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Author : E. M. Conradie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781920689230
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (892 download)
Download or read book The Quest for Identity in So-called Mainline Churches in South Africa written by E. M. Conradie and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernst M Conradie
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1920689222
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Quest for Identity in so-called Mainline Churches in South Africa written by Ernst M Conradie and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÿThis volume of essays forms part of a series on the interface between ecumenical theology and social ethics in the (South) African context. This contribution is the result of a public conference hosted at the University of the Western Cape in May 2013 under the same title. It explores the quest for identity in so-called mainline churches in South Africa, given the history of the establishment of various denominations of mainly European origin in Southern Africa, ecumenical efforts to find common ground between such churches and breakaway movements among independent and Pentecostal churches where this search for identity is evidently found wanting.
Author : Adeshina Afolayan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319749110
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Pentecostalism and Politics in Africa written by Adeshina Afolayan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the epicenter of Christianity has shifted towards Africa in recent decades, Pentecostalism has emerged as a particularly vibrant presence on the continent. This collection of essays offers a groundbreaking study of the complex links between politics and African Pentecostalism. Situated at the intersection between the political, the postcolonial, and global neoliberal capitalism, contributors examine the roots of the Pentecostal movement’s extraordinary growth; how Pentecostalism intervenes in key social and political issues, such as citizenship, party politics, development challenges, and identity; and conversely, how politics in Africa modulate the Pentecostal movement. Pentecostalism and Politics in Africa offers a wide-ranging picture of a central dimension of postcolonial African life, opening up new directions for future research.
Author : Ramesh Bharuthram
Publisher : African Sun Media
ISBN 13 : 1990995004
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)
Download or read book From Hope to Action through Knowledge written by Ramesh Bharuthram and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its November 2001. A university in dire straits, financially bankrupt burdening a debt in excess of R100-million, a disillusioned and demoralised staff complement still reeling from the trauma of retrenchments, coupled with an academic project facing collapse as student numbers dwindle by a third to less than 10 000. Is there a future for such an institution, described by some as a ‘basket case’ with very bleak prospects of survival? This was the landscape that confronted the newly-appointed Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the University of the Western Cape. Fast forward to December 2014. The CEO retires from office, bestowing upon his successor a financially sound institution with a flourishing academic project, recording unprecedented achievements, enriching the lives of more than 20 000 students, and widely acknowledged as a research-led university. This book narrates how visionary leadership with the steadfast belief that your past does not determine your future, galvanised an entire organisation into believing that a better outcome was indeed achievable, and the will to move forward as a collective with a redefined purpose and commitment to achieve that which was once deemed impossible.
Author : Sarojini Nadar
Publisher : African Sun Media
ISBN 13 : 1990995063
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Ecumenical Encounters with Desmond Mpilo Tutu written by Sarojini Nadar and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspiring collection of 72 critical and creative contributions honouring the life and work of Desmond Mpilo Tutu comprises a rich and diverse array of reflections on the ecumenical global struggle against Apartheid, and Archbishop Tutu’s role therein, as a political priest, prophet and intellectual. The encounters with ‘the Arch’ and his work has shaped ongoing faith-based, activist and academic pursuits for justice, peace and dignity. Anyone familiar with his outstanding contributions to the promotion of justice, dignity and peace, will know that a hallmark of Desmond Tutu’s celebrated style is his use of narrative and real-life stories. In honour of his unique and remarkable example, the contributions in this book combine oral history and written history paradigms, as well as sociological, philosophical and theological approaches. While the book is meant to be a memorial recollection of encounters with the Arch, the hope is that these recollections will continue to inspire collective struggles and hopes for justice, peace and dignity.
Author : Van der Borght
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047442547
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Christian Identity written by Van der Borght and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume offers contributions reflecting the understanding of Christian identity in the midst of changing cultural, socio-economic, political and religious context in a a globalized world.
Author : E. M. Conradie
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 191998089X
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Christian Identity written by E. M. Conradie and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is rooted in the quest for Christian identity in the Southern African context where Christianity is faced with many stark challenges, internal tensions and experiences of rapid social change. The book explores six aspects of the highly complex notion of Christian identity, namely Christian institutions, a Christian ethos, Christian rituals, Christian experiences (with specific reference to the notion of “faith”), Christian narratives (with specific reference to the category of “revelation” and the place of the Bible in the Christian tradition) and Christian doctrine.
Author : Ernst M Conradie
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1920689095
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Reconciliation written by Ernst M Conradie and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first in a series of publications on the interface between ecumenical theology and social transformation in the (South) African context. It focuses on the significance but also the contested nature of reconciliation as one expression of a guiding moral vision for South Africa. It includes a leading essay by Ernst Conradie and responses to the theme by Mary Burton, Fanie du Toit, Sarah St Leger Hills, Demaine Solomons and Vuyani Vellem.
