Sökning: "Mika Vähäkangas"

Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden Mika Vähäkangas.

  1. 1. Walking on the Pages of the Word of God : Self, Land, and Text Among Evangelical Volunteers in Jerusalem

    Författare :ARON ENGBERG; Mika Vähäkangas; James S. Bielo; Simon Coleman; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Agency; Anthropology of Christianity; Christian ZIonism; Evangelicalism; Identity; Israel; Language Ideology; Literalism; Materiality; Mediation; Narrative; Sacred Space; Volunteering;

    Sammanfattning : During the last thirty years, the Evangelical relationship with the State of Israel has drawn much academic and popular attention, particularly from historical, theological, and political perspectives. This dissertation engages with this literature but also complements it with an ethnographic account of the discursive practices of Evangelical Zionists through which, it is suggested, much of the religious significance of the contemporary state is being produced. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Prospects for Theology in Peacebuilding : A Theological Analysis of the Just Peace Concept in the Textual Process towards an International Ecumenical Peace Declaration, World Council of Churches 2008-2011

    Författare :Sara Gehlin; Mika Vähäkangas; Geraldine S Smyth; Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Peace-building; Ecumenical movement; Religion and sociology; Church and social problems;

    Sammanfattning : This study takes its starting point in the questions of whether and how theology might serve as a faith-basedpeacebuilding resource. Based on an exploration of the textual process towards an international ecumenicaldeclaration on just peace in the World Council of Churches, it suggests that theology can indeed serve as sucha resource and it sketches how theology can make such a contribution. LÄS MER

  4. 3. A Journey with a Status Confessionis. Analysis of an apartheid related conflict between the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, 1982-1998

    Författare :Lennart Henriksson; Mika Vähäkangas; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; goalposts; Status Confessionis; mission; ecumenism; Belhar confession; World Alliance of Reformed Churuches; Dutch Reformed Church; South Africa; contrapuntal; apartheid; reformed; post-colonialism; church unity; ecumenics; Reformed churches; Apartheid;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with the conflict between the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) - the worldwide Reformed movement - and the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (DRC) regarding the latter's support for and theological legitimizing of apartheid. One of the strongest measures possible was taken when the issue in 1982 was declared a Status Confessionis and the Dutch Reformed Church was suspended from the fellowship. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Daniel Ndoundou : Väckelseledare i den Evangeliska Kyrkan i Kongo

    Författare :Bertil Åhman; Kajsa Ahlstrand; Mika Vähäkangas; Hans Austnaberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; revival; Daniel Ndoundou; Buana Kibongi; Congo; Evangelical Church; prophet; nganga; charismatic; kindoki; Swedish Mission; spiritual gifts; ngunza; Missionsvetenskap; Studies of Missions;

    Sammanfattning : Daniel Ndoundou (1911 – 1986) was born in the southern part of French Equatorial Africa, close to the border of the Belgian Congo. At an early age he joined the Swe-dish protestant mission. As a young man he began to work as an evangelist and in 1946 he was ordained pastor. LÄS MER