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The Churches and the Development Debate

Author : Ignatius Swart
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1920109102
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Churches and the Development Debate written by Ignatius Swart and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book newly addresses the question about the Christian churches? participation in development. The innovative element of this reflection is the way in which the author finds meaning and significance, particularly in the concept of a fourth generation approach to strategic development engagement. The book?s essential argument is that a fourth generation strategy ? an approach that makes the contemporary social or people?s movements the primary subjects of its development action and theory ? holds the greatest prospect for authentic participation by the Christian churches in development.

Evaluating the Church Growth Movement

Author : Zondervan,
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310872154
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Evaluating the Church Growth Movement written by Zondervan, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What exactly is the Church Growth movement? This timely volume in the Counterpoints series addresses the history of the movement that has become such an enormous shaping force on the Western church today, and it explores--in a roundtable forum of leading voices--five main perspectives on the classic Church Growth movement: Effective Evangelism View - presented by Elmer Towns Gospel in Our Culture View - presented by Craig Van Gelder Centrist View - presented by Charles Van Engen Reformist View - presented by Gailyn Van Rheenan Renewal View - presented by Howard Snyder Each view is first presented by its proponent, then critiqued by the co-contributors. The interactive and fair-minded format allows the reader to consider the strengths and weaknesses of each view and draw informed, personal conclusions. Evaluating the Church Growth Movement concludes with reflections by three seasoned pastors who have grappled with the practical implications of Church Growth. The Counterpoints series presents a comparison and critique of scholarly views on topics important to Christians that are both fair-minded and respectful of the biblical text. Each volume is a one-stop reference that allows readers to evaluate the different positions on a specific issue and form their own, educated opinion.

The Churches and the Development Debate

Author : Ignatius Swart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book The Churches and the Development Debate written by Ignatius Swart and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religion and Social Development in Post-apartheid South Africa

Author : Ignatius Swart
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1920338314
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Social Development in Post-apartheid South Africa written by Ignatius Swart and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÿ ?[It] reflects original research and contributes to new developments in the field of theology and religion with regard to its developmental role within a transformation context. The book may easily stand out in future as seminal in the way that it promoted the social development debate of the church and its organisational structures from an interdisciplinary focus.? ? Prof Antoinette Lombard Department of Social Work and Criminology University of Pretoria

The Zimbabwe Council of Churches and Development in Zimbabwe

Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030416038
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Zimbabwe Council of Churches and Development in Zimbabwe written by Ezra Chitando and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing realization that religion plays a major role in development, particularly in the Global South. Whereas theories of secularization assumed that religion would disappear, the reality is that religion has demonstrated its tenacity. In the specific case of Zimbabwe, religion has remained a positive social force and has made a significant contribution to development, particularly through the Zimbabwe Council of Churches. This has been through political activism, contribution to health, education, women’s emancipation, and ethical reconstruction. This volume analyzes the contribution of the Zimbabwe Council of Churches to development in the country.

The Mission of Development

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004363106
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Mission of Development written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mission of Development interrogates the complex relationships between Christian mission and international development in Asia from the 19th century to the new millennium. Through historically and ethnographically grounded case studies, contributors examine how missionaries have adapted to and shaped the age of development and processes of ‘technocratisation’, as well as how mission and development have sometimes come to be cast in opposition. The volume takes up an increasingly prominent strand in contemporary research that reverses the prior occlusion of the entanglements between religion and development. It breaks new ground through its analysis of the techno-politics of both development and mission, and by focusing on the importance of engagements and encounters in the field in Asia.

Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion

Author : Stan Chu Ilo
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498561284
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion written by Stan Chu Ilo and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion offers a portrait of how contending narratives of modernity in both church and society play out in Africa today through the agency of African Christian religion. It explores the identity and features of African Christian religion and the cultural forces driving the momentum of Christian expansion in Africa, as well as how these factors are shaping a new African social imagination, especially in providing answers to the most challenging questions about poverty, wealth, health, human, and cosmic flourishing. It offers the academy a good road map for interpreting African Christian religious beliefs and practices today and into the future.

