Anderson Blanton
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469623979
- eISBN:
- 9781469623993
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469623979.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This chapter describes the remarkable metamorphosis of a mere rag into a sacred cloth receptacle for the healing and apotropaic power of the Holy Ghost. Tracking the circulation of anointed fragments ...
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This chapter describes the remarkable metamorphosis of a mere rag into a sacred cloth receptacle for the healing and apotropaic power of the Holy Ghost. Tracking the circulation of anointed fragments of cloth for the purposes of healing and divine protection, this section articulates the relation between the movement of materialized prayers and the compelling narrative force of testimony. Through ethnographic descriptions of the process of manufacture and use of these sacred cloth remnants, this chapter describes the “texture of faith” as a particular desire to instantiate the fleeting voice of prayer. Tracing the movement of these sacred rags, I demonstrate the unanticipated emergence and force of faith in and through the exterior object. Suggesting a profanation at the heart of Holy Ghost power, this chapter describes the “patching-in” of materialized prayers into the threadbare fabric of everyday life.Less
This chapter describes the remarkable metamorphosis of a mere rag into a sacred cloth receptacle for the healing and apotropaic power of the Holy Ghost. Tracking the circulation of anointed fragments of cloth for the purposes of healing and divine protection, this section articulates the relation between the movement of materialized prayers and the compelling narrative force of testimony. Through ethnographic descriptions of the process of manufacture and use of these sacred cloth remnants, this chapter describes the “texture of faith” as a particular desire to instantiate the fleeting voice of prayer. Tracing the movement of these sacred rags, I demonstrate the unanticipated emergence and force of faith in and through the exterior object. Suggesting a profanation at the heart of Holy Ghost power, this chapter describes the “patching-in” of materialized prayers into the threadbare fabric of everyday life.
MAYRA RIVERA
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823233250
- eISBN:
- 9780823240487
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823233250.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter reimagines the Holy Ghost in its relation to memories of suppressed pasts as well as unrealized possibilities, inspired by Spivak's discussions of history, ...
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This chapter reimagines the Holy Ghost in its relation to memories of suppressed pasts as well as unrealized possibilities, inspired by Spivak's discussions of history, ancestors, and memory, in which she invokes the theologically provocative figure of the ghost. After a brief glance at contemporary theoretical debates about the need and viability of remembrance that characterize the cultural moment of the present exploration, the chapter turns to the Bible in search of the Holy Ghost. The Bible offers a diversity of images for the spirit(s)—some of them inspire prophetic boldness, while others are morally ambiguous, or even threatening. To focus on the relationships between the ghosts, memory, and the Holy Ghost, the chapter relies on the Gospel of John's depictions of an almost-dead Jesus in his close connection with the Holy Ghost. Tracing the unique appearances of this Ghost in John reveals the complexity and irreducible multiplicity of its origins and can help us perceive a multitude of other ghosts, ancient and current, whose appearance may teach us something about the future.Less
This chapter reimagines the Holy Ghost in its relation to memories of suppressed pasts as well as unrealized possibilities, inspired by Spivak's discussions of history, ancestors, and memory, in which she invokes the theologically provocative figure of the ghost. After a brief glance at contemporary theoretical debates about the need and viability of remembrance that characterize the cultural moment of the present exploration, the chapter turns to the Bible in search of the Holy Ghost. The Bible offers a diversity of images for the spirit(s)—some of them inspire prophetic boldness, while others are morally ambiguous, or even threatening. To focus on the relationships between the ghosts, memory, and the Holy Ghost, the chapter relies on the Gospel of John's depictions of an almost-dead Jesus in his close connection with the Holy Ghost. Tracing the unique appearances of this Ghost in John reveals the complexity and irreducible multiplicity of its origins and can help us perceive a multitude of other ghosts, ancient and current, whose appearance may teach us something about the future.
Terryl L. Givens
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- June 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199794935
- eISBN:
- 9780190657864
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794935.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
Mormons do not have formal categories or enumeration of sacraments, but five are essential for salvation and are thus administered for the living and the dead: baptism, conferral of Holy Ghost, ...
