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Judah and Tamar: A missiological study of Genesis 38 in its redemptive-historical context

In die Skriflig
In this article, Genesis 38 was researched with missiological interests in mind. Using the redemptive-historical reading strategy, the importance of the Bible, and especially of the Old Testament, for missions has been stressed, based on the analysis of ...
Barend (Bob) Wielenga
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“Me and God, We're Good”: Abortion Morality and Protestant Women Having Abortions in the South

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how 84 Protestant women in the South understand the morality of their abortion decisions, offering a nuanced perspective on the complex relationship between religion and abortion and revealing that many women navigate abortion decisions with theological depth, moral reasoning, and a profound sense of responsibility.
Rebecca Todd Peters
wiley   +1 more source

Spirit Hermeneutics for African Pentecostalism: A Hermeneutic for a Jubilar Mission

Conspectus : The Journal of the South African Theological Seminary
The significance of African Pentecostal churches in the global expansion of Christianity is undeniable. However, the impact of African Pentecostalism is being impaired by the problem of materialism. This ailment has come from African Traditional Religion, which promises immediate material and financial success, and also from the prosperity teachings of
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Lonergan, Decolonization and First Nations Peoples: An Apologetic from an Insider on the Outside

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this article is to respond critically to a research project initiated out of the Board of the Lonergan Research Institute that seeks to expose colonialist assumptions in Lonergan's thought. Some of the initiatives seek to link Lonergan with complicity in Canadian residential schools, spiritual violence, and cultural genocide ...
John D. Dadosky
wiley   +1 more source

Perspective on Agapeic Ethic and Creation Care

Religions
Ongoing discussions on creation care and agapeic ethic have paid less attention to the interplay between love, creation, waste management challenges, and mission.
Loveday Chigozie Onyezonwu, Ucheawaji Godfrey Josiah   +1 more
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Christian Humanism in the Black Atlantic: The Case of Olaudah Equiano

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores Olaudah Equiano as a pivotal figure in the emergence of a Christian humanism forged within the Black Atlantic. Building on the analyses of Sylvia Wynter and Paul Gilroy, it examines how Equiano's The Interesting Narrative contests the racial figuration of the human that underwrote the development of racial capitalism and ...
Luke Bretherton
wiley   +1 more source

Five years of missional church : reflections on missional ecclesiology [PDF]

, 2010
This article explores insights into the emerging missional ecclesiology of twelve congregations collaborating in the South African Partnership for Missional Churches (SAPMC).
Niemandt, Cornelius Johannes Petrus (Nelus)
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Black Humanism: Sameness and Difference in Being Human and Being Black in the United Kingdom

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay outlines a variety of responses to a central question pertaining to Black humanism: namely, what does it mean to be a Black human, given the existence of systemic racism within the Body of Christ and in many White majority societies in the African Diaspora, in this case, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain?
Anthony G. Reddie
wiley   +1 more source

Missional Hermeneutics And Intercultural Theology

, 2017
This paper was given at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the SBL and AAR as part of a panel in celebration of James Brownson's work, Speaking the Truth in Love (Trinity Press International, 1998).
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Imagining the Invisible: Judicial Epistemology, Carceral Regulation, and the Liberal State

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In many systems judges exercise judicial review over prison officials' decisions. However, judges are often symbolically, institutionally, and practically distant from prison realities. In the current paper, we explore how judges negotiate their limited epistemological awareness of prison through the lens of epistemic injustice.
Netanel Dagan, Adiel Zimran
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