Indigenous church leadership is a new phenomenon in North Africa. Until recently, non-Muslim background believers were the only leaders of churches in this region. With the current growth of national churches there are increasingly more leaders from a Muslim background leading to a diverse range of leadership styles. This publication, a first of its kind to specifically explore church leadership in North Africa, investigates common values, beliefs and cultures among church leaders. Using four identified leadership styles the author further expands by looking at the impact they have on congregations, society and the future development of church leaders in the region.
Task Analyses have been conducted for Church Planters, Missionary Team Leaders and Missionary Team members, but there has never been a Task Analysis conducted for the typical North American pastor. Each year seminaries across this world graduate many more individuals who choose to fill existing church pulpits rather than plant a new work. Yet, do we really understand the competencies that may lead to success? Through exhaustive interviews and numerous question and answer techniques, the author has been able to root out the most beneficial competencies for today's Reformed North American pastor. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...
ISBN: 978-3-6390-8632-4
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The notion of scarcity as a point of departure in economics has not fully embraced social, moral and environmental imperatives. To illustrate this fact, the author discusses the case of Zambia .In the light of the inadequacy of scarcity, this study argues that Christian theology needs to develop a new point of departure and model for economic development founded on stewardship.In the author’s view, this framework of meaning should be considered if the human family is to move towards the attainment of adequate economic development which affects the whole gamut of life-affirming change for individual human persons, their social communities and the physical environments which sustain their very beings and livelihoods.The author challenges...
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This book is a reflection to bring living hope for the Marginals (Tribals/Dalits) of India and world as equal human beings. Faith in God is interlinked with social nature of human beings among indigenous groups. It offers preferential guide for Local community to be united with God in their liberation movements towards freedom against the slavery of irrational Indian traditional practices. The God of Love of Christianity widens the way for justified liberty from their bondage of sin and presumptions. In focusing on inculturation and contextualization (Localization) as models for applying liberation, criteria for religious and micro/macro-level dignity formation are inevitable in bringing integral transformation to the Marginals in the...
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The unorthodox theology of nineteenth century British novelist George Eliot resulted not in a dispassionate avoidance of Christianity in her narratives but in an existential engagement with the faith she had once embraced. Prior to writing her first novel, Eliot, already recognized as a leading literary critic and translator, had adopted the empiricist and positivist philosophies of the elite intellectual circles of British society. Like many of her contemporaries, Eliot adhered to a liberal Christology advocating Jesus Christ as a moral exemplar whom humanity should imitate. A change in Eliot's religious viewpoints, however, emerged as she began writing fiction. Although she never returned to an orthodox form of Christianity, her novels...
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A Theology of the Unity of the church in Multi-Ethnic Context is a must read. The book provides an understanding of social and ecclesial dynamics associated to ethnic diversity. The ethnic affiliation and exclusion have often resulted in ethnic divisions and tensions, culminating in violent confrontations. The unity of the church is presented in this excellent book as antidote to evils associated with negative ethnicity. P. Mbandi critically evaluates different approaches to ecclesial theology and delineates a proper theological hermeneutics. The book, further, provides a biblical evaluation of Homogeneous Unit Principle (HUP) and argues for the unity of the church that transcends the ethnic exclusion of the "others." The inclusion of...
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This book examines the practice of confirmation in the post-communist context of Slovakia and the Slovak Lutheran Church during 1993-2003. It proposes a fresh approach to the theory and practice of confirmation for churches that find themselves surrounded by new political, cultural, and spiritual realities. This new paradigm of confirmation speaks to a context that is transitioning from communism to democracy. Drawing on Martin Luther's concept of vocation, confirmation embodies an active response to God's gift of baptismal grace. Emphasizing confirmation as agency, youth are nurtured in the practices of owning and living out their faith in broader society. Articulating a theological basis for a faith active in the world, this vocational...
