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Issues in African Christian Theology, , Good Book $33.35 |
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The Holy Spirit and Salvation in African Christian Theology By Ngong, David $100.15 |
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Issues in African Christian Theology NEW $59.64 |
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The Cross and the Lynching Tree $16.28 They put him to death by hanging him on a tree. Acts 10:39The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful new work, theologian James H. Cone explores these symbols and their interconnection in the history and souls of black folk. Both the cross and the lynching tree represent the worst in human beings a… |
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No Future Without Forgiveness $7.90 Archbishop Desmond Tutu stands alongside Nelson Mandela as one of the most iconic figures of the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa. As archbishop of Cape Town throughout the 1980s, Tutu came to symbolize dignified, rational opposition to the iniquities of the apartheid regime, a faithful irreverence for unjust authority that led to his being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. In 1995 h… |
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A Lasting Promise: A Christian Guide to Fighting for Your Marriage $5.34 Build a Marriage of Lasting Love Finally a practical, easy-to-read book that deals with real marital issues from a Christian perspective! Soundly based on both biblical principles and marital rese… |
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African Christian Theology $21.99 “>Christian theology evolves out of questions that are asked in a particular situation about how the Bible speaks to that situation. This book, African Christian Theology, is written to address questions that arise from the African context. It is intended to help students and others discover how theology affects our minds, our hearts, and our lives. As such, it speaks not only to Africans but to all who seek to understand and live out their faith in their own societies.>>Samuel Kunyihop understands both biblical theology and the African worldview and throws light on areas where they overlap, where they diverge, and why this matters. He explores traditional African understandings of God and how he reveals himself, the African understanding of sin and way the Bible sees sin, and how the work of Christ can be understood in African terms.>>The treatment of Christian living focuses on matters that are relevant to Christians in Africa and elsewhere, dealing with topics such as blessings and curses and the role of the church as a Christian community. The book concludes with a discussion of biblical thinking on death and the afterlife in which it also addresses the role traditionally ascribed to African ancestors.>>>Product Details>>Page Count: 256>Release: 12/2011> > >” |
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African Christian Theology (Paperback) $14.8 Christian theology evolves out of questions that are asked in a particular situation about how the Bible speaks to that situation. This book, African Christian Theology, is written to address questions that arise from the African context. It is intended to help students and others discover how theology affects our minds, our hearts, and our lives. As such, it speaks not only to Africans but to all who seek to understand and live out their faith in their own societies.Samuel Kunyihop understands both biblical theology and the African worldview and throws light on areas where they overlap, where they diverge, and why this matters. He explores traditional African understandings of God and how he reveals himself, the African understanding of sin and way the Bible sees sin, and how the work of Christ can be understood in African terms. The treatment of Christian living focuses on matters that are relevant to Christians in Africa and elsewhere, dealing with topics such as blessings and curses and the role of the church as a Christian community. The book concludes with a discussion of biblical thinking on death and the afterlife in which it also addresses the role traditionally ascribed to African ancestors. |
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Reinventing Christianity: African Theology Today $21 “In Reinventing Christianity, the first comprehensive survey of Christian theology in Africa to appear in English, John Parratt provides a critical yet sympathetic examination of the new ways of doing theology that have recently emerged from within the African church. Following an introduction that charts the growth and development of African theology, Parratt examines the differing theological assumptions and methodologies throughout the continent. He also shows how Africans are rethinking the central dogmas of the Christian faith – Scripture, God, christology, the church, and eschatology – and evaluates Africa’s political theologies, giving special attention to theological approaches to African socialism and to South African black theology. The final chapter exposes some of the problematic issues that can provide a framework for wider ecumenical theological debate.” |
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Towards an African Narrative Theology $30 “Reflects what traditional proverbs used in Christian catechetical, liturgical, and ritual contexts reveal about Tanzanian appropriations of and interpretations of Christianity.” |
