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9 produkter
Pastoral Care and Liberation Theology
Av Stephen Pattison, Duncan Forrester m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
1677 kr
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This is the first book to show how Latin American liberation theology can be applied to and can transform pastoral care in countries such as Britain and the USA. Hitherto pastoral care has tended to concentrate on looking after individuals. Stephen Pattison suggests that much of the suffering …
A Theology of Reconstruction
Nation-Building and Human Rights
Av Charles Villa-Vicencio, Duncan Forrester m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
707 kr
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The changing situation in South Africa and eastern Europe prompts Charles Villa-Vicencio to investigate the implications of transforming liberation theology into a theology of reconstruction and nation-building. Such a transformation, he argues, requires theology to become an unambiguously …
Protestantism in Contemporary China
Av Alan Hunter, Kim-Kwong Chan m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1633 kr
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This study investigates the historical and political conditions which have contributed to the state of the Protestant community in China, and the kinds of spirituality and religious life that it has evolved. The authors draw on extensive fieldwork, and offer fascinating insights into the beliefs …
Religion and the Making of Society
Essays in Social Theology
Av Charles Davis, Duncan Forrester m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
455 kr
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In this book a leading contemporary theologian investigates the relation between religion and society. Professor Davis begins with the thesis that society is a product of human agency; this raises immediately the questions of the meaning of modernity and of the function of religion in that context. …
Power, Gender and Christian Mysticism
Av Grace M. Jantzen, Duncan Forrester m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
671 kr
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In the western Christian tradition, the mystic was seen as having direct access to God, and therefore great authority. In this study, Dr Jantzen discusses how men of power defined and controlled who should count as a mystic, and thus who would have power: women were pointedly excluded. This makes …
Christianity and Politics in Doe's Liberia
Av Paul Gifford, Duncan Forrester m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
781 kr
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This study examines the role of Christianity in Liberia under the corrupt rule of Samuel K. Doe (1980-90). Paul Gifford illustrates the relationship between mainline, evangelical, new Pentecostal and independent churches, and notes the strengths and weaknesses of each. He shows that, in general, …
God's Just Vengeance
Crime, Violence and the Rhetoric of Salvation
Av Timothy Gorringe, Duncan Forrester m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1693 kr
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This 1996 book examines the relationship between the theologies of atonement and penal strategies. Christian theology was potent in Western society until the nineteenth century, and the so-called 'satisfaction theory' of atonement interacted and reacted with penal practice. Drawing on the work of …
Christian Justice and Public Policy
Av Duncan B. Forrester, Duncan Forrester m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
650 kr
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Disagreements about justice are not simply academic matters. They create problems for practice and for policy-making. In a morally fragmented society in which 'nobody knows what justice is' issues such as wages policy, punishment and poverty become particularly difficult to handle. People striving …
God's Just Vengeance
Crime, Violence and the Rhetoric of Salvation
Av Timothy Gorringe, Duncan Forrester m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
422 kr
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This 1996 book examines the relationship between the theologies of atonement and penal strategies. Christian theology was potent in Western society until the nineteenth century, and the so-called 'satisfaction theory' of atonement interacted and reacted with penal practice. Drawing on the work of …
