Das Deuteronomium unterscheidet sich in seiner Sprache und literarischen Gestaltung deutlich von den anderen alttestamentlichen Buchern. Es ist "deuteronomisch". Andere Bucher und Texte ahneln ihm, sie sind "deuteronomistisch". Man spricht von "deuteronomistischer Literatur" und von "deuteronomistischer Bewegung". Dahinter stehen inhaltliche Beziehungen, aber zugleich gemeinsame Sprache und literarische Technik. Unsere Kenntnis der Welt des alten Orients ist inzwischen immens gewachsen, die Sprachwissenschaft bluht auf, die Fragestellungen verandern sich, der Computer ermoeglicht neue Zugriffsmoeglichkeiten. Auch in Bezug auf Deuteronomium und Deuteronomismus ist es an der Zeit, die alten Basisfragen neu zu stellen und neu zu tasten nach Bestatigung, Abwandlung, Neukonzeption. Dieses Buch will dazu einen Beitrag leisten.

Jede Rede uber das Wesen Gottes ist Mythologie. Gott lasst sich nur durch seine Handlungen erkennen und nur in Korrelation mit dem Menschen. Die Tiefenpsychologie arbeitet mit den gleichen Ansatzen: Die Handlungen des Menschen zu befreien/erloesen, um sie zur vollen Bewusstheit/Heiligkeit kommen zu lassen. Das Ziel ist (Freud) und Weg zur Entwicklung des geistigen Instinkts, Entwicklung zum Selbst. (Jung) Ungeklart bleibt "...mit welchem geistigen Impuls die fragliche geistige Bewegung ihren Anfang nimmt, so dass sie in diesem Impuls ihren Ursprung zu erkennen hatte." (H. Cohen) Die Tiefenpsychologie arbeitet wesentlich mit der Negation als Privation: Jedes bewusste Etwas wird von Nicht-Bewusstem in Frage gestellt, um eine neue Bewusstheit zu erzeugen.

Dieser Band ist die erste deutsche UEbersetzung von Ishaq Armales Buch uber den Voelkermord im Osmanischen Reich. Der syrisch-katholische Chorepiskopos Ishaq Armalesbeschreibt in der bereits 1919 veroeffentlichten Originalausgabe ausfuhrlich das grausame Schicksal, das die Christen in den Stadten Mardin, Diyarbakir, ar-Ruha (Edessa, Urfa, Urhay), Aleppo, Sindschar, Cizre, Siirt, Kfarboran, Tur 'Abdin sowie in den Doerfern in dieser Umgebung ereilte. Der Autor berichtet uber die Unterdruckung der Menschen und berichtet uber Entfuhrungen, Vertreibungen, und Massakern, die sich im Jahre 1895 und in den Jahren 1914 bis 1919 zugetragen haben. Die UEbersetzung ist ein wichtiges Zeugnis in der Erinnerung an die Menschen, die dem Voelkermord zum Opfer fielen.

Der Band ist die erste groessere Studie zur Vita von Josef Busnaya. Diese Quelle beschreibt in grossem Detailreichtum das alltagliche Leben im 10. Jahrhundert in einem ostsyrischen Kloster und seinem ruralen Umfeld in einer ansonsten schlecht dokumentierten Zeit und Region. Der Autor veranschaulicht das alltagliche Leben im Kloster, seine oekonomische Grundlage und das Verhaltnis der Moenche zu ihrem christlichen und nicht-christlichen Umfeld und analysiert es im Kontext seiner historischen Situation. Das Ergebnis ist eine Momentaufnahme mit erstaunlichen Einsichten in das alltagliche, multireligioes gepragte Leben im Nordirak des 10. Jahrhunderts. Allerdings sind diesen durch die Natur der Quelle als hagiographischer Text Grenzen gesetzt.

