest Law.Keywords: Church, State, Social Problem, Social Law.Ação social católica ou intervenção social do Estado? O papel do Estado na resolução da Questão Social segundo a Igreja Católica Chilena no início do século XXResumoO objetivo deste artigo é analisar o desenvolvimento do pensamento católico chileno sobre o papel do Estado para enfrentar a Questão Social a princípios doséculo XX. Argumenta-se que a Igreja Católica chilena tinha dado ao Estado um papel secundário na solução da Questão Social. Apesar de reconhecer a necessidade de estabelecer normativas legais para resolver problemas entre empregadores e trabalhadores, a realização de obras a favor dos trabalhadores correspondia a iniciativas privadas que o Estado devia promover, o que a Igreja denominou “Ação Social Católica”. Essa preferência por um Estado com uma ação social limitada mostrava uma Igreja que seguia considerando-se como a instituição governante da sociedade, tanto na sua ação incluía a vida terrena como também a vida após a morte. O Estado, ao centrar-se só em problemas terrenais, era uma instituição de alcance inferior, protegida pela Igreja. Vão serestudados os textos escritos por sacerdotes da hierarquia eclesiástica chilena sobre o papel do Estado na resolução de problemas sociais e na discussão na esfera pública de duas leis sociais: a lei da habitação trabalhadora de 1906 e a lei do descanso dominical de 1907.Palavras-chave: Igreja, Estado, Questão Social, Legislação Social.
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Kilaberia, Tina, Yuanyuan Hu, Edward Ratner, and Janice Bell. "SOCIAL ISOLATION OF OLDER ADULTS WITH AND WITHOUT PHYSICAL HEALTH CONDITIONS DURING COVID-19." Innovation in Aging 7, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2023): 736. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igad104.2384.
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Abstract Older adults have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19. This study examined health care utilization and social isolation during the pandemic among older adults using written surveys and zoom and phone interviews. We compared two subgroups, those reporting physical health problems (N=12) and those reporting no health problems (N=6). Half of those with physical health problems reported postponing routine or elected healthcare as compared to four (66%) in the subgroup without physical health problems. Seven of 12 (58%) older adults with physical health problems reported isolation specifically from decreased participation in church even though as many lived either in a retirement community or with family, suggesting greater environmental or social supports. This compares to two (33%) in the subgroup without physical health problems reporting isolation from decreased participation in church with only one older adult living in a retirement community. Interviews identified three themes that complement these data: avoiding danger, compound stress (reported only among those with health problems (N=4)), and church as the largest event. These findings suggest that those with physical health problems were less able to delay seeking healthcare, were more likely to feel isolated when unable to attend church services, and suffered from compound stress due to the combination of public health directives and social unrest, such as the George Floyd protests. Religious, faith, or spiritual supports may be important buffers against social isolation during public health emergency, especially for older adults with physical health conditions and when there is concurrent social unrest.
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Joubert, Charles E. "Correlates of Baptist Church Membership in the States with Social Problems." Psychological Reports 80, no. 2 (April 1997): 474. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1997.80.2.474.
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In the United States, the states having higher percentages of residents with Baptist Church affiliations tended to have higher homicide, divorce, and illegitimacy rates and lower percentages of high school graduates and voter participation.
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Yevdokymova, T. V. "Christian social doctrine: dialogue with the modern world." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 15 (October 10, 2000): 13–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2000.15.1087.
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Constant changes in the economic, social and political life of the people of the nations force the Church to enter into a dialogue with the world. The object of her attention is culture, politics, science, dealing with human problems. Church leadership of various Christian denominations sees the possibility of applying their socio-political guides in a wide socio-cultural space - personal and family circles, political and public activities, social life in general.
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Curran, Charles E. "Pope Francis’s Social Encyclicals and the Social Teaching of the Church." Journal of Catholic Social Thought 19, no. 2 (2022): 181–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jcathsoc202219215.
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Pope Francis’s two encyclicals—Laudato si’ and Fratelli tutti—belong to the tradition of Catholic social teaching that began in 1891 with Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum. There have been continuities and discontinuities within the tradition of Catholic social teaching, but there has been a tendency to downplay the discontinuities. Francis’s two encyclicals show both discontinuities and continuities with the earlier documents. The final section criticizes these two encyclicals as being too overly optimistic in their approach to solving the problems facing the environment and the social, political, and economic orders.
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Balabanić, Ivan. "The Social Doctrine and Presence of the Catholic Church in the Media." In medias res 9, no. 16 (May 26, 2020): 2533–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.46640/imr.9.16.5.
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The social doctrine of the Church involves greater commitment and engagement of the Church in social problems as well as the promotion of relationships that serve justice and peace. The Catholic Church first began relating mass media to its social teaching in the 19th century. As the Church aimed at a broader scope of public, it dealt with means of social communication and examined it through numerous sources – papal encyclicals, conciliar and episcopal documents. The relationship between the Catholic Church and the media is not simple. Approaches to ethics, morality, responsibility and dignity of human beings are sometimes different in media reports and in the aims of the Church in its social doctrine which should provide all members of the society with a sense of direction and instruction for everyday actions. Through the documents presented here, the Church has shown a readiness to face the media as well as the possibility to use them for advancing justice, truth, peace and freedom.
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Serhiyko, Vira. "Problems of development of social doctrine of Catholicism." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 10 (April 6, 1999): 58–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/1999.10.841.
