Showing papers in "Theology in 2011"
TL;DR: The authors argue that the perceived dialectic between beauty and ugliness in crucifixion imagery was understood in the late 19th century by the historian Sara Lipton, who argued that it was a metaphor of the perceived contrast between good and bad.
Abstract: This reflection, formulated in response to an article by the historian Sara Lipton, argues that the perceived dialectic between beauty and ugliness in crucifixion imagery was understood in the late...
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TL;DR: The 2011 Boyle lecture as mentioned in this paper explores interactions between theology and the sciences, and it proceeds from the Cappadocian insight that the world is "read" by the authors of the lecture.
Abstract: This paper is the text of Professor Moltmann’s 2011 Boyle lecture. In it he explores interactions between theology and the sciences. It proceeds from the Cappadocian insight that the world is ‘read...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the adoption of popular postmodernity is sociologically unsophisticated in a similar way to their earlier handling of the "secularization" thesis.
Abstract: Recent years have seen a burgeoning of literature addressing the future prospects of the churches. This article analyses this material into six broad approaches, representing a range of church responses to a socio-cultural diagnosis the author terms ‘popular postmodernity’. The author argues that the churches’ adoption of this diagnosis is sociologically unsophisticated in a similar way to their earlier handling of the ‘secularization’ thesis. He cites examples from the literature to propose that the churches need to engage more critically with questions of socio-cultural analysis, ecclesiology and the status of orthodoxy in developing their new strategies for mission and ministry.
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TL;DR: This article explored the discovery of wisdom in weakness, through a shift from anguish over theodicy to an acceptance of challenging circumstances as granting privileged access to the deepest truths, and found that wisdom can be found in weakness.
Abstract: The paper explores the discovery of wisdom in weakness, through a shift from anguish over theodicy to an acceptance of challenging circumstances as granting privileged access to the deepest truths
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TL;DR: Wisdom equips us to face complexities in practical life as discussed by the authors. But we must not confuse it with knowledge or information, for knowledge derives from God, the community and education.
Abstract: Wisdom equips us to face complexities in practical life. We must not confuse it with knowledge or information. Wisdom derives from God, the community and education. Knowledge derives largely from i...
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TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that Volf's theory of non-remembrance stands in need of Christological qualification, since it is to allow for the transformation of memory.
Abstract: If it is to allow for the transformation of memory, then Miroslav Volf’s theory of non-remembrance stands in need of Christological qualification.
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TL;DR: The authors reviewed five recent books from Pentecostal scholars: William K. Kay, Frank D. Macchia, James K. Smith, Wolfgang Vondey and Amos Yong.
Abstract: This article reviews five recent books from Pentecostal scholars: William K. Kay, Frank D. Macchia, James K. A. Smith, Wolfgang Vondey and Amos Yong. Each book is briefly reviewed in turn and placed within the broader context of Pentecostal and Charismatic theology. It could now be said that Pentecostal and Charismatic theology has come of age because these texts represent important contributions not only to Pentecostal and Charismatic scholarship but also to the wider Christian tradition. They are part of a much greater and exciting development in the field.
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TL;DR: A Tale of Two Churches: The Ecclesiologies of the Episcopal Church and the Church of England Compared as mentioned in this paper argues that episcopacy in the Anglican Church is a...
Abstract: In an article entitled ‘A Tale of Two Churches: The Ecclesiologies of the Episcopal Church and the Church of England Compared’1 Dr Colin Podmore argues that episcopacy in the Church of England is a...
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TL;DR: In this paper, a response to Professor Moltmann's 2011 Boyle Lecture "Is the world unfinished? On interactions between science and theology in the concepts of nature, time and the future" is given.
Abstract: This paper is a response to Professor Moltmann’s 2011 Boyle Lecture ‘Is the world unfinished? On interactions between science and theology in the concepts of nature, time and the future’ (Theology,...
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TL;DR: A reply to a reply by Bishop Pierre Whalon (in Theology) to an article originally published in the Ecclesiastical Law Journal in 2008 is given in this article, which aims to correct misunderstandings and misrepr
Abstract: This article responds to a reply by Bishop Pierre Whalon (in Theology) to an article originally published in the Ecclesiastical Law Journal in 2008. It aims to correct misunderstandings and misrepr...
