Ecodomy – Life in its fullness

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Publisher : AOSIS
ISBN 13 : 1928396143
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (283 download)

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Book Synopsis Ecodomy – Life in its fullness by : Dirk J. Human

Download or read book Ecodomy – Life in its fullness written by Dirk J. Human and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a coherent and conceptual portrayal of aspects of the theological research theme, entitled Ecodomy (literally meaning to ‘build a house’). In its figurative meaning the term Ecodomy addresses the theme, ‘life in its fullness’. This fullness of life entails a polarity which is inherently part of life, namely its brokenness and its wholeness. From various theological disciplines, namely Old Testament Studies, New Testament Studies, Systematic Theology, Church History and Practical Theology, both the brokenness and wholeness are addressed theologically. Every chapter focuses on a specific theological discipline, while the combination of theological disciplines, addresses the brokenness and wholeness of life as coherent concept. One pole does not exclude the other. Brokenness is visible in current or recent very relevant societal challenges, such as racism and xenophobia, apartheid, foreignness and exclusivism, leadership crises and violence. In contrast, wholeness is embedded in themes such as the African concept of ubuntu, a life of faith and wisdom, reconciling leadership, or transforming space and community. Ultimately, a Greek term ???????? (persistence) is connected to the meaning of Ecodomy and ‘life in its fullness’. Several methodologies have been used in the different contributions of the book. Every theological discipline applies a different methodology for the purpose of exposing a specific topic or research theme. In general, the contributions in this book follow a combination of a literature study with the further application of diachronic and synchronic exegetical methods. In addition, single contributions follow an own hermeneutical approach. Not one single contribution, but a combination of different theological disciplines, which form the concepts of brokenness and wholeness (life in its fullness), which expose the polarity of life, are included in this book. In its exposed interdisciplinary interwovenness, the book provides a tapestry of how different theological disciplines are combined into a single theme and how they contribute together by means of theological analyses and attempted building blocks to build the broken ‘houses’ of societal structures or human life. The book contributes to selected aspects of broken life in society and the healing experiences of human life. Several themes touch on recent and relevant challenges which have contributed to the brokenness of life. Not only in South Africa, but globally these are currently relevant themes. They include realities of racism and xenophobia, apartheid, foreignness and exclusivism, leadership crises and violence. With the focus on wholeness, specific attention is given to the African concept of ubuntu, a life of faith and wisdom, reconciling leadership, and transforming space and society. A Greek term ???????? (insolence as ‘in keeping on asking’ – Lk 11:8) illuminates the theme of Ecodomy from the perspective of a parable. The target audience of the book is academic scholars and theologians, who specialise in the different fields of Theology, the Humanities and other Social Sciences. Furthermore, the book is also accessible to scholars of other academic disciplines outside these disciplines. The book contains original research and contributions have not been plagiarised from publications elsewhere.

An Ecological Christian Anthropology

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351958992
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Book Synopsis An Ecological Christian Anthropology by : Ernst M. Conradie

Download or read book An Ecological Christian Anthropology written by Ernst M. Conradie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the place and vocation of human beings in the earth community? This is the central question that this contribution towards a Christian ecological anthropology addresses. In ecological theology this question is often answered by the affirmation that 'We are at home on earth'. This affirmation rightly responds to the widespread sense of alienation from nature, to the anthropocentrism that pervades much of the Christian tradition and to concerns about the scope of environmental devastation. This book challenges the affirmation that we are at home on earth, examining natural suffering, anxieties concerning human finitude and especially the pervasiveness of evil. The book investigates contributions to ecological theology, South African and African theology, reformed theology and contemporary dialogues between theology and the sciences in search of a thoroughly ecological Christian anthropology.

