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‘Fixing’ Africa’s infrastructure: But at what price? Problematising Chinese infrastructure development in Africa
No full textCommon Grace, Like Sense, Certainly Not as Common as It Should Be
Get PDFThis paper was written to discuss whether or not to agree with the claim that ‘The question is not whether the church has a political right to speak politically, but whether it has a theological duty’ and to provide an appropriate rational. In answering this I use one of the supporting lectures for the unit which suggests that preaching, as understood by the Second Helvetic Confession (SHC), provides the method for engaging with the public square. I offer a particularly Pentecostal critique of this approach with a view to effectively and fruitfully engaging the public squar
Liminality and Third Spaces as Negotiation Sites: Identity and Diasporic Social Movements
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Developing training for pioneer ministry in the Church of Scotland: Reflections on grounding pedagogy and lessons in practice from abroad
Get PDFThis article focusses on the formation and delivery of training and support for pioneer ministry in the Church of Scotland, by (i) reflecting on recent thinking on the place of theological education in enabling missional vocation; and (ii) presenting three case studies of approaches taken by denominations (in the Netherlands, Germany and Aotearoa New Zealand) which share a similar historical tradition with the Church of Scotland and which have seen similar trajectories of decline
Why Virtue Ethics? Action and motivation in virtue ethics
Get PDFContemporary virtue ethics, an agent-centred ethical theory, has been presented as a response to inadequacies in more traditional act-centred theories. In this paper, I argue that such a response is insufοcient: contemporary virtue ethics fails to avoid the inadequacies that it purports to avoid, and brings with it problems of its own. This paper is divided into 5 sections, in the οrst of which I introduce contemporary virtue ethics as an agent-centred and pluralistic ethical theory. In section 2, I present inadequacies that virtue ethics claims to avoid: being too reductive, too algorithmic, too abstract, self-effacing, and self-other asymmetric. In section 3, I consider and analyse virtue ethics’ account of right action and of motives in order to argue in section 4 that, if these inadequacies are indeed problems affecting traditional ethical theories, virtue ethics does not avoid these problems either— particularly because of its basis in the concept of virtues and its heavy reliance on phronesis. I show that another ethical theory, limited moral pluralism, has the same advantages of not being overly reductive, algorithmic, or abstract, and being self-other symmetric, and that virtue ethics does not avoid self-effacement as it claims to. I also question here whether self-effacement and self-other asymmetry should be considered problems when evaluating moral theories. Finally, I suggest in section 5 that virtue ethics is open to further criticisms of indeterminacy and lack of explanatory power
Dialogue II – Creative mission: today’s challenges
Get PDFIn this second conversation between the pair, Wes White and Ian Galloway reflect on some themes to have come out of the day conference, including creativity and innovation in mission, reconsidering the goal of youth work, and the importance in having confidence in the working of the Holy Spirit
"Exploding Stars, Dead Dinosaurs, and Zombies: Youth Ministry in the Age of Science" by Andrew Root
No full textReview ofAndrew Root, Exploding Stars, Dead Dinosaurs, and Zombies: Youth Ministry in the Age of Science (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018
