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Contextuality in Reformed Europe

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004494324
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Contextuality in Reformed Europe written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scope of this volume is how churches experience themselves and their mission in their context. The discussions in this volume provide ample material to substantiate the claim that the church should not be an ecclesia incurvata in se ipsa, (a church curved into itself) but welcoming and directed not only to personal needs but to social needs as well—but not bound to what people often feel the needs are and delving deeper to the real roots of sin and selfishness, be it personal, social or national. Contextualization in itself is part of the mission of the churches, but it is on the edge: should the church adapt to its context and lose both its identity and witness or should it find a way between the Scylla of easy adaptation to the changing contexts of this world that is passing and the Charybdis of a preservation of forms and identities of bygone times that have lost the freshness of the message of liberation of bondage, conversion and freedom, freedom to be what the church is called to be, a sign of hope, peace, reconciliation, justice and love?

Charting Churches in a Changing Europe

Author : Tim Noble
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042020091
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Charting Churches in a Changing Europe written by Tim Noble and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The countries of Europe are seeking to redefine themselves, both individually and in relation to each other. This volume examines the role of the Christian churches at various levels of that process. The Charta Oecumenica, a ground-breaking document from the Conference of Churches in Europe and the Council of European Bishops' Conferences, aimed to set forth the ecumenical response of the European Christian Churches to the living out of faith in today's world. Four theologians, Protestant, Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Lutheran, respond to this document, assessing its strengths and the areas where further development is required. At least implicitly this discussion raises questions about the nature of catholicity and communion, a topic the following four essays address. What is catholicity, what happens when there is too strong an emphasis on the national church, and are there models of gradual church communion to which the churches could assent? Gradual communion sets out to attain full, including sacramental, unity and the final two essays explore how sacramental theology might assist in this process.

Roots of Reform: Contextual Interpretation of Church Fittings in Norfolk During the English Reformation

Author : Jason Robert Ladick
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789697670
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Roots of Reform: Contextual Interpretation of Church Fittings in Norfolk During the English Reformation written by Jason Robert Ladick and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a thorough examination of the impact of the English Reformation through a detailed analysis of medieval and early modern church fittings surviving at parish churches located throughout the county of Norfolk in England.

Islam, Context, Pluralism and Democracy

Author : Yaser Ellethy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317627458
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Islam, Context, Pluralism and Democracy written by Yaser Ellethy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam, Context, Pluralism and Democracy aspires to clarify the tensions and congruences between the revelational and the rational, the text and the context, the limits and the horizons of contextualization in Islam, as these emanate from the Islamic interpretative tradition. This book examines classical and modern Muslim interpretations with regard to the concepts of diachronic development, pluralism and democracy based on Arabic-Islamic sources and literature. Focusing on the parameters of semantic changes, methods of interpretation and cultural variables, it shows how this interpretative tradition offers a diversity of ideas and approaches that can be utilized in contemporary debates concerning the socio-political contextualization of Islamic genuine thought. However, within this diversity, Islam presents generic principles and core values as 'moral paradigms' that can deal with such modern challenges. Based on the analysis of core Islamic texts and key-terms related to the discussed issues, mainly from the Quran and the Sunnah, and the broader Arabic-Islamic literature, it explores the boundaries of the mutable and constant in the Islamic worldview. Presenting classical Muslim interpretations and scholars as possible interlocutors in debates over the compatibility of Islam with challenges of modernity, this book is essential reading for researchers and postgraduates interested in Islamic Studies, Philosophy of Religion and Political Science.

A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe

Author : Howard Louthan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004301623
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe written by Howard Louthan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe analyses the diverse Christian cultures of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Czech lands, Austria, and lands of the Hungarian kingdom between the 15th and 18th centuries. It establishes the geography of Reformation movements across this region, and then considers different movements of reform and the role played by Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox clergy. This volume examines different contexts and social settings for reform movements, and investigates how cities, princely courts, universities, schools, books, and images helped spread ideas about reform. This volume brings together expertise on diverse lands and churches to provide the first integrated account of religious life in Central Europe during the early modern period. Contributors are: Phillip Haberkern, Maciej Ptaszyński, Astrid von Schlachta, Márta Fata, Natalia Nowakowska, Luka Ilić, Michael Springer, Edit Szegedi, Mihály Balázs, Rona Johnston Gordon, Howard Louthan, Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, Liudmyla Sharipova, Alexander Schunka, Rudolf Schlögl, Václav Bůžek, Mark Hengerer, Michael Tworek, Pál Ács, Maria Crăciun, Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Laura Lisy-Wagner, and Graeme Murdock.