Church and Religious 'Other'

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567047261
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Book Synopsis Church and Religious 'Other' by : Gerard Mannion

Download or read book Church and Religious 'Other' written by Gerard Mannion and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the prestigious speakers at the inaugural Church in Our Times Lecture Series at Liverpool Hope, throughout the first 4 months of 2006, and invited contributors from and addressing wider international contexts - Africa, Sri Lanka, India and the United States. The volume explores themes such as questions of ecclesial and religious identity in these post-modern times, the advent of neo-exclusivism, divisions within the contemporary Roman Catholic and Anglicans churches, inter-faith relations and dialogue, questions of sexuality and Christian ministry, contemporary understandings of ecclesial authority, teaching and tradition, the inter-relation between the church and the kingdom of God today, an Asian appraisal of Pope Benedict's first sermon, inculturation and the rhetoric and reality of the notion of Church as Christianity's most distinctive and defining feature and constructive proposals for ecumenical ways forward in the future. The commonality and coherence of the papers, along with the manner in which a number of them together contribute towards making a cumulative case upon similar issues of concern for the 'church in our times', constitute a major strength of this collection. This volume will interest faculty and students engaged in the study of the contemporary church, ecumenism, global Christianity, secularity and inter-religious dialogue, as well as appealing to ministers and pastors as well as the general reader excited by the most pressing debates pertaining to the church in these times.

Christianity and Earthkeeping

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Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1920338578
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Christianity and Earthkeeping by : Ernst Marais Conradie

Download or read book Christianity and Earthkeeping written by Ernst Marais Conradie and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should Christians engage in earthkeeping as Christians and from within Christian communities? What is the underlying theological rationale for that? In this book some 19 reasons why Christians may be encouraged to engage in earthkeeping are identified, juxtaposed and assessed in order to call for clarity, to invite discussion and to elicit creative tensions. No single position is advocated ? it would be helpful if Christians could engage in earthkeeping on the basis of any of these motivations.

Christianity and Ecological Theology

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Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1920109234
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Christianity and Ecological Theology by : E. M. Conradie

Download or read book Christianity and Ecological Theology written by E. M. Conradie and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a proliferation of publications in the field of Christian ecological theology over the last three decades or so. These include a number of recent edited volumes, each covering a range of topics and consolidating many of the emerging insights in ecological theology. The call for Christian churches to respond to the environmental crisis has been reiterated numerous times in this vast corpus of literature, also in South Africa.

Ecodomy

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ISBN 13 : 9781928396154
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (961 download)

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Book Synopsis Ecodomy by : Dirk J. Human

Download or read book Ecodomy written by Dirk J. Human and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Spirit in Public Theology

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608999963
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis The Spirit in Public Theology by : Vincent E. Bacote

Download or read book The Spirit in Public Theology written by Vincent E. Bacote and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Spirit in Public Theology, Bacote shows how Dutch politician and church leader Abraham Kuyper lived a thoroughly Christian life, and explains why Christians need to follow Kuyper by taking their faith into the public sphere. Identifying the characteristics of a true Christian worldview, Bacote demonstrates the need for a public theology that stresses engagement between the church and the world. The Spirit in Public Theology should be required reading for pastors, students, and all Christians who want to take their faith beyond the four walls of the Church.

Jesus, Paul and Matthew, Volume Two

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527549593
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Jesus, Paul and Matthew, Volume Two by : Andries Van Aarde

Download or read book Jesus, Paul and Matthew, Volume Two written by Andries Van Aarde and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second of two volumes which reflect on the trend in biblical scholarship that contrasts the vision of the historical Jesus with that of the apostle Paul, on the one hand, and the vision of Paul with that of the evangelist Matthew, on the other. It argues that Jesus replaced the concept of ‘politics of holiness’ with that of ‘politics of compassion’. This means that the church as a community of Jesus-followers forms a fictive family, replacing a soteriology grounded in the biological family. God’s adoption of people as ‘God’s children’ is based on the potential of people to absorb the divine into their humanity. This truism is to be found in the visions shared by the peasant Jesus, the apostle Paul and the rabbi Matthew, as well as in creedal Christianity. The book concludes with autobiographical reflective notes, analogous to the parabolic story of the travellers to Emmaus from Jerusalem (Luke 24) and that of the African eunuch (Acts 8) on his way back from Jerusalem to Africa. The notes serve to consolidate the two volumes on Jesus, Paul and Matthew and their messages of God’s wisdom, justice and mercy.

