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Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 6, no. 4
No full textA publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: Tributes to Andrew Walls and Benedict Ssettuuma (Uganda); Samuel T. O. Akande (Nigeria).
This issue of the Journal of African Christian Biography honors the memory of "Prof." Andrew Finlay Walls and Fr. Benedict Ssettuuma, Jr. It also celebrates the contribution of Dr. Michael Adeleke Ogunewu to the work of the DACB both as an author and a mentor-teacher. One of his biographies, that of Samuel T. O. Akande, is included. The issue also includes a serialized chapter from African Christian Biography by Roger Levine and a new section, "Teaching with the DACB," featuring the reflections of a North American student on what the DACB has taught her
Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 8, no. 3 (July 2023) A quaterly publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography (www.DACB.org)
No full text[Throughout African Christian history, catechists and evangelists have carried out the lions’ share of the work of mission. Catechists were generally served in Roman Catholic and Anglican churches as lay (non ordained) ministers and indigenous teachers. Their role was to instruct inquirers or new believers in the Christian faith. In Protestant churches, evangelists played an important role in outreach, often preaching in public places to draw people to the church. Their goal was to inspire their listeners to convert to Christianity.1 Many churches had male and female evangelists although the women were often not recognized and remunerated for their service, as the men were. Both catechists and evangelists traveled frequently, moving from village to village as the needs arose.
This issue showcases the biographies of three exceptional African missionaries. Fr. Cosmas Sarbah, PhD, writes the story of his grandfather, John E. Sarbah, a catechist in the Roman Catholic Church of Ghana, who performed almost all the work of a parish priest for countless parishes throughout his region filling in where there was a shortage of priests and of European missionaries. Kimeze Teketwe presents the exciting story of Sembera K. Mackay, the first Anglican convert and the first to request baptism in nineteenth century Uganda. Sembera had such an impact through his lifelong ministry as a catechist that the author theorizes that his name might have been chosen to express the Luganda concept of Christian eucharist (communion) – Oku-sembera. Professor Dickson Nkonge Kagema gives us the story of Jerusha Kanyua, an extraordinary woman who ministered as an evangelist, a teacher, a midwife, a prayer warrior, and a prophetess, leaving a lasting legacy in her home region in Kenya.
Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 8, no. 2 (April 2023) A quaterly publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography (www.DACB.org)
No full text[This issue of the Journal of African Christian Biography, introduces readers to the concept of uMuntu theology— “a reflective life-dancing with God in the cosmos and through time … a celebrative reflection on our being with God.” This is how it is described by our featured theologian, Augustine Chingwala Musopole, author of uMuntu Theology: An Introduction (Mzuni Press, 2018).
Exceptionally, his biography is the only article in this issue that describes the life of a historical figure. Next, the stories of two living theologians out of Malawi illustrate the “life-dance” Musopole describes, both in their lives and their writing. Isabel Phiri, a larger-than-life educator-mentor-academic-advocate, is an influential figure among African women theologians and a past leader of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians who has “centered the voices of women in Africa.” Klaus Fiedler is a scholar missionary who has made his home in Malawi for many decades. His scholarship focuses on bringing into the light figures, movements, and issues that are “off the beaten track.” He does this by “inviting us to take a second look at those who have been discounted, (…) excluded, pushed to the margins, not taken seriously.”
The excitement of the “life dance with God” also comes through the lines of the report on the church history workshop that took place in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in March. Sixteen men and women from three Mennonite churches participated in an intensive course in global and African Christian history as well as oral history methodology. The purpose was to equip them to write biographies for a book to be published by Langham on African Christian biography—hopefully the first of a DACB series.
