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Generous Saints

James Hudnut-Beumler

1999

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CHAPTER 6: Practices of the Commonwealth Congregation: The Church as Landlord S. 71-76

„… CHAPTER 6 Practices of the Commonwealth Congregation: The Church as Landlord It really should not …” „… contemporary churches. Chief among these confused practices are those related to the use of church property …” „… time managing their common affairs. Still, one wonders about some of the practices that are common in …”

CHAPTER 4: Financing a Congregation of Saints S. 48-63

„… we can trace the practice of church finance even further back to the time of Jesus, when Judas acted …” „… . Ironically, the second way the practice of contemporary stewardship usually fails is by churches' applying …” „… practice in American churches. Be the vehicle a dinner, a show, or an auction, the purpose is the same: to …”

CHAPTER 9: Where Theology Matters: Faith and Money in the Life of the Generous Individual S. 102-117

„… practices-all of these are important way stations toward becoming more generous and holy. But now in the final …” „… utilitarianism derived from some unreal_ abstraction. We practice narrative ethics in our own lives the same way …” „… examining formative practices, and the cultures in which people are formed. In short, we are looking for a …”

CHAPTER 8: The Servants Are Worth Their Wages: Congregations as Employers S. 89-101

„… thinking about some principles that do fit. The first principle is that church employment practices are …” „… that a church's employment practices are a model for a congregation's members in other parts of life …” „… that the churches' employment practices are a model of the church: Whatever practices the church uses …”

CHAPTER 7: Practices of the Commonwealth Congregation: Holding Wealth S. 77-88

„… ecclesiologies (ways of being the church), beliefs, and church practices. The most challenging of these other …” „… time-honored practice for supporting the church. Our theology challenges 88 The Alban Institute us to expand …” „… CHAPTER 7 Practices of the Commonwealth Congregation: Holding Wealth Every ongoing community holds …”

CHAPTER 5: Creating a Commonwealth: Leading the Saints S. 64-70

„… qualities with other local church cultures. Of course, one way that we can identify a Christian …” „… churches are not just outlets for national brands. No, moving from congregation to congregation is more …” „… distinctive shape of the commonwealth. So it is also for churches. There is nothing in mere affiliation that …”

CHAPTER 2: God's Big Economy (and Our Small Ones) S. 15-31

„… , this is the situation in which many members of our churches find themselves today. 16 The Alban …” „… make the ephah small and the shekel great, and practice deceit with false balances, buying the poor for …” „… sustain life. In short, Amos decried a practice not unlike that of criminalizing a homeless person …”

Preface S. i-x

„… Commonwealth Congregation: The Church as Landlord 71 Chapter 7. Practices of the Commonwealth Congregation …” „… of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of …” „… Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by …”

CHAPTER 3: What Does the Lord Require? S. 32-47

„… . Generous Saints 41 Several of the guides to reorienting the church concentrate on the practices …” „… saints are raised up and supported in countless churches across the globe. In these churches, people …” „… Every Church Needs It was a hot summer presbytery meeting in Ann Arbor, in 1981. I had returned to the …”

CHAPTER 1: Our Worth Comes from God, Not Money S. 1-14

„… ourselves, we are congregations of individuals whose money 4 The Alban Institute practices will keep us …” „… program at Emory University's oncampus church. I was preparing dinner when Julia walked across the …” „… new and noble in Jordan and Sarah. Churches can do that too. Indeed, being the body of Christ means …”

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The Courage to Lead

James Henry Harris

2001

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Part I: Leadership and Church Administration: New Models and New Practices S. 1-66

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Peace Through Law

Heinz-Gerhard Justenhoven (ed.), Mary Ellen O'Connell (ed.)

Series: Studien zur Friedensethik

Volume 50 2016

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Johan Verstraeten Pacem in Terris as Turning Point: How the Catholic Church has Attempted to Overcome War by its Ethics and Practice of Peace S. 11-30

„… 11 Pacem in Terris as Turning Point: How the Catholic Church has Attempted to Overcome War by …” „… its Ethics and Practice of Peace Johan Verstraeten While Rerum novarum (1891) is regarded as the Magna …” „… the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church the order is different: truth, freedom …”

Christian J. Tams World Peace through International Adjudication? S. 215-254

„… Church, on John XXIII’s encyclical Pacem in terris as one of the Church’s most influential ‘peace …” „… Catholic Church. For reasons of convenience, references are mainly to the ‘(Catholic) Church’, to the …” „… consolidation of this practice, coupled with efforts to make it compulsory, from the late 19th century onwards …”

Mary Ellen O’Connell Belief in the Authority of International Law for Peace: A Reflection on Pacem in Terris S. 45-64

„… ]. 2 See Brownlie, Ian. The Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes in Practice. In: Pace …” „… , institutions of government, and the practice of voting to support their assumption. Yet, it should be asked …” „… , international law is remarkably similar to domestic law. Observing the practice of states and other relevant …”

