Tag: Conversion

Johannes Hoornbeeck 1617-1666, On the Conversion of Indians and Heathens An Annotated Translation of De Conversione Ind


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English | ISBN: 9004255443 | 2018 | 453 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Exploration, trade and conquest expanded and upset traditional worldviews of early modern Europeans. Christians saw themselves confronted with a largely heathen world. In the wake of Iberian colonization, Jesuits successfully christianized heathen populations overseas. In his De conversione Indorum et gentilium, Johannes Hoornbeeck presents a systematic overview of every aspect of the missionary imperative from a Reformed Protestant perspective. The most attractive part of his book may be the global survey it offers of the various types of heathens, an early example of comparative religion. Of equal interest, however, is his critical approach to mission. Hoornbeeck rejects ecclesiastical hierarchy and top-down imposition of Christianity. In this he is perfectly orthodox, and at the same time startlingly original and a harbinger of modern missions. His practical recommendations offer a flexible framework for missionaries, to fit a wide variety of circumstances.

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Johannes Hoornbeeck 1617-1666, On the Conversion of Indians and Heathens An Annotated Translation of De Conversione Ind


Free Download Ineke Loots, "Johannes Hoornbeeck 1617-1666, On the Conversion of Indians and Heathens: An Annotated Translation of De Conversione Ind"
English | ISBN: 9004255443 | 2018 | 453 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Exploration, trade and conquest expanded and upset traditional worldviews of early modern Europeans. Christians saw themselves confronted with a largely heathen world. In the wake of Iberian colonization, Jesuits successfully christianized heathen populations overseas. In his De conversione Indorum et gentilium, Johannes Hoornbeeck presents a systematic overview of every aspect of the missionary imperative from a Reformed Protestant perspective. The most attractive part of his book may be the global survey it offers of the various types of heathens, an early example of comparative religion. Of equal interest, however, is his critical approach to mission. Hoornbeeck rejects ecclesiastical hierarchy and top-down imposition of Christianity. In this he is perfectly orthodox, and at the same time startlingly original and a harbinger of modern missions. His practical recommendations offer a flexible framework for missionaries, to fit a wide variety of circumstances.

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Strange Gods A Secular History of Conversion [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B01BIBK6A8 | 2016 | MP3@64 kbps | ~19:33:00 | 556 MB
In this original and riveting exploration, Susan Jacoby argues that conversion – especially in the free American "religious marketplace" – is too often viewed only within the conventional and simplistic narrative of personal reinvention and divine grace. Instead, the author places conversions within a secular social context that has, at various times, included the force of a unified church and state, desire for upward economic mobility, and interreligious marriage.
Moving through time, continents, and cultures, Jacoby examines conversions to authoritarian secular ideologies. She also provides portraits of individual converts, including the Catholic Church father Augustine of Hippo; the German Jewish convert to Catholicism Edith Stein, murdered at Auschwitz and canonized by the church; boxing champion Muhammad Ali, who scandalized white Americans in the 1960s by becoming a Muslim; and even politicians such as George W. Bush. Finally, Jacoby takes on the question of why the freedom to choose a religion – or to reject religion altogether – is a fundamental human rights issue that remains a breeding ground for violence in areas of the world that never experienced an Enlightenment.

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The God That the Poor Seek Conversion, Context, and the World of the Vulnerable


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English | 2022 | ISBN: 1839732733 | EPUB | pages: 280 | 1.3 mb
The assumption that conversion looks the same regardless of culture or religious context is challenged by a growing number of missiologists, both in the Majority World and in the West. In this book, Rupen Das explores the particularities of conversion for some of the world’s poorest populations. Sharing the stories of Syrian refugees and Indian slum dwellers, Das positions their voices within a missiological framework of contextualization, seeking to understand what attracts the marginalized to the gospel of Christ.

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Materials for Energy Production, Conversion, and Storage


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032313048 | 349 Pages | PDF (True) | 58 MB
This volume provides a comprehensive review of energy production, management, and its challenges pertaining to various materials. It covers different material fabrication strategies involved in the processes such as laser-assisted fabrication, electrospinning strategy, and so forth, including a review of the different nanostructured materials and challenges in energy management. Factors affecting energy storage and conversion focussing on high entropy and phase change-based materials are covered. The concepts in the book are supported by illustrations and case studies.

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Direct Conversion Receivers in Wide-Band Systems


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English | PDF | 2001 | 250 Pages | ISBN : 0792376072 | 19.5 MB
This book is based on my doctoral thesis at the Helsinki University of Technology. Several different projects during five years guided me from the basics of the RF IC design to the implementations of highly integrated radio receiver chips. Sharing time and effort between IC and system issues is not always straightforward. I have been lucky to follow both topics and share experiences with diligent and enthusiastic people having different specialities. As a result, this book will cover a wide range of different topics needed in the design of highly integrated radio receivers. Experiences from the first receiver prototypes for the third generation cellular systems form the basis of this book. Most of the issues are directly related to the early proposals of European and Japanese standardization organizations. For example, the chip rate was originally set to 4. 096 Mcps in a wide-band CDMA channel. I have kept that number in the book in most of the examples although it has been later changed to 3. 84 Mcps. I hope that the readers will accept that and the possible other incompabilities to the latest specifications. At least in the research phase the changes even in the most essential requirements are definitely not a rare incident and IC designers should be able to react and modify their designs as soon as they can.

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Molecular Catalysts for Energy Conversion


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English | 2009 | ISBN: 3540707301 | 434 Pages | PDF | 12.2 MB
Over the past decade the topic of energy and environment has been acknoedged among many people as a critical issue to be solved in 21st century since the Kyoto Protocol came into in 1997.

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