The Shape of Participation
Title | The Shape of Participation PDF eBook |
Author | L. Roger Owens |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | 204 |
Release | 2010-03-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1621893197 |
The Shape of Participation is a work of constructive theology addressed to theologians, seminarians, and thoughtful pastors. Owens engages and deepens recent popular discussions of church practices by approaching practices from the church Fathers' understanding of the church's participation in God. Through a wide-ranging engagement with theologians, both ancient and contemporary--including Cyril of Alexandria, Maximus the Confessor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Herbert McCabe--Owens argues that the embodied practices of the church are the church's participation in the life of God, making the church Jesus' own continued, peaceable embodiment in and for the world. This book is for theologians, pastors, and anyone who wants a deeper understanding of how the visible presence of God's church is extraordinarily good news in a violent world.
Participation in God
Title | Participation in God PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Davison |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 437 |
Release | 2019-08 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1108483283 |
Offers a substantial discussion of a central theme in Christian theology - that everything comes from and depends upon God.
Heavenly Participation
Title | Heavenly Participation PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Boersma |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | 219 |
Release | 2011-02-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1467434426 |
Surveying the barriers that contemporary thinking has erected between the natural and the supernatural, between earth and heaven, Hans Boersma issues a wake-up call for Western Christianity. Both Catholics and evangelicals, he says, have moved too far away from a sacramental mindset, focusing more on the "here-and-now" than on the "then-and-there." Yet, as Boersma points out, the teaching of Jesus, Paul, and St. Augustine -- indeed, of most of Scripture and the church fathers -- is profoundly otherworldly, much more concerned with heavenly participation than with earthly enjoyment. In Heavenly Participation Boersma draws on the wisdom of great Christian minds ancient and modern -- Irenaeus, Gregory of Nyssa, C. S. Lewis, Henri de Lubac, John Milbank, and many others. He urges Catholics and evangelicals alike to retrieve a sacramental worldview, to cultivate a greater awareness of eternal mysteries, to partake eagerly of the divine life that transcends and transforms all earthly realities.
Becoming the Gospel
Title | Becoming the Gospel PDF eBook |
Author | Michael J. Gorman |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | 351 |
Release | 2015-05-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1467442984 |
The first detailed exegetical treatment of Paul’s letters from the emerging discipline of missional hermeneutics, Michael Gorman’s Becoming the Gospel argues that Paul’s letters invite Christian communities both then and now to not merely believe the gospel but to become the gospel and, in doing so, to participate in the life and mission of God. Showing that Pauline churches were active public participants in and witnesses to the gospel, Gorman reveals the missional significance of various themes in Paul’s letters. He also identifies select contemporary examples of mission in the spirit of Paul, inviting all Christians to practice Paul-inspired imagination in their own contexts.
Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions
Title | Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions PDF eBook |
Author | Frans H. J. M. Coenen |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 2008-12-12 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 140209325X |
Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions is about a specific ‘promise’ that participation holds for environmental decision-making. Many of the arguments for public participation in (inter)national environmental policy documents are functional, that is to say they see public participation as a means to an end. Sound solutions to environmental problems require participation beyond experts and political elites. Neglecting information from the public leads to legitimacy questions and potential conflicts. There is a discourse in the literature and in policy practice as to whether decision-making improves in quality as additional relevant information by the public is considered. The promise that public participation holds has to be weighed against the limitations of public participation in terms of costs and interest conflicts. The question that Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions seeks to answer for academics, planners and civil servants in all environmental relevant policy fields is: What restricts and what enables information to hold the ‘promise’ that public participation lead to better environmental decision-making and better outcomes?
Participating in Christ
Title | Participating in Christ PDF eBook |
Author | Michael J. Gorman |
Publisher | Baker Academic |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2019-09-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1493416936 |
World-renowned scholar Michael Gorman examines the important Pauline theme of participation in Christ and explores its contemporary significance for Christian life and ministry. One of the themes Gorman explores is what he calls "resurrectional cruciformity"--that participating in Christ is simultaneously dying and rising with him and that cross-shaped living, infused with the life of the resurrected Lord, is life giving. Throughout the book, Gorman demonstrates the centrality of participating in Christ for Paul's theology and spirituality.
How Patronal Networks Shape Opportunities for Local Citizen Participation in a Hybrid Regime
Title | How Patronal Networks Shape Opportunities for Local Citizen Participation in a Hybrid Regime PDF eBook |
Author | Oleksandra Keudel |
Publisher | Ibidem Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Municipal government |
ISBN | 9783838216713 |
Oleksandra Keudel proposes a novel explanation for why some local governments in hybrid regimes enable citizen participation while others restrict it. She argues that mechanisms for citizen participation are by-products of political dynamics of informal business-political (patronal) networks that seek domination over local governments. Against the backdrop of either competition or coordination between patronal networks in their localities, municipal leaders cherry-pick citizen participation mechanisms as a tactic to sustain their own access to resources and functions of local governments. This argument is based on an in-depth comparative analysis of patronal network arrangements and the adoption of citizen participation mechanisms in five urban municipalities in Ukraine during 2015-2019: Chernivtsi, Kharkiv, Kropyvnytskyi, Lviv, and Odesa. Fifty-seven interviews with citizen participation experts, local politicians and officials, representatives of civil society and the media, as well as utilization of secondary analytical sources, official government data, and media reports provide a rich basis for an investigation of context-specific choices of municipal leaders that result in varying mechanisms for citizen participation.