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Mohr, Adam. "Out of Zion Into Philadelphia and West Africa: Faith Tabernacle Congregation, 1897-1925." Pneuma 32, no. 1 (2010): 56–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/027209610x12628362887631.
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AbstractIn May 1897 Faith Tabernacle Congregation was formally established in North Philadelphia, emerging from an independent mission that shortly thereafter became the Philadelphia branch of John Alexander Dowie’s Christian Catholic Church. Faith Tabernacle probably abstained from merging with Dowie’s organization because, unlike the Christian Catholic Church, it rigorously followed the faith principle for managing church finances. Like the Christian Catholic Church, Faith Tabernacle established many similar institutions, such as a church periodical (called Sword of the Spirit), a faith home, and a missions department. After Assistant Pastor Ambrose Clark became the second presiding elder in 1917, many of these institutions began flourishing in connection with a marked increase in membership, particularly in the American Mid-Atlantic as well as in Nigeria and Ghana. Unfortunately, a schism occurred in late 1925 that resulted in Clark’s leaving Faith Tabernacle to found the First Century Gospel Church. This event halted much of Faith Tabernacle’s growth both domestically and in West Africa. Subsequently, many of the former Faith Tabernacle followers in Nigeria and Ghana founded the oldest and largest Pentecostal churches in both countries.
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Kgatle, Mookgo Solomon. "SOCIOLOGICAL AND THEOLOGICAL FACTORS THAT CAUSED SCHISMS IN THE APOSTOLIC FAITH MISSION OF SOUTH AFRICA." Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae 42, no. 1 (August 22, 2016): 47–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/1216.
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The Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) of South Africa has experienced schisms from the year 1910 to 1958. The schisms were caused by sociological and theological factors. These are schisms by the Zionist churches (Zion Apostolic Church, Christian Catholic Apostolic Holy Spirit Church in Zion, Zion Apostolic Faith Mission); Latter Rain; Saint John Apostolic Faith Mission and Protestant Pentecostal Church. The sociological factors that led to the schisms by the Zionist churches and the Protestant Pentecostal Church are identified as racial segregation and involvement in politics respectively. The theological factors that caused these schisms by Latter Rain and Saint John Apostolic Faith Mission are manifestations of the Holy Spirit and divine healing respectively. After comparison of the factors, it is concluded that racial segregation is the main factor that caused schisms in the AFM.
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Cabrita, Joel. "Revisiting ‘Translatability’ and African Christianity: The Case of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion." Studies in Church History 53 (May 26, 2017): 448–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/stc.2016.27.
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Focusing on the ‘translatability’ of Christianity in Africa is now commonplace. This approach stresses that African Christian practice is thoroughly inculturated and relevant to local cultural concerns. However, in exclusively emphasizing Christianity's indigeneity, an opportunity is lost to understand how Africans entered into complex relationships with North Americans to shape a common field of religious practice. To better illuminate the transnational, open-faced nature of Christianity in Africa, this article discusses the history of a twentieth-century Christian faith healing movement called Zionism, a large black Protestant group in South Africa. Eschewing usual portrayals of Zionism as an indigenous Southern African movement, the article situates its origins in nineteenth-century industrializing, immigrant Chicago, and describes how Zionism was subsequently reimagined in a South African context of territorial dispossession and racial segregation. It moves away from isolated regional histories of Christianity to focus on how African Protestantism emerged as the product of lively transatlantic exchanges in the late modern period.
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Wacker, Grant. "Marching to Zion: Religion in a Modern Utopian Community." Church History 54, no. 4 (December 1985): 496–511. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3166516.
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The twenty-fourth of September 1905 started as a typical Sunday in Zion City, Illinois. Promptly at 2:00 P.M. John Alexander Dowie ascended the platform of Shiloh Tabernacle, robed in the brightly embroidered garments of an Old Testament High Priest. He was acknowledged by the seven thousand souls who sat before him as the Messenger of the Covenant, the third and final incarnation of the prophet Elijah, and the General Overseer and First Apostle of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion. The 6,600 acres of farms, homes, factories, and businesses surrounding the tabernacle were exclusively his. And for all practical purposes, so were the people. One contemporary journalist judged that Dowie had come to possess the “most autocratic power it is possible to wield in this republic,” while another concluded that “no man… of our time has ever secured anything like the personal following he has.” Near the end of the five hour service the prophet changed into his white expiation robes and, as he had done on countless Sundays in the past, prepared to bless and distribute the Holy Sacraments. But this time, in the semi-darkness of the early evening, he seemed to stagger and slump to the floor. The people soon learned that Dowie had suffered a crippling stroke. They also soon knew that their effort to build a biblical Zion on the “sky-skirted prairie” north of Chicago was in shambles.
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Brittingham, Matthew H. "“The Jews love numbers”: Steven L. Anderson, Christian Conspiracists, and the Spiritual Dimensions of Holocaust Denial." Genocide Studies and Prevention 14, no. 2 (September 2020): 44–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.14.2.1721.
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From his pulpit at Faithful Word Baptist Church (Independent Fundamental Baptist) in Tempe, AZ, fundamentalist preacher Steven L. Anderson launches screeds against Catholics, LGBTQ people, evolutionary scientists, politicians, and anyone else who doesn't share his political, social, or theological views. Anderson publishes clips of his sermons on YouTube, where he has amassed a notable following. Teaming up with Paul Wittenberger of Framing the World, a small-time film company, Anderson produced a film about the connections between Christianity, Judaism, and Israel, entitled Marching to Zion (2015), which was laced with antisemitic stereotypes. Anderson followed Marching to Zion with an almost 40-minute YouTube video espousing Holocaust denial, entitled “Did the Holocaust Really Happen?” In this article, I analyze Anderson's Holocaust denial video in light of his theology, prior films, and connections to other Christian conspiracists, most notably Texe Marrs, I particularly show how Anderson frames the “Holocaust myth,” as he calls it, in light of a deeper spiritual warfare that negatively impacts the spread of Christianity.
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Cabrita, Joel. "People of Adam: Divine Healing and Racial Cosmopolitanism in the Early Twentieth-Century Transvaal, South Africa." Comparative Studies in Society and History 57, no. 2 (March 20, 2015): 557–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417515000134.
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AbstractThis article analyses the intersection between cosmopolitanism and racist ideologies in the faith healing practices of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion. Originally from Illinois, USA, this organization was the period's most influential divine healing group. Black and white members, under the leadership of the charismatic John Alexander Dowie, eschewed medical assistance and proclaimed God's power to heal physical affliction. In affirming the deity's capacity to remake human bodies, church members also insisted that God could refashion biological race into a capacious spiritual ethnicity: a global human race they referred to as the “Adamic” race. Zionist universalist teachings were adopted by dispossessed and newly urbanized Boer ex-farmers in Johannesburg, Transvaal, before spreading to the soldiers of the British regiments recently arrived to fight the Boer states in the war of 1899–1902. Zionism equipped these estranged white “races” with a vocabulary to articulate political reconciliation and a precarious unity. But divine healing was most enthusiastically received among the Transvaal's rural Africans. Amidst the period's hardening segregation, Africans seized upon divine healing's innovative racial teachings, but both Boers and Africans found disappointment amid Zion's cosmopolitan promises. Boers were marginalized within the new racial regimes of the Edwardian empire in South Africa, and white South Africans had always been ambivalent about divine healing's incorporations of black Africans into a unitary race. This early history of Zionism in the Transvaal reveals the constriction of cosmopolitan aspirations amidst fast-narrowing horizons of race, nation, and empire in early twentieth-century South Africa.