Author : Hermen Kroesbergen
Publisher : Digital on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1868044998
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Christian identity and justice in a globalized world from a Southern African perspective written by Hermen Kroesbergen and published by Digital on Demand. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the globalized world that we live in mean for our Christian identity and for our struggle for social justice? That is the central question that is addressed in this book from a wide array of angles by members of the Association of Theological Institutions of Southern and Central Africa (ATISCA) and Justo Mwale Theological University College (Lusaka, Zambia). "This book is about the struggle for social justice in relation to the self-understanding of Christians from Southern and East Africa in a globalizing world. Among other concerns, it brings out the connection between theology and disability where disability is reflected as an issue that calls for self-identity and self-re-definition. This book is an important resource on contextualisation of theology and it is worthy reading" Dr. Samuel Kabue, Executive Director of the World Council of Churches network EDAN. "In a work long overdue theologians and other researchers in Christianity investigate, discuss and critique the influence of globalization on Christian identity in Southern Africa and its consequences in the struggle for justice. Despite all talk about a 'global village', the voices of Christians from Southern Africa are hardly ever heard. This book represents an important change in this respect. The book has been well edited by Hermen Kroesbergen and it is a must read for all theologians and ministers who want to reflect on our shifting identifies. " Christian Literature Fund
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Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1506448496
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)
Download or read book World Christianity and Interfaith Relations written by and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Christianity and Interfaith Relations makes the case that religion is not partitioned off from the secular in the Global South the way it is in the Global North. Rather, religion is deeply integrated into the lives of those in the Global South, even though secularism officially predominates.
Author : Nkem Hyginus M. V. Chigere
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825849641
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Foreign Missionary Background and Indigenous Evangelization in Igboland written by Nkem Hyginus M. V. Chigere and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Elphick
Publisher : James Currey
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Christianity in South Africa written by Richard Elphick and published by James Currey. This book was released on 1997 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost three-quarters of South Africans in the late-1990s call themselves Christians. From colonial times, when missionaries embroiled themselves in frontier conflicts, until recently, when both defenders and opponents of apartheid draw heavily upon Christian doctrine and ritual, Christian impulses have shaped South Africa.
Download or read book ThirdWay written by and published by . This book was released on 1984-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.
Author : James K. Wellman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780252024894
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (248 download)
Download or read book The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto written by James K. Wellman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the nation's best known churches, Fourth Presbyterian is a thriving mainline church housed in an elegant Gothic building in Chicago's wealthy Gold Coast neighborhood. Less than a mile to the west is another world: the Cabrini-Green low- income housing projects. In this evenhanded account, James Wellman surveys the church's history of balancing its theological aims and its social boundaries and sheds light on the strengths and weaknesses of liberal Protestantism as a modern religious institution. Wellman shows how Fourth Presbyterian has moved from an establishment congregation to what he calls a lay liberal church working to overcome class and race inequality in its urban context while carving out its institutional identity in an increasingly pluralistic environment. By examining the church's four main leaders over the course of the century, Wellman tracks Fourth Presbyterian's gradual shift away from an evangelical role and toward the current focus on service, epitomized in the church's main outreach program, an extensive volunteer tutoring program that serves hundreds of Cabrini-Green residents each week. In documenting Fourth Presbyterian's struggle to meet the needs of its privileged congregants while challenging them to move beyond exclusive boundaries of race and class, The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto opens a window into the past, present, and future of the Protestant mainline.
Author : Melissa Hackman
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 147800231X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Desire Work written by Melissa Hackman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In postapartheid Cape Town—Africa's gay capital—many Pentecostal men turned to "ex-gay" ministries in hopes of “curing” their homosexuality in order to conform to conservative Christian values and African social norms. In Desire Work Melissa Hackman traces the experiences of predominantly white ex-gay men as they attempt to forge a heterosexual masculinity and enter into heterosexual marriage through emotional, bodily, and religious work. These men subjected themselves to daily self-surveillance and followed prescribed behaviors such as changing how they talked and walked. Ex-gay men also saw themselves as participating in the redemption of the nation, because South African society was perceived as suffering from a crisis of masculinity in which the country lacked enough moral heterosexual men. By tying the experience of ex-gay men to the convergence of social movements and public debates surrounding race, violence, religion, and masculinity in South Africa, Hackman offers insights into the construction of personal identities in the context of sexuality and spirituality.
Author : Helen Cameron
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334047617
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Talking About God in Practice written by Helen Cameron and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talking about God in Practice details the challenges and complexities of real theological conversations with practitioners, whilst providing an example of appropriate process, and a model of theological understanding by which to negotiate these complexities fruitfully.
Author : Stephen B. Bevans
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608330265
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Models of Contextual Theology written by Stephen B. Bevans and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen B Bevans's Models of Contextual Theology has become a staple in courses on theological method and as a handbook used by missioners and other Christians concerned with the Christian tradition's understanding of itself in relation to culture. First published in 1992 and now in its seventh printing in English, with translations underway into Spanish, Korean, and Indonesian, Bevans's book is a judicious examination of what the terms "contextual theology" and "to contextualize" mean. In the revised and expanded edition, Bevans adds a "counter-cultural" model to the five presented in the first edition -- the translation, the anthropological, the praxis, the synthetic, and the transcendental model. This means that readers will be introduced to the way in which figures such as Stanley Hauerwas, John Milbank, Lesslie Newbigin, "and (occasionally) Pope John Paul II" need to be taken into account. The author's revisions also incorporate suggestions made by reviewers to enhance the clarity of the original three chapters on the nature of contextual theology and the five models.