Call to Mission and Perceptions of Proselytism

Author : John Baxter-Brown
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532658796
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Call to Mission and Perceptions of Proselytism written by John Baxter-Brown and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-13 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proselytism remains one of the most divisive issues in global Christianity, jeopardizing many ecumenical initiatives and projects. Almost all traditions accuse others of proselytism, but none readily confess to it, as one tradition's mission and evangelism is another's proselytism. This work brings together, for the first time, significant formal statements from Christian bodies and churches alongside articles from leading commentators in this hotly contested issue. It gives clergy, academics, and students a vital resource in understanding the perspectives of different traditions, and therefore the opportunity to study and understand viewpoints and opinions from competing perspectives. The volume originates in a process of work commissioned by the World Pentecostal Fellowship, the World Council of Churches, the World Evangelical Alliance, and the Roman Catholic Church, under the auspices of the Global Christian Forum. We discovered that there are no easy answers that resolve the tensions and debates about proselytism, but through listening and understanding different voices, new opportunities for establishing constructive relationships can and do emerge.

Mission Revisited

Author : P. N. Holtrop
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643900384
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Mission Revisited written by P. N. Holtrop and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the light of the centennial of the World Mission Conference in Edinburgh (1910-2010), Dutch missiologists reflect on issues on the borderline between missiology and intercultural theology, with some international guests joining the choir. Organized in four parts, their contributions open up new perspectives on the future of the discipline in terms of foundational theology, contextuality, gender, and methodology. (Series: ContactZone. Explorations in Intercultural Theology - Vol. 10)

Critical Challenges For Health Care Reform In Europe

Author : Saltman , Richard B.
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335199704
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Critical Challenges For Health Care Reform In Europe written by Saltman , Richard B. and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the central issues driving the present process of healthcare reform in Europe. 17 chapters written by scholars and policy makers from all parts of Europe draw together the available evidence from epidemiology and public health, economics, public policy, organizational behaviour and management theory as well as real world policy making experience, laying out the options that health sector decision-makers confront. Through its cross-disciplinary, cross-national approach, the book highlights the underlying trends that now influence health policy formulation across Europe. An authoritative introduction provides a broad synthesis of present trends and strategies in European health policy.

Trinity and Organism

Author : James Eglinton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567632717
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Trinity and Organism written by James Eglinton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the organic motif found throughout the writings of the Dutch Calvinist theologian Herman Bavinck (1854-1921). Noting that Bavinck uses this motif at key points in the most important loci of theology; Christology, general and special revelation, ecclesiology and so forth; it seems that one cannot read him carefully without particular attention to his motif of choice: the organic. By examining the sense in which Bavinck views all of reality as a beautiful balance of unity-in-diversity, James Eglinton draws the reader to Bavinck's constant concern for the doctrine of God as Trinity. If God is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Bavinck argues, the creation must be more akin to an organism than a machine. Trinity and organism are thus closely linked concepts. Eglinton critiques and rejects the 'two Bavincks' (one orthodox and the other modern) hermeneutic so commonplace in discussions of Bavinck's theology. Instead, this book argues for a reunited Herman Bavinck as a figure committed to the participation of historic orthodox theology in the modern world.

Making Disciples in a World Parish

Author : Paul W. Chilcote
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498273521
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Making Disciples in a World Parish written by Paul W. Chilcote and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of inspirational and challenging essays, Methodists from around the globe reflect on the practice of disciple-making in their own contexts. From their own perspectives, they address questions like: What are the challenges you face? What biblical images shape your missional practice? What examples of Christian authenticity inspire your communities? What gifts related to mission and evangelism do you offer the global community of faith? Churches on every continent have their own stories of struggle and faithfulness. Indeed, each distinct community within any given region has a voice of its own that deserves to be heard. The voices included in this volume belong to women and men alike. Likewise, they resound with the accents of Africa and Asia, Latin and North America, Europe, and Oceania. Each voice is distinct, but all articulate a vision of faith made effective through love. In a world characterized variously by poverty and violence as well as prosperity and peace, the church must reclaim its central mission "to make disciples of Jesus Christ." In their effort to articulate a vision of mission and evangelism, the contributors to this volume bear witness to the fact that we can no longer do this work in isolation from one another. To be the ambassadors of the gospel, we need each other and we need to pay attention to the voices that sound different from our own. This volume takes a large step in that vital direction.

