No abstract available. / Thesis (M.Th.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2003.

Thesis (S.T.M.)--Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 124-134).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Erskine Theological Seminary, 2008. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 196-200).

No description available.

Este trabalho faz uma análise sobre o envolvimento, desde o início da confessionalidade luterana, com a educação escolar das crianças em Angola. A primeira parte faz uma abordagem educacional das crianças sob princípio da cultura e tradição dos povos Bantu em Angola. Esta parte inclui a gestação, a infância, a adolescência, e os ritos de passagem para meninas e meninos. A implantação da Igreja em Angola decorre em simultâneo com a fixação do colonialismo. Por isso os planos da Educação da Igreja eram subordinados às pretensões do sistema colonial. A segunda parte analisa o quanto a Missão Evangélica Luterana em Angola valorizou a educação da criança, começando com a própria tradição luterana. Nesta parte fala-se alto a catequese desde a Reforma na Alemanha até ao surgimento da Igreja Luterana em Angola. Esta é a parte do trabalho que é emocionante no ponto de vista histórico. Porque traz à tona histórias de pessoas que morreram pela implantação da Igreja Luterana em Angola. Aqui percebe-se que o sistema colonial ofereceu ao povo angolano, principalmente àqueles que tinham como opção a confissão Luterana uma igreja, uma língua para o ensino escolar e prisão ou morte aos reticentes. A terceira e última parte fala da Igreja Evangélica Luterana de Angola, em sua relevância para a Educação escolar das crianças a partir da grande comissão de Jesus Cristo em Mateus 28.19-20. Aborda sobre a criança na Bíblia e as relações das crianças com a família moderna em Angola, mostrando o quanto a confessionalidade luterana valoriza a educação da criança e termina com o delineamento de um projecto educativo da IELA que é um desafio. O trabalho começa com uma introdução sucinta e encerra com uma conclusão sintética. / This work makes an analysis on involvement from the beginning of the Evangelical Lutheran confession with childrens education school in Angola. The first part makes an education approach of children, starting from the traditional and culture of Bantu people in Angola. This part includes gestation, childhood, adolescence and rites of passages for girls and boys. The implantation of the church in Angola elapses in simultaneous with the fixation of the colonialism system. Therefore the education plan of the church was subordinated under pretensions of colonialism system. The second part analysis how, the Evangelical Lutheran mission in Angola, valued the childrens school education. In this part, is spoken loudly about the catechism from the reform of the church in Germany until the appearance of the Lutheran Church in Angola. This is, also, a part of the work that is touching in the historical point of view, because it brings to the unstressed histories of people, that were arrested and another died because of the implantation of the Lutheran Church in Angola. It is noticed that the colonial system offered to the Angolan people mainly to those that had as eclesial option the Lutheran confession a church, a language for teaching and prison or death for the reticent. The third part and the last one speeches on the evangelical Lutheran church of Angola in its relevance for childrens education. It is showing that Christian Education starts from Jesus Christs Great Commission in Mathew 28.19-20. It approaches on the children in the Bible, the childs relationships with the modern family in Angola, showing how the Lutheran confession values the childrens school education and finishing with a proposal of an education project of IELA that is a challenge. The work starts with a brief introduction and ends with a synthetic conclusion.

O presente trabalho intenta analisar as estratégias missionárias de caráter luterano que vêm sendo desenvolvidas no contexto da Igreja Evangélica Luterana de Angola (IELA) desde seu surgimento até os dias atuais. As condições sociais e políticas, as dificuldades econômicas e os conflitos bélicos têm se caracterizado como uma atmosfera de muitas limitações para o trabalho missionário da IELA, pois as condições vêm se apresentando sempre em meio a dificuldades geopolíticas muito limitadoras para a ação missionária e o cuidado pastoral. A IELA busca caminhos que apontem na direção da autonomia em sentido amplo. Para tanto, a pesquisa quer ajudar na compreensão do contexto em que a mesma se encontra, permitindo assim certa percepção dos limites e das possibilidades do trabalho missionário luterano em Angola. / This paper attempts to analyze the missionary strategies of Lutheran character that have been developed in the context of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Angola (ELCA) since its inception to the present day. The social and political conditions, economic difficulties and armed conflicts have been characterized as an atmosphere of many limitations to the missionary work of the ELCA, because the conditions are always presenting themselves in the midst of very limiting geopolitical difficulties of missionary work and pastoral care. The ELCA search paths that toward autonomy in the broad sense. To this end, the research wants to help in understanding the context in which it is allowing certain perception of the limits and possibilities of a lutheran missionary action in Angola.

