Christian Dimension Research Articles

The Biblical Presence in Shakespeare, Milton, and Blake (review)

The "biblical presence" in English literature is usually the focus of Christian inquiry, as Roy Battenhouse has recently shown in Shakespeare's Christian Dimension: An Anthology of Criticism. Even without Battenhouse's heavy editorial hand, his collection clearly indicates that critics in the second half of the twentieth century have done ample justice to Shakespeare's Christian heritage. But the Bible is not, of course, the sacred book of Christians alone, and Harold Fisch's book represents a distinctively Jewish response to three canonical writers in English literature. As such, it is an important addition to reflection on its chosen subject.

A Passion for God: The Mystical-Political Dimension of Christianity

A Passion for God: The Mystical-Political Dimension of Christianity

When a Child is Born: The Christian Dimension of Christmas in Britain since the 1960s

When a Child is Born: The Christian Dimension of Christmas in Britain since the 1960s

A Passion for God: The Mystical-Political Dimension of Christianity. Johann Baptist Metz , J. Matthew Ashley

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsA Passion for God: The Mystical-Political Dimension of Christianity. Johann Baptist Metz , J. Matthew Ashley J. A. ColomboJ. A. Colombo Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Religion Volume 79, Number 2Apr., 1999 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/490421 Views: 3Total views on this site Copyright 1999 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Stages of the Marital and Family Life Cycle: Marital Miracles

The stages of the marital and family life cycle describe the social, emotional, and developmental tasks required to create and maintain coupleness throughout the life of a marriage. This paper will explore the specifically Christian dimensions of these stage tasks. It will view these transitions as marital miracles on the journey of faith which invite couples to experience more of God's presence and healing in their relationship.

Dialogue and Synthesis: Sot'aesan's Perspective and Examples

The author explores three issues: (1) how Sot'aesan's (founder of Won Buddhist) dialogical and synthetical methods work by showing concrete examples of his encounters with other religious traditions, mainly three Eastern religious traditions-Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism; (2) how Sot'aesan synthesizes the Christian dimension of faith into a non-theistic tradition of the East since Sot'aesan encountered Christian believers on several occasions; and (3) issues that might derive from the further expansion of Sot'aesan's perspective in the multireligious context of the world. Let me begin by defining five terms. Won Buddhism: Won means in Korean, a symbol of Buddha's cosmic body (Dharmakaya), the enlightened nature of all sentient beings, and the noumenal nature of all beings in the universe. Buddhism means a religion of enlightenment. Won Buddhism thus teaches how to be enlightened to the truth that the whole universe is nohe other than the manifestation of Buddha's cosmic body, the enlightened nature of all sentient beings and the noumenal nature of all beings in the universe. Sot'aesan: the founder of Won Buddhism. Pak, Chungbin is his full name and Sot'aesan is his Dharma name. He was born on May 5, 1891, accomplished the great awakening at the age of twenty-six after twenty years' incessant search for Truth, founded the Won Buddhist order in order to deliver people of the contemporary world enslaved by materialism due to the loss of spiritual power, and passed away at the age of fifty-three on June 1, 1943, after a twenty-eight year mission. Il-Won: unitary circle representing Dharmakaya Buddha. The figure of IIWon (0, or Il-Won-Sang) is enshrined in the Won Buddhist Temple, instead of Buddha's images, namely Nirmanakaya Buddha. Eun: grace or beneficence, representing Sot'aesan's reformulation of the Buddhist concept of causal dependent origination. Sot'aesan defines the funBuddhist-Christian Studies 17 (1997). ? by University of Hawai'i Press. All rights reserved. This content downloaded from 207.46.13.57 on Thu, 08 Sep 2016 05:17:06 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms

The Christian Dimensions of Morality

The Christian Dimensions of Morality

Shakespeare's Christian Dimension: An Anthology of Commentary

Shakespeare's Christian Dimension: An Anthology of Commentary

El día del Señor: (de la apropiación creyente a la expropiación mercantilista)

