Structures Of Grace

Author : Kevin Ahern
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608335480

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Author : Randee Ijatuyi-Morphé
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761862680

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Africa's Social and Religious Quest by Randee Ijatuyi-Morphé Pdf

This well-crafted book probes the key dimensions of Africa’s existential predicament. It constitutes an intellectual response to a gnawing “African situation”—the starting point for grasping Africa’s social and religious quest. Beyond split explanations of external versus internal factors (e.g., colonization/slavery vs. leadership/cultural values), this study accounts more comprehensively for emergent issues shaping this situation. The situation reflects a gamut of problems in traditional African religion and material culture, which hitherto defines African communality, polities, and destinies vis-à-vis the cosmos and nature. Thus, African religion and communities, each with its own attendant values, do not operate by critical engagement with larger issues of society and civilization, especially those shaped by the advent of (post-) modernity. Rather, they operate via adaptation. The communal drive for natural and social harmony inevitably produces a preservationist view of culture (“leaving things as they are”). This study takes an integrative approach to religion, society, and civilization; eschews dichotomies; and broadly defines and re-signifies life and wholeness as a true end of Africans’ quest today.

Author : Simon Cuff
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334057932

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Love in Action by Simon Cuff Pdf

Described as 'the Catholic church's best kept secret,' Catholic Social Teaching provides a rich body of thought, and finds a particular resonance as all denominations in the church seek to engage with the needs of contemporary society. Yet beyond the immediate context of the Catholic church, it is all too readily ignored. Resolutely aimed at those who come from traditions beyond the movement’s traditional catholic heartlands but who seek to view their ministry through the lens of generous orthodoxy, "Love in Action" offers a deeply scriptural but accessible introduction to this vital approach to the church’s ministry in the world.

Author : Jack O. Balswick,Judith K. Balswick
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780801032493

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The Family by Jack O. Balswick,Judith K. Balswick Pdf

This proven resource covers every issue that affects family life. The third edition includes updates to all chapters and the inclusion of current research.

Author : Conor M. Kelly
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781647120146

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The Fullness of Free Time by Conor M. Kelly Pdf

An ethical framework and vision of free time for social good—and how to achieve it. In the work-centric culture of today’s world, it is easy to view free time as indulging laziness or extravagance.Conor M. Kelly, however, argues that free time possesses enormous potential for good if exercised in accordance with theological ethics. By examining pursuits such as television, digital media use, sports, and travel from the perspective of Catholic solidarity, Kelly demonstrates how individuals can choose new free time activities or restructure current pursuits to be more relational and socially conscious. The first book to use the Catholic theological tradition to explore the importance of free time, The Fullness of Free Time addresses a crucial topic in the ethics of everyday life, providing a useful framework for scholars and students of moral theology, philosophy, and political theory, as well as anyone hoping to make their free time more meaningful.

Author : Edward Farley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532631771

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The Transcendence of God by Edward Farley Pdf

In the varying perspectives of theological thought the contrasting ideas of transcendence and immanence must inevitably be looked at together. To whatever extent they are held to be mutually compatible or mutually exclusive, neither can be considered without at least some cognizance being taken of the other. Nevertheless, in the swinging of the pendulum from era to era, first one and then the other theme receives the greater weight of attention. Thus, nineteenth-century liberalism placed more emphasis on immanence, whereas the twentieth-century revolt against liberalism has concentrated on transcendence. In this book the author studies the transcendent aspect of God as developed by five contemporary theologians. Two of the men whose work Dr. Farley examines, Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich, are thoroughly familiar. The other three, Karl Heim, Charles Hartshorne, and Henry Nelson Wieman, have received less attention in recent studies. The five represent widely divergent traditions, but all of them agree in opposing immanentism. Moreover, they all deal with the tension between the philosophical and the Biblical affirmations of God's transcendence, and attempt to show, in their respective ways, how these types of "beyondness" are related.

Author : Gene L. Green,Stephen T. Pardue,K. K. Yeo
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830831814

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Majority World Theology by Gene L. Green,Stephen T. Pardue,K. K. Yeo Pdf

More Christians now live in the Majority World than in Europe and North America. Yet most theological literature does not reflect the rising tide of Christian reflection coming from these regions. If we take seriously the Spirit's movement around the world, we must consider how the rich textures of Christianity in the Majority World can enliven, inform, and challenge all who are invested in the ongoing work of theology. Majority World Theology offers an unprecedented opportunity to enter conversations on the core Christian doctrines with leading scholars from around the globe. Seeking to bring together the strongest theological resources from past and present, East and West, the volume editors have assembled a diverse team of contributors to develop insights informed by questions from particular geographic and cultural contexts. This book features a comprehensive overview of systematic theology, with sections on the Trinity, Christology, pneumatology, soteriology, ecclesiology, and eschatology contributors including Amos Yong, Ruth Padilla DeBorst, Victor I. Ezigbo, Wonsuk Ma, Aída Besançon Spencer, Randy S. Woodley, Munther Isaac, and Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen explorations of how Scripture, tradition, and culture fit together to guide the church's theological reflection scholars demonstrating how to read the Bible and think theologically in light of contextual resources and concerns inside views on what doing theology looks like in contributors' contexts and what developments they hope for in the future When we learn what it means for Jesus to be Lord in diverse places and cultures, we grasp the gospel more fully and are more able to see the blind spots of our own local versions of Christianity. Majority World Theology provides an essential resource for students, theologians, and pastors who want to expand their theological horizons.

