The Calling of the Church in Times of Polarization / / Heleen E. Zorgdrager and Pieter Vos.
In many societies all over the world, an increasing polarization between contrasting groups can be observed. Polarization arises when a fear born of difference turns into ‘us-versus-them’ thinking and rules out any form of compromise. This volume addresses polarizations within societies as well as w...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Reformed Theology Series ; Volume 46 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Reformed theology ;
Volume 46. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Heleen Zorgdrager
- Copyright page / Heleen Zorgdrager
- Dedication Page / Heleen Zorgdrager
- Notes on Contributors / Heleen Zorgdrager
- Introduction / Pieter Vos
- Part 1 Polarization in Church and Society / Heleen Zorgdrager
- Chapter 1 Can Conviviality Trump Polarization? Exploring the Notion of Conviviality as Calling of the Church in Times of Polarization / Nadine Bowers Du Toit
- Chapter 2 Re-forming the Conversation as a Response to Polarization: A Case Study Exploration of the Dallas Statement / Thandi Soko-de Jong
- Chapter 3 Retrieving the Concept of Unio Mystica cum Christo and Applying It to Concepts of Sexuality in a Pluralistic Postmodern Culture / Willem van Vlastuin
- Chapter 4 Theological Assessment of the Gender and Sexuality Debate in the Netherlands: The Case of the ‘Nashville Statement’ / Heleen Zorgdrager
- Chapter 5 Passivity, Abuse, and Self-Sacrifice: Daoism and Feminist Christology / Jaeseung Cha
- Chapter 6 “Remove the Sandals from Your Feet”: Holiness in the Dutch Euthanasia Debate / Annemarieke van der Woude
- Chapter 7 Sowing Hope in a Polarized Agricultural Debate / Jan Jorrit Hasselaar
- Part 2 Polarization and the Reformed Tradition / Heleen Zorgdrager
- Chapter 8 Reformed Social Theology: Contexts and Constants / David Fergusson
- Chapter 9 Prelude to a “Post-xenophobic” Future: Interrogating the 1618 Baptism Debate at the Synod of Dort / David Douglas Daniels III
- Chapter 10 Protestant Schools and Hospitals in the Context of Religious Polarization in Yogyakarta / Jozef Mepibozef Nelsun Hehanussa
- Chapter 11 Election and Hope: Van Ruler and Dort / Allan J. Janssen †
- Chapter 12 Polarization and the Pursuit of Unanimity in the Church: Ecclesiastical Decision-Making in the Dutch Reformed Tradition / Klaas-Willem de Jong
- Part 3 The Calling of the Church / Heleen Zorgdrager
- Chapter 13 Fighting against Polarization: The Indonesian Communion of Churches, Religious Plurality and Sexual Orientations in Indonesia / Emanuel Gerrit Singgih
- Chapter 14 Developing Koinonia in an Age of Polarization / Elizabeth Welch
- Chapter 15 No Calling without Being Called: The Vocatio Interna at the Heart of Sanctification / Henk van den Belt
- Chapter 16 ‘They Are in the World, but Not of the World’: Biblical and Contextual Reflections on Church, Alterity and Self-Otherizing / Najib George Awad
- Chapter 17 Theology of Migration in the Discourse of the World Council of Churches and the Ecumenical Council of Churches in Hungary (2015–2019) / Viktória Kóczián
- Chapter 18 Against Polarization: Forming a Sense of ‘Otherness’ from a Conversation between Anthropology and Neo-Calvinism / Louise C. Prideaux
- Epilogue / Heleen Zorgdrager
- Index of Subjects / Heleen Zorgdrager
- Index of Names / Heleen Zorgdrager
- Index of Scriptures / Heleen Zorgdrager.