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Author: Victor I. Ezigbo
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725259303
Size: 62.23 MB
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Release Date: 2021-05-28
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Art Of Contextual Theology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Christianity has an inherent capability to assume, as its novel mode of expression, the local idioms, customs, and thought forms of a new cultural frontier that it encounters. As a result, Christianity has become multicultural and multilingual. What is the role of theology in the imagination and articulation of Christianity's inherent multiculturalism and multi-vernacularity? Victor Ezigbo examines this question by exploring the nature and practice of contextual theology. To accomplish this task, this book engages the main genres of contextual theology, explores echoes of contextual theological thinking in some of Jesus's sayings, and discusses insights into contextual theology that can be discerned in the discourses on theology and caste relations (Dalit theology), theology and primal cultures (African theology), and theology and poverty (Latin American liberation theology).

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Author: Sigurd Bergmann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134948808
Size: 16.73 MB
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Release Date: 2016-04-08
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF In The Beginning Is The Icon eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Icons provide depictions of God or encounters with the divine that enable reflection and prayer. 'In the Beginning is the Icon' explores the value of these images for a theology of liberation. Iconology, art theory, philosophical aesthetics, art history and anthropology are integrated with rigorous theological reflection to argue that the creation and observation of pictures can have a liberating effect on humanity. In presenting art from across the world, 'In the Beginning is the Icon' reflects the ethnocentricity of both art and religious studies and offers a new cross-cultural approach to the theology of art.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sigurd Bergmann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351932802
Size: 56.62 MB
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Release Date: 2017-03-02
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF God In Context eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In the 1970s theologians in Asia and Africa showed an interest in the way different cultural contexts influenced the interpretation of Christian belief. Manifestations of contextual theologies have since appeared in many parts of the world; animated international discussion about expressions, methods and theories for contextual theology have continued with the spread of contextual theology from the South to the North.. The object of these theologies is to shed new light on the concept of incarnation. How does the incarnated God act in a liberating way? Contextual theology explores awareness of the interrelatedness of God and culture. This book surveys important concepts, positions and problems of contextual theology, dealing with different criteria for the interpretation of 'context' and providing explanations of different theoretical models for contextual theology. Particular topics discussed include: the importance of place for the experience of God; a dynamic, correlative and communicative view of tradition; the approach to knowledge in contextualism and the greater right of the poor to aesthetic knowledge; human ecological formation of theology, and the contributions of pictorial art and architecture to contextual theology. Clearly explaining the importance of contextual theology for all theology, this book offers an invaluable text for students and others exploring theology in context.

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Book Detail:
Author: Victor I. Ezigbo
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725259281
Size: 71.88 MB
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Release Date: 2021-05-28
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Art Of Contextual Theology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Christianity has an inherent capability to assume, as its novel mode of expression, the local idioms, customs, and thought forms of a new cultural frontier that it encounters. As a result, Christianity has become multicultural and multilingual. What is the role of theology in the imagination and articulation of Christianity’s inherent multiculturalism and multi-vernacularity? Victor Ezigbo examines this question by exploring the nature and practice of contextual theology. To accomplish this task, this book engages the main genres of contextual theology, explores echoes of contextual theological thinking in some of Jesus’s sayings, and discusses insights into contextual theology that can be discerned in the discourses on theology and caste relations (Dalit theology), theology and primal cultures (African theology), and theology and poverty (Latin American liberation theology).

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Book Detail:
Author: Angie Pears
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134115679
Size: 70.35 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2009-09-18
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Doing Contextual Theology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Christian theology, like all forms of knowledge, thinking and practice, arises from and is influenced by the context in which it is done. In Doing Contextual Theology, Angie Pears demonstrates the radically contextual nature of Christian theology by focusing on five forms of liberation theology: Latin American Liberation Theologies; Black Theologies; Feminist Informed Theologies; Sexual Theologies; Body Theologies. Pears analyses how each of these asserts a clear and persistent link to the Christian tradition through The Bible and Christology and discusses the implications of contextual and local theologies for understanding Christianity as a religion. Moreover, she considers whether fears are justified that a radically contextual reading of Christian theologies leads to a relativist understanding of the religion, or whether these theologies share some form of common identity both despite and because of their contextual nature. Doing Contextual Theology offers students a clear and up-to-date survey of the field of contemporary liberation theology and provides them with a sound understanding of how contextual theology works in practice.

