scholarly journals To Revive an Abundant Life: Catholic Science and Neoextractivist Politics in Peru’s Mantaro Valley

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie Graeter
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Heavy Metal Contamination ◽  
First Century ◽  
Extractive Industries ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Political Resistance ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Scientific Project ◽  
The Catholic Church

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the rapid growth of Peru’s extractive industries has unleashed diverse forms of political resistance to an economic system dependent on ecological destruction and human harm. In the central highlands of Peru, a Catholic scientific project based out of the Archdiocese of Huancayo undertook six years of research on heavy-metal contamination in the Mantaro Valley. This included lead-exposure studies in the notoriously polluted city of La Oroya, home to the country’s largest polymetallic smelter. How did the Catholic Church become an apt institution for the production of science in this region? Drawing on fieldwork with the Revive the Mantaro Project, this article conceptualizes the integration of religious and scientific practitioners and practices and the political landscape that necessitated, shaped, and limited them. Technocratic governance and anti-leftist sentiments made science a suitable political idiom for the Catholic Church to enact its ethos of abundance and demand the legitimacy of life beyond bare life. A state of endemic corruption and epistemic mistrust also obliged Catholic accompaniment to scientific practices to generate trust for the researchers and to provide ethical credibility as their knowledge entered the fray of national mining politics. Ultimately contending with entrenched systems of power, the Revive the Mantaro Project’s significance extended beyond political efficacy; its practices enacted a world of democracy, rights, and legal protections not yet of this world.

scholarly journals The Wrong Practice Of Anointing Oil In The Church According To James 5:14 A Theological study

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Sayangi Laia ◽  
Harman Ziduhu Laia ◽  
Daniel Ari Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Theological Study ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

The practice of anointing with oil has been done in the church since the first century to the present. On the other hand, there are also churches which have refused to do this. The practice of anointing with oil has essentially lifted from James 5:14. This text has become one of one text in the New Testament which is quite difficult to understand and bring a variety of views. Not a few denominations of the church understand James 5:14 is wrong, even the Catholic church including in it. The increasingly incorrect practice of anointing in the church today, that can be believed can heal disease physically and a variety of other functions push back the author to check the text of James 5:14 in the exegesis. Studies the exegesis of the deep, which focuses on the contextual, grammatical-structural,

Earth Ethics and American Catholic Environmentalism

2019 ◽  
pp. 146-162
Author(s):  
Sharon Erickson Nepstad
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
First Century ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The Us ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
Activist Groups ◽  
The Catholic Church

This chapter notes that American Catholics were initially quite reluctant to embrace environmentalism. It asks, after decades of political engagement with labor, poverty, peace, women’s rights, and immigration, why did US Catholics largely overlook the growing environmental problems in the twentieth century? And what caused this to change in the early twenty-first century? The chapter summarizes early Catholic efforts to promote environmentalism and describes the initial responses of the Catholic Church and its members, who often prioritized human needs over environmental matters. It also describes how the Catholic Church and Catholic laypeople started placing greater emphasis on the environment toward the end of the twentieth century. The chapter then surveys the main themes of various Catholic teachings and publications—from the US Catholic Bishops Conference’s Renewing the Earth (1991) to Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si (2015)—that have given impetus to more Catholic environmental action. The chapter concludes with a description of the work of two activist groups: the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, an ecumenical organization, and Catholic Climate Change.

The Pursuit of Martyrdom in the Catholic Church in Korea before 1866

2009 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREW FINCH
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Values ◽  
First Century ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Kinship Ties ◽  
The Catholic Church

The first century of the Catholic Church in Korea was characterised by recurrent and often severe persecutions. Consequently a cult of martyrs developed from early in the Church's history. Wider Catholic concepts relating to martyrdom and spirituality, in particular belief in a corrupting world and the significance of martyrdom in offering a means of release, set individuals on the path of martyrdom. They were then informed and encouraged by the development of the cult itself, and the solidarity and support of the Christian community. However, Korean Christians also carried with them Confucian and Buddhist concepts concerning the nature of virtue, asceticism, world-renunciation and self-sacrifice, and they subscribed to a set of social values which saw kinship ties and posthumous reputation as paramount. In the area of martyrdom these indigenous concepts and values complemented and reinforced those derived from Catholicism.

Mary and Modernity

2019 ◽  
pp. 530-545
Author(s):  
Charlene Spretnak
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Physical Reality ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Mechanistic Worldview ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Catholic Church

Because the Reformation was unfavourably disposed toward expressions of the cosmological, mystical, symbolic, and aesthetic dimensions of the Virgin Mary’s spiritual presence, and because secular versions of several concepts in the Reformation became central to emergent modernity, the work of modernizing the Catholic Church at Vatican II resulted in streamlining Mary’s presence and meaning in favour of a more literal, objective, and strictly text-based version, which is simultaneously more Protestant and more modern. In the decades since Vatican II, however, the modern, mechanistic worldview has been dislodged by discoveries in physics and biology indicating that physical reality, the Creation, is composed entirely of dynamic interrelatedness. This perception also informs the Incarnation, the Resurrection, Redemption, transubstantiation, and the full spiritual presence of Mary with its mystical and cosmological dimensions. Perhaps the rigid dividing lines at Vatican II will evolve into new possibilities in the twenty-first century regarding Mary and modernity.