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Religious and moral ideas are the basis of those social, political and economic relations, with the apology of which stands for Catholicism.The ethic of social ideas, according to Catholic theorists, makes it possible to better perform the "presence" of the church in all social systems. John Paul II formulates this task in the following way: "Christians must spread the social doctrine that is based on the gospel, which the churches have proclaimed always, but even to a greater extent, over the past hundred years. This doctrine relates above all to moral principles, because without them the so-called social question can never be resolved. "
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Prysuhin, S. "The problems of marriage in the social teaching of the Catholic Church." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 69 (May 16, 2014): 112–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2014.69.385.
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In the article S. Prysukhin “The problems of marriage in the social teaching of the Catholic Church” reveals substantial characteristics of the concept of "Christian marriage", its positive value in overcoming the social structures of sin in modern civilization.
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Ukraintceva, Alina Viktorovna. "Modern architecture of the Russian Orthodox Church: problems of scientific research." Урбанистика, no. 2 (February 2021): 44–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2310-8673.2021.2.31821.
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The process of revival of the Russian Orthodox Church in the late XX – early XXI centuries is accompanied by significant changes in its sociopolitical status. The Church regained high public authority by reestablishing and strengthening relations with the government, which granted the right to such types of activity as educational, missionary, social, and charitable. The church construction, which was discontinued for over 70 years, led to the loss of succession in engineering design and absence of systematic scientific and engineering developments that are intended to meet the modern needs and demands in the area of design of churches. These factors determine the heightened scientific interest to this topic. The goal of this research consists in determination of trends and problems in the scientific studies dedicated to the modern architecture of the Orthodox Church. The authors set the task to analyze, systematize and characterize the range of scientific publications written by the Russian scholars on the modern architecture of the Orthodox Church. This article considers the results of national scientific research (dissertations, scientific articles) on the modern architecture of the Orthodox Church that were published over the period from 1990 to the present.
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Strom, Jonathan. "Problems and Promises of Pietism Research." Church History 71, no. 3 (September 2002): 536–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640700130264.
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Since 1970, when Church History last published a review of Pietist scholarship, there have been significant contributions to almost all areas of the field. Research on Pietism—once the distinct province of German church historians—has become increasingly international as well as interdisciplinary in scope as Germanists, musicologists, social historians, and historians of Christianity explore the influence of this movement in Europe and the New World. The yearbookPietismus und Neuzeit, the magisterial four volume handbookGeschichte des Pietismus, and the first International Pietism Congress in 2001 all testify to the vitality of current scholarship in this field. As much recent scholarship makes clear, Pietist research can contribute significantly to how historians understand the development of Christianity in the last three hundred years.
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Boiliu, Fredik Melkias, and Martha Megawati Pasaribu. "Peran Pendidikan Agama Kristen di Gereja Terhadap Pemberdayaan Ekonomi Kreatif Jemaat di Era Digital." Jurnal Pengabdian Tri Bhakti 2, no. 2 (December 30, 2020): 118–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.36555/tribhakti.v2i2.1518.
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This article examines how the role of Christian religious education in the church can empower the creative economy of congregations in the digital age. One of the church ministries that must be done is to be involved in increasing the welfare of the congregation through economic empowerment of the congregation. Economic empowerment is very important for the church to do, but in fact the church neglects it. In carrying out the ministry as God's worker in the world, the church does not only focus on spiritual matters, but more than that the church also becomes a servant in improving the quality of the social life of the congregation. The problems that occur in the church environment related to mental problems today are economic problems. The problems that occur in the church environment related to mental problems today are economic problems. Therefore, Christian religious education has a very important role to empower the creative economy in the church through teaching and mentoring in the congregation so that the congregation has the ability and skills and applies the creative economy in everyday life. The research method used in this research is literature and literature study. Literature review refers to an assessment of the concepts and theories used based on the available literature, especially from articles published in various scientific journals. Literature review serves to build concepts or theories on which to base studies in research.
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Petrunin, Vladimir. "International Justice in Social Doctrines of the Orthodox Church." Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review 22, no. 4 (2023): 128–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/1728-192x-2023-4-128-138.
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The article considers international justice as a political issue in social doctrines of the Orthodox Church. The author focuses on the social doctrines of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Russian Orthodox Church and on the social-political provisions of the documents adopted by the Council of Crete (2016). Social doctrines of the Orthodox Church mention some issues that can be attributed to the discursive field of political theology. Thus, international justice is a part of the Orthodox Church concept of contemporary international relations and global human challenges. Such social doctrines state the impossibility of achieving international justice due to the sinful depravity of human nature. This human sinfulness determines all types of global discrimination not only against individuals or social groups (religious, racial, national, gender, etc.), but also against peoples and states. In social doctrines, war is defined as an unacceptable way to solve world problems. Orthodox churches call for fair international relations based on Christian values, thereby criticizing the existing world order based on the ideology of liberal globalism and secularism. Documents of the Council of Crete directly state that true peace (international justice) is possible only after the universal triumph of Christian principles. In conclusion, the author summarizes the features of the Orthodox Church approach to international justice and political theology.
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Mite, Arkadius. "Gereja Memperjuangkan Keadilan dalam Kajian “Theory of Justice” John Rawls." Proceedings of The National Conference on Indonesian Philosophy and Theology 2, no. 1 (March 1, 2024): 301–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/snf.v2i1.8500.
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This article talks about the political and ethical duties of the Church in fighting for justice and the contribution of Rawls' Thought to the Church's struggle. The issue of justice is the responsibility of all social institutions. The church as a social institution is involved in it. The presence of the Church in social society has raised questions about whether it is appropriate for the Church to be actively involved in fighting for justice. The Church's struggle in overcoming social problems is not due to social demands themselves but rather the Church's initiative to embrace them as brothers. The value that the Church strives for is justice. Justice as an integral part of the mission of the Kingdom of God. Justice is the main problem in national and state life. The priority of justice is poverty. Poverty is caused by structures that ignore human equality and human dignity. Human dignity is the Church's mission in fighting for justice through the values of the kingdom of God. These values of the Kingdom of God are actualized by the Church in its mission.