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Verdoodt, Frans-Jos. "De daensistische beweging: een sociaal-politieke opstand in Vlaanderen, buiten het socialisme om." WT. Tijdschrift over de geschiedenis van de Vlaamse beweging 74, no. 3 (September 29, 2015): 280–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.21825/wt.v74i3.12093.
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Toen in Wallonië tijdens de lente van 1886 een heftig werkliedenoproer uitbrak, kon men spreken over een opstand in de echte zin van het woord: stakingen, wanorde, vernielingen, bloedige confrontaties met de ordetroepen. Het was een verzet op grote schaal dat het socialistisme als sociaal-politieke beweging een ‘gelaat’ bezorgde, ook in Vlaanderen, waar de katholieke kerk haar maatschappelijk dominantie kon hanteren om, na haar strijd tegen het liberalisme, voortaan eveneens een dam op te werpen tegen het athëistische socialisme. In die context gold de eenheid van de gelovigen als een dwingend imperatief. Sociale hervormingsgezindheid zin kon uitsluitend via antisocialistische organisaties zonder politieke doelstellingen. Wat in Wallonië was gebeurd trilde echter na, inbegrepen de kritische reflex die in bepaalde gelovige kringen was ontstaan en die bij het begin van de jaren 1890 zou leiden tot het ontstaan van de christendemocratie.Ook in Vlaanderen zou de christendemocratische gedachte stilaan ingang vinden, niet in de laatste plaats bij een generatie gelovigen die hun sociaal denken koppelden aan een uitgesproken Vlaamsgezindheid en een zeker antiklerikalisme. Zij ontwikkelden een radicale vorm van christendemocratie en kwamen gaandeweg in botsing met het kerkelijk imperatief van de onvoorwaardelijk politieke eenheid onder de gelovigen. Hun opstand leidde hen naar het pad van de dissidentie.________The Daensist movement: a socio-political revolt in Flanders, outside socialism When a violent riot of labourers broke out in Wallonia during the spring of 1886, it could be described as a true insurrection: strikes, chaos, destruction, bloody confrontations with the forces of law and order. This was large-scale resistance that provided socialism with a ‘face’ as a socio-political movement, including in Flanders. Here the Catholic Church could take advantage of its social dominance in order to also start combating atheist socialism after its fight against liberalism. In that context the unity of the faithful applied as an obligatory imperative. A commitment to social reform was only possible by means of antisocial organisations without political objectives. However, what had happened in Wallonia caused reverberations, including the critical reaction, which occurred in some circles of the faithful and which would lead to the creation of Christian Democracy at the beginning of the 1890’s. The Christian Democratic ideology would also gradually become more widespread in Flanders, particularly amongst a generation of faithful who linked their social thinking to an outspoken pro-Flemish persuasion and a kind of anticlericalism. They developed a radical type of Christian Democracy and gradually found that they had to confront the ecclesiastical imperative of the unconditional political unity among the faithful. Their revolt took them to the path of dissidence.
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Rafapa, Lesibana. "Popular music in the Zion Christian Church." Muziki 10, no. 1 (May 2013): 19–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18125980.2013.805956.
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Kruger, Martinette, and Melville Saayman. "Understanding the Zion Christian Church (ZCC) Pilgrims." International Journal of Tourism Research 18, no. 1 (November 26, 2014): 27–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2030.
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Běhalová, Štěpánka. "The Journey of the Spiritual Song Pozdvihni se duše z prachu [Raise, Thou Soul, Thyself from the Dust] from a Printed Broadside to a Hymn Book." Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae – Historia litterarum 62, no. 1-2 (2017): 58–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/amnpsc-2017-0007.
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The article deals with the publication of the song for the Holy Mass with the incipit Pozdvihni se duše z prachu [Raise, Thou Soul, Thyself from the Dust] in the 19th century. The author of the text of this song is the Premonstratensian Eugen Karel Tupy, also known under the pseudonym Boleslav Jablonsky. This song for the Holy Mass is included in the current unified hymn book in the section of the Ordinary and common chants of the Mass as number 517. In the 19th century, the song was published in several types of printed media. Its earliest extant edition is a broadside from 1845, which was followed by similar editions from 1849 and 1850, 1854, 1855, 1859 and another two undated. In 1852, the author himself included it in the second edition of the prayer book Růže sionská [The Rose of Zion], although it is not part of the first edition from 1845. In the same year, the song was included in the hymn book Písně ke mši svaté pro školní mládež [Songs for the Holy Mass for School Children] and three years later in a hymn book from the same printing house Písně ke mši svaté, k úžitku osady Hostounské a Únětické [Songs for the Holy Mass to Be Used in the Settlements of Hostouň and Unětice] and in 1860 in the Zpěvník pro chrám, školu i dům [The Hymnal for Church, School and Home]. At that time, it also appeared in the contemporary Perla pravých křesťanů [A Pearl of True Christians], compiled by František Křenek and published in 1860, as well as in the prayer book Květinná malá zahrádka [A Small Flower Garden], published in the printing house of Alois Josef Landfras and his son in Jindřichův Hradec around 1860. The song was also included in Písně a modlitby pro studující katolickou mládež [Songs and Prayers for Young Catholic Students] by Blahorod Čap, who had the collection printed in Litomyšl in 1869. The penetration of the text of the song by a renowned poet and writer from broadsides to hymnals and prayer books provides interesting and rare evidence of the journey of an artificial song to the unified hymn book.
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HILHORST, Anthony. "Christian Martyrs Outside the Catholic Church." Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 60, no. 1 (December 31, 2008): 23–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/jecs.60.1.2035273.
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Anderson, Allan H. "The Lekganyanes and Prophecy in the Zion Christian Church." Journal of Religion in Africa 29, no. 3 (1999): 285–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006699x00368.
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Bulyha, Iryna. "Christian denominations of Volyn region in the conditions of transformation of modern Ukrainian society." Religious Freedom, no. 20 (March 7, 2017): 82–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/rs.2017.20.868.
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The social transformations taking place today in Ukraine are accompanied by the intensive development of denominations, among which in the Volyn region championship holds Christian in their kind - Orthodox (Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, independent Orthodox communities ), Protestant (Baptists, Pentecostals, Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses and others), Catholic (Roman Catholic Church, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church) community.
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Kyiak, S. "Territorial Realization of the Universe of the Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Byzantine Rite." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 25 (December 27, 2002): 97–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2003.25.1432.