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Mormons do not have formal categories or enumeration of sacraments, but five are essential for salvation and are thus administered for the living and the dead: baptism, conferral of Holy Ghost, priesthood ordination (male only), endowment, and sealing. Baptism is for remission of sins but also signifies adoption into the heavenly family. Earlier, Mormons performed re-baptisms to signify recommitment and baptisms for health. Conferral of the Holy Ghost is by laying on of hands. Priesthood, being an eternal order, is conferred even upon the deceased. The endowment involves washings, anointings, and a series of sacred covenants or obligations—and has precedent in ancient texts and practices. Sealing in this context refers to the binding together in eternal relation a man and woman. Mormon theology of gender as eternal and complementary founds their practice of man-woman marriage only.Less
Mormons do not have formal categories or enumeration of sacraments, but five are essential for salvation and are thus administered for the living and the dead: baptism, conferral of Holy Ghost, priesthood ordination (male only), endowment, and sealing. Baptism is for remission of sins but also signifies adoption into the heavenly family. Earlier, Mormons performed re-baptisms to signify recommitment and baptisms for health. Conferral of the Holy Ghost is by laying on of hands. Priesthood, being an eternal order, is conferred even upon the deceased. The endowment involves washings, anointings, and a series of sacred covenants or obligations—and has precedent in ancient texts and practices. Sealing in this context refers to the binding together in eternal relation a man and woman. Mormon theology of gender as eternal and complementary founds their practice of man-woman marriage only.
Terryl L. Givens
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199794928
- eISBN:
- 9780199378432
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794928.003.0015
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
The Holy Ghost is the least theologized member of the godhead in both Christian theology and Mormon thought. Still, the Holy Ghost performs indispensable functions, including serving as the vehicle ...
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The Holy Ghost is the least theologized member of the godhead in both Christian theology and Mormon thought. Still, the Holy Ghost performs indispensable functions, including serving as the vehicle of revelation, the testator of Christ, and the source of spiritual gifts. In addition, his non-embodiment allows him to function as omnipresent, whereas the physically embodied Father and Son cannot. In modern Mormonism, the Holy Ghost as a personage has increasingly been differentiated from the Light of Christ, now considered an innate faculty virtually indistinguishable from conscience.Less
The Holy Ghost is the least theologized member of the godhead in both Christian theology and Mormon thought. Still, the Holy Ghost performs indispensable functions, including serving as the vehicle of revelation, the testator of Christ, and the source of spiritual gifts. In addition, his non-embodiment allows him to function as omnipresent, whereas the physically embodied Father and Son cannot. In modern Mormonism, the Holy Ghost as a personage has increasingly been differentiated from the Light of Christ, now considered an innate faculty virtually indistinguishable from conscience.
Brian Davies
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198267539
- eISBN:
- 9780191600500
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198267533.003.0013
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This chapter begins to connect what Thomas Aquinas says about people in general with his teaching on the Trinity – his position being that the Trinity makes us divine since God, who is the Father, ...
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This chapter begins to connect what Thomas Aquinas says about people in general with his teaching on the Trinity – his position being that the Trinity makes us divine since God, who is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, brings us to the final or ultimate good or end of rational creatures, which is nothing less than God himself. It starts by considering Aquinas’ claim that God is the means by which we can be better than we are when considered as merely human. This raising up of people to union with God is part of a long story that he distinguishes into definite stages: the start of the human race at the time of the biblical story of Adam; the time of application of the Old Law (the Torah, or the commands and injunctions in the early books of the Old Testament); and the time of application of the New Law (which started with the sending of the Son and the Spirit, and consists chiefly of the grace of the Holy Spirit, shown by faith working through love, which the people receive through God's Son). The rest of the chapter is devoted to a discussion of grace (including theological virtues, and the fall of Adam), and of the causes and kinds of grace.Less
This chapter begins to connect what Thomas Aquinas says about people in general with his teaching on the Trinity – his position being that the Trinity makes us divine since God, who is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, brings us to the final or ultimate good or end of rational creatures, which is nothing less than God himself. It starts by considering Aquinas’ claim that God is the means by which we can be better than we are when considered as merely human. This raising up of people to union with God is part of a long story that he distinguishes into definite stages: the start of the human race at the time of the biblical story of Adam; the time of application of the Old Law (the Torah, or the commands and injunctions in the early books of the Old Testament); and the time of application of the New Law (which started with the sending of the Son and the Spirit, and consists chiefly of the grace of the Holy Spirit, shown by faith working through love, which the people receive through God's Son). The rest of the chapter is devoted to a discussion of grace (including theological virtues, and the fall of Adam), and of the causes and kinds of grace.
Ronald Hutton
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198205708
- eISBN:
- 9780191676758
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205708.003.0026
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History, British and Irish Early Modern History
By the year 305, the Catholic Church in the western Roman empire had started to celebrate an annual commemoration of Pentecost, the inspiration of Christ's apostles by the Holy Ghost. Before the end ...