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Posternak, Andrey. "Problems of Russian Historiography of Women’s Charitable Ministry in the Early Church." ISTORIYA 14, no. 5 (127) (2023): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840026816-6.
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The article considers a brief review of the Russian historiography of women’s charitable ministry in the Early Church and its continuity in the XIX —early XXI century. Women’s charity in Russia and in Europe has historically devel-oped as an institutional phenomenon based on сhristian principles. The mem-bers of the ancient women’s institutes, whose functions included social activi-ties, were called deaconesses, widows, elders, virgins. Russian scholars began to be interested in this women’s orders since the XIX century, when in Russia women gradually began to actively engage in public charitable activities and there was a search for institutionalization of a new women’s Church ministry, an alternative to monastic and humanitarian. The interest of scholars often had not only a theoretical, but also a church-practical orientation, as it was associ-ated with the activation of missionary and parish activities within the Ortho-dox Church. In the article, the main scientific and journalistic works on wom-en’s ministry are considered on the problems within the chronological blocks: before 1917, in 1917—1991 and after 1991. The authors described and ana-lyzed women’s charity in ancient times, and also tried to justify for their time new institutional ministries in the Church, in particular deaconesses. However, the revival of such women’s ministry is closely connected not so much with the needs of modern society as with the needs of the Church and the church-wide consciousness.
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Иванов, Михаил Степанович. "The Church and Social Dimension of the Personality." Theological Herald, no. 4(39) (December 15, 2020): 48–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.31802/gb.2020.39.4.003.
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Поводом к написанию статьи послужил наблюдающийся в последнее время возросший научный интерес к человеческой личности. Поскольку одним из главных условий становления личности является ее пребывание в общении, в статье рассматриваются условия и возможности такого общения в церковной общине и в светском обществе. Одновременно анализируются характерные черты обеих общественных структур, особенности церковного и светского понимания личности и возможности взаимодействия Церкви и общества в решении проблем воспитания подлинной личности. The reason for writing this article was the growing scientific interest in the human person observed recently. Since one of the main conditions for the formation of a personality is its stay in communication, the article examines the conditions and possibilities of such communication in the church community and in secular society. At the same time, the author analyzes the characteristic features of both social structures, the peculiarities of the ecclesiastical and secular understanding of the individual and the possibility of interaction between the church and society in solving the problems of educating a true personality.
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Strong, Rowan. "An Antipodean Establishment: Institutional Anglicanism in Australia, 1788–c. 1934." Journal of Anglican Studies 1, no. 1 (August 2003): 61–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/174035530300100105.
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ABSTRACTThis article argues that the Church of England in Australia maintained for most of this period a culture of conservative political and social values. This conservative culture was a consequence of the Church of England being a subordinate partner in the hegemony of the ruling landed classes in England. In Australia, the Church of England, while never legally established, continued to act as though it was, and to strongly uphold conservative political and social values long after its monopolistic connection with the state had any practical reality. Consequently, the Church of England in Australia supported conventional values and solutions to social problems and marginalized Anglicans who challenged its prevailing conservatism. The catalysts for a change in this prevailing institutional culture were the First World War and the Great Depression. These challenges prompted the emergence within the institutional church of the beginnings of a more cautiously critical outlook towards the social status quo.
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Alexey V., Makarkin. "Orthodoxy and Socialism at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Struggle, Enthusiasm, Adaptation, Understanding." Almanac “Essays on Conservatism” 4 (October 30, 2022): 13–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.24030/24092517-2022-0-4-13-32.
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, industrialization led to a sharp increase in the number of industrial workers, which created problems for the Russian Church. The workers fundamentally differed in their mentality from the patriarchal flock familiar to the church and were influenced by socialist agitation, which was antigovernment and partly anti-church in nature. The main opponents for the church were the Social Democrats as an atheistic party based on European ideologues. Under these conditions, the struggle against social democracy became the mainstream course for the church, but this course proved ineffective due to the lack of attractive alternatives and the close connection of the church with the state. All other options — attempts to adapt to socialist agitation, sincere Christian socialism and the desire to differentiate socialism and socialists into unacceptable and relatively acceptable (without identification with them) — were peripheral to the church at that time. However, it is the latter option, which provided for the possibility of «coexistence» with socialists who have abandoned active atheism, that has now become the main one and is fixed in the «Fundamentals of the Social Concept» of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Lavrenova, Svetlana A. "Dignity, freedom and human rights: A comparative analysis of the teachings of the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches." Issues of Theology 4, no. 1 (2022): 134–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu28.2022.107.
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The social teachings of Christian churches answer a number of important questions of public life. Such issues include dignity, freedom, and human rights. The task of Church social teaching is to assess modern socially significant problems, state-church relations, and church-social issues and to formulate the official position of the Church on the challenges of modernity based on centuries-old Christian teachings and church traditions. The subject of this research is a comparative analysis of Catholic and Orthodox social teachings on the issue of granting a Christian personal rights and freedoms. The research methodology is based on a comparative analysis of church documents in cultural-historical and socio-political contexts. The work examines the history and development of legal doctrine in the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches. Particular attention is paid to an examination of official church documents, including papal encyclicals, documents of the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church, documents of social issues adopted at the Councils of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church. Based on the historical and ideological context of the two positions in relation to human rights, the work reveals the general provisions and differences in the Catholic and Orthodox understanding of this issue. The article argues that, despite the existing differences, these teachings are united by a common desire to bring a moral dimension and an orientation towards Christian values into public and political life.
