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Friendship: Exploring its Implications for the Church in Postmodernity

Author : Steve Summers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567089908
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Friendship: Exploring its Implications for the Church in Postmodernity written by Steve Summers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the Church a community of friends? Steve Summers explores the significance of friendship for our understanding of the church today. Since Jesus' statement in St John's gospel "I call you friends" the concept of friendship has had a huge influence on the Christian understanding of community. But is the historical understanding of friendship enough to serve the needs of the church in a post-modern age? Steve Summers explores the limits of the concept as well as it's possible use in contemporary ecclesiology.

Politics in Friendship: A Theological Account

Author : Guido de Graaff
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567655628
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Book Synopsis Politics in Friendship: A Theological Account by : Guido de Graaff

Download or read book Politics in Friendship: A Theological Account written by Guido de Graaff and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guido de Graaff explores the political dimension and significance of friendship, arguing that its specific contribution lies not only in its theological approach, but also in its particular focus distinguishing the 'political' from the 'social' and/or 'civic'. The book's explorations are framed around a particular story of friendship: the story of Bishop George Bell and German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Drawing on Hannah Arendt and Oliver O'Donovan, de Graaff argues that Bell and Bonhoeffer's story can be read as one of friends assuming the responsibility of political judgment in an emergency situation - their story casts doubts on secular politics as the primary context for interpreting the friends' judgments. Thus the book provides a more comprehensive account of the story, also interpreting it against the background of the life of the church (with special attention to John 15 and Romans 12). De Graaff concludes by showing how a theological account is vital for discerning the distinct politics of the church, including opportunities for Christian engagement in secular politics.

Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship

Author : Anne-Marie Ellithorpe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119756960
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship written by Anne-Marie Ellithorpe and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-04-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and incisive exploration of the place and nature of friendship in both its personal and civic dimensions In Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship, distinguished theological researcher Anne-Marie Ellithorpe delivers a constructive and insightful exploration of the place and nature of friendship as innate to being human, to the human vocation, and to life within the broader community. Of particular interest to members and leaders of faith communities, this book responds to contemporary concerns regarding relationality and offers a comprehensive theology of friendship. The author provides an inclusive and interdisciplinary study that brings previous traditions and texts into dialogue with contemporary contexts and concerns, including examples from Indigenous and Euro-Western cultures. Readers will reflect on the theology of friendship and the interrelationship between friendship and community, think critically about their own social and theological imagination, and develop an integrative approach to theological reflection that draws on Don Browning’s Fundamental Practical Theology. Integrating philosophical, anthropological, and theological perspectives on the study of friendship, this book presents: A thorough introduction to contemporary questions on friendship and discussions of co-existing friendship worlds Comprehensive explorations of friendship in first and second testament writings, as well as friendship within classical and Christian traditions Practical discussions of theology, friendship, and the social imagination, including explorations of mutuality and spirit-shaped friendships Considerations for outworking friendship ideals within communities of practice, from the perspective of strategic (or fully) practical theology Perfect for graduate and advanced undergraduate students taking courses on friendship or practical theology, Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship will also earn a place in the libraries of scholars of practical theology and community practitioners, including ministers, priests, pastors, spiritual advisors, and counselors.

Crossroads

Author : Robert J. A. Doornenbal
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9059726235
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (597 download)

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Book Synopsis Crossroads by : Robert J. A. Doornenbal

Download or read book Crossroads written by Robert J. A. Doornenbal and published by Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reconsidering Intellectual Disability

Author : Jason Reimer Greig
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626162433
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Reconsidering Intellectual Disability written by Jason Reimer Greig and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the controversial case of “Ashley X,” a girl with severe developmental disabilities who received interventionist medical treatment to limit her growth and keep her body forever small—a procedure now known as the “Ashley Treatment”—Reconsidering Intellectual Disability explores important questions at the intersection of disability theory, Christian moral theology, and bioethics. What are the biomedical boundaries of acceptable treatment for those not able to give informed consent? Who gets to decide when a patient cannot communicate their desires and needs? Should we accept the dominance of a form of medicine that identifies those with intellectual impairments as pathological objects in need of the normalizing bodily manipulations of technological medicine? In a critical exploration of contemporary disability theory, Jason Reimer Greig contends that L'Arche, a federation of faith communities made up of people with and without intellectual disabilities, provides an alternative response to the predominant bioethical worldview that sees disability as a problem to be solved. Reconsidering Intellectual Disability shows how a focus on Christian theological tradition’s moral thinking and practice of friendship with God offers a way to free not only people with intellectual disabilities but all people from the objectifying gaze of modern medicine. L'Arche draws inspiration from Jesus's solidarity with the "least of these" and a commitment to Christian friendship that sees people with profound cognitive disabilities not as anomalous objects of pity but as fellow friends of God. This vital act of social recognition opens the way to understanding the disabled not as objects to be fixed but as teachers whose lives can transform others and open a new way of being human.

