Preaching Peace in a Culturally and Politically Divided Context: Church Mediating Peace in Cameroon

Langeh, Jude Thaddeus

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Preaching Peace in a Culturally and Politically Divided Context: Church Mediating Peace in Cameroon

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Langeh, Jude Thaddeus. Preaching Peace In a Culturally and Politically Divided Context: Church Mediating Peace In Cameroon. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/9be52089-434b-47b9-83f2-7d490d50072b.

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L. J. Thaddeus. Preaching Peace in a Culturally and Politically Divided Context: Church Mediating Peace in Cameroon. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/9be52089-434b-47b9-83f2-7d490d50072b

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Theology of Reconciliation

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We live in times of strife, especially with the cultural division and polarization in many countries, and many look to the church for solutions. Even though our faith summons us to Christian unity, our churches remain tragically divided along ethnic, tribal, religious, and political lines. This thesis project developed and tested the Sermon-Dialogue-Sermon preaching methodology to help equip the preachers in Cameroon to mediate peace. Chapter 1 presents the project’s genesis, ministerial context, and the scope of the problem it seeks to address. Delving into the theology of reconciliation, chapter 2, which is the project’s theological framework, lays the groundwork for a biblical and theological understanding of the nonviolent preaching that emerges in the project's interdisciplinary framework in chapter 3. The project’s homiletic foundations presented in Chapter 4 discuss the sermon-dialogue-sermon method to empower preachers to preach well in a divided zone. The training of two priests and a lay person who, in turn, conducted the sermon-dialogue-sermon method in their different contexts tested its hypothesis before twenty men and nineteen women who had deliberative dialogue with them. Chapter 5 discusses the training and the sermon-dialogue-sermon method in detail and the qualitative and quantitative data obtained through the insider, outsider, and researcher used in the intervention. Chapter 6 describes the thesis project’s identifiable findings through narrative and data analysis, concluding that the Sermon-Dialogue-Sermon Method is proper for the Church to mediate peace in Cameroon. This chapter also discusses the recommendations, lessons learned, and areas for further study. It delves into the research’s possible future use and development, including the publication and expansion of the Sermon-Dialogue-Sermon method.

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