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Ardashkina, M. A. "SOCIAL POLICY IMPLEMENTATION IN THE KUZBASS METROPOLITANATE OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH." Bulletin of Kemerovo State University, no. 1 (March 20, 2017): 6–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2017-1-6-11.
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The article is based on the structural-functional, comparative research methods and critical analysis of sources on the post-Soviet period in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church (hereinafter – ROC), including data reference and information materials, public Internet resources. The author analyzes traditions, continuity and the realization of social policy in the Kuzbass archdiocese at the modern ROC stage. Using the example of Kuzbass archdiocese the author identifies the ROC units responsible for social work, and the main types of social assistance to the church. The conclusion is made that within the period of 1990s-the beginning of XXI century Russian Orthodox Church, with the support of the state, created a major conceptual, legal and organizational base of its social policy, for its implementation involving Orthodox public organizations and associations. Of great importance was the fact that the Church concentrated its efforts on solving social problems, which the state and public organizations could not solve effectively. Therefore, the ROC is hardly criticized for the use of social activities as a mechanism to achieve its main goal – to spread creed. Analysis of the social activities of the Church in the Archdiocese of Kuzbass allowed the author to make a prediction about the promising directions of development of social work in the region.
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Regus, Max, and Marianus Mantovanny Tapung. "Penanganan Covid-19 dalam Semangat Diakonia Gereja Keuskupan Ruteng." BERDAYA: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat 2, no. 2 (June 21, 2020): 41–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.36407/berdaya.v2i2.175.
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Covid-19 is a non-natural disaster that is not only related to health issues but also has links to economic, psycho-social, and even social-political problems. As an institution that takes care of the safety of body and soul, the Catholic Church of the Ruteng Archdiocese, as one of the socio-religious institutions, responds to this problem by directly forming the Covid-19 solidarity movement, which is later institutionalized as the Gugus Tanggap Cluster Covid-19 Church Ruteng Diocese and Covid-19. As academics by involving in this task, authors consider the formation of an “ad hoc” institution as part of the attention and responsibility of the Local (religious) Church in dealing with the social problems of the community/community, both in local, national and global contexts.
This action is the contextualization of the praxis of service (deaconess) of the Church for the lives of people, more specifically in the field of health. In carrying out its governance, the Covid-19 Group applies the stages of methods and implementation consisting of the activities of Coordination, Action (promotion, prevention, education, social assistance), Evaluation, and Follow-up Plans. The real impact of the work of the Covid-19 Cluster, the people/communities returning to the enthusiasm and have optimism in running life, while; hoping that the Covid-19 pandemic will soon pass its life.
Keywords: Covid-19, Religion, Church, Solidarity, Command Post
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Sugiyana, Fransiskus Xaverius, and Nerita Setiyaningtiyas. "Gerakan Solidaritas Pada Masa Pandemi Covid-19 Sebagai Wujud Wajah Sosial Gereja." Jurnal Ledalero 21, no. 2 (December 22, 2022): 191. http://dx.doi.org/10.31385/jl.v21i2.281.191-206.
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<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>This research was a descriptive qualitative study based on the pastoral work of the data-driven concerning Church experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic. Departing from various solidarity initiatives, this study showed that the efficiency and effectiveness of pastoral work began with a social analysis of the problems. The mapped problems brought an insight on how pastoral plan should be done. The hope is that the arranged programs can have measurable results and real impact. The first focus of this research was the pattern of solidarity movements. The second focus is the face of the Church that appears in the community and society. Data collection employed descriptive qualitative methods. Data analysis used content analysis approach. The first findings showed that parishioners of the kevikepan Semarang concerned with economic recovery and psychological assistance. The second finding showed that the solidarity movement revealed the social faced of the Church. In the missionary spirit, the Church showed sensitivity to social issues due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Church also appeared to have a spirit of compassion, care and a high willingness to share. The involving people with all backgrounds who were in solidarity movement was a sign of the presence of the Kingdom of God. The act of solidarity can really bring transformation for each person involved in it.</p><p><strong>Key words</strong>: Pastoral Theology; Capital Social; Altruism; Catholic Social Teaching; Semarang</p>
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Ripley, Jennifer S., James N. Sells, Vaughn Miller, Qi Wang, Luke Wen, Christine P. T. Lau, and Everett L. Worthington. "Promoting Healthy Marriages in Chinese Church Communities: Survey of Chinese Couples’ Marriages, Virtue-Based Training for Leaders, and Outcomes." Family Journal 28, no. 3 (November 20, 2019): 319–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1066480719887476.
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Couple research, and specifically religion and couple research, is commonly conducted in individualistic cultures. The collectivistic milieu of China makes a useful contrast to Western culture. With Chinese churches, we conducted two studies on marriage relationships. In Study 1 ( N = 810), we report a survey on marriages of parishioners. Satisfaction was high among most couples with general relationship problems such as communication reported as the highest concern. Marriage happiness was negatively correlated with couple problems. In Study 2 ( N = 241), we describe a virtue-based couple counseling program, developed collaboratively with 20 Chinese key informants. We administered an 8-hr virtue-based couple-oriented training to 241 church leaders. Training increased church leaders’ self-efficacy and hope for effective ministry. We compared responsiveness to the training by pastors and lay leaders. Lay counselors were more responsive than were pastors. This program evaluation was a field study that also included a brief follow-up interview of randomly selected recipients of the training ( n = 16). Friendship counseling was reported in the follow-up interviews as the most common way to address marriage problems.
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Bodak, Valentyna, and Liudmyla O. Fylypovych. "The priorities of the Catholic social doctrine in the definitions of the Second Vatican Council." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 66 (February 26, 2013): 69–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2013.66.251.