By tracing the origins of mission right back to God's character, and then seeing how it unfolds throughout the storyline of the Bible, we begin to understand how important it is to him. As we see his heart for mission and the nations, we are challenged to discover God's plan for us too. Will this change our priorities as individuals and churches? Dare we see our place in God's plan and own the task of reaching the unreached? This practical, thought-provoking and accessible resource is the latest in the popular IVP/Keswick Ministries series of study guides.

With the development of instantaneous global communication, it is vital to communicate effectively across cultural boundaries. This addition to the acclaimed Encountering Mission series is designed to offer contemporary intercultural communication insights to mission students and practitioners. Authored by leading missionary scholars with significant intercultural experience, the book introduces intercultural communication; explores the foundations that lay beneath, and the cultural values that show up in, patterns of intercultural communication; and examines areas in which communicating effectively in a new cultural setting is important. Features such as case studies, tables, figures, and sidebars are included, making the book useful for classrooms.

Der deuteronomische Bruderbegriff hat innerhalb des Volkes Israel seinen Platz und gilt fur dieses. Diese Studie befasst sich mit den 'wirtschaftlichen' und 'politischen' Hintergrunden der Bruderthematik, wie sie sich in den sozialrechtlichen Teilen des deuteronomischen Gesetzes sowie des Heiligkeitsgesetzes einerseits und im deuteronomischen AEmterrecht andererseits zeigen. Leitfragen sind: Besteht eine theologische Verbindung zwischen dem sozialrechtlichen und amterrechtlichen Gedankengut der untersuchten Brudertexte? Warum wird in ihnen das Wort 'Bruder' und nicht ein Synonym wie 'Nachbar' oder 'Volksgenosse' verwendet? Wo hat die Bezeichnung 'Bruder' in diesen Rechtskorpora historisch gesehen ihren Ursprung? Diesen Fragen wird mithilfe von altorientalischem Vergleichsmaterial sowie von synchronen und diachronen exegetischen Methoden nachgegangen.

Move over Boomers, Xers, and Millennials; there's a new generation--making up more than 25 percent of the US population--that represents a seismic cultural shift. Born approximately between 1993 and 2012, Generation Z is the first truly post-Christian generation, and they are poised to challenge every church to rethink its role in light of a rapidly changing culture. From the award-winning author of The Rise of the Nones comes this enlightening introduction to the youngest generation. James Emery White explains who this generation is, how it came to be, and the impact it is likely to have on the nation and the faith. Then he reintroduces us to the ancient countercultural model of the early church, arguing that this is the model Christian leaders must adopt and adapt if we are to reach members of Generation Z with the gospel. He helps readers rethink evangelistic and apologetic methods, cultivate a culture of invitation, and communicate with this connected generation where they are. Pastors, ministry leaders, youth workers, and parents will find this an essential and hopeful resource.

In the sixty years following the Spanish conquest, indigenous communities in central Mexico suffered the equivalent of three Black Deaths, a demographic catastrophe that prompted them to rebuild under the aegis of Spanish missions. Where previous histories have framed this process as an epochal spiritual conversion, The Mexican Mission widens the lens to examine its political and economic history, revealing a worldly enterprise that both remade and colonized Mesoamerica. The mission exerted immense temporal power in struggles over indigenous jurisdictions, resources, and people. Competing communities adapted the mission to their own designs; most notably, they drafted labor to raise ostentatious monastery complexes in the midst of mass death. While the mission fostered indigenous recovery, it also grounded Spanish imperial authority in the legitimacy of local native rule. The Mexican mission became one of the most extensive in early modern history, with influences reverberating on Spanish frontiers from New Mexico to Mindanao.