Nigel Biggar A Global State, International Law and the Containment of Persistent Conflict: An Anglican Response to Pacem in Terris S. 109-126

„… O’Connell, Mary Ellen. The Power and Purpose of International Law: Insights from the Theory and Practice of …” „… declined because of “the Reformation’s perception of the Church as a human institution with fallible …” „… of the Church was lost to determine the justness of any cause” (O’Connell, Power and Purpose, p. 148 …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-6

„… editors. 5Introduction 7 Pacem in Terris as Turning Point: How the Catholic Church has Attempted to …” „… Overcome War by its Ethics and Practice of Peace 11 Johan Verstraeten The Quest for a “Global Public …”

Introduction S. 7-10

„… , through official Church teaching, prayer, and other action. In 1963, at the height of the Cold War and …” „… . Johan Verstraeten links contemporary Catholic peace teaching and practice to Pacem in Terris. The …”

Dietmar von der Pfordten Law and Security of Law S. 127-142

„… creators can be named: churches and other religious communities, clubs, local communities, international …” „… interests, can be and is in reality an aim of non-state communities and organisations like churches …” „… , as the practice of a faith, also refers to a transcendental goal – the goal, say, of beatitude …”

Matthias Lutz-Bachmann Does “ius cogens” exist in International Relations? Philosophical remarks to the Encyclical “Pacem in terris” S. 65-82

„… states and churches, public and private actors including individual human beings in a situation of the …” „… ‘first’ and ‘second persons’ who are already involved in a certain intersubjective practice6. It is …” „… rights the Pope is claiming in the next paragraphs concerning the cultural, moral and religious practice …”

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Sexuality and Gender in Intercultural Perspective

Darius J. Piwowarczyk (ed.)

2022

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Catrien Notermans True Christianity without Dialogue S. 123-146

„… Missionary Encounter in PracticeWhen I went to Cameroon for the first time in 1992, my fieldwork was supposed …” „… practices.Catrien Notermans142two partners that have been appointed to carry out the dialogue: European missionaries …” „… onwards, Christian Churches condemned polygyny since it was thought to be incompatible with Christianity …”

Karen A. Porter “Marriage is Trouble” S. 147-166

„… practice by focusing on the 1 Italicized words are Chasu, the Pare language, except where indicated …” „… practices, customs, and sanctions. For example, a woman gives the name of her father’s lineage when asked to …” „… couple to be married unless they go through the traditional fingirwa ritual. A church or civil wedding …”

Béatrice Sommier, Alison Gourvès-Hayward The Sexuality of Two Generations of Andalusian Heterosexual Couples S. 235-258

„… exercised by the Catholic Church, which begins in early childhood with catechism classes. The church wedding …” „… contraception restricted to the rhythm or temperature method – the only ones authorised by the Church ‒ and …” „… the Catholic Church. There were nonetheless exceptions. Firstly, the phenomenon of elopement (llevarse …”

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Religion im Kontext | Religion in Context

Annette Schnabel (ed.), Melanie Reddig (ed.), Heidemarie Winkel (ed.)

2018

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James A. Kapaló Domestic Religion in Soviet and post-Soviet Moldova S. 305-322

„… 1986: 23-24). As these women were also considered “not fully feminine” in Church practice, “the …” „… . In this chapter, following a brief description of traditional religious practices associated with the …” „… home, like for example the veneration of icons, and the main aspects of domestic religious practice in …”

Felipe Gaytán Alcalá Laicity in Latin America: A Distinct and Distant Concept of Europe S. 173-192

„… replace or complement the institutional practices of the churches. A Latin American devotee believes in …” „… Latin America has been remarkable: religious beliefs and practices of different sign beyond the …” „… at the margin of the Catholic Church as it is done for example around the Virgin Mary and other …”

Marc Breuer Religious Milieus and their Striving towards Segmented Differentiation S. 269-286

„… practices, organisations, networks and forms of knowledge which were linked to a common religious identity …” „… , Free Church congregations comprising of Russian Germans and Christian communities formed by labour …” „… the milieu steadily lost coherence – to increase their social participation. Ethnic churches may also …”

Bryan S. Turner Religion and ‘the Turn of the Body’ S. 43-58

„… systems and churches as institutions and too little on the actual practice of religion, especially in …” „… question how far the body is an important basis of religious practice. Although the sociology of the body …” „… devoid of formal rituals and daily practices. Historically there has been too much focus on formal belief …”

Kornelia Sammet, Franz Erhard Religion in Foodbanks in the United Kingdom S. 131-144

„… explore how religious belief and practice are appropriated in the context of a faith-based charity …” „… ). In the medieval Catholic Church, almsgiving was considered as an act agreeable to God. Since the …” „… Sammet and Franz Erhard 132 While the Catholic Church, as well as Calvinist and Free Church Protestantism …”

Daniel Witte Between Embeddedness and Conflict: Legal Contexts of Religion S. 223-238

