Faith Seeking Conviviality

Author : Samuel E. Ewell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532614613

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Faith Seeking Conviviality by Samuel E. Ewell Pdf

Faith Seeking Conviviality traces the journey of a U.S. missionary into Brazil (and beyond), seeking to be faithfully present while also questioning the default settings of “good intentions.” Taking Ivan Illich as the primary theological guide on that journey, Faith Seeking Conviviality narrates the discovery of a renewed imagination for Christian mission that arises as a response to two persistent questions. First, given the colonial history of Christian missionary expansion, on what basis do we go on fulfilling the “Great Commission” (Matt 28:16–20) as Christ’s disciples? A second question, intimately related to the first, is: What makes it possible to embody a distinctively Christian presence that is missionary without being manipulative? In doing theology with and after Ivan Illich, Faith Seeking Conviviality does not offer a pull-off-the-shelf model for mission, but rather a framework for embodying the incarnational logic of mission that entails a “convivial turn”—delinking missionary discipleship from the lure of techniques and institutional dependence in order to receive and to share the peace of Christ relationally.

Author : Peter Admirand
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978716360

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The Last of Us and Theology by Peter Admirand Pdf

With a catastrophic fungal pandemic, the post-apocalypse, a moral quest despite societal breakdowns, humans hunting humans or morphed into grotesque infected, The Last of Us video games and HBO series have exhilarated, frightened, and broken the hearts of millions of gamers and viewers. The Last of Us and Theology: Violence, Ethics, Redemption? is a richly diverse and probing edited volume featuring essays from academics across the world to examine theological and ethical themes from The Last of Us universe. Divided into three groupings—Violence, Ethics, and Redemption?—these chapters will especially appeal to The Last of Us fans and those interested in Theology and Pop Culture more broadly. Chapters not only grapple with theologians, ethicists, and novelists like Cormac McCarthy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Martin Buber, and Paul Tillich; and theological issues from forgiveness and theodicy to soteriology and eschatology; but will help readers become experts on all things fireflies, clickers, Cordyceps, and Seraphites. “Save who you can save” and “Look for the Light.”

Author : Andrew Hayes,Stephen Cherry
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666751314

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The Meanings of Discipleship by Andrew Hayes,Stephen Cherry Pdf

Discipleship is a foundational concept of Christian life which has become a popular and ubiquitous description of belonging and growth in early 21st century ecclesiastical language. Discipleship courses and popular writings abound, and the term is used liberally in official church documents and strategies for growth and development, particular in a western context. But does recent use of the word risk reducing the wide range of meanings of discipleship to something less rich and inclusive than is warranted? With contributions from an array of leading thinkers, scholars and theologians, including Rachel Mann, Kirsteen Kim and Anthony Reddie, this book argues that there is need for more clarity, precision and depth in defining what meaningfully and constructively is construed as discipleship. Beginning with an overview of how the concept of discipleship has been understood in history, the volume goes on to consider some of the key figures who have shaped our understanding of the concept, and finally to reflect on what discipleship might look like in contemporary society.

Author : Bevans, Stephen B.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798888660133

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Community of Missionary Disciples by Bevans, Stephen B. Pdf

Author : Al Barrett,Ruth Harley
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334058625

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Being Interrupted by Al Barrett,Ruth Harley Pdf

Beginning with a ‘Street Nativity Play’ that didn’t end as planned, and finishing with an open-ended conversation in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, "Being Interrupted" locates an institutionally-anxious Church of England within the wider contexts of divisions of race and class in ‘the ruins of empire’, alongside ongoing gender inequalities, the marginalization of children, and catastrophic ecological breakdown. In the midst of this bleak picture, Al Barrett and Ruth Harley open a door to a creative disruption of the status quo, ‘from the outside, in’: the in-breaking of the wild reality of the ‘Kin-dom’ of God. Through careful and unsettling readings in Mark’s gospel, alongside stories from a multicultural outer estate in east Birmingham, they paint a vivid picture of an 'alternative economy' for the Church's life and mission, which begins with transformative encounters with neighbours and strangers at the edges of our churches, our neighbourhoods and our imaginations, and offers new possibilities for repentance and resurrection.

Author : Pavol Bargár
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666744101

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Embodied Existence by Pavol Bargár Pdf

This book makes a case, from an ecumenical Christian perspective, for a theological anthropology and a missiology that are based on the essential significance of story, body, imagination, and relationality, in order to understand what it means to be human vis-a-vis God, the other, and creation. Such an interpretation, moreover, enables seeking and pursuing a common life for the whole creation in the force field of God's radical and transformative reign. To advance its argument, it engages contemporary culture, including cinema and, to a lesser extent, fiction and music.

Author : Stephen Bevans,Clemens Sedmak
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666714319

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Does God Love the Coronavirus? by Stephen Bevans,Clemens Sedmak Pdf

This book is a correspondence between two theologians and friends during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-21. In it the authors reflect on the nature of God, the efficacy of prayer, the value of experience, the nature of theology itself, the importance of Christian hope, and many other topics. The style is familiar and light, rich, and full of wisdom.