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The Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Byzantine Rite (hereinafter referred to as the OCHRC), as the heir to the Kyiv Church and as the local Eastern Catholic Church, by which history affirmed the name of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, preserving the Eastern Christian Tradition, and developing national church traditions. This dual unity of the OCHS has been and remains a testament to its universal character, which is inherent in the entire Catholic Church.
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Espinosa, David. "“Restoring Christian Social Order”: The Mexican Catholic Youth Association (1913-1932)." Americas 59, no. 4 (April 2003): 451–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tam.2003.0037.
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[our goal] is nothing less that the coordination of the living forces of Mexican Catholic youth for the purpose of restoring Christian social order in Mexico …(A.C.J.M.’s “General Statutes”)The Mexican Catholic Youth Association emerged during the Mexican Revolution dedicated to the goal of creating lay activists with a Catholic vision for society. The history of this Jesuit organization provides insights into Church-State relations from the military phase of the Mexican Revolution to its consolidation in the 1920s and 1930s. The Church-State conflict is a basic issue in Mexico's political struggles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with the Church mobilizing forces wherever it could during these years dominated by anticlericalism. During the 1920s, the Mexican Catholic Youth Association (A.C.J.M.) was in the forefront of the Church's efforts to respond to the government's anticlerical policies. The A.C.J.M.’s subsequent estrangement from the top Church leadership also serves to highlight the complex relationship that existed between the Mexican bishops and the Catholic laity and the ideological divisions that existed within Mexico's Catholic community as a whole.
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Wade, Richard P., Patrick G. Eriksson, Hannes C. J. deW Rautenbach, and G. A. Duncan. "Southern African cosmogenic geomythology (“following a star”) of the Zion Christian Church." Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 69, no. 2 (April 14, 2014): 81–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0035919x.2014.905880.
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Chirkov, Nikolai V. "THE INCULTURATION OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERCULTURAL AND INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH." Study of Religion, no. 1 (2018): 144–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.22250/2072-8662.2018.1.144-155.
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In the missionary work of the Roman Catholic Church among non-Christian peoples and cultures, the Church resorts to the use of strategies for the inculturation of Christianity, based on the establishment and development of intercultural and interreligious dialogues. Based on the analysis of the official documents of the Roman Catholic Church (declaration of the Second Vatican Council, social doctrine of the Catholic Church, encyclicals and apostolic exhortations of the pontiffs), the author attempts to reveal the problems of the inculturation of Christianity rising in the context of intercultural and interreligious dialogues and making impact on the missionary work of the Catholic Church. Thanks to the reforms and subsequent decisions of the Second Vatican Council, the aspects, goals, tasks, and instructions for the dialogue of Christianity with non-Christian religions were formulated and set out. In future, the topic of intercultural and interreligious dialogues was developed and expressed in the social doctrine of the Catholic Church, as well as in the encyclicals and apostolic exhortations of the Roman Catholic pontiffs. According to the Roman Catholic Church position, interreligious and intercultural dialogues are aimed at mutual enrichment of various spiritual cultures, and their development should prepare the ground for further evangelization.
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O’Keeffe, Bernadette. "Fidelity and Openness: A Christian Response to Pluralism." International Journal of Education and Religion 1, no. 1 (July 24, 2000): 122–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1570-0623-90000014.
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The paper gives an outline of the conception of the Catholic Church on its mission in education today, with particular reference to the Catholic school in its encounter with pluralism. Three models of Catholic schools in the encounter with children of other faiths are presented. A distinction is made between catechesis, religious education and evangelization. The paper focuses especially on the mission of Catholic schools in urban poverty areas.
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Di Donna, Gianandrea. "Mixed-Marriages in the Liturgical Catholic Church Tradition." Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu 10, no. 3 (December 1, 2018): 412–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ress-2018-0031.
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Abstract The question of inter-confessional marriages concerns all the Churches and has become much more urgent because of the great mobility of contemporary man. The Christian wedding is seen as a sacrament of Christ by the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church, while the Churches born from the Protestant Reformation do not take this sacramental view, although Luther considers the divine blessing on the institution useful. The advantage of a sacramental perspective lies in the fact that the spouses, by virtue of the sacrament of marriage, become capable of “being married” according to the quality of Christ’s paschal love for his Church. In this way, according to the author, other theological perspectives open up, for example the sequela Christi, the idea of the vocation to Christian marriage, the foundation of the bond of indissolubility-fidelity and the foundation of sexual union-fruitfulness.
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Vos, Louis. "Het politieke falen van een kerkvorst. Kardinaal Suenens en 'Leuven-Vlaams' (1962-1968)." WT. Tijdschrift over de geschiedenis van de Vlaamse beweging 77, no. 4 (December 18, 2019): 329–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.21825/wt.v77i4.15713.
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In dit artikel wordt de rol geanalyseerd van kardinaal Suenens in de ontknoping van de kwestie ‘Leuven-Vlaams’. Zijn mandement van 13 mei 1966, dat ook door de andere Belgische bisschoppen werd ondertekend, leidde een halve eeuw geleden tot de splitsing van de Leuvense universiteit.Suenens’ beslissing in 1966 om de Franstalige afdeling in Leuven te handhaven, lokte groot verzet uit in Vlaanderen. Het kwam tot een revolte tegen het kerkelijk gezag, enerzijds omdat de katholieke Vlaamse opinie de autoritaire ‘verordening’ van de bisschoppen als autoritair klerikalisme verwierp, anderzijds omdat een permanente Franstalige aanwezigheid in Leuven in Vlaanderen gezien werd als een bedreiging van het Vlaamse karakter van Brabant. Dat was voor de Vlaamse beweging en politici ook daarom onaanvaardbaar, omdat pas in 1963 de taalgrens was vastgelegd met als bedoeling homogene taalgebieden te creëren, eentalig Nederlands in Vlaanderen, ééntalig Frans in Wallonië, en tweetalig in Brussel.Toen in januari 1968 de UCL blijkens haar expansieplan in Leuven wilde blijven, leidde dat tot een tweede revolte, die het hele Vlaamse land beroerde. Een eerste gevolg ervan was dat het eenheidsfront van de kerkelijke hiërarchie verloren ging en de Vlaamse en Waalse bisschoppen respectievelijk het standpunt van de eigen taalgemeenschap bijtraden. De facto liet vanaf toen het episcopaat de beslissing over Leuven over aan de politiek. Een tweede gevolg was dat de politieke partijen – te beginnen met de christendemocratische – uiteenvielen naar taalgroep, wat leidde tot de val van de regering, tot parlementsverkiezingen, en een nieuwe regering die de splitsing en overheveling van de UCL naar Louvain-la-Neuve realiseerde.De historische betekenis van Suenens’ optreden lag ten eerste op het niveau van de Kerk zelf, want door lijnrecht in te gaan tegen de verwachtingen in Vlaanderen betreffende een ééntalig Leuven, en door de autoritaire toon van het bisschoppelijk mandement, vernietigde het kerkelijk gezag zijn eigen autoriteit. Ten tweede versterkte dit optreden het Vlaams-nationalisme en de communautaire tegenstellingen in het land, zodat daarna staatshervormingen in federaliserende zin onvermijdelijk werden. Ten derde verschoof de focus van de Leuvense studentenbeweging van Vlaamsgezind verzet tegen de bisschoppelijke verklaring, naar antiklerikalisme en anti-autoritarisme, en daarna naar een globale nieuwlinkse maatschappijkritiek. Ze bleef na 1968 een decenniumlang de Leuvense studentenbeweging oriënteren.Al deze gevolgen waren tegengesteld aan wat Suenens had bedoeld met het mandement. Hij gaf daarom later toe zich te hebben vergist. Vier elementen helpen die vergissing te verklaren: het besloten Franstalig milieu waarin hij leefde; de normatieve verwachting die aan zijn rol van primaat aartsbisschop van België kleefde; de gedachte dat de eenheid van de ‘grootste katholieke universiteiten ter wereld’ een voorwaarde was voor haar internationale rol; en ten slotte ook persoonlijke elementen, zoals zijn elitaire levensloop en aristocratische persoonlijkheid. Ze droegen alle bij tot het politieke falen van de kerkvorst.__________
