جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « عهدجدید » در نشریات گروه « ادیان و عرفان »

Christianity was a reform movement within the Shari'a-centered religion of Judaism that, after about half a century, by accepting non-Jews, separated from Judaism. With the spread of this religion, probably around 1st century, the early church was gradually formed. The Holy Spirit is one of the common themes and categories between Judaism and Christianity, which, according to Christians and from the New Testament point of view, has played an important role in the establishment and formation of the early church and its survival. The companionship of the Holy Spirit with Jesus from birth and at all times, also filling the apostles with him in Pentecost and the presence of the Holy Spirit when baptism of Jewish and Gentile converts, are the effective functions of the Spirit in the survival and spread of Christianity. The Holy Spirit has also played an effective role in strengthening the spirituality and unity of the Church and the faithful. And again, One of the influential missions of the Holy Spirit in the destiny of the church should be to guide and assist the apostles and the church, especially by acknowledging the direct entry of Gentiles into the Christian convert.

love of neighbor" is a concept that has a remarkable appearance in the New Testament, and we are faced with its widespread use in the Qoran. But the important question is that from among the different types of "neighbors", who "other minded neighbors", and among theme who the "enemies" are. And what methods of lovely cooperations with them can be. In this regard, what the concept of "Love of enemy" can be in the New Testament. In the present article, using library resources and descriptive analytical method, we describe the concept of "other minded neighbors" based on the teachings of these texts and explore the ways of engaging theme with love. Ultimately, we state that all this methods belong to all sorts of other minded neighbors either "pacifist" or "revengeful" ones. But it is the only method of "deffence and Jihad" against some certain enemies of religion (warmonger unbelevers) that preserves the health and survival of Faithful society, which based on these texts, is the very same love.

In the Christian tradition, especially in the New Testament, Jesus is the source of salvation and the example of love. Jesus' love to human led him to accept to be a sacrifice and he scarified himself like a lamb in the Passover so that the human beings would free from sins. Union with Christ is the only way to enjoy this love. A person seeking liberation must become Christ-like, act like him in order to be saved. For union with God, one should follows the Golden Laws of the Gospels, i.e., love for God, love for the neighbor, and kindness and even love for the enemy. In this way, man will be promoted and his sins burn in love. He begets the Christ and Jesus will be born in him. At this time, the son of man works in him. Jesus sees with his eyes, listens from his ear and acts with his hands. In this essay, we try to focus on the conception of love in the New Testament.

Muslims, Christians and Jews believes that God has send prophets for guiding man and has send His messages to people through the revelation to the prophets. The most of these revealed messages constitutes Holy Scripture such as the Old Testament, New Testament. A short glance at the history of Christianity and Judaism and exegetical works show that the different exegetical schools have presented diverse understandings of the religious teachings. These different views sometimes make people confused in understanding the intended meaning of Holy Scripture. Among types of interpretation, two are more common and have a longer history: the literal and the figurative interpretation. The former is merely concerned with the first layer of meaning but the latter looks for the hidden and spiritual connotations. The figurative type of interpretation has always been useful in the explication and interpretation of the Holy Scripture. In figurative interpretation, Christians have benefited largely from Jews; especially they could connect their texts to the holy texts of the Jews.