wyszukanych pozycji: 11
God at Ground Level: Reappraising Church Decline in the UK Through the Experience of Grass Roots Communities and Situations
ISBN: 9783631574942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book is a collection of essays offering analysis of the experience of contemporary Christianity in the UK from below, from the perspectives of real situations and people. The authors come from a range of traditions, evangelical to liberal to Catholic, but all from within the practise and discipline of missiology/anthropology. God at Ground Level aims to discern new insights into the contemporary missiological, theological and ecclesiological debate of today s church. The crisis of contemporary Christianity is certainly recognised, for it is experienced deeply by many of the...
This book is a collection of essays offering analysis of the experience of contemporary Christianity in the UK from below, from the perspectives of re...
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224,34 zł |
Oxford 1937: The Universal Christian Council for Life and Work Conference
ISBN: 9783631522325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The Oxford 1937 Life and Work Conference is a highly important event in the history of the ecumenical movement. It met at a time of international political crisis. Within two years the world would be at war. The churches in Europe and North America were confronted by the rise of totalitarian regimes, especially in Germany and Russia. Led by Joseph Oldham the conference delegates analysed this crisis theologically. They understood totalitarian regimes to be a form of political religion adopted by people whose lives lacked meaning and purpose. The advent of secularism had removed...
The Oxford 1937 Life and Work Conference is a highly important event in the history of the ecumenical movement. It met at a time of international poli...
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485,98 zł |
Colonial Encounters: Issues of Culture, Hybridity and Creolisation: Portuguese Mercantile Settlers in West Africa
ISBN: 9783631527795 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book explores the first encounter in the mid-fifteenth century between Western Europe and the West African Coast, arguing that it did not produce hostility, but rather a climate of beneficial mutual exchange. It examines West African pre-colonial social history and asserts that around the year 1500 West Africa became a safe haven for those fleeing political or religious persecution in Europe. Among them were mercantile settlers, Tangomaos or Lancados, known to have arrived on the West African Coast after the Portuguese explorers in 1446. They exchanged commodities, culture, religious...
This book explores the first encounter in the mid-fifteenth century between Western Europe and the West African Coast, arguing that it did not produce...
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398,67 zł |
Missiological Mutilations - Prospective Paralogies: Language and Power in Contemporary Mission Theory
ISBN: 9783631555101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The aim of this study is to demonstrate intrinsic power structures in language patterns of contemporary Christian mission theories. Bringing in questions and concerns raised by postcolonial theory and critical discourse analysis, the study explores the structuralist ideologies behind modern epistemology and it is maintained the associated -modern- language patterns. Based on discourse analyses of language and terminology employed by a number of significant contemporary mission theorists the author in conclusion points towards a widespread use of power language within the modern mission...
The aim of this study is to demonstrate intrinsic power structures in language patterns of contemporary Christian mission theories. Bringing in questi...
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370,61 zł |
Leading Virtue: A Model for the Contextualisation of Christian Ethics- A Study of the Interaction and Synthesis of Methodist and Fante
ISBN: 9783631593004 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 145 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Leading Virtue explores the use of Alasdair MacIntyre s tradition based model of ethics as a heuristic tool in analysing the contextualisation of Christian ethics. Ethical contextualisation is understood as the interaction and synthesis of particular Christian moral traditions with the moral traditions encountered in the different cultures where the Christian faith was established. This study argues that morality in African cultures may be better understood as discrete traditions. This claim is substantiated by historical and empirical studies of the Fante (Akan) and Methodist moral...
Leading Virtue explores the use of Alasdair MacIntyre s tradition based model of ethics as a heuristic tool in analysing the contextualisation of Chri...
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304,42 zł |
Jesus Imandars and Christ Bhaktas: Two Case Studies of Interreligious Hermeneutics and Identity in Global Christianity
ISBN: 9783631584866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 481 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The massive changes of Christianity during the 20th century raise the perennial question about its identity in a new, radical form. The author addresses the question of identity and asks how globalisation, religious pluralism, and the polycentric nature of Christianity affect Christian self-identification and theological reflection. First, religious life and theological reflection among believers in Jesus from Muslim and Hindu background in South Asia is presented in two empirical studies. Secondly, the findings are analysed and interpreted within a broad theoretical framework, drawing on...
The massive changes of Christianity during the 20th century raise the perennial question about its identity in a new, radical form. The author address...
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528,83 zł |
The Other Jesus: Christology in Asian Perspective
ISBN: 9783631626078 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Standard works on Christology seldom give much consideration to the way Christ is perceived outside the Western tradition. The Other Jesus is an in depth study of understandings of the person of Jesus Christ by major Asian Christian theologians of the 20th century. Taking examples mainly from India and Japan, the author shows how the religious and social contexts of these countries have shaped the way in which Jesus has been understood. The final chapters examine how new approaches to Jesus have emerged from people movements in Asia in Dalit, Minjung, and feminist perceptions....
Standard works on Christology seldom give much consideration to the way Christ is perceived outside the Western tradition. The Other Jesus is a...
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268,11 zł |
Religion in Dialogue with Late Modern Society: A Constructive Contribution to a Christian Spirituality- Informed by Buddhist-Christian Encounters
ISBN: 9783631551219 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book is a constructive contribution to a Christian spirituality for the late modern religiously plural society. Based on a description of contemporary religion, in which the author refers to modern sociologists (some general and some specifically involved with religion), this study outlines certain recent characteristics of our contemporary way of relating to religion, and formulates a spirituality for the late modern religiously plural society. It detects such spirituality arising within three dynamic fields: continuity and internal diversity, formal and informal structures and vita...
This book is a constructive contribution to a Christian spirituality for the late modern religiously plural society. Based on a description of contemp...
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377,31 zł |
Sino-Christian Theology: A Theological Qua Cultural Movement in Contemporary China
ISBN: 9783631604359 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. -Sino-Christian theology- usually refers to an intellectual movement emerged in Mainland China since the late 1980s. The present volume aims to provide a self-explaining sketch of the historical development of this theological as well as cultural movement. In addition to the analyses on the theoretical issues involved and the articulations of the prospect, concrete examples are also offered to illustrate the characteristics of the movement."
-Sino-Christian theology- usually refers to an intellectual movement emerged in Mainland China since the late 1980s. The present volume aims to provid...
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420,83 zł |
The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750-2000
ISBN: 9780521202336 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "Christendom" refers to a society where Christianity is essentially compulsory. Western Europe, however, has been gradually moving away from Christendom for more than two centuries towards a society where a great variety of religious and non-religious options are available and none is able to claim a privileged position. Written by historians, sociologists and theologians from six countries, and including chapters on most European countries, this study examines this process of increasing pluralism and its implication for the future.
"Christendom" refers to a society where Christianity is essentially compulsory. Western Europe, however, has been gradually moving away from Christend...
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259,84 zł |
The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750-2000
ISBN: 9780521814935 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Christendom" refers to a society where Christianity is essentially compulsory. Western Europe, however, has been gradually moving away from Christendom for more than two centuries towards a society where a great variety of religious and non-religious options are available and none is able to claim a privileged position. Written by historians, sociologists and theologians from six countries, and including chapters on most European countries, this study examines this process of increasing pluralism and its implication for the future.
"Christendom" refers to a society where Christianity is essentially compulsory. Western Europe, however, has been gradually moving away from Christend...
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453,66 zł |