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Author : Seton Hall University
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781465212764
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Christianity and Culture in Dialogue written by Seton Hall University and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angus J. L. Menuge
Publisher : Concordia Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9780570042730
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (427 download)
Download or read book Christ and Culture in Dialogue written by Angus J. L. Menuge and published by Concordia Publishing House. This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into three sections, this book illustrates how Christ and Christian faith affect worship, evangelism, and social issues.
Author : Matt Tomlinson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824880978
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book God Is Samoan written by Matt Tomlinson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God. In this pathbreaking book, Matt Tomlinson engages in an anthropological conversation with the work of “contextual theologians,” exploring how the combination of Pacific Islands culture and Christianity shapes theological dialogues. Employing both scholarly research and ethnographic fieldwork, the author addresses a range of topics: from radical criticisms of biblical stories as inappropriate for Pacific audiences to celebrations of traditional gods such as Tagaloa as inherently Christian figures. This book presents a symphony of voices—engaged, critical, prophetic—from the contemporary Pacific’s leading religious thinkers and suggests how their work articulates with broad social transformations in the region. Each chapter in this book focuses on a distinct type of culturally driven theological dialogue. One type is between readers and texts, in which biblical scholars suggest new ways of reading, and even rewriting, the Bible so it becomes more meaningful in local terms. A second kind concerns the state of the church and society. For example, feminist theologians and those calling for “prophetic” action on social problems propose new conversations about how people in Oceania should navigate difficult times. A third kind of discussion revolves around identity, emphasizing what makes Oceania unique and culturally coherent. A fourth addresses the problems of climate change and environmental degradation to sacred lands by encouraging “eco-theological” awareness and interconnection. Finally, many contextual theologians engage with the work of other disciplines— prominently, anthropology—as they develop new discourse on God, people, and the future of Oceania. Contextual theology allows people in Oceania to speak with God and fellow humans through the idiom of culture in a distinctly Pacific way. Tomlinson concludes, however, that the most fruitful topic of dialogue might not be culture, but rather the nature of dialogue itself. Written in an accessible, engaging style and presenting innovative findings, this book will interest students and scholars of anthropology, world religion, theology, globalization, and Pacific studies.
Author : Maijastina Kahlos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317154363
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Debate and Dialogue written by Maijastina Kahlos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the construction of Christian identity in fourth and fifth centuries through inventing, fabricating and sharpening binary oppositions. Such oppositions, for example Christians - pagans; truth - falsehood; the one true god - the multitude of demons; the right religion - superstition, served to create and reinforce the Christian self-identity. The author examines how the Christian argumentation against pagans was intertwined with self-perception and self-affirmation. Discussing the relations and interaction between pagan and Christian cultures, this book aims at widening historical understanding of the cultural conflicts and the otherness in world history, thus contributing to the ongoing discussion about the historical and conceptual basis of cultural tolerance and intolerance. This book offers a valuable contribution to contemporary scholarly debate about Late Antique religious history and the relationship between Christianity and other religions.
Author : Gianni Vattimo
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231520417
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith written by Gianni Vattimo and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate over the place of religion in secular, democratic societies dominates philosophical and intellectual discourse. These arguments often polarize around simplistic reductions, making efforts at reconciliation impossible. Yet more rational stances do exist, positions that broker a peace between relativism and religion in people's public, private, and ethical lives. Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith advances just such a dialogue, featuring the collaboration of two major philosophers known for their progressive approach to this issue. Seeking unity over difference, Gianni Vattimo and René Girard turn to Max Weber, Eric Auerbach, and Marcel Gauchet, among others, in their exploration of truth and liberty, relativism and faith, and the tensions of a world filled with new forms of religiously inspired violence. Vattimo and Girard ultimately conclude that secularism and the involvement (or lack thereof) of religion in governance are, in essence, produced by Christianity. In other words, Christianity is "the religion of the exit from religion," and democracy, civil rights, the free market, and individual freedoms are all facilitated by Christian culture. Through an exchange that is both intimate and enlightening, Vattimo and Girard share their unparalleled insight into the relationships among religion, modernity, and the role of Christianity, especially as it exists in our multicultural world.
Author : Chibueze C. Udeani
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042022299
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Inculturation as Dialogue written by Chibueze C. Udeani and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Africa is today often seen, because of its large number of Christians, as the future hope of the Church, a closer examination of African Christianity, however, shows that the Christian faith has not taken deep root in Africa. Many Africans today declare themselves to be Christians but still remain followers of their traditional African religions, especially in matters concerning the inner dimensions of their lives. It is evident that, in strictly personal matters relating to such issues as passage rites and crises, most Africans turn to their African traditional religions. As an incarnational faith, part of the history of Christianity has been its encounter with other cultures and its becoming deeply rooted in some of these cultures. The central question remains: Why has the Christian faith not taken deep root in Africa? This volume is concerned with answering this question.
Author : Corrie Block
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135014043
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Qur'an in Christian-Muslim Dialogue written by Corrie Block and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an analysis of Christian-Muslim dialogue across four centuries, this book highlights those voices of ecumenical tone which have more often used the Qur’an for drawing the two faiths together rather than pushing them apart, and amplifies the voice of the Qur’an itself. Finding that there is tremendous ecumenical ground between Christianity and Islam in the voices of their own scholars, this book ranges from a period of declining ecumenism during the first three centuries of Islam, to a period of resurging ecumenism during the most recent century until now. Among the ecumenical voices in the Christian-Muslim dialogue, this book points out that the Qur’an itself is possibly the strongest of those voices. These findings are cause for, and evidence of, hope for the Christian–Muslim relationship: that although agreement may never be reached, dialogue has led at times to very real mutual understanding and appreciation of the religious other. Providing a tool for those pursuing understanding and mutual appreciation between the Islamic and Christian faiths, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of Islam, the Qur’an and the history of Christian-Muslim relations.
