to Wright: “It will take four or five hundred years for us to become indigenes; and to write poetry, unless you are an indigene, is very difficult … The aborigines lived with the landscape and every bit of it had meaning for them” (Strauss 1995, p. 59). Wright’s lament inThe...
In Christianity, for example, the Bible depicts Jesus Christ as the steward of the Church, with practical incidences in which He takes care of his flock and looks out for his lost sheep. Christians believe that Jesus is their leader, and they walk in His footst...
Abstracts coded under the second most common meaning, Outcome, are almost always coded under Action as well – as opposed to those under Ethic, which are less likely to be linked to other meanings. This reveals a significant cluster in the literature where stewardship is considered primarily in...
“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes a...
Our act, when we pray, must not, any more than all our other acts, be separated from the continuous act of God Himself, in which alone all finite causes operate. It would be even worse to think of those who get what they pray for as a sort of court favorites, people who have ...
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Abstract The ancient origins of stewardship beliefs are traced to Plato, Neoplatonism, the Old Testament, and Christianity. Evidence of attitudes regarding human beings as entrusted to complete God’s work of creation and nature as a trust is found in the Church fathers, as well as in the Refo...