Add to ORKGPursuing a theology of the garden in Oceania, the article develops Ilaitia Tuwere’s Fijian theological perspectives with Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophy and Talmudic readings. The defining experience in the Oceanic garden is mercy. Through the bodiliness and otherness of Jesus, the chief Gardener, an immemorial truth emerges: the land (vanua) testifies to the mercy (maternity) of God, revealing a garden (were) of justice, repentance, peace, healing and the forgiveness of sins. Indeed, our hope for the reign of God is not useless and for nothing, for it becomes the very source of the fecundity of time and the positive value of history, moving us on with confidence and courage to encounter Edens and Gethsemanes in the Oceanic garden
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In the second half of the 20th century Christian theology finally came down from heaven. Centuries o...
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From SAGE Publishing via Jisc Publications RouterHistory: epub 2021-05-10Publication status: Publish...
This article concerns the practice of cassava gardening among the indigenous Makushi people of Amazo...
God loved his Israel, his “pleasant planting.” He planted them to do good works, specifically to bri...
Since the era of national independence in the Pacific Islands, many indigenous leaders have attempte...
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control are all s...
In the second half of the 20th century Christian theology finally came down from heaven. Centuries o...
Western culture invests gardens with powerful, if ambivalent symbolism. They invite us to commune wi...
In Oceania, particularly in Vanuatu, gardens are the evidence of an ancestral rural tradition in whi...
Economic Botany of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an enormously effective colonizing f...
Faith-based organizations throughout the United States are creating gardens with a variety of vision...
Central to a theology of feasting is the nearness and newness of the Kingdom of God. Engaging Levina...
In Melanesia, horticultural gardens have often been described as ‘works of art’. At the source of th...
The Garden of Eden is one of the most pervasive and enduring images in the Abrahamic Tradition. Desp...
We will be using J. Barrau's research into the plant foodstuffs of the South Pacific to demonstrate ...
This essay revisits Leach’s thesis that American sweet potato (Polynesian kūmara) was first introduc...
From SAGE Publishing via Jisc Publications RouterHistory: epub 2021-05-10Publication status: Publish...
This article concerns the practice of cassava gardening among the indigenous Makushi people of Amazo...
God loved his Israel, his “pleasant planting.” He planted them to do good works, specifically to bri...
Since the era of national independence in the Pacific Islands, many indigenous leaders have attempte...
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control are all s...
In the second half of the 20th century Christian theology finally came down from heaven. Centuries o...