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Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2020 One of the pre-occupations of God’s mission on earth (missio Dei) includes unity and reconciliation. This is well documented in the work of the catholic missiologist, Robert Schreiter (reconciliation), David J Bosch (unity) as well as the ecumenical ...
Baron, Eugene
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Honouring the Past, Embracing the Future
The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.Abstract The United Church of Canada, founded in 1925, represents an ambitious experiment in church union that blends Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist traditions. Over the past century, the church has played a pivotal role in shaping Canadian society by advocating for social justice, Indigenous reconciliation, interreligious dialogue ...
Hyuk Cho
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Verskuiwende denke van die 2012-GKSA-Sinode
In die Skriflig, 2013 In hierdie artikel word die moontlikheid van ’n denkverskuiwing bespreek en gemeet aan die hand van navorsing wat gedoen is onder die afgevaardigdes van die 2012-GKSA-Sinode.
Sophia van Helden
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Journal of Sociology, Psychology and ReligiousThe purpose of the study was to examine the influence of dowry payment on the stability of Christian marriages among methodist church members in the Nairobi Synod, Kenya. The study adopted a mixed-method design targeting married couples in the Synod. Using purposive sampling, 194 respondents were drawn from 17 Circuits (population 4,010).
Japhet Kiambi +2 more
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Social Justice as a Catalyst for Ecumenical Engagement
The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article provides a comprehensive overview of the historical formation of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (FCC), examining the social and political context in the United States that shaped its adoption of ecumenical practices focused on social justice.
Geneva Blackmer
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Die vrye kerk: Enkele opmerkings oor die herkoms en inhoud van die opvatting
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1987 The free church: Some comments on the origins and contents of this idea. In 1859 fifteen members of the then established Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk in the ZAR notified the Synod of that church that they were relinquishing their membership of the said ...
A. D. Pont
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Synoden schaffen Räume: Metropolen, Diözesen und Pfarreien in den Synodalkanones des 9. Jahrhunderts [PDF]
Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History, 2015 This study on »space in canon law« investigates the concepts of provincial, diocesis and parrocchia in the synodal decisions and the capitularies of bishops in the ninth century.
Wilfried Hartmann
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Relacje zwrotne pomiędzy Stolicą Apostolską a Drogą Synodalną w Niemczech
Studia Paradyskie, 2023 The Catholic Church in Germany, anticipating the decision of Pope Francis to convene the Synod of Bishops on synodality, decided to undertake the synodal process, in a form hitherto unknown in church law, calling it “Der Synodale Weg” (The Synodal Path).
Grzegorz Chojnacki
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Christ-Our-Guest: A Liturgical Adaptation of Guest Christology [PDF]
, 1995 Several attempts have been made by African theologians to formulate Christological models for African Christianity. In the preceding issue we published a brief survey of these Christological models, pointing out as one of their deficiencies the lack of a
Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E.
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