Search for dissertations about: "Contextual theology"

Showing result 6 - 8 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words Contextual theology.

  2. 6. Living in the Borderland : Young Migrant Converts in the Church of Sweden

    Author : Jonathan Morgan; Etik; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; unaccompanied refugee minors; ethics; migration studies; religious conversion; recognition; precarity; communities of practice; practice theory; ritual; narrative; Church of Sweden; Scania; migrationsverket; political theology; productive waiting; lived religion;

    Abstract : From 2014 to 2016, 44,617 unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) arrived in Sweden and sought asylum. The Church of Sweden has received hundreds of these young people seeking to join the church and be baptised as Christians. READ MORE

  4. 7. The Vulnerable Power of Worship A Study of a Power Approach to Contextualization in Christian Mission

    Author : Mats Rydinger; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religious Studies and Theology; Ritual Strategies; Religious Field; Power negotiation; Mission; Contextualization; Missio Dei; Religion och teologi;

    Abstract : This dissertation deals with the process of contextualizing the Christian discourse with a specific focus on worship and power negotiation. The study is based on literature, interviews and approximately six months of fieldwork in the U.S. in the years 1996,1998, and 2004. READ MORE

  5. 8. Jesus and the Forgiveness of Sins: An Aspect of His Prophetic Mission

    Author : Tobias Hägerland; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bible; New Testament; Gospels; historical Jesus; early Judaism; criteria; tradition; sin; forgiveness; christology; ecclesiology; priests; prophets; angels; blasphemy; healing; illness; faith; eschatology; restoration; Isaiah; Messiah; rhetoric; Progymnasmata; chreia; apomnemoneuma;

    Abstract : This study investigates the topic of forgiveness of sins in the mission of the historical Jesus. Gospel material that pertains to the question is authenticated by the use of criteria for historicity and interpreted within the wider context of first-century Judaism as part of a broader reconstruction of Jesus’ career as a healer and prophet. READ MORE