The Christian Right and US Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century
No full textThe thesis discusses the role of the Christian Right in the US foreign policy decision making process. The research revealed that the Christian Right has long been fascinated with some international issues in general and US foreign policy in particular. The Christian Right’s interest in international issues increased markedly during years of the George W. Bush presidency. It successfully widened its activities from domestic social conservative issues to foreign policy issues by participating in, articulating and lobbying for its religious version of American foreign policy. In assessing the role of the Christian Right in US foreign policy making, this dissertation examines three aspects of US foreign policy, namely Israel, international religious freedom and global humanitarianism. Based on these aspects, the Christian Right is seen as skilled in framing and defining issues. The Christian Right seems effective in selecting and prioritizing international issues that have a reasonable chance of being selected by foreign policy decision makers, especially in Congress. Moreover, the Christian Right has shown its maturity in seeking engagement and cooperation with other organizations, secular and religious, in order to advance its international goals. Finally, in pursuing and conveying its international agenda, the Christian Right has adopted a more moderate and less overtly religious approach. Instead of using its traditional religious rhetoric, the Christian Right has successfully projected its foreign policy preferences into the conventional realist discourse of American foreign policy that is largely based on the objective of national interest and national security. Nevertheless, this study does not, in any way, conclude that the Christian Right was able to influence or determine the direction of US foreign policy and its outcomes; however, it does suggest that the Christian Right did contribute and have an impact on the formulation of some US foreign policy. As such, the research contends that the role of the Christian Right is similar to other interest group lobbies and that its perceived influence on US foreign policy should not be exaggerated. Finally, the research suggests that the emergence of the Christian Right as an actor in asserting its global agenda through US foreign policy can possibly provide an example of how religious beliefs and values can become a potential source of “soft power”. Together with the “climate of opinion” of the American public during the Bush administration, the “soft power” at domestic level could serve as a valuable new explanatory variable in understanding how the US foreign policy was formulated in the early 21st century
Church and state in religious education 1944-1984: a critical survey of trends in England from the point of view of the Christian parent with special reference to the Christian schools movement
No full textAt the end of the forty year period 1944-1984 a minority of Christian parents in England and Wales were expressing their disquiet at trends in Education in general, and Religious Education in particular. The five year research project 1979-1984 was primarily aimed at communicating their concept of events, and their aspirations, to those who, having had their attention drawn to the actions of the dissenting parents, wondered what sort of thinking inspired those actions. For those inclined to regard the parents as on the Christian fringe, evidence is presented to show that on the contrary they were mainly the orthodox, and in line with mainstream Christianity, as delineated by the historic creeds. The argument of this thesis is that the parents were a grass-roots reaction to a creeping revisionism that affected Christian thinking on education in the Protestant sector, but did not similarly affect the Roman Catholic sector
Christian Heinrich Spiess and Bohemia
No full textTématem této bakalářské práce je Christian Heinrich Spiess a Čechy.
V první kapitole se autorka věnuje obecné historii v Českých zemích v 18. století. Ve druhé kapitole se specializuje na literární historii v Českých zemích. Třetí kapitola je ještě konkrétnější, neboť popisuje historii hororové literatury v Českých zemích. Ve čtvrté kapitole je definován pojem horor. Pátá kapitola je biografická. V této kapitole se autorka zabývá životem a dílem Ch. H. Spiesse. V této kapitole je kladen důraz na regionální kontext. V poslední - šestí kapitole se autorka soustředí na odkaz, který Spiess v Českých zemích zanechal.Obhájeno621/5000
The topic of this bachelor thesis is Christian Heinrich Spiess and Bohemia.
In the first chapter, the author deals with the general history of Bohemia in the 18th century. In the second chapter she specializes in literary history in Bohemia. The third chapter is even more specific, as it describes the history of horror literature in Bohemia. The fourth chapter defines the concept of horror. The fifth chapter is biographical. In this chapter, the author deals with the life and work of Ch. H. Spiess. This chapter emphasizes the regional context. In the last - sixth chapter, the author focuses on the legacy that Spiess left in Bohemia
Tractatio Iuris Publici De Serenissimis Potentissimisque Ducibus Brunsvicensibus Et Luneburgensibus / D.O.M.A. Praeside ... Dn. Joh. Ulrico Pregizero ... In Illustri Collegio Ad Diem 10. Decembr. Placido Eruditorum Examini sistit Author Christian Ulrich Blum
No full textTRACTATIO IURIS PUBLICI DE SERENISSIMIS POTENTISSIMISQUE DUCIBUS BRUNSVICENSIBUS ET LUNEBURGENSIBUS / D.O.M.A. PRAESIDE ... DN. JOH. ULRICO PREGIZERO ... IN ILLUSTRI COLLEGIO AD DIEM 10. DECEMBR. PLACIDO ERUDITORUM EXAMINI SISTIT AUTHOR CHRISTIAN ULRICH BLUM
Tractatio Iuris Publici De Serenissimis Potentissimisque Ducibus Brunsvicensibus Et Luneburgensibus / D.O.M.A. Praeside ... Dn. Joh. Ulrico Pregizero ... In Illustri Collegio Ad Diem 10. Decembr. Placido Eruditorum Examini sistit Author Christian Ulrich Blum (1)
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Valuation of the company Christian Dior Couture CZ s.r.o. by the market comparison method
