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Feeling Felt in Pastoral Care Counselling and Supervision
This book contains several scientific and professional contributions of the 13th Conference of the European Council on Pastoral Care and Counselling, a network of organizations and individuals in the practice, teaching or supervising of pastoral care and counselling in Europe.
Space and Place as a Topic for Public Theologies
Public theologies reflect on the contextuality of the Christian religion. Much of this contextuality is dependent on place: place as the culture and the society in which religions are situated, place as the position from where a theologian speaks, place as the biographical contingencies that shape people's lives. Moreover, public theologies ask for the contribution of Christian ethics to society, thereby shaping the social, cultural, and religious space to which they belong. The contributions in this volume analyse the categories of space and place in order to deepen the understanding of contextuality, thereby taking up some of the challenges presented by the so-called "spatial turn".
Being Spiritual while Doing Research
Although the topic of spirituality has been experiencing a renaissance since the end of the previous century, it is not always associated with academic activities. The book invites scholars from all fields to rethink this traditional divide between knowledge and spirituality, offering fresh perspectives on how the two can coexist and enhance each other. Twenty-nine authors from across the world illustrate how scholarly pursuits in various disciplines can be deeply spiritual journeys.
Overcoming Violence
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda and coinciding with the intensification of violent attacks on the civilian population in the East Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo scholars and students from Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenia, Cameroon, South Africa, Germany, Austria, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Switzerland joined together in Rwanda to discuss the topic "Overcoming violence". This volume is a documentation of the lectures of this conference, organised by the Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences (PIASS) in Butare, the Presbyterian Church of Rwanda (EPR) and the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB). Pascal Bataringaya, President of the Presbyterian Church in Rwanda. Penine Umimbabazi, Assistant professor of Policy analysis and conflict transformation at the Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences (PIASS) in Huye/Rwanda. Claudia Jahnel and Traugott Jähnichen, Professors at the Faculty of Protestant Theoloy of the Ruhr-University Bochum.
Leere Kirchen – voller Einsatz? Kirche und sozialer Zusammenhang in ländlichen und urbanen Räumen
Die großen Kirchen sind bedeutende zivilgesellschaftliche Akteure: Auch im Angesicht sinkender Mitgliederzahlen und erhöhter gesellschaftlicher Pluralität bleibt der kirchliche Beitrag zum sozialen Band in Stadt und Land zentral. Damit ist die Frage gestellt, wie Kirche im Wandel zu den jeweils unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen des sozialen Bandes in urbanen und ruralen Kontexten beiträgt und wie sie auch weiterhin dazu beitragen kann. Worin bestehen Unterschiede zwischen der Situation in Stadt und Land? Und was können Theologie und Kirche im deutschsprachigen Raum von internationalen Perspektiven, aus Europa wie aus dem globalen Süden, lernen?
The Contemplative Spirit
To understand reality in terms of what is possible has methodological implications which a contemplative philosophy makes explicit. The goal is no longer to determine how things are or must be but rather to provide an overview of how they could be and the diversity with which they already appear. The function of philosophy is not the discovery of a single answer but rather a careful description of the diversity and the heterogeneity of possible answers in different contexts and practices. This approach, inspired by Wittgenstein, was applied to the philosophy of religion by Dewi Z. Phillips (1934-2006) in particular. This volume explores his contemplative philosophy of religion in an intense and lively discussion, showing how the description of religious faith and the access to its practice and language change unexpectedly and provocatively in this way of thinking.
Wer's glaubt, wird selig?
Eine neue Sprache für die Grundbegriffe des Christentums Entlang von 24 Schlüsselbegriffen legt Christopher Zarnow zentrale Inhalte des christlichen Glaubens aus. Sein Buch lädt ein, die Ideen des Christentums neu zu entdecken – und mit ihnen den Reichtum und die lebensorientierende Kraft der Religion überhaupt. Das Christentum ist traditionell eine Religion der großen Worte. Manchen erscheinen sie zu groß in spirituell eher wortkargen Zeiten. Aber ob vom »Reich Gottes« oder dem »ewigen Leben«, von »Auferstehung« oder »Erlösung« die Rede ist – die Leitbegriffe des Christentums sind dem Leben heute näher, als man oft vermutet. Die pointierten Essays dieses Bandes erschließen sie in ihrer elementaren Bedeutung und beziehen sei auf die religiösen Fragen und Sehnsüchte unserer Zeit.
The Writings of Christopher Gadsden, 1746-1805
Letters and writings of Christopher Gadsden, an American Revolutionary leader. Born in Charleston, S.C., educated in England, later returned to Charleston (1746) and became a wealthy merchant. At the Stamp Act Congress (1765) he was one of the first to urge colonial union against England's policy of taxation. Gadsden served (1774-76) in the Continental Congress and favored independence. In the struggle over the South Carolina constitution in 1778 he was a radical, favoring separation of church and state and popular election of senators. He was captured when the British took Charleston (1780), and imprisonment by the British broke his health. He later helped to secure ratification of the Constitution and still later opposed the Jeffersonians. -- Columbia Enc.
