PEACE THEOLOGY 101

PEACE THEOLOGY 101

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PEACE THEOLOGY 101

PEACE THEOLOGY 101Introduction to Peace Theology.

This course will help the students to appreciate and to evaluate a biblical understanding and contemporary practice of Peace Theology. Such evaluation will be done within the framework of social sciences and informed from the perspective of biblical theology.

The students will be intellectually, emotionally, and volitionally involved in the current discussions on the meanings, proposals, and tasks of Peace Theology.

PEACE THEOLOGY 101

TOWARDSA TANAKHTHEOLOGY

OFSPIRITUAL

TRANSFORMATION

PEACE THEOLOGY 101

Harmony with God (Spiritual Transformation)

PEACE THEOLOGYTHE PEACE OF GOD IS CENTRAL TO THE GOOD NEWS

Harmony with Others (Social-Political Transformation)

Harmony with the Creation (Economic-Ecological Transformation)

Harmony with the Self (Psycho-Social Transformation)

PEACEBUILDING=SHALOMLIVING

YHWH

PEACE THEOLOGY 101

HEBREW UNDERSTANDING OFTHE TETRAGRAMMATON

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From the verb “to be”

PEACE THEOLOGY 101

CHALLENGES FOR BIBLICAL SHALOMLIVINGValues of the Global Empire in the 21st Century

Extreme IndividualismThis is the most emphasized modern cultural value being communicated in the big media, causing the family and community to be disintegrated.

Practical MaterialismMany families may be religious during Sunday mornings, but practicing materialists during most of the week, influenced more by commercial advertisements and greed-oriented consumerism than by biblical principles, biblical ethics, and biblical morality.

A Culture of Violence and WarA belief system that human conflicts and differences are ultimately resolved by the useof force; thus, justifying personal, domesticsocial, and political violence.

A Mechanistic View of PeopleIn opposition to the biblical view of people, a mechanistic view treats humans and the creation as machine-projects rather than living organisms who are also story-subjects. Thus, the family, the church and the community is seen as an organization to be fixed rather than an organism to be healed.

THE IDOLSIN MY

OWN LIFE