Theological Perspectives on Reimagining Friendship and Disability

Author : Martina Vuk
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031338162
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Book Synopsis Theological Perspectives on Reimagining Friendship and Disability by : Martina Vuk

Download or read book Theological Perspectives on Reimagining Friendship and Disability written by Martina Vuk and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book rethinks the anthropology of friendship from the perspective of theology and disability, and suggests the respect for human dignity and the person ́s vulnerability as the criterion in reconsidering such an anthropology. The reality of disability is not only the reality of being in the world, but also concerns the concept of the meaning of otherness and being created as an image of God. The constructive critique that the emergence of disability as a human condition posits to theo-anthropological and ethical concepts is the quest of the renewal of theo-anthropological and ethical knowledge on the meaning of disability, otherness and friendship. The theological and anthropological entities, such as disability and friendship, are interconnected in a sense that the meaning of the one needs to be explained in the light of the other, and vice versa. The renewal of certain anthropological categories in such regard is a search for a deeper understanding of humanity, not apart from, but in light of, the presence of disability. The book examines the anthropological and theological systems regarding the theme of friendship and disability.

Ecclesial Leadership as Friendship

Author : Chloe Lynch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429671458
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Ecclesial Leadership as Friendship written by Chloe Lynch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to talking about the activity of directing the church, the language of leadership and leaders is increasingly popular. Yet what is leadership – and how might theological narratives better resource the discourse and practice of leadership in ecclesial contexts? In identifying and critiquing managerialism as a dominant narrative of leadership in the Western church, this book calls for an alternative approach founded on the concept of friendship. Engaging with the wider field of leadership studies, the book establishes an understanding of leadership activity and brings it into conversation with an incarnational ecclesiology. The result is a prophetic reimagining of ecclesial leadership in terms of a relational, kenotic praxis. This praxis of mutuality and love is framed here in the rich language of Christian friendship. The book also wrestles deeply with the embodiment of such a praxis, making explicit the power behaviours typical of friendship-leadership and offering constructive guidance for practitioners in the task of implementation within a complex and fractured world. This book offers a new vision of the centrality of friendship to leadership of a healthy church community. As such, it will be of great use to scholars of practical theology, ecclesiology and leadership, as well as practitioners in church ministry.

Understanding Friendship

Author : Gary Chartier
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1506479081
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Friendship written by Gary Chartier and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Friendship illustrates friendship as an expression of Christian love that can enrich one's life and be socially, culturally, and politically significant. The book examines what friendship is, how its distinctive moral status can be supported by multiple approaches to Christian ethics, and its part in Christian spirituality.

The Best of Friends

Author : Phil Knox
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
ISBN 13 : 1789744253
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book The Best of Friends written by Phil Knox and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friendship is one of the best things ever created. It is unparalleled as a building block of society, a universal theme in great literature and film, and has a huge impact on our mental health, wellbeing and happiness. But many of us are lonely or feel suffocated by the pressures of life and quantity of relationships we have to maintain. Now, more than ever, we need better, deeper friendships. We need the best of friends. Full of practical advice, humour and wisdom, Phil Knox shows us how to choose our friends wisely and maintain lasting and meaningful relationships.

Love of Friendship in the Christian Life

Author : Jonathan Sammut
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532673256
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Love of Friendship in the Christian Life written by Jonathan Sammut and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theological reflection on friendship, as a particular form of Christian love, emerges in Holy Scripture and continues to be elaborated in the Christian tradition. However, “love of friendship” was at times absorbed into the other traditional understanding of love—“love of God and of neighbor.” After a philosophical-historical study of the Greco-Roman roots of friendship in moral reflection, and how (and to what extent) this was appropriated in the Christian tradition, this book illustrates the transcendental character and the novelty of the Christian understanding of friendship found in Holy Scripture, focusing particularly on the most relevant texts in the Fourth Gospel where “love” and “friendship” stand to be important themes. It also shows how Saint Thomas Aquinas, through his exegesis of the Fourth Gospel, his synthesis of the Christian tradition, and his ability to rearticulate Christian theology through Aristotelian philosophy, inimitably defines the theological virtue of caritas as “friendship with God.” In so doing he depicts friendship as the finality, the telos, of the Christian life. Finally, the book aims to show how the retrieval of a proper theology of friendship, rooted in Holy Scripture and Christian tradition, can enrich the life of an authentic Christian and contribute to the ongoing process of renewing moral theology.

Desirable Belief

Author : Margaret D Kamitsuka
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Desirable Belief written by Margaret D Kamitsuka and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an analysis of erotic love in the Bible, patristic theology, mystical writings, philosophy, and literature. Eschewing hyper-conservative shaming of lust and overly optimistic views of eros as sacred and liberating, the book demonstrates how eros illuminates core Christian beliefs about Jesus Christ, the afterlife, and the Trinity.

Puritanism and Emotion in the Early Modern World

Author : A. Ryrie
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137490985
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Puritanism and Emotion in the Early Modern World written by A. Ryrie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puritanism has a reputation for being emotionally dry, but seventeenth-century Puritans did not only have rich and complex emotional lives, they also found meaning in and drew spiritual strength from emotion. From theology to lived experience and from joy to affliction, this volume surveys the wealth and depth of the Puritans' passions.

