Contextualising theological education in Africa by doing theology in a missional hermeneutic [PDF]
Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2012 This article originated at curriculum development workshops for seminaries at different venues in sub-Saharan Africa. Its goal was to provide guidelines towards finding a hermeneutic key to practising theology contextually as a response to a process of ...
H. Jurgens Hendriks
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The influence of dwelling in the Word within the Southern African Partnership of Missional Churches [PDF]
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2013 All of creation dwells within the Word of God, the Word who created us, the Word who redeems us (Ellison 2009:91). The article evaluated the influence that the communal spiritual practice of dwelling in the Word had in the missional transformation of ...
Marius J. Nel
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The Bible, Mission, and Social Location: Toward a Missional Hermeneutic
Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, 2007 Despite a long-standing rift between missiology and biblical scholarship, current trends in both disciplines—such as a converging emphasis on the significance of social location in biblical interpretation—suggest that the time may be ripe for a “missional hermeneutic” that would privilege the missiological “location” of the Christian community in the ...
Michael Barram, Barram, Michael
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Welcoming Africa's children: The nature and implications of being a missional church [PDF]
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2016 This article presents a brief overview of the historical development of the missional church from the understanding of the missio Dei. From this perspective, it attends to the African context.
Johannes J. Knoetze
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Μαρτυρια [witness] in John 1�4: Towards an emerging, missional ecclesiology
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2011 Theological investigation of the μαρτυρια[witness] lexeme in John 1 4 contributes significantly towards an understanding of an emerging, missional ecclesiology.
Guillaume H. Smit
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Shaped for faithful witness: Missional hermeneutics and the task of preaching
, 2017 The aim of this study is to further the development of a missional theology of preaching and extend the practice of preaching that employs a missional hermeneutic.The thesis of this work is that preaching that utilizes a missional hermeneutic will serve to form a missional identity in a congregation, including the preacher, and prepare God's people to ...
Fields, David Ross
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Missional hermeneutic for the transformation of theological education in Africa [PDF]
, 2019 The wide acceptance and maturation of the theology of missio Dei is the most important development in the theology of mission in recent times. It introduced a radically new understanding of mission and theology, and flowing from that a re-appropriation
Niemandt, Cornelius Johannes Petrus (Nelus)
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Witnessing God’s Mission:Towards a Missional Ecclesiology of the Church of England. [PDF]
, 2021 Witnessing God’s Mission: Towards a Missional Ecclesiology of the Church of England Mark Collinson For decades there has been an ecumenical debate about how the disciplines of missiology and ecclesiology relate to the nature and mission of the church ...
Collinson, Mark Peter Charles
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In die Skriflig, 2019 About 400 years ago, the status quo of the church in the Netherlands was threatened by the Remonstrant uprising, which was met with vehement reaction from Calvinists.
Pieter H.J. Labuschagne
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Congregations as Systems for Empowering Missional Leadership: a Lutheran Hermeneutic for Leading in Mission [PDF]
, 2007 What are the cultural dynamics within a congregational system that are vital to the empowering of missional leadership? Do Lutherans have anything to contribute to the missional church movement in the United States?
Martinson Elton, Terri Lynn
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