Cultural relevance and church cevelopment: An analysis of the tension between Christ and culture and the importance of cultural relevance for church development The article analyses the term cultural relevance and its importance for Church development. The questions are: What is the understanding of the term cultural relevance and what is the significance of the cultural factor for the understanding of the Church’s nature and task and consequently what are the consequences for the Church’s working methods and strategy? The principle issues are discussed through an analysis of the typology and five relational types of H. Richard Niebuhr’s book Christ & Culture, an evaluation of Jimmy Long’s five corresponding church types and Miroslav Volf’s ecclesiastical identity, including a theological discussion related to the paradigm change from modernism to postmodernism. The author defends Volf’s understanding of the church’s identity and nature and defines cultural relevance foremost as a n...

The article analyses the implicit epistemology of James K.A. Smith in his book Who’s Afraid of Post- modernism? Taking Derrida, Lyotard and Foucault to Church (2006). The analysis concentrates on Smith’s interpretation of three French postmodern philosophers: J. Derrida, J.F. Lyotard and M. Fou- cault, but includes also a yearlong discussion between Smith and D.A. Carson, rendered in the book and in Carson’s books Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church (2005) and Christ & Culture Revisited (2008). Carson defends the evangelical movement which today is criticized and challenged by several post-evangelical writers, among them Smith, who claims that faith is the sole bridge be- tween reality and knowledge. He calls his view confessional realism. The aim is to present and con- structively evaluate Smith’s epistemology and its relation to issues like rationality, truth, objectivity and reality. The theoretical basis for the assessment of Smith’s presentation of Radical Orthodoxy an...

Med trosopplæringsreformen har antall undervisningsstillinger i Den norske kirke blitt mangedoblet, og undervisningstjenesten har blitt mer mangfoldig. Trosopplærings-stillingene har fokusert på kirkens trosopplæring for aldersgruppen 0–18 år, mens katekettjenesten har et mer helhetlig perspektiv på livslang læring i kirken med en bredere målgruppe, både når det gjelder alder og arenaer. Trosopplæringsreformen har bidratt til at alle landets menigheter har utviklet planer og jobber systematisk med trosopplæring for barn og unge i kirken. En videreutvikling av kirkens undervisningstjeneste må ha en helhetlig tilnærming og se læringsdimensjonen som en integrert del av menighetens virksomhet på alle områder.

Ensino Híbrido: personalização e tecnologia da educação apresenta-se como um livro feito por professores para professores. A proposta deste livro se assenta na experiência de um grupo de professores que refletiram a partir de experiências práticas de uso integrado das tecnologias digitais visando a personalização do ensino e buscaram apoio na literatura para embasar suas reflexões.