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Koinonia en diakonia as ’n missionale koninkryksdans
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013 Koinonia and diaconia as a missional kingdom dance. How does faith-based social involvement within a cultural diverse society express itself? Is the focus pure social outreach, that is, the rendering of services, or should the focus include meaningful ...
Johannes Ries, H. Jurgens Hendriks
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Becoming human: compassionate citizenship
Diaconia, 2013 This article is a contribution in the discussion of what diaconia "is". The assertion is that diaconial research have to combine theology and established positions in the social sciences. Based on a project for undocumented migrants in Sweden, the author
Trygve Wyller
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When Diaconia Became an Exhausted Millionaire
Diaconia, 2021 This article explores what happened to Finnish diaconia as the Coronavirus crisis hit in the spring of 2020. It is an empirical study conducted in Finland in 2021 and presents the experiences of 22 deacons regarding the impact of the Corona pandemic on ...
Lise-Lotte Hellöre
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Approaching Religion, 2023 The value of diaconia is difficult to measure, its immaterial assets not easily grasped. In this article, I contribute to the area in analysing the perspective of 22 deacons on what is most important in their job and what could potentially be of greatest
Lise-Lotte Hellöre
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Religions, 2020 Poor health often motivates people to engage in religious and spiritual approaches to healing. However, there is limited research on such experiences from a northern European perspective. This article investigates healing experiences related to Christian
Anne Austad +2 more
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How do we maintain a Credible Diaconia for the Future?
Diaconia, 2011 Both, open markets for social services in the EU and the secularisation, challenge diaconia in Germany. The article argues that for the future diaconia has to clarify its relation to the church and to the public welfare as well. Only if there is a strong
Reiner Anselm
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Religions, 2023 There has always been a conviction in the ecumenical movement that social service is part of the essence of what it means to be the church. The strengthening of social and political witness of churches through church-related agencies and networks in the ...
Dietrich Werner
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Dimensions of diaconia: the public, political and prophetic
Diaconia, 2013 In this article, I inquire into the concept of diaconia by examining the relationship between its public, prophetic and political dimensions. Firstly, I introduce the main constitutive features of public, political, and prophetic theology and the related
Kjetil Fretheim
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Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2020 O cultivo do algodão no semiárido nordestino remonta ao período colonial no Brasil. Nas épocas áureas de produção, cumpriu importante papel na economia da região semiárida.
Luis Cláudio Mattos +4 more
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The gender order of prophetic diaconia [PDF]
Diaconia, 2017 The article starts from a growing ecumenical consensus on the importance of prophetic diaconia in relation to the global challenges of the 21st century. The specific question addressed concerns how the churches can lay a better foundation for prophetic diaconia by discarding their traditional gender structure. The more churches free themselves from the
Ninna Edgardh, Erik Lundström
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