“A Wide Field for the Student Movement Lies Open.” On the Origin and Character of the Flemish Front Movement
This article analyses Cardinal Suenens’ role in the conclusion of the issue ‘Leuven Vlaams’ [Leuven Flemish]. His directive of May 13, 1966 – also supported by the other Belgian bishops – ultimately resulted in the separation of the university in Leuven half a century ago.Suenens’ decision in 1966 to maintain a Francophone branch at the university in Leuven had sparked great opposition in Flanders. This would culminate into a revolt against the clerical authorities because, on the one hand, the Catholic Flemish opinion designated the bishops’ rigid ‘ordinance’ as authoritarian clericalism, and because, on the other hand, a permanent Francophone presence in Leuven was considered a threat to the Flemish character of the province of Brabant. Consequently, the Flemish movement and politicians deemed this unacceptable, and were further emboldened by the fact that as recently as 1963 the linguistic border had been consolidated, which was intended to create linguistically homogenous regions: monolingual in Flanders and Wallonia, and bilingual in Brussels.When in January 1968 the UCL’s expansion plans conveyed its intentions to remain in Leuven, it sparked a second revolt that swept the entire Flemish land. A first consequence was the dissolution of the ecclesiastical hierarchy’s unity, as Flemish and Walloon bishops supported their own linguistic communities’ stance, ultimately leading to the episcopate relinquishing the decision over Leuven to politics. A second consequence was that political parties – starting with the Christian-democrats – disbanded and realigned along the linguistic fault line, which led to the fall of the government, parliamentary elections and a new government that implemented the separation and subsequence transfer of the UCL to Louvain-la-Neuve.The historical relevance of Suenens’ demea-nour is first of all related to the Catholic Church itself. The stark clash with Flemish expectations regarding a unilingual university at Leuven, and the authoritarian tone of the bishop’s directive had led to the abrogation of his pre-eminence by the clerical authorities. Secondly, his conduct strengthened Flemish nationalism and the country’s communitarian cleavage, thereby rendering the subsequent state reforms to federalism inevitable. Finally, Suenens’ stance transformed the student movement in Leuven, entailing a shift from Flemish opposition to the bishop’s decree towards anti-clericalism and anti-authoritarianism. This would subsequently contribute to the emergence of a general New Left critical orientation, which influenced the student movements for over a decade following 1968.All these effects were the exact reverse of the directive’s intentions. That is why Suenens later admitted that he had made a mistake. Four elements help to explain that error: the closed Francophone milieu in which he lived; the normative expectations that were associated with his role as Belgian’s archbishop; the presumption that the unity of ‘the biggest Catholic university in the world’ was a prerequisite for its international stature; and finally his personality, including his elite upbringing and aristocratic personality. These all contributed to the prelate’s political downfall.
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O'Brien, David J. "The Church and Catholic Higher Education." Horizons 17, no. 1 (1990): 7–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0360966900019691.
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AbstractRecurrent debates about the church and higher education in the United States involve differing understandings of the nature and purpose of the church as well as differing understandings of the university. Catholic colleges and universities remain important but underutilized resources for the American church as it pursues its mission. Institutional, communitarian and servant models of the church must be examined more rigorously before they are used to prescribe changes in higher education. None is without problems. In a pluralistic and free society, a public church,” self-consciously mediating the tensions between Christian integrity, Catholic unity, and civic responsibility, provides an altogether appropriate stance for Catholic colleges and universities as well. It points not to a neat resolution of outstanding difficulties but to ongoing dialogue among the publics to which both church and higher education must address themselves.
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Bianchi, Eugene C. "Resources for a Democratic Catholic Church." Horizons 18, no. 2 (1991): 207–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0360966900025123.
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AbstractThis article explores sources in the Christian tradition that can be helpful for re-shaping present Roman Catholic ecclesial polity. The underlying theme is that the Catholic Church, in order to enhance efforts at church reform, needs to re-structure itself from a monarchical polity to a democratic one. A theological subtheme argues that the monarchical polity is not mandated by the gospel, but is rather a creature of history. Furthermore, the monarchical polity is a root cause obstructing reform in specific areas. By selecting loci from early church history to the present time, democratic movements and ideas are highlighted as constituting an important part of Catholic history. Certain of these loci have not yet been examined for their democratic potential. This democratic tradition can be a springboard for moving toward a democratic church in the twenty-first century.
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Yarotskiy, Petro. "Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church as an Object of the Eastern Policy of the Vatican in the Context of Catholic-Orthodox Relations." Religious Freedom 1, no. 19 (August 30, 2016): 147–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/rs.2016.19.1.955.
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Until the mid-twentieth century, the Catholic Church did not recognize the principle of religious freedom, and hence the freedom of conscience. That is why her attitude to other religions, especially Christian churches, was based on the ecclesial and soteriological exclusivism "Extra Ecclesiam Romanam nulla salus" - "Out of the Roman Church there is no salvation." The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) approved the "Decree on Religious Freedom", which opened the way for dialogue with other religions and ecumenism with Christian churches, especially the Orthodox.
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Jeanrond, Werner G. "Ecclesia semper reformanda: Protestant Principle and Church Renewal." Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift 73, no. 4 (December 31, 2010): 271–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/dtt.v73i4.106441.
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Paul Tillich’s dialectics of “Protestant principle” and “Catholic substance” acknowledges the need to question any form of embodiment and inculturation of Christian faith in the transcendent and sovereign God, i.e. it acknowledges the necessity of both continuing church renewal and continuing religious and cultural embodiment of the Christian gospel. This article explores the theological potential of these concepts with regard to both the eschatological nature of Christian faith praxis and the mulitireligious universe in which Christian hope for God’s coming reign must articulate itself today.
