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This book brings together Methodist scholars and reflective
practitioners from around the world to consider how emerging
practices of mission and evangelism shape contemporary theologies
of mission. Engaging contemporary issues including migration,
nationalism, climate change, postcolonial contexts, and the growth
of the Methodist church in the Global South, this book examines
multiple forms of mission, including evangelism, education, health,
and ministries of compassion. A global group of contributors
discusses mission as no longer primarily a Western activity but an
enterprise of the entire church throughout the world. This volume
will be of interest to researchers studying missiology, evangelism,
global Christianity, and Methodism and to students of Methodism and
mission.
This volume combines insights from secular sexuality education,
trauma studies, and embodiment to explore effective strategies for
teaching sexuality and religion in colleges, universities, and
seminaries. Contributors to this volume address a variety of
sexuality-related issues including reproductive rights, military
prostitution, gender, fidelity, queerness, sexual trauma, and
veiling from the perspective of multiple religious faiths.
Christian, Jewish, and Muslim scholars present pedagogy and
classroom strategies appropriate for secular and religious
institutional contexts. By foregrounding a combination of
"perspective transformation" and "embodied learning" as a means of
increasing students' appreciation for the varied social,
psychological, theological and cultural contexts in which attitudes
to sexuality develop, the volume posits sexuality as a critical
element of teaching about religion in higher education. This book
will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students,
researchers, academics, and libraries in the fields of Religious
Studies, Religious Education, Gender & Sexuality, Religion
& Education, and Sociology of Religion.
This book brings together Methodist scholars and reflective
practitioners from around the world to consider how emerging
practices of mission and evangelism shape contemporary theologies
of mission. Engaging contemporary issues including migration,
nationalism, climate change, postcolonial contexts, and the growth
of the Methodist church in the Global South, this book examines
multiple forms of mission, including evangelism, education, health,
and ministries of compassion. A global group of contributors
discusses mission as no longer primarily a Western activity but an
enterprise of the entire church throughout the world. This volume
will be of interest to researchers studying missiology, evangelism,
global Christianity, and Methodism and to students of Methodism and
mission.
This volume combines insights from secular sexuality education,
trauma studies, and embodiment to explore effective strategies for
teaching sexuality and religion in colleges, universities, and
seminaries. Contributors to this volume address a variety of
sexuality-related issues including reproductive rights, military
prostitution, gender, fidelity, queerness, sexual trauma, and
veiling from the perspective of multiple religious faiths.
Christian, Jewish, and Muslim scholars present pedagogy and
classroom strategies appropriate for secular and religious
institutional contexts. By foregrounding a combination of
"perspective transformation" and "embodied learning" as a means of
increasing students' appreciation for the varied social,
psychological, theological and cultural contexts in which attitudes
to sexuality develop, the volume posits sexuality as a critical
element of teaching about religion in higher education. This book
will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students,
researchers, academics, and libraries in the fields of Religious
Studies, Religious Education, Gender & Sexuality, Religion
& Education, and Sociology of Religion.
Bold, faithful, challenging - this volume uncovers the social and
political implications of the gospel message by looking at
Anabaptist theology and practice from a female perspective. The
contributors approach the gospel from a wide range of disciplines
and backgrounds, liberating the radical political ethic of Jesus
Christ from patriarchal distortions and demonstrating that gender
justice and peace theology are inseparable. Beautifully illustrated
with pen drawings, Liberating the Politics of Jesus recognizes the
authority of women to interpret and reconstruct the peace church
tradition on issues such as subordination, suffering, atonement,
the nature of church, leadership, and discipleship. The
contributors confront difficult topics head-on, such as the power
structures in South Africa, armed conflict in Colombia, and the
sexual violence of John Howard Yoder. The result is a renewed
Anabaptist peace theology with the potential to transform the work
of theology and ministry in all Christian traditions.
Bold, faithful, challenging - this volume uncovers the social and
political implications of the gospel message by looking at
Anabaptist theology and practice from a female perspective. The
contributors approach the gospel from a wide range of disciplines
and backgrounds, liberating the radical political ethic of Jesus
Christ from patriarchal distortions and demonstrating that gender
justice and peace theology are inseparable. Beautifully illustrated
with pen drawings, Liberating the Politics of Jesus recognizes the
authority of women to interpret and reconstruct the peace church
tradition on issues such as subordination, suffering, atonement,
the nature of church, leadership, and discipleship. The
contributors confront difficult topics head-on, such as the power
structures in South Africa, armed conflict in Colombia, and the
sexual violence of John Howard Yoder. The result is a renewed
Anabaptist peace theology with the potential to transform the work
of theology and ministry in all Christian traditions.
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Out of Exodus (Hardcover)
Darryl W. Stephens, Michael I Alleman, Andrea Brown
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Methodist Morals offers keen insight into the public church,
interpreting the United Methodist Social Principles as a dynamic
discourse about morality and human rights in light of faith.
Revised every four years by the General Conference of the United
Methodist Church, the Social Principles exposes the moral
deliberations of this distinctly American and increasingly
"worldwide" church as it struggles to achieve community across
multiple languages and cultures. Perhaps no other document provides
as rich a depiction of Protestants participating in the moral
argument of public life. This is the first full-length study of
Methodist social teachings in over fifty years. Examining official
Methodist teachings from institutional, historical, and
cross-cultural perspectives, Darryl Stephens provides a rich
analysis of this case study of Protestant social witness, drawing
on his expertise in church polity, Methodist history, and Christian
social ethics. A wide range of comparisons- with documents of the
United Nations, with moral debate in Germany and Zimbabwe, and with
historical Methodist statements of social witness-shows the Social
Principles to be a unique form of social witness. The issues of
war,abortion, human sexuality, and marriage illustrate the
messiness of democratic deliberation in an ecclesial context and
the evolution of a people ever concerned with the sin of
"worldliness" even as they become more attuned to transforming
social structures. Stephens also contrasts this conception of the
public church with the ecclesiologies of prominent Methodist
ethicists Stanley Hauerwas and Paul Ramsey. Intended for students
of Methodism, ecumenical church leaders, and scholars of Christian
social ethics and contemporary US mainline religion, this work
reveals the challenges to and possibilities for achieving moral
community in an increasingly global and diverse world.
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