Power, Poverty and Prayer: A Historical Perspective on the Church in the African Sate at the Edge of the Twenty-First Century

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-88
Author(s):  
Ogbu Kalu
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Church

Defining the Center—Finding the Boundaries: The Challenge of Re-Visioning the Church in North America for the Twenty-First Century

1994 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-337
Author(s):  
Craig Van Gelder
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
American Culture ◽  
First Century ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Mission Field ◽  
The Church

It is becoming increasingly clear that we are experiencing a shift in North American culture that requires the church to think of North America as mission field. The thesis of this article is that the church will need to develop a new paradigm of mission to accomplish this. This article identifies 18 issues which such a paradigm of mission will need to address. These issues are discussed in terms of three aspects: (1) the context in which we live, (2) the gospel we seek to proclaim, and (3) the church which seeks to proclaim this gospel.

From Anatomical to Digital Dissection: A Historical Perspective Since Antiquity Towards the Twenty-First Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-39
Author(s):  
Vincent Delmas ◽  
Jean-François Uhl ◽  
Pedro F. Campos ◽  
Daniel Simões Lopes ◽  
Joaquim Jorge
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century

Pentecostals and Charismatics in America

2019 ◽  
pp. 241-260
Author(s):  
Cecil M. Robeck
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
First Century ◽  
1 Corinthians ◽  
The Past ◽  
Family Tradition ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Christian Family ◽  
The Church

This chapter traces Pentecostal and related congregations, churches, denominations, and organizations that stem from the beginning of the twentieth century. They identify with activities at Pentecost described in Acts 2 and in the exercise of charisms in 1 Corinthians 12–14. Each of them highlights is the significance of a personal encounter with the Holy Spirit leading to a transformed life. These often interrelated organizations and movements have brought great vitality to the Church worldwide for over one hundred years, and together, they constitute as much as 25 per cent of the world’s Christians. This form of spirituality is unique over the past 500 years, since it may be found in virtually every historic Christian family/tradition, and in most churches of the twenty-first century.

Technological Choice in a Medieval Japanese Sword

2020 ◽  
Vol 983 ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
James Scott Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
First Century ◽  
Metallographic Examination ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Technological Choice ◽  
Chaîne Opératoire ◽  
Chaine Operatoire ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Functional Explanations

Japanese swords have long been a source of fascination for metallographers both Japanese and Western, but most studies lean toward functional explanations of metallurgical features or description of how features correspond to historical and ethnographic accounts of production. At the same time, there is a long tradition of sword connoisseurship that through its visual and historical perspective offers insight about particular smiths and their traditions. In a metallographic examination of a 15th century Japanese sword of the Bizen tradition, I take a chaîne opératoire approach and draw on aspects of both of the aforementioned scholarly traditions in order to better understand how late medieval Japanese sword smiths related to their materials and to their clientele. Based on my observations, I compare the apparent choices made by this sword’s smith to historical and ethnographic accounts of traditional sword production, and other published metallographic sections of Japanese swords. Then, I contextualize these choices in relation to contemporary production for export and for local consumption. Specifically, I will discuss possible reasons this sword’s metallurgical profile deviates from common practice according to twentieth and twenty-first century accounts of traditional Japanese sword smithing.

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