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Christopraxis

Author : Andrew Root
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451478150

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Since the late 1970's practical theology has had a significant voice and influence in the academy. While many have seen great hope and potential in this work, not everyone has agreed. Some, for instance, have examined the conversation and found by focusing on the concrete and lived experiences of humanity, by and large, practical theology has not had the theological vision to present frameworks for understanding concrete and lived experience with divine action. So argues Andrew Root, who in Christopraxis seeks to reset the entire edifice of practical theology on a new foundation. While not minimizing practical theology's commitment to the lived and concrete, Root argues that practical theology has neglected deeper theological underpinnings, and seeks to create a practical theology that seeks to be fully post-postmodern, post-Aristotelian, and that in seeking to attend to doctrines such as divine action and justification, is properly and fully theological.

Christopraxis

Author : Andrew Root
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451484281

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Finding practical theology not always able to present frameworks for understanding concrete and lived experience with divine action, Andrew Root's Christopraxis seeks to reset the edifice of practical theology on a new foundation. While not minimizing its commitment to the lived and concrete, Root argues that practical theology has neglected deeper theological underpinnings. Root seeks to create a practical theology that is properly and fully theological, post-postmodern, post-Aristotelian, and that attends to doctrines such as divine action and justification.

Christopraxis

Author : Edmund Arens
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015037276345

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Christian social ethics too often lands in despair. Edmund Arens exploits the normative aspects of Jurgen Habermas's philosophy to construct a fresh and positive Christian theology of action. Its centerpiece is the idea of communicative action, with its premise that speech is oriented toward eliciting shared conviction. After offering clear, concise formulations of Habermas's chief ideas, Arens sketches their application in biblical, systematic, and practical theology. Christopraxis finds its axial point in the gospel portraits of Jesus' own creative, communicative, and critical praxis. Christopraxis redeems some of the promise of critical social theory for theology and situates Christian social ethics in a continuum of humane action oriented toward doing the truth.

What Happens to Faith When Christians Get Dementia?

Author : 'Tricia Williams
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725272156

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What Happens to Faith When Christians Get Dementia? by 'Tricia Williams Pdf

What happens to faith when Christians get dementia? Here, the unique voices of Christians who live with this illness bring insight and prompt theological reflection on the profound questions that dementia asks of faith. Within the boundaries of a biblical agenda, these questions are explored using a model of orientation, disorientation, and reorientation (reminiscent of Brueggemann's scheme), to seek deeper understanding of faith experience and practice. Arising from the research, fresh theological insights and challenges for the church call for new, creative practices to enable the faith nurture of disciples of Jesus living with this disease. Counterintuitively, the study reveals a growing, positive experience of faith in the light of dementia highlighting the significance of Christian hope. Faith does not end with diagnosis of this illness.

Who is Present in Absence?

Author : Pamela F. Engelbert
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532633539

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Who is Present in Absence? by Pamela F. Engelbert Pdf

What transpires when Classical Pentecostals pray for God to intervene within their suffering, but God does not? Traditionally, Classical Pentecostals center on encountering God as demonstrated through the relating of testimonies of their experiences with God. In seeking to contribute to a theology of suffering for Pentecostals, Pam Engelbert lifts up the stories of eight Classical Pentecostals to discover how they experienced God and others amidst their extended suffering even when God did not intervene as they had prayed. By valuing each story, this qualitative practical theology work embraces a Pentecostal hermeneutic of experience combined with Scripture, namely the Gospel of John. As a Pentecostal practical theological project it offers a praxis (theology of action) of suffering and healing during times when we experience the apparent absence of God. It invites the reader to enter into the space of the other’s suffering by way of empathy, and thereby participate in God’s act of ministry to humanity through God’s expression of empathy in the very person of Jesus.

The Shape of Practical Theology

Author : Ray S. Anderson
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830815597

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Ray S. Anderson lays out a new and renewing theological foundation for engaging in Christian ministry. Illuminated by discussion and case studies, he shows how a biblically informed approach addresses real issues in Christ's power.

From Historical to Critical Post-Colonial Theology

Author : Robert S Heaney
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227905388

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From Historical to Critical Post-Colonial Theology by Robert S Heaney Pdf

What is post-colonial theology? How does it relate to theology that emerged in historically colonial situations? These are two questions that get to the heart of Robert S. Heaney's work as he considers the extent to which theologians predating the emergence of post-colonial theology might be considered as precursors to this theological movement. Heaney argues that the work of innovative theologians John S. Mbiti and Jesse N.K. Mugambi, important in their own right, must now also be considered in relation to the continued emergence of post-colonial theology. When this is done, fresh perspectives on both the nature of post-colonial theology and contextual theology emerge. Through a sympathetic and critical reading of Mbiti and Mugambi, Heaney offers a series of constructive moves that counter the ongoing temptation toward acontextualism that continues to haunt theology both in the North and in the South.

Remembering Esperanza

Author : Mark Lewis Taylor
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451413904

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Remembering Esperanza by Mark Lewis Taylor Pdf

Remembering Esperanza has been acclaimed as this generation's most important synthesis of critical theory and Christian theology. Taylor offers North American models of a new theology that serves an informed, critical transformative praxis of resistance to sexism, classism, racism. Taylor's work forges a vital link to an engaged Christianity and the Christ who is its source.