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Since the historic birth of Louise Brown (1978), the first 'test-tube ' baby, the revelations of the New Reproductive Technologies (NRTs) have continued to become front page news. Caught up in this media hype, infertile couples and IVF practitioners have looked to the Church for moral guidance. However,the premise of this book is that the Church has been found wanting in its pastoral and prophetic role in this increasingly vital socio-cultural area, predominantly because woman 's subject position of invisibility in theological discouses prevents the Church from speaking differently to the secular world. Based on an understanding of Michel Foucault 's insights regarding the construction of subject positions,the book seeks to interrogate...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
Abu Lahab war ein Onkel und unversohnlicher Gegner des Propheten Mohammed. Er und seine Frau werden in der Koransure 111, die – neben anderen – auch seinen Namen tragt, verdammt. Abu Lahab war ein Sohn von Abd al-Muttalib und einer der Fuhrer der Quraisch. Die Uberlieferungen beschreiben ihn als grossen, korpulenten Mann, der leicht in Zorn entflammte. Die Mutter Abu Lahabs hiess Lubna bint al-Harith Seine Frau hiess Umm Dschamil bint Harb b. Umaiya und hegte eine heftige Abneigung gegen den Propheten. Sie gebar Abu Lahab drei Sohne. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения...
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The title Abacwezi and Embandwa dramatizes the Cwezi dynasty from which a traditional religion sprang. From Bunyoro Kitara, they migrated to the far west of Uganda but, some remained in Bunyoro by absorption.Their wonders inspired the people they left behind to formulate a cult of them. These people emulated them to the level of gods and organized a devotion in their worship they started expecting favours there from. The plants which the Cwezi came with, were used to treat people and are demystified today by the scientists to have curative values. This work is written for all classes: spiritualists, teachers of traditional religions, artists, musicians poets and researchers in medicine. And so, the world over new religions are born. Some...
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
L’abbaye de la Roe est un etablissement religieux augustinien de chanoines reguliers, situe dans le sud-ouest de la Mayenne, dite Mayenne angevine en raison de sa situation geographique placant ce lieu dans le Haut-Anjou. L'abbaye est a 33 kilometres de Chateau-Gontier et de Laval, et a environ 60 kilometres de Rennes et d'Angers. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Abbey of Thelema refers to a small house which was used as a temple and spiritual centre founded by Aleister Crowley and Leah Hirsig in Cefalu, Sicily in 1920.The name was borrowed from Francois Rabelais's satire Gargantua and Pantagruel, where an Abbey of Theleme is described as a sort of "anti-monastery" where the lives of the inhabitants were "spent not in laws, statutes, or rules, but according to their own free will and pleasure." This idealistic utopia was to be the model of Crowley's commune, while also being a type of magical school, giving it the designation "Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum", The College of the Holy Spirit. The general programme was in line with the A?A? course of...
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saint Abbon de Fleury (ne v. 940-945 a Orleans, mort le 13 novembre 1004 a La Reole), moine benedictin reformateur, abbe de Fleury est un des grands theologiens de son temps. Moine de l'abbaye de Ramsey (Cambridgeshire, Angleterre) de l'automne 985 au printemps 987, il recueille les elements de la tradition populaire et les temoignages qui lui permettent de rediger la vie de saint Edmond. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1318-9731-3
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Abdul Rahman (convert). Fiqh, Islam and other religions, Human Rights in Islam (book), Persecution of Christians, Forced conversion, Apostasy in Islam, T?jik people, Taliban Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1300-3446-7
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Ablution in religion is a prescribed washing of part or all of the body or of possessions, such as clothing or ceremonial objects, with the intent of purification or dedication. In Christianity, both baptism and footwashing are forms of ablution. In liturgical churches, ablution can refer to purifying fingers or vessels related to the Eucharist. In the NT washing also occurs in reference to rites of Judaism part of the action of a healing by Jesus, the preparation of a body for burial,[Acts 9:37] the washing of nets by fishermen,[Lk. 5:2] a person's personal washing of the face to appear in public,[Matt. 6:17] the cleansing of an injured person's wounds,[Acts 16:33] Pilate's washing of his hands as a symbolic claim of innocence[Matt....
