1. PEACE THEOLOGY 101 LECTURE 5

2. PEACE THEOLOGY 101 Introduction to Peace Theology. This course will help the students to appreciate and to evaluate a biblical understanding and contemporary practice of Peace Theology. Such evaluation will be done within the framework of social sciences and informed from the perspective of biblical theology. The students will be intellectually, emotionally, and volitionally involved in the current discussions on the meanings, proposals, and tasks of Peace Theology.

3. PEACE THEOLOGY 101 TOWARDS A TANAKH THEOLOGY OF SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION

4. PEACE THEOLOGY 101 Harmony with God (Spiritual Transformation) PEACE THEOLOGY THE PEACE OF GOD IS CENTRAL TO THE GOOD NEWS Harmony with Others (Social-Political Transformation) Harmony with the Creation (Economic-Ecological Transformation) Harmony with the Self (Psycho-Social Transformation) PEACEBUILDING=SHALOMLIVING

5. YHWH PEACE THEOLOGY 101 HEBREW UNDERSTANDING OF THE TETRAGRAMMATON hwh y hyh From the verb “to be”

6. PEACE THEOLOGY 101 CHALLENGES FOR BIBLICAL SHALOMLIVING Values of the Global Empire in the 21 st Century Extreme Individualism This is the most emphasized modern cultural value being communicated in the big media, causing the family and community to be disintegrated. Practical Materialism Many families may be religious during Sunday mornings, but practicing materialists during most of the week, influenced more by commercial advertisements and greed-oriented consumerism than by biblical principles, biblical ethics, and biblical morality. A Culture of Violence and War A belief system that human conflicts and differences are ultimately resolved by the use of force; thus, justifying personal, domestic social, and political violence. A Mechanistic View of People In opposition to the biblical view of people, a mechanistic view treats humans and the creation as machine-projects rather than living organisms who are also story-subjects. Thus, the family, the church and the community is seen as an organization to be fixed rather than an organism to be healed.

8. THE IDOLS IN MY OWN LIFE