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Andrew Decort

Andrew Decort

Dr. Andrew DeCort earned his Ph.D. in Theological Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School and is lead professor for the Authority, Action, Ethics: Ethiopia Program at Wheaton College. Andrew edited and wrote the Foreword to Professor Donald Levine’s Interpreting Ethiopia: Observations of Five Decades (Tsehai Press, 2014) and is the author of “Authority, Martyrdom, and the Question of Axiality in Ethiopian Political Theology” (under revision for the Journal of Ethiopian Religious Studies). His dissertation is entitled Bonhoeffer’s Beginning: Universal Entry, “the Problem of Morality,” and the Ethics of New Beginning. In the summer of 2016, Andrew will join the faculty of the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology and promote the work of ICCG in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with his wife Lily Atlaw DeCort.

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Why I Call Muslims Brothers and Sisters

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Thursday, 17 December 2015 03:44
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The Individual, Oceanic Depths, and Contemporary Worship

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Tuesday, 13 October 2015 19:28
friend recently wrote me an email asking about my thoughts on contemporary worship in relation to his church’s distaste for individual and emotional lyrics and musical styles. Here is my reply for those who are also interested in this question:   I will never forget an exchange I had at Wheaton College years back after I led worship in a chapel s...

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