践行圣言:唤醒教会拯救南部非洲社会

IF 0.7 3区 哲学 0 RELIGION
Religions Pub Date : 2024-05-15 DOI:10.3390/rel15050608
Kimion Tagwirei
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摘要

南部非洲社会目前正受到多重社会经济、政治和环境挑战的困扰。普通人渴望得到如何缓解这些挑战的答案。与此同时,教会大多在世界各地宣讲福音,建立和发展教派。用言语宣讲福音固然是好的,但是,如果不以变革性的行动来展示福音,教会就仍然是救世主,只是部分地在传教。考虑到教会的整体使命是全面推进福音,对福音的片面关注,只听其言而不做其行,是对教会身份的玷污。今天,这种情况是有问题的,也是无奈的,因为社会迫切需要一个健康的教会,按照自己的信仰和价值观行事,关注灵魂、身体和生活的其他方面。关于教会的整体使命已经发表了很多文章,但对教会在社会行动中的作用却鲜有论述。通过对文献进行定性审查,并观察南部非洲的背景和圣经中的一些例子,本文发现整体使命是教会存在的主要和全面的目的。虽然教会可以意识到自己的使命,但它应该被唤醒,从而成为圣言的践行者,并通过为满足社会需求做出贡献而成为世界的光与盐。
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Doing the Word: Reawakening the Church to Save Society in Southern Africa
Southern African societies are presently beleaguered by manifold socio-economic, political, and environmental challenges. Ordinary people long for answers to questions about how to mitigate these challenges. Meanwhile, the Church mostly preaches the gospel and establishes and grows denominations across the world. Proclaiming the gospel in word is good; however, without demonstrating the gospel with transformational deeds, the Church remains Salvationist and partially missionary. Bearing in mind that the integral mission of the Church is advancing the gospel holistically, fractional mindfulness of the gospel, hearing the words without performing the corresponding deeds, is defacing its identity. Today, this situation is problematic and helpless, as society is in dire need of a wholesome Church that acts in accordance with its own faith and values and attends to the soul, the body, and all other facets of life. Much has been published about the integral mission of the Church, though little has been said about its role in social action. By qualitatively reviewing the literature and observing the Southern African context and some biblical examples, this paper finds the integral mission to be the predominant and comprehensive purpose of the existence of the Church. While the Church could be aware of its mandate, it should be reawakened so that it becomes a doer of the Word and stands out as the salt and light of the world by contributing to addressing the needs of society.
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Religions
Religions Arts and Humanities-Religious Studies
CiteScore
1.30
自引率
37.50%
发文量
1020
审稿时长
11 weeks
期刊介绍: Religions (ISSN 2077-1444) is an international, open access scholarly journal, publishing peer reviewed studies of religious thought and practice. It is available online to promote critical, hermeneutical, historical, and constructive conversations. Religions publishes regular research papers, reviews, communications and reports on research projects. In addition, the journal accepts comprehensive book reviews by distinguished authors and discussions of important venues for the publication of scholarly work in the study of religion. Religions aims to serve the interests of a wide range of thoughtful readers and academic scholars of religion, as well as theologians, philosophers, social scientists, anthropologists, psychologists, neuroscientists and others interested in the multidisciplinary study of religions
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