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The Ethics of Identity and World Christianity [PDF]

open access: yesMissionalia: 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: Contours of an Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This contribution makes a case for understanding the term World Christianity to represent a particular approach to studying Christianity/ies. In order to make this argument, the chapter first explores the genealogy of World Christianity and situates prevalent conceptualizations, such as World Christianity as a subject matter and as a field of study, in
Martha Frederiks
exaly   +3 more sources

Christianity in the Arab World

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 1998
As Prince Charles commented in his opening words, "Jordan has long been conspicuous as a land of tolerance and peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths," a coexistence increasingly abused by extremists of all three faiths included in the ...
Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
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World Christianity

open access: yesSt 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
doaj   +1 more source

World Christianity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Dorottya Nagy, Emma Wild-Wood
exaly   +2 more sources

Monasticism—Then and Now

open access: yesReligions, 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
doaj   +1 more source

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)

open access: yesReligions, 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
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesVerbum 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
doaj   +1 more source

Conflict, epidemic and faith communities: church-state relations during the fight against Covid-19 in north-eastern DR Congo

open access: yesConflict 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   +6 more
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