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The Swedish Evangelical Mission's (SEM) A-plan was to reach the Oromo People in Ethiopia with the Gospel. By the cooperation of evangelical Christians from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sweden this was made possible. Early important pioneers were the previously freed slaves Onesimos Nesib and Aster Ganno Salbana. Their translation of the Bible and a hymnbook into the Oromo language made the Oromo people "to feel at home" in the evangelical faith. Emmanuel Gebre Selassie and Emmanuel Abraham were two later important leaders. Their unity in the Christian faith made differences in ethnic background irrelevant. Step by step, strong relations developed between Ethiopian evangelical Christians and the SEM missionaries in Ethiopia. A decisive step was the founding of the Mekane Yesus Church in 1959 with 20 000 members. This church has now grown to become the largest evangelical Lutheran church in the world with approximately 12 million members. In this book you will follow the longstanding relations between Ethiopian evangelical Christians and the SEM missionaries. The relations survived dramatic external factors such as: the Italian occupation, the two larger famines of the 1970s and the 1980s, the Ethiopian revolution, the "Red terror" with persecution of Christians and closed churches. Rev. Dr. Staffan Grenstedt is a retired senior lecturer at the Johannelund School of Theology in Uppsala. He worked in the Mekane Yesus Church and the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology for ten years.

Ett viktig inslag i ultraortodoxa judars liv är integritet och avskildhet från det omgivande samhället, men hur bevarar de en distinkt religiös och kulturell identitet i en omgivning som propagerar för pluralism och öppenhet? Boken presenterar en tankemodell för att förstå den ultraortodoxa judiska gemenskapen och dess strävan efter avskildhet mitt i västvärldens storstäder.

Artiklar som belyser hur några bibliska gestalter - bl.a. Kain och Abel, Moses och David - omtolkats i den judiska midrashtraditionen. Hur kommer det sig t.ex. att David, som i Bibeln framställs som en kung och krigshjälte, i midrasherna snarare framställs som en from och ödmjuk profet, rabbin, filosof och poet?

This book is written by The last warlock and is a wonderful journey in our evolution. A brand-new ism is revealed, Dao Buddhism with all that it means and a breathtaking look upon this world today. It reveals the truth about the human being and brings you a better faith in tomorrow. There is groundbreaking metaphysics and facts that are brought up. This book covers the world picture and normality norm of Dao Buddhism. There are some discussions about some hot topics, and it gives a thought to anyone reading this. There is a taste of the vision of humanities and this planets future. This is the first book about Dao Buddhism written by Medusa Loveheart, the second book is called "One Unity now and beyond" and is the full vision of the future from Dao Buddhism point of view,<br/>Fourth edition

The purposes of this article-based thesis are to explore and understand preaching as a practice in general, and the practice of preaching in digital culture and spaces in particular. Informed by the practice theory of Theodore Schatzki, it presents the results of a cross-case analysis of four different case studies of the practice of preaching in digital culture and spaces in Swedish protestant churches. Based on the analysis, Frida Mannerfelt argues that the deep relationality of the practice of preaching involves not just humans and texts but also material arrangements and that this feature often is amplified in digital culture and spaces. While there were examples of a decrease, overall, there was an increase in interaction, negotiation, and interdependency. In light of this, Manner-felt contends that the practice of preaching in digital culture and spaces is characterized by co-preaching. Moreover, Mannerfelt argues that some of the implications of co-preaching are the enabling and encouragement of dialogue, imagination, and the priestly function of the priesthood of all believers, but also an increased vulnerability for the co-preachers involved.

The author tries to answer the following questions: - How come that Swedish Lutheran Mission decided to start a new mission field in Kenya? - How has the work developed over the years, from a tiny mission work to an independent Church with four dioceses? - What are the important decisions and deliberations which have influenced the development of ELCK?

Ett bidrag till debatten om kyrkans ämbete.