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Item THEOLOGICAL PEDAGOGIES:Reflections on place, process, person and practices in teaching and learning theology in times of crisis(AOSIS, 2025-08-12) Bård Norheim; Ian NellThis chapter explores the sociotechnical aspects of theological pedagogy in the South African context. South African higher education institutions (HEIs) have sought to incorporate Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) into teaching and learning – efforts that must be understood against the backdrop of an unequal higher education (HE) landscape. As a discipline, theology emphasises critical thinking and contextual engagement. However, epistemological foundations of theological education in South Africa often remain disconnected from African social realities, despite repeated calls for decolonised education. The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) not only raises concerns about academic integrity and plagiarism but also about the contextual dimension of theology. This chapter examines the twofold crises facing theological education in South Africa: The bias of GAI and curriculum transformation. To equip future leaders in the church and society, theology must be deeply rooted in its context, understand the impact of the digital divide for student success and critically discuss the implication of artificial intelligence (AI) bias for the pursuit of an African theological pedagogy.Item Traditional & Encounters A Global Parcepective on the Past(McGraw Hill, 2021-01-21) Jerry H. BentleyHow do the themes of traditions and encounters continue to help make sense of the entire human past in the twenty-first century? As Jerry Bentley and Herb Zeigler noted in their original Pref- ace to this book, world history is about both diversity and con- nections. They began this text with a simple goal: to help our students understand the unique histories of the world’s rich va- riety of peoples, while at the same time allowing them to see the long histories of connections and interactions that have shaped all human communities for millennia. To do this, the authors wrote a story around the dual themes of traditions and encoun- ters to highlight the many different religions and customs em- braced by the world’s peoples while also exploring the encounters with other cultures that brought about inevitable change.Item TRANSFORMING Practice :PASTORAL THEOLOGY IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY(MOWBRAY, 1996-06-26) Elaine L. GrahamWe live in an age of uncertainty. Contemporary Western society has been characterized as one in which there is no longer a consensus of values. The assumptions and criteria by which Western science, politics and philosophy have been guided for the past two hundred years, associated with the ideals of progress, humanism and reason have been discredited by critical voices which emphasize fragmentation, pluralism and scepticism. Some have diagnosed this as typical of the postmodern condition, which may be seen as destabilizing many of the nostrums of the Enlight- enment by challenging prevailing concepts of truth, human nature, knowledge, power, selfhood and language that have informed Western thought for two hundred years.Item Trinity and Revelation: A CONSTRUCTIVE CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY FOR THE PLURALISTIC WORLD(Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2014-04-24) Veli-Matti KärkkäinenJust a few days before his death, Paul Tillich is reported to have confessed that if he had the opportunity to rewrite his three-volume Systematic Theology, he would do so engaging widely world religions. This was due to his brief exposure at the end of his life to the forms of Japanese Buddhism as well as the influence from his famed Romanian religious studies colleague Mircea Eliade. 1While Karl Barth made occasional, scattered references to religions, he also dismissed any revelatory and theological role of religions. Even worse, he made the avoidance of dialogue with the natural sciences a theological theme — and thus could write a massive volume on creation without references to scientific understanding!Item Uncommon decency: Christian civility in an uncivil world(InterVarsity Press, 1992-02-22) RICHARD J. MOUWThis book could not have been written without the help and inspiration that I have received from many people. Two deserve special mention. Rodney Clapp at InterVarsity Press has been an uncommonly skilled editor. And my wife, Phyllis Gilbert Mouw, has been an uncommonly sensitive partner on an un¬ commonly decent journey.Item UNVEILING DEPRESSION IN WOMEN A Practical Guide to Understanding and Overcoming Depression(Fleming H. Revell, 2002-02-20) Archibald Hart, Ph.D.; Catherine Hart Weber, Ph.D.Chances are, you’ve been touched by depression in some way. It’s an epidemic, after all, especially among women and children. In fact, every fourth woman around you has the potential for becoming seriously depressed; if you’re that woman, you only have a one in three chance of get- ting the help you really need. Too many women will suf- fer alone unnecessarily, hoping somehow they'll snap out of it.Item WALKING WITH THE POOR Principles and Practices of Transformational Development(Orbis Books, 2011-11-11) Bryant L. MyersThis book is a masterpiece of integration and application in thinking about Christian ministry. The author draws widely on the best Christian and scientific sources on introducing changes in human societies and forms solid conclusions based on what we have learned from experience in development ministries around the world. He develops a solid, scripturally based framework, or theoretical structure that challenges the spiritual/natural dualism which pervades our Western worldview and that offers a consistent biblical worldview in its place. He shows how the vision of Christian ministry can be implemented in transformational development that is truly transformational in the full sense of the world, and development in that the transformations are lasting and profound.Item Western Civilization: A Brief History(WADSWORTH CENGAGE Learning:, 2014-07-19) JACKSON J. SPIELVOGELDURING A VISIT to Great Britain, where he studied as a young man, Mohandas Gandhi, the leader of the effort to liberate India from British colonial rule, was asked what he thought of Western civilization. “I think it would be a good idea,” he replied. Gandhi’s response was as correct as it was clever. Western civilization has led to great prob- lems as well as great accomplishments, but it remains a good idea. And any complete understanding of today’s world must take into account the meaning of Western civ- ilization and the role Western civilization has played in history. Despite modern progress, we still greatly reflect our religious traditions, our political systems and theories, our economic and social structures, and our cultural herit- age. I have written this brief history of Western civiliza- tion to assist a new generation of students in learning more about the past that has shaped them and the world in which they live.Item What Is Not Sacred? African Spirituality(Orbis Books, 2013-03-13) LAURENTI MAGESAT his book addresses the worldview or spirituality of the peoples of Africa south of the Sahara desert, sometimes called black Africa. It is, therefore, important to note from the start that in this work the designation “Africa” is generally used as shorthand for this part of the vast continent, whose peoples are racially black and spiritually guided by a perception of life that is fundamentally neither specifically “Christian” nor exclusively “Muslim.” Thus, Africa, as used in these pages, with only very few occasional references, generally excludes the populations of the northern region of the continent, which is predominantly racially Arab and religiously Muslim. The qualifier “predominantly” in this context, I must insist, is important and crucial for a proper appreciation of the validity of my general geographical option for consideration: in both the south and the north of the continent, people of either race and faith can certainly be found, but in very unequal numbers and influence, specifically in terms of (spiritual) worldview.Item Who Needs Theology: An Invitation to the Study of God(Inter Varsity Press, 1996-06-26) Stanley J. Grenz; Roger E. OlsonMany Christians today not only are uninformed about basic theology but even seem hostile to it. What has brought about this appalling lack of interest and frequently open hostility to theology among Christian laypeople, students and even pastors? We are confident that this condition does not result from any in- herent flaw in theology itself or in the intellectual or spiritual lives of ordinary Christians. Rather, it results from popular and pervasive misunderstandings of theology.