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Jevtic, Miroljub. "Eastern Orthodox Church and modern religious processes in the world." Medjunarodni problemi 64, no. 4 (2012): 425–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/medjp1204425j.
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The majority of the Christian world today is affected by weakening adherence to principles of religious practice. The reverse is the case in the countries of predominantly Orthodox tradition. After the collapse of communism, all types of human freedom were revived, including the religious one. The consequence is the revival of the Orthodox Christianity. It is reflected in the influence of the Orthodox Church on the society. Today, the most respected institutions in Russia and Serbia are the Russian and Serbian Orthodox Church, respectively. Considering the decline of the Western Christianity, the revival of the Orthodox Church has raised hopes that the Western Christianity can be revived, too. Important Christian denominations, therefore, show great interest in including the Orthodox Church in the general Christian project. It is particularly evident in the Roman Catholic Church foreign policy. The Roman Catholic Church is attempting to restore relations with Orthodox churches. In this sense, the most important churches are the Russian and the Serbian Church. But, establishing relations with these two is for Vatican both a great challenge and a project of great significance.
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Nedavnya, Olga. "Feature of institutionalization processes in Ukrainian Greek Catholicism in modern conditions." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 66 (February 26, 2013): 301–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2013.66.277.
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The development of each Church is denoted by one or another landmark, most of which are well-known to all, although there are also few known or those whose influence on the evolution of the Church is not evident. The Second Vatican Council is an event that, without exaggeration, can be a determinant of the time "before" and "after", not only for the Catholic Church, where it took place. Since this Cathedral was a significant stage of qualitative development, or not the oldest continuously existing institution, the consequences of its decisions, including the consequences of the remote, are interesting to study, in particular, from the point of view of their influence on further institutionalization processes in the Church. This is an interesting field of research for many religious scholars, but in this exploration we are currently focusing on the specifics of the course of institutionalization processes in the modern Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church as a special part of the post-assembly Catholic Church, as one that inherited the advantages and problems of the Christian East , and the Christian West.
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Sala, Rossano. "Youth Ministry after the Synod on Young People—Ten Points of No Return." Religions 11, no. 6 (June 25, 2020): 313. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11060313.
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From October 2016 to March 2019, the Catholic Church engaged in a lengthy journey together with young people. Over these two and a half years, some important documents were produced, including the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Christus Vivit by Pope Francis. The Synod on Youth has involved the entire Catholic Church, mobilizing all Church communities around the world. After explaining the identity and meaning of a Synod for the Catholic Church, the author offers ten points of no return, which are to be considered the main fruits of this journey. They are leaven for the renewal of youth ministry in the Catholic context and elements for further exploration, comparison and dialogue with other Christian denominations.
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Logan, Oliver. "Christian civilization and Italic civilization: Italian Catholic theses from Gioberti to Pius XII." Studies in Church History 33 (1997): 475–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400013401.
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‘Civilization’ was a major keyword in the Italian Catholic discourse of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. Indeed Catholic Christian civilization was seen as synonymous with true civilization itself insofar as the post-classical era was concerned. The concept of ‘Christian civilization’ was closely allied to that of cristianità, as distinct from cristianesimo (Christianity). The terms cristianità and chrétienté, like English ‘Christendom’, had originally had primarily geographical connotations, but in post-Revolutionary Catholic thought they acquired connotations of a Christian order of society under the leadership of the Church, the evils of the modern world being presented as consequences of its breakdown. The allied discourse on ‘Christian civilization’ itself in the Italian Catholic world, as in the French one, was in large measure reactionary in character, associated with Counter-Revolutionary ideology and with opposition to liberalism. It asserted that a return of society to the Church was a precondition of social order. Thus the myth of a lost universal order offered a paradigm for the future.
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Koehne, Samuel. "Nazi Germany as a Christian State: The “Protestant Experience” of 1933 in Württemberg." Central European History 46, no. 1 (March 2013): 97–123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008938913000046.
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The study of German Christian responses to the Nazis is undoubtedly a growing field of historical inquiry. Within this topic much of the focus has been on larger church organizations, such as the Catholic Church or on those who were engaged in the “Church Struggle” (Kirchenkampf)––the Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche, BK) or the German Christian Faith Movement (Glaubensbewegung Deutsche Christen,GDC). There are numerous such works that form excellent studies of church organizations, as well as individual theologians.
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Müller, Retief. "The Zion Christian Church and Global Christianity: negotiating a tightrope between localisation and globalisation." Religion 45, no. 2 (January 14, 2015): 174–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0048721x.2014.992111.
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Jebadu, Alexander. "Ancestral Veneration and the Possiblity of its Incorporation into the Christian Faith." Exchange 36, no. 3 (2007): 246–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157254307x205757.
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AbstractIn Nostra Aetate – one of the 16 documents of the Second Vatican Council – the Catholic Church firmly declares: 'The Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in other religions⃜ The Church, therefore, urges all her sons and daughters to enter with prudence and charity into discussions and collaboration with members of other religious faith traditions…; (cf. NA. 2). The so-called 'other religions' as stated by Nostra Aetate includes traditional religion in the form of ancestral veneration. It is still widely and popularly practiced by Christians of various ethnic groups in Asia and Africa as well as in other parts of the world – Latin America, Melanesia and Australia (the Aborigines). Despite the suppression and expulsion done in the past, this religious tradition is still able to survive and continue to demonstrate its vital force in the lives of many Asians and Africans, including those who have embraced the Christian faith. In this article we argue that ancestral veneration does not contradict the Christian faith. It has a place in the Christian faith and should be incorporated into, at least, in Catholic Christian devotion.
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Clague, Julie. "Christian Conscience, Catholic Teaching and Lay Participation in Public Life." International Journal of Public Theology 5, no. 3 (2011): 296–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156973211x581551.
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AbstractVatican II left Catholicism with some unresolved tensions: on the one hand between the authority of conscience and the teaching authority of the church and, on the other hand, concerning the proper relationship between the hierarchy and the laity. Such unfinished business continues to play itself out in public and political life. This article traces developments in the Catholic understanding of conscientious participation in public life, stretching from John F. Kennedy’s presidential candidature in 1960 up to the present writings of Pope Benedict XVI. In the post-Vatican II era, Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have emphasized the strong correspondence that should exist between church teaching and the Christian conscience.
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Arens, Thorsten. "Muslim doctors in Catholic hospitals: a challenge for the Christian profile?" Spiritual Care 8, no. 4 (November 5, 2019): 377–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/spircare-2018-0046.
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AbstractThis work won the IGGS Research Award 2018. It was published in 2018 as: "Christliches Profil und muslimisches Personal. Katholische und muslimische Ärzte in Caritas-Krankenhäusern" by Kohlhammer, Stuttgart.The increased immigration in Germany since 1949 has resulted in around four million Muslims settling there. Some of them are employed by churches, particularly as doctors in Catholic hospitals. At the same time, church leaders are demanding a clear, recognisable Christian profile for these institutions. What does this mean and what are the resulting challenges for the Christian profile with regard to a Muslim workforce? These highly topical and hitherto scientifically unanswered questions have been addressed in a qualitative study, in which the answers of six Catholic and six Muslim physicians with different medical specialisations in different Caritas hospitals are assigned to the categories of the three-level-model of the Christian profile. Among other things, the evaluations lead to the following result: Neither the coexistence of Catholic and Muslim physicians nor the headscarves of Muslim women prove to be a challenge in hospitals. It is rather framework conditions in the healthcare system that create problems and conflict with Christian requirements. One of the final recommendations is therefore that the people responsible for the framework provide conditions in which Catholic and Muslim physicians can credibly fulfil the requirements of the Christian mission. The results of the study also illustrate the necessity for a constant thematisation of the Christian foundation of faith as well as of church employment law. Therefore, physicians are able to understand, support and discuss Christian ideas on norms and morals as well as church framework requirements.
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Aftyka, Leszek. "CHARITY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN MEDIEVAL POLAND." Mountain School of Ukrainian Carpaty, no. 19 (November 27, 2018): 23–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.15330/msuc.2018.19.23-25.
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Charity in the Christian tradition is a voluntary form of care and help, which consists in material support provided by wealthy people to the weak, poor and helpless.
The article discusses the most important form so institutional assistant ce provided by clergy, religious or dears, confraternities and corporations - guilds. In the Middle Ages, the greatest social problems were poverty, begging and vagrancy. The actual guardian of the poor was the bishop, where he was obliged to collect funds "provided by the faithful members during the monthly services, from the Sunday collection and imposed penitential penalties. All lay people who performed this task by giving alms to the needy were obliged to provide basic help to their neighbours.
Very important institutions that helped the needy were monasteries, especially those that had their own agricultural economy. Their duties included providing a one-off accommodation and a modest meal for travelers. The monks regularly supported local poor people, often playing the role of seasonal employers, e.g. during the harvest season.
Various fraternities and corporations – guilds were created in medieval cities. From their members they required observance of moral principles and the provision of Christian love to their fellow men. From the collected contributions, as well as from fines for breaking corporate rules or privileges, a fund for charity was created.These organizations were created primarily by craftsmen. One of the most important goals was to care for old and sick members, as well as their decent burial. Some corporations had their own hospitals and shelters.
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Mytnik, Irena. "Modlitwa Jezusowa jako dziedzictwo duchowe Polaków i Ukraińców." Studia Ucrainica Varsoviensia 7 (November 27, 2019): 97–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.6015.
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The article is an attempt to look at Jesus’ prayer as a common spiritual heritage of all Christians, including the Polish and the Ukrainian, and at the same time a synthesis of the current thoughts on this prayer tradition, which is one of the oldest forms of Christian contemplative prayer. It originates from the Holy Scriptures and meditations of the Word of God, it was practiced and developed by the Desert Fathers, Fathers of the Church, monks, clergy and laity, above all in the Churches of the Christian East. Today, the most widespread is in the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Church, but for many years has been experiencing a kind of revival in the Catholic Church. The article presents the teaching of the Church, its saints and contemporary spiritual masters on this subject.
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Shevchenko, Vitaliy Volodymyrovych. "The Problem of the Unity of Christian Churches in the Works of A.Richinsky." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 41 (December 26, 2006): 62–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2007.41.1854.
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In the history of the Christian Church in general, and Ukraine in particular, Orthodox-Catholic relations occupy an extremely important place. The dramatic, as a fact of church and religious life, they attracted the attention of a large number of scholars of different fields of knowledge and research interests. Arsena Rychynsky, a well-known Ukrainian religious scholar whose views on the problem of unity of the Christian Church, overwhelmingly, are scientifically valid, meaningfully original and prognostically relevant. Under such a review, we would like to update some of the researcher's provisions, which directly or indirectly correlate with the uniqueness in her Ukrainian expression. To this end, we recall that, by the exact definition of I. Lysyak-Rudnytsky, Ukraine is quite rightly considered a classic country of the unified tradition. Located on the border of the two worlds, by which we understand the Orthodox East and the Catholic West, it has become the subject of influence of both the Greek (Orthodox) and Roman (Catholic) Churches, which, after all, has caused acute religious and religious events in Rus-Ukraine. inter-confessional controversy and repeated attempts at Orthodox-Catholic reconciliation, and even unification.
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Phan, Peter C. "To be Catholic or Not to Be: Is it Still the Question? Catholic Identity and Religious Education Today." Horizons 25, no. 2 (1998): 159–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0360966900031133.
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AbstractRecent social studies have show that there are, especially among young American Catholics, different conceptions of what constitutes a Catholic. Factors contributing to this new understanding of Catholic identity include religious pluralism and the divergent conceptualizations of catholicity and Catholicism in contemporary theology. As a consequence, different criteria are used to define what it means to be a Catholic. These variations pose serious challenges to religious educators whose task is to shape the religious identity of the students.The study begins with a survey of the history of the concept of catholicity as well as of the criteria for Catholic identity. In view of the variations in the understanding of catholicity, the work discerns four challenges for religious education with its task of fostering Catholic identity: how to maintain a fruitful balance between Vatican II's recognition of the ecclesial nature of non-Catholic Christian communities and its claim that the Catholic Church possesses the fullness of the means of salvation; between Vatican II's call for dialogue with non-Christian religions and its insistence on the distinctiveness of Catholic beliefs and practices; between the legitimate concerns of “communal Catholics” and the necessity for all Catholics to participate fully in the Catholic symbol and ethical system; and between the spiritual and institutional, the invisible and visible elements of the church. The article concludes by suggesting an indirect method to develop and strengthen Catholic identity by means of the “deep structures” of the Catholic faith, with particular focus on Christian doctrines.
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Malahovskis, Vladislavs. "POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN INDEPENDENT LATVIA." Via Latgalica, no. 2 (December 31, 2009): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/latg2009.2.1610.
