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Dalit Catholic Home Shrines In A North Indian Village, Mathew Schmalz

Journal of Global Catholicism

This article examines three Catholic home shrines in a Dalit community in North Indian and argues that it is misleading to think that home shrines and other collections of material objects are somehow static conveyors of meaning. “Meaning” can mean many things or nothing at all, depending upon the terms we are using and the scholarly methods we deploy. The crucial aspect of Dalit Catholic home shrines is that they are literally open to interpretation and reinterpretation, to touching and being touched. Their significance—their meaning—depends not on decoding their structure or symbolic logic, but interacting with them as part of …

The Grace Of God And The Travails Of Contemporary Indian Catholicism, Kerry P. C. San Chirico

Journal of Global Catholicism

This essay discusses the challenges faced by Indian Catholicism, particularly as it seeks to adapt to and in contemporary, post-colonial India through the process or program of what is called inculturation, a self-conscious program of adaptation to Indian religion and culture. Since Indian Catholicism is constituted by so many irreducible persons-in-relation, the article focuses on the life of the Catholic priest, Swami Ishwar Prasad in whose life we may chart something of the inculturation movement and the Catholic tradition as it is found in North India region, in one rather long and rich lifetime connecting two centuries. The article seeks …

In Continuity With The Past: Indigenous Environmentalism And Indian Christian Visions Of Flora, James Ponniah

Journal of Global Catholicism

This article considers whether Indian Christianity can be said to have a distinctive ecological vision. The first two parts of the article examine Christian environmentalism in two native forms of Indian Christianity: Tamil Christianity and Tribal Christianity. Continuing with the theme of conformity to the local culture—though of the elite—the third part of the article investigates how Christian Ashrams function as dynamic centers for ecological praxis. The last part of the article considers how contemporary Indian Christian communities can respond to the ecological challenges confronting them.

Antoniyar Kōvil: Hindu-Catholic Identity At The St. Anthony Shrine In St. Mary’S Co-Cathedral, Chennai, Pj Johnston

Journal of Global Catholicism

This article combines ethnographic description of the practices of Hindu and Christian visitors of the St. Antony Shrine in Chennai with the observation that this material cannot be understood using the standard world religions paradigm that essentializes Christianity as exclusivistic. Drawing upon the visual and material culture of the shrine in light of premodern and Vatican II templates for inculturation and the negotiation of religious difference, the article highlights overlap between Tamil Hinduism and the Tamil Popular Catholicism of the site to argue that the beliefs and practices documented should inform descriptive and normative accounts of Catholic Christianity. Because Tamil …

3.A.4 The Story Of A Minister's Son - Chapter Xviii - My First Love, Thomas Dixon

Series 3: Manuscripts Authored by Thomas Dixon Jr.

No abstract provided.

The Faithful Flyer, 09-18-2016, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry

Chapel Bulletins

No abstract provided.

Propers 20 (Pentecost 18) Series C 2016, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday's Sermon

This PDF comments on the Propers for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Series C, and offers ideas for proclamation and preaching.

The Faithful Flyer, 09-11-2016, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry

Chapel Bulletins

No abstract provided.

Propers 19 (Pentecost 17) Series C 2016, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday's Sermon

This PDF comments on the Propers for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Series C, and offers ideas for proclamation and preaching.

The Faithful Flyer, 09-04-2016, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry

Chapel Bulletins

No abstract provided.

Propers 18 (Pentecost 16) Series C 2016, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday's Sermon

This PDF comments on the Propers for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Series C, and offers ideas for proclamation and preaching.

Disabling The Body Of Christ: Toward A Holistic Ecclesiology Of Embodiment, Nancy Jill Hale

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

Dissertation Notice:

Full Text of Dissertation

A brief history of ecclesiology is followed by an assessment of the embodied ecclesiology of selected theologians. The relationship among embodiment, liturgy, and christian formation is probed. Finally, principles are proposed that answer the question, “What would it mean for the church to be a disabled body?” The intention of these principles is to help churches disable those beliefs and practices that keep them from being the message of the kingdom of God and from embodying the new social reality of the gospel that challenges the values of other social bodies in the world.

An Outreach Model For Melville Mission Church: Evangelizing The Mandarin Community In Markham North, Ontario, Canada, Benjamin Li

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

MMC is a conservative, traditional Cantonese-speaking immigrant church that has had stagnant growth since its relocation to the rural area of Markham North, Ontario, Canada in 2009. The purpose of this project was to propose a new outreach model to enable MMC to more effective in evangelizing the Mandarin-speaking community in Markham. The proposed new outreach model is a refined version of Alan Hirsch’s Missional-Incarnational Model which mobilized the church membership to engage with the unchurched community for the Gospel. The research for this project was accomplished through studying the Chinese demographics in Markham, and through surveys of 158 mainland …

Reformed Worship (Rw) 121 - Advent / Christmas (September 2016), Reformed Worship Editors

Reformed Worship Magazine

Features

Worship Series: The Senses of Christmas by Mark Vande Zande....3

Sing 10: Modern Arrangements for Advent by Phil Majorins....11

Advent Then and Now by Peter Schuurman and Mark Wallace....19

Articles

Editorial: Soli Deo Gloria by Joyce Borger....2

Seeing the Sacred in the Ordinary by Phil Schaafsma....24

For Pastors: Thirty Years in Reformed Preaching by Scott Hoezee....28

Q&A: Lament and Praise as a Way of Life by John D. Witvliet....30

Universal Design for Worship by Barbara J. Newman....38

Growing Up in Worship: An Interview with Ken Medema....41

A Decade of …

A Theological Heritage For New Evangelicalism And Its Social Justice Focus, Kenley Hall

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Based on a review of relevant literature, this article will look at this emerging submovement within evangelicalism that researchers are referring to as “New Evangelicals” and its expanding social consciousness. Then the article will address an issue I believe is of critical importance: a likely theological and historical heritage for New Evangelicalism that can serve as a theological resource and even connection between them and the larger evangelical narrative.

The Faithful Flyer, 08-28-2016, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry

Chapel Bulletins

No abstract provided.

Propers 17 (Pentecost 15) Series C 2016, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday's Sermon

This PDF comments on the Propers for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Series C, and offers ideas for proclamation and preaching.

Propers 16 (Pentecost 14) Series C 2016, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday's Sermon

This PDF comments on the Propers for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Series C, and offers ideas for proclamation and preaching.

Propers 15 (Pentecost 13) Series C 2016, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday's Sermon

This PDF comments on the Propers for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Series C, and offers ideas for proclamation and preaching.

Propers 14 (Pentecost 12) Series C 2016, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday's Sermon

This PDF comments on the Propers for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Series C, and offers up ideas for proclamation and preaching.