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The topic of my study is: Becoming a missional church- the case of Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa (ELCSA). The lack of missional astuteness and intelligence emanating from Christendom mind-sets and agendas is detrimental to the growth of the church and is creating missional chaos and paralysis; this is what I am struggling with in my study. The challenge I am grappling with is that the ELCSA as a church has been exposed to a variety and multiplicity of missional cultures and mission settings through a diversity of missionaries operating from different missional landscape and backgrounds. The various and differing missional histories has created inconsistencies in the theological foundations that underpin and add force to her missional outlook and maturity. As the church considers becoming a missional church, there is an imperative need to radically revisit her traditional ecclesiologies in order to develop a clearer understanding of her missional vocation. The missional direction of the church is in quandary, partly because of the leadership failure to manage the contradictory and inconsistent missional attempts and missional immaturity within the ELCSA. Leadership development and formation within the Lutheran training institutes in Southern Africa, which are crucial in church life seems inadequate from a curriculum perspective. Failure to understand and appreciate the current missional language will inadvertently confuse the church’s understanding of God’s mission in the world (missio Dei). The challenge facing the ELCSA will therefore be an imperative and absolute need to move from a church with mission to a missional church. The study seeks to further explore and investigate insights from the ELCSA’s mission history with a view of determining the missional health and checking whether the church has a comprehension and understanding of the concept and language of a missional church and missional leadership. In this study I will also attempt to answer two possible sub-problems of the study viz. How does the ELCSA create a missional leadership aptitude environment and how does the ELCSA implement the missional conversation(s) to the operating landscape of the church? This study will also contrast the attractional and incarnational mindsets I reflect in the conclusion the significance and importance of a missional church and highlight the characteristics or indicators of such a church by applying it to the ELCSA. Recommendations are indicated for consideration by the ELCSA and are not presented as an answer or solution to the challenge that the church is facing. / Dissertation (MA(Theol))--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Science of Religion and Missiology / unrestricted

Between February 1st and March 16th 2023 sixteen qualitative research interviews wereconducted with deans, vicars and priests of both the Catholic Church in Sweden and theEvangelical-Lutheran Church of Sweden with the aim to compare how they look at their religiousleadership, and what their answers might say about their respective theological traditions using asuggested theory called Comparative Lived Theology. The main research findings rendered fromthese interviews may be divided into the following three sections: firstly, top-down and bottom-upleadership approaches in a religious setting is descriptive of the structure of the religiousorganisations. Secondly, the fact that Evangelical-Lutheranism is a majority religious tradition inSweden sets it apart from minority traditions such as Catholicism, and this affects the religiousleadership. Thirdly, the interviews generated a notion that party politics plays a different role in thestructure of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Sweden than it does in the Catholic Church in Sweden.

[pt] A pesquisa é realizada sobre a dimensão missional, ética e horizontal que flui do Sacramento da Ceia do Senhor na teologia luterana, em viés teológico, perspectiva dialogal e ecumênica e com um interesse particular por uma aplicação pastoral que afete a realidade paroquial. Em um tempo marcado por uma práxis eucarística individualista, descompromissada e improdutiva do ponto de vista dos frutos do sacramento, busca-se pelo aprimoramento da espiritualidade litúrgicoeucarística direcionada para o serviço encarnado da caridade cristã no mundo. A partir de certa lacuna que se percebe na reflexão acadêmica e eclesial nesta relação entre Eucaristia e missão, particularmente no contexto luterano brasileiro, e na intuição de que existem suficientes elementos na teologia sacramental luterana para serem mais bem aproveitados, este trabalho postula a questão: que tipo de missionariedade eucarística pode ser encontrada na teologia luterana? A pesquisa tem metodologia bibliográfica, tendo procedimentos de explanação histórica e de discussão dialética e progressiva. Ela parte de uma contextualização do movimento da Reforma Luterana, assumindo sua intenção em valorizar o Evangelho, e continua pelo desvendar da teologia eucarística luterana, sintetizada como o Evangelho encarnado. Em uma imersão em textos de Lutero e outros teólogos desta tradição, a missionariedade eucarística luterana é revelada em um pujante e fecundo chamado à vivência missional deste Evangelho que se pretende encarnar horizontalmente. Finalmente, emerge uma proposta pastoral para o proveito da missão que flui do altar para a vida, tendo a Igreja Evangélica Luterana do Brasil como foco. Em todo o percurso, são acolhidas gemas do diálogo bilateral entre católicos e luteranos e da própria teologia católica. / [en] The research is carried out on the missional, ethical and horizontal dimension that flows from the Sacrament of the Lord s Supper in Lutheran theology, in a theological bias, dialogical and ecumenical perspective and with a particular interest in a pastoral application that affects the parish reality. In a time marked by an individualistic eucharistic praxis, uncompromised and unproductive from the point of view of the fruits of the sacrament, comes a search for the improvement of the liturgical-eucharistic spirituality directed towards the incarnated service of Christian charity in the world. Based on certain gap that is perceived in academic and ecclesial reflection on this relationship between the Eucharist and mission, particularly in the Brazilian Lutheran context, and on the intuition that there are enough elements in lutheran sacramental theology to be better used, this work poses the question: what kind of Eucharistic missionary spirit can be found in Lutheran theology? The research has a bibliographical methodology, with procedures for historical explanation and dialectical and progressive discussion. It starts from a contextualization of the Lutheran Reformation movement, assuming its intention to value the gospel and continues by unveiling Lutheran eucharistic theology, synthesized as the incarnate gospel. In an immersion in Luther s texts and other theologians of this tradition, the lutheran eucharistic missionarity is revealed in a powerful and fruitful call to the missional living of this gospel that intends to be incarnated horizontally. Finally, a pastoral proposal emerges for the benefit of the mission that flows from the altar to life, having the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil as its focus. Along the way, gems of the bilateral dialogue between Catholics and Lutherans and of Catholic theology itself are considered.