The understanding of the missio Dei from the point of view of the International Missionary Conference in Willingen has rightly broadened the missiological horizon and promoted new approaches to God’s ...mission in the world. This conference abandoned the ecclesiological approach to mission and focused attention on God as the foundation or source of mission. Inherently, this new perspective opened the door for other human institutions, such as politics, to be seen as critical participants together with the churches in the missio Dei. Apart from the writings of Saayman and Reimer, not much scholarly work is carried out to further develop the framework of the missio politica as an important tool to enable an analysis of politics in accordance with total salvation as the ultimate goal of the missio Dei. Relying upon literary analysis, this contribution orients itself on such exclusive important works as a basis on which missio politica is strengthened as a missiological framework that examines politics in relation to the ultimate goal of the missio Dei.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications This article presents research on the development of the missio politica framework in the field of missiology and highlights it as an important framework encompassing the scope of politics in relation to the eternal mandate of the missio Dei.
Africans express most of their religious beliefs in oral and symbolic forms. Music is one of the major sources of African theology and traditional wisdom. As the church in Africa strives to ...decolonize the Christian faith, African theologians must explore various means by which oral and symbolic theologies can contribute to the overall theology of the church. The present paper contributes to this theological exploration by examining key socioreligious ideas embedded in Papa Yaw Johnson’s “Fa wo ntoma bɛbɔ me deɛ ano”, a popular Ghanaian dirge. This paper used a literary analysis research approach to analyze the selected dirge. It began with the general concept of death and continued to consider dirges in the context of Ghanaian funerals. After offering a socio-linguistic analysis of the dirge, the paper offered a Christological reflection based on two key thematic areas: Nkwamafoɔ Christology and Nyansaboakwa Christology. The main thesis of the paper is that Jesus, through his life, ministry, death and resurrection, has reversed Adam’s actions that placed humanity under the power of sin and death. Therefore, with Christ at the centre of life, one should not fear (physical) death.
Keywords: Africa, Christianity, Dirge, Eschatology, Ghana
The nineties are defined by historians as ‘the longest decade’. With the world being coded as a huge village along the axis of globalization, the need for all ethnic, religious, and racial ...subjectivities to be evaluated as a sub-unit of this ‘global village’, the abolition of national borders, products of the global market reaching beyond the borders of the farthest villages, and magnificent advances in communication technologies have developed at a dizzying speed and has encompased the world like a web, with no public or individual boundaries pertaining to privacy. With this in mind, , I saw that there was a global approach in Turkish playwriting. First I thought that this approach was based on the concern regarding the end of the millennium equaling the end of the world. Long after I completed my doctoral dissertation, I quickly realized that these plays were in fact thematically tied to eschatological myths, without any mythological basis by the authors. I analyzed three plays written in the late nineties from a dramatic perspective. I reviewed the data obtained by the qualitative analysis method based on descriptive model in terms of structure (fictionality), content (the relation to eschatological myths), and the aesthetic dimension (the author’s artistic originality ). This review constitutes an evaluation of authors struggling to produce their own original work, their own reality and subjects, which is a local problem for our theater. At the point of importing surface aesthetics and the world’s theme, I suggestmaking the parable one’s own, by discussing and problematizing with in-depth thought. In the plays I have studied, the apocalypse, which is an ancient theme considered to be an eschatological myth, is reduced to an imported phenomenon. On the other hand, playwriters read about Christian figures like Jesus Christ and the possibilities of nuclear and cosmic catastrophe under the influence of globalization. Reading common ideas of the world as a path to its roots will ensure the originality of our authorship.
One of the most important features of the members of the Qumran community, who referred to themselves by the name “the sons of light,” was aspiration to holiness by observing the Law, purity and ...cult. The spirituality of the Qumran community was founded on the New Covenant which would be fulfilled “at the end of the days”. This eschatological reality was stressed in the practical spirituality of the members of the Qumran community. In the present article, the spirituality of the Qumran community will be presented via three points: (1) The origin of the Qumran community; (2) The community of a New Covenant with God; and (3) Eschatological beliefs. Our accumulated knowledge about the spirituality of the Qumran community and its beliefs enables us to better understand many eschatological texts of the Old Testament and Intertestamental Literature. It also indicates to us certain similarities and differences with the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.
