A Study on CEO Management in Japan According to Biblical Values

2020 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 187-209
Author(s):  
Seon-Bok Lee
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Values

South Africa: Prophetic Christianity and the Liberation Movement

1991 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Walshe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
The State ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Church Affiliation ◽  
Biblical Values

The struggle against racial discrimination in South Africa, as many have argued, is theological as well as political. This is so, in the words of Ben Marais, because ‘Apartheid erodes the very basis of humanity’. It is also because the great majority of South Africans have some Christian identity and church affiliation, yet their faith commitments are heavily conditioned by class interests and particular ideologies. Consequently, prophetic Christianity, in relating biblical values to the analysis of society and the search for justice, has divided Christian communities by confronting the established churches as well as the state.

scholarly journals Contextualisation: A case study of a team within an international missional order

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kasebwe T.L. Kabongo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Local Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Bias ◽  
Good News ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Incarnational Ministry ◽  
Biblical Values

Contextualisation is a process of seeking meaning and relevancy in a constantly changing world. It is a theological imperative if biblical values were to be relevant to everyone in the world. This research is a case study of InnerCHANGE South Africa (ICSA) efforts to be contextual. InnerCHANGE South Africa is part of an international missional order called InnerCHANGE, which was started in 1984 in the United States of America. International organisations face the danger of coming up with uniform principles and practices. Such uniformity is never innocent of cultural bias. It rendered their principles and practices relevant in some contexts and irrelevant in others. InnerCHANGE is an incarnational ministry that focuses on identification in communities of poverty. It described incarnational ministry as a model of Christ, a method, a message and a spiritual discipline. This study investigated how ICSA has been able to contextualise these four elements of incarnational ministry. It concluded that these contextualisation efforts are still work in progress. It pointed out the encouraging signs of seeing many local community members aligning themselves behind ICSA vision of seeing the gospel as the good news made visible. It finally pointed out the challenges of contextualisation it is still facing.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article is based on the field of missiology. It engaged development studies, specifically grassroots community development, to point out one of the roles of the church in society, which is to participate in improving the quality of life of the vulnerable.

scholarly journals Attacking Punitive Retribution at Its Heart – A Restorative Justice Thrust

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-425
Author(s):  
Theo van Willigenburg ◽  
Eduardus Van der Borght
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Biblical Values

Abstract Restorative justice, aimed at restoring human relations instead of just punishing offenders, is often defended with reference to biblical values like reconciliation, forgiveness, and mercy. Advocates of retributivism, which is the philosophy that underlies the practice of punishing perpetrators with the sole goal of inflicting hardship on them, regularly ridicule such defenses. In response we will not directly defend restorative justice, but critically inquire in the main theoretical arguments with which advocates of retributivism seek to rationalize their view. We point out the weaknesses of these arguments and why we believe that restorative procedures can do much better in serving the goals of (criminal) justice.

scholarly journals Liberal Feminism: from Biblical Tradition to the Emergence of CEDAW

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-254
Author(s):  
Abdullah Muslich Rizal Maulana ◽  
Farhah Farhah ◽  
Yuangga Kurnia Yahya ◽  
Naila Asy Syifa
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Strong Connection ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Liberal Feminism ◽  
Patriarchal Ideology ◽  
Biblical Values

: Liberal Feminism is an ideology that advocates for equal opportunities for men and women in a variety of areas, including employment, health, education, marriage, and family life, as well as public life and politics. Ideologically, Liberal Feminism emerged from the belief that Biblical Tradition, as documented in its verses, set women apart from men. This study would look at the connection between Biblical culture dominating women's positions in Western civilization and the advent of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The investigation would include the patriarchal ideology found in Biblical Tradition, the notion of gender emancipation. In order to answer this research question, this research will use the method of ‘Discourse Analysis' to address the roots of Liberal Feminism as they are found in the Biblical Tradition and the method of ‘Document Analysis' to elaborate on CEDAW records. This study concludes that there is a strong connection between Biblical values and the concept of Liberal Feminism as it is embodied in CEDAW.

scholarly journals The Bible and Akan Traditional Religious Values: A Search For Dialogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 78-86
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Foster Asamoah
Keyword(s):  
Family Systems ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Belief In God ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Biblical Values ◽  
Common Platform

In their quest to bring Christianity to Africa in general, and Ghana in particular, the missionaries downplayed and discarded the African traditional religious values. This separated Ghanaians, including Akans from their traditional religious values for the biblical values of the Judeo-Christian scriptures; making them Christians who are cut off from their traditional religious values. After engaging in a dialogue with the biblical values and Akan traditional religious values on a common platform, it was identified that there are basic concepts of commonalities that exist between them, which include common belief in God, family systems, sacrifices, naming ceremonies, prayers, belief in ancestors, etc. and areas of differences which must be refined using the Bible which is seen as the hermeneutics of culture and tradition. This helps to curtail the hypocrisy of many Christians and churches who practise these traditional religious values and provide them with a searchlight to rediscover and modify the elements in their traditional and religious values. In addition, it helps to dispel illusion, remove suspicion and minimise conflict, and to enable the Akans, Ghanaians, or Africans while maintaining their traditional religious values adhere to the teachings of the Bible.

scholarly journals Christian Oughtness for Today: Biblical Perspectives for Christian Living

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-51
Author(s):  
Ignatius Nti-Abankoro
Keyword(s):  
Religious Life ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
Narrative Paradigm ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Christian Understanding ◽  
Biblical Values

The world has traveled on a path that has presented inherent complexities and untold challenges as well as difficulties to the living of the ‘religious’ life in general and the Christian life in particular. Often, modern-day values offer a contradiction to traditional, religious, and biblical values which most of the time eclipses the Christian understanding of how one ought to live in the awareness of one’s Christian identity and vocation. This has culminated in the laxity of awareness in the Christian oughtness, in other words, of how the Christian ought to live in response to one’s identity and calling. This paper has sought to re-present the Christian oughtness anew situating it in its biblical-ethical perspectives. The paper used a narrative paradigm to reflect on biblical Christian ethics in the light of imperatives from the Old and New testaments. The paper envisages deepening a treatise on the awareness of the Christian oughtness from the biblical ethical perspective as a new paradigm through which Christians and people of goodwill would live as they ought to live, in promoting justice, progress and development of all people and their nations. Keywords: Christian Oughtness, Ethics, Biblico-imperatives

Examining the Homosexual Worldview and its Implications for African Religious Contexts

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-152
Author(s):  
Shadrack Chebet Rotich
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
High Time ◽  
Biblical Worldview ◽  
The Social ◽  
Biblical Values ◽  
The Church

This study's purpose is to help individual Christians and church, in general, to critically examine the homosexual worldview that is forcefully advancing against the biblical worldview and the potential threats it poses to the sanctity of human life and sexuality. Homosexuality is no longer a secret issue in this generation.  It has invaded the social, cultural and religious circus.  It is high time for the church to study, expose and confront this evil.  Any compromise will cause the church to lose its ethos and headed for peril.  Edward T. Welch, in his booklet on Homosexuality; Speaking the truth in love, acknowledges that “homosexuality is the hot issue of the day even more than abortion” (Welch, 2000). This study is of benefit to all religious organisations that subscribe to Christian biblical values.

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