Jesus And The Stigmatized
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Author | : Elia Shabani Mligo |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2011-08-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1630876119 |
Biblical scholars often read the Bible with their own interpretive interests in mind, without associating the Bible with the concerns of laypeople. This largely undermines the contributions laypeople can offer from reading the Bible in their own contexts and from their own life experiences. Moreover, such exclusively scholarly reading conceals the role of biblical texts in dealing with current social problems, such as HIV/AIDS-related stigmatization. Hence, the lack of lay participation in the process of Bible reading makes the Bible less visible in various common life situations. In this volume Elia Shabani Mligo draws on his fieldwork among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Tanzania, selects stigmatization as his perspective, and chooses participant-centered contextual Bible study as his method to argue that the reading of texts from the Gospel of John by PLWHA (given their lived experiences of stigmatization) empowers them to reject stigmatization as unjust. Mligo's study shows that Christian PLWHA reject stigmatization because it does not comply with the attitude of Jesus toward stigmatized groups in his own time. The theology emerging from the readings by stigmatized PLWHA, through their evaluation of Jesus' attitudes and acts toward stigmatized people in the texts, challenges churches in their obligatory mission as disciples of Jesus. Churches are challenged to reconsider healing, hospitality and caring, prophetic voices against stigmatization, and the way they teach about HIV and AIDS in relation to sexuality. Churches must revisit their practices toward stigmatized groups and listen to their voices. Mligo argues that participant-centered Bible-study methods similar to the one used in this book (whereby stigmatized people are the primary interlocutors in the process) can be useful tools in listening to the voices of stigmatized groups.
Author | : Elia Shabani Mligo |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 475 |
Release | : 2011-08-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1608997065 |
Biblical scholars often read the Bible with their own interpretive interests in mind, without associating the Bible with the concerns of laypeople. This largely undermines the contributions laypeople can offer from reading the Bible in their own contexts and from their own life experiences. Moreover, such exclusively scholarly reading conceals the role of biblical texts in dealing with current social problems, such as HIV/AIDS-related stigmatization. Hence, the lack of lay participation in the process of Bible reading makes the Bible less visible in various common life situations. In this volume Elia Shabani Mligo draws on his fieldwork among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Tanzania, selects stigmatization as his perspective, and chooses participant-centered contextual Bible study as his method to argue that the reading of texts from the Gospel of John by PLWHA (given their lived experiences of stigmatization) empowers them to reject stigmatization as unjust. Mligo's study shows that Christian PLWHA reject stigmatization because it does not comply with the attitude of Jesus toward stigmatized groups in his own time. The theology emerging from the readings by stigmatized PLWHA, through their evaluation of Jesus' attitudes and acts toward stigmatized people in the texts, challenges churches in their obligatory mission as disciples of Jesus. Churches are challenged to reconsider healing, hospitality and caring, prophetic voices against stigmatization, and the way they teach about HIV and AIDS in relation to sexuality. Churches must revisit their practices toward stigmatized groups and listen to their voices. Mligo argues that participant-centered Bible-study methods similar to the one used in this book (whereby stigmatized people are the primary interlocutors in the process) can be useful tools in listening to the voices of stigmatized groups.
Author | : Louise J. Lawrence |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0199590095 |
Louise J. Lawrence presents provocative re-interpretations of biblical characters that have previously been sidelined and stigmatised on account of their perceived disability. She introduces approaches taken from Sensory Anthropology and Disability Studies to bring fresh methodological perspectives to familiar Gospel texts.
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Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1411602498 |
Stigmatized to Succeed is a collection of Biblical truths about the imperfections in all lives. However none of us should allow our imperfections to keep us from reaching our highest level of success in the Lord. Whenever we totally yield our imperfections to God, they will then become stepping stones to success. Each step will take you from one level to the next in the Lord.
Author | : Arthur Salwey |
Publisher | : Puritan Publications |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 2008-06-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1937466027 |
Salwey teaches in a manner that applies to Christians of all ages, demeanors, types, etc. He preaches from 1 Kings 18:21, “And Elijah came to all the people and said, “How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him, but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.” How many times has it been that you asked yourself, “Am I a Christian?” As Christians we make choices everyday to follow Christ, or not. Salwey says, “It is a very evil thing to halt in religion.” This is the substance of this great work, and the sin that all Christians are guilty of daily. This is not a scan or facsimile, has been updated in modern English for easy reading and has an active table of contents for electronic versions.