Last Things Caroline Walker Bynum, Paul Freedman / Caroline Walker Bynum, Paul Freedman
10/2012
eBook
When the medievals spoke of "last things" they were sometimes referring to events, such as the millennium or the appearance of the Antichrist, that would come to all of humanity or at the end of ...time. But they also meant the last things that would come to each individual separately-not just the place, Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory, to which their souls would go but also the accounting, the calling to reckoning, that would come at the end of life. At different periods in the Middle Ages one or the other of these sorts of "last things" tended to be dominant, but both coexisted throughout. InLast Things, Caroline Walker Bynum and Paul Freedman bring together eleven essays that focus on the competing eschatologies of the Middle Ages and on the ways in which they expose different sensibilities, different theories of the human person, and very different understandings of the body, of time, of the end. Exploring such themes as the significance of dying and the afterlife, apocalyptic time, and the eschatological imagination, each essay in the volume enriches our understanding of the eschatological awarenesses of the European Middle Ages.
This article aims to identify elements of violence and eschatology in the tales of Dalton Trevisan, João Antônio and Rubem Fonseca as specific terms that stem from the industrialization process of ...the post-war and the subsequent implementation of the military dictatorship in the country. In this sense, the lack of control that occurs due to urban growth contributes to the various manifestations of misdemeanor and criminality to expand in an unimaginable dimension. This enables the stories chosen for the purpose of this article to function as representations that identify a universe of disorder, sadism, and violence. Thus, A velha querida, by Dalton Trevisan, Leão-de- chácara, by João Antônio, and Feliz Ano Novo, by Rubem Fonseca, can function as excerpts from the eschatology that seeks to confront the political system and identify its deviations as the only tool available to these writers.
Dentre as inúmeras imagens que povoam o imaginário humano, a serpente é uma das mais poderosas. Ao compor diferentes narrativas ao redor do mundo, incorpora enredos cosmogônicos, escatológicos, ...remetem à renovação do tempo e a transformação da vida, bem como pode ser síntese da morte e da demonstração da fragilidade humana. Na perspectiva da imagem serpente, como símbolo multifacetado, ambivalente e plurissemântico, buscamos neste trabalho compreender as diferentes narrativas sobre as serpentes, num complexo de comunidades quilombolas, denominado “Complexo Quilombola de Mata Cavalo” ou “Quilombo de Mata Cavalo”, situada no município de Nossa Senhora do Livramento, Mato Grosso, Brasil. A partir de uma abordagem qualitativa, fundamentando-nos na cartografia do Imaginário (Sato, 2011), nas pesquisas interdisciplinares sobre o imaginário e simbolismo (Durand, 2002); Eliade (1969, 2008), Chevalier e Gheerbrant (2015), dentre outros autores, evidenciaremos neste trabalho como as serpentes adentram o imaginário da comunidade e se deslocam do campo natural para o sobrenatural, que afetam as ações dos narradores e as aproximam de outras perspectivas simbólicas universais. Seja nas práticas dos “benzedeiros” e “benzedeiras”, nas crenças judaico-cristãs disseminadas nas comunidades de Mata Cavalo, na manipulação das partes do animal, na confecção de remédios, adereços, etc., as serpentes continuam sendo síntese de mistérios e histórias, perpassadas por suas características e comportamentos, que as lançam neste campo desfronteirado entre cultura, natureza e sobrenatureza.
ESCATOLOGIA CRISTÃ E PRÁXIS Alves de Oliveira, Renato
Perspectiva teológica,
04/2024, Letnik:
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Journal Article
Recenzirano
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O objetivo do artigo é tratar da relação entre escatologia cristã e práxis, focando na dimensão escatológica do presente. Historicamente, a escatologia clássica se ocupou do futuro absoluto e ignorou ...o presente histórico. A vida presente era relegada à condição de provação. A escatologia era vista como uma futurologia cristã. As teologias da práxis, na segunda metade do século XX, descobriram a dimensão escatológica do presente. A escatologia passa a ser vista como a disciplina teológica que trata das realidades últimas a partir das penúltimas. O presente histórico conquista uma visibilidade escatológica. Ocupando-se do presente, a escatologia desenvolve um aspecto crítico e libertador. A metodologia do artigo é bibliográfica em sintonia com teólogos da práxis (teologia política, da libertação e da esperança) e com os comentaristas da dimensão prática da teologia. O per- curso metodológico reflete sobre a dimensão escatológica da atividade de Jesus, a densidade escatológica do presente histórico, o aspecto escatológico das teologias da práxis e a relação entre escatologia e ética. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Escatologia. Futuro. Presente. Práxis.
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