Author : Michael G. Lawler,Thomas J. Shanahan
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0814658210

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Church by Michael G. Lawler,Thomas J. Shanahan Pdf

It is taken for granted today among theologians that the principal achievement of the Second Vatican Council was its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium. It is beginning to be equally taken for granted that the core of this central document is its vision of Church as communion. "Communion," Pope John Paul II has said, "is the very mystery of the Church." Church: A Spirited Communion grows out of the ecclesiology of the Council as a systematic treatment of this notion of communion. Church: A Spirited Communion is not, however, a book only about the Church. It is a book about the God whom Christians confess as Triune, who calls the Church into existence and who seeks its commitment in every age. It is a book about the Church only to the extent that the Church is in communion with this God. To the extent that it is a book which is primarily theo-logical and only secondarily ecclesio-logical, it is a book which adheres to God rather than to men and summons the Church to do the same.

Author : Eskil Jonsson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620329092

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The Power of the West in the Economy of Grace by Eskil Jonsson Pdf

The overall problem raised in this book is that the Western culture of modern rationality, power, and economics departs from a rather narrow, secular and ego-centric worldview. Therefore, it does not recognize the identity of traditional cultures and religions nor social, economic, or ecological justice in relation to the rest of the world. Western religion has, over history, often played a legitimating role for political power, and the expansion of institutional structures and has therefore lost much of its prophetic identity to be signs of peace, justice, and unity. The ecumenical and integrative model of stewardship as an economy of grace, with a deeper ecological philosophy, does, however, offer new visions for a multicultural and multireligious economy. This book is intended for leaders, students, and scholars interested in interdisciplinary studies of politics, religion, economics, and ecology. This will also be of interest to students and researchers in peace studies or conflict management, as well as to leaders who are engaged in the building of peace and justice.

Author : United States. National Park Service,Albert Houghton Good
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : UOM:39015005365203

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Park and Recreation Structures ... by United States. National Park Service,Albert Houghton Good Pdf

Author : Ines W. Jindra,Michael Jindra,Sarah DeGenero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000469868

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Contrasts in Religion, Community, and Structure at Three Homeless Shelters by Ines W. Jindra,Michael Jindra,Sarah DeGenero Pdf

How do people in poverty and homelessness change their lives and get back on their feet? Homeless shelters across the world play a huge role in this process. Many of them are religious, but there is a lot of diversity in faith-based non-profits that assist people affected by poverty and homelessness. In this timely book, the authors look at three homeless shelters that take more or less intensive approaches to faith, community, and programming. In one shelter, for instance, residents are required to do a program of classes that includes group Bible study, worship, and self-evaluation. The other two examined are significantly less faith-based, but in different ways and with different structures. The authors show how the three shelters tackle homelessness differently, drawing on narrative biographical interviews and case studies with residents, interviews with staff, and case study research of the three shelters. Entering into significant debates in social theory over religion, agency, cognitive action, and culture, this book is important reading for scholars and students in religious studies, sociology and social work.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1244 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Astronautics
ISBN : UCAL:B3606064

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics Pdf

Author : Alfred T. Hennelly
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Freedom (Theology)
ISBN : 0878404740

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Theology for a Liberating Church by Alfred T. Hennelly Pdf

Freedom is a fundamental Christian theological category, as much a challenge to construct a new way of seeing oneself and others as it is an announcement of what Christ has already done for us in his death and resurrection. Liberation theology is, most simply, the effort to spell out what such freedom means for Christians in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book has as its principle premise the conviction that if we are to construct a North American liberation theology we must begin listening to and understanding Latin American theology not so much as a model to be slavishly followed but as a challenge to our own cultural, political, and even religious assumptions. The focus thus is not so much on the theoretical meaning of Christian freedom but on its practice, and more exactly its praxis, that is to say the dialectic between theory and practice. After focusing on the creation and development of liberating theological methods and sources and, above all, the revitalization and renewal of structures that will contribute to the development of a liberated and liberating church, Fr. Hennelly ends with an analysis of the most recent and the most important vatican document on liberation theology, The Instruction of Christian Freedom and Liberation, which he sees as an acknowledgement by the universal church that the theme of liberation is central to the meaning of Christian theology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556034587097

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Hydropower Licensing, Soda, Grace-Cove and Oneida Projects, by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Temporary National Economic Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1246 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Antitrust investigations
ISBN : UOM:39015049233995

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Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power by United States. Congress. House. Temporary National Economic Committee Pdf

Continuation of investigation of economic concentration in industry and commerce; pt. 5A: Contains FTC report on industry monopolistic practices; pt. 15A Contains report on marketing practices in the retail distribution of motor fuel and motor lubricant products; pt. 17A: Contains replies of oil companies to the committee questionnaire on financial data and related topics.