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Apocalypse, Participation, Missional Disillusionment and Burnout:An Antidote to Missional Ecclesiology
No full textAnalytic ecclesiology : the social ontology of the church
Get PDFThe author thanks the Templeton Religion Trust for generous funding during the writing of this paperIn this paper, I aim to show that analytic philosophy can contribute to the theological discussion of ecclesiology. By considering recent analytic work on social ontology, I outline how we might think of the Church as one entity, constituted by many disparate parts. The paper begins with an overview of the theological constraints for the paper, and then proceeds to examine recent work on the philosophy of social ontology and group agency. Drawing on this literature, I outline three models of social ontology from the history of philosophy and suggest reasons why all of them fail to provide an account of the Church’s agency. Finally, I develop an alternative model which, I suggest, better fits the conditions stipulated.Peer reviewe
New Churches. A Theology
No full textNew Churches: A Theology considers the theological issues and questions that surface from the starting of new churches in the UK context. Offering both a theology for starting new churches (to support, guide, encourage and challenge practitioners to plant fully Christian churches) and a theology from new churches (using new churches as an opportunity to explore vital theological, ecclesiological, and missiological questions we might otherwise miss), the book brings together some of those most significant voices in the conversation today, speaking from a wide spread of perspectives including theologians and practitioners, pioneers and planters, evangelical and Anglo-Catholic
Communio Dei : particularity in the universal humanity of Jesus Christ
Get PDFThis thesis explores the role of particularity, especially racial and gendered particularity, in human nature through an exploration of Christological anthropology. If all humanity is revealed and redeemed in Christ’s particular humanity, what does it mean that Christ became human in particular ways, such as his maleness and Palestinian-Jewishness? Specifically, what does Christ’s assumption of a particular humanity mean for our own particularity as human beings made in his Image. Many feminist Christologies argue that this makes Christ unqualified to save women, while theologies of race often emphasize the solidarity of Christ with black and brown bodies. Particularity appears to play a significant role in our being human, but it also appears to make salvific union with Christ impossible for some. Instead, this thesis argues that human nature ought to be conceived of in onto-relational terms, so that human beings are constituted by their relations to other persons within the created order. Human nature is not defined by a set of properties held in common by all, but by a shared telos for communion with God, fellow-humanity, and the created order. In such a communion, called the communio Dei, human persons share second-personally that which is particular to themselves with others in a human reflection of divine perichoresis. Human nature is thus created to be an essentially diverse community united not by a common set of features or faculties, but by a shared telos to be a community comprised of every tribe, tongue, and nation united in worship of YHWH. Christ embodies this in how he transforms the relationship between particularities, such as race and gender, so that alienated peoples may have loving, self-giving communion with one another in the Spirit-wrought community, the body of Christ
Who is doing the planting?:Understanding human agency while keeping the focus on the work of the Spirit
No full textForsaking the fall : an inquiry into the possibility of a nonlapsarian Christianity
No full textIn this thesis, I argue that the orthodox Christian faith does not require commitment to the
doctrines of the Fall and Original Sin. To yield this conclusion, I first outline what precisely is
meant by Original Sin; this is accomplished through a lengthy exposition of the three dominant
species of the doctrine (Chapter 1). Next, I turn to an investigation of the two standard proof
texts for Original Sin—Gen. 2–3 and Rom. 5:12–21—where I contend that various exegetical
and hermeneutical considerations make it plausible to suppose Original Sin is not grounded
authoritatively in scripture (chapters 2 and 3). Having addressed the putative scriptural
foundations for Original Sin, I turn in Part II to a somewhat more constructive task, the main
aim of which is to demonstrate that the abandonment of Original Sin leaves no significant gaps
in an overall Christian theology. Chapter 4 examines the biblical doctrine of sin; in conjunction
with the following two chapters I argue that the essence of sin here uncovered is supremely
amenable to a nonlapsarian theology. In Chapter 5 I argue that there are no serious difficulties
for such a project in terms of theodicy—at least, that is, no difficulties which would not be
equally problematic for the Fall doctrine. In Chapter 6, I suggest that traditional Christian
teaching on atonement and salvation can be squared rather straightforwardly with a
nonlapsarian theology. Finally, in Chapter 7 I propose a strongly realist account of orthodoxy
which is both compatible with nonlapsarianism and very similar in content to the evangelical
proclamation of the early church. I thus conclude that a broadly orthodox Christian theology is
compatible with a rejection of the Fall and Original Sin
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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