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Finding ourselves: Theology, place, and human flourishing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This is the author's PDF version of the book chapter.This book chapter is about being "lost" and "found" and of the significance of space and place for "finding ourselves" as fully human.
Graham, Elaine
core   +2 more sources

Die betekenis van ritueelteorie vir rousmartpastoraat

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014
The value of ritual theory for pastoral care in times of grief. In this article the focus is on ritual theory and its relevance for pastoral care during the grief process. For these purposes the first task at hand is finding an appropriate description of
Santie Bothe-Smith, Yolanda Dreyer
doaj   +1 more source

Faith communities, youth and development in Mozambique

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
In Mozambique, poverty is pervasive because of factors such as the civil war (1976–1992) and its aftermath, political instability, food scarcity and natural disasters.
Victoria Chifeche, Yolanda Dreyer
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Story in Pastoral Theology: a theological examination and critique [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
Goals The thesis sets out to examine the value of the category of story in pastoral theology, and to argue for its enhanced value as one of the resources available to practical theology and thereby to the wider family of theological disciplines.
Pritchard, John
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The Constellation: A Reappraisal of Walter Benjamin's Influence on Theodor W. Adorno

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the 1920s and 1930s, Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno both sought to develop a notion of Darstellung—of philosophical presentation or representation—that could provide an alternative to the classically idealist tendency to subsume objects under abstract concepts.
E. Lawrence Bradford
wiley   +1 more source

The crucifixion of consumerism and power and the resurrection of a community glimpsed through Meylahn’s wounded Christ in conversation with Rowling’s Christ discourse in the Harry Potter series

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014
Like some fantasies (including Lord of the rings and the Chronicles of Narnia), the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling makes a social comment on a particular dominant discourse within a particular sociocultural context.
Anastasia Apostolides   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A post-foundationalist approach towards doing practical theology : a critical comparison of paradigms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Thesis (DTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation has sought to examine how a post-foundationalist approach to Practical Theology might look. This was done through a critical appraisal of the paradigms of foundationalism and
Macallan, Brian
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John Gray: ‘Americanism’ and the Perversion of Post‐liberalism

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article will make the case for John Gray's inclusion in the canon of post‐liberals despite his protests to the contrary, and will argue that his peculiar post‐liberalism is important for its challenges to the dominance of liberalism as both a political culture and way of theorising the ends of politics based on the model of the American ...
Paul Kelly
wiley   +1 more source

Interracial conflict and cultural division in Moreleta circuit: A quest for developing an inclusive missional church

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
Interracial conflict and cultural divisions have been a serious challenge in the church globally. Through the years there has been vast available literature about the phenomenon as it happens and this study will specifically explore it in the Methodist ...
Thozamile A. Fuku   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The lived theology of the Harry Potter series

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014
This article will argue that the recent turn towards lived theology or religion in practical theology can offer a useful hermeneutic to interpret the impact of the Harry Potter series on the spiritual formation and identity creation of adolescents.
Anastasia Apostolides   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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