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The Bible and Lay People

An Empirical Approach to Ordinary Hermeneutics

By: Revd Dr Andrew Village

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The Bible and Lay People

An Empirical Approach to Ordinary Hermeneutics

By: Revd Dr Andrew Village

There are many books about how people ought to interpret the Bible. This book is about how people in churches actually interpret the Bible, and why they interpret it in the way that they do. Based on a study of Anglicans in the Church of England, it explores the interaction of belief, personality, experience and context and sheds new light on the way that texts interact with readers. The author shows how the results of such study can begin to shape an empirically-based theology of scripture. This unique study approaches reader-centred criticism and the theology of scripture from a completely new angle, and will be of interest to both scholars and those who use the Bible in churches.

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1409477657

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9781409477655

Methodists and their Missionary Societies 1900-1996

By: Revd John Pritchard

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Methodists and their Missionary Societies 1900-1996

By: Revd John Pritchard

The twentieth century saw the spectacular growth of Christianity in much of the global south, the transformation of mission fields into self-governing Churches, schemes of church union (some successful, others abortive), evolving attitudes to other faiths and significant Christian engagement with issues of racial justice and world poverty. This book examines the contribution of the Methodist Missionary Society (and its predecessors before 1932) to these world-changing movements, from the remarkable mass conversions in south-west China and west Africa early in the century to the controversy over grants to liberation movements in the 1970s and 1980s. Pritchard traces the MMS contribution to education, health care, rural development and social welfare and describes the administration of the Societies and the selection and preparation of candidates for missionary service. This is a ground-breaking study of Methodist Overseas Mission in the twentieth century, how it adjusted to changing circumstances - including the forced withdrawals from China and Burma - and developed new initiatives and partnerships, including its World Church in Britain programme which brought missionaries from the younger Churches to serve in Britain and Ireland.

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369

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472409167

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9781472409164

Deaf Liberation Theology

By: Revd Dr Hannah Lewis

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Deaf Liberation Theology

By: Revd Dr Hannah Lewis

Following years of theology of deafness based on the premise that Deaf people are simply people who cannot hear, this book breaks new ground. Presenting a new approach to Deaf people, theology and the Church, this book enables Deaf people who see themselves as members of a minority group to formulate their own theology rooted in their own history and culture. Deconstructing the theology and practice of the Church, Hannah Lewis shows how the Church unconsciously oppresses Deaf people through its view of them as people who cannot hear. Lewis reclaims Deaf perspectives on Church history, examines how an essentially visual Deaf culture can relate to the written text of the Bible and asks 'Can Jesus sign?' This book pulls together all these strands to consider how worship can be truly liberating, truly a place for Deaf people to celebrate who they are before God.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409477525

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Christ and the Other

In Dialogue with Hick and Newbigin

By: Revd Dr Graham Adams

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Christ and the Other

In Dialogue with Hick and Newbigin

By: Revd Dr Graham Adams

How should we relate to 'others' - those within a particular tradition, those of different traditions, and those who are oppressed? In the light of these anxieties, and building on the work of Andrew Shanks, this book offers a vision of Christ as 'the Shaken One', rooted in community with others. Shaped through dialogue with the theologies of John Hick and Lesslie Newbigin, Adams urges Christian communities to attend more deeply to the demands of ecumenical, dialogical and political theologies, to embody an ever greater 'solidarity of others' - a quality of community better demonstrating Christlike 'other-regard'.

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Book's by Revd Dr Andrew Village

The Bible and Lay People

The Bible and Lay People

Methodists and their Missionary Societies 1900-1996

Methodists and their Missionary Societies 1900-1996

Deaf Liberation Theology

Deaf Liberation Theology

Christ and the Other

Christ and the Other

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