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Tactical Church: Achieving Missional Effectiveness through Biblical Application of Ancient Military Principles

open access: yes, 2014
In reviewing the current literature available on the missional church movement, there is much written from a strategic perspective; however, there are few military parallels offered regarding missional tactics.
Bland, Jason
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Rethinking Merit in Calvin's Doctrine of the Atonement: Beyond Possessive Individualism

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Joan Lockwood O'Donovan argues that the Reformation doctrine of grace entails a rejection of the proprietary anthropology of self‐owning individuals and its attendant notion of justice – what C. B. Macpherson termed the “theory of possessive individualism.” Although O'Donovan praises Calvin's anthropology and his account of law for its non ...
John Walker
wiley   +1 more source

Contrasting Models of Deification: The Technological Anthropology of the AI Age and the Theological Anthropology of Early Christianity

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Ancient ideas about human transformation and divinization have resurfaced in our cultural moment. Artificial intelligence and biotechnology are raising afresh questions about what it means to be human and divine. The Oxford Handbook of Deification has arrived on the scene as its subject matter has splashed out of theological discourse into the
Andrew J. Byers
wiley   +1 more source

Growing New Missional Communities: Changing Church Culture and Becoming a Missional Sending Church

open access: yes, 2015
The goal of this project was two-fold, to engineer culture change within an established, existing congregation seeking to move a programmatic and institutional church away from an attractional ministry paradigm and towards a more missional paradigm and ...
Erickson, Kyle B.
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Absent Europe: Civic Protest and the Erosion of EU Symbolism in Serbia

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the strategic management of European Union (EU) references in Serbia's 2024–2025 student mobilisation. Drawing on original fieldwork and 18 semi‐structured interviews, the article integrates framing theory with the Discourse‐Historical Approach to reconstruct how EU‐related meanings were produced and operationalised.
Anna Seliverstova
wiley   +1 more source

Responsible Innovation in the Wild: A Process Model of How Responsible Innovation Practices Emerge in Heterogeneous Organizational Networks

open access: yesJournal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Academic Summary With the power and pervasiveness of innovative digital products outpacing regulation for managing the consequences, the development of effective governance mechanisms for innovation is increasingly recognized as a societal imperative.
Samuel Applebee, Leid Zejnilovic
wiley   +1 more source

Churches of Christ and the Missional Church Movement - Assessment, Hopes, and Projects, Part 1

open access: yes, 2006
A new word has risen in our church glossaries: missional. This word is attached to a body of literature and a growing movement amont congregations focused on a shift in how the church perceives its life in a rapidly changing North American context ...
Reese, Jack   +3 more
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