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Christian Tradition (christian + tradition)
Selected AbstractsJohn Wesley's Doctrine of Grace in Light of the Christian TraditionINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 2 2002Ralph Del Colle This ecumenically minded article explores Wesley's understanding of grace both in its relation to experience , inward religion , and in relation to his doctrines of justification and sanctification. Wesley's treatments of justification and sanctification are compared to those of Luther, Calvin and Trent. His unique and ecumenical blending of traditions allowed Wesley to develop a doctrine of grace which offers significant resources to contemporary understandings of Christian life and practice. [source] Globalisation and the Christian TraditionNEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 1002 2005Richard M. Price First page of article [source] Holy Dogs and Asses: Animals in the Christian Tradition , By Laura Hobgood-OsterRELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 3 2009Glenn M. Harden No abstract is available for this article. [source] Ancient Faith and American-Born Churches: Dialogues between Christian Traditions , Edited by Ted A. Campbell, Ann K. Riggs, and Gilbert W. StaffordRELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 4 2006Paraskevè (Eve) Tibbs No abstract is available for this article. [source] A Pentecostal Way of Doing Theology: Method and MannerINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 3 2007KENNETH J. ARCHER This article emphasizes the necessity of doing Pentecostal theology by means of an integrative methodology and in a narrative manner that flows out of Pentecostal identity. Pentecostal theology must move beyond the impasse created by subsuming its identity under the rubric of ,Evangelical' in order for it to articulate a vibrant fully orbed mature Pentecostal theology. This can be accomplished only when ,Pentecostal' is taken seriously as an authentic Christian tradition with its own view of reality. I argue that one very important way of articulating a Pentecostal theology in keeping with its identity is to ground it pneumatologically and organize it around the Five-fold Gospel. [source] "Appear as Crucified for Me": Sight, Suffering, and Spiritual Transformation in the Hymns of Charles WesleyJOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, Issue 3 2006JOANNA CRUICKSHANKArticle first published online: 21 AUG 200 Early Methodist laypeople often described their conversion experiences in terms of seeing the suffering of Christ. This article considers this theme within early Methodist culture by examining the relationship between sight, suffering, and spiritual transformation in the hymns of Charles Wesley. Many of Wesley's hymns depict the suffering of Christ in evocative detail, encouraging the singer or reader to imagine and respond to this suffering in particular ways. I argue that Wesley presents the sight of Christ's suffering as having profound transformative power, at the heart of Christian experience. In doing so he constructs Methodist spirituality in a way that draws upon both the ancient Christian tradition of Passion devotion and contemporary eighteenth-century convictions about the power of the sight of suffering. [source] PAUL RICOEUR AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS: NARRATIVE IDENTITY AND THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODYMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 4 2009MICHAEL W. DeLASHMUTT This article attempts to reconcile the holistically understood and embodied philosophical anthropology indicated by Paul Ricoeur's concept of "narrative identity" with Christian personal eschatology, as realized in the bodily resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Narrative identity resonates with spiritual autobiography in the Christian tradition,evinced here by a brief comparison with the confessed self of St Augustine of Hippo,and offers to theology a means of explaining identity in a way which: 1) places care for the other firmly within the construction of one's sense of self; 2) accounts for radical change over time and 3) hints at the possibility of the in-breaking of the infinite into the finite. In this article I will contend that narrative identity provides theology with an exemplary means of framing selfhood which is ultimately congruent with the orthodox Christian belief in the resurrection of the body. [source] Midwife to a learning community: Spirit as co-inquirerNEW DIRECTIONS FOR ADULT & CONTINUING EDUCATION, Issue 94 2002Whitney Wherrett Roberson Working within a liberal feminist Christian tradition, six women seek to nurture learning communities that empower and transform. Metaphor and laughter guide their way in realizing Spirit is their Co-inquirer. [source] Why Bother With Hebrews?THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 1 2002Marie