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TL;DR: The role of the visual arts in articulating Christian "Wisdom" within a predominantly secular post-Christian, post-modern, Western culture is discussed in this article, where the authors assess the role of museums and heritage culture in both the de-sacralization of Christian art and in the emergence of art itself as what Tillich called, "one form of the latent church".
Abstract: This essay discusses the role of the visual arts in articulating Christian ‘Wisdom’ within a predominantly secular post-Christian, post-modern, Western culture. It also assesses the role of museums and ‘heritage’ culture in both the de-sacralization of Christian art and in the emergence of art itself as what Tillich called, ‘one form of the latent church’. Should we therefore try to re-calibrate for the twenty-first century the historical relationship of art to faith – and vice versa – within the Christian tradition, or should we start again ‘from where we are’?
TL;DR: The authors argued that Jewish-Muslim dialogue is a more recent phenomenon and that interfaith dialogue has been taking place between Christians and Jews for nearly a century, but not between Muslims and Jews.
Abstract: Interfaith dialogue, as we understand it today, has been taking place between Christians and Jews for nearly a century, but Jewish–Muslim dialogue is a more recent phenomenon. Jews and Muslims have...
TL;DR: The King James Bible as discussed by the authors is the best-known version of the Bible and has been used for over four hundred years, since 1611, when the more puritan wing of the Church of England agreed to reform various ecclesiastical practices which they saw as abuses.
Abstract: In 2011 we celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of the publication in 1611 of the King James Version of the Bible. It is by far the best-known of all Bible translations, still used worldwide. In 1604 at the Hampton Court Conference, the more puritan wing of the Church of England pressed King James I to reform various ecclesiastical practices which they saw as abuses. He refused but agreed that there should be a new Bible translation. The article discusses this key event and traces the background, from Anglo-Saxon translations to the Reformation scholarship of men such as Tyndale and Coverdale, who used the new technology of printing to make Scripture widely available to those who knew no Latin or Greek. The process culminated in 1611 with the King James Bible, an exceptionally scholarly and readable version, at a time when expanding literacy allowed far more people to read the Scriptures for themselves.
TL;DR: Wisdom in the Gospels of the Bible denotes not intellectual cleverness but a practical gift from God for everyday life, especially in the face of trials as mentioned in this paper, and it has Christological significance.
Abstract: Wisdom in James denotes not intellectual cleverness but a practical gift from God for everyday life, especially in the face of trials. Parallels exist in Judaism and Stoicism. In the Gospels wisdom often finds expression in short, pithy aphorisms, particularly in ‘Q’ and in pronouncements following parables. Jesus is more, but not less, than a wisdom-teacher. Examples are considered. In Corinth wisdom had become a status-seeking commodity. Hence Paul speaks of the wisdom of God and of the cross. In the Pauline epistles wisdom has Christological significance.
TL;DR: On the hundredth anniversary of the first abstract painting of modern times, the rationale for abstract art offered by a pioneer of the genre, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), in his book Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911), is critically examined as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: On the hundredth anniversary of the first abstract painting of modern times, the rationale for abstract art offered by a pioneer of the genre, Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), in his book Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911), is critically examined. The principal influences on his art and thought are discussed; in particular, what Kandinsky intended by the word ‘spiritual’. Theories about Kandinsky’s possible synaesthesia are reviewed and the historical context of his world-view adumbrated. Finally, the article offers a preliminary sketch as to what an ‘abstract’ theology (had theologians of the day followed Kandinsky’s lead) might have looked like.
TL;DR: In this article, Martin's Pedagogy of the Bible sets out a vision for a revised approach to Christian formation that is focused around some traditional modes of Bible reading and the loss of such traditional mode...
Abstract: Dale Martin’s Pedagogy of the Bible sets out a vision for a revised approach to Christian formation that is focused around some traditional modes of Bible reading. The loss of such traditional mode...
TL;DR: The role of poetic language in the experience of revelation as prophecy has been explored in this paper, where it is argued that the event of revelation occurs or recurs as fully actual in new cultural contexts and existential situations.
Abstract: This essay attempts to reconceptualize prophecy in the wake of the recent theological turn in phenomenology. It stresses how prophecy continues and intensifies the process of actualizing revelation in present acts of interpretation that mythic and historical imagination in their different ways inaugurate in biblical tradition. Revelation in this sense turns on the present dimension of the interpreters’ lived experience, in which the event of revelation occurs – or rather recurs – as fully actual in new cultural contexts and existential situations. The role of poetic language turns out to be key for this paradoxically original experience of revelation as prophecy.