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1	Hearing all the drums: towards a more inclusive congregation Mongwe, Justice Mavanyisi 28 February 2007 (has links) HEARING ALL THE DRUMS: TOWARDS A MORE INCLUSIVE CONGREGATION is about increasing the participation of women in positions of both leadership and church ministry praxis within the Seventh Day Adventist church in South Africa. Women have been excluded in the office of elder, and have been generally excluded from preaching during the worship hour. The research process followed a participatory way of doing research, while using theories on social construction and post-modernist epistemological approach. The theologies that inform this work are contextual in nature and include African and Feminist theologies. In the pursuit for change, however, care is maintained to use inclusive practices that attempt to avoid polarising the congregation and their concomitant theologies. / Practical Theology / M.Th. (Pastoral Therapy) Inclusiveness Social Construction Pastoral care Evangelical theology Contextual theology Feminist theology Participatory ethic African theology Postmodernism Seventh-day Adventist Church 262.146768 Seventh-Day Adventists -- Doctrines Women in church work -- South Africa Ordination of women -- South Africa Feminist theology -- South Africa Women and religion -- South Africa
2	Hearing all the drums: towards a more inclusive congregation Mongwe, Justice Mavanyisi 28 February 2007 (has links) HEARING ALL THE DRUMS: TOWARDS A MORE INCLUSIVE CONGREGATION is about increasing the participation of women in positions of both leadership and church ministry praxis within the Seventh Day Adventist church in South Africa. Women have been excluded in the office of elder, and have been generally excluded from preaching during the worship hour. The research process followed a participatory way of doing research, while using theories on social construction and post-modernist epistemological approach. The theologies that inform this work are contextual in nature and include African and Feminist theologies. In the pursuit for change, however, care is maintained to use inclusive practices that attempt to avoid polarising the congregation and their concomitant theologies. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M.Th. (Pastoral Therapy) Inclusiveness Social Construction Pastoral care Evangelical theology Contextual theology Feminist theology Participatory ethic African theology Postmodernism Seventh-day Adventist Church 262.146768 Seventh-Day Adventists -- Doctrines Women in church work -- South Africa Ordination of women -- South Africa Feminist theology -- South Africa Women and religion -- South Africa

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Hearing all the drums: towards a more inclusive congregation

Hearing all the drums: towards a more inclusive congregation