scholarly journals This great prayerful tradition : American presidents preaching public theology at the National Prayer Breakfast

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Cathy Ellen Rosenholtz
Keyword(s):  
Civil Religion ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
Presidential Studies

This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the speeches delivered by American presidents at the National Prayer Breakfast (NPB) from its inception in 1953 until 2016, as well as the rhetorical context of the NPB. Taking a dual-disciplinary approach that combines public theology and presidential studies, this study delineates a generic pattern in the presidential prayer breakfast address built around five narratives. In their speeches at the NPB, presidents construct narratives of faith, connecting divine and human stories in ways that move beyond personal piety, civil religion, or a politicized use of religious language. Presidents serve as public theologians through their prayer breakfast speeches, engaging in transformative rhetoric to communicate their messages. The annual NPB creates a unique liminal space for the president to experiment with speaking theologically.

scholarly journals Ideas of Civil Religion in the Creative Work of Cyril Methodians

2018 ◽  
pp. 53-63
Author(s):  
Leonid Kondratyk
Keyword(s):  
Civil Religion ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Social Force ◽  
Linear Character ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Main Ideas

Kondratyk L. "Ideas of Civil Religion in the Creative Work of Cyril Methodians". The author is based on the fact that the civil religion is such a sociocultural phenomenon in which, through the prism of a peculiar religious language and specific practices, the necessity of acquiring and establishing a national state is substantiated, which originates in the need of the community to find the sacral in the activity that is inherent in the transcendent, eternally -linear character and which is rooted in the history of the territory. It is proved that the soil on which the ideas of the Cyril and Methodius civil religion originated is Western European romanticism, religiosity, the starting point of which was the idea of religion as the focus of the spiritual world of the individual and community, the idea of the Higher Reason that sets the directions for historical development, Christianity a decisive role in the spiritual and moral and social renewal of mankind, the view of Ukraine as an independent cultural and historical and social force, the influence of creativity T. Shevche gt; The main ideas of the civil religion of the Cyril Methodians are as follows: the messianism of the Ukrainian spirit manifests itself in the ability to unite the Slavs in the best way, because Ukraine is inspired by self-sacrifice with the Christian spirit and has apostolic intercession; Kiev - the capital of the resurrected from the oppression of the Slavs, the city - in which the courts prevail, truth, equality; concepts "temple", "truth", "righteous judgment", "freedom", "brotherhood", "equality", "love", "Kiev", "Kiev mountains" - the basic concepts-symbols of the Ukrainian civil religion; in the Ukrainian community with the need to coincide Christian values and moral standards, which dominate it.

scholarly journals The ideas of civil religion in the works of Mykola Kostomarov

2016 ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Timofiy Zinkevich
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
National State ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Social Doctrine ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

T. Zinkevich. "The ideas of civil religion in the works of Mykola Kostomarov." The author based on the fact that a civil religion - it is a social and cultural phenomenon in which the light of a kind of religious language and the specific practices of the necessity of finding and approval of the national state, which has its roots in the community needs to find the sacred in the work, which is inherent in the transcendent, eternally linear in nature and which is rooted in the history of the territory. According to N. Kostomarov, the main provisions of national faith as follows: God is one, He is the creator of all things, the seat of comfort and happiness, belief in which is the key statements in the freedom society, equality, and fraternity; social ideals of Ukrainians, which is the expression of Christian Cossack republic and the social doctrine of the early, truthful Christianity coincide; Ukraine, in contrast to other ethnic groups, is a carrier and protector of the true social and Christian values, which makes it possible immortality Ukrainians, his primacy in  the social liberation and unification of the Slavic community, in which Ukraine will take place eludes Rzeczpospolita.

scholarly journals Сivil religion in the light of a comparative analysis

2017 ◽  
pp. 18-26
Author(s):  
Timofiy Zinkevich
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
Folk Religion ◽  
Linear Action ◽  
National State ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Identity Concept ◽  
History Of

In the article "Сivil religion in the light of a comparative analysis" by T. Zinkevych civil religion is seen as a social and cultural phenomenon in which the light of a kind of religious language and the specific practices of the necessity of origin and the approval of the national state, which has its roots in the community needs to find a sacred transcendental eternity-linear action that is rooted in the history of the area. Substantiated the thesis of the non-identity concept of civil religion concepts of folk religion, ethnic religion, popular Christianity, and others. 

scholarly journals Public theology and the translation imperative: A Ricoeurian perspective

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaco S. Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Academic Discussion ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Christian Message

The aim of this article is to contribute to the academic discussion on the inter-linguistic translation of the Christian message in the public sphere. There seems to be consensus amongst academic public theologians and social philosophers such as Habermas about the importance of translating religious language in the public sphere. Views differ, however, on the manner of translation. Five key aspects of Ricoeur’s paradigm of translation are discussed and offered as a framework for the academic discussion in public theology on the translation of the Christian message in the public sphere. It is argued that notions such as the tension between faithfulness and betrayal, the illusion of the perfect translation, striving for equivalence of meaning, the importance of the desire to translate, the work of translation and linguistic hospitality offer insight in the complexity of the translation task as well as its ethical nature.

scholarly journals From Civil Religion to Presidential Public Theology—A Re-evaluation of the American Civil Religion Phenomenon. The Case of George H. W. Bush

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Kjell O. Lejon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
American Presidency ◽  
American Civil Religion ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Public Papers ◽  
Empirical Material

Since the inauguration of the civil religion debate in the United States in 1967, it has been argued that the religious dimension of American presidency should be understood as a kind of civil religion, normally based upon the definition of Jean Jacque Rousseau, or variations of this his definition. However, in this article the author argues, based upon the empirical material presented in Public Papers of the President and elsewhere, that a more accurate description of the religion dimension of some modern presidencies is public theology. He uses the presidency of George H. W. Bush as a case study.

The Points and Tasks of Public Theology

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-87
Author(s):  
Chul Ho Youn
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Political Pluralism ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The One ◽  
Contemporary Context

The subject of this study is the points and tasks of public theology. First, this study makes an introduction about the definitions of public theology. Second, it clarifies that the theological ground of public theology is offered by the Kingdom of God proclaimed and practiced by Jesus Christ and the universality of divine reality. Third, it explains how public theology is distinguished from civil religion, political theology, and liberation theology. Fourth, it discusses the methodology of public theology. Fifth, it argues that the publicness of public theology is to be found between privatization and politicization. Sixth, it introduces Volf’s concepts of ‘internal difference’ and ‘religious political pluralism’ which he proposes as an alternative strategy against both secularist exclusion and totalitarian intervention. Seventh, it envisions the way toward which public theology is to be directed in the contemporary context of globalization. And finally, as a conclusion, it suggests the points and tasks of public theology in terms of four points of view, especially including the one reflecting Korean context.

Geschenkte Freiheit. Von welchen Voraussetzungen lebt der demokratische Staat?

2005 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 248-265
Author(s):  
Heinrich Bedford-Strohm
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Discourse Model ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Secular State

Abstract What are the sources from which the liberal secular state regenerates itself? The article describes four answers: the model of civil religion (1), the »Christian occident« model (2), the discourse model (3) and the model of critical integration (4). Drawing on Habermas' and Rawls' late acknowledgment of the important role of religion for public life, the article shows how the model of critical integration of discursive reason and religion is a vital basis for the regeneration of a democratic state. The idea of freedom as a gift is shown to be one example of the contributions public theology can make to the debate on the sources of regeneration of the democratic state. Honoring the dignity of the human person as something given not earned, means building the moral infrastructure of society not on merit but on gratuitousness and the free engagement for the other.

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