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By the year 305, the Catholic Church in the western Roman empire had started to celebrate an annual commemoration of Pentecost, the inspiration of Christ's apostles by the Holy Ghost. Before the end of that century the clergy at Vienne in Gaul had begun to tie their activities still more tightly to the agricultural year by processing around the fields on the days before the feast of the Ascension to bless the growing crops. The latter rite was regulated in England by canons passed at the ecclesiastical council of Cloveshoo in 747, one of the most important meetings of the young Church of England. They gave the processions the name of Rogations, from the Latin rogare, ‘to ask’, and fixed them as belonging to the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before Ascension Day.Less
By the year 305, the Catholic Church in the western Roman empire had started to celebrate an annual commemoration of Pentecost, the inspiration of Christ's apostles by the Holy Ghost. Before the end of that century the clergy at Vienne in Gaul had begun to tie their activities still more tightly to the agricultural year by processing around the fields on the days before the feast of the Ascension to bless the growing crops. The latter rite was regulated in England by canons passed at the ecclesiastical council of Cloveshoo in 747, one of the most important meetings of the young Church of England. They gave the processions the name of Rogations, from the Latin rogare, ‘to ask’, and fixed them as belonging to the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before Ascension Day.
Anderson Blanton
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814771679
- eISBN:
- 9780814769935
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814771679.003.0011
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines the unanticipated centrality of tactile experience within what is often asummed to be an exclusively auditory phenomenon: listening to prayer over the radio. Focusing on ...
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This chapter examines the unanticipated centrality of tactile experience within what is often asummed to be an exclusively auditory phenomenon: listening to prayer over the radio. Focusing on Appalachian radio faith healers, the chapter considers how the faithful listener in “radioland” must put his or her hand on the radio apparatus in order to receive the healing power of the Holy Ghost. It describes charismatic practices such as skein prayer and radio tactility as performative negotiations of a specific technologically mediated environment just as much as attempts to influence and instantiate supernatural power. It also shows how the performance of prayer and the technical apparatus of radio become indistinguishable and argues that the phenomenon of radio tactility reflects the role of radio technology as a “prosthesis of prayer” and an “apparatus of faith” that supplements and extends the spiritualized language practices and rhetoric of faith healing.Less
This chapter examines the unanticipated centrality of tactile experience within what is often asummed to be an exclusively auditory phenomenon: listening to prayer over the radio. Focusing on Appalachian radio faith healers, the chapter considers how the faithful listener in “radioland” must put his or her hand on the radio apparatus in order to receive the healing power of the Holy Ghost. It describes charismatic practices such as skein prayer and radio tactility as performative negotiations of a specific technologically mediated environment just as much as attempts to influence and instantiate supernatural power. It also shows how the performance of prayer and the technical apparatus of radio become indistinguishable and argues that the phenomenon of radio tactility reflects the role of radio technology as a “prosthesis of prayer” and an “apparatus of faith” that supplements and extends the spiritualized language practices and rhetoric of faith healing.
Melvyn Hammarberg
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199737628
- eISBN:
- 9780199332472
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199737628.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The younger Primary classes encompass children in the age-groups from four through seven years and have as their central theme the making of “right choices.” This Primary class level is symbolized by ...
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The younger Primary classes encompass children in the age-groups from four through seven years and have as their central theme the making of “right choices.” This Primary class level is symbolized by the capital letters CTR (“Choose the Right”), and many children in this age-group wear a simple ring emblazoned with the CTR symbol. The teaching manuals, Primary 2 and Primary 3, guide the teachers in expanding on the plan of salvation, which recognizes Heavenly Father’s intention that all human kind, by their own effort, should return to his celestial kingdom worthy of a kingdom of their own. The immortal companions to Heavenly Father include Heavenly Mother, their literal son Jesus as the Christ, the Holy Ghost as a person of pure spirit, and the oppositional figure identified as Lucifer (Satan). The amplification of agency is examined as a value-schema important for human motivation. The chapter concludes with the presentation of a mothers’ focus group in the Crystal Heights Second ward.Less
The younger Primary classes encompass children in the age-groups from four through seven years and have as their central theme the making of “right choices.” This Primary class level is symbolized by the capital letters CTR (“Choose the Right”), and many children in this age-group wear a simple ring emblazoned with the CTR symbol. The teaching manuals, Primary 2 and Primary 3, guide the teachers in expanding on the plan of salvation, which recognizes Heavenly Father’s intention that all human kind, by their own effort, should return to his celestial kingdom worthy of a kingdom of their own. The immortal companions to Heavenly Father include Heavenly Mother, their literal son Jesus as the Christ, the Holy Ghost as a person of pure spirit, and the oppositional figure identified as Lucifer (Satan). The amplification of agency is examined as a value-schema important for human motivation. The chapter concludes with the presentation of a mothers’ focus group in the Crystal Heights Second ward.
