Download or read book Pursuing Peace in Godzone written by Geoffrey Troughton and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pursuing Peace in Godzone written by Phillip Fountain and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about how New Zealanders have been inspired by visions for peace. Focusing on diverse Christian communities, it explores some of the ways that peace has influenced their practices, lifestyles and politics from the Second World War to the present—the period in which New Zealand’s peaceable image and reputation as ‘God’s Own Country’ grew and flourished. New Zealand Christians and others have worked for peace in many different ways, from attention-grabbing protests against nuclear weapons, apartheid and war, to quieter but no less important efforts to improve relationships within their churches, communities and the natural environment. Taken together their stories reveal a multifaceted but deeply influential thread of Christian peacemaking within New Zealand culture. These stories are by turns challenging and inspiring, poignant and amusing, and they continue to reverberate today in a world where peace remains elusive for many.
Download or read book Pursuing Peace written by J.E. Huckabee and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.E. Huckabee believes that inside every person is a desire to live life to the fullest. Life without peace is a miserable journey, writes Huckabee. Our lives should include living with purpose and calm contentment, regardless of what comes our way. Personal upbringing and life experiences mix with current behavior and set patterns in motion in the human mind and heart. These patterns determine how a person reacts to lifes situations. When people venture out to apply the principles of peace in their lives, they begin to transform these old patterns into new patterns, which bring about an instilled peace in place of stress and worry. Pursuing Peace, quenched in Gods Word and Jasons life experiences, is designed to correct the emulation of sorrow and misery with a fresh mindset of peace, one that radiates from the reader when applied to their life and to those around them.
Download or read book Reflections on the Commemoration of the First World War written by David Monger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War’s centenary generated a mass of commemorative activity worldwide. Officially and unofficially; individually, collectively and commercially; locally, nationally and internationally, efforts were made to respond to the legacies of this vast conflict. This book explores some of these responses from areas previously tied to the British Empire, including Australia, Britain, Canada, India and New Zealand. Showcasing insights from historians of commemoration and heritage professionals it provides revealing insider and outsider perspectives of the centenary. How far did commemoration become celebration, and how merited were such responses? To what extent did the centenary serve wider social and political functions? Was it a time for new knowledge and understanding of the events of a century ago, for recovery of lost or marginalised voices, or for confirming existing clichés? And what can be learned from the experience of this centenary that might inform the approach to future commemorative activities? The contributors to this book grapple with these questions, coming to different answers and demonstrating the connections and disconnections between those involved in building public knowledge of the ‘war to end all wars’.
Download or read book Pacifying Missions written by Geoffrey Troughton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pacifying Missions interrogates the variegated and contested ways that missionaries imagined, articulated, and enacted peace, considering its complex entanglements with violence in the British Empire. The volume brings together world leading historical scholarship on issues of increasing contemporary valence.
Download or read book Pursuing Peace written by Leod F. Wayne Mac (author) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saints and Stirrers written by Geoff Troughton and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Zealanders, while generally peaceable and tolerant people, have seldom shied away from war. Even in the current era, Anzac Day is a major event here, and the haka performed by our national rugby team is one of our most recognisable cultural exports. But throughout New Zealand’s history there have also been frequent efforts to oppose war and promote peace, and these have often drawn upon traditions within the Christian faith. New Zealand Christians were not uniformly or impeccably peaceable; pacifists were usually either a minority in the more established churches, or members of smaller denominations that were firmly anti-war, such as the Quakers. It took strong convictions and a good deal of bravery to question war in the face of majority opinion. Those ‘saints’ who pushed for peace were invariably stirrers. This book focuses on Christian peacemaking and opposition to war in the period from the nineteenth century until the end of the Second World War. It provides critical insights into New Zealand Christianity, as well as peace activism, politics, and New Zealand society more generally.
Download or read book The Mission of Development written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mission of Development interrogates the complex relationships between Christian mission and international development in Asia from the 19th century to the new millennium. Through historically and ethnographically grounded case studies, contributors examine how missionaries have adapted to and shaped the age of development and processes of ‘technocratisation’, as well as how mission and development have sometimes come to be cast in opposition. The volume takes up an increasingly prominent strand in contemporary research that reverses the prior occlusion of the entanglements between religion and development. It breaks new ground through its analysis of the techno-politics of both development and mission, and by focusing on the importance of engagements and encounters in the field in Asia.
Download or read book Restoring Identities written by Upolu Lumā Vaai and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a sense, Oceania can be considered a microcosm of World Christianity. Within this region are many of the same observable trends on the global level that impact Christian life, faith, and witness. The geography of Oceania—the “liquid continent”—is unique. Christianity arrived in Australia and New Zealand in the late eighteenth century via British colonial powers. Indigenous Aboriginal peoples, Torres Strait Islanders, and Māori peoples were dispossessed of land, property, rights, and dignity. Christianity grew by migration and conversion (not always voluntary), and over time became tightly intertwined with culture. In the twentieth century, rapid secularization moved Christianity into the private sphere, and by 2020 Christian affiliation had dropped from 97 percent to 57 percent. However, the history of Christianity in the Pacific Islands—Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia—is quite different. Christianity arrived via Protestant and Catholic missionaries between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries and grew substantially in the twentieth century largely due to indigenous Christian efforts. Islanders brought Christianity to neighboring islands, indigenous theologies developed, and churches gradually separated from their Western mission founders. One of the great “success stories” of World Christianity is Papua New Guinea, which grew from just 4 percent Christian in 1900 to 95 percent in 2020. However, growth is never the entire story. Violence against women is endemic in Papua New Guinea and is often combined with accusations of witchcraft. An estimated 59 percent of women have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime (and 48 percent in the last year). As Christianity continues its shift to the global South, it becomes increasingly critical to heed the experiences, perspectives, and theologies of Christians, particularly women, in the Pacific Islands.