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Book Detail:
Author: Leonora Tubbs Tisdale
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9781451412956
Size: 61.12 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 1997
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Preaching As Local Theology And Folk Art eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Showing that good sermons are really local theology and folk art, Princeton's Leonora Tubbs Tisdaye tells how to analyze a congregation to fit a sermon to the audience. The book then gives practical help for preparing and delivering sermons that are meaningful and appropriate. Tisdale draws from contextual theology and congregational studies.

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Book Detail:
Author: Volker Küster
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004175237
Size: 62.49 MB
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Release Date: 2010
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF A Protestant Theology Of Passion eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Minjung Theology is introduced here through theological biographical sketches of its main representatives. They formulated a protestant liberation theology under the South Korean military dictatorship of the 1970s and 80s. Their strong emphasis on the suffering (han) of the people (minjung) led them to the formulation of a genuine theology of the cross in Asia. Volker Küster explores the reception of Minjung Theology and raises the question what happened to it during the democratization process and the rise of globalization in the 1990s. Interpretations of art works by Minjung artists provide deep insights into these transformation processes. Prologue and epilogue abstract from the Korean case and offer a concise theory of contextual theology in an intercultural framework.

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Book Detail:
Author: Marcella Althaus-Reid
Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 0334049067
Size: 19.14 MB
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Release Date: 2013-02-11
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Transformations eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Trans/formations is a new addition to "SCM's Controversies in Contextual Theology" series. Like anything coming from Marcella Althaus-Reid and Lisa Isherwood, it is controversial and challenging as well as highly original. The book will: make visible a range of trans lived experience [transgendered and transsexual], offer theological reflection on these experiences, create challenging theology from this experiential base, and provide a resource for churches and theology students not to date available. It includes an excellent range of contributors, including Elizabeth Stuart and Virginia Ramey Mollenkott. This is a valuable addition to reading lists of courses on religion, gender and the body.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sigurd Bergmann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000217264
Size: 16.17 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2020-11-01
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Contextual Theology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book advances that history by exploring stories, images and discourses across a worldwide range of geographical, cultural and confessional contexts. Its twelve authors not only enrich our understanding of the significance of the contextual method, but also produce a new range of original ways of doing theology in contemporary situations. The authors discuss some prioritised thematic perspectives with an emphasis on liberating paths, and expand the ongoing discussion on the methodology of theology into new areas. Themes such as interreligious plurality, global capitalism, ecumenical liberation theology, eco-anxiety and the anthropocene, postcolonialism, gender, neo-pentecostalism, world theology, and reconciliation are examined in situated depth. Additionally, voices from Indigenous lands, Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Europe and North America enter into a dialogue on what it means to contextualise theology in an increasingly globalised and ever-changing world. Such a comprehensive discussion of new ways of thinking about and doing contextual theology will be of great use to scholars in Theology, Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Gender Studies, Environmental Humanities, and Global Studies.

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Book Detail:
Author: A. Moreau
Publisher: Kregel Academic
ISBN: 0825487994
Size: 79.32 MB
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Language: en
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Download PDF Contextualization In World Missions eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Contextualization is the art of translating ideas into a particular situation, place or culture. It is fundamental to communication, which makes contextualization essential in missions. This textbook pulls together and maps the variety of evangelical approaches to contextualization. Introductory classes on contextualization and missionary preparation institutes will appreciate this valuable textbook. Contextualization in Missions will guide mission-minded Christians to an informed plan for spreading the gospel effectively. While written with a theoretical perspective, Contextualization in Missions also provides real-world examples to provoke both thought and action.

