Week 6- Wednesday Reflection

October 31, 2007 by davidpham
The theme we learn today is Missio Dei/Trinitarian views of Mission. This theme means that if the church wants to do mission the way the Trinity is, it must understand clearly that mission is God’s mission. The church is sent to follow the work of the Holy Spirit in the world [...]

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Week 6- Emergence of a World Church – Fuellenbach

October 30, 2007 by davidpham
I like the idea of inculturation which is defined as “a process by which the gospel enters into a culture, takes from the culture all that is already gospelled, and is enriched by it. In addition to this, the gospel challenges the culture in those aspects that are un-gospelled and the [...]

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Week 6 – Response to Antonia’s Weblog-Week 6- Monday

October 29, 2007 by davidpham
Hi Antonia,
Antonia, you are not alone. I share the same concerns you raise in your blog: “How to bridge the gap… change is not readily accepted.” I have been attending the same church for 27 years. I don’t see thing change much at all. Business is as usual year after year. [...]

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Week 6- Monday Reflection

October 29, 2007 by davidpham
The lecture today helps me understand the concept of Missio Dei which means “Mission of God” in Latin. God’s mission is to reconcile, redeem creation back into right relationship with himself. The church itself has no mission, it is only a participant in God’s mission. The church continues the mission of [...]

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Week 5- “Unsystematic Fingers at the Conditions of the Times”: “Afropop” and the Paradoxes of Imperialism – Lazarus

October 29, 2007 by davidpham
I do not know much about world music. But I myself enjoy playing the guitar, the piano, and sometimes if the inspiration comes,  I compose music as well. I feel bad for those black musicians in South Africa who are forced to compose music the way the “oppressors”, the big recording companies, want in [...]

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Week 5- Affrican Identities – Appiah

October 29, 2007 by davidpham
A statement on page 223 from Appiah: “Yet there is no doubt that now, a century later, an African identity is coming into being.” reminds me of the web of lies from the non-poor or the oppressors place in the poor or the oppressed’s minds, saying that you are nobody, you [...]

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Week 5- The Implications of the Text of Esther for African Women’s Struggle for Liberation in South Africa – Mosala

October 28, 2007 by davidpham
It is interesting to know several different ways to read the text of Esther instead of the only one way I know so far. It is an eye-opener opportunity for me to be able to understand the text of Esther either in a form of Feudal-Tributary Text, or a survival text, [...]

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Week 5- Desiring War: Apocalyse, Commodity Fetish, and the End of History- Runions

October 28, 2007 by davidpham
I myself hate war because I was a victim and also a soldier fighting side by side with the courageous American soldiers for seven years during the Vietnam war. I lost my two older brothers in this war. No war is considered “desiring war” because war is deadly. I myself do [...]

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Week 5- The Church in the Context of the Kingdom- Fuellenbach

October 24, 2007 by davidpham
According to Fuellenbach, the church has several roles to serve in the kingdom of God:
- The church is the active subject to influence the world (p74).
- The church carries on the mission of Christ by seeking to serve the world (p75).
- The church is an “agent” to word toward the transformation [...]

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Week 5- Wednesday Reflection

October 24, 2007 by davidpham
Our class lecture this afternoon helps me understand more about the meaning of the sensitive and unpopular word “Race”. A few weeks ago, I asked a question on my blog about how and when this non-popular word came into being and today lecture gives me the answer. Here is the answer [...]

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