CCDA Theological Journal, 2015 Edition
Author: Bethany Harris
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2015-10-07
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 1498239188
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Decolonising Colonial Education
Author: Mhango, Nkwazi Nkuzi
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
Published: 2018-09-24
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9956550272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book on decolonising education chastises, heartens and invites academics to seriously commence academic and intellectual manumission by challenging the current toxic episteme – the Western dominant Grand Narrative that embeds, espouses and superimposes itself on others. It exhorts African scholars in particular to unite and address the bequests of colonialism and its toxic episteme by confronting the internalised fabrications, hegemonic dominance, lies and myths that have caused many conflicts in world history. Such a toxic episteme founded on problematic experiments, theories and praxis has tended to license unsubstantiated views and stereotypes of others as intellectually impotent, moribund and of inferior humanity. The book invites academics and intellectuals to commit to a healthy dialogue among the world’s competing traditions of knowing and knowledge production to produce a truly accommodating and inclusive grand narrative informed by a recognition of a common and shared humanity.
Poverty and Development
Author: Kumar Aryal
Publisher: Kumar Aryal
Published: 2019-06-06
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1072438631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre you concerned about the problem of poverty in the world? Do you want to do something about it? This book is for you!
The Development of Anglican Moral Theology, 1680–1950
Author: Peter H. Sedgwick
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-01-15
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 900468901X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Development of Anglican Moral Theology is the successor volume to The Origins of Anglican Moral Theology. It describes how Anglican theologians interacted closely with the moral philosophers of their day while providing a pastoral resource in the fast-changing period between 1680-1950. The book shows how vibrant and intellectually rigorous the tradition was, and includes detailed studies of the sermons of Butler, Wesley and Newman, the writings of William Law and Coleridge, and the later work of Maurice, Gore, Scott Holland, Moberly, William Temple and Kirk. This is the first account of this lively tradition of moral theology.
Rethinking Incarceration
Author: Dominique DuBois Gilliard
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2018-03-02
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0830887733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe United States has more people locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers than any other country in the history of the world. Exploring the history and foundations of mass incarceration, Dominique Gilliard examines Christianity’s role in its evolution and expansion, assessing justice in light of Scripture, and showing how Christians can pursue justice that restores and reconciles.
The Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment
Author: William R. Everdell
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-05-21
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 3030697622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis contribution to the global history of ideas uses biographical profiles of 18th-century contemporaries to find what Salafist and Sufi Islam, Evangelical Protestant and Jansenist Catholic Christianity, and Hasidic Judaism have in common. Such figures include Muḥammad Ibn abd al-Waḥhab, Count Nikolaus Zinzendorf, Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Israel Ba’al Shem Tov. The book is a unique and comprehensive study of the conflicted relationship between the “evangelical” movements in all three Abrahamic religions and the ideas of the Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment. Centered on the 18th century, the book reaches back to the third century for precedents and context, and forward to the 21st for the legacy of these movements. This text appeals to students and researchers in many fields, including Philosophy and Religion, their histories, and World History, while also appealing to the interested lay reader.
The Passionate Church
Author: Mike Slaughter
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2016-04-21
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 1501815040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt’s good to talk about ministry. It’s better to do it, and do it passionately. In 2008, the United Methodist Church lifted up “Four Areas of Focus” for ministry, and churches have responded. But at Ginghamsburg Church, in the rust-belt town of Tipp City, Ohio, the church has been doing exciting and effective ministry in those four areas for 35 years and more. Engaging in Ministry with the Poor Improving Global Health Developing Principled Christian Leaders Creating New and Renewed Congregations The work has led to a host of creative ministries and organic growth…because they were meeting the needs of their community and their world as the hands and feet of Christ. The book comes with a built-in facilitator Guide to encourage pastor peer groups and other leadership groups interested in deepening the discussion.
The Power of Unearned Suffering
Author: Mika Edmondson
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2016-12-09
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1498537332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the roots and relevance of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s approach to black suffering. King’s conviction that “unearned suffering is redemptive” reflects a nearly 250-year-old tradition in the black church going back to the earliest Negro spirituals. From the bellies of slave ships, the foot of the lynching tree, and the back of segregated buses, black Christians have always maintained the hope that God could “make a way out of no way” and somehow bring good from the evils inflicted on them. As a product of the black church tradition, King inherited this widespread belief, developed it using Protestant liberal concepts, and deployed it throughout the Civil Rights Movement of the 50’s and 60’s as a central pillar of the whole non-violent movement. Recently, critics have maintained that King’s doctrine of redemptive suffering creates a martyr mentality which makes victims passive in the face of their suffering; this book argues against that critique. King’s concept offers real answers to important challenges, and it offers practical hope and guidance for how beleaguered black citizens can faithfully engage their suffering today.
The Isaianic Denkschrift and a Socio-Cultural Crisis in Yehud
Author: Alexander V. Prokhorov
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Published: 2015-05-20
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 3647540447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study of the Isaianic Denkschrift (Isaiah 6:1-9:6) is both a traditional and an innovative one. It defends the integrity of the Denkschrift, yet on grounds wholly other than those outlined by the early proponents of the unity of the composition. The present work is founded on an inquiry into the ideological matrix of the composition on one hand and, on the other, on the understanding of the activity of mantic (prophetic) figures in the Near East during the early first millennium BCE that has emerged in recent scholarship. The presentation of Yahweh as a royal character in the Denkschrift is interpreted as an integral part of the symbolic universe promoted by the composition. Several levels of social discourse of the Denkschrift are identified: the author(s) is simultaneously engaged in the creation of Judaean autonomous cultural identity, in polemical activity with the rival Yahwist community (the North, or Samaria) and in the safeguarding of the privileged position of the former Babylonian exiles among the community of Jerusalem and Judah. Two interrelated hypotheses are developed in the book: regarding the historical milieu in which the Denkschrift was composed and regarding the place of the composition in the formation of First Isaiah. As for the first, Prokhorov proposes that the early second-temple community of Yehud matches the profile of a society whose problems the Denkschrift is addressing and reflecting. As for the second, the author maintains the view that the Denkschrift marks one of the final stages of the creation of First Isaiah whose original nucleus consisted of the Hezekiah narrative (now found in chapters 36-39 of Isaiah), which, in turn, modified the respective Deuteronomistic material.
Critical Discourse and Corpus Approaches to Systemic Functional Grammar
Author: Chenguang Chang
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
Published: 2021-03-18
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 3736963475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe present volume draws on the experience of the Workshop held in Germany in late 2018 to combine the specialisations of the two linguistic research teams of the two partner universities, Sun Yat-sen University in China and Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany. It combines more theoretical approaches by experienced scholars and case studies by young researchers on topics and texts on current Chinese developments. The contributions can also serve as a general model for open and critical international and intercultural academic discourse.