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The aim of the paper is to reflect the political activities of the Roman Catholic Church in two periods of the history of Latvia and the Roman Catholic Church in Latvia – in the period of First Independence of the Republic of Latvia, basically in the 1920s, and in the period following the restoration of Latvia’s independence. With the foundation of the independent state of Latvia, the Roman Catholic Church experienced several changes; - bishops of the Roman Catholic Church were elected from among the people; - the Riga diocese was restored the administrative borders of which were coordinated with the borders of the state of Latvia; - priests of the Roman Catholic Church were acting also in political parties and in the Latvian Parliament. For the Church leadership, active involvement of clergymen in politics was, on the one hand, a risky undertaking (Francis Trasuns’ experience), but, on the other hand, a necessary undertaking, since in this way the Roman Catholic Church attempted to exercise control over politicians and also affect the voters in the elections for the Saeima. The status of the Church in the State of Latvia was legally secured by the concordat signed in the spring of 1922 which provided for a range of privileges to the Roman Catholic Church: - other Christian denominations in Latvia are functioning in accordance with the regulations elaborated by the State Control and confirmed by the Ministry of the Interior, but the Roman Catholic Church is functioning according to the canons set by the Vatican; - releasing the priests from military service, introduction of the Chaplaincy Institution; - releasing the churches, seminary facilities, bishops’ apartments from taxes; - a license for the activity of Roman Catholic orders; - the demand to deliver over one of the church buildings belonging to Riga Evangelical Lutherans to the Roman Catholics. With the regaining of Latvia’s independence, the Roman Catholic Church of Latvia again took a considerable place in the formation of the public opinion and also in politics. However, unlike the parliamentarian period of the independent Latvia, the Roman Catholic Church prohibited the priests to involve directly in politics and considered it unadvisable to use the word “Christian” in the titles of political parties. Nowadays, the participation of the Roman Catholic Church in politics is indirect. The Church is able to influence the public opinion, and actually it does. The Roman Catholic Church does not attempt to grasp power, but to a certain extent it can, at least partly, influence the authorities so that they count with the interests of Catholic believers. Increase of popularity of the Roman Catholic Church in the world facilitated also the increase of the role of the Roma Catholic Church in Latvia. The visit of the Pope in Latvia in 1993 was a great event not only for the Catholic believers but also for the whole state of Latvia. In the autumn of 2002, in Rome, a concordat was signed between the Republic of Latvia and the Vatikan which is to be classified not only as an agreement between the Roman Catholic Church in Latvia and the state of Latvia but also as an international agreement. Since the main foreign policy aim of Latvia is integration in the European Union and strengthening its positions on the international arena, Vatican as a powerful political force was and still is a sound guarantee and support in international relations.
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Reshetnikov, Yu Ye. "Christian unity: the search for ways to achieve." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 18 (June 12, 2001): 91–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2001.18.1150.
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Last year, the anniversary of all Christianity, witnessed a number of significant events caused by a new interest in understanding the problem of the unity of the Christian Church on the turn of the millennium. Due to the confidentiality of Ukraine, some of these events have or will have an immediate impact on Christianity in Ukraine and on the whole Ukrainian society as a whole. Undoubtedly, the main event, or more enlightened in the press, is a new impetus to the unification of the UOC-KP and the UAOC. But we would like to focus on two documents relating to the problem of Christian unity, the emergence of which was almost unnoticed by the wider public. But at the same time, these documents are too important as they outline the future policy of other Christian denominations by two influential Ukrainian christian churches - the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. These are the "Basic Principles of the attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church to the" I ", adopted by the Anniversary Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Concept of the Ecumenical Position of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, adopted by the Synod of the Bishops of the UGCC. It is clear that the theme of the second document is wider, but at the same time, ecumenism, unification is impossible without solving the problem of relations with others, which makes it possible to compare the approaches laid down in the mentioned documents to the building of relations with other Christian confessions.
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Ganiel, Gladys. "A charismatic church in a post-Catholic Ireland: negotiating diversity at Abundant Life in Limerick City." Irish Journal of Sociology 24, no. 3 (January 1, 2015): 293–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/ijs.0010.
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This article analyses Abundant Life Christian Church in Limerick City, a multi-ethnic, Pentecostal/charismatic congregation in the Assemblies of God denomination. It provides insights about how religious groups are negotiating immigration and ethnic diversity and how charismatic expressions of Christianity are engaging in Ireland's post-Catholic public sphere. The study revealed remarkably harmonious relationships between native Irish and immigrants of diverse backgrounds, which were built in large part on a leadership model in which one ethnic group did not hold significantly more power than others. The study also found that people at Abundant Life seemed anxious to establish their legitimacy as a Christian church, a concern that was rooted in previous, and even current, experience of Ireland as a ‘Catholic country’. Congregants displayed varying degrees of openness towards Catholicism, but what was striking was how often they described their own faith in contrast to Catholicism. The institution that is the Catholic Church in Ireland cast a long shadow over Abundant Life congregants’ own experience of Christianity and continues to define Ireland's post-Catholic religious market.
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Kieniewicz, Stefan. "Polish Revolutionaries of the Nineteenth Century and the Catholic Church." Studies in Church History. Subsidia 6 (1990): 147–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0143045900001241.
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The subject of my paper lies in a field of studies seldom pursued in Church historiography. Catholic historians in Poland are concerned principally with the study of the Church itself: its spiritual life, organization, political role, and contribution to national life. Much less attention is given to adversaries of the Church; so that, generally speaking, the study of non-Catholic (and non-Christian) trends or sectors in society is currently left to Marxist or liberal scholars. This is a pity.
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Phan, Peter C. "Deus Migrator—God the Migrant: Migration of Theology and Theology of Migration." Theological Studies 77, no. 4 (November 17, 2016): 845–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0040563916666825.
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Our time, which has been dubbed “The Age of Migration,” demands a new way of doing theology (“Migration Theology”) and a new conceptualization of basic Christian beliefs (“Theology of Migration”). This essay begins with a survey of the American Catholic Church and eight migrations in the history of Christianity to show that without migration there would have been neither a US Catholic Church nor the emergence of Christianity as a world religion. “Migrantness” is therefore a mark of the church and of Christianity itself. The construction of a theology of migration, then, requires a method composed of three mediations: analytic, hermeneutic, and practical. Using this method, the author sketches a theology of God, Christ, Holy Spirit, eschatology, and Christian existence from the perspective of migration.
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Willsky-Ciollo, Lydia. "Henry Whitney Bellows and “A New Catholic Church”." Church History and Religious Culture 98, no. 2 (July 12, 2018): 265–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18712428-09801001.
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Abstract This article examines the evolution of Bellow’s proposal for a newly reformed Unitarian “catholic” church during the 1850s and 1860s. For Bellows in particular, political, cultural, and ecclesiastical matters collided in his efforts to transform a diffuse set of liberal Christian churches in fellowship into a denomination of national, even global, caliber. The creation of this “new catholic church” would, in turn, help to heal an ailing nation. There are two questions driving this narrative. First, how did Bellows arrive at the conclusion that Unitarianism was the future of Christendom, the more “Protestant-Protestantism,” or even more boldly, the “more Catholic-Catholicism?” Secondly, how did Bellows arrive at the conclusion that uniting Christendom under a “catholic” Unitarian banner could unite a fractured country? During the early 1860s, the language of nationalism and catholicity merged in Bellows’ organization of the National Convention.
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Jaworski, Piotr. "Kluby Inteligencji Katolickiej jako instytucje wsparcia wykształcenia i wychowania w Diecezji Tarnowskiej." Kultura - Przemiany - Edukacja 8 (2020): 47–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.15584/kpe.2020.8.4.