The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

Author : Mark A. Noll
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467464627
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind written by Mark A. Noll and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Christianity Today Book of the Year Award (1995) “The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.” So begins this award-winning intellectual history and critique of the evangelical movement by one of evangelicalism’s most respected historians. Unsparing in his indictment, Mark Noll asks why the largest single group of religious Americans—who enjoy increasing wealth, status, and political influence—have contributed so little to rigorous intellectual scholarship. While nourishing believers in the simple truths of the gospel, why have so many evangelicals failed to sustain a serious intellectual life and abandoned the universities, the arts, and other realms of “high” culture? Over twenty-five years since its original publication, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind has turned out to be prescient and perennially relevant. In a new preface, Noll lays out his ongoing personal frustrations with this situation, and in a new afterword he assesses the state of the scandal—showing how white evangelicals’ embrace of Trumpism, their deepening distrust of science, and their frequent forays into conspiratorial thinking have coexisted with surprisingly robust scholarship from many with strong evangelical connections.

Spatialities of Urban Change

Author : Lochner Marais
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1920109455
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Spatialities of Urban Change written by Lochner Marais and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is against a post-colonial backdrop that the collection of essays assembled in this book aims to make a contribution to understanding the realities of urban centres which feature less frequently in the academic press. The research reported in this collection echoes and highlights many of the themes found in both urban theory derived from the realities of many ?world cities?, and the challenges remarked upon in development theory seen in much of the work focused on South Africa?s main metropolitan regions.

The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies

Author : Kirsteen Kim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198831722
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies written by Kirsteen Kim and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies represents more than a century of scholarship related to the theology, history, and methodology of the propagation of Christian faith and the engagement of Christians with cultures, religions, and societies worldwide. It contains more than 40 articles by experts from different disciplinary and ecclesial perspectives, who are from all continents. It not only offers a broad overview of key approaches and issues in mission studies but it also highlights current trends and suggests future developments. The Handbook builds on renewed interest in mission studies this century generated by recent key statements on mission from ecumenical, evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox sources, and by a spate of academic works on the topic. Western church leaders now apply insights from foreign missions (such as, inculturation, liberation, interfaith work, and power encounter) to today's multicultural societies. Meanwhile, there are new initiatives in mission from the Majority World, where most Christians live, so that sending is not only 'from the west to the rest' but 'from everywhere to everywhere'. Therefore, this volume aims to reflect the voices of the receivers of mission as well as its protagonists and to raise awareness of new movements. In a time of growing recognition of 'religions' more generally, this work examines and theorizes the missional dimensions of the world's largest religion: its agendas, growth, outreach, role in public life, effect on cultures, relevance for development, and its approaches to other communities.

Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa

Author : Elias Kifon Bongmba
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134505779
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa written by Elias Kifon Bongmba and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of the Christian tradition across the African continent and throughout a long historical span. The volume offers historical and thematic essays tracing the introduction of Christianity in Africa, as well as its growth, developments, and effects, including the lived experience of African Christians. Individual chapters address the themes of Christianity and gender, the development of African-initiated churches, the growth of Pentecostalism, and the influence of Christianity on issues of sexuality, music, and public health. This comprehensive volume will serve as a valuable overview and reference work for students and researchers worldwide.

When the Church was a Family

Author : Joseph H. Hellerman
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0805447792
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book When the Church was a Family written by Joseph H. Hellerman and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2009 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the early Christian church in the Mediterranean region and its emphasis on collective good over individual desire clarifies much about what is wrong with the American church today.

History of the Churches of God in the United States of North America

Author : Christian Henry Forney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Churches of God in the United States of North America written by Christian Henry Forney and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Can God Save the Church?

Author : Kortright Davis
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725295202
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Can God Save the Church? written by Kortright Davis and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can God Save the Church? is a comprehensive and illuminating review of some aspects of life in and around the church, with which those who care deeply about its message, mission, witness, and legacy should be passionately concerned. Christian traditions are often assailed by conflicts of theology and discipline, contradictions of beliefs and practices, as well as compromises with trials and trends that readily betray the full measure and meaning of the gospel of Jesus Christ. This volume serves to enumerate some clear options for faithful witness and courageous service that would more readily reflect the essential and contextual purposes of the church’s existence. Fresh concepts of God in “Covenant and Change,” or of “The Church as a Communion of Faith, Life, and Witness,” or even of the call for a vision for “Christian Partnership for Social Change,” all converge to make this book a useful tool for study, teaching, and radical reflection in seminaries, local congregations, and beyond. The postscript in this edition adds further challenges to the contemporary church’s call for radical Christian witness and the relentless determination to work for God’s freedom, justice, and salvific wholeness in human life.

