Garīgums Kristietībā Un P. Tilliha Protestantu Princips: Christian spirituality and P. Tillich's Protestant Princip.
The aim of this article is to analyse how various types of Christian spirituality and practices related to them correspond with the Protestant Principle elaborated by Paul Tillich. He does not use the word 'Protestant" in its traditional historical-denominational sense. According to him al...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Latvian |
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LU Akadēmiskais apgāds
2018
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Cel̜š
Year: 2018, Issue: 69, Pages: 142-172 |
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| Summary: | The aim of this article is to analyse how various types of Christian spirituality and practices related to them correspond with the Protestant Principle elaborated by Paul Tillich. He does not use the word 'Protestant" in its traditional historical-denominational sense. According to him all truth-claims should include selfnegation. The Protestant Principle is violated in all cases when relative (ideologies, structures, practices) is made absolute. It equally applies to cases when Roman Catholicism, especially its pre-Vatican II ecclesiology that places authority of the church and its hierarchy above everything else and also to uncritical exultation of experience (Pentecostal movement), written text (Protestant orthodoxy) and reason (Protestant liberalism). The author writes about importance of a local Christian community, 'worldly' spirituality and faith mysticism as ways of practising faith that can serve as an antidote to violations of the Protestant Principle. For example, a believer can think that he talks to God (favourite Evangelical slogan of personal relationships with Jesus) but at one moment he painfully may realise that he is talking to himself and to the image of God constructed by the community he belongs to. The author also pays attention to two spiritual practices - retreats and spiritual direction. Both of them are filled with diverse content that can be liberating and healing for individuals. Contemporary consumer culture intensifies diversification of offers coming from various Christian groups and traditions branded as products to be consumed. But we should be aware of the reality that practices just mentioned as well as others (like private confession) can be used also to turn people into "confessing animals" (M. Foucault), technologies of imposing dualistic understanding of self and sustaining culture of guilt (especially in the field of sexuality). |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cel̜š
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.22364/cl.69.9 |