Almost everywhere, and specially in the western world, the christian dimension of Sunday is being affected by the phenomenon of secularisation and the predominance of economic values over all others. To in some way face up to the crisis of Sunday as the Lord's Day, the A. studies the most significants stages of its history, its theological and celebratory values, and he offers some pastoral suggestions for its revitalisation

Shakespeare's Christian Dimension: An Anthology of Commentary ed. by Roy Battenhouse

Shakespeare's Christian Dimension: An Anthology of Commentary ed. by Roy Battenhouse

Ron Hall's Polanyian Kierkegaardian Critique of the Modern Age

To be sure, the subtitle of Hall’s work accurately portrays its content: the book delivers a Kierkegaardian critique of the modern age. The thought of Kierkegaard is in the forefront of Hall’s discussion, although the final product is much more than simply an exegesis of Kierkegaard. This is because a Polanyian perspective--or more accurately, a Polanyian/Poteatian perspective--informs the view Hall argues for. While, as I shall indicate, I do not think Hall’s fusion of Kierkegaard and Polanyi/Poteat is seamless, his achievement in the book is considerable. His thought is challenging and stimulating. For those interested in extending the existential and Christian dimensions of Polanyi’s thought, Hall raises some intriguing possibilities.

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Book Review: Shakespeare's Christian Dimension: An Anthology of Commentary

Book Review: Shakespeare's Christian Dimension: An Anthology of Commentary

The Epistles to the Thessalonians: A Commentary on the Greek Text

The letters of Paul to the newly founded Christian community at Thessalonica hold a special place within the Christian tradition as possibly the earliest extant Christian writings. They are also of special interest not only for their theological value but for their sociological context. Among the communities established by Paul, the church at Thessalonica appears to have been the only one to have suffered serious external oppression. These two important epistles, then, speak uniquely to contemporary Christians living in a society often ideologically, if not politically, opposed to Christian faith. In this innovative commentary Charles A. Wanamaker incorporates what may be called a social science approach to the study of 1 and 2 Thessalonians, taking into full account the social context that gave rise to Paul s correspondence. While Wanamaker in no way ignores traditional historical-critical, linguistic, literary, and theological approaches to writing a commentary -- in fact, at several points he makes a significant contribution to the questions raised by traditional exegesis -- at the same time he goes beyond previous commentaries on the Thessalonian correspondence by taking seriously the social dimensions both of Christianity at Thessalonica and of the texts of 1 and 2 Thessalonians themselves. In blending traditional exegetical methods with this newer approach, Wanamaker seeks to understand Pauline Christianity at Thessalonica as a socio-religious movement in the first-century Greco-Roman world and attempts to grasp the social character and functions of Paul s letters within this context. A significant and original addition to the literature on 1 and 2 Thessalonians, this commentary will be valuable to scholars, pastors, and students alike.

Racial Prejudice among Christian and Non-Christian College Students

The relationship between Christianity and racial prejudice was evaluated by means of a questionnaire which included the Shepherd Scale, the Christian Conservatism Scale, and the Multifactor Racial Attitude Inventory. The instrument was administered to two groups of college psychology students, one predominantly Christian and the other predominatly non-Christian (low scorers on the Christian scales). Although the Christian group scored significantly higher on the Shepherd and Christian Conservatism Scales, no significant differences were found between the two groups with respect to racial prejudice. Furthermore, the dimension of Christianity and the dimension of racial prejudice were independent of one another with respect to correlational measures and a principal components factor analysis.

