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This grounded theory study examines the motives for relationships between local churches and missionaries: What motivates churches to enter into a relationship with a missionary, to continue this relationship, and to end it? Similarly, what motivates missionaries to begin, continue, or end relationships with a local church? We used purposive stratified sampling to select 17 missionaries and church mission leaders to interview for this study. We performed semi-structured interviews with both groups to discover their understanding of why they form, maintain, and dissolve relationships with each other. Multiple motives influenced all participants. These motives can be broadly categorized as either relationship-focused motives or task-focused motives. Furthermore, the task-focused motives can either be centered on specific goals shared by churches and missionaries (e.g., starting a reproducing church among a specific people group) or on specific processes (e.g., evangelizing or feeding the poor). Although all participants had multiple motives, each participant emphasized some motives over others. The motives present in each party influence many aspects of their relationship, including their communication, financial involvement, and the purpose of the church's short-term mission trips to the missionary's setting. In contrast to social exchange theory which provides a framework to understand conditions under which a relationship will be maintained or ended, the Multiple Motive Theory of Church and Missionary Relationships goes further; it describes specific motives that exist which influence whether a relationship begins, continues, or ends.

Die Antwerpener Gemeinde des Augsburger Bekenntnisses (CA) des Jahres 1566/67 war zu dieser Zeit die größte und wichtigste Gemeinde von Anhängern der CA im niederländischen Raum und von herausragender Bedeutung für die Entwicklung des Luthertums der Niederlande insgesamt. Die Ausweisung der Gemeinde 1567 hatte zur Folge, dass ihre Anhänger auf sehr unterschiedliche Weise das Erbe der Gemeinde forttrugen und es teilweise zur Gründung von Tochtergemeinden kam. Carsten Brall untersucht, wie diese Tochtergemeinden und Verbindungen zur Antwerpener Muttergemeinde ausgesehen haben und welche weiteren Folgewirkungen der Gemeinde feststellbar sind. Er spannt einen Bogen von den Voraussetzungen bei der Gründung der Gemeinde (1566) bis zur Entstehung der Frankfurter Niederländischen Gemeinde Augsburger Confession, in der die Antwerpener Wurzeln bis auf den heutigen Tag präsent sind. Der Autor beleuchtet die Theologie in der Gemeinde und deren Fortleben in den Transformationen der Gemeinde. Es wird deutlich, dass sich gerade gnesiolutherische Theologen wie Matthias Flacius und Cyriakus Spangenberg in Antwerpen Gehör verschaffen konnten. Daneben stellt Brall die Frage nach sozialen Gegebenheiten im Kontext der Entwicklung der Gemeinde, wie auch das Problem, welche Kontakte und Kontinuitäten sich bei den Antwerpener Anhängern der CA nach der Emigration feststellen lassen.

Social philosophy takes care of three tasks: the conceptual idea about an institution, how it functions and how it accomplish. In this sense, a challenge to social philosophy, from the point of view of critical-normative research, is to think of the social institution not only as the backbone of society, but, above all, to link it with the social-ontological argument with emancipatory approach; in other words, how a social institution how to deal with its task of promoting social goods and social rights. I intend to explain the philosophical-social requirement of the social-ontological argument in the discussion of critical-normative research taking into account that, at first, the social institution is understand itself as a medium to emancipation and, secondly, this institution stem from a detranscendental reason conception and this refer to a new way to think the social philosophy inside in the historical background of ours social communities.

This paper is qualitative and theoretical research of the concept of freedom, perceived through different epistemological traditions. The research focus is laid on the phenomenon of freedom in the frames of liberal ontological and epistemological tradition, freedom as a derivative of the individual liberty, and how the individual liberty remains a precondition for evolving freedom. The beginning is characterized as a comparison between the different freedom traditions, starting with collective freedom traditions, following individualist freedom traditions and finalizing with operationalization of individual liberty. The process of operationalization of liberty, or presenting it as an organizational and regulation principle, leads to demystification of freedom in individualistic traditions, and indicates its tight connection with individual liberty.

Rezension zu. 1) Sammy Baloji: Hunting & Collecting. Ostende: Mu.Zee & Paris: Galerie Imane Farès 2016. ISBN 978-90-74694-16-2. 2) Larissa Förster & Holger Stoecker: Haut, Haar und Knochen. Koloniale Spurensuche in naturkundlichen Sammlungen der Universität Jena. Weimar: Verlag Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften (vdg) 2016. ISBN 978-3-89739-872-6.

The Department is the collectivity in charge of solidarity and territorial cohesion. It work out the Departmental habitat plan with the State's local services and the inter-township collectivities with a local habitat scheme and have to complete this plan with an observatory.This memoire focuses to identify the operation of collaboration process which involve the actors of the plan and much precisely of its observatory. Which knowledge of the Isere territory do it product and how partners gets along in regard of their respective logics? ; Le département est la collectivité chargée de la solidarité et de la cohésion territoriale. Il élabore avec les services déconcentrés de l'État et les intercommunalités dotées d'un programme local de l'habitat le plan départemental de l'habitat et doit le compléter d'un observatoire.Ce mémoire s'attache à identifier le fonctionnement du processus de collaboration entre ces acteurs du plan et plus particulièrement de son observatoire. Quelle connaissance du territoire isérois produit-il et comment les partenaires s'entendent-ils au regard de leurs logiques respectives ?

The Department is the collectivity in charge of solidarity and territorial cohesion. It work out the Departmental habitat plan with the State's local services and the inter-township collectivities with a local habitat scheme and have to complete this plan with an observatory.This memoire focuses to identify the operation of collaboration process which involve the actors of the plan and much precisely of its observatory. Which knowledge of the Isere territory do it product and how partners gets along in regard of their respective logics? ; Le département est la collectivité chargée de la solidarité et de la cohésion territoriale. Il élabore avec les services déconcentrés de l'État et les intercommunalités dotées d'un programme local de l'habitat le plan départemental de l'habitat et doit le compléter d'un observatoire.Ce mémoire s'attache à identifier le fonctionnement du processus de collaboration entre ces acteurs du plan et plus particulièrement de son observatoire. Quelle connaissance du territoire isérois produit-il et comment les partenaires s'entendent-ils au regard de leurs logiques respectives ?

Philosophic contingency embedded in James Joyce's avant-garde novel, ranging from Aristotelian notion of mimesis to the possibility of a Marxian reading, stemming from Hegel's dialectic, added to the linguistic pragmatics, pave the way to focus on the process of realization and mental performance by a leading contemporary philosopher of analytic philosophy, J.L. Austin, as an epistemological triggering in the course of implication through a narrative, here Proteus, teleologically speaking, resulting a meta-utterance in a broader scale, much far from constative type, a metaphorical narration, elaborating on cultural agency, while paraphrasing the language-based relativity of collective identity and complexity of Austin's speech act theory, in terms of (in)felicitous conditions, rooted in the success of the communicative intention of the narrator, here Stephen Dedalus, maybe the most wonderful advanced guard of narratology in interior monologue.