The Being With course is an introduction to Christianity with a difference. At its heart is the idea that God's greatest desire is to be with us in Jesus. Grounded in the conviction that we already have a wealth of understanding of truth, beauty and goodness that signify God's presence in our lives and everyday experiences, it aims to enable participants to discover dimensions of this presence and to live abundantly with God, with one another and with creation. This Leaders' Guide provides: * an introduction to the theological perspective underpinning the course; * an explanation of its structure and an overview of each session; * practical guidelines for leading a group; * complete materials for hosting its ten 90-minute sessions in person or online. The sessions focus on the themes of Meaning; Essence; Jesus; Church; Bible; Mission; Cross; Prayer; Suffering and Resurrection. Drawing on the practices of Godly Play, the course uses storytelling, wondering and reflection to encourage and welcome the insights that each person brings. The Being With course was devised and created by Samuel Wells and Sally Hitchiner. It is one of many initiatives of St Martin-in-the-Fields, alongside HeartEdge, the Nazareth Community, the classical music and arts programmes and work with those experiencing homelessness. Located in London's Trafalgar Square, St Martin's is a community of hope, transforming church and society through commerce, culture, compassion and congregational life.

Perhaps, after all, the decolonising agenda isn't extra baggage the church needs to carry on top of everything else. Perhaps, instead, it is the very heart of what the church should be about - disrupting, uncomfortable, and bringing about a kind of 'holy anarchy'. In Holy Anarchy, Graham Adams points to a realm in which all dynamics of domination, not least in the church, are subverted. It cuts across the loyalties and boundaries of religion and fosters the greatest possible solidarity amongst the different. Urgent and timely, the book weaves together themes around Empire, liberation and decolonial practice with an exploration of the nature and scope of church community, interreligious engagement, mission, and worship.

People are leaving the church J.D. Greear pastors. Big givers. Key volunteers. Some of his best leaders and friends. And that's exactly how he wants it to be. When Jesus gave his disciples the Great Commission, he revealed that the key for reaching the world with the gospel is found in sending, not gathering. Though many churches focus time and energy on attracting people and counting numbers, the real mission of the church isn't how many people you can gather. It's about training up disciples and then sending them out. The true measure of success for a church should be its sending capacity, not its seating capacity. But there is a cost to this. To see ministry multiply, we must release the seeds God has placed in our hands. And to do that, we must ask ourselves whether we are concerned more with building our kingdom or God's. In Gaining By Losing, J.D. Greear unpacks ten plumb lines that you can use to reorient your church's priorities around God's mission to reach a lost world. The good news is that you don't need to choose between gathering or sending. Effective churches can, and must, do both.

Christabel Pankhurst, one of the leading champions of women's suffrage in Britain, entered the evangelical world after the first world war as a preacher of the second coming. Larsen shows that the two causes, far from being automatically antagonistic, could be complementary. Christabel Pankhurst was arguably the most influential member of her famous family in the struggle to win the vote for women in the years before the First World War. Paradoxically, she has also been the most neglected subsequentlyby historians. Part of the reason for this may be that, in the years after women's suffrage had been achieved in 1918, she turned her energies to Christian fundamentalism and carved out a new career as a writer of best-selling evangelical books and as a high-profile speaker on the fundamentalist preaching circuit, particularly in the United States. In this important work Tim Larsen provides the first full account of this part of Christabel Pankhurst's life. He thus offers both a highly original contribution to Christabel Pankhurst's biography and also a fascinating commentary on the relationship between fundamentalism and feminism. His book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the Pankhursts, in the history of the women's movement, or in fundamentalism in Britain and North America. TIMOTHY LARSEN is Associate Professor of Theology, Wheaton College, USA.

Ce travail traite, dans une approche canonique, le droit a la remuneration juste et a la protection sociale du clerge diocesain des Eglises africaines. " Comment faire pour offrir aux pretres et a l'ensemble des citoyens des conditions de vie digne ? ", cette question touche l'ensemble des citoyens dans plusieurs pays africains et constitue un defi social et pastoral pour les dirigeants politiques et religieux. Au niveau ecclesial, elle invite a promouvoir des relations interecclesiales respectant le principe de subsidiarite encourageant une gestion autonome et responsable de chaque Eglise. Une Eglise devrait etre en mesure de definir son modele d'Eglise et son paradigme pastoral pour relever les multiples defis lies a l'evangelisation et a la lutte contre toutes formes d'injustice et des inegalites sociales.

