scholarly journals “MOPHETH” - TINDAKAN PROFETIS MAKNA SIMBOLIS Dan Relevansinya Bagi Gereja Masa Kini

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-25
Author(s):  
Yehuda Indra Gunawan ◽  
Herman Pakiding
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
Taking Action ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity

Symbolic prophetic action is one method of delivering God's message to His people by means of the prophet. It can be used as a social and theological criticism, which brings a good change in Israelites’ life. Hoped that this research can answer the question which is relevant to the symbolic prophetic action carried out by the Old Testament prophets for the church today. Socio-religious questions used to describe classical to modern social theories. The "trinity of sociology" form the basis in taking action to prevent symbolic prophetic actions. The results show that some of the symbolic prophetic actions that quote the word "mopheth" are the prophets themselves who become "omens" coming to God's judgment on Israel for rebellion to visit God.

The Vocabulary of the Septuagint and the Church Fathers

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-132
Author(s):  
Gilles Dorival
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
Ex Nihilo ◽  
Hapax Legomenon ◽  
Creation Of Matter ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity

The role of the Septuagint in the building of the Christian identity during the first Christian centuries is more important than it is generally said. The word ‘testament’ or ‘covenant’, for example, comes from the Septuagint, via the New Testament. The Greek and Latin liturgies are filled with references to the Septuagint. The same is true in the case of the Christian spirituality: for instance, the concept of the Christian life as a migration comes from the Septuagint. The Christian hermeneutics is indebted to the Greek Bible: even if knowledge of the allegorical method comes from the Greek philosophers (and Philo), support could be found for it in the verses of the Greek Bible. Finally, the theological vocabulary of the Christians was founded upon the Greek Bible. For instance, in the case of the doctrine of the Trinity, the word ‘person’ comes from the Septuagint. Furthermore, some passages of the Greek translation gave rise to theological interpretations which are not possible on the grounds of the Hebrew text. In Gen 1:2, the Septuagint reads ‘the earth was invisible and unorganized’ and this came to be quoted both in support of the creation of matter ex nihilo. In Exod 17:16, where the Hebrew has a difficult hapax legomenon, the Greek speaks about the ‘hidden hand’ with which the Lord makes war against Amalek; this ‘hidden hand’ played a role in the Christian doctrine of the Logos, which is hidden in the Old Testament.

Calvin’s Old Testament Theology and Beyond

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
Arnold Huijgen
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Reformed Tradition ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity

The Old Testament is particularly important for the Reformed tradition, since Calvin emphasized the unity of the covenant. This chapter highlights five paradoxes and/or problems in Calvin’s approach and compares Calvin with two Dutch theologians to overcome these problems. The concreteness of Arnold van Ruler’s pneumatological approach, and the accents on particularity and Judaism in Kornelis Heiko Miskotte’s theology serve to improve Calvin’s important impulse. The chapter concludes that the church cannot do without the Old Testament because of the concrete, Jewish, character of salvation, that the unity of the Old Testament lies in the Trinity, and that the Old Testament shows the mediated character of revelation.

On Seitz’s The Elder Testament: He Pitched a Winning Game but with Unforced Errors

Pro Ecclesia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-265
Author(s):  
Raymond C. Van Leeuwen
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity

Seitz’s new book is a “ Summa” of his decades-long work of theological exegesis which shows the theological “pressure” that the Old Testament inherently exerts towards the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. His focus is not just the “economic” Trinity—God in God’s historical works—but the “ontological Trinity”: God in God’s very self. His exegesis mines theological insights from the church fathers to the great Reformers, Luther and Calvin. An unfortunate weakness in the book is its copy editing and proofreading.

THEORIES OF THE MISSIONARY VOCATION OF THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN POST-SOVIET PROTESTANTISM

2020 ◽  
pp. 78-92
Author(s):  
Valentyn Syniy
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Spiritual Education ◽  
General Recognition ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Formal Construction

It is emphasized that the involvement of missionary theology in the discussion of ways to develop spiritual education allowed post-soviet Protestantism to successfully overcome differences in the vision of the formal construction of education, and then move on to discussions about its content. There was a gradual overcoming of modern individualism, the growing role of communities, the replacement of monologue models of mission with dialogical ones. The idea of the seminary as a community that is not self-sufficient, but serves the church as a community, has gained general recognition. The church also came to be understood as serving an eschatological ideal community similar to the Trinity community. The formation of community and dialogical models of missionary and educational activity allows Ukrainian Protestantism to effectively adapt to the realities of the beginning of the 21st century and to be proactive in today's society.

