{"title":"Christian Witness in a World Full of Fascists","authors":"M. Penner","doi":"10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"Today I will begin to explore with you the question of what Christian witness looks like today, in the context of violent ideological aggression and war. And I must acknowledge right from the start: I am keenly aware of my location – safe and secure in Canada – and of the location of many of you, who are suffering in the midst of a heinous and brutal war, and in constant and imminent danger of its threats (or at least have loved ones caught in the midst of this horrible aggression). So I am aware, then, that in many respects you are my teachers in regard to my principal question here. All I can hope to do is explore with you what I learn from Holy Scripture and from those who have reflected deeply on it (principally from the study of Kierkegaard and Bonhoeffer). I trust that that these meagre reflections will have meaning for you as you seek to be faithful under these incredibly difficult circumstances.","PeriodicalId":131385,"journal":{"name":"Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116572448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Other as Subject: Political Theologies of Autocracy and Democracy","authors":"C. Keller","doi":"10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.2.6","url":null,"abstract":"Сrisis of war leads some people of faith to the question – how can a God of love let such horrors happen? To us as subjects, to us as others? Some with more Calvinist leanings may ask – how can this be part of God’s providential direction of history? These are the questions of theodicy. They presume a standard view of God’s power as an omnipotent control, an omnipotence allowing some degree of human freedom, some version of the human subject’s responsibility. Let me emphasize that the driving question behind the theodicy question is that of divine power. If God has total control, if God is omnipotent in the classical sense, then evil is either directly willed by “Him” or “permitted” – in which case He could step in to stop Putin, could give Putin a heart attack or a change of heart, but for His own inscrutable reasons chooses not to. In other words the intimately disturbing question of theodicy comes down to the broader question of political theology.","PeriodicalId":131385,"journal":{"name":"Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122788986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feeling of Home and Communitas","authors":"S. Ho","doi":"10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"Employing the theories and language of (inter)corporeality, intersubjectivity, enkinaesthesia and other related corporeal locutions, Psalm 84 programmatically depicts the doctrine of the communion of saints is experienced through the saints’ shared cognitive, affective, conative and somatic sensing and consciousness. A corporeal sensitive reading of the psalm surfaces two related embodied pre-reflective experiences. Specifically, communion of saints is experienced as ‘finding and being at home’ for such embodies the sense of safety, provision and security to be contrasted to the stimuli of dangers and threats the body experiences outside the house of the Lord. Also, communion of saints is apprehended when camaraderie or Victor Turner’s communitas is generated from the pre-conceptual tactile proprioceptive intersensory entanglement shared by saints as they make the arduous pilgrimage trek to the house of the Lord. These two manifestations of communion of saints are primarily felt and experienced corporeally than seen or heard. These latter two senses are most privileged in virtual space’s practice of communion of saints. ","PeriodicalId":131385,"journal":{"name":"Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122618740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communion of Saints and an Anabaptist Community","authors":"I. Randall","doi":"10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The Bruderhof (‘place of brothers’) community traces its origins to the work of Eberhard Arnold (1883-1935), his wife Emmy (1884-1980), and her sister Else von Hollander (1885-1932), in Germany in the early part of the twentieth century. Over a century later, the Bruderhof consists of over 3,000 people living in 29 intentional communities on five continents. This study examines the thinking and practice of the Bruderhof regarding ‘the Communion of Saints’, with particular reference to Eberhard Arnold’s creative approach, contained in addresses he gave to the community on themes connected to this area. The main focus is the first two decades of the movement but the article also looks at more recent years.","PeriodicalId":131385,"journal":{"name":"Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology","volume":"126 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114311425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Game of the World différance and Ukrainian Theology: Language, Experience, Ethics, Advent","authors":"Mahomed Rubanenko","doi":"10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.1.7","url":null,"abstract":"Late XX and early XXI centuries are marked by increased interest in deconstruction of Jacques Derrida, which covered with its influence almost all spheres of humanities studies, including theology. In Ukrainian theological discourse the theme of deconstruction is just beginning to be elaborated. The main purpose of the presented article is to consider the key Derridian word-notion “différance” (distinction) – the engine of deconstruction – and its influence on philosophical discourse, the central theme of which is language. The author also critically analyzes the adjacent strategies of “pure gift”, “chora” (khôra) and “unconditional hospitality” in the context of the key symbol of the Derridian corpus: a coming democracy (démocratie à venir), identified in this article with the Christian eschatological symbol “the Kingdom of God”. These strategies, developed by Derrida, aim at a gradual transformation of experience and ethics in the known structures of existence (linguistic, political, religious, social and domestic). The article concludes with an analysis of the relationship between the principles of coming democracy (represented by Derrida’s deconstructivist project and John Caputo’s “weak theology”) and Ukrainian theological thought, as well as a consideration of its possible future.","PeriodicalId":131385,"journal":{"name":"Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114952270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communion of The Saints and The Virtual Space; The Impact of The Pandemic on Ecclesial Communion in The Catholic Church.","authors":"S. Crombie","doi":"10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"The liturgical nature of the Catholic Church emphasises the gathering of God’s people for public worship. Covid-19 restrictions on public events resulted in a shift to online worship. The effect of moving to the virtual space has challenged the Church to embrace a new type of gathering online. The move from physical to virtual worship has consequences for both participation and identity. The pandemic’s long-term impact is still unknown. Already it has changed both membership prayer and practices.","PeriodicalId":131385,"journal":{"name":"Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126407454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paul Copan, Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God","authors":"Fedir Stryzhachuk","doi":"10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.1.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.1.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":131385,"journal":{"name":"Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131246274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Charles Miller, Gift of the World: An Introduction to the Theology of Dumitru Staniloae","authors":"Mahomed Rubanenko","doi":"10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.1.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":131385,"journal":{"name":"Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122898859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"S. Egorov, A. Egorov, Tools for an Evaluation of Programs of Theological Education","authors":"Vyacheslav Bartov","doi":"10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.1.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":131385,"journal":{"name":"Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115684720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communion of Saints and Prayer","authors":"Boris Paschke","doi":"10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29357/2789-1577.2022.20.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"This article studies the Christian Church as a communion of saints by focusing on the New Testament references to prayer. Because of their content, some prayers are directly and expressly concerned with the communion and unity of Christian believers. But independent of their specific topic or request, all prayers provide worthwhile insights with regard to the communion of saints. The importance (and even necessity) of Christians praying together as well as interceding and giving thanks for each other is stressed. Numerous prayers having been uttered by individual believers in solitude are later reported in letters in order to strengthen the rest of the Church. By taking into account the unfortunate physical fragmentation of churches during the Covid-19 pandemic, the contribution highlights what the Church today, as a physical (and digital) communion of saints, can learn from the New Testament’s teaching on prayer. ","PeriodicalId":131385,"journal":{"name":"Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129708710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}