Author: Somen Das
Publisher: ISPCK
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 224
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8172149255
Description
This book is a compilation of several address and presentations made by the author. He was invited to make ethical-theological reflections at different ecumenical forums – the CNI-SBSS; the Raipur Churches Development and Relief Committee (RCDRC); the CNI-CSI-Mar Thoma communion; the CNI Diocese of Kolkata; the Roman Catholic Church’s Commission on Ecumenism; the CNI Synodical Consultation on Ministerial Formation and theological Education; D. Min. Collegiums of the senate of Serampore College; South Asia Partnership Programme (SAEPP) of the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA); Meeting of the Moral Philosopher of the roman Catholic Church; refresher; Course at Serampore College; the SCM; the YMCA and such others.
Most of these ethical-theological reflections are in the form of Bible studies. Basically, they deal with issues connected with the Church and the world/society. They also affirm an active, mutual relationship between the two. This book can meaningfully used by lay persons, pastors and teachers of ethics and theology.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Your are a Stiff-Necked people
Now in Christ Jesus you who once were far
Off have been brought near
God shows no partiality
Joint responsibilities for the present day
Challenges to Christian Unity, witness
And service
See I am sending you out like sheep
Among wolves
For the message of the cross is foolishness
To those who are perishing
Moses chose able people from all Israel and
Appointed them as heads over the people
You have made them (Humans) a little lower
Than god and crowned them with glory and
Honour
Problems of a theological framework and a
Biblical perspective for a rights-based approach
A theological framework and a Biblical
Perspective for a rights-based approach
God became a fool for us - become fools for
Christ
God became weak - become vulnerable for
Christ
The Church as a people’s movement
The church as an agent of liberation
Towards a new understanding of the Church
In India
The church of God for insider and outsider
Pastor as an ecumenical leader
Pastor and people
Pastor in a pluralistic context
Challenges to Pastoral ministry
The Lord’s Prayer
Creeds in a historical and contemporary
Context
Inaugural address at a meeting of moral
Philosophers
Inaugural address based on Prof. Kavita
Panjabi’s writings
South Asian Culture under the impact of
Modern communication and technology
Christian response to the socio-economic
Reality in India
Glasnost and perestroika in Bishop’s college
Local leadership crisis is in the Church in
Bengal
Match-fixing in Church and Society
Kaun Banega Crorepati? - Lead us not
Intotempatation
Homage to Jayaprakash Narayan
Homage to William Carey