No full textThe diploma thesis deals with the valuation of the company Christian Dior Couture CZ s.r.o., which is a subsidiary of LVMH Möet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE and is the exclusive distributor of the Christian Dior brand in the Czech Republic. The valuation is carried out by the market comparison method, specifically using market and transaction multiples, industry multipliers, and a supplementary method based on the share price of the parent company as of the valuation date 31. 12. 2022. The valuation is carried out based on publicly available sources and databases. The aim of the thesis is to determine the market value of the company by means of a thorough comparison with selected companies and the selection of suitable multiples. To achieve the goal, the thesis also includes chapters dedicated to the introduction of the company and selected competition, strategic analysis, where the relevant market is defined and market share forecast, and financial analysis, which evaluates the financial health of the company and compares ratio indicators with selected competition.Diplomová práce se zabývá oceněním společnosti Christian Dior Couture CZ s.r.o., která je dceřinou společností LVMH Möet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE a je výhradním distributorem značky Christian Dior v České republice. Ocenění je provedeno metodou tržního porovnání, a to konkrétně pomocí tržních a transakčních násobků, odvětvových multiplikátorů a doplňkovou metodou založenou na ceně akcií mateřské společnosti k datu ocenění 31. 12. 2022. Ocenění je provedeno na základě veřejně přístupných zdrojů a databází. Cílem práce je stanovit tržní hodnotu podniku za pomoci důkladného porovnání s vybranými společnostmi a zvolení vhodné výše násobitelů. K naplnění cíle obsahuje práce také kapitoly věnující se představení společnosti a vybrané konkurence, strategické analýze, kde je vymezen relevantní trh a prognóza tržního podílu a finanční analýze, která hodnotí finanční zdraví podniku a porovnává poměrové ukazatele s vybranou konkurencí
Christian views of euthanasia: a comparison of Russian and western perspectives
No full textThe following research aims at unfolding an authentic Christian attitude to euthanasia by means of a comparative analysis of Christian bioethical thinking and practice in Russia and in the West. It seeks to establish what is euthanasia, whether it is incompatible with Christianity and, if so, what is the alternative. The first chapter explores the meaning of 'euthanasia', comparing and rethinking a number of definitions from the existing multitude. Through the psychological thicket of slogans such as "mercy killing", "personal autonomy" and "death with dignity" the core characteristic of euthanasia - deadly intention - is hardly ever seen. With some notable exceptions with regard to self-defence, just war, or capital punishment, in Christianity intending to kill has always been regarded as a grave sin of breaking the sixth commandment. The second chapter shows how Western Christian bioethics has gone from the ethics of Paul Ramsey to the ethics of Tristram Engelhardt, from balancing between justifying certain forms of intentional killing while condemning others to purifying one's heart and cultivating one's soul in order to prevent the formation of an intention to kill. The third chapter is dedicated to the development of Christian bioethics in Russia. In a country with over a millennium of Orthodox tradition there is an exceptional opportunity for the bioethical framework of Engelhardt to settle in naturally. The fourth chapter presents a number of well-publicized medical situations in Britain where choices between life and death were exercised. The analysis based on the material of the previous chapters shows most of them to be clear cases of euthanasia, while others have a recognizable potential to be described as such. The history and an ongoing story of the modem hospice movement - a living alternative to euthanasia - are the focus of the fifth and last chapter of this dissertation. Its core ability - to live with suffering - sustains the opposition to euthanasia and is essentially a Christian virtue
Zechariah 9-14 as the substructure of 1 Peter’s eschatological program
No full textThe principal aim of this study is to discern what has shaped the author of 1 Peter to regard Christian suffering as a necessary (1.6) and to-be-expected (4.12) component of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ. Most research regarding suffering in 1 Peter has limited the scope of inquiry to two particular aspects—its cause and nature, and the strategies that the author of 1 Peter employs in order to enable his addressees to respond in faithfulness. There remains, however, the need for a comprehensive explanation for the source that has generated 1 Peter’s theology of Christian suffering. If Jesus truly is the Christ, God’s chosen redemptive agent who has come to restore God’s people, then how can it be that Christian suffering is a necessary part of discipleship after his coming, death and resurrection? What led the author of 1 Peter to such a startling conclusion, which seems to runs against the grain of the eschatological hopes and expectations of Jewish restoration ideology?
This thesis analyzes the appropriation of shepherd and fiery trials imagery,
and argues that the author of 1 Peter is dependent upon Zechariah 9-14 for his
theology of Christian suffering. Said in another way, the eschatological program of
Zechariah 9-14, read through the lens of the Gospel, functions as the substructure
for 1 Peter’s eschatology and thus its theology of Christian suffering.
In support of this hypothesis, this study highlights the fact that Zechariah 9-
14 was available and appropriated in early Christianity, in particular in the Passion
Narrative tradition; that the shepherd imagery of 1 Pet 2.25 is best understood
within the milieu of the Passion Narrative tradition, and that it alludes to the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that the fiery trials imagery found in 1
Peter 1.6-7 and 1 Pet 4.12 is distinct from that which we find in Greco-Roman and OT
wisdom sources, and that it shares exclusive parallels with some unique features of
the eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that Zechariah 9-14 offers a more
satisfying explanation for the modification of Isa 11.2 in 1 Pet 4.14, the transition
from 4.12-19 to 5.1-4, why Peter has oriented his letter with the term διασπορά,
and why he has described his addresses as οἶκος τοῦ θεοῦ; and finally that 1 Peter
contains an implicit foundational narrative that shares distinct parallels with the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14.
We can conclude that 1 Peter offers a unique vista into the way in which at
least one early Christian witness came to understand and to communicate the fact
that Christian suffering was a necessary feature of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ
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