Of pagan festivals and meta-narratives: Recovering the awareness of our shared humanness

Autor:	Richard J. Mouw
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Politics media_common.quotation_subject Religious studies Compassion Environmental ethics Narrative Sociology Theology Worship Economic Justice Nature versus nurture Solidarity media_common
Zdroj:	Scottish Journal of Theology. 70:251-263
ISSN:	1475-3065 0036-9306
DOI:	10.1017/s0036930617000278
Popis:	The notion of human commonness was a key interest of the nineteenth-century theologian-statesman Abraham Kuyper. As an orthodox Calvinist, Kuyper accepted the division of humankind into the categories of ‘elect’ and ‘non-elect’, but he was also convinced that this way of classifying human beings failed to account for the positive contributions of non-Christians. As a political leader, Kuyper was also concerned to enlist his fellow Calvinists in the quest for justice in the larger society and specifically focused on the ways in which Christian worship can nurture a sense of shared humanness that extends beyond the walls of the church. In our contemporary setting, where our loss of an emphasis on a shared humanness is becoming widespread, Kuyper's effort to ground human solidarity in the practices of worship has much to commend it.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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