International Aid, Administrative Reform and the Politics of EU Accession

Author : Artan Karini
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319978349
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book International Aid, Administrative Reform and the Politics of EU Accession written by Artan Karini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed analysis of the dimensions and dynamics of the role of international aid in the reform and capacity development of public service in post-communist Albania. It challenges the technocratic, results-based management frameworks used by aid organizations and reports of official donors operating in the country context, and offers a qualitative and critical assessment of the role of aid in administrative reform and capacity building. Secondly, the book highlights the specificity of the national politico-administrative context and its ability to modify the process of policy transfer from aid organizations to the Albanian bureaucracy. In doing so, it illustrates the domestic challenges in the transfer process towards policy learning and makes a valuable contribution to the debate over the (voluntary vs. coercive) administrative reform in Southeast Europe in relation to the politics of EU accession.

Can the West Be Converted?

Author : Jean-Georges Gantenbein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793633827
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Can the West Be Converted? written by Jean-Georges Gantenbein and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than reconsidering contemporary culture in light of secularization, much of the western church operates with a degree of nostalgia. She has yet to fully embrace prospective, innovative models for what form her task might take in some of Christianity’s historic heartlands. Amidst rapidly declining church membership, contextualizing the Gospel for the contemporary West is an urgent task for churches and Christians living in this context. This book seeks an interdisciplinary, international, and ecumenical response to this challenge, uniting historical, sociological, theological, and missiological perspectives. Benefiting from recent studies in sociology of religion, Dr. Gantenbein offers several detailed contextual case studies before establishing correlations between western cultural-religious characteristics and corresponding theological affirmations. This study includes several unexpected dimensions, including the development of a theological aesthetic in tension with the typically Word-alone tradition of Protestantism; a constructive reading of the book of Revelation as a source for contemporary aesthetic missiology; reflections on a soteriology for the postmodern era; and a proposal for an anonymous ecclesiology within a European context where churches are viewed with growing suspicion. With rare perspicacity, Gantenbein’s study creatively calls churches to apply renewed intellectual rigor in faithfulness to their common purpose.

The Non-Western Jesus

Author : M. E. Brinkman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317490428
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Non-Western Jesus written by M. E. Brinkman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The centre of gravity of contemporary Christianity has shifted to the southern hemisphere where, with the exception of Latin America, almost all Christians are minorities in their home countries. Christians in Asia live amongst Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Shamanist or Taoist majorities and this context shapes the local Christian theology. The same is true in Africa where traditional religions and beliefs influence African Christians. Central to this change in both Africa and Asia is the creation of a new Jesus, one who accretes local beliefs and concerns and who, in that process, is transformed. 'The Non-Western Jesus' reveals how a new theology - with its own images and concepts - is coming into being. A wide range of embodiments of Jesus is examined: Jesus as 'Avatara' and 'Guru' in the Indian context; as 'Bodhisattva' in the Buddhist context; and Jesus within Asian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, African and Indonesian religious contexts.

Een waaier van gedachten over geloven – Bibliography of Published Works by Hendrik M. Vroom

Author : Dirk van Keulen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004358005
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Een waaier van gedachten over geloven – Bibliography of Published Works by Hendrik M. Vroom written by Dirk van Keulen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Citizenship and Welfare State Reform in Europe

Author : Jet Bussemaker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134658117
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Citizenship and Welfare State Reform in Europe written by Jet Bussemaker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyses citizenship in relation to recent changes in European welfare states. It examines concrete changes in social rights and citizenship roles, and offers normative investigations of citizenship.

Constitutional Preferences and Parliamentary Reform

Author : Thomas Winzen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198793391
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Constitutional Preferences and Parliamentary Reform written by Thomas Winzen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advancing an explanation based on political parties' constitutional preferences, this volume investigates the nature and variation of parliamentary rights in European Union affairs across countries and levels of governance.

Public Sector Reform

Author : Jan-Erik Lane
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 085702616X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Public Sector Reform written by Jan-Erik Lane and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-12-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deregulation, privatization and marketization have become the bywords for the reforms and debates surrounding the public sector. This major book is unique in its comparative analysis of the reform experience in Western and Eastern Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Leading experts identify a number of key factors to systematically explain the similarities and differences, map common problems and together reflect on the future shape of the public sector, exploring significant themes in a lively and accessible way.