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226776361
- eISBN:
- 9780226776385
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226776385.003.0016
- Subject:
- History, History of Ideas
This chapter presents a discussion on Albert Camus' The Fall. The Fall is the story of the corrosion of a man's mind. Camus' understanding of laughter recalls Charles Baudelaire's reflections on its ...
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This chapter presents a discussion on Albert Camus' The Fall. The Fall is the story of the corrosion of a man's mind. Camus' understanding of laughter recalls Charles Baudelaire's reflections on its satanic character. The steady emphasis on the meaning of responsibility is one of the most remarkable features of The Fall. Camus' hero tells of his instinctive disdain for judges, as if it were presumptuous for men to judge. Critics of The Fall agree with the hero's preconception of his own lucidity and power of insight. The sin against the Holy Ghost emerges as the central theme of The Fall. While in The Plague, Camus accused God of having betrayed the world, the fault now seems to be with the world's insistence, stubborn, desperate, and complacent, to perpetuate hell on earth.Less
This chapter presents a discussion on Albert Camus' The Fall. The Fall is the story of the corrosion of a man's mind. Camus' understanding of laughter recalls Charles Baudelaire's reflections on its satanic character. The steady emphasis on the meaning of responsibility is one of the most remarkable features of The Fall. Camus' hero tells of his instinctive disdain for judges, as if it were presumptuous for men to judge. Critics of The Fall agree with the hero's preconception of his own lucidity and power of insight. The sin against the Holy Ghost emerges as the central theme of The Fall. While in The Plague, Camus accused God of having betrayed the world, the fault now seems to be with the world's insistence, stubborn, desperate, and complacent, to perpetuate hell on earth.
Wolfgang Riehle
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801451096
- eISBN:
- 9780801470936
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801451096.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
This chapter examines some aspects of popularizing mysticism in England during the late medieval period. It begins with a discussion of the allegory The Abbey of the Holy Ghost, which tackles the ...
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This chapter examines some aspects of popularizing mysticism in England during the late medieval period. It begins with a discussion of the allegory The Abbey of the Holy Ghost, which tackles the theme of practicing self-discipline and doing penance, and has recourse to Ancrene Wisse as a text that could be used as a new “rule of life” for the contemplative laity. It then considers the Meditationes vitae Christi and Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ before turning to the mystic themes in English religious drama. It also explores thematic parallels in morality plays such as Wisdom Who Is Christ, or Mind, Will and Understanding and The Castle of Perseverance.Less
This chapter examines some aspects of popularizing mysticism in England during the late medieval period. It begins with a discussion of the allegory The Abbey of the Holy Ghost, which tackles the theme of practicing self-discipline and doing penance, and has recourse to Ancrene Wisse as a text that could be used as a new “rule of life” for the contemplative laity. It then considers the Meditationes vitae Christi and Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ before turning to the mystic themes in English religious drama. It also explores thematic parallels in morality plays such as Wisdom Who Is Christ, or Mind, Will and Understanding and The Castle of Perseverance.
Terryl L. Givens
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199794928
- eISBN:
- 9780199378432
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794928.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
Trinitarian thought is the most nonnegotiable part of Christian theology, and the one where Mormonism radically departs from orthodoxy. Mormons expanded the “Unity in Trinity” to three physically ...
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Trinitarian thought is the most nonnegotiable part of Christian theology, and the one where Mormonism radically departs from orthodoxy. Mormons expanded the “Unity in Trinity” to three physically distinct, fully individuated persons—a variety of social Trinitarianism. Mormons trace their doctrine of deity to Smith’s 1820 theophany, though the doctrine was actually many years in unfolding. Today Mormons designate the Father as Elohim, the Son as Jehovah. They regard the Holy Ghost as a third member of the godhead—a term used where other Christians would use Trinity.Less
Trinitarian thought is the most nonnegotiable part of Christian theology, and the one where Mormonism radically departs from orthodoxy. Mormons expanded the “Unity in Trinity” to three physically distinct, fully individuated persons—a variety of social Trinitarianism. Mormons trace their doctrine of deity to Smith’s 1820 theophany, though the doctrine was actually many years in unfolding. Today Mormons designate the Father as Elohim, the Son as Jehovah. They regard the Holy Ghost as a third member of the godhead—a term used where other Christians would use Trinity.
