Johnny Ramirez-Johnson

The Power of Love for Reaching Out to "the Other" (eBook, ePUB)

IMAGE-IQ Intercultural Communications Model for the Church Today

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Race is a result of God's design and not of sin. God loves diversity and sought it. Race biases are normal and come as a result of likes and dislikes; love of "the other" is to be learned. In this book, Bible stories and principles are combined with four intercultural communication skills to help develop love of the other. This book builds on what Sherwood Lingenfelter and Marvin K. Mayers developed for understanding cultural values and diversity of likes and dislikes. Those differences are normal. The problem comes from excluding the other. This book explores a step-wise approach to developing the love of the other. How the person, the leader, and the church see diversity defines the church's outreach, mission, and gospel fulfillment. Author's Own Words Book Description The Power of Love book explains how emotions and feelings were part of God's creation design from before sin entered this world. While departing from cognitive neuropsychology and the latest learning from science this seminar furthers the idea that race relations are not to be understood by sociology and science but by Bible and Christian beliefs. If you want to learn a non-CRT (critical race theory) approach to race relations while risking being, again, convicted of the need to reach out to the other in gospel love--enter into dialogue--with the author by reading his book and let us pray together. If you want to keep it safe and your intercultural relationships as they are--in a tongue in cheek way the author advices to--stay away from this book!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666729658
• Artikelnr.: 68794951

Autorenporträt

Johnny Ramirez-Johnson's wide-ranging education began in Puerto Rico with a bachelor's degree in theology, a minor in biblical languages, and a master's in Hebrew Scriptures and archaeology from Andrews University (Michigan), later complemented with a year's fellowship at the Semitic Museum at Harvard University. This formative study equips him to bring the culture of biblical times into an understanding of Scripture as the basis for Christian mission relevant in a multicultural context. At Harvard he earned a master's and a doctorate, in which he examined how society's discrimination of a historically disadvantaged group of Latinos (Puerto Ricans) was ameliorated and overcome by faith via the social support of the church and the ideology of the gospel. His training in human development and cultural psychology provide theoretical vehicles for reading the Bible from a practical theology perspective that facilitates the gospel's work among the unreached--from American inner cities to remote areas of the world.

Two books by Ramirez-Johnson apply the multicultural, intergenerational, and multilingual realities for North American churches in promoting not only love for Jesus but also healthy and holy lifestyles: A Way Up the Ladder, Motivation Achievement via Religious Ideology: An Ethnography of a Seventh-day Adventist Puerto Rican Church (Mellen, 2008) and AVANCE: A Vision for a New Manana (foreword by Justo Gonzalez; Loma Linda University Press, 2003). In addition, many of his articles deal with the role of culture in church affairs.

His 2018 coedited book with Love Sechrest and Amos Yong, Can "White" People Be Saved? Triangulating Race, Theology, and Mission (IVP Academic), explores race and missiology topics with a global, intersectional focus.

Ramirez-Johnson describes himself as a practical theologian working at the intersection of the social sciences and theology. Integrating principles from anthropology, cultural psychology, and cognitive psychology, he developed the Image-IQ Survey, an intercultural communication skills inventory. Before joining Fuller's faculty he taught religion/theology full time at two colleges and one university, most recently as professor of religion, psychology, and culture at Loma Linda University (LLU). He has also taught at the Seminario Latinoamericano in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Regarding his personal faith and resulting service, he says, "I am a convert to Jesus Christ and the truth of the Word of God who followed Jesus under duress; my father persecuted and tried to kill me as I fled home to follow Jesus." He has been involved in planting churches around the world, including Middle America, North America, and Lebanon, and has preached around the world for revivals, evangelism, and church growth.

He holds leadership committee roles at the General Conference for Hispanic Ministries, Chaplaincy and Education; serves as a volunteer chaplain for Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, where he is actively involved in the education, supervision, and certification of chaplains; serves as volunteer outreach and ministry pastor at Glendale City Church; and conducts Bible studies and does pastoral care counseling for Fuller students and the community. Even prior to joining the faculty, his service included Fuller Theological Seminary (2002-2006) as a member of Fuller's Hispanic Advisory Committee.

Download Johnny Ramirez-Johnson's CV, which includes a list of his current publications.