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The Second Vatican Council of the Catholic Church has had a fatal significance in its history. In addition to the important documents that were adopted by the Council, and then creatively developed by the theorists and practitioners of the Church, Catholicism was enriched with a new awareness of significant changes in the world. The Church acknowledged that there have been radical transformations in the outlook and behavior of people, in particular Catholics, in their attitude to issues of faith, to God, to the relationship between God and man. But perhaps the most influential for the further development of Catholicism in the world was the social doctrine of the Church, which eventually turned into a social doctrine. The latter is understood not only as a list of practical guidelines for solving the "social question", but also not a sum of knowledge in contemporary sociology1, but a set of religious beliefs developed by theologians and endorsed by the whole Church in the form of a body of special documents on the Church's views on society and social issues. In addition to the general theological principles of attitude towards peace and relations with society, the Catholic social doctrine contains the historical work of the Church in solving social problems in different epochs, recorded information about the social challenges of the past and present, eschatological expectations and real forecasts for the future of mankind.
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Зверева, Valentina Zvereva, Белогубова, and Elena Belogubova. "STATE AND CHURCH IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN CULTURE." Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences 10, no. 3 (May 29, 2015): 219–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/11696.
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This article is a philosophical-political analysis of state-confessional relations in the context of the problems and contradictions of the social and cultural environment of Russia today. The problem of interaction between traditional and modern religions, their hierarchy and state regulation of this process is shown.
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Klymov, Valeriy Volodymyrovych. "Church and Politics in Ukraine: Relationship Issues." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 46 (March 25, 2008): 68–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2008.46.1919.
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An unbiased analysis of the history of the coexistence of church institutions and politics in any state shows that the chronicle of such coexistence appears, in large part, as a history of attempts to use, with greater or lesser success, on the one hand, by church political structures, and on the other, by the church of political structures, or politicians. The history of these interconnected relationships goes back to the times when both institutions in the process of their formation and development began to represent a certain socially influential force, a real and potential resource which could be used to solve operational and strategic political or religious-church problems in any which field of social life (political, economic, social, spiritual, legal, national, military, etc.).
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Gawroński, Sławomir, Dariusz Tworzydło, and Kinga Bajorek. "Determinants for the Development of the Activity of the Catholic Church in Poland in the Field of Social Communication." Religions 12, no. 10 (October 8, 2021): 845. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12100845.
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In recent years, the Catholic Church has been forced to change its attitude towards social communication and mass media. It has had to face not only religious but image challenges. Worldview matters, contemporary problems regarding the institution of marriage or pedophilia in the Church are constantly being debated in mass media, thus creating dangers in terms of critical public reception. This situation has also been occurring in Poland in recent years. The observed progress regarding opening the Church to media relations and the use of rich instruments of social communication have their reasons rooted not only in the history of the social and political events of the past several decades but also in the changes in the sphere of mass media and social communication. This article is an attempt to generate a peculiar typology of determinants regarding the development of social communication within the institutional church in Poland. Within our framework of methodological conditions, a literature query with available statistical analyses and observations of current events was applied. Our conclusions show the current attitude of the Catholic Church in Poland regarding issues related to the marketization of faith and the medialization of religion.
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Klymov, Valeriy Volodymyrovych. "Comprehension by Orthodox monks of church-religious, inter-church, social problems of the pre-war era in monastic sources." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 43 (June 19, 2007): 86–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2007.43.1871.
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It is of scientific interest to consider the monastic and monastic vision of church-religious, socio-political, ethno-religious problems of the pre-war era in Ukrainian lands. Interest is dictated by the following factors and reasons. First, monastic centers from the time of Kievan Rus remained one of the most stable in the society and in their mass created a fairly representative network of peculiar indicators of the spiritual state of the Russian (Ukrainian, Byelorussian) community in the regions. Secondly, through these spiritual centers there was a large-scale reproduction in the generations of the whole world-view complex, which included not only church-religious, but also ideological, socio-political orientations, moral and cultural values, ethno-national traditions, etc. Third, it was from monasticism that the higher clergy formed, which then determined the position and course of the church as a whole. Fourth, the monasteries, in the face of socio-political transience and uncertainty, actually became the gatherers, producers and guardians of the spiritual achievements of the Russian community.
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Gaál-Szabó, Peter. "The Interracial Church and Racialised Memory." Romanian Journal of English Studies 20, no. 1 (December 1, 2023): 156–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2023-0018.
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Abstract Racial integration, reconciliation, and interracial culture have presented difficulties within churches, often seen as intractable problems. Situated in racialised America, the churches have to counter the social/context, which members are born into and are thus prone to reproducing in their interracial encounters. Fostering a balanced ethical remembering can help conceive the self in terms of the other to negotiate mutually acceptable identities.
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Alexander, Jeffrey C. "The Societalization of Social Problems: Church Pedophilia, Phone Hacking, and the Financial Crisis." American Sociological Review 83, no. 6 (October 4, 2018): 1049–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0003122418803376.
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This article develops a theory of “societalization,” demonstrating its plausibility through empirical analyses of church pedophilia, media phone-hacking, and the financial crisis. Although these strains were endemic for decades, they had failed to generate broad crises. Reactions were confined inside institutional boundaries and handled by intra-institutional elites according to the cultural logics of their particular spheres. The theory proposes that boundaries between spheres can be breached only if there is code switching. When strains become subject to the cultural logics of the civil sphere, widespread anguish emerges about social justice and concern for the future of democratic society. Once admired institutional elites come to be depicted as perpetrators, and the civil sphere becomes intrusive legally and organizationally, leading to repairs that aim for civil purification. Institutional elites soon engage in backlash efforts to resist reform, and a war of the spheres ensues. After developing this macro-institutional model, I conceptualize civil sphere agents, the journalists and legal investigators upon whose successful performances the actual unfolding of societalization depends. I also explore “limit conditions,” the structures that block societalization. I conclude by examining societalization, not in society but in social theory, contrasting the model with social constructionism, on the one hand, and broad traditions of macro-sociological theory, on the other.