„… religious practice. Against this background, the résumé stresses the importance of legal contexts for a …” „… as well as Christian ethics and morality, and the church being subordinated to the Imperium Romanum …” „… Christianity” (ibid.: 32). With the Papal Revolution between the 11th and 13th centuries, the Catholic Church …”

Stephen Hunt Religion and Sexualities S. 59-70

„… painful practices, a theoretical space, and a site of political passion, ethical debate and social …” „… spirituality, by way of permitting individuals to construct a bricolage of beliefs and practices concomitant …” „… by observation? Much is exemplified in this respect by the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church …”

Olayinka Akanle, Gbenga S. Adejare Contextualizing Pentecostal Gatherings in Southwestern Nigeria: Social Drivers and Significance S. 145-158

„… existing structures and practices of Christianity in Nigeria. The churches are so high in number that …” „… , its social structures, politics and economy within selected churches in Nigeria. Olayinka Akanle and …” „… Gbenga S. Adejare 146 Nigerian Pentecostalism, National Development, the Church and Globalisation Slight …”

Christel Gärtner Change in Religious Ways of Life in the Dynamics of Generational Transfer S. 355-369

„… , about 98% of the population belonged to one of the two main Christian churches, instances of people …” „… leaving the church were still very rare, and the proportion of those without a religion stood at only 0.02 …” „… : 156ff., 170-175). At the turn of the twentieth century the two Christian churches still had a decisive …”

Melanie Reddig Religiöse Rituale im Internet S. 117-130

„… religious information and practice. But how far this extends into the lives of Internet travelers and how …” „… _20020228_church-internet_ge.html 9 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/confession-a-roman-catholic-app/id …” „… virtuelle Kirchen wie zum Beispiel die „Church of Fools“ (Kluver/ Chen 2008, Miczek 2008; Hutchings 2012).10 …”

„… church 269, 275 373 Evangelikal/evangelical 51, 52, 140, 159, 175, 185 Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche …” „… Finnlands/Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church 193 Existenz/existence 24, 30, 32, 53, 54, 56, 62, 72–74, 76, 103–105 …” „… , 295 Sachregister 374 Kaste/caste 226, 325, 326, 328–331 Katholische Kirche/Catholic Church 51, 61, 124 …”

Melanie Reddig, Annette Schnabel, Heidemarie Winkel Introduction: Why a handbook on religion in context? S. 15-20

„… culture, structure, institutions, practices, beliefs or convictions – all contributing to tremendous …” „… : religious organizations can manifest themselves in synagogue and mosque communities, churches, sects or …” „… and re-production of religions: religious practices in the mundane, everyday world, religious …”

Tilo Beckers The Existential Dimension of Religion: Core and Context S. 103-116

„… as a substantively close context of religious beliefs, ideas, and practices. Secondly, religion is …” „… existential dimension of religion. Religion is deeply embedded in social life whether as a religious (church …” „… universally relevant existential events and induce new moral questions about changes in medical practices in …”

Heidemarie Winkel Religion, Orientalism and the Colonial Body of Gender Knowledge S. 71-84

„… peculiarity (Winkel 2009, 2012). In the Protestant church, this culminated in an excessive theological …” „… labor in the churches. The organization of women’s work in the 19th century mission as an unpaid ‘labor …” „… societies inferiority is “concentrated in the ‘other’s’ religious practices and beliefs” (Grosfoguel and …”

Vladimir Kmec Religion in the Context of Migration and Youth in Europe S. 253-268

„… host society. Some young migrants create new religious spaces and develop new practices, while others …” „… acknowledging that religion is neither static nor homogeneous set of beliefs, norms and/or practices. Instead …” „… and teachings, a set of rituals and practices, a collection of cultural norms or values, a form of the …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-13

„… and Distant Concept of Europe ..... 175 Felipe Gaytán Alcalá 5 Fluctuations between Folk Church …” „… ............................................. 193 Jere Kyyrö Between Everyday Practice and Globalized Faith: The Spectrum of ‘Religion’ in …” „… Nepali Hindu Religious Practices .............................. 323 Emily McKendry-Smith Religion in der …”

Rainer Schützeichel Kontexte religiöser Praxis S. 85-102

„… anzuführen, bei Yinger (1970: 7): „Religion is a system of beliefs and practices by means of which a group of …” „… “, der „religious practice“ oder auch der „vernacular religion“ (Primano 1995) versammeln. In der …” „… .: Mystische Fabel. Berlin: Suhrkamp 2010). de Certeau, M.(1988). The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley …”

Jere Kyyrö Fluctuations between Folk Church, Nation-State and Citizenship: Contextualizing Civil Religion in Finland S. 193-208

„… Fluctuations between Folk Church, Nation-State and Citizenship: Contextualizing Civil Religion in …” „… nationalism (Hobsbawm 1972; Smith 1988). Starting from the early 1980s, Finnish Church sociologists used the …” „… concept to study the relationship between the national Lutheran Church (ELCF)—often called a “folk …”

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