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The book of Ezekiel consists of three major parts: sign acts and oracles of doom against Judah an... more The book of Ezekiel consists of three major parts: sign acts and oracles of doom against Judah and Jerusalem (Ezek 1-24), Ezekiel's oracles against foreign nations and rulers (25-32), and oracles related to the future restoration of Israel (33-48). 11 The last part, Ezek 33-48, contains the majority of the prophet's oracles of restoration, that is, God will not leave His people in exile forever but bring them back to their homeland and enter into a new covenant method deals with each text as a closed system based on a single stage of time, as well as focusing on logical connections between texts without considering the changes through time.
Western Trinitarian theology starts with the unity of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, while ... more Western Trinitarian theology starts with the unity of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, while eastern Trinitarian theology starts with their diversity, which means that the former emphasizes on the divine unity, but the latter does on the divine diversity. 1 Augustine, as a representative of the western Trinitarian theology, focuses on the unity of God in developing his Trinitarian theology. Therefore Augustine's critics have argued that his Trinitarian theology is abstract due to its emphasis on the divine essence as well as that "the unity of the divine acts ad extra" prevents "the divine acts in this world from revealing the Persons of the Trinity in their distinctness." 2 This paper will examine about Augustine's Trinitarian theology as an heir of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan faith and show how the doctrine of the divine unity permeates his whole Trinitarian theology. At the end I want to evaluate whether Augustine develops an abstract Trinitarian theology due to its excessive focus on the unity of the three Persons as the divine essence and also its insufficient stress on the Persons' distinctiveness as the divine threeness. Before getting into Augustine's Trinitarian theology, it is interesting and necessary to briefly survey how the Trinitarian theology had been developed from the early fourth century to Augustine.
Karl Barth's ecclesiology is very Christocentric. It is also closely linked to his understanding ... more Karl Barth's ecclesiology is very Christocentric. It is also closely linked to his understanding of the role of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, his Christology and Pneumatology are significant for understanding his ecclesiology. Barth develops his ecclesiology based on Christological principles by examining the constitution of his ecclesiology with Christological logic and the election of Jesus Christ as the foundation of Barth's whole ecclesiology as well as the nature and mission of the church as the body of Christ. In terms of the pneumatological dimension of his ecclesiology, Barth argues for three specific relationships between the Spirit and the church: the Spirit and the gathering, upbuilding, and sending of the church. Although Barth's ecclesiology is christologically well-developed as a whole, some critics claim that his Christological overemphasis causes pneumatological deficiencies which results in an abstract ecclesiology.
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The postexilic community in Jerusalem faced the intermarriage crisis between Israelite men and th... more The postexilic community in Jerusalem faced the intermarriage crisis between Israelite men and their foreign women, as the community was in the midst of the critical time to reconstruct the holy community. The Torah (Ex. 34:15-16; Deut. 7:1-5; 23:3-5) specifically depicts a prohibition against intermarriage. However, the decision of Ezra against the intermarriage seems extreme not only by condemning intermarriage as sin but also by excommunicating the foreign wives and their children. Why? Scholars have different views on the reasons of their extreme reaction against the intermarriage in the period of the return to Zion: religious, ethnic, economic-political motives. Although there should be multidimensional motivations, this paper tries to reveal what motive(s) mattered more significantly in terms of the extreme step that Ezra took on the intermarriage issue in the postexilic period by examining the text in the view of the socio-historical background.
The book of Ezekiel consists of three major parts: sign acts and oracles of doom against Judah an... more The book of Ezekiel consists of three major parts: sign acts and oracles of doom against Judah and Jerusalem (Ezek 1-24), Ezekiel's oracles against foreign nations and rulers (25-32), and oracles related to the future restoration of Israel (33-48). 11 The last part, Ezek 33-48, contains the majority of the prophet's oracles of restoration, that is, God will not leave His people in exile forever but bring them back to their homeland and enter into a new covenant method deals with each text as a closed system based on a single stage of time, as well as focusing on logical connections between texts without considering the changes through time.
Western Trinitarian theology starts with the unity of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, while ... more Western Trinitarian theology starts with the unity of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, while eastern Trinitarian theology starts with their diversity, which means that the former emphasizes on the divine unity, but the latter does on the divine diversity. 1 Augustine, as a representative of the western Trinitarian theology, focuses on the unity of God in developing his Trinitarian theology. Therefore Augustine's critics have argued that his Trinitarian theology is abstract due to its emphasis on the divine essence as well as that "the unity of the divine acts ad extra" prevents "the divine acts in this world from revealing the Persons of the Trinity in their distinctness." 2 This paper will examine about Augustine's Trinitarian theology as an heir of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan faith and show how the doctrine of the divine unity permeates his whole Trinitarian theology. At the end I want to evaluate whether Augustine develops an abstract Trinitarian theology due to its excessive focus on the unity of the three Persons as the divine essence and also its insufficient stress on the Persons' distinctiveness as the divine threeness. Before getting into Augustine's Trinitarian theology, it is interesting and necessary to briefly survey how the Trinitarian theology had been developed from the early fourth century to Augustine.
Karl Barth's ecclesiology is very Christocentric. It is also closely linked to his understanding ... more Karl Barth's ecclesiology is very Christocentric. It is also closely linked to his understanding of the role of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, his Christology and Pneumatology are significant for understanding his ecclesiology. Barth develops his ecclesiology based on Christological principles by examining the constitution of his ecclesiology with Christological logic and the election of Jesus Christ as the foundation of Barth's whole ecclesiology as well as the nature and mission of the church as the body of Christ. In terms of the pneumatological dimension of his ecclesiology, Barth argues for three specific relationships between the Spirit and the church: the Spirit and the gathering, upbuilding, and sending of the church. Although Barth's ecclesiology is christologically well-developed as a whole, some critics claim that his Christological overemphasis causes pneumatological deficiencies which results in an abstract ecclesiology.
The postexilic community in Jerusalem faced the intermarriage crisis between Israelite men and th... more The postexilic community in Jerusalem faced the intermarriage crisis between Israelite men and their foreign women, as the community was in the midst of the critical time to reconstruct the holy community. The Torah (Ex. 34:15-16; Deut. 7:1-5; 23:3-5) specifically depicts a prohibition against intermarriage. However, the decision of Ezra against the intermarriage seems extreme not only by condemning intermarriage as sin but also by excommunicating the foreign wives and their children. Why? Scholars have different views on the reasons of their extreme reaction against the intermarriage in the period of the return to Zion: religious, ethnic, economic-political motives. Although there should be multidimensional motivations, this paper tries to reveal what motive(s) mattered more significantly in terms of the extreme step that Ezra took on the intermarriage issue in the postexilic period by examining the text in the view of the socio-historical background.