The Minor Prophets as Christian Scripture in the Commentaries of Theodore of Mopsuestia and Cyril of Alexandria

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hauna T. Ondrey
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Cyril Of Alexandria ◽  
Theodore Of Mopsuestia ◽  
Positive Account ◽  
Mosaic Law ◽  
Recent Tendency ◽  
The Church ◽  
Minor Prophets

This work compares the Minor Prophets commentaries of Theodore of Mopsuestia and Cyril of Alexandria, isolating the role each interpreter assigns the Twelve Prophets in their ministry to Old Testament Israel and the texts of the Twelve as Christian scripture. It argues that Theodore does acknowledge christological prophecies, as distinct from both retrospective accommodation and typology. A careful reading of Cyril’s Commentary on the Twelve limits the prospective christological revelation he ascribes to the prophets and reveals the positive role he grants the Mosaic law prior to Christ’s advent. Exploring secondly the Christian significance Theodore and Cyril assign to Israel’s exile and restoration reveals that Theodore’s reading of the Twelve Prophets, while not attempting to be christocentric, is nevertheless self-consciously Christian. Cyril, unsurprisingly, offers a robust Christian reading of the Twelve, yet this too must be expanded by his focus on the church and concern to equip the church through the ethical paideusis provided by the plain sense of the prophetic text. Revised descriptions of each interpreter lead to the claim that a recent tendency to distinguish the Old Testament interpretation of Theodore (negatively) and Cyril (positively) on the basis of their “christocentrism” obscures more than it clarifies and polarizes no less than earlier accounts of Antiochene/Alexandrian exegesis. The Conclusion argues against replacing old dichotomies with new and advocates rather for an approach that takes seriously Theodore’s positive account of the unity and telos of the divine economy and the full range of Cyril’s interpretation.

Revelation, Tradition, and Inspiration

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald O’Collins, SJ
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Self ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Present Experience ◽  
Living Tradition ◽  
The Church

This chapter spells out the complex interrelationship between the divine self-revelation, the tradition that transmits the prophetic and apostolic experience of that revelation, and the writing of the inspired Scriptures. Primarily, revelation involves the self-disclosure of the previously and mysteriously unknown God. Secondarily, it brings the communication of hitherto unknown truths about God. Revelation is a past, foundational reality (completed with the missions of the Son and Holy Spirit), a present experience, and a future hope. Responding with faith to divine revelation, the Old Testament (prophetic) and then New Testament (apostolic) witnesses initiated the living tradition from which came the inspired Scriptures. Tradition continues to transmit, interpret, and apply the Scriptures in the life of the Church.

scholarly journals A Body of Authority: Reorienting Gender and Power in Julian of Norwich’s Revelations

Humanities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Phillip Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
Feedback Loop ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Gender Performativity ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Spatial Logics

The 14th century mystic Julian of Norwich’s theology, dissolving gender binaries and incorporating medieval constructs of the female into the Trinity, captivates scholars across rhetorical, literary, and religious studies. A “pioneering feminist”, as Cheryll Glenn dubs her, scholarship attempts to account for the ways in which Julian’s theology circumvented the religious authority of male clerics. Some speculate that Julian’s authority arises from a sophisticated construction of audience (Wright). Others situate Julian in established traditions and structures of the Church, suggesting that she revised a mode of Augustinian mysticism (Chandler), or positing that her intelligence and Biblical knowledge indicate that she received religious training (Colledge and Walsh). Drawing from theories on space and gender performativity, this essay argues that Julian’s gendered body is the generative site of her authority. Bodies are articulated by spatial logics of power (Shome). Material environments discipline bodies and, in a kind of feedback loop, gendered performance (re)produces power in time and space. Spaces, though, are always becoming and never fixed (Chavez). An examination of how Julian reorients hierarchies and relations among power, space, and her body provides a hermeneutic for recognizing how gender is structured by our own material cultures and provides possibilities for developing practices that revise relations and create new agencies.

A theology of gratitude for rising generations

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-359
Author(s):  
Stephanie Townes
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Practical Theological ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity

Rising generations (Millennials and Gen Z) already have a solid understanding of gratitude from gratitude’s pervasiveness in popular culture, and because of this, gratitude is an opportunity for the Church to reach rising generations where they already are. To do this, the Church should underscore a theological why of gratitude and a practical theological how of gratitude. The theological why of gratitude is based on Kathryn Tanner’s gift-giving nature of God, from her book Jesus, Humanity, and the Trinity. The practical theological how of gratitude will rise up from our holy habits of gratitude, both personal and collective, reinforced by the Eucharist, and taught through discipleship and practices of stewardship.

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