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Book Detail:
Author: Timothy C. Tennent
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
ISBN: 0310298482
Size: 10.51 MB
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Release Date: 2009-05-26
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Theology In The Context Of World Christianity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Thinking more globally about the formation of theology enriches our understanding of what it means to be a Christian. It's no secret that the center of Christianity has shifted from the West to the global South and East. While the truths of the Christian faith are universal, different contexts and cultures illuminate new questions, understandings, and expressions. What does this mean for theology, as Western theologians understand it? Timothy Tennent argues that the Christian faith is culturally and theologically translatable. Theology in the Context of World Christianity is written to expand our "ecclesiastical cartography" by highlighting—within each of the major themes of systematic theology—studies that are engaging the global church, such as: Anthropology (with studies drawn from the different views of human identity between Eastern and Western cultures). Christology (with a focus on the emphases that African Christians place on the characteristics of Christ). Pneumatology (by looking at the role of the Holy Spirit in Latin American Pentecostalism). Eschatology (by focusing on how this branch of theology shapes world missions and evangelism). Each of the ten chapters examines traditional theological categories in conversation with theologians from across the globe, making this volume valuable for students, pastors, missionaries, and theologians alike. Theological reflection is active and exciting in the majority world church, and Tennent invites you to your own reflection and celebration of Christ's global church. These are perspectives that should be heard, considered, and brought into conversation with Western theologians. Global theology can make us aware of our own blind spots and biases and has much to offer toward the revitalization of Western Christianity.

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Book Detail:
Author: Benjamin A. Reist
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN:
Size: 11.90 MB
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Release Date: 1992
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Processive Revelation eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Benjamin Reist argues that the revelation of the living God is always on the move, never capable of reaching completion because God always has something to say. He believes that contextual theology must include postmodern science, hermeneutics, and theological ethics, and that liberation theology and the natural sciences must be understood together. Drawing upon the developments of contextual theology, the author explores four great turnings in modern science that have affected our understanding of ultimate issues: evolution, relativity, uncertainty, and incompleteness.

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Book Detail:
Author: Zoltán Göncz
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810884488
Size: 14.32 MB
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Release Date: 2012-12-19
Category: Music
Language: en
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Download PDF Bach S Testament eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In Bach’s Testament: On the Philosophical and Theological Background of The Art of Fugue, Göncz probes the philosophic-theological background of The Art of Fugue, revealing the special structures that supported the 1993 reconstruction. Bach’s Testament investigates the reconstruction’s metaphysical dimensions, focusing on the quadruple fugue. As a summary of Zoltán Göncz’s extensive research over many years, which resulted in the completion of the fugue, this work explores the complex combinatorial, philosophical and theological considerations that inform its structure. Bach’s Testament is ideally suited not only to Bach scholars and musicologists but also intellectual historians with particular interests in 18th-century religious and philosophical ideas.

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Book Detail:
Author: James Fodor
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317011341
Size: 26.70 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2016-02-17
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Theological Aesthetics After Von Balthasar eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This collection of essays by distinguished authors explores the present-day field of theological aesthetics: from von Balthasar’s contribution and parallel developments to correctives and alternatives to his approach. A tribute to von Balthasar’s own project expands into a dialogue with ancient and medieval traditions in search of revelatory aesthetics. The contributors outline challenges to his approach (including Protestant perspectives) and introduce new ways of viewing the field of theological aesthetics, which ultimately opens up to the idea of concrete cultural contexts and practical human needs determining the use of the arts and aesthetic sensibilities in theology.

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Book Detail:
Author: Stephen B. Bevans
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1570754381
Size: 10.43 MB
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Release Date: 2002
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Models Of Contextual Theology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Stephen B Bevans's Models of Contextual Theology has become a staple in courses on theological method and as a handbook used by missioners and other Christians concerned with the Christian tradition's understanding of itself in relation to culture. First published in 1992 and now in its seventh printing in English, with translations underway into Spanish, Korean, and Indonesian, Bevans's book is a judicious examination of what the terms "contextual theology" and "to contextualize" mean. In the revised and expanded edition, Bevans adds a "counter-cultural" model to the five presented in the first edition -- the translation, the anthropological, the praxis, the synthetic, and the transcendental model. This means that readers will be introduced to the way in which figures such as Stanley Hauerwas, John Milbank, Lesslie Newbigin, "and (occasionally) Pope John Paul II" need to be taken into account. The author's revisions also incorporate suggestions made by reviewers to enhance the clarity of the original three chapters on the nature of contextual theology and the five models.

