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The Ethics of Identity and World Christianity [PDF]

Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2017
In describing the nature of Christian ethics in America before some recent interventions, Stanley Hauerwas notes that the subject of Christian ethics in America was and is America rather than the Church.
Ngong, David
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World Christianity

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
World Christianity as a historical phenomenon emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century, showing the global reaching of Christianity physically, numerically, and characteristically.
Lalsangkima Pachuau
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Monasticism—Then and Now

Religions, 2021
The monastic tradition has its roots in the New Testament practices of withdrawing into the desert, following a celibate lifestyle and disciplines of fasting.
John Binns
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Traversing a Tightrope between Ecumenism and Exclusivism: The Intertwined History of South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church and the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian in Nyasaland (Malawi)

Religions, 2021
During the first few decades of the 20th century, the Nkhoma mission of the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa became involved in an ecumenical venture that was initiated by the Church of Scotland’s Blantyre mission, and the Free Church of Scotland’s ...
Retief Müller
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The other’s humanity with or without the other’s religiosity? Reflections on the affirmation and limitation of human dignity in early Afrikaner missionary discourse in Central Africa

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2021
Taking Wentzel van Huyssteen’s work on early human uniqueness in relation to symbolic or religious awareness as a starting point, this article raises a question whether an implicit connection between humanity and the capacity for religiosity had anything
Retief Müller
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Christianity in World History

In die Skriflig, 1967
H. du Plessis
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Conflict, epidemic and faith communities: church-state relations during the fight against Covid-19 in north-eastern DR Congo

Conflict and Health, 2022
Background Understanding and improving access to essential services in (post)-conflict settings requires paying particular attention to the actors who occupy the space left ‘empty’ by weak or deficient State institutions.
Sadiki Kangamina, Jean-Benoit Falisse, Amuda Baba, Liz Grant, Nigel Pearson, Yossa Way, Emma Wild-Wood   +6 more
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The Coptic Church in South Africa: The meeting of mission and migration

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014
Previously identified as an entrenched Egyptian community, Copts have propelled themselves into the greater Africa through two main phenomena: migration and mission.
David A. Ogren
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‘Bolszewizm starożytności’, czyli chrześcijaństwo jako rewolucja. Perspektywa Nowej Prawicy Alaina de Benoist – wybrane aspekty

Studia Religiologica, 2021
“The Bolshevism of Antiquity” – Christianity as Revolution. The Perspective of Alain de Benoist’s New Right: selected aspects The topic of the article is the interpretation of Christianity by Alain ...
Paweł Bielawski
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Parsons on Christianity [PDF]

, 2015
In his late work on Christianity, Talcott Parsons obviously built upon the writings of both Durkheim and Weber. While he departed from the idea that increasing differentiation of the system of action did not have to threaten the unity of the system as a ...
Vanderstraeten, Raf
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