Youth Ministry and Theological Shorthand

Author : David Bailey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498219419

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Youth Ministry and Theological Shorthand by David Bailey Pdf

In Youth Ministry and Theology Shorthand, David Bailey explores the dialogue between practice and theological education through the lens of youth ministry. This qualitative study illuminates how youth ministers talk about their work amongst young people. Through the slowing down of the youth ministry process it is discovered that youth ministers speak in theological shorthand. Theological shorthand is a paradox: it is both meaningful—it fuels long-term sacrificial service amongst young people—and it is problematic, as it risks untethering youth ministry from the wider narrative of the Christian story. The book will appeal to youth ministers, clergy, academics, graduate and post-graduate students, but also informed volunteers involved in youth ministry. Through the discipline of practical theology, it correlates the voices of the youth ministers, a set of materials used to deepen faith, and contemporary expressions of sung worship. These are then brought into conversation and explored via different aspects of Trinitarian theology to deepen the theological grammar within contemporary youth ministry and to help develop theological literacy.

The Importance of Inner Healing and Deliverance for Effective Discipleship

Author : Johnathan Lee Shoo Chiang
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532689796

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The Importance of Inner Healing and Deliverance for Effective Discipleship by Johnathan Lee Shoo Chiang Pdf

Personal encounters with God are vital for the current generation of believers--the postmodern/millennial generation who affirm truth through experience. Instead of the traditional view of inner healing and deliverance (IHD) as a "hospital unit" of the church, this dissertation-turned-book will explain the biblical, theological, and current relevance of incorporating IHD into the discipleship structure of the local church. With field research based in Singapore and Taiwan, a grounded theory based on empirical research attests to a framework that enables believers to personally and powerfully encounter God, experience divine healing and wholeness, and become equipped for ongoing sanctification.

The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry

Author : Andrew Root,Kenda Creasy Dean
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830869343

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The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry by Andrew Root,Kenda Creasy Dean Pdf

The questions our youth have are often the same ones that perplexed the great theologians. Andrew Root and Kenda Creasy Dean invite you to envision youth ministries full of practical theologians. Follow them into reflection on your own practice of theology, and learn how to share that theology through rich conversation and purposeful experience.

Opening the Field of Practical Theology

Author : Kathleen A. Cahalan,Gordon S. Mikoski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781442232518

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Opening the Field of Practical Theology by Kathleen A. Cahalan,Gordon S. Mikoski Pdf

Opening the Field of Practical Theology introduces students to practical theology through an examination of fifteen different approaches—ranging from feminist to liberationist, Roman Catholic to evangelical, Asian American to Latino/a. After an introduction to the field of practical theology and its broad range of practice today, the book features chapters written by leading experts in the discipline. Each chapter has an identical structure to facilitate comparison, covering historical context, key features and figures, norms and sources of authority, theory-practice, contexts, interdisciplinary considerations, areas of current and future research, and suggested readings. Opening the Field of Practical Theology is an ideal introduction to the field, highlighting the diverse ways practical theology is engaged today.

Ministry on the Fireline

Author : Ray S. Anderson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610972024

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Ministry on the Fireline by Ray S. Anderson Pdf

"The best theory for fighting fires comes from actually engaging in the battle against the flames," Ray Anderson writes. "For the thousands of pastors and church leaders who are on the 'firelines' of God's mission in the world, we need a theology that sings, even as it stings, igniting the mind and stirring the heart."In these pages, then, Anderson passionately sets forth a vision of the church's work and mission based on its birthday: Pentecost. At Pentecost, Christians were given the Holy Spirit in order to understand the incarnation and come alive to God. So this key event directs and empowers the church in its service to the world.In the light of Pentecost we learn that we can come to know God only in praxis -- truth discovered through action. In the process of elucidating this praxis, Anderson seeks to construct a theology that not only truly respects and aids ministers on the firelines, but will also heal the breach between Pentecostal and mainline church theology.

Psalms from Prison

Author : Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.
Publisher : The Pilgrim Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780829800364

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Psalms from Prison by Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. Pdf

Originally published in 1983 after the convictions of the Wilmington Ten were overturned, Psalms from Prison was updated and re-released in 1994. Now in its third edition, this update to Psalms from Prison includes autobiographical reflections from Benjamin Chavis about the unjust imprisonment of the Wilmington Ten and the struggle for equal rights. On October 18, 1972, Benjamin Chavis and nine others (the famous Wilmington Ten) were wrongly convicted of having incited race riots. Chavis spent four years in jail—and it was in the flames of that injustice that these psalms were forged. The deep and abiding faith that sustains Chavis today can be found in these powerful prayers, now accompanied by autobiographical reflections in this third edition. Chavis’ psalms spoke to the issues of the African American struggle then . . . and they speak to those same issues today.

Hearing God’s Voice: Towards a Theology of Contemporary Pentecostal Revelatory Experience

Author : Tania M. Harris
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004682412

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Hearing God’s Voice: Towards a Theology of Contemporary Pentecostal Revelatory Experience by Tania M. Harris Pdf

The revelatory experience or in common parlance, “hearing God’s voice,” is prized by Pentecostal-Charismatic Christians for its contribution to spirituality, yet remains one of the most problematic areas of church life. Theological tensions and pastoral fallout have plagued the experience since the time of the New Testament. Drawing on the tools of practical theology, this book presents the findings of a unique and ground-breaking study among Australian Pentecostals. With a theological framework modelled on New Testament practice and undergirded by the accountability of the local church, many of the problems associated with revelatory experience can be addressed and the experience fully harnessed for kingdom purpose.