Author : Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156177351
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Christianity and Culture written by Thomas Stearns Eliot and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1960 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two long essays: "The Idea of a Christian Society" on the direction of religious thought toward criticism of political and economic systems; and "Notes towards the Definition of Culture" on culture, its meaning, and the dangers threatening the legacy of the Western world.
Author : Allen G. Jorgenson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793619689
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue written by Allen G. Jorgenson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue, Allen G. Jorgenson asks what Christian theologians might learn from Indigenous spiritualties and worldviews. Jorgenson argues that theology in North America has been captive to colonial conceits and has lost sight of key resources in a post-Christendom context. The volume is especially concerned with the loss of a sense of place, evident in theologies written without attention to context. Using a comparative theology methodology, wherein more than one faith tradition is engaged in dialogical exploration, Jorgenson uses insights from Indigenous understandings of place to illumine forgotten or obstructed themes in Christianity. In this constructive theological project, “kairotic” places are named as those that are kenotic, harmonic, poetic and especially enlightening at the margins, where we meet the religious other.
Author : Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1441200495
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Everyday Theology (Cultural Exegesis) written by Kevin J. Vanhoozer and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday theology is the reflective and practical task of living each day as faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. In other words, theology is not just for Sundays, and it's not just for professional theologians. Everyday Theology teaches all Christians how to get the theological lay of the land. It enables them to become more conscious of the culture they inhabit every day so that they can understand how it affects them and how they can affect it. If theology is the ministry of the Word to the world, everyday theologians need to know something about that world, and Everyday Theology shows them how to understand their culture make an impact on it. Engaging and full of fresh young voices, this book is the first in the new Cultural Exegesis series.
Author : Saphina Carla
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Church Girl Culture Vs. Christ written by Saphina Carla and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-18 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Church Culture Vs Christ, author Saphina Carla sheds light on common ideologies that have supplemented the Christian faith. In it, she discusses her own faulty beliefs that had to be readjusted by Christ and not by church girl culture - a culture of cosmetic Christianity that can often prioritize false piety, over transparency and truth. Her goal is to make taboo church topics - - not so taboo. The goal is to remove the pressures of perfection when it comes to women of faith and to restore biblical truth in places where it's been set aside for shallow formulas. Above all, her goal is for Christ to be glorified. Saphina Carla is a writer, blogger, and Christian content creator. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and is of Haitian descent. She started her journey of salvation at nineteen years old after God delivered her from an abusive relationship. Her aim is to promote biblical truth while providing a safe space to have authentic dialogue within the church, especially as it relates to the taboo and the uncomfortable.
Author : Samuel Cruz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781498515856
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Christianity and Culture in the City written by Samuel Cruz and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an introduction to the broad diversity of contemporary Christianities in a rich, complex, and challenging city context.
Author : KHEE-VUN. LIN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781839732171
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (321 download)
Download or read book DIALOGUE OF LIFE written by KHEE-VUN. LIN and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Hancock
Publisher : T&T Clark
ISBN 13 : 0567657647
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)
Download or read book Christianity and Confucianism written by Christopher Hancock and published by T&T Clark. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity and Confucianism: Culture, Faith and Politics, sets comparative textual analysis against the backcloth of 2000 years of cultural, political, and religious interaction between China and the West. As the world responds to China's rise and China positions herself for global engagement, this major new study reawakens and revises an ancient conversation. As a generous introduction to biblical Christianity and the Confucian Classics, Christianity and Confucianism tells a remarkable story of mutual formation and cultural indebtedness. East and West are shown to have shaped the mind, heart, culture, philosophy and politics of the other - and far more, perhaps, than either knows or would want to admit. Christopher Hancock has provided a rich and stimulating resource for scholars and students, diplomats and social scientists, devotees of culture and those who pursue wisdom and peace today.
Author : Averroës
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781463206383
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Averroes, the Decisive Treatise written by Averroës and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Decisive Treatise is perhaps the most controversial work of Averroes (Ibn Rushd, 1126-1198) and belongs to a trilogy which boldly represent the philosophical contribution to Islamic theology of this famous Andalusian commentator on Aristotle. The Decisive Treatise is a fatwa (a legal opinion) that the judge, Averroes, promulgated for his fellow Malikite jurists in order to demonstrate that the study of philosophy is not only licit from the point of view of religious law, but even mandatory for the skilled people. However, many subjects are dealt with in this comparatively short book: An epistemology aimed to show that philosophical truth and religious truth are not in contradiction; a sociology of knowledge pointing out that humans are classified in three classes (philosophers, theologians, common folk); a Qur'anic hermeneutics suggesting how to approach philosophically the Holy Book in agreement with religious requirements and linguistic rules.
Author : Philip Johnson
Publisher : Lion Books
ISBN 13 : 9780745952727
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (527 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Burning Times written by Philip Johnson and published by Lion Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dialogue between a leading Pagan and a Christian theologian exploring the different worldviews.
Author : Benno van den Toren
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567103544
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Christian Apologetics as Cross-Cultural Dialogue written by Benno van den Toren and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A call for a new understanding of apologetics, moving away from appeals to tran-cultural rationality, arguing for a new form of cross-cultural dialogue.
