The latest issue of Didache (sponsored by the International Board of Education of the Church of the Nazarene) is now online. The summaries are taken from Dean Blevins’ Introduction. It, and the individual essays, are available from here.
Dean G. Blevins
Introduction
Benjamin Espinoza
Humanizing Anthropos, Resisting Humanitas: Conceptualizing the Academic Labor of Latinx Faculty in Theological Education
Espinoza draws from Nishinti Osamu’s conceptualization of Anthropos and Humanitas as one explanatory system to understand how White European humans (Humanitas) created a colonial world order which tended to discard or colonize others (Anthropos). Dr. Espinoza then documents how Latinx theological educators resist this vision of Humanitas as they work to legitimize their own labor while creating a space for their own survival and thriving by humanizing Anthropos.
Jeren Rowell
Support of the Ministry as a Means of Grace
Rowell’s address acknowledges the myriad economic challenges facing ministry, but also draws upon the writing of John Wesley to demonstrate a call to pastors, but also to the congregations called to support ministers.
Paul Harding
A Place to Belong: Finding Meaningful Community Principles in Online Streaming
Harding offers an intriguing treatise on how three online streaming communities… offer insights on the nature of community that might inform the church in the future. Originally written with the COVID pandemic in mind… Harding’s work really offers more substantive thinking around the interplay of technology and community for the future.
Rebekah Corner
An Eco-Theological and Social Justice Response to Climate Change
Corner fashions a Biblical response to this issue [climate change], a hermeneutic that encompasses both ecology and social justice.
Patrick Taylor
On a Mission from God: A Missional Reading of Søren Kierkegaard and the Attack Upon Christendom
Taylor invites participants in the missional theology movement… into conversation with one of the great Danish theologians of the previous two centuries, Søren Kierkegaard. Taylor acknowledges that many readers might not think of Kierkegaard and mission in the same sentence. However, Taylor endeavors to show that Kierkegaard, far from being unrelated to mission, offers a missional praxis of witness for the church today and especially for the Church in culturally-Christian contexts.
Karla Sanchez-Renfro
Missional Theology: Becoming a More Faithful Witness by Creating More Inclusion and Equality
Karla Sanchez-Renfro closes the edition by returning to the theme of diversity and particularly inclusion. Her writing, also as a student of Nazarene Theological Seminary, challenges the same missional theology movement by asserting those participating must create more inclusion and equality at all levels of participation. Ms. Sanchez-Renfro believes this inclusion proves vital if the movement wants to faithfully embody the gospel and encourage all to ‘fully participate in God's mission.’
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