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Book Review: \u3ci\u3ePentecostals, Proselytization, and Anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India\u3c/i\u3e
Book review of Pentecostals, Proselytization, and Anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India. By Chad Bauman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015, xiii + 208 pages
The Troubled Sense of Otherness among Christian and Non-Christian ESL Freshmen at a Christian College in the Midwest
This study was derived from an ethnographic study conducted with five ESL learners and their peers in a Christian college in the Midwest. The theoretical framework of this article was built upon Freire’s (2000) and Kumashiro’s (2001) anti-oppressive education. The study employed various data sources to find out how Christian and non-Christian ESL freshmen experienced a sense of otherness in the local college community. The findings reveal the hidden norms in the faith-based college, which marginalized the non-Christian ESL freshmen from being legitimate participants (Lave & Wenger, 1991). The researcher provides recommendations to educators and administrators in higher education for advising international students and providing services to them. The researcher also highlights the importance of having a deeper understanding of the plights experienced by non-Christian ESL freshmen at Christian colleges in the USA
Anti-cultic theology in Christian biblical interpretation: a study of Isaiah 66:1-4 and its reception
Author: Stein, Valerie A Anti-cultic theology in Christian biblical interpretation xi, 161 p. Publisher: Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, 2007. Series: Studies in Biblical Literature ; 97
Menorah Review (No. 30, Winter, 1994)
Louis D. Brandeis and the Empowering of American Jewery (Part 2 of 2) -- Christian Anti-Semitism, Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust (Part 2 of 2) -- The Why of Creation -- Book Briefing
The Desperate Rebels of Shimabara: The Economic and Political Persecutions And the Tradition of Peasant Revolt
The Shimabara Rebellion has been studied throughout history by historians of East Asia. Originally conceived by both Japanese and Western scholars as a religious revolt against the anti-Christian Tokugawa government, later scholars contended that the Rebellion was a demonstration by the mistreated and impoverished and only tacitly related to Christian influences. This paper sets out to build on that narrative and to show the connection between the Christian resistance to the Tokugawa government and the movement of impoverished and desperate peasants, pushed to the brink of existence. Furthermore, this paper hopes to explore the goals of the Rebellion and establish the Shimabara Rebellion within the context of other rebellions during the Tokugawa era
Guareschi\u27s Mondo Piccolo and the Sacrality of Conscience
This study adopts a Christian hermeneutic to explore sacred themes in several of the 346 Don Camillo short stories that Giovannino Guareschi wrote between 1946 and 1966. Such a critical approach may seem non-traditional to use in analyzing a post-World War II, twentieth-century author. And yet, Guareschi defies convention in many ways beyond his profession as a journalist, humorist and popular author: he openly opposed the anti-clerical and Marxist literary establishment; defined himself as an anti-intellectual; and, as a layperson, he wrote unromantically about matters of faith. Especially as editor of the immensely popular weekly newspaper Candido, he had the perfect forum to reach millions of readers who shared his Christian values and were not part of the intellectual elite. To be sure, Don Camillo stories delight and earn frequent smiles and giggles, but the narrative action in best of them powerfully echoes Jesus of Nazareth’s call to conversion and forgiveness through the way characters heed their consciences
Menorah Review (No. 25, Spring, 1992)
The Influence of Russian Emigres on American Policy Toward Russia and the USSR, 1900-1933, With Observations on Analogous Developments in Great Britain (Part 2 of 2) -- Christian Theological Anti-Semitism: Jewish Values Turned Upside-Down -- Faith Saving -- Letter to the Editor -- Kindling -- Book Briefing
Menorah Review (No. 29, Fall, 1993)
Louis D. Brandeis and the Empowering of American Jewery (Part 1 of 2) -- Christian Anti-Semitism, Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust (Part 1 of 2) -- The Enigma of Mass Death -- The Jesus of History and the Christ of Faith: Critical Investigation and Confession in the Classroom -- Balancing -- Book Briefing
Buddha, Bhakti, and Brahman: Sebastian Kappen S.J.’s Dialogue with Indian Religions
This article analyzes how Sebastian Kappen S.J. (1924-1993), a social thinker and one of the most radical Indian liberation theologians, related to Indian religions. It argues that Kappen, in spite of his criticism of the caste system, also found inspiration in Hinduism. He especially appreciated the ontic and cosmic understandings of transcendence and immanence, the inclusive interpretation of the divine, and the religious approach to nature. In addition, Kappen also valued other Asian religious traditions, such as Buddhism and the Bhakti movement. Being an anti-institutional and anti-hierarchical progressive theologian, Kappen used Indian religions as a challenge to his own Christian faith
On the Structure of Apologetic Works
The encounter of Greek culture and Christian faith was the most significant phenomenon at the beginning of the Christian era. The main aspects of apologetics – defense, polemics, propaganda – were not strange for either Hellenic or Judaic traditions. Indeed, some common themes can be singled out, of which three are the most important: anti-polytheistic and anti-idolatrous polemics – in respond to the accusation of atheism; rendition and praise of Christian moral and critique of pagan customs and traditions – in respond to incest and hatred towards mankind; in respond to the accusation of novelty – call for examples from antiquity. The responses of the apologists or the first Christian intellectuals to these accusations determine the structure, genre peculiarities, language, vocabulary, style and intonation of apologetic texts. The dialogue develops Christian theology and at the same time forms a new literary genre. It is logical to consider as classical apologetic texts (classics of the genre) those works (and authors) where the following structural model is preserved: Addressees (to sovereigns, pagan society, the Jews); Criticism of paganism (anti-polytheistic and anti-idolatrous polemics;) Jewish faith; Transference of the Christian faith
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