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Christian Theology $37.29 Christian Theology |
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On Christian Theology $54.99 On Christian Theology |
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Survival and Liberation: Pastoral Theology in African American Context $19.99 “Watkins Ali brings together womanist theology and traditional (male) black theology in a new paradigm of pastoral theology that informs all cultures.” |
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The Sacred Art: Preaching & Theology in the African American Tradition $14 “The author has gathered examples from a number of master African American preachers as illustrations of the way practical theology has provided the content of much of the classic African American preaching of the past and present.” |
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Issues in African Christian Theology $43.83 No Synopsis Available |
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Decline Of African American Theology $20 “no description” |
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Introducing Womanist Theology $22 “Introducing Womanist Theology demonstrates how theology by women of color is firmly rooted in their varied life experiences. By participating fully in the construction of theology instead of simply learning theology from others, black women are able to analyze church teachings, develop meaningful systems of ethics, and challenge ecclesiastical structures, if needed.>Introducing Womanist Theology describes the unique experiences of African American women and explores not only what theology is, but how it is constructed. It lays out the major components of womanist theology while showing the close links between womanist theology and womanist ethics.>By examining some of its major contributors and exploring challenges it faces, including relationships with feminist and black theologians, Introducing Womanist Theology provides a thorough and accessible entree into this vibrant comtemporary theology.” |
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”Blue Tights”: Dancing into a life of her own facilitating embodied spirituality for African American adolescent girls. $49.99 In this project I argue that dance, in the context of Christian community, may assist African American adolescent girls in transcending tri-dimensional oppression. Specifically, dance fosters affirmation, community, and agency and aids in moving girls towards embodied spirituality. Methodologically, in the womanist tradition, theological discourse often includes the use of autobiographical and fictional literature by and about African American women. In this dissertation, I employ this tradition through the use of the novel Blue Tights by Rita Garcia Williams, which serves as a dialectical source for constructing a theology that engages African American adolescent girls through dance.;In order to provide a theological framework for artistic engagement with African American adolescent girls, I argue that such engagement is best served when grounded in agency, narrative and presence. Agency is an inherently moral commitment to individual and communal well-being. Narrative creates a framework where stories of African American girls may be heard and helps girls to understand their significance in the gospel story. Finally, presence suggests that other become the instrument through which one can experience God’s loving care and intervention.;Next, I examine the interconnected nature of spiritual, religious, moral and physical development—particularly for African American adolescent girls. I identify assets found within the African American tradition that assist the spiritual development process. These virtues emphasize creativity and community as significant strengths which help African American adolescent girls through the challenging metamorphosis of adolescence.;After examining adolescent spiritual development, I explore how God’s Spirit is revealed in dance. The Ring Shout, a dance with African retentions, which was practiced during slavery, points to three aspects of African American religion that contribute to an understanding of general revelation. These are |
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”Blue Tights”: Dancing into a life of her own facilitating embodied spirituality for African American adolescent girls. $49.99 In this project I argue that dance, in the context of Christian community, may assist African American adolescent girls in transcending tri-dimensional oppression. Specifically, dance fosters affirmation, community, and agency and aids in moving girls towards embodied spirituality. Methodologically, in the womanist tradition, theological discourse often includes the use of autobiographical and fictional literature by and about African American women. In this dissertation, I employ this tradition through the use of the novel Blue Tights by Rita Garcia Williams, which serves as a dialectical source for constructing a theology that engages African American adolescent girls through dance.;In order to provide a theological framework for artistic engagement with African American adolescent girls, I argue that such engagement is best served when grounded in agency, narrative and presence. Agency is an inherently moral commitment to individual and communal well-being. Narrative creates a framework where stories of African American girls may be heard and helps girls to understand their significance in the gospel story. Finally, presence suggests that other become the instrument through which one can experience God’s loving care and intervention.;Next, I examine the interconnected nature of spiritual, religious, moral and physical development—particularly for African American adolescent girls. I identify assets found within the African American tradition that assist the spiritual development process. These virtues emphasize creativity and community as significant strengths which help African American adolescent girls through the challenging metamorphosis of adolescence.;After examining adolescent spiritual development, I explore how God’s Spirit is revealed in dance. The Ring Shout, a dance with African retentions, which was practiced during slavery, points to three aspects of African American religion that contribute to an understanding of general revelation. These are |
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A redemptive reading of the doule in Luke 1:26–38: Towards a liberative process for women in Igbo society. $49.99 This dissertation coheres with the goal of theology in the African context, the attainment of fullness of life. Certain religious and cultural structures, however, continue to exclude women from full participation in social processes hindering the realization of this goal. The dissertation seeks to explore and redeem some of the debarring configurations. It employs the biblical metaphor of the handmaid in the sense of doule, servant-leader, in Luke 1:26-38, in order to make the contribution. Both an exploration of the Lukan passage as well as some aspects of contemporary African Christian theologies reveal how the qualities of the doule, can become a model of self-identification for women in Igbo society. The women’s religious community of the Handmaids of the Holy Child Jesus provides a logical space from which to tease out the ethical and theological considerations of a redemptive reading of the doule.;This dissertation makes women’s experience intelligible by draping it in idioms drawn from the language and experience of the biblical doulas and from that of women in Igbo society. The study utilizes the Bible, a product of human freedom, and literary analysis as vehicle for cultural studies alongside minimal sampling of select women concerning their given names in exploring the implications of vocality-visibility of women in Igbo society.;In order to critically engage the texts to elicit meaning for the transformation of lives, a certain amount of suspicion must prevail in addition to the faith tradition enabling active engagement with the text. As a narrative theology in the African form, the systematic utilization of African traditional myths, symbols, and proverbs characterizes the methodology. Feminist, cultural, and reconstruction hermeneutics enables the recovering of the meaning of the female in the Igbo context. Because the reconstruction paradigm represents an inter-faith and inter-denominational enterprise, the Graduate Theological Union, an |
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A redemptive reading of the doule in Luke 1:26–38: Towards a liberative process for women in Igbo society. $49.99 This dissertation coheres with the goal of theology in the African context, the attainment of fullness of life. Certain religious and cultural structures, however, continue to exclude women from full participation in social processes hindering the realization of this goal. The dissertation seeks to explore and redeem some of the debarring configurations. It employs the biblical metaphor of the handmaid in the sense of doule, servant-leader, in Luke 1:26-38, in order to make the contribution. Both an exploration of the Lukan passage as well as some aspects of contemporary African Christian theologies reveal how the qualities of the doule, can become a model of self-identification for women in Igbo society. The women’s religious community of the Handmaids of the Holy Child Jesus provides a logical space from which to tease out the ethical and theological considerations of a redemptive reading of the doule.;This dissertation makes women’s experience intelligible by draping it in idioms drawn from the language and experience of the biblical doulas and from that of women in Igbo society. The study utilizes the Bible, a product of human freedom, and literary analysis as vehicle for cultural studies alongside minimal sampling of select women concerning their given names in exploring the implications of vocality-visibility of women in Igbo society.;In order to critically engage the texts to elicit meaning for the transformation of lives, a certain amount of suspicion must prevail in addition to the faith tradition enabling active engagement with the text. As a narrative theology in the African form, the systematic utilization of African traditional myths, symbols, and proverbs characterizes the methodology. Feminist, cultural, and reconstruction hermeneutics enables the recovering of the meaning of the female in the Igbo context. Because the reconstruction paradigm represents an inter-faith and inter-denominational enterprise, the Graduate Theological Union, an |
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African Christian Theology $21.99 Zondervan,Paperback,Series: Hippo, English-language edition,Pub by Zondervan |
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African Christian Theology $16.99 Zondervan, Zondervan Zondervan,NOOK Book (eBook),Series: Hippo Series, English-language edition,Pub by Zondervan on 04-23-2012 |
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African Theology In Images $61.95 This is a revised and updated edition of the comprehensive study of the role of art in the process of inculturation in Africa, first issued in 2000. The study is a substantial contribution toward a theology of inculcation in Africa, and enriches the debate on indigenous African and Christian artistic traditions. It represents the first systematic theology constructed in and from Malawi that establishes a theology of symbolic expression in Africa. |
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African Theology in Images $71.11 This is a revised and updated edition of the comprehensive study of the role of art in the process of inculturation in Africa, first issued in 2000. The study is a substantial contribution toward a theology of inculcation in Africa, and enriches the debate on indigenous African and Christian artistic traditions. It represents the first systematic theology constructed in and from Malawi that establishes a theology of symbolic expression in Africa. |
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Belief in Dialogue: U. S. Latina Writers Confront Their Religious Heritage $2 The works of Julia Alvarez, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Rosario Ferre, Graciela Limon, Pat Mora, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Esmerelda Santiago, among others, are illuminated here.By uniting historical, cultural, religious, and literary commentary, Belief in Dialogue is designed to help the student or general reader to more completely enjoy and understand contemporary Latina writing. These highly readable discussions are informed by contemporary feminist and postcolonialist thought about color, gender, race, class, and region.Readers of literature being produced by Latina writers in the U.S. today may well miss the full impact of their work if they do not understand the complex spirituality underlying these writings. In addition to influences from the colonial Catholic Church, Latina religious heritage reflects numerous other philosophies: Amerindian spiritual beliefs, African spiritism brought by the slave trade, varieties of European spiritism, liberation theology, and mujerista theology.In response to this predicament, the author considers the long history of resistance and adaptation to Catholic and Christian colonization, including the reinterpretation of figures such as the Virgin of Guadalupe and the Blessed Virgin Mary.The result is a rich and constantly changing spiritual philosophy that is evident in the content, metaphor, and psychological motivation in the fiction and nonfiction produced. |
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Black Church In America $110.77 “I am, because we are; and since we are, therefore I am,” said Archbishop Desmond Tutu. This strong sense of community, argues author Michael Battle, is central to African American Christian spirituality. Exploring the history of the Black Church in America, its African roots, its beliefs, practices, politics, and moral dilemmas, he gives readers a broad understanding of African American Christian spirituality and a sense of its uniqueness in the wider world. Michael Battle is Vice President, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Theology at Virginia Theological Seminary . He has previously worked with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and served as an inner-city chaplain with Tony Campolo Ministries. Battle has travelled to Uganda and Kenya with Plowshares Institute, and was ordained in Cape Town, South Africa by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He therefore has a strong affinity with the many forms of African American Christian spirituality. |
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Challenges To Evangelisation In Africa Today $109.99 Since the coming of the Gospel in Africa the African Christians have not considered it very significant in their lives. In spite of all the missionary endeavors to dismiss belief in occult and superstitions as demonic, these beliefs are a reality in the lives of many Christians in Africa. While the western churches are grappling with contemporary anti-Christian doctrines such as existentialism, secularism and universalism, atheism among others, the African churches are busy fighting with magic, witchcraft, and spirit possession among others. This is notorious reality and therefore much time and space has been dedicated towards investigation on the subject. Some people are asking: is it some kind of liberation theology or African spirituality at its best? This book is geared towards enlightening the reader on the broad challenges facing African Theologian. African Theologian who are you, what are you, and who do you think you are? The book is long enough to answer some questions on African Theology and short enough to arouse the curiosity. It is simple, clear precise and to the point. I recommend the book for evangelisation in Africa and abroad. It can also be used in Theological Schools. |
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Christian Faith And The Problem Of Evil $36 The problem of evil has challenged religious minds and hearts throughout the ages. Just how can the presence of suffering, tragedy, and wrongdoing be squared with the all-powerful, all-loving God of faith? This book gathers some of the best, most meaningful recent reflections on the problem of evil, with contributions by shrewd thinkers in the areas of philosophy, theology, literature, linguistics, and sociology.In addition to bringing new insights to the old problem of evil, Christian Faith and the Problem of Evil is set apart from similar volumes by the often-novel approaches its authors take to the subject. Many of the essays pursue classic lines in speculative philosophy, but others address the problem of evil through biblical criticism, the thought of Simone Weil, and the faith of battered women and African American slaves. As a result, this book will interest a wide range of readers.Contributors: Paul DraperEduardo J. EcheverriaLaura Waddell EkstromSteven GriffithDel Kiernan-LewisRichard T. McClellandBarbara OmoladeRichard OtteAlvin PlantingaJohn R. SchneiderRobert StanleyPeter van InwagenCarol WinkelmannDavid M. WoodruffKeith D. Wyma |
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Christianity In Africa $31.3 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Coptic Alphabet, David Livingstone, Pachomius, Coptic Calendar, Anthony the Great, John William Colenso, African Rite, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, History of Eastern Christianity, Pope Shenouda Iii of Alexandria, Early African Church, Black Liberation Theology, John Arthur, Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Black Theology, Youth Conference, Ss Chauncy Maples, Coptic Orthodox Church in Africa, Theodorus of Tabennese, List of Greek Orthodox Patriarchs of Alexandria, Church of Nigeria, Coptic Art, Aladura, Anglican Church of Tanzania, Sophy Gray, Patriarch of Alexandria, Mission Africa, Bill B. Burnett, Ethiopian Movement, Moses the Black, Church of the Province of Rwanda, List of Patriarchs of Alexandria, Christian Mysticism in Ancient Africa, Trevor Huddleston, Patriarch Theodore Ii of Alexandria, Church of the Province of West Africa, Belhar Confession, Zionist Churches, Charles Mackenzie, Church of the Lord, Celestial Church of Christ, Bernard Mizeki, the Daughters of St. Mary, Simon Kimbangu, Kimbanguism, First Synod of Tyre, Paul Gifford, Pope Peter Vii of Alexandria, Mountain of Fire and Miracles, Methodist Church of Southern Africa, African Theology, Vicariate Apostolic of Southern Victoria Nyanza, Antonianism, Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa, Order of Ethiopia, Lourenço Da Silva de Mendouça, Christianity in Botswana, Chita Che Zita Rinoyera, List of Protestant Mission Societies in Africa, Christianity in Mauritania, Chita Che Zvipo Zve Moto, List of Roman Catholic Missions in Africa, All Africa Conference of Churches, Province de L’eglise Anglicane Du Congo, Bishop on the Niger. Excerpt: Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria – Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Coptic… More: |
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Christianity In South Africa $14.13 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Afrikaner Calvinism, Anglican Church of Southern Africa, Black Liberation Theology, Black Theology, Old Apostolic Church, Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk, Roman Catholicism in South Africa, Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman, Ethiopian Movement, Anglican Diocese of Saint Helena, Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa, Apostolic Church of South Africa – Apostle Unity, Justus Mauritius Marcus, Reformed Old Apostolic Church, Afrikaanse Protestantse Kerk, Neogen: Kerk Vir ‘n Nuwe Generasie, Anglican Diocese of Mthatha, St Mary’s, Barkly West, College of the Transfiguration, Zionist Churches, Bishop of Grahamstown, Lovedale, Thomas Stanage, Church of England in South Africa, Nazareth Baptist Church, Bishop of St John’s, Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa, Methodist Church of Southern Africa, Baptist Union of Southern Africa, Reformed Apostolic Church, Protestantism in South Africa, African Christian Union, Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa, Order of Ethiopia, Anglican Diocese of Umzimvubu, United Congregational Church of Southern Africa, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa, Die Heilsleer, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa. Excerpt: African Christian Union was an organization proposed in Natal by Joseph Booth in 1896 to establish industrial missions that were intended to be the initial phase of a vast programme of African development, managed by Africans. The proposal was seriously discussed by Zulu leaders, however was ultimately rejected. See also (online edition) References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at The Afrikaanse Protestantse Kerk (English: Afrikaans Protestant Church ), commonly abbreviated APK or AP Kerk is a South Africa – based conservative Reformed Church federation with about 44,000 |
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Christianity in Iraq, New Edition $19.94 Christianity was firmly established in Iraq from the earliest times, and the Churches of Iraq were to play a major role in the development of Christian theology and spirituality for many centuries. By the seventh century evangelization from Iraq had brought Christianity to China, Central Asia and India. Yet few people in the West are aware of Christianity’s vibrant past in this region, or of the fact that Christianity has continued to be a significant cultural and religious presence in Iraq right up to the present day. The story of the Churches of Iraq, their interaction with each other and their varied fortunes under successive Parthian, Sassanid, Arab, Mongol and Ottoman rule, is told here with consummate skill. Suha Rassam guides the reader seemingly effortlessly through complex issues of doctrinal dispute and ecclesiastical politics. She helps us explore the ancient heritage of these Churches, and the major contribution they have made to the intellectual development of the region and the wider world. “Suha Rassam’s book comes to fill a large vacuum in the knowledge of those in the West, many of whom are still not aware of the fact that from ancient times Christianity was firmly rooted in Iraq and the rest of the territory now seen as the ‘Arab Middle East’.” Archbishop Mikhael Al Jamil, Patriarchal Vicar of the Syrian Catholic Church of Antioch to the Holy See and Vicar Apostolic for Europe “Dr Suha Rassam has written a work of remarkable scholarship. But is is also a vivid portrayal of an extraordinary story of conflict, persecution and, for fifty years in the twentieth century, of hope, harmony and prosperity for the Christian community in Iraq. It would be a tragedy if that Christian community were now extinguished.” Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Archbishop of Westminster “Gives to the general interested public a comprehensive and informed insight into two thousand years of Christianity in Iraq.” Dr Erica Hunter, School of Oriental and African |
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Community, Communitas, and Cosmos: Toward a Phenomenological Interpretation and Theology of Traditional Afro-Christian Worship $47.28 This book presents three liturgical rights within an Afro-Baptist oral tradition of worship: the Wednesday night prayer meeting, the Deacon”s devotion, and the Congregational worship. This examination provides one foundational study necessary to the creation of a liturgical theology of African American Christianity, through the study of sacred ritual within the lived experience of members of a community of traditional orallity and contemporary literacy, which together create a unique collective encounter of the Holy. |
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Conversation: An approach to faith formation for adults in a Kenyan context. $49.99 This dissertation defines a conversational approach as an interactive process of coming to an understanding through concrete experience in community. The definition is inspired by Gadamer’s conversational notion of understanding with its historical, interactive, dialectical and transformative characteristics. In proposing the approach for the ministry of educating adults in Christian faith, the dissertation bases it on processes of understanding, which, like a Gadamerian conversation, seek the integration of alternative understandings with the understandings that learners bring to the teaching/learning process. The African experience of the palaver, Jesus’ conversational pedagogy and the methodology of the African theology of interculturation are three such processes that inform this dissertation.;Unlike subjective rational and objective scientific approaches to teaching and learning that seek to promote an understanding of Christian faith from an epistemological nowhere and to no one in particular, a conversational approach is learner and context specific. It treats learners’ perspectives as necessary conditions for the possibility of their faith formation and views truth claims of Christian tradition, not as value free and valid for all times and cultures, but products of a particular place and time.;The purpose of a conversational approach is not just learners’ acquisition of informational knowledge about orthodox beliefs and the correct practices of a Christian community but also, and more importantly, to encourage orthopraxis, i.e., their capacity to discern and to undertake the right course of action in each life situation in the light of Christian faith. This dissertation proposes Jesus’ call to live and to promote the fullness of life for all (John 10:10b) as the criterion for such Christian praxis.;This approach can be employed for the formation of Christians anywhere in the world. However, it is particularly useful for contexts like Kenya whose citizens |