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Sukardi, Imanuel, and Samuel Purdaryanto. "GEREJA DALAM PERSIMPANGAN: LEMBAGA SWADAYA MASYARAKAT ATAU LEMBAGA ADIKODRATI PENGEMBAN MANDAT ILLAHI." SESAWI: Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan Kristen 3, no. 1 (December 27, 2021): 11–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.53687/sjtpk.v3i1.60.
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Church must be understood as supernatural spritual institution as bearers of divine mandates on this earth, spiritual mandates and social mandates, be spiritual blessing and physical blessing. Church has taken the form of formal and legal institutions as such as social institutions. Then,the problems are the character and the impact of churches are not better than the social institution. Its because they lost their boot mandates. Those mandates originate and move from two church shahadas,love God and love others. The ambivalance among shahada and character,mandate and function cause churches are on intersection of become social institution or a spiritual institution. To back to their origin function,churches face two challenges. They are bravery to take off the deadly tradition,system,and theologies and then back to biblical tradition,system,and theologies.
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Kyiak, Maksym Tarasovych. "The evolution of the social doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church regarding the problem of humanizing the economy." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 43 (June 19, 2007): 70–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2007.43.1869.
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Many years of experience with market economies show that without the Church, as a social institution, it is quite problematic to create an environment for a fair economy. That is why a voice of such moral authority, which is capable of improving the moral climate of the modern economy, is extremely necessary in our time. In particular, Catholic social teaching has long paid attention to economic issues. The Roman Catholic Church has been, and remains, indifferent to the issues of international economy, private property, labor, humanization of the economy and a range of other problems. Poverty, hunger, unlimited desire for profit and benefits are a painful topic in papal speeches, encyclicals, and epistles. Along with changing social conditions, the social doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church itself evolved. This fact could not but affect the consideration of economic issues in Catholic social doctrine.
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Kennedy, Posma Sariguna Johnson. "Discussion with Sinodo Dili: The Social Role of the Church in Timor Leste." Journal of Sustainable Community Development (JSCD) 4, no. 1 (May 31, 2022): 23–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.32924/jscd.v4i1.68.
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The implementation of this community service aims to deepen issues regarding the role of the Church in Timor Leste in dealing with social problems in serving and protecting its people through discussions with Sinodo in Dili, Timor Leste. This topic needs to be explored because Timor Leste is a neighboring country of Indonesia. It is directly adjacent to the Province of Nusa Tenggara Timur, so it is necessary to know its character and socio-culture so that friendship between countries can be carried out properly, especially in managing state borders that prioritize welfare. The Church in Timor Leste should have a balanced appearance, that is, in worship/sacrament appearances and social appearances. Good cooperation is needed between the hierarchy (church leaders) and the laity (the people) to mobilize the Church's role in overcoming social conditions or situations among the people or society. The role of the Church has been relentless, starting from the Timor-Portugal period and through the Timor-Indonesian period to the present-day Independent Timor.
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Tarigan, Iwan Setiawan, Arip Surpi Sitompul, Herdiana Boru Hombing, and Warseto Freddy Sihombing. "Social Enterpreneurship: Upaya Peningkatan Skill Mahasiswa Teologi dalam Pelayanan Holistik." EDUKASIA: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pembelajaran 5, no. 1 (February 14, 2024): 419–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.62775/edukasia.v5i1.781.
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Today there is an economic gap in the midst of the congregation. The Church must play a role in overcoming the economic problems of the people. That is why the role of the pastor is very strategic, because the church as a whole is driven by the pastor. The purpose of this study is to produce a Christian entrepreneurship module design in an effort to produce quality and effective student skills in realizing holistic service. The type of research used in this study is research and development. The steps used include: potential and problems, data collection, product design, design validation, design revision, product trial, and product revision. Product development carried out in this research only reaches the stage of producing the final product, namely the Christian entrepreneurship module. It can be concluded that: The textbooks produced in this study are developments from various sources; And this research and development produces products in the form of textbooks in the form of textbooks as an effort to improve the skills of theology students in holistic service.
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Permana, Natalis Sukma. "PERSEPSI UMAT TERHADAP PROGRAM PENGEMBANGAN SOSIAL EKONOMI DI PAROKI SANTO HILARIUS KLEPU-PONOROGO." JPAK: Jurnal Pendidikan Agama Katolik 12, no. 6 (February 7, 2019): 40–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.34150/jpak.v12i6.199.
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Universal Church concerns deeply to social-economic problem of human race. Social Doctrine of The Church then appears as a way to solve social-economic problems of human race. That is why, the Indonesian apostolates attends in a ocial-economic Development (PSE) where it has been depeloped at all dioceses. Although, the development of socio-economic program is not supported well, but nowdays, Klepu-Ponorogo St. Hilary Parish has been traying to develope this program. They have some kinds of social-economic developments program such as: farming training school, home industry, organic rice farming, barns, mushrooms cultivation, urine liquid fertilizer. Eventhough, practically, they find some problems different interests on PSE program. It is actually influenced by the ineffectiveness of the program socialization to the whole people. Another factor is that, the people has not been yet interested to join in the program.
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Parapat, Riyan Salomo. "Peranan Gereja Terhadap Keluarga Yang Memilih Bercerai Dari Perspektif Konseling Pastoral." JURNAL DIAKONIA 1, no. 2 (November 15, 2021): 126–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.55199/jd.v1i2.25.
