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Toni Morrison's Spiritual Vision: Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in Her Life and Literature
Toni Morrison's Spiritual Vision unpacks an oft-ignored but essential element of her work--her religion--and in so doing gives readers a deeper, richer understanding of her life and her writing. Nadra Nittle's wide-ranging, deep exploration of Morrison's oeuvre reveals the role of religion and spirituality in her life and literature.
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Picking Up the Pieces: The Church and Conflict Resolution in South Africa and Rwanda
Picking Up the Pieces reflects on the church's involvement in two historical moments of history at the end of the twentieth century: the end of apartheid in South Africa, in which the church was able to aid a peaceful resolution, and the Rwandan genocide, in which it wasn't.
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Sighs and Signs of the Spirit: Ghanaian Perspectives on Pentecostalism and Renewal in Africa
In Sighs and Signs, Asamoah-Gyadu often points out how mission-founded churches in Ghana have fallen behind their Charismatic/Pentecostal counterparts and the need for the former to learn from the latter. He dialogues with other scholars and theological leaders, documenting a learning process that has already started.
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Strategy Coordinator: Changing the Course of Southern Baptist Missions
In 1976, the Southern Baptist Convention adopted its Bold New Thrusts in Foreign Missions with the goal of sharing the gospel with everyone in the world by 2000. Strategy Coordinator traces the historical development of this paradigm and its significant impact on Southern Baptist missiology.
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Towards Global Missional Leadership: A Journey Through Leadership Paradigm Shift in the Mission of God
Today, leaders within global church and mission movements are challenged to respond to effects of globalisation and other factors upon the mission of God. Towards Global Missional Leadership shines light on key elements contributing to the development of a global missional mindset within the context of the mission Dei.
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Life-Widening Mission: Global Anglican Perspectives
A collection of young Anglican writings on the Five Marks of Mission, Vol 12: Life-Widening Mission provides a glimpse of the strengths and struggles of the Anglican Communion. This book serves as a reminder that there is no room for complacency while injustice and hardship exist in God's world today.
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Edinburgh 2010 Mission Today and Tomorrow
Edinburgh 2010 engaged in serious study and reflection on the current state of world mission and the challenges facing all those who seek to witness Christ today. Vol 3: Mission Today and Tomorrow shares the spirit of the conference, aiming to stimulate participation in God's mission in Christ.
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Contextualisation and Mission Training: Engaging Asia's Religious Worlds
How do contextualisation theories change the way we prepare and train cross-cultural workers? Contextualisation & Mission Training offers frameworks and explorations in order to enhance the Asian church's engagement with the complexity of Asian social, cultural and religious systems.
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Negotiating Peace: North East Indian Perspectives on Peace, Justice, and Life in Community
In Negotiating Peace, Shimreingam L. Shimray argues that peace cannot be derived from outside forces but that it must instead be created from within the local context. The author uses a deeply contextual reading of his own setting, resulting in a work whose value rests in revealing how the tribal people of North East India have used their own resources to work for a culture of peace amidst tension and difficulty.
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Diaspora Christianities: Global Scattering and Gathering of South Asian Christians
South Asians make up one of the largest diasporas in the world and Christians form a relatively large share of it. Christians from the Indian...
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The Spirit Shaped Church: A Spirit Ecclesiology in India
In The Spirit Shaped Church, Swarup Bar argues that the church is defined by its relationship with others. A relational church depends on porous borders, which means that, while a church has its distinctiveness, it ought to be open to negotiate relational engagements with the world around it. This sort of relationally distinct, permeable church is found to be possible through the leading of the Spirit and the work of Christ.
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Christ and the Christian Life: Two Essays from Christian Dogmatics
Presented independently are the two loci by the author from Christian Dogmatics. In The Work of Christ, Forde examines "what God did in Jesus Christ" In Christian Life, he undertakes justification and sanctification. For students and scholars alike, this assembly of Forde's early work will broaden the impact of his thought for a new generation.
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Beyond Dalit Theology: Searching for New Frontiers
This book is a critique of Dalit theology, with proposals for the future directions of a theology of social transformation in India. It explores new ways of doing Christology, pneumatology, and ecclesiology, and ultimately argues for the need of a new public theology in the changing religious-political contexts of India.
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Interconnections of Asian Diaspora: Mapping the Linkages and Discontinuities
This book paints a portrait of the widespread dispersion and establishment of distinctively Asian Christian communities in their places of settlement. The essays argue that migration has made Asian Christianity more global and explores how Asian-diaspora communities are playing a decisive role in transforming and advancing Christian faith.
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Unmasking the African Ghost: Theology, Politics, and the Nightmare of Failed States
Africa is continuously redefining itself in the face of Eurocentrism, misery, and oppression. Unmasking the African Ghost is a theological exploration of why the political and economic systems of so many African countries have failed and a proposal for paths toward renewing the social order.
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Binding the Ghost: Theology, Mystery, and the Transcendence of Literature
Binding the Ghost considers the theological depth, resonance, and mystery of the acts of reading and writing. Ed Simon presents a lyrical, incisive, and humane sacralization of reading and writing that takes into account the wonder, enchantment, and mystery of the very idea of poetry and fiction.
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Telugu Christians: A History
By confessing the Lordship of Christ, taking on Christian practices, and affiliating with the global church, Telugu Christianity is truly Christian. This volume analyzes the social life of Telugu Christians, local worldviews, and historical realities that shaped the evolution of Telugu faith.
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Journeys of Asian Diaspora: Mapping Originations and Destinations
This is a collection of essays by Asian-diaspora Christian scholars about their communities in different parts of the world. It paints a portrait of the widespread dispersion and establishment of distinctively Asian Christian communities in their places of settlement. The book makes a case about how migration of people has made Asian Christianity more global and how Asian-diaspora communities are playing a decisive role in transforming and advancing Christian faith in the twenty-first century.
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The Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC): Bearing Witness to the Gospel and the Reign of God in Asia
This book presents the theological contributions of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC), a transnational body comprising fifteen Asian Catholic bishops' conferences as full members and ten associate members. The emphasis of the book is on the postcolonial dimensions of Asia and the challenges and implications of decolonization for shaping a postcolonial Asian church and way of doing theology.
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World Christianity, Urbanization and Identity
World Christianity, Urbanization and Identity argues that urban centers do not only offer places for persons to live, shop, and seek entertainment, but deeply shape people's ethics, behavior, sense of justice, and how they learn to become human. Given that religious participation and institutions are vital to individual and communal life, particularly in urban centers, this interdisciplinary volume provides insights into the interaction between urban change and religious formation in the word today.
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