Religion and Violence from Christian Theological Perspectives

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Kimball
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Just War ◽  
Just War Theory ◽  
First Century ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
The Third ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
City State ◽  
The City ◽  
The Catholic Church

This chapter reviews the movement from pacifism to Just War and Crusade. It also tries to demonstrate the ways prominent Catholic and Protestant leaders have harshly used violent measures within their communities, and determines contemporary manifestations of these three approaches among twenty-first-century Christians. The Crusades constitute the third type of response to war and peace among Christians, joining the ongoing Just War and pacifist traditions. The Inquisition within the Catholic Church and the city-state of Geneva under John Calvin's leadership within the emerging Protestant movement are elaborated. These examples show how pervasive the use of violence in the name of religion had become. The Just Peacemaking Paradigm is the alternative to pacifism and Just War theory, an effort that tries to change the focus to initiatives which can help prevent war and foster peace.

Protestants and Continental Reformers (1517–1600)

2020 ◽  
pp. 203-232
Author(s):  
David W. Kling
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
John Calvin ◽  
Institutional Commitment ◽  
Political Resistance ◽  
The Bible ◽  
New Birth ◽  
Heart And Mind ◽  
The Catholic Church

By the early sixteenth century, the call to conversion had moved in other and more radical directions, resulting initially in renewed personal spiritual commitment at odds with the Catholic Church and then moving to outright schism and a change of institutional commitment. Reformers such as Martin Luther and John Calvin experienced new and profound reorientations through their focus on the Bible and its teaching of salvation by faith alone, by grace alone, and through Christ alone. Anabaptists such as Menno Simons embraced these basic teachings but also placed emphasis on conversion (the “new birth”) as a life of discipleship. The reformers’ success in transmitting a thoroughgoing change of heart and mind to the populace, however, had mixed results. Political resistance, spiritual indifference, theological polemics, Catholic intransigence, and the persistence of ancient magic lore and occult practices ensured that the wholesale reformation of Europe, even in Protestant-controlled areas, would never become a reality.

The Catholic Church in Central America

1959 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredrick B. Pike
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Central America ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
First Century ◽  
Proper Perspective ◽  
The Catholic Church

Few historical challenges are so tantalizing as the attempt to account for the crushing blows which descended in ever-mounting crescendo upon the Catholic Church during the first century of Independence in Central and South America, regions where the population had been and remained close to 100 percent Catholic. The present study must begin by braving this challenge so as to place its subject matter in proper perspective.

scholarly journals “Wait, She’s One of Us!”: American Catholic Nuns, Gender, and Sexuality

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan P. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
First Century ◽  
Religious Sisters ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
Catholic Nuns ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
Gender Influences ◽  
The Catholic Church

In this qualitative study of one congregation of American Catholic nuns—the Sisters of St. Joseph of Philadelphia—I explore the ways in which gender influences the sisters’ work and their relationship with the Catholic Church and secular society. Through interviews with 23 religious sisters, I analyze the subtle strategies of action they employ to minister to marginalized populations who may feel alienated by the institutional Catholic Church. Despite their own structural position in the Catholic Church and secular society, American Catholic nuns like the Sisters of St. Joseph emerge as powerful women who exercise agency to respond to the human and social needs of lay Catholics and non-Catholics, even when this work is counter to official Church teaching. Overall, I argue that the Sisters of St. Joseph are guiding progressive voices in the Catholic Church—particularly around human sexuality and relationships—and have the potential to shape the direction of the Church in the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals A discrição da Igreja católica em torno do planejamento familiar e a consciência dos fiéis

2018 ◽  
Vol 75 (299) ◽  
pp. 682
Author(s):  
Luiz Fernando de Lima ◽  
Mário Antônio Sanches
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Field Research ◽  
First Century ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Humanae Vitae ◽  
The Family ◽  
Pastoral Workers ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Catholic Church

Síntese: A discrição em torno do planejamento familiar e a consciência dos fiéis advinda da posição da Igreja católica em questões de planejamento familiar é o tema principal deste texto. Para tanto, parte-se de um levantamento teórico em abalizados teólogos do século XX e XXI e de uma pesquisa de campo realizada, em 2013, na Diocese de Jacarezinho (PR), entre os agentes de pastoral das comunidades eclesiais. Intenciona-se, a partir deste caminho, evidenciar que, depois de toda a agitação que envolveu a Humane Vitae e suas declarações há algumas décadas atrás, hoje, se percebe outro movimento: uma perigosa discrição sobre o assunto, a partir da qual o momento pastoral atual se apresenta um tanto quanto confuso.Palavras-chave: Planejamento Familiar. Discrição eclesial. Humanae Vitae. Pastoral.Abstract: The discretion around the family planning and conscience of the faithful of the Catholic Church arising from the position in family planning issues is the main theme of this article. It recognizes is a theoretical survey of authoritative theologians of the twentieth and twenty-first century and a field research conducted in 2013 in the diocese of Jacarezinho (PR) among pastoral workers of the ecclesial communities. It is intended from this path, to show that after all the turbulence that involved the Humane Vitaeand its statements a few decades ago, today it is noticed another movement: a dangerous discretion on the subject, from which the current pastoral moment appears somewhat confused.Keywords: Family planning. Church discretion. Humanae Vitae. Pastoral.

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