Clown of the City

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Publisher : African Sun Media
ISBN 13 : 1928480845
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (284 download)

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Book Synopsis Clown of the City by : Stephan de Beer

Download or read book Clown of the City written by Stephan de Beer and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At opening this book, everything one has learned or thought about “urban ministry” is challenged, and changed. Stephan de Beer offers a fresh, exciting and thoroughly engaging approach. The title is enticing and playful, but the book is a serious grappling with the daunting realities of a shadowed, marginalised, urban life. It does not theorise or pontificate about a concept. The author is not a distant, neutral observer. He is an engaged minister to the people, a struggler in their struggles, prophet to the powerful. This book invites the reader to join the people of the cities under siege by failed policies, empty promises, and disastrous politics, in their struggles for meaningful life, and it makes a powerful, persuasive case. Stephan de Beer has offered us a great gift and a wonderful opportunity to think and hope anew, and differently, about the life, reality, and future of the city.

Theology at the University of Pretoria - 100 years: (1917-2017) Past, present and future

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Publisher : AOSIS
ISBN 13 : 1928396348
Total Pages : 363 pages
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Download or read book Theology at the University of Pretoria - 100 years: (1917-2017) Past, present and future written by Dirk J. Human and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this scholarly book, a century’s theology presented by the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria, is celebrated. All authors are academics or research associates of the University of Pretoria. A historical and futuristic overview with perspectives from the past, present and future, are examined. The past is not only portrayed by means of societal and scientific contributions and achievements, but the authors also reflect on malfunctions, ill behaviour and disappointments of church and theology, presented at the University of Pretoria within the South African context over 100 years. The book commences with a chapter in which institutional transformation is discussed, as well as the changes that demonstrate the role of the Faculty of Theology within a secular state university. It includes an explanation of the importance of research impact, research productivity and research reputation. Among various discipline indicators, the category Theology and Religion Studies plays a significant role in the measurement of world university rankings of universities. With regard to scientific and encyclopaedic content, the book focuses on the theological disciplines presented in the academic curricula: first the biblical sciences (Old and New Testament Studies), then the historical disciplines (Systematic Theology, Church History and Church Polity), and finally the practical disciplines (Practical Theology, Science of Religion and Missiology). The role of Religion Studies in a newly established Faculty of Theology and Religion not only enhances the diversity of interreligious tolerance and an atmosphere of dialogue, but it serves as platform to interconnect with the fields of Humanities, Social and Natural Sciences and other academic disciplines. In the conclusive part of the book, contributions highlight the role of the centres in the Faculty (Centre for Contextual Ministry and Centre for Sustainable Communities), as well as the continental and international footprints of the two theological journals whose title ownership is attached to the Faculty of Theology of the University of Pretoria, namely HTS Theological Studies and Verbum et Ecclesia. The methodology comprised in all the chapters amounts to a literature and contextual study. Since the book describes the histories of formal academic departments, these texts are of a descriptive, interpretative and critical character. Reference is made in some chapters to exegetical methods, like the historical critical methods. The target audience of the book is academic scholars and theologians, who specialise in the different fields of Theology, the Humanities and other Social Sciences. The book is also accessible to scholars of other academic disciplines outside these disciplines. The book comprises original research by several authors and is not plagiarised from other scientific publications of this nature.

A Theology of Love

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567646920
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Book Synopsis A Theology of Love by : Werner G. Jeanrond

Download or read book A Theology of Love written by Werner G. Jeanrond and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-03-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113991717X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)

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Book Synopsis The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa by : Ilana van Wyk

Download or read book The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa written by Ilana van Wyk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), a church of Brazilian origin, has been enormously successful in establishing branches and attracting followers in post-apartheid South Africa. Unlike other Pentecostal Charismatic Churches (PCC), the UCKG insists that relationships with God be devoid of 'emotions', that socialisation between members be kept to a minimum and that charity and fellowship are 'useless' in materialising God's blessings. Instead, the UCKG urges members to sacrifice large sums of money to God for delivering wealth, health, social harmony and happiness. While outsiders condemn these rituals as empty or manipulative, this book shows that they are locally meaningful, demand sincerity to work, have limits and are informed by local ideas about human bodies, agency and ontological balance. As an ethnography of people rather than of institutions, this book offers fresh insights into the mass PCC movement that has swept across Africa since the early 1990s.

