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Father absence and adolescents as a challenge to youth ministry

In die Skriflig, 2020
Youth ministry is to help youth – children, adolescents and young adults – to become what they were created and called to be. However, many local churches fail to notice that adolescents growing up without a father figure are an integral part of the ...
Hyunok Yi, Malan Nel
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The necessity of an empirical study to determine if church congregations function as a family

In die Skriflig
Scripture’s reference to believers as the ‘family of God’ may indicate that believers should mutually care for one another like members of a caring family do, and not merely that members are part of a ‘spiritual’ family.
Rika L. Roeland, Gert Breed, Rudy Denton
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Practical Theology in Finland

, 2010
After a brief review of the origins of practical theology in Finland, the authors trace the several institutional locations in which practical theological scholarship occurs.
Eila Helander, Kotila, Heikki, Helander, Eila, Heikki Kotila, Heikkilä, Markku, Markku Heikkilä   +5 more
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The realist and onto-relational frame of T. F. Torrance’s Incarnational and Trinitarian theology [PDF]

, 2014
It is almost a truism to say that Torrance’s theology is incarnational and Trinitarian, so central were these two foci to his entire theological work.
Deddo, Gary
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Sexual violence against children and youth: Exploring the role of congregations in addressing the protection of young girls on the Cape Flats

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018
The Children’s Institute, a research arm of the University of Cape Town, reports that 18.5 million children live in South Africa. The institute’s vision is for ‘A society in which children are valued, nurtured and protected; their rights are realised ...
Shantelle Weber, Nadine Bowers-DuToit
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The gift remembered: The Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS) Anatomical Donor Stewardship's ethical and practical handbook for anatomy donor tributes

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Providing students with a way to honor human body donors during or after an anatomy course has been shown to help provide a sense of closure and comfort to students and, when present, donor families. Gestures of gratitude for donors can also emphasize humanistic values of respect, empathy, and professionalism.
Bobbie J. Leeper, Rhiannon E. Robinson, Kelsey Stevens, Lacy M. Cleveland, Danielle N. Edwards, Nicole L. Geske, Burhan Gharaibeh, Anya Goldina, Jill Kirby, Jacqueline Phillips, Leslie R. Sewell, J. P. Swigart, Trisha Waldman, Jonathan J. Wisco, Jeremy J. Grachan   +14 more
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Doing situated theology : Introductory remarks about the history, method, and diversity of contextual theology [PDF]

, 2020
The notion of “contextual theology” has a long history, beginning with its gradual introduction in the “Fund for Theological Education”. Theology takes place as doing theology within contexts.
Vähäkangas, Mika, Bergmann, Sigurd
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‘…It was my choice to see how I can acquire this Western world education… and I'm happy…’: Structuration and the dialectic nature of being a Nigerian university student in the UK

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the experiences of Nigerian cross‐border students in UK higher education, focusing on how colonial legacies continue to shape the interplay between structure and agency. Three key themes emerged in the analysis of the data: First, the persistence of a ‘West is Best’ mentality reflects the internalisation of colonial ...
Jennifer Marshall, Jack Bryne Stothard
wiley   +1 more source

World christianity as post-colonialising of theology [PDF]

, 2020
In this chapter, the author argues that the old-school confessional and ethnocentric theology has no place in today’s Western secular academia. He focuses on the academic discipline under the name “theology”. Mission studies has represented a widening of
Vähäkangas, Mika, Mika Vähäkangas
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Bricks, knots, and bodies: Material encounters and the affective making of masculinity

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines how creative research methods do not just capture boys' experiences of masculinity, but actively materialise them. Drawing on two arts‐based activities used in school‐based fieldwork (a mannequin‐based exercise with one participant and a Lego‐building workshop with a small peer group), the paper analyses how materials ...
Huw Berry‐Downs
wiley   +1 more source