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- ItemAn evangelical discourse on God’s foreknowledge in relation to moral evil(AFRICAJOURNALS, 2019) Harold, GodfreyWithin the long tradition of Christian reflection on the problem of evil, different approaches to justify God are developed. More specifically, this article focuses on the school of thought within evangelical theology known as “Open Theism” of which Gregory Boyd is one of the main exponents. Open theism is concerned with how God experiences the world. It asks and attempts to answer questions such as, “What does God know?” and “When does God know it?” The questions that open theists raise are not so much about how God knows the future, but if God knows it at all. To absolve God from the responsibility of suffering induced by human beings, Open Theist portrays God as taking risks by allowing human freedom since God cannot know the future actions of free moral agents. This article will examine the position adopted by Gregory Boyd2 on the theodicy problem as it relates to God’s foreknowledge. In this article, I shall ask whether Boyd’s approach may be regarded as a fruitful extrapolation of an understanding of divine foreknowledge within the evangelical tradition in relation to human suffering.
- ItemAn evangelical understanding of the Missio Dei as inclusion of social justice : a critical theological reflection(AFRICAJOURNALS, 2019) Harold, GodfreyThe term missionary was initially employed in its contemporary sense for emissaries of the Pope and the royal families of Portugal and also Spain who were sent to convert people to Catholicism. Over the last two hundred years, the evangelical idea of mission has been inclined to be defined by people various theological scholars and some have concentrated on the “Great Commission” of Matthew 28. This article critically calls for a re-evaluation of the understanding of mission of within Evangelicalism that focuses on evangelism to be reconstructed to the Integral understanding of the Missio Dei which is a Latin Christian theological term that is generally translated as the "mission of God," or the "sending of God." It is a notion which has become progressively significant in missiology and in obtaining a clear understanding the mission of the church. This refocusing, positions God, the Father, at the centre of his mission and through Jesus Christ invites his church to participate with him on mission. This radical shift, calls for an understanding that the church is on a mission and this mission includes the praxis of social justice. While the contemporary Western world is preoccupied with individualism a belief in the Holy Trinity impels us to be concerned about relationships and society and social justice in general, and thus the values of individual accomplishment in a materialistic world and inter-person and national rivalries must take up very little, if any time at all