E. Isaacs Few, if any, present-day undergraduate degree courses in Theology include in their syllabus a study of the Epistle to the Hebrews or other New Testament writings other than the Gospels and the Pauline epistles. The result is in effect that we create a canon within a canon. This paper, originally read at a postgraduate seminar, gives reasons why Hebrews in particular should not be neglected. Hebrews provides evidence of the diversity of early Christian tradition, for example, with its teaching that it is impossible to be re-admitted to the community of faith, having once abandoned it, and with its unique use of Israel's day of Atonement rites in its presentation of Christ. Moreover, the very genre of Hebrews merits particular interest. Hebrews also evidences a Christian community which has yet to break with Judaism. Its thoroughly Jewish background illustrates for students of the New Testament the necessity of knowing the Jewish Scriptures as well as the writings of the New Testament. Moreover, a study of the Epistle could make a constructive contribution to present-day Jewish,Christian dialogue, even if in the past it has been enlisted on the side of a thinly-disguised anti-Semitism. Finally, Hebrews (e.g., with its depiction of Jesus as sacrificial victim and as High Priest) brings the student face to face with the metaphorical character of much of the language of the New Testament , a form of language which is not to be taken less seriously than other kinds of language; and in this case, Hebrews' Day of Atonement metaphors issue in new insights , in an innovative theology of access to God. For this and other reasons, the study of Hebrews has an important contribution to make to theology degree syllabuses. [source] Intimations of The Good: Iris Murdoch, Richard Swinburne and the Promise of TheismTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 1 2001F. B. A. Asiedu Perhaps no one in the English speaking world has carried on a philosophical defence of theism like Richard Swinburne. Yet in all of Swinburne's work there is little use of a long-standing view in the Christian tradition that God is good, and that his goodness is interchangeable with his being. While Swinburne does little with the idea of goodness, Iris Murdoch proposes an anti-theistic view that insists on the Good without God. My argument is that both Swinburne's indifference to the notion of the good and Murdoch's ,Good without God' take away from the promise of theism. I suggest an Augustinian alternative that insists on the equation of God and the Good without falling into the problems inherent in both Swinburne and Murdoch's views. [source] Homosexuality and the Church's Witness in the ELCA's Current StruggleDIALOG, Issue 2 2005By Marc Kolden Abstract:, The basis for holding the traditional Christian position against same-sex sexual intimacy is sufficiently well-supported by arguments from scripture and Christian traditions of moral reasoning to vote to continue the present ELCA policies and practices regarding sexual conduct. Also, arguments for revising the traditional view are flawed morally and theologically. Despite the momentum of secular culture in North America and Europe, the ELCA should resist any changes in its policies and any relaxation in its disciplining of those who disregard its present practices. This will be difficult, because many proponents for change have raised their position to the level of a de facto article of faith, that is, something that they consider to be necessary (particularly as it concerns ordination), and thus they will do everything possible to secure acceptance of their position. [source] Scinditur in partes populus: Pope Damasus and the Martyrs of RomeEARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE, Issue 3 2000Marianne Sághy Pope Damasus (366,384) was the impresario of the late antique cult of the martyrs at Rome. Damasus celebrated the martyrs with epigrams written in Virgilian hexameters which he had engraved in exquisite lettering on their tombs. This article investigates the specifically Roman context of these activities as a means of shedding new light on Damasus' purposes. The enhancement of the cult of the Roman martyrs was more than a stage in the process of christianisation, creating Christian but still distinctively Roman holy patrons for the urbs. It was also directed against rival Christian traditions, including Nicene splinter groups such as the Ursinians and Luciferians who contested Damasus' election. The epi grams allowed Damasus to inscribe very specific and carefully shaped meanings on strategic and often contested sites within the Christian topography of Rome. By placing the Damasan epigrams in the context of a bloody ecclesiastical factionalism in Rome, this paper argues that these very public celebrations of the martyrs were used to promote concord and consensus within the Catholic community in Rome. [source] | ||||||||||