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sphere of life. Often using his personal success as a point of reference, Otabil seeks to empower his African audience to believe in their ability for success. For Otabil, the problem of Africa is not simply deliverance from demons and evil spirits, but transformation of thinking and life choices. His
flourishing” (Augustine 2019, 47). In all of these, love transfigures the community of faith into a living icon of the Spirit on earth (Coulter 2020, 243; Augustine 2012, 29). In its theological constructs, Pentecostal ethics presents robust pneumatological engagements of social issues through its
. Moreover, the Crusades were motivated not simply by the Church’s new consciousness of power but to a great extent by religious enthusiasm as well, and there is no doubt that they helped to turn the renewal of medieval piety in the direction of evangelical poverty. On the other hand, the
Using narrative medicine as an interpretive framework, this chapter analyzes Simone de Beauvoir’s account of her mother’s final days in A Very Easy Death as representative of the social and experiential motivations for and consequences of using life-prolonging technology for dying patients. I
mother were re-baptized by immersion by Margaret Barber, an English missionary living nearby. Mentored by Barber, Nee and a small group of fellow students at Trinity College (Fuzhou) led a revival where they converted hundreds. Most of the revival leaders wanted to focus on local evangelism. Nee
programmatic line, some authors propose a dominant task of practical theology to support and promote a religion in service of the living. From the particular knowledge about life theology can relate on, this being the argument, should engage in a searching process “for better understanding of life resp. for an
support … Whether or not I can live a life that has value is not something that I can decide on my own, since it turns out that this life is and is not my own, and that this is what makes me a social creature, and a living one (Butler 2012a: 10-11). Butler combines the motif of physical survival with
or her hitherto sustaining framework of the meaning of life and that motivates him/her to bear the actual suffering – even in naming its meaninglessness. But if a person can develop this threefold confidence that the events are: understandable influenceable and are bound by meaning
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inhabits and by the secondary narrative stories that form one’s life. Within the sequence of the arising life story of humans and cultures, there are numerous responses, immediate and involuntary, along with intentional and planned. In the interplay of responses, too, there is a transition from secondary