"Reforming the World" offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale. Looking at various organizations such as the Young Men's Christian Association and the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, Ian Tyrrell describes the influence that the export of American values had back home, and explores the methods and networks used by reformers to fashion a global and nonterritorial empire. He follows the transnational American response to internal pressures, the European colonies, and dynamic changes in global society.

Examining the cultural context of American expansionism from the 1870s to the 1920s, Tyrrell provides a new interpretation of Christian and evangelical missionary work, and he addresses America's use of "soft power." He describes evangelical reform's influence on American colonial and diplomatic policy, emphasizes the limits of that impact, and documents the often idiosyncratic personal histories, aspirations, and cultural heritage of moral reformers such as Margaret and Mary Leitch, Louis Klopsch, Clara Barton, and Ida Wells. The book illustrates that moral reform influenced the United States as much as it did the colonial and quasi-colonial peoples Americans came in contact with, and shaped the architecture of American dealings with the larger world of empires through to the era of Woodrow Wilson.

Investigating the wide-reaching and diverse influence of evangelical reform movements, "Reforming the World" establishes how transnational organizing played a vital role in America's political and economic expansion.

Drawing on insights from the training practices of the English medieval craft guilds, a global survey of 500 church planters, interviews with artists and church planting trainers and the authors 30 years of ministry experience, 'The Craft of Church Planting' offers a distinctive and imaginative perspective on the methods used to train future practitioners in the art of church planting. Demonstrating how training for the next generation of church planting leaders might be informed by the historic master-apprentice model, guild learning communities, creativity and an artisan approach to ministry, this book is a vital resource to inform the methods of training for the next generation of church planters.

Heideggers Ontologie endet beim "Aufgang des Heiligen", in dessen "Huld" das Seiende "die Gewahr findet, zu sein". Ist dies nicht eine schoepferische Liebe? Und ist nicht sie schon immer der Referenzpunkt alles Bleibenden? Die Untersuchung verbindet die Seinsfrage mit dem christlichen Kern. Sie harmonieren ausgezeichnet, ist doch dem einen Weite, dem anderen Substanz gegeben. Profiteur ist ein Sein, das zum Mysterium geraten war. Das Sein in Relation ist wieder ein begreifbares, - das real Existierende, das nach seiner Bejahung fragt. Der Autor wendet die bekannte Frage, ob Heideggers Philosophie christlich sei, dahin, ob die getrennten Konfessionen es denn sind. Denn was sie predigen - das neue Sein der Liebe und Versoehnung - will auch gelebt sein. Wann wird die Theorie ihren oekumenischen Praxistest bestehen? Ein Christentum, das mit sich selbst ins Reine kommt, wird auch seiner Seins-Verantwortung gerecht.

Das vorliegende Werk analysiert die staatliche Strafverfolgung des Pfarrklerus, vornehmlich des Bistums Trier, im Kulturkampf zwischen 1873 und 1880, und zwar wegen unbefugter Vornahme geistlicher Amtshandlungen wie Gottesdienstzelebrierungen, Sakramentspendungen, Trauungen und Beerdigungen. Naherhin geht es um die genaue Bestimmung der strafbaren Amtshandlungen und strafbedrohten Priester, um die polizeilichen Exekutivmethoden, -probleme, -erfolge und -defizite, um die fortgesetzten Verbotsubertretungen trotz Gefangnisstrafen, um die staatlichen Versuche zur Widerstandsbrechung mittels Amtsenthebung, Ausweisung, Internierung und Ausburgerung und um die Solidaritat der Gemeinden mit ihren Geistlichen. Diese ausserte sich in Beherbergung, Beschutzung, Versorgung, Versteck- und Fluchthilfe, Verhaftungsbehinderung und feierlichem Empfang bei der Ruckkehr aus dem Gefangnis. Band 1 beinhaltet die Kapitel I bis VIII. Band 2 beinhaltet die Kapitel IX bis XI, Statistik- und Quellenanhange sowie das Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis.