The Shape Of Participation

Author : L. Roger Owens
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621893196

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The Shape of Participation by L. Roger Owens Pdf

The Shape of Participation is a work of constructive theology addressed to theologians, seminarians, and thoughtful pastors. Owens engages and deepens recent popular discussions of church practices by approaching practices from the church Fathers' understanding of the church's participation in God. Through a wide-ranging engagement with theologians, both ancient and contemporary--including Cyril of Alexandria, Maximus the Confessor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Herbert McCabe--Owens argues that the embodied practices of the church are the church's participation in the life of God, making the church Jesus' own continued, peaceable embodiment in and for the world. This book is for theologians, pastors, and anyone who wants a deeper understanding of how the visible presence of God's church is extraordinarily good news in a violent world.

Author : Michael J. Gorman
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467442985

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Becoming the Gospel by Michael J. Gorman Pdf

The first detailed exegetical treatment of Paul’s letters from the emerging discipline of missional hermeneutics, Michael Gorman’s Becoming the Gospel argues that Paul’s letters invite Christian communities both then and now to not merely believe the gospel but to become the gospel and, in doing so, to participate in the life and mission of God. Showing that Pauline churches were active public participants in and witnesses to the gospel, Gorman reveals the missional significance of various themes in Paul’s letters. He also identifies select contemporary examples of mission in the spirit of Paul, inviting all Christians to practice Paul-inspired imagination in their own contexts.

Author : Andrew Davison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108483285

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Participation in God by Andrew Davison Pdf

Offers a substantial discussion of a central theme in Christian theology - that everything comes from and depends upon God.

Author : Hans Boersma
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467434423

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Heavenly Participation by Hans Boersma Pdf

Surveying the barriers that contemporary thinking has erected between the natural and the supernatural, between earth and heaven, Hans Boersma issues a wake-up call for Western Christianity. Both Catholics and evangelicals, he says, have moved too far away from a sacramental mindset, focusing more on the "here-and-now" than on the "then-and-there." Yet, as Boersma points out, the teaching of Jesus, Paul, and St. Augustine -- indeed, of most of Scripture and the church fathers -- is profoundly otherworldly, much more concerned with heavenly participation than with earthly enjoyment. In Heavenly Participation Boersma draws on the wisdom of great Christian minds ancient and modern -- Irenaeus, Gregory of Nyssa, C. S. Lewis, Henri de Lubac, John Milbank, and many others. He urges Catholics and evangelicals alike to retrieve a sacramental worldview, to cultivate a greater awareness of eternal mysteries, to partake eagerly of the divine life that transcends and transforms all earthly realities.

Author : Frans H. J. M. Coenen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402093258

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Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions by Frans H. J. M. Coenen Pdf

Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions is about a specific ‘promise’ that participation holds for environmental decision-making. Many of the arguments for public participation in (inter)national environmental policy documents are functional, that is to say they see public participation as a means to an end. Sound solutions to environmental problems require participation beyond experts and political elites. Neglecting information from the public leads to legitimacy questions and potential conflicts. There is a discourse in the literature and in policy practice as to whether decision-making improves in quality as additional relevant information by the public is considered. The promise that public participation holds has to be weighed against the limitations of public participation in terms of costs and interest conflicts. The question that Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions seeks to answer for academics, planners and civil servants in all environmental relevant policy fields is: What restricts and what enables information to hold the ‘promise’ that public participation lead to better environmental decision-making and better outcomes?

Author : Karen Marie Mokate
Publisher : IDB
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social planning
ISBN : 1931003947

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Women's Participation in Social Development by Karen Marie Mokate Pdf

Author : Robert C. Tannehill
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597525114

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The Shape of the Gospel by Robert C. Tannehill Pdf

ÒMost of the following essays reveal my interest in the significance of literary forms--both the short literary forms in the Gospels, such as pronouncement stories, and an entire Gospel as a formed narrative. I am interested in the significance of these forms, not just in literary classification systems . . . . I am interested in literary form as a clue to how the text may engage hearers and readers--impact their thought and life--if they are sensitive respondents. The Gospel stories have been shaped in ways that give them particular potentials for significant engagement. Study of literary form can help us recognize these potentials. --from the Introduction Contents Part I: Gospel Sayings and Stories 1 Tension in Synoptic Sayings and Stories 2 The Pronouncement Story and Its Types 3 Varieties of Synoptic Pronouncement Stories 4 Types and Functions of Apophthegms in the Synoptic Gospels 5 The Gospels and Narrative Literature 6 ÒYou Shall Be Complete--If Your Love Includes All (Matthew 5:48) Part II: The Gospel of Mark 7 The Disciples in Mark: The Function of a Narrative Role 8 The Gospel of Mark as Narrative Christology 9 Reading It Whole: The Function of Mark 8:34-35 in Mark's Story Part III: Paul's Gospel 10 Paul as Liberator and Oppressor: Evaluating Diverse Views of 1 Corinthians 11 Participation in Christ: A Central Theme in Pauline Soteriology

Author : Faron Ellis
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552381564

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The Limits of Participation by Faron Ellis Pdf

The Limits of Participation: Members and Leaders in Canada's Reform Party provides an historical account of the Canadian Reform Party, which shattered the established pattern of Canadian party politics in the late twentieth century. Faron Ellis provides an analysis of the party's development as it struggled to build an organization capable of bridging the policy demands of its members with the strategic plans of its leaders. The book examines the party from the perspective of its members by focusing on the opinion structure of activists who helped found Reform, build it into Canada's official opposition, and eventually decommission it in pursuit of power.

Author : Michael J. Gorman
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493416936

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Participating in Christ by Michael J. Gorman Pdf

World-renowned scholar Michael Gorman examines the important Pauline theme of participation in Christ and explores its contemporary significance for Christian life and ministry. One of the themes Gorman explores is what he calls "resurrectional cruciformity"--that participating in Christ is simultaneously dying and rising with him and that cross-shaped living, infused with the life of the resurrected Lord, is life giving. Throughout the book, Gorman demonstrates the centrality of participating in Christ for Paul's theology and spirituality.

Author : Francesco Grigoli,Zsoka Koczan,Petia Topalova
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484355251

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A Cohort-Based Analysis of Labor Force Participation for Advanced Economies by Francesco Grigoli,Zsoka Koczan,Petia Topalova Pdf

Advanced economies are in the midst of a major demographic transition, with the number of elderly rising precipitously relative to the working-age population. Yet, despite the acceleration in demographic shifts in the past decade, advanced economies experienced markedly different trajectories in overall labor force participation rates and the workforce attachment of men and women. Using a cohort-based model of labor force participation for 17 advanced economies estimated over the 1985-2016 period, we document a significant role of common patterns of participation over the life cycle and shifts in these patterns across generations for aggregate labor supply, especially in the case of women. The entry of new cohorts of women led to upward shifts in the age participation profile, boosting aggregate participation rates. However, this process plateaued in most advanced economies, with signs of reversal in some. Using the model's results to forecast future participation trends, we project sizable declines in aggregate participation rates over the next three decades due to the aging of the population. Illustrative simulations show that implementing policies encouraging labor supply can help attenuate but may not fully offset demographic pressures.

Author : Sidney Verba,Norman H. Nie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1987-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226852966

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Participation in America by Sidney Verba,Norman H. Nie Pdf

Participation in America represents the largest study ever conducted of the ways in which citizens participate in American political life. Sidney Verba and Norman H. Nie addresses the question of who participates in the American democratic process, how, and with what effects. They distinguish four kinds of political participation: voting, campaigning, communal activity, and interaction with a public official to achieve a personal goal. Using a national sample survey and interviews with leaders in 64 communities, the authors investigate the correlation between socioeconomic status and political participation. Recipient of the Kammerer Award (1972), Participation in America provides fundamental information about the nature of American democracy.

Author : Eva Hansson,Meredith L. Weiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351622462

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Political Participation in Asia by Eva Hansson,Meredith L. Weiss Pdf

A combination of economic transformation, political transitions and changes in media have substantially, if incrementally, altered the terrain for political participation globally, particularly in Asia, home to several of the most dramatic such shifts over the past two decades. This book explores political participation in Asia and how democracy and authoritarianism function under neoliberal economic relations. It examines changes that coincide seemingly perversely with a participation explosion: with mass street protests and ‘occupations’, energetic online contention, movements of students and workers, mobilization for and against democracy and more. Organized thematically in three parts – political participation in a ‘post-democratic’ context, changes in the scope and character of political space and the policing of that space – this book analyzes economic, regime and media shifts and how they function in tandem and both within and across states. Closely integrated, comparative and theoretically driven, this book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the fields of civil society, contentious politics or social movements, democratization, political economy/development, media and communications, political geography, sociology, comparative politics and Asian politics.

Author : Andreas Weich,Felicitas Macgilchrist
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031380525

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Postdigital Participation in Education by Andreas Weich,Felicitas Macgilchrist Pdf

This open access book examines the interrelations and correlations of the postdigital condition and its relationship to education, with a particular focus on participation. Contributions reflect on how educational institutions are affected by the recent transformations of media technologies and practices, and how at the same time institutions such as schools and universities are supposed to enable people to participate in media practices in an informed and reflective way. How, and under what conditions, can teachers and students participate in contemporary media constellations? The book will be of interest to academics and researchers involved in teacher education, digital pedagogy, educational technology, instructional design, education philosophy and media education.

Author : György Széll
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9783110884807

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Concise Encyclopaedia of Participation and Co-Management by György Széll Pdf

Author : Hans-Liudger Dienel,M. Reza Shirazi,Sabine Schröder,Jenny Schmithals
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317165880

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Citizens’ Participation in Urban Planning and Development in Iran by Hans-Liudger Dienel,M. Reza Shirazi,Sabine Schröder,Jenny Schmithals Pdf

During recent years, the topic of participation has increasingly been gaining importance in Iran – in the scientific field, in practice and rhetoric. However, in current scientific literature – and especially in English literature – there is little knowledge on the conditions, legal background, perceptions, experiences and processes of citizens’ participation in Iran. This book aims to shed light on the paradoxical question of participation in Iran: it is old and new, dysfunctioning and functioning, disappointing and promising. This slippery status of participation convinces scholars to suggest contradictory interpretations and understandings about the existence, functionality, and potentiality of this concept. The book therefore shows the different perspectives, interpretations, historical developments and case studies of participation in Iran, thus giving the reader a kaleidoscope view on the question of participation in Iran.