The Community Of The Weak

Author : Hans-Peter Geiser
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621896111

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The Community of the Weak by Hans-Peter Geiser Pdf

Social postmodernism and systematic theology can be considered the new pair in some of the most creative discussions on the future of theological method on a global scale. Both in the academy and in the public square, as well as in the manifold local and pastoral moments of ministry and community social activism, the social, the postmodern, and the theological intermingle in engaging and border-crossing ways. The Community of the Weak presents a new kind of jazzy fundamental theology with a postmodern touch, using jazz as a metaphor, writing ethnographically messy texts out of the personal windows of lived experiences, combining fragments of autobiography with theological reconstruction. A comparative perspective on North American and European developments in contemporary systematic theology serves as a hermeneutical horizon to juxtapose two continents in their very different contexts. The author proposes a systematic and fundamental theology that is more jazzy, global, and narrative, deeply embedded in pastoral ministry to tell its postmodern story.

Author : Andy Crouch
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830847105

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Strong and Weak by Andy Crouch Pdf

Flourishing people are strong and weak. Two common temptations lure us away from abundant living: withdrawing into safety and grasping for power. True flourishing, says Andy Crouch, travels down an unexpected path—being both strong and weak. We see this unlikely mixture in the best leaders—people who use their authority for the benefit of others while also showing extraordinary willingness to face and embrace suffering. We see it in Jesus, who wielded tremendous power yet also exposed himself to hunger, ridicule, torture and death. Rather than being opposites, strength and weakness are actually meant to be combined in every human life and community. With the characteristic insight, memorable stories and hopeful realism he is known for, Andy Crouch shows us how to walk this path so that the image of God can shine through us. Not just for our own good, but for the sake of others. With a new preface by the author, Strong and Weak is now part of the IVP Signature Collection, which features special editions of iconic books in celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of InterVarsity Press. A new companion Bible study is also available.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428973534

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Community development : weak management controls compromise integrity of four HUD grant programs : report to Congressional requesters by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sheryl Takagi Silzer
Publisher : WCIU Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780865850156

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Biblical Multicultural Teams by Sheryl Takagi Silzer Pdf

Biblical Multicultural Teams speaks to the heart of cultural misunderstanding- our childhood upbringing. Sheryl Takagi Silzer is able in this work to provide both an honest look at her own cross-cultural experience and an astute academic understanding of cross-cultural communication. We all work and function in a multicultural world. The advice and wisdom in Biblical Multicultural Teams will thus enable you to take a hard look at assumptions and attitudes found in your team and to work on submitting them to biblical standards of interaction.Sign up for the WCIU Press newsletter to be notified about new books from this author and more! http: //eepurl.com/rB15L

Author : John Eversley,Sinéad Gormally,Avila Kilmurray
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447359364

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Peacebuilding, Conflict and Community Development by John Eversley,Sinéad Gormally,Avila Kilmurray Pdf

How do local communities effectively build peace and reconciliation before, during and after open violence? This trailblazing book gives practical examples, from the Global North, the former Soviet bloc and Global South, on communities addressing conflict in divided and contested societies. The book draws on a range of critical perspectives and practitioner analyses. The diverse case studies demonstrate the considerable knowledge, skills, commitment, courage and relationships within local communities that a critical community development approach can support and encourage. Concluding with activists’ perspectives on working with the challenges of violence, the book offers insights for both an understanding of the root causes of conflict and for bottom-up peacebuilding.

Author : Annette Imhausen,Falk Müller,Moritz Epple
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783593509778

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Weak Knowledge by Annette Imhausen,Falk Müller,Moritz Epple Pdf

Many of us view the world of science as a firm bastion of knowledge, with each new discovery and further illumination adding to an unshakable foundation of natural truths. Weak Knowledge aims to rattle our faith, not in core certainties of scientific findings but in their strength as accessible resources. The authors show how, throughout history, many bodies of research have become precarious due to a host of factors. These factors have included cultural or social disinterest, feeble empirical evidence or theoretical justifications, and a lack of practical applications in a given field's findings. This book brings together cases from a range of historical periods and disciplines, ranging from personal medicine to climatology, to illuminate the specific forms, functions, and dynamics of so-called "weak" bodies of knowledge.

Author : Mark Reasoner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521633346

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The Strong and the Weak by Mark Reasoner Pdf

This 1999 book situates Romans 14.1-15.13 in the context of first-century Roman thought, using the lenses of asceticism (especially vegetarianism), superstition and obligation. It also seeks to situate this section of Romans within the letter as a whole, and concludes by arguing that the section illustrates the theme, or primary topos, of the letter: that Paul, his gospel, and those who follow it are not shameful. Contributions to Romans research surface where this book examines the terms 'strong' and 'weak' in light of their use within Roman social discourse; identifies the Roman social value of obligation throughout the letter as a key element both within Paul's self-understanding and in his ethical teaching; raises previously unrecognized implications of the letter's occasional nature for how we read and use Romans; and traces the topos of not being ashamed through the letter and back to its roots in the LXX.