The Call to Happiness

Author : Nathaniel A. Warne
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1978700253
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book The Call to Happiness written by Nathaniel A. Warne and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Call to Happiness, Nathaniel A. Warne examines how sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Puritans adopted a eudaimonistic conception of ethics in their writings. He shows how classical eudaimonism within the Puritan context is related to other areas of theology, ethics, and politics, and that the idea of divine calling or vocation fits within Puritan eudaimonism. Warne further shows how work can also be understood as an aspect of human flourishing when illuminated from within this tradition of Christian eudaimonism alongside the doctrine of calling.

The Vocation of Anglicanism

Author : Paul Avis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567664643
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book The Vocation of Anglicanism written by Paul Avis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Avis charts a pathway of theological integrity through the serious challenges facing the Anglican Communion in the first quarter of the 21st century. He asks whether there is a special calling for Anglicanism as an expression of the Christian Church and expounds the Anglican theological tradition to shed light on current controversies. He argues in conclusion that Anglicanism is called, like all the churches, to reflect the nature of the Church that we confess in the Creed to be one, holy, catholic and apostolic. The book provides a clear view of the way that the Anglican tradition holds together aspects of the church that in other traditions are sometimes allowed to drift apart, as the Anglican understanding of the Church reveals itself to be catholic and reformed, episcopal and synodical, universal and local, biblical and reasonable, traditional and open to fresh insight. Avis combines accessible scholarly analysis with constructive arguments that will bring fresh hope and vision to Anglicans around the world.

Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 26

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004299432
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 26 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes a wide range of papers that explore individual and institutional aspects of religion from a social-science perspective. The special section has articles from research groups in Europe, the USA and Australia on clergy work-related psychological health, stress, burnout and coping strategies. The general papers include studies on coping strategies among Buddhists, gender differences in response to church decline, teenage participation in religion, social capital among Friends of Cathedrals, psychological profiles of clergy, education effects on Roman Catholic deacons, and an analysis of prayer requests. Together these papers form a valuable collection indicating the depth and vibrancy of research in these fields. Contributors are: Tania Ap Sion, Rachel Blouin, Christine Brewster, the late Deborah Bruce, Cheng Clara Michelle, Giuseppe Crea, Benjamin Doolittle, Joseph Ferrari, Leslie J. Francis, Philip Hughes, Patrick Laycock, Steve McMullin, Judith Muskett, Gemma Penny, Russell Phillips, Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell, Kelvin Randall, Mandy Robbins, Jenny Rolph, Paul Rolph, Greg Smith, Sam Sterland, Andrew Village, Kay William, Cynthia Woolever, and Keith Wulff.

The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality, and Gender

Author : Adrian Thatcher
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019164109X
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality, and Gender written by Adrian Thatcher and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality, and Gender presents an unrivalled overview of the theological study of sexuality and gender. Not merely contentious and pervasive topics, sexuality and gender have escalated in importance within theology. Theologians increasingly agree that even the very doctrine of God cannot be contemplated without a prior grappling with each. Featuring 41 newly-commissioned essays, written by the foremost scholars in the discipline, this authoritative collection presents and develops the latest thinking in the area. Divided into eight thematic sections, the Handbook explores key methodological approaches, concepts, and issues, as well as current controversies within various denominations. Selected essays draw on reason as a distinct source of theology, discussing evolutionary biology and behavioural genetics, psychology, anthropological research, philosophical research, and queer theory. It examines the history of in theologies of sexuality and gender, with close analysis of the Bible and the Christian tradition. The final section considers theology in relation to different expressions of sexual identities. This volume is an essential reference for students and scholars, which will also stimulate further research.

More Than Communion

Author : Scott MacDougall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567659909
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book More Than Communion written by Scott MacDougall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dominant contemporary model for ecclesiology (theological views of the church itself) is the ecclesiology of communion. MacDougall argues that communion ecclesiologies are often marked by a problematic theological imagination of the future (eschatology). He argues further that, as a result, our ways of practising and being the church are not as robust as they might otherwise be. Re-imagining the church in the light of God's promised future, then, becomes a critical conceptual and practical task. MacDougall presents a detailed exploration of what communion ecclesiologies are and some of the problems they raise. He offers two case studies of such theologies by examining how distinguished theologians John Zizioulas and John Milbank understand the church and the future, how these combine in their work, and the conceptual and practical implications of their perspectives. He then offers an alternative theological view and demonstrates the effects that such a shift would have. In doing so, MacDougall offers a proposal for recovering the 'more' to communion and to ecclesiology to help us imagine a church that is not beyond the world (as in Zizioulas) or over against the world (as in Milbank), but in and for the world in love and service. This concept is worked out in conversation with systematic theologians such as Jürgen Moltmann, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Johannes Baptist Metz, and by engaging with a theology of Christian practices currently being developed by practical theologians such as Dorothy C. Bass, Craig Dykstra, and those associated with their ongoing project. The potential for the church to become an agent of discipleship, love, and service can best be realised when the church anticipates God's promised perfection in the full communion between God and humanity, among human beings, within human persons, and between humanity and the rest of creation.