Author | : Peter Tradowsky |
Publisher | : Temple Lodge Publishing |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1906999139 |
"Thus, from time to time, such events [the stigmatization] occur that strike one as miraculous, and that can be understood only through knowledge of the world of spirit. Because they seem so hard to explain, they preoccupy everyone and remind people again of the reality of the spirit." -- Ita Wegman Stigmata--the spontaneous appearance of bodily marks in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ--have long been a controversial phenomenon. Well-known stigmatics such as Francis of Assisi, Anne Catherine Emmerich, and Therese Neumann have been associated mostly with the Catholic Church. Judith von Halle, a member of the Anthroposophical Society, received the stigmata in 2004 during Passiontide (the last two weeks of Lent). She has published a dozen notable volumes of spiritual-scientific research. In this book, based on decades of anthroposophic study, Peter Tradowsky presents a comprehensive, though aphoristic, account of the stigmata. He focuses in particular on Judith von Halle, responding to Sergei O. Prokofieff's publication, The Mystery of the Resurrection in the Light of Anthroposophy, which approaches stigmatization from a particular perspective.
Author | : Carolyn Muessig |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2020-02-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0192515136 |
Francis of Assisi's reported reception of the stigmata on Mount La Verna in 1224 is almost universally considered to be the first documented account of an individual miraculously and physically receiving the five wounds of Christ. The early thirteenth-century appearance of this miracle, however, is not as unexpected as it first seems. Interpretations of Galatians 6:17—I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ in my body—had been circulating since the early Middle Ages in biblical commentaries. These works perceived those with the stigmata as metaphorical representations of martyrs bearing the marks of persecution in order to spread the teaching of Christ in the face of resistance. By the seventh century, the meaning of Galatians 6:17 had been appropriated by bishops and priests as a sign or mark of Christ that they received invisibly at their ordination. Priests and bishops came to be compared to soldiers of Christ, who bore the brand (stigmata) of God on their bodies, just like Roman soldiers who were branded with the name of their emperor. By the early twelfth century, crusaders were said to bear the actual marks of the passion in death and even sometimes as they entered into battle. The Stigmata in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe traces the birth and evolution of religious stigmata and particularly of stigmatic theology, as understood through the ensemble of theological discussions and devotional practices. Carolyn Muessig assesses the role stigmatics played in medieval and early modern religious culture, and the way their contemporaries reacted to them. The period studied covers the dominant discourse of stigmatic theology: that is, from Peter Damian's eleventh-century theological writings to 1630 when the papacy officially recognised the authenticity of Catherine of Siena's stigmata.
Author | : Michael Freze |
Publisher | : Our Sunday Visitor Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Mysticism |
ISBN | : 9780879734220 |
A comprehensive study of sacred stigmata augmented with the teachings of the Magisterium, scientific discussion, and biographical stories of authentic stigmatists. -- Dust jacket.
Author | : Rasa Von Werder |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0557080347 |
The Enigma of a Grace Which Means Martyrdom...If there's any grace understood the least, it's the Divine Stigmata.Why would it be understood so little? Perhaps because there are so few recipients, & most of them are from the middle ages-In a word, I'll tell you what it is: Martyrdom. If you can understand voluntary martyrdom, then you know what Divine Stigmata means, stands for, & why IT IS GIVEN. A recent symbol of martyrdom has been St Maximilian Kolbe, who volunteered death in place of another. It does irk me that "scholars" rivet on physical wounds, as if the qualities there hold the answers. How can study of the wounds of Christ explain his psychological, mental & emotional dimensions; the Love therein, the willingness to DIE FOR LOVE. Therefore, the secret & the key to understanding DIVINE STIGMATA is the WILLINGNESS TO SUFFER, TO GIVE UP ALL, TO DIE FOR LOVE; FOR THE SAKE OF SAVING ANOTHER. If you can fathom this, you have the answer.
Author | : Marja Bergen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-08-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Medications, coping strategies, and other world remedies cannot heal the ingrained wounds of stigma. The pain of rejection, shunning, exclusion, feelings of shame, and being looked down on, can only be relieved through spiritual means. By following Jesus and how he treated those the world would not have anything to do with, we too can learn how to help those who are being stigmatized today. In the Name of Jesus will help the reader understand what it's like to live with the pain of stigma. They will see how knowing the love of Jesus and all he can be for us can bring relief and encourage a more confident life.