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Conversation: An approach to faith formation for adults in a Kenyan context. $49.99 This dissertation defines a conversational approach as an interactive process of coming to an understanding through concrete experience in community. The definition is inspired by Gadamer’s conversational notion of understanding with its historical, interactive, dialectical and transformative characteristics. In proposing the approach for the ministry of educating adults in Christian faith, the dissertation bases it on processes of understanding, which, like a Gadamerian conversation, seek the integration of alternative understandings with the understandings that learners bring to the teaching/learning process. The African experience of the palaver, Jesus’ conversational pedagogy and the methodology of the African theology of interculturation are three such processes that inform this dissertation.;Unlike subjective rational and objective scientific approaches to teaching and learning that seek to promote an understanding of Christian faith from an epistemological nowhere and to no one in particular, a conversational approach is learner and context specific. It treats learners’ perspectives as necessary conditions for the possibility of their faith formation and views truth claims of Christian tradition, not as value free and valid for all times and cultures, but products of a particular place and time.;The purpose of a conversational approach is not just learners’ acquisition of informational knowledge about orthodox beliefs and the correct practices of a Christian community but also, and more importantly, to encourage orthopraxis, i.e., their capacity to discern and to undertake the right course of action in each life situation in the light of Christian faith. This dissertation proposes Jesus’ call to live and to promote the fullness of life for all (John 10:10b) as the criterion for such Christian praxis.;This approach can be employed for the formation of Christians anywhere in the world. However, it is particularly useful for contexts like Kenya whose citizens |
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Coping With Evil In Religion And Culture $54.84 The various Christian, Muslim, traditional (African), and secular (Western) ways of imagining and coping with evil collected in this volume have several things in common. The most crucial perhaps and certainly the most striking aspect is the problem of defining the nature or characteristics of evil as such. Some argue that evil has an essence that remains constant, whereas others say its interpretation depends on time and place. However much religious and secular interpretations of evil may have changed, the human search for sense and meaning never ends. Questions of whom to blame and whom to address-God, the devil, fate, bad luck, or humans-remain at the center of our explanations and our strategies to comprehend, define, counter, or process the evil we do and the evil done to us by people, God, nature, or accident. Using approaches from cultural anthropology, religious studies, theology, philosophy, psychology, and history, the contributors to this volume analyze how several religious and secular traditions imagine and cope with evil. |
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Democracy and Tradition $29.95 “With a clarity that can only be gained through a charitable reading of those with whom he disagrees, Stout inaugurates a fresh conversation between advocates of democracy and those who hold substantive Christian convictions. In Democracy and Tradition, the Emersonian tradition is given new life, helping Americans envision what a vital politics contains.”—Stanley Hauerwas, Duke Divinity School”This is the most important work in political philosophy since Rawls published A Theory of Justice. Stout’s account of the formation of democratic culture in America demonstrates that rights theory and virtue theory can and do cohere in a complex and rich tradition. With both eyes open, Stout displays both the serious challenges facing democracy in America (including the new religious traditionalists) and the resources for strengthening it (including feminist and African-American religious critics, as well as the American pragmatist tradition). This book should be taught alongside Rawls in law schools and Hauerwas in seminaries. It is also a substantial contribution to American studies, cultural studies, political theory, American history, and philosophical and religious ethics.”—Charles Reynolds, University of Tennessee”Jeffrey Stout has recast the debate about morality and tradition in our constitutional democracy. No more demonization, no more Manichean battles between ‘militant secularists’ and ‘religious traditionalists.’ Brilliantly original, historically sensitive, and analytically rigorous, Stout’s writings are suffused with respect for the intelligence and goodwill of his fellow citizens, believers and nonbelievers alike.”—M. Cathleen Kaveny, John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law and Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame”Stout has done more than any other writer to bring to our attention the problems facing democracy due to our inability to talk things over with religious believers. His book is an original, |
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Hussein is not really an Arab, not a "black"?
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya While Kenya is certainly in the East Africa, Please note that the country borders. This region is dominated by the Arab, African cultures is not true. It is therefore logical people suspect that Saddam Hussein is a closet Muslim, which is the dominant religion there, Jeremiah Wright is master of Islam, not liberation theology has nothing to do with Christianity. Obama is as Christian as the Pope a Protestant.
The Arabs in this region often are black and there is not really true, even in black, who is half white which makes me wonder how he plays the race card. But no matter how they try to spin, is what it is. And no Christian!
Black Afrikans vs Religion Round 3 ‘ What Does the White Mary & Jesus Really Mean?’
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