In The Beginning Was The Word. An Introduction To Cross-Cultural Theology
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This book contains Lecture transcripts, entire courses and articles the author has produced in the last 16 to 17 years in a highly cross-cultural setting by lecturing and designing a number of undergraduate and graduate courses addressing seminary students...
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This book contains Lecture transcripts, entire courses and articles the author has produced in the last 16 to 17 years in a highly cross-cultural setting by lecturing and designing a number of undergraduate and graduate courses addressing seminary students in Africa, Asia and the Caribbeans. Most of these texts are in English, and only four articles are in German. There is also a strong emphasis on Comparative Religion focusing on African Traditional Religion, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity. A comprehensive subject index concludes the material covered in this book. It can be used as a complementary textbook in high quality seminary courses at undergraduate and graduate level.
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Text sample:Chapter 2: The Nature of the Church and the Function of Leadership:
The Church as the Body of Christ is an institution and as such a proclaiming and worshipping community centering on a central place of worship in the respective community - which normally is the local church building/premises.
The term 'community' also essentially implies that its characteristic feature is an association of people gathering for proclamation and worship and that this is not only an individual matter to be conducted individually at home without contact to other believers.
Whenever a group of people is involved, the question concerning group structure and functional hierarchies, if any, involved comes up - however large or small such a community group may be. If it is a smaller community group, the personal contacts will be more direct as it is easy and quite normal that each individual personally knows the other more intimately, and it is less likely that such interpersonal contacts will be so close in case of local communities where there are 100 believers or even more.
Different individuals forming such a community essentially also imply different talents; personalities and temperaments of such individuals involved and in one or the other such different personal profiles may also affect community life.
Another important preliminary factor determining community life in addition to the different personality profiles involved is also the sociological structure of such a community and the certain personality patterns associated with such sociological strata: A church community in the country side primarily made up of farmers and their families may vary in ist average personality profile with respect to the set of all ist members from a community in typical working class urban areas, and the latter may even vary in certain respects from those in more middle class urban areas. Third, in some cases the parameter of ethnicity or nationality minority may play a role in
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cases of multicultural areas in urban or rural community life.
There are even cases where ministry addresses a special group of people ('clients') in a pluralistic society, prison or hospital ministry, for instance.
As soon as any of these particular groups form an association in proclamation of the gospel and the worship of God, they constitute and form churches at the respective local level in the dimensions of space and time.
If the organizational structure of such a church community is to make the community life work and to stabilize ist existence, it is evident that certain people may be assigned certain functions on behalf of the community - typically, these may elders, pastors, teachers, and even social workers taking care of the sick and needy in such a community.
This also would imply that certain leadership functions might be developed if the focus on proclamation and worship of such a church community is to be filled with real life. Naturally, the church had developed different approaches to leadership structure in ist more than 2000 years of history.
Charles C. Ryrie mentions some of the most common approaches to leadership structure in the church during the course of time in his work BASIC THEOLOGY (Victor Books, SP Publications, 1986). He offers the following inventory of structures developed during the course of time:
a) Minimalist structures: groups that attempt to restrict their organizational structure to an absolute minimum, mostly led by a small group of elders. They emphasize the office of spiritual gifts by all members of the community, church community member- ship is considered to be of less importance, and they would primarily insist on the role of Christ as the Head of the Church (Quakers, Plymouth Brothers, for instance).
B) Structure of State Churches: a group of local church communities organized at national state level or on a national level. The Church of England may be a good and typical example, in Germany it is the Lutheran chur
There are even cases where ministry addresses a special group of people ('clients') in a pluralistic society, prison or hospital ministry, for instance.
As soon as any of these particular groups form an association in proclamation of the gospel and the worship of God, they constitute and form churches at the respective local level in the dimensions of space and time.
If the organizational structure of such a church community is to make the community life work and to stabilize ist existence, it is evident that certain people may be assigned certain functions on behalf of the community - typically, these may elders, pastors, teachers, and even social workers taking care of the sick and needy in such a community.
This also would imply that certain leadership functions might be developed if the focus on proclamation and worship of such a church community is to be filled with real life. Naturally, the church had developed different approaches to leadership structure in ist more than 2000 years of history.
Charles C. Ryrie mentions some of the most common approaches to leadership structure in the church during the course of time in his work BASIC THEOLOGY (Victor Books, SP Publications, 1986). He offers the following inventory of structures developed during the course of time:
a) Minimalist structures: groups that attempt to restrict their organizational structure to an absolute minimum, mostly led by a small group of elders. They emphasize the office of spiritual gifts by all members of the community, church community member- ship is considered to be of less importance, and they would primarily insist on the role of Christ as the Head of the Church (Quakers, Plymouth Brothers, for instance).
B) Structure of State Churches: a group of local church communities organized at national state level or on a national level. The Church of England may be a good and typical example, in Germany it is the Lutheran chur
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Autoren-Porträt von Muhammad Wolfgang G. A. Schmidt
The Most Reverend Dr. Muhammad Schmidt is a consecrated bishop in the Anglican rite and has worked as a seminary educator for several decades worldwide. He is also a linguist and a language teacher qualified in German, English and Chinese and he has various widely read publications to his credit in his fields of expertise.
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- Autor: Muhammad Wolfgang G. A. Schmidt
- 2019, 618 Seiten, Maße: 19 x 27 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: disserta
- ISBN-10: 3959354916
- ISBN-13: 9783959354912
Sprache:
Englisch
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