Download or read book Pursuing Peace written by Jennifer Schober and published by Schober Enterprises, LLC. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was originally written with the intent of keeping a record of all that God has done in my life. When I was 30 years old, I began to seek after God for healing, with all of my heart. As I dug deep in the word and studied, I became amazed at what truths I discovered. Everything I learned I would share with my children. I was so excited about God and His power and truth that learning was contagious in my home. I would learn something new and I shared it that same day, a continuous stream of learning and sharing. Thirteen years later, it is still the same. I am still learning, and I am still sharing, and I assumed my kids were all learning along with me. - As a follower of Jesus Christ, we do not ever need to be brutalized by fear! - As a follower of Jesus Christ, we do not ever need to live tyrannized by condemnation! - As a follower of Jesus Christ, we do not ever need to live paralyzed by 'unforgiveness'! It is a gift from God to live at peace. This book will help you navigate through some of life's tough issues to come to a place of deep inner peace. If you have ever felt afraid, ever felt bad about yourself or live with unforgiveness in your heart-this book is for you. If you struggle with addictive behaviors-this book is for you. If you do not know how precious and valuable you are to God-this book is for you. If you want to read a testimony of a life transformed by God-this book is for you.
Download or read book The Peace God Promises written by Ann Spangler and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If God has promised to give us the “peace that passes understanding,” why do we sometimes feel so anxious? What are we so afraid of? Are there ways of living that lead to peace? Conversely, are there ways of thinking and acting that lead to anxiety and a conflicted life? How does Jesus embody peace and where did his peace come from? The Peace God Promises sets our longings for peace beside God’s promise to provide it. In her desire to experience greater peace, bestselling author Ann Spangler probes these and other questions. Exploring the stories that shape us, the memories that define us, and the relationships that connect us, she looks for ways to help us become more peaceful. What can we learn from Scripture, from Jewish tradition, from the Amish and others about rest, simplicity, healing, and peace? The stories she shares and the answers she discovers may surprise you. If you put them into practice, they may even transform you, enabling you to experience the peace God wants you to have.
Download or read book Finding the Peace God Promises written by Ann Spangler and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If God has promised to give us the “peace that passes understanding,” why do we sometimes feel so anxious? What are we so afraid of? Are there ways of living that lead to peace? Conversely, are there ways of thinking and acting that lead to anxiety and a conflicted life? How does Jesus embody peace and where did his peace come from? Finding the Peace God Promises sets our longings for peace beside God’s promise to provide it. Exploring the stories that shape us, the memories that define us, and the relationships that connect us, bestselling author Ann Spangler looks for ways to help us become more peaceful. What can we learn from Scripture, from Jewish tradition, from the Amish and others about rest, simplicity, healing, and peace? The stories she shares and the answers she discovers may surprise you, enabling you to experience the transformative peace God wants you to have.
Download or read book THOUGHTS OF PEACE written by ZEBEDEE KING and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Season is the Season for Peace ?Thoughts of Peace? assures the reader that peace is God's plan for everyone who will simply pursue it. It then explains practical ways of pursuing God's peace and the enormous blessings resulting from finding ?a place of peace.? If you desire an abiding peace--not just a fleeting or momentary peace, but one which is an anchor to the soul, steadying you and safely guiding you through every storm in life, then ?Thoughts of Peace? should be the next book on your reading list.
Download or read book Pacifying Missions Christianity Violence and the Empire in the Nineteenth Century written by and published by Studies in Christian Mission. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pacifying Missions interrogates the variegated and contested ways that missionaries imagined, articulated, and enacted peace, considering its complex entanglements with violence in the British Empire. The volume brings together world leading historical scholarship on issues of increasing contemporary valence.
Download or read book Saints and Stirrers written by Geoffrey Troughton and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Zealanders, while generally peaceable and tolerant people, have never shied away from war. Even in the current era, Anzac Day is a major event here, and the haka is one of our most recognisable cultural exports. But throughout New Zealand's history there have also been frequent efforts to oppose war and promote peace, and these have often drawn upon longstanding traditions within the Christian faith. New Zealand Christians were not uniformly or impeccably peaceable; pacifists were usually either a minority in the more established churches, or members of smaller denominations that were firmly anti-war, such as the Quakers. It took strong convictions and a good deal of bravery to question war when the majority were in favour of it. Those `saints' who pushed for peace were invariably stirrers. This book focuses on Christian peacemaking and opposition to war in the period from the nineteenth century until the end of the Second World War. It provides critical insights into New Zealand Christianity, as well as peace activism, politics, and New Zealand society more generally. Contributors Geoffrey Troughton, Peter Lineham, Stuart Lange, John Stenhouse, Harold Hill, David Tombs, Allan K. Davidson, Peter Lineham, Peter H. Ballis, David Grant.
Download or read book Guard Your Heart Home written by Caroline Quinn and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short devotional book with daily devotions for 60 days, the devotionals bring focus to the desire we all have for peace in both our hearts and our homes
Download or read book Iwi written by Angela Ballara and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