Author : American Association of Farmers' Institute Workers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Farmers' institutes
ISBN : WISC:89048621247

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Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting by American Association of Farmers' Institute Workers Pdf

Author : Jo Groebel,Eli M. Noam,Valerie Feldmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781135621971

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Mobile Media by Jo Groebel,Eli M. Noam,Valerie Feldmann Pdf

The proliferation of mobile media in recent years is an international phenomenon, with billions of devices sold annually. Mobile communications are now moving beyond individualized voice to mass media content--text, voice, sound, images, and even video. This will create new types of content that allow media companies and users to interact in new ways. There is a strong interest from the media and telecom industries in what manner of applications and content can be distributed in that fashion, and at what cost. To answer these questions, the book provides 18 chapters from internationally renowned authors. They identify likely types of content such as news, entertainment, peer-to-peer, and location-specific information; evaluate the economics, business models, and payment mechanisms necessary to support these media; and cover policy dimensions such as copyright, competitiveness, and access rights for content providers. This volume takes the reader through the various elements that need to be considered in the development of third generation (3G) content, and explains pitfalls and barriers. The result is a volume of interest to business professionals, academics, and policy makers. The book is international in focus and a glossary of terms is provided. There are few publications available which give an overview of this rapidly changing field.

Author : Douglas Dowland
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496200501

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Weak Nationalisms by Douglas Dowland Pdf

The question “What is America?” has taken on new urgency. Weak Nationalisms explores the emotional dynamics behind that question by examining how a range of authors have attempted to answer it through nonfiction since the Second World War, revealing the complex and dynamic ways in which affects shape the literary construction of everyday experience in the United States. Douglas Dowland studies these attempts to define the nation in an eclectic selection of texts from writers such as Simone de Beauvoir, John Steinbeck, Charles Kuralt, Jane Smiley, and Sarah Vowell. Each of these texts makes use of synecdoche, and Weak Nationalisms shows how this rhetorical technique is variously driven by affects including curiosity, discontent, hopefulness, and incredulity. In exploring the function of synecdoche in the creative construction of the United States, Dowland draws attention to the evocative politics and literary richness of nationalism and connects critical literary practices to broader discussions involving affect theory and cultural representation.

Author : Rik Peeters,Gabriela Lotta,Fernando Nieto-Morales
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781447368748

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Street-Level Bureaucracy in Weak State Institutions by Rik Peeters,Gabriela Lotta,Fernando Nieto-Morales Pdf

In this book, street-level bureaucracy scholars from South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America analyse the conditions that shape frontline work and citizens ́ everyday experience of the state. Institutional factors such as political clientelism, resource scarcity, social inequality, job insecurity, and systemic corruption affect the way street-level bureaucrats enforce rules and implement policies. Inadvertently, they end up implementing inequities in citizens’ access to rights and services — despite efforts to repair organisational deficiencies and broker relations between vulnerable citizens and a distant state. This book illuminates these realities and challenges and provides unique insights into critical themes such as resource scarcities, bureaucratic corruption, control practices, and the complexities of dealing with vulnerable population groups.

Author : Fuminobu Murakami
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136970511

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The Strong and the Weak in Japanese Literature by Fuminobu Murakami Pdf

This book uses texts from classical to modern Japanese literature to examine concepts of 'respect for the strong', as a notion of an evolutionary society, and 'sympathy for the weak', as a notion of a non-violent and changeless egalitarian society. The term strong refers not just to those with strength and power. It also includes other ideal attributes such as beauty, youth and goodness. Similarly, the term weak implies not only the weak and infirm, but also the disadvantaged, the indecent, the unsophisticated and those generally shunned by society. The former are associated not only with the power of life, competition, evolution, progress, development, ability, effectiveness, efficiency, individuality, the future, hope and romance, but also with violence, fighting, bullying, discrimination and sacrifice. The latter, in contrast, invoke notions of peace, egalitarianism, anti-discrimination and welfare, as well as stagnation, retreat, retrogression, degeneration and the decline of vital powers. By using these two concepts Murakami skillfully weaves a narrative that is part literary criticism, part social commentary. As such the book will be of huge interest to not only scholars and students of Japanese literature, but also those of Japanese society and culture.

Author : Runar Thorsteinsson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199578641

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Roman Christianity and Roman Stoicism by Runar Thorsteinsson Pdf

Runar M. Thorsteinsson presents a challenge to the view that Christianity introduced an entirely new, better, and decidedly universal morality into the ancient world. Presenting evidence from Stoic and Christian texts from first century Rome, he emphasizes the similarities between the two belief systems.

Author : Sinclair Dinnen
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824863296

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Law and Order in a Weak State by Sinclair Dinnen Pdf

Twenty-five years after independence, Papua New Guinea is beset by social, economic, and political problems: poverty and inequality, a young and expanding population, a stagnant economy, corruption, and rising crime. The state has not only failed to contain these problems but has become progressively implicated in their persistence. Escalating levels of violence and lawlessness are seen by many as the most serious challenge facing the young country. This book examines these problems of order in light of Papua New Guinea’s remarkable social diversity and the impact of rapid and pervasive processes of change. Three original and strategic case studies involving urban gangs, mining security, and election violence form the core of the work. Each case study looks at particular forms of conflict, and the responses these engender, across different socioeconomic contexts and geographic locations. Empirical data are analyzed through a common framework that employs material, cultural and institutional perspectives, allowing readers to view the three cases through different theoretical prisms, identify linkages between them, and, in the process, build a larger picture of the post-colonial social order. Law and Order in a Weak State charts not only the problems of crime and lawlessness in Papua New Guinea but also the possibilities for constructive, pragmatic solutions. It will be of great interest to scholars, aid and policy officials, and others concerned with understanding the social complexities and challenges of contemporary Papua New Guinea.

Author : Richard Dagger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 9780195106343

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Civic Virtues by Richard Dagger Pdf

Dagger argues for a republican liberalism that, while celebrating the liberal heritage of autonomy and rights, solidly places these within social relations and obligations, which while ubiquitous, are often obscured and forgotten.