Author : Rosa Bruno-Jofré,Michael Attridge,Jon Igelmo Zaldívar
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781487550523

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Rethinking Freire and Illich by Rosa Bruno-Jofré,Michael Attridge,Jon Igelmo Zaldívar Pdf

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of two of the most influential books in modern educational and social theory, Rethinking Freire and Illich introduces readers to the results of the symposium of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society. The collection uniquely analyses Freire and Illich together, although not in a comparative way. It acknowledges that both Freire and Illich led in different ways to a new approach to perceiving and understanding the concept of liberation as a human condition, while also presenting current criticisms of their work from a gendered perspective and by Indigenous scholars in the US and Canada. Drawing on contributions from historians of education, theologians, digital experts, and philosophers of education, the book offers a historical analysis using extensive primary sources and an originality of topics. It introduces the ways in which the current generation reads the overall works of Freire and Illich in the search for a reconstructed democratic education. As a result, Rethinking Freire and Illich presents Freire and Illich in light of contemporary issues in this generation, and offers renewed searches for a good and just life and a reconstructed democratic education.

Author : Perry Shaw,Havilah Dharamraj
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783684267

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Challenging Tradition by Perry Shaw,Havilah Dharamraj Pdf

The surge of theological education in the rapidly growing church of the Majority World has highlighted the inadequacy of traditional Western methods of thinking and learning to fully accomplish the task at hand. The limitations of current theological education are embodied in the formation and assessment of the master’s or doctoral dissertation; processes that follow a linear-empiricist tradition developed in the West and exported to the Majority World. Challenging Tradition: Innovation in Advanced Theological Studies highlights the need for these traditions to be reconsidered in every context throughout the world. Drs Shaw and Dharamraj, with their team of contributors, present innovations in research and documentation that demonstrate how we may better prepare theological leadership through means that are contextually relevant and locally meaningful.

Author : Ivan Illich
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1842300113

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Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich Pdf

Ivan Illich argues for individual personal control over life, the tools and energy we use. A work of seminal importance. The conviviality for which noted social philosopher Ivan Illich is arguing is one in which the individual's personal energies are under direct personal control and in which the use of tools is responsibly limited. A work of seminal importance, this book claims our attention for the urgency of its appeal, the stunning clarity of its logic and the overwhelmingly human note that it sounds.

Author : Oscar Hemer,Maja Povrzanović Frykman,Per-Markku Ristilammi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030289799

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Conviviality at the Crossroads by Oscar Hemer,Maja Povrzanović Frykman,Per-Markku Ristilammi Pdf

Conviviality has lately become a catchword not only in academia but also among political activists. This open access book discusses conviviality in relation to the adjoining concepts cosmopolitanism and creolisation. The urgency of today’s global predicament is not only an argument for the revival of all three concepts, but also a reason to bring them into dialogue. Ivan Illich envisioned a post-industrial convivial society of ‘autonomous individuals and primary groups’ (Illich 1973), which resembles present-day manifestations of ‘convivialism’. Paul Gilroy refashioned conviviality as a substitute for cosmopolitanism, denoting an ability to be ‘at ease’ in contexts of diversity (Gilroy 2004). Rather than replacing one concept with the other, the fourteen contributors to this book seek to explore the interconnections – commonalities and differences – between them, suggesting that creolisation is a necessary complement to the already-intertwined concepts of conviviality and cosmopolitanism. Although this volume takes northern Europe as its focus, the contributors take care to put each situation in historical and global contexts in the interests of moving beyond the binary thinking that prevails in terms of methodologies, analytical concepts, and political implementations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435023758675

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American Illustrated Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frank Leslie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : IND:32000000492308

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Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly by Frank Leslie Pdf

Author : David K. Seitz
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452955582

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A House of Prayer for All People by David K. Seitz Pdf

Perhaps an unlikely subject for an ethnographic case study, the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto in Canada is a large predominantly LGBT church with a robust, and at times fraught, history of advocacy. While the church is often riddled with fault lines and contradictions, its queer and faith-based emphasis on shared vulnerability leads it to engage in radical solidarity with asylum-seekers, pointing to the work of affect in radical, coalition politics. A House of Prayer for All People maps the affective dimensions of the politics of citizenship at this church. For nearly three years, David K. Seitz regularly attended services at MCCT. He paid special attention to how community and citizenship are formed in a primarily queer Christian organization, focusing on four contemporary struggles: debates on race and gender in religious leadership, activism around police–minority relations, outreach to LGBT Christians transnationally, and advocacy for asylum seekers. Engaging in debates in cultural geography, queer of color critique, psychoanalysis, and affect theory, A House of Prayer for All People stages innovative, reparative encounters with citizenship and religion. Building on queer theory’s rich history of “subjectless” critique, Seitz calls for an “improper” queer citizenship—one that refuses liberal identity politics or national territory as the ethical horizon for sympathy, solidarity, rights, redistribution, or intimacy. Improper queer citizenship, he suggests, depends not only on “good politics” but also on people’s capacity for empathy, integration, and repair.

Author : James C. Scott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300252989

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Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott Pdf

“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University