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The church, which is a place of reconciliation for social life, should be able to pay attention to its people, in addition to serving the people with liturgical services, the word of God, and the sacraments, the church should also pay attention to pastoral care. In pastoral care, the Church provides assistance, which is referred to as "pastoral counseling" services, therefore the Church is expected to be able to answer the challenges of life faced by its people in daily life, as well as in family life. Problems will always exist, and may lead to divorce. Divorce that occurs in the midst of the people except for adultery is the negligence of the Church which pays little attention to its people. In completing this paper, the author uses qualitative research methods and literature studies, where the conclusion is Pastoral Counseling is a bridge in solving problems that exist in the midst of the family supported by prayer and hope for the common good.
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Maro, Kornelius. "Realitas Keluarga di Malang Raya dan Pelayanan Pastoral Gereja." Perspektif 11, no. 2 (December 1, 2016): 135–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.69621/jpf.v11i2.79.
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Each family is the cell or nucleus for social life of any society. As a cell, the role of each family is very substantial for building up a civilized social structure. The region of Greater Malang, comprising the Malang District and the two cities of Malang and Batu, has to cope with such serius problems regarding family life. The Jawa Pos daily newspaper with its three Radars, namely Radar Malang, Radar Kanjuruhan and Radar Batu, is frequently reporting various and serious problems the families have to handle. This article argues that in such condition, the Catholic Church, particularly the Family Commission of the Malang Diocese is convinced to have a call to present God’s mercy to the people. The writer tries to elabore the ministry of the local Church for families, demonstrating God’s merciful work among the people. Through family ministry, the Church could show God’d face that enlightens the gloomy fate of the people in this region.
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Trebat, Thomas J. "Argentina, the Church, and the Debt." Ethics & International Affairs 21, no. 1 (March 2007): 135–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7093.2007.00064.x.
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The Argentine debt crisis of 2001–2002 and its aftermath are examined in the light of the moral framework of Catholic social teaching on the debt problems of poor countries. The author, a former practitioner in emerging-markets finance, seeks to bring together and interpret the church's teaching (which was mostly worked out in the 1980s) in the particular economic and social circumstances of Argentina in the early 2000s. The key question is how closely the outcome of the debt crisis in Argentina conformed to what social justice, in the Church's interpretation, would have required. The main conclusion is that the resolution of the crisis was broadly consistent with that teaching. The crisis was managed with pragmatism rooted in shared (by debtor and creditors) concerns for social justice—more so than had been possible in the earlier Latin American debt crises in the 1980s, which the author had also witnessed. For that, many factors are responsible, including the emergence of civil society in Argentina and changes in the system of emerging markets finance. The author argues, however, that the moral framework of the Catholic Church on matters of international debt may deserve some of the credit.
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Nazara, Zuniasa, and Ezra Tari. "KEHIDUPAN KRISTEN ERA REFORMASI." Melo: Jurnal Studi Agama-agama 1, no. 1 (June 23, 2021): 38–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.34307/mjsaa.v1i1.6.
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This study departs from the Christian life of the reform era. Where the Church seems unable to serve amid poverty and political uncertainty. Christianity is challenged to contextualize theology, mission, dialogue, political service in society. The problem of closing the Church was due to the issue of building permits (IMB). The author aims in this paper so that the Church strives for peace for all people. The approach of this study is a literature study on the thinking and struggles of the Church in society. So the Church does not only take care of the organization and a large amount of money in the church treasury. Nevertheless, the Church is required to care about social problems that occur. Therefore, the Church must apply several principles, namely: first, the Church needs to understand other people's religions. Second, the Church needs to build healthy discussions both between religions and between denominations. Third, the Church prioritizes the mission for the benefit of humanity.
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Magendzo, Salomón. "Popular Education in Nongovernmental Organizations: Education for Social Mobilization?" Harvard Educational Review 60, no. 1 (April 1, 1990): 49–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.17763/haer.60.1.j618176u87205x88.
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Salomón Magendzo contrasts the government-sponsored educational system in Chile with"popular education," a community-based education movement concerned with empowering poor people and involving them in the transformation of society. To this end, the Interdisciplinary Program for Research in Education, a nongovernmental organization affiliated with the Catholic Church in Chile, is committed to creating social change by conducting research on educational problems and by promoting educational change. In this article Magendzo describes some of the popular education projects developed by PIIE that address specific problems encountered by the communities and that assist the participants in carrying out comprehensive educational and social change.
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Ragadics, Tamás. "Long-term Family Support." Family Forum 13 (January 27, 2024): 137–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.25167/ff/5303.
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East Central European rural areas face diverse challenges of social transformation: rural exodus, ageing, poverty and segregation take effect on countryside as parallel phenomena. Problems are connected with the transformation of agriculture, with the lack of services and the negative trends of migration. In spite of several supportive governmental and EU-projects, lower level of rural life standard and deepening social gaps are existing and deepening problems in post- socialist countries.
”Emerging Settlements” Programme is a new, long-term social programme of Hungarian government targeting the support of families and help children „from conception to labour market”. This unique project is implemented by church-based organizations in the most underdeveloped 300 Hungarian settlements. This paper aims to describe the main elements of proceeding programme on the base of project documentation and interviews with co-working social experts. Based on local experiments we highlight some critical viewpoints for developing supporting interventions, displaying the meaning of social participation of church organizations.
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Moldovan, Ionel. "The Social Theology of Spiru Haret*." Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu 15, no. 2 (August 1, 2023): 263–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ress-2023-0018.