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Spanien im hohen Mittelalter. Nur wenig ist in deutschen Geschichtsbuchern uber diesen Zeitabschnitt zu finden, obwohl es sich um eines der spannendsten Kapitel iberisch-europaischer Geschichte handelt. Die religios motivierten Konflikte zwischen Christen und Muslimen waren wieder aufgebrochen, das Ende der islamischen Vorherrschaft im Suden Spaniens zeichnete sich ab. Der Autor geht zunachst auf die Bedeutung Abrahams fur das theologische Selbstverstandnis von Juden, Christen und Muslimen ein, um dann ein anschauliches Bild des Zeitgeschehens zu entwerfen. Schlusselbegriffe wie Heiliger Krieg und Reconquista werden dabei auf ihren eigentlichen Sinngehalt hinterfragt. Die Gegenuberstellung dreier apologetischer Glaubensentwurfe zeigt den...
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abraham Calovius (16 April 1612 – 25 February 1686) was a Lutheran theologian, and was one of the champions of Lutheran orthodoxy in the 17th century. He was born in Mohrungen (now Mor?g, Ostroda County) in the Duchy of Prussia. After studying at Konigsberg, in 1650 he was appointed professor of theology at Wittenberg, where he afterwards became general superintendent and primarius. Calovius opposed the Catholics, Calvinists and Socinians, and in particular attacked the syncretism of his bitter enemy, George Calixtus. While Calixtus affirmed that the Apostles' Creed was an adequate definition of faith, Calovius rather held that one must believe every part of revealed truth in order to gain...
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Abraham Joshua Heschel was a Warsaw-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th centurys Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1306-5207-4
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abzu ist ein Gott der sumerischen und damit auch der akkadischen (hier Apsu), babylonischen und assyrischen Religion. Somit ist Abzu auch Vorbild und Bestandteil anderer Gottheiten diverser altorientalischer und anderer Volker. Abzu ist die gottliche Personifizierung des sich unter der Erde befindlichen Susswasserozeans. Seine Wohnstatt tragt seinen Namen und liegt tief unter der Erde. Sie ist Quelle allen Susswassers und liegt im Verborgenen. Nach akkadischer Tradition ist Abzu Gemahl und Gegenpart der Meeresgottin Tiamat, die den Salzwasserozean symbolisiert. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bertho II. von Leibolz († 18. Marz 1271 in Fulda), aufgrund seiner kleinen Gestalt abschatzig Abt Fingerhut genannt, war von 1261 bis 1271 Furstabt des Klosters Fulda. Bevor Bertho II. Abt im Reichsfurstenstand wurde, ubte er das Amt des Propstes auf dem Petersberg aus. Bertho II. wurde im Jahre 1261, nach dem Tode Heinrichs IV. von Erthal, zum Furstabt von Fulda erwahlt. Bertho II. wurde im Jahre 1261, nach dem Tode Heinrichs IV. von Erthal, zum Furstabt von Fulda erwahlt. Wahrend des Interregnums (Zwischenherrschaft) herrschte das Fehdewesen. Ferner waren untergebene Ritter und Dienstleute bestrebt mehr Unabhangigkeit vom Stift Fulda zu erlangen. Wie sein Vorganger Heinrich IV. von Erthal...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Edelin regierte als Abt das elsassische Kloster Weissenburg seit dem Jahr 1262 bis zu seinem Tod am 15. Oktober 1293. Wahrend seiner Regierungszeit wurde mit dem Bau der heute noch bestehenden gotischen Abteikirche begonnen. Da das Kloster seit dem 10. Jahrhundert einen grossen Teil seiner Besitzungen verloren hatte, liess Edelin unter Benutzung alterer Urkunden ein Guterverzeichnis anfertigen, Codex Edelini oder Liber Possessionum genannt, um das noch vorhandene Gut zu inventarisieren und vor weiterem Verlust zu bewahren. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после...
ISBN: 978-6-1304-4030-5
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