International Handbook of Practical Theology

Author : Birgit Weyel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311061815X
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book International Handbook of Practical Theology written by Birgit Weyel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical theology has outgrown its traditional pastoral paradigm. The articles in this handbook recognize that religion, spirituality, lived religion on this side and beyond institutional communities refer to realms of cultures, ritual practices, and symbolic orders whose boundaries are not clearly defined and whose contents are shifting. The Handbook of Practical Theology offers insightful transcultural conceptions of religion and religious affairs collected from various cultures and religions. The first section presents ‘concepts of religion’. Chapters include considerations of the conceptualizing of religion in the fields of 'anthropology', 'community', 'family', 'institution', 'law', 'media', and 'politics' among others. The second section is dedicated to case studies of ‘religious practices’ from the perspective of their actors. The third section presents the main theoretical discourses that map the globally significant diversity and multiplicity of religion. Altogether, fifty-eight authors from different parts of the world encourage a rethinking of religious practice in an expanded, transcultural, globalized, and postcolonial world.

Christian in Public

Author : L. D. Hansen
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1920109358
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Christian in Public written by L. D. Hansen and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education has not escaped the imperative of transformation which has marked the post-apartheid South African landscape. The nature of the changes at universities, however, is open to critique. Fundamental questions concerning the ideological moorings of knowledge and the politics of the curriculum have not yet been satisfactorily addressed. During the apartheid era, theology faculties played influential roles at traditional universities, and were often characterised by unsettling exclusion of non- Christian religions, non-Calvinist denominations and marginalised voices. This volume of essays evidences a process at the University of the Free State?s Faculty of Theology to reflect seriously about the need for transformation at the fundamental level, that is, of knowledge. The challenge for theology at a public university is framed in terms of epistemological transformation. A number of outstanding public intellectuals such as Jonathan Jansen, Crain Soudien and Lis Lange have been invited to present papers to clarify the conceptual challenge and what this might entail for theology. Well-known theologians such as Conrad Wethmar, Allan Boesak and Martin Prozesky reflect on the nature of theology and religion at universities amidst social exigencies. Two international theologians ? Harold Attridge from the prestigious Yale Divinity School and Bram van de Beek from the Free University of Amsterdam ? share their experiences of institutions that exemplify excellence and ecumenical openness. Theologians from the Departments of Practical Theology and Systematic Theology at the University of the Free State, writing from the ?inside?, articulate the challenges they envision for theology in a post-apartheid dispensation. The essays represent a variety of perspectives, but all attest to a commitment to re-think the nature and task of theology at a public university, accepting the challenge of knowledge and power, of plurality and otherness, and of restorative intellectual justice. These timely essays make a unique contribution to the discourses on transformation and on theology at a public university.

At Your Best

Author : Carey Nieuwhof
Publisher : WaterBrook
ISBN 13 : 0735291365
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book At Your Best written by Carey Nieuwhof and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A perceptive and practical book about why our calendars so rarely reflect our priorities and what we can do to regain control.”—ADAM GRANT “Carey’s book will help you reorganize your life. And then you can share a copy with someone you care about.”—SETH GODIN You deserve to stop living at an unsustainable pace. An influential podcaster and thought leader shows you how. Overwhelmed. Overcommitted. Overworked. That’s the false script an inordinate number of people adopt to be successful. Does this sound familiar: ● Slammed is normal. ● Distractions are everywhere. ● Life gets reduced to going through the motions. Tired of living that way? At Your Best gives you the strategies you need to win at work and at home by living in a way today that will help you thrive tomorrow. Influential podcast host and thought leader Carey Nieuwhof understands the challenges of constant pressure. After a season of burnout almost took him out, he discovered how to get time, energy, and priorities working in his favor. This approach freed up more than one thousand productive hours a year for him and can do the same for you. At Your Best will help you ● replace chronic exhaustion with deep productivity ● break the pattern of overpromising and never accomplishing enough ● clarify what matters most by restructuring your day ● master the art of saying no, without losing friends or influence ● discover why vacations and sabbaticals don’t really solve your problems ● develop a personalized plan to recapture each day so you can break free from the trap of endless to-dos Start thriving at work and at home as you discover how to be at your best.