Christianity and Cultures

There is a paradox—one, no doubt, among many—about contemporary Euro-American culture. On the one hand it has developed a capacity for systematic, and critical, ‘self-consciousness’, unequalled by any other, or by its own ancestral cultures. This is exemplified by the development in the last hundred years, practically from zero, of the human sciences, in particular of psychology and sociology. In Academe, at any rate, the intellectual leaders of our culture live in a world of ‘meta’s’—‘metahistory’, ‘meta-science’, ‘meta-psychology’, and meta-sociology too, I shouldn’t wonder. A capacity and techniques for reflexive thinking have been carried much further than ever before. In the Christian dimension of our culture the ecumenical movement and above all the Second Vatican Council illustrate the same trend; the Church ‘self-consciously’ reflecting on what it means to be Church—and whether and how far it is succeeding in being Church. Ecclesiology (the Church reflecting on itself), is now a most important branch of theology. A hundred years ago, when the word ‘ecclesiology’ itself had a different meaning, the Church’s reflecting on itself was rarely more than one weapon in an arsenal of polemical apologetics.On the other hand Euro-Americans, in their cultural leaders and in the mass, still retain by and large the serene uncriticised assurance that their—or should I say ‘our’?—culture is normative, and that it is the only authentic realisation of human potentialities. It is, to be sure, not the only way of being human or organising human society, but it is certainly the best, and the only one that has a future.

God's visible judgements: the Christian dimension of landscape legends

God's visible judgements: the Christian dimension of landscape legends

The Dynamics of the Will in Buddhist and Christian Practice

The task of this paper is to suggest that the will-dynamics educed by Buddhist and Christian contemplative paths share fundamental structural similarities, a hypothesis which, if true, lends support to the notion of a psychologia perennis. The contemplative dimensions of Buddhism and Christianity, we will suggest, possess formally similar strategies for the attunement of the human will to its source in the Real, an attunement and dynamic balance in which both Buddhist and Christian contemplatives discover the salvation they seek. To help show common ground between Buddhist and Christian contemplative paths, both are discussed in relation to a tertium quid, namely, the tension

Perceptions of God and the Churches in Obudu

One of the most interesting and least studied dimensions of Christianity in contemporary Africa concerns the way in which the churches are actually perceived at the grassroots level, in the villages. How are the various denominations seen, by those within, and without? How do traditionalists see the Christian presence, and define their own role in relationship to it? The essay which follows seeks to shed some light on these questions, in a case study drawn from one of the most remote areas in Nigeria. As an area for study, Obudu has the great merit that up to now it has not been studied at all. It is not presented as typical though some of the responses may well be. Only a succession of such studies, in diffeerent places, could begin to establish where true typicality lies-if it exists at all.

The Christianness of Othello

,ozr R ANY critics of have stressed the Christianness of it, and certainly they have much ground. Shakespeare wrote for a Christian audience, was himself Christian by rearing, and gave his a Christian setting. Many of its speeches are Christian in ring and signification, as when tells Desdemona to pray, since would not kill thy unprepared spirit (V. ii. 31). Biblical echoes appear too; Iago's not what I am seems a parody of that I am, and Othello's telling himself as he stands over the sleeping Desdemona that his sorrow's heavenly. / It strikes where it doth love (V. ii. 20) suggests Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. Such biblical allusion, says Roy W. Battenhouse, is as signaling a by which to read the play. Even so it is, he thinks, less significant than biblical analogue, which he and others find in profusion. Thus Joseph A. Bryant, Jr., explains that Othello in this reflects the office of God and ... Cassio is Shakespeare's figure of Adam. Desdemona is the spotless victim (Christ) that Iago (Satan, of course) causes to slay in consequence of Cassio's fall. Irving Ribner holds a similar position: Desdemona, the audience knows, stands for mercy and forgiveness. She is a reflection of Christ, who must die at the hands of man, but out of whose death may spring man's redemption. John Vyvyan thinks it important for understanding that . the life of Judas ... might have been Shakespeare's paradigm of tragedy.... ' Plainly these views may have substance, since is Christian in a sense. But whether its Christianness will bear the full statement that some critics make of it seems open to much question. Especially we must ask how Battenhouse's Christian by which to read the play relates to the imitation. What action is an imitation of according to interpretation by the Christian dimension? Adam's? Judas'? Everyman's? Does reading by the Christian dimension ratify for the world of the the Christian revelation? A crucial point here is that a may confirm' to the audience a particular kind of ulti-