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Among the various forms of association of the Catholic laity in the Church, one can distinguish associations and organisations – whether they are based on canonical or civil law on associations – and informal circles: religious movements, groups, circles and small groups. The difficult situation of the Church in Poland after World War II was not conducive to the creation of organisations whose activities would be approved by both the church authorities and the state authorities. If, however, quasi-ecclesiastical or religious organisations were to emerge that were recognised by the civil authorities, these were unfortunately organisations that had very little in common with the good of the Church and the faithful. Against this backdrop, the Catholic Intelligence Clubs were a kind of phenomenon. They enjoyed the approval of the Church authorities and, to some extent, the unintentional recognition of the state authorities, and sought to strengthen religious education by forming people and communities in the Christian spirit, shaping social attitudes, creating and deepening Christian culture, intellectual development and various forms of charitable activity. Three Catholic Intelligentsia Clubs were established in the Tarnów Diocese: in Nowy Sącz, Tarnów and Mielec.
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Gazal, Andre A. "’That Ancient and Christian Liberty’: Early Church Councils in Reformation Anglican Thought." Perichoresis 17, no. 4 (December 1, 2019): 73–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/perc-2019-0029.
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Abstract This article will examine the role the first four ecumenical councils played in the controversial enterprises of John Jewel (1522-71) as well as two later early modern English theologians, Richard Hooker (1553-1600) and George Carleton (1559-1628). In three different polemical contexts, each divine portrays the councils as representing definitive catholic consensus not only for doctrine, but also ecclesiastical order and governance. For all three of these theologians, the manner in which the first four ecumenical councils were summoned and conducted, as well as their enactments touching the Church’s life provided patristic norms for its rightful administration. Jewel, Hooker, and Carleton each argued that the English Protestant national Church as defined by the Elizabethan Settlement exemplified a faithful recovery of patristic conciliar ecclesiastical government as an essential component in England’s overall endeavor to return to the true Church Catholic. Jewel employed these councils in order to impeach the Council of Trent’s (1545-63) status as a general council, and to justify the transfer of the authority of general councils to national and regional synods under the direction of godly princes. Hooker proposes the recovery of general councils as a means of achieving Catholic consensus within a Christendom divided along national and confessional lines while at the same time employing the pronouncements of the first four general councils to uphold the authoritative patristic and catholic warrant for institutions and practices retained by the Elizabethan Church. Finally, amid the controversy surrounding the Oath of Allegiance during the reign of James VI/1 (r. 1603-25), George Carleton devoted his extensive examination of these councils to refute papal claims to coercive authority with which to depose monarchs as an extension of excommunication. In so doing, Carleton relocates this ‘coactive jurisdiction’ in the ecclesiastical authority divinely invested in the monarch, making the ruler the source of conciliar authority, and arguably of catholic consensus itself.
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Pizarro Miranda, Bernardo. "The spirit of the Catholic aggiornamento." Actas de Arquitectura Religiosa Contemporánea 4 (February 16, 2017): 108–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.17979/aarc.2015.4.0.5126.
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The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council aimed, in the words used by Pope John XXIII, the aggiornamento of the Catholic Church. The inseparable complementariness between the concept of resourcing and of openness to a new world led to a change of the paradigm of the church temple to the house for the living stones. It is in this context where it comes to light the opportunity to explore the contributions of two non-Christians architects: Aldo van Eyck, and Lina Bo Bardi. In their works and especially in their thoughts it is possible to recognize an elective affinity with the spirit of the Christian aggiornamento.
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PUTNEY, MICHAEL. "A Roman Catholic Understanding of Ecumenical Dialogue." Ecclesiology 2, no. 2 (2006): 179–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/174553206x00052.
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Abstract<title> ABSTRACT </title>The Decree on Ecumenism and subsequent ecumenical documents indicate a growing commitment to ecumenical dialogue in the Catholic Church. Given the ecclesiology of communion of the Second Vatican Council and foundational ecumenical texts in St John's Gospel, it would be impossible for the Roman Catholic Church to be faithful to Christ if it were not engaged in dialogue with other Christian communions. Such dialogue is necessary for its own self-realization. Only through dialogue will it hear the call to conversion and receive the gifts that only other Christians can offer. for the Catholic Church to cease to be involved in ecumenical dialogue would be not just a moral failure, but an ecclesiological breakdown.
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Garai, Gréta, and Zorán Vukoszávlyev. "Supreme Pastor of the Church Cares for the Hungarian Church: Church Architecture of the Hungarian Church During the First Decade of John Paul II’s Papacy." Periodica Polytechnica Architecture 48, no. 1 (June 13, 2017): 53–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3311/ppar.10882.
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One of the first longer letters of Pope John Paul II was addressed to the Hungarian Episcopacy and the Hungarian Catholics. Besides the traditional Polish-Hungarian friendship, he highlighted the person of Saint Stephen and the role of Hungary in the history of the Christian religion. “ […] the Catholic Church, which had such a significant role in the history of Hungary, can still pervade the spiritual image of your country, and can make the lightness of Jesus Christ’s gospel, that gave light to the sons of the Hungarian people during so many centuries, shine for your sons and daughters.”- wrote in his letter.
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Bungenstab, Gabriel Carvalho. "Youth, Catholic Church and Internet: Approaches Possible?" Fragmentos de Cultura 27, no. 4 (February 27, 2018): 583. http://dx.doi.org/10.18224/frag.v27i4.5157.
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This article seeks to understand the relationship between the youth and the Catholic Church (specifically the community of young catholic) in today's society. Assuming that the Church influences the category of youth, despite the "disenchantment of the world" emerged in modernity. We tried to see what the understandings that the Youth Ministry (as Catholics) has on the conceptualization of contemporary Brazilian youth. This requires an analysis of the Youth Ministry (PJ), the Youth Ministry of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR MJ) and Christian Leadership Training (TLC) website has been performed as well as their social networks in order to find the position of this about today's youth.
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O presente artigo busca entender a relação entre a juventude e a Igreja Católica (especificamente as comunidades de jovens católicos) na sociedade hodierna. Parte da hipótese que a Igreja influencia a categoria da juventude, apesar do “desencantamento do mundo” surgido na modernidade. Buscou-se enxergar quais os entendimentos que as comunidades de jovens católicos têm sobre a conceituação da juventude contemporânea brasileira. Para tal, foi realizada uma análise dos sites da Pastoral da Juventude (PJ), do Ministério Jovem da Renovação Carismática Católica (MJ RCC) e do Treinamento de Liderança Cristã (TLC), bem como suas redes sociais, a fim de encontrar o posicionamento desta a respeito da juventude hodierna.
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Bogachevska, Iryna Viktorivna. "Catholic Ajornamento is a manifestation of time." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 24 (November 26, 2002): 20–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2002.24.1370.
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When more than four decades ago, in 1959, Pope John XXIII announced the convening of a high forum of bishops of his Church, many considered his decision to be the least risky. Although the official doctrine of Catholicism, systematized in Pope Leo's encyclical XIII "Rerum novarum" (1891), remained virtually unchanged from its adoption, and each successive head of the Church only developed its position in specific circumstances, John XXIII was convinced: after a long time In centuries of controversy and divisions, the time has come to speak to the world in the language of Christian love, to emphasize not what separates people, but what unites people of good will.