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Abstract This study aims to display a less known part of Spiru Haret’s activity: his vision and efforts for reforming the activity of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Alongside its traditional, Liturgical activity, Haret proposed a larger involvement of the clergy in the social problems of their communities. Therefore, alongside school teachers, the priests had the duties of establishing and/or supporting local associations, clubs and committees active in domains like education, morals, culture, hygiene and even economics. The aim of Haret’s initiative was to modernise Romanian society by raising its culture, morality and financial independence, especially for the peasants, who constituted the huge majority of the Romanian pre-war society. According to his perspective, the mission of the Church couldn’t be limited just to its theological and liturgical spectrums, as it should also target the extra-liturgical environment in which the parishioners lived their earthly lives.
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Stevanus, Kalis. "Rekonstruksi Paradigma dan Implementasi Misi Gereja Masa Kini di Indonesia." Jurnal EFATA: Jurnal Teologi dan Pelayanan 7, no. 2 (June 30, 2021): 105–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.47543/efata.v7i2.45.
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The relationship between evangelism and social care is a hot topic that is still being debated. Some argue that the Church should only work on evangelism, that is, on eternal salvation (spiritual matters), not on social issues. Others are of the view that working on social issues is a means for the purpose of evangelizing. By using a descriptive qualitative approach, this article is intended: firstly to show that the mission of the Church is an integrative-holistic mission covering the field of evangelism and social service. The two are united in Missio Dei. Second, in order to attract reflections for churches everywhere, it is necessary to reconstruct the paradigm and implementation of the Church's mission in the present. The results of the discussion conclude that the Church's mission should be integrative-holistic. This means that the Church does not separate (dualism) between evangelism and social care. The integrative-holistic mission is considered very relevant and needed as an answer to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ into reality and at the same time can alleviate the problems or conditions of the society in which the Church is located.
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Wraith, Barbara. "A pre-modern interpretation of the modern: the English Catholic church and the ‘social question’ in the early twentieth century." Studies in Church History 33 (1997): 529–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400013449.
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Towards the close of the first decade of the twentieth century there emerged an organized movement within the English Catholic Church which can be distinguished as Social Catholicism. The Catholic Social Guild (CSG), which was founded at the Catholic Truth Society Conference in September 1909, largely represented Social Catholicism in England and, as such, constitutes the focal point of this paper. This small body comprised laypeople, secular priests, and members of religious orders. Of the lay component a significant number of middle-class converts to Catholicism were prominent; whilst at parish level working men and women were recruited largely through schemes of social study. Social Catholicism represented a novel phenomenon not only because of its essential focus upon addressing some of the more intractable social problems of the day but also because it embodied an inherently different social rationale from that of more mainstream Catholic endeavour in this field. Looking back to the Church of medieval times, Social Catholicism perceived an ideal Church which, through its social precepts and actions, had exerted an exemplary socio-economic influence. Moreover such an historical precedent might embody the answer to the ‘social question’ – a multiform modern problematic – provided the Catholic Church could transform its past experience of a pre-modern social engagement into initiatives of theoretical and practical relevance to the modern situation.
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Gegenava, Dimitry. "Legal and Social Status of the Georgian Orthodox Church: Challenges and Perspectives." Teka Komisji Prawniczej PAN Oddział w Lublinie 13, no. 2 (December 31, 2020): 169–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.32084/tekapr.2020.13.2-14.
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This article aims to overview the Georgian Orthodox Church’s role and status in modern Georgia. The Author in the paper aims to analyze basic problems and challenges, which Georgian society and state have regarding the Church and religious entities, also, to create some practical recommendations for better regulation of this issue in the future.
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Tate, Roger. "Sked. Britain's Decline - Problems and Perspectives." Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 15, no. 2 (September 1, 1991): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/th.15.2.77.
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Perhaps it is inevitable that the nation that gave us Edward Gibbon should have a preoccupation with "decline." In this slender pamphlet, Alan Sked summarizes what three dozen social scientists have said about contemporary Britain's economic and moral decline. Sponsored by the Historical Association, the pamphlet is designed to inform the average citizen and lift the level of public debate on such issues as the power of trade unions, the Welfare State, crime, drugs, sexual behavior, the Church of England, and low economic productivity. Sked tries to be even-handed in his evaluations, neither attacking nor endorsing the controversial policies of Mrs. Thatcher.
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Kuyak, Svyatoslav. "Problems of state-confessional relations, religious freedom and human dignity in the context of the Second Vatican Council." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 66 (February 26, 2013): 46–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2013.66.249.
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Two decades of independence of Ukraine and the free development of Ukrainian Christianity in Kyiv traditions indicate that the time of the underground life of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the communist past of Ukrainian Christians in general left deep marks in their souls and mentality and throughout Ukrainian society. New social problems, especially of a social and economic nature, have generated in this society a number of new spiritual and social negative phenomena and challenges that the Church is looking for explanations and answers: a significant dominance of people in the material purpose and its negative impact on their spiritual freedom; the inner spiritual conflict in the souls of people between religious and secular consciousness (double faith as at the time of the baptism of Rus-Ukraine - faith in God and, so to speak, worship of the earthly divine "mammon" - earthly blessings); the need for spiritual and social equilibrium and interconfessional understanding; the latest practical atheism; the phenomenon of the so-called "man of the Soviet" - "homo sovietikus", which manifests itself in the distortion of the representatives of this group of people historically established and traditional for the pre-Soviet period and restored rudiments during the independence of Ukraine of the Ukrainian social-spiritual worldview and religious mentality. Therefore, Ukrainian Christianity, in particular Ukrainian Catholicism, faces the task of realizing Christian "reinclusion" and the new evangelization of Ukrainian society to overcome the consequences of the atheistic Soviet past, which should be based on the experience of the Universal Church.