Bringing the Church to the World

Bringing the Church to the World
Author: Nicholas Thomas Wright
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993
Genre: Christianity
ISBN: 9781556613180

As he convincingly demonstrates that the Western world is becoming increasingly, overtly pagan, Wright articulates how paganism now manifests itself in Western culture, shows how the gospel confronts it at the roots, and presents a challenging agenda for the church. "An urgent book for the times--passionate, brilliant, filled with hope".--Timothy George, Beeson Divinity School.

Women in the Church of God in Christ

Women in the Church of God in Christ
Author: Anthea Butler
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0807882909

The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States today. In this first major study of the church, Anthea Butler examines the religious and social lives of the women in the COGIC Women's Department from its founding in 1911 through the mid-1960s. She finds that the sanctification, or spiritual purity, that these women sought earned them social power both in the church and in the black community. Offering rich, lively accounts of the activities of the Women's Department founders and other members, Butler shows that the COGIC women of the early decades were able to challenge gender roles and to transcend the limited responsibilities that otherwise would have been assigned to them both by churchmen and by white-dominated society. The Great Depression, World War II, and the civil rights movement brought increased social and political involvement, and the Women's Department worked to make the "sanctified world" of the church interact with the broader American society. More than just a community of church mothers, says Butler, COGIC women utilized their spiritual authority, power, and agency to further their contestation and negotiation of gender roles in the church and beyond.

The Church for the World

The Church for the World
Author: Jennifer McBride
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2012-01-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 019975568X

Drawing on the work of German pastor-theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jennifer McBride constructs a new theology of public witness for American Protestant church communities based on the public expression of repentance and redemption.

The Church in the Modern World

The Church in the Modern World
Author: Michael G. Lawler
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814682952

Gaudium et Spes, Vatican II’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, marked fundamental shifts in ethical methodology, in how we do ethics in the Catholic tradition, and in how we think about ethical and ecclesial issues in the Catholic Church in the modern world. On the document’s fiftieth anniversary, this book explores the historical origins of Gaudium et Spes, its impact on the Church’s ecclesial self-understanding, and its implications for doing Catholic theological ethics for the specific ethical issues of marriage, social justice, politics, and peacebuilding.The book engages in the ongoing communal discernment of the aggiornamento sought by the council’s convener, Pope John XXIII, seeking to bring the Church up to date in the twenty-first century.

Our Father's World

Our Father's World
Author: Edward R. Brown
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2008-03-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830834842

What does the Bible have to say about creation care and the responsibility of Christians? Edward Brown offers a biblical framework for creation care as well as practical steps that ordinary Christians can take to exercise good ecological stewardship.

The Greatest Church in the World: A Lamp on a Hill

The Greatest Church in the World: A Lamp on a Hill
Author: Skip Carney
