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Gospels in a Developing Church

Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1944
T HE writers of the first two gospels were plain men of Jewish extraction who knew little of contemporary culture and had no notion of the current literary forms which might have been utilized for writing on their subject. They had something important to tell, however, and each in his own way produced a new type of literature, the Gospel.
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Churches and social development

International Social Work, 2006
English The role of churches is explored against the background of poverty and inequality in South Africa. The value of empowerment to counter the negative effects of traditional forms of welfare aid is explained. The case is made for churches to collaborate with other institutions and groups to undertake joint social development ...
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Church Development from a Missional Perspective

Mission Studies, 2019
Abstract The following article suggests considering church development from a missional point of view. Accordingly, at first an overview is provided of some missional movements from around the world. Although the emerging missional movements in the world differ, they still have a number of similarities. The following article presents these similarities
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The Role of the Church in Iwhuruoha Development

JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LEADERSHIP RESEARCH, 2023
Nigeria like other post-colonial states in Africa greatly suffered and suffocated from the pacification spree of colonialism. It was a most dreadful brutality which distorted and greatly disorganized the cultural bond of the people. All these were systematically orchestrated to achieve an economic objective.
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF YORUBA CHURCH MUSIC

African Music: Journal of the African Music Society, 1970
From the beginning, the Catholic Church in Nigeria has sung in the vernaculars, but using European melodies and stanza forms. In 1947, Joseph Ojo of Oye-Ekiti started a development of truly Yoruba music and poetic forms for use in religious drama. At that time it was not possible to get priests or people to accept such music inside the churches.
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Technological Development and the Mission of the Church

Practical Anthropology, 1962
What is the Christian motive for technological development? And what is the Christian way of stimulating it in underdeveloped countries? To these questions Hedrick suggests a radical answer — “radical” not in the sense of “new” because it is as old as Christianity, but in the sense of a fundamental questioning of present usual patterns and assumptions,
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The pandemic and the feminisation of the Church? How male and female churchgoers experienced the Church of England’s response to Covid-19

Journal of Beliefs and Values, 2022
Leslie J Francis, Andrew Village
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Developing a Culture of Accountability in the Church

Studia Canonica, 2022
DUFFY, Eugene, MOLLOY, Eddie
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The Development of the Reformed Church in Croatia

Frontier (Keston), 2004
The Reformed Church of Calvinist tradition has been present in Croatia since the times of Reformation in the 16th centuri...
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THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH IN DEVELOPMENT

The Ecumenical Review, 1970
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