Augustinus oor staat (en kerk)

J.H. Van Wyk

doi:10.4102/ids.v34i4.615

Augustinus oor staat (en kerk)

In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi ◽

10.4102/ids.v34i4.615 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 34 (4) ◽

Author(s):

J.H. Van Wyk

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Critical Realism ◽

Decisive Role ◽

Kingdom Of God ◽

Easy Task ◽

Total Separation

Augustine’s views on state (and church) It is no easy task to assess Augustine’s views on state and church as there are as many interpretations as there are interpreters to these issues. From a study of Augustine himself, and especially his De civitate dei, it becomes evident that he did not follow the Manichean, Donatist or Tertullian view of total separation, neither the Origean, Eusebian or Ambrosian view of (a close) co-operation, but that he developed his own view which can be typified as critical realism. Sin, social context and the kingdom of God played a decisive role in forming his final perspectives – although we have to admit that in the Donatist disputes Augustine’s attitude was very controversial.

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Real True Buds

Devotions and Desires ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469636269.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Judith Weisenfeld

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Social Context ◽

Kingdom Of God ◽

African American Female ◽

Sexual Deviance ◽

Human Relationships ◽

Theological Language ◽

Mission Movement ◽

Roman Catholics ◽

Religion And Sexuality

This essay focuses on the Philadelphia-based Peace Mission Movement, led by the African American religious figure known as Father Divine and centered on the belief that he was God in a body. The movement, in which committed followers lived celibate lives in sex-segregated communal residences meant to establish the Kingdom of God on earth, saw its peak of membership and influence during the 1930s and early 1940s. Observers frequently painted Divine as a charismatic manipulator who demanded celibacy of his mostly African American female followers, but took a wife in what he described as a spiritual marriage. Such criticism resonated with American Protestant discourses about papal control of Roman Catholics and the sexual deviance and social dangers of celibacy. The essay turns attention from outsiders’ preoccupation with Divine to ask questions about religion and sexuality among his followers. It examines the case of a group of women in the movement who embraced Divine’s requirement to reject all human relationships and mortal desire, yet expressed connection to and longing for one another through the Peace Mission’s theological language. This case of relationships within the Peace Mission underscores for historians of sexuality and of religion the need to understand religious celibacy as a complex practice and identity, shaped and inflected by the particular theological frameworks and institutions that support it as well as by the broader social context in which its practitioners are located.

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Renewing the Narrative of the Age to Come: The Kingdom of God in NT Wright and John Zizioulas

Religions ◽

10.3390/rel12070514 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (7) ◽

pp. 514

Author(s):

Geoffrey Ready

Keyword(s):

New Testament ◽

Potential Model ◽

Critical Realism ◽

Kingdom Of God ◽

Orthodox Christian ◽

Christian Theologian ◽

The New Testament ◽

To Come

This paper makes use of leading New Testament scholar NT Wright’s presentation of the biblical understanding of the kingdom to assess—on the basis of Orthodox Christian theologian John Zizioulas’ own critique—the Orthodox liturgical enactment of the kingdom and age to come. We will explore how Wright and Zizioulas describe the principles of a properly kingdom-oriented worship. Finally, we will examine Wright’s critical realism as a potential model for understanding how enacting the age to come in worship could shape the kingdom narrative of its participants. Thus, while Wright’s immediate goal in his engagement of the theme of the kingdom of God may be to correct a longstanding misreading of the New Testament, his teaching ultimately enables us to propose a way of accomplishing Zizioulas’ hope of renewing the full narrative of the age to come in Orthodox worship.

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“In terra et in mare”: The Holy League in 1684 and Papal Diplomacy

Perspektywy Kultury ◽

10.35765/pk.2020.3003.12 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 179-196

Author(s):

Alessandro Boccolini

Keyword(s):

Joint Action ◽

Decisive Role ◽

Easy Task ◽

Holy See ◽

International Diplomacy

In the aftermath of the Liberation of Vienna by the army commanded by Jan III Sobieski, international diplomacy was activated immediately to extend the Polish-Imperial League and continue the war against the Turkish. The diplomacy of the Holy See, planned by Innocent XI, was particularly active: Francesco Buonvisi, ordinary nuncio in Vienna, and Opizio Pallavicini, nuncio in Warsaw, worked hard to encourage the adhesion of the Serenissima Republic of Venice. With the signing of the treaty on March 6, 1684 between Warsaw, Vienna, and Venice—solemnly celebrated in Rome on the following May 24— Innocent XI could count on joint action against the infidels by land and sea, with the armies of Poland, of the Empire, and the naval fleet of the Serenissima. The article intends to retrace the diplomatic phases—not always an easy task—which led to the signing of the League, paying attention to the decisive role played by the diplomacy of the Holy See.

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The dedicated secretary general : Miklós Pulai's activities in the Hungarian Banking Association

Economy & finance ◽

10.33908/ef.2021.2.5 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 210-227

Author(s):

János Müller ◽

Levente Kovács

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Banking System ◽

Decisive Role ◽

Secretary General ◽

Market Conditions ◽

Banking History ◽

System Operating

Untiring Miklós Pulai, who died last year at the age of 94, will be remembered among the great minds of Hungarian economic and banking history for his outstanding professional achievements. He played a decisive role in the establishment of the two-tier banking system operating under market conditions. Part of his work as a banker was linked to the Hungarian Banking Association as its secretary general right from its foundation in 1989 till 2000, while he helped its activities almost until his death. This paper is to honour Miklós Pulai’s contribution to the activities of the Hungarian Banking Association. To understand it, the importance of his achievements we must give a brief overview of the economic and social context and the processes he was an active formative participant in.

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