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Book Detail:
Author: Natalie Wigg-Stevenson
Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 033405947X
Size: 51.68 MB
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Release Date: 2021-02-28
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Transgressive Devotion eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Academic theology is in need of a new genre. In "Transgressive Devotion" Natalie Wigg-Stevenson articulates a theological vision of that genre as performance art. She argues that theology done as performance art stops trying to describe who God is, and starts trying to make God appear. Recognising that the act of studying theology or practicing ministry is always a performance, where the boundaries between what we see, feel, experience and learn are not just blurred but potentially invisible, Wigg-Stevenson brings together ethnographic theological fieldwork, historical and contemporary Christian theological traditions, and performance artworks themselves. A daring vision of theology which will energise anybody feeling ‘boxed in’ by the discipline, Transgressive Devotion blurs borders between orthodoxy, heterodoxy and heresy to reveal how the very act of doing theology makes God and humanity vulnerable to each other. This is theology which is a liturgy of Divine incantation. In other words: this is theology which is also prayer.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sigurd Bergmann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134948875
Size: 49.35 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2016-04-08
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF In The Beginning Is The Icon eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Icons provide depictions of God or encounters with the divine that enable reflection and prayer. 'In the Beginning is the Icon' explores the value of these images for a theology of liberation. Iconology, art theory, philosophical aesthetics, art history and anthropology are integrated with rigorous theological reflection to argue that the creation and observation of pictures can have a liberating effect on humanity. In presenting art from across the world, 'In the Beginning is the Icon' reflects the ethnocentricity of both art and religious studies and offers a new cross-cultural approach to the theology of art.

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Book Detail:
Author: Steve Bevans
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004363084
Size: 16.19 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2018-06-12
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Essays In Contextual Theology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A collection of essays on the nature of contextual theology, criteria for orthodoxy, prophetic dialogue, conversion, culture and other relevant topics as Christian faith and particular contexts encounter one another.

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Book Detail:
Author: Stephen B Bevans
Publisher: ISD LLC
ISBN: 0227900952
Size: 46.87 MB
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Release Date: 2012-07-26
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Contextual Theology For The Twenty First Century eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this compact collection of essays on contextual theology, the reader is offered fresh voices from the United States, Latin America and Oceania. The inclusion of diverse cultural voices is one of the book's strengths: these voices emphasize the significance of contextual theology for our twenty-first century. The proposal of the book is to address new ways of doing theology, opening up new and fresh topics for our theological agenda.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sigurd Bergmann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000290751
Size: 64.77 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2020-12-13
Category: Nature
Language: en
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Download PDF Weather Religion And Climate Change eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Weather, Religion and Climate Change is the first in-depth exploration of the fascinating way in which the weather impacts on the fields of religion, art, culture, history, science, and architecture. In critical dialogue with meteorology and climate science, this book takes the reader beyond the limits of contemporary thinking about the Anthropocene and explores whether a deeper awareness of weather might impact on the relationship between nature and self. Drawing on a wide range of examples, including paintings by J.M.W. Turner, medieval sacred architecture, and Aristotle’s classical Meteorologica, Bergmann examines a geographically and historically wide range of cultural practices, religious practices, and worldviews in which weather appears as a central, sacred force of life. He also examines the history of scientific meteorology and its ambivalent commodification today, as well as medieval "weather witchery" and biblical perceptions of weather as a kind of "barometer" of God’s love. Overall, this volume explores the notion that a new awareness of weather and its atmospheres can serve as a deep cultural and spiritual driving force that can overcome the limits of the Anthropocene and open a new path to the "Ecocene", the age of nature. Drawing on methodologies from religious studies, cultural studies, art history and architecture, philosophy, environmental ethics and aesthetics, history, and theology, this book will be of great interest to all those concerned with studying the environment from a transdisciplinary perspective on weather and wisdom.

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