The Romanian Orthodox Church and the Holocaust

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253029899
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis The Romanian Orthodox Church and the Holocaust by : Ion Popa

Download or read book The Romanian Orthodox Church and the Holocaust written by Ion Popa and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An important book” that delves into the role of religious authorities in Romania during the Holocaust, and the continuing effects today (Antisemitism Studies). In 1930, about 750,000 Jews called Romania home. At the end of World War II, approximately half of them survived. Only recently, after the fall of Communism, are details of the history of the Holocaust in Romania coming to light. Ion Popa explores this history by scrutinizing the role of the Romanian Orthodox Church from 1938 to the present day. Popa unveils and questions whitewashing myths that covered up the role of the church in supporting official antisemitic policies of the Romanian government. He analyzes the church’s relationship with the Jewish community in Romania, with Judaism, and with the state of Israel, as well as the extent to which the church recognizes its part in the persecution and destruction of Romanian Jews. Popa’s highly original analysis illuminates how the church responded to accusations regarding its involvement in the Holocaust, the part it played in buttressing the wall of Holocaust denial, and how Holocaust memory has been shaped in Romania today.

Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Europe

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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823256081
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Book Synopsis Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Europe by : Lucian N. Leustean

Download or read book Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Europe written by Lucian N. Leustean and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nation-building processes in the Orthodox commonwealth brought together political institutions and religious communities in their shared aims of achieving national sovereignty. Chronicling how the churches of Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, and Serbia acquired independence from the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the wake of the Ottoman Empire’s decline, Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Europe examines the role of Orthodox churches in the construction of national identities. Drawing on archival material available after the fall of communism in southeastern Europe and Russia, as well as material published in Greek, Serbian, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Russian, Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Europe analyzes the challenges posed by nationalism to the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the ways in which Orthodox churches engaged in the nationalist ideology.

Christianity and Human Rights

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139494112
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis Christianity and Human Rights by : John Witte, Jr

Download or read book Christianity and Human Rights written by John Witte, Jr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining Jewish, Greek, and Roman teachings with the radical new teachings of Christ and St. Paul, Christianity helped to cultivate the cardinal ideas of dignity, equality, liberty and democracy that ground the modern human rights paradigm. Christianity also helped shape the law of public, private, penal, and procedural rights that anchor modern legal systems in the West and beyond. This collection of essays explores these Christian contributions to human rights through the perspectives of jurisprudence, theology, philosophy and history, and Christian contributions to the special rights claims of women, children, nature and the environment. The authors also address the church's own problems and failings with maintaining human rights ideals. With contributions from leading scholars, including a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, this book provides an authoritative treatment of how Christianity shaped human rights in the past, and how Christianity and human rights continue to challenge each other in modern times.

Educational Experience as Lived: Knowledge, History, Alterity

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317618610
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Book Synopsis Educational Experience as Lived: Knowledge, History, Alterity by : William F. Pinar

Download or read book Educational Experience as Lived: Knowledge, History, Alterity written by William F. Pinar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Pinar enacts his theory of curriculum, detailing the relations among knowledge, history, and alterity. The introduction is Pinar’s intellectual life history, naming the contributions he has made to understanding educational experience. Study is the center of educational experience, as he demonstrates in the opening chapter. The alterity of educational experience is evident in his conceptions of disciplinarity and internationalization, interrelated projects of historicization, dialogical encounter, and recontextualization. By reactivating the past, not by instrumentalizing the present, we can find the future, explicated in his studies of the Eight-Year Study, the Tyler Rationale, and the gendering and racialization of U.S. school reform. The interrelation of race and gender is emphasized in the chapters on Ida B. Wells and Jane Addams. The technologization of education is critiqued through analysis of the achievements of George Grant and Pier Paolo Pasolini. The educational project of subjective and social reconstruction is explored through study of Musil’s essayism, a genre that corrects the problems accompanying ethnography and created by identity politics.

Judges, Ruth

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Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433672626
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)

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Book Synopsis Judges, Ruth by : Daniel I. Block

Download or read book Judges, Ruth written by Daniel I. Block and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 1999-09-20 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW AMERICAN COMMENTARY is for the minister or Bible student who wants to understand and expound the Scriptures. Notable features include:* commentary based on THE NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION;* the NIV text printed in the body of the commentary;* sound scholarly methodology that reflects capable research in the original languages;* interpretation that emphasizes the theological unity of each book and of Scripture as a whole;* readable and applicable exposition.