Future Faith

Future Faith
Author: Wesley Granberg-Michaelson
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2018-03-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1506438199

In Future Faith: Ten Challenges Reshaping the Practice of Christianity, author Wesley Granberg-Michaelson provides a lucid view of how the top ten winds of change blowing through global Christian faith are reshaping the practice of Christianity today. He is uniquely qualified to identify and interpret connection points between global Christian trends and the American church. Drawing on the stories, examples, and personalities of pastors and congregations from throughout the U.S. as well as those from Africa, Asia, Latin America, who are the faces of Christianity's future, Future Faith is designed to inform and empower followers of Jesus to seek new ways of becoming the face of Christ to a rapidly changing world. Leaders and practitioners in church growth, renewal, and planting will be a primary audience for this book. Students of religion from Catholic, evangelical, Pentecostal, and historic Protestant streams will find this book an informative and stimulating resource for pondering together the future of their faith. Small groups engaged in congregational nurture and growth will find in the author a welcome companion for guiding them through the multi-cultural landscape of contemporary faith.

Faith, Freedom, and the Future

Faith, Freedom, and the Future
Author: Michael Nazir-Ali
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2016-05-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532600240

With unique insight and wisdom, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali surveys the current challenges facing today's church and provides a compelling hope-filled vision of what a living Christian faith, and its comprehensive outworking, can offer society today. Bishop Michael boldly tackles a range of pressing and controversial issues with astute scholarship and understanding--including: the challenges of Islam, freedom and conscience, the 'modern family', bioethics, and the uncertain future of the worldwide Anglican Communion and, by implication, other mainline denominations.

Art and Faith in Mexico

Art and Faith in Mexico
Author: Elizabeth Netto Calil Zarur
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2001
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780826323248

Studies retabloes--Mexican paintings on tin created in the latter half of the nineteenth century--from art, religious, and historical perspectives, and discusses efforts made to restore and conserve the artwork.

A Grain of Faith

A Grain of Faith
Author: Allan Hepburn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2018
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0198828578

This volume explores how religion influenced the works of mid-century writers and how authors used Christian ideas for social and political ends in the 1940s and 1950s.

Faith Without Certainty

Faith Without Certainty
Author:
Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Total Pages: 260
Release:
Genre: Liberalism (Religion)
ISBN: 9781558965997

This book lays out the basic characteristics of liberal theology, delving into historical and philosophical sources as well as social and intellectual roots. Ideal for readers who want a better understanding of liberal theology, a religious tradition that is rooted not in authority but in one's own experience and conscience.

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead
Author: Elesha J. Coffman
Publisher: Spiritual Lives
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2021
Genre: Anthropologists
ISBN: 0198834934

This volume introduces a side of Margaret Mead that few people know. Coffman provides a fascinating account of Mead's life and reinterprets her work, highlighting religious concerns.

Religion and Technology in the 21st Century: Faith in the E-World

Religion and Technology in the 21st Century: Faith in the E-World
Author: George, Susan Ella
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2006-05-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1591407168

"This book examines the unique synergy between religion and technology, and explores the many ways that technology is shaping religious expression, as well as ways that religion is coming to influence technology"--Provided by publisher.

Forms of Faith in Sixteenth-century Italy

Forms of Faith in Sixteenth-century Italy
Author: Abigail Brundin
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780754665557

This interdisciplinary volume gathers essays by leading international scholars in the fields of Italian Renaissance literature, music, history and history of art to address the fertile question of the relationship between religious change and shifting cultural forms in sixteenth-century Italy. Each contribution examines the effects of the profound religious changes that took place in the period on cultural forms, seeking to establish an 'aesthetics of reform' for the sixteenth century.

The Religion of the Apostles

The Religion of the Apostles
Author: Stephen DeYoung
Publisher: Ancient Faith Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-05-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781944967550

Father Stephen De Young, creator of the popular The Whole Counsel of God podcast and blog, traces the lineage of Orthodox Christianity back to the faith and witness of the apostles, which was rooted in a first-century Jewish worldview. The Religion of the Apostles presents the Orthodox Christian Church of today as a continuation of the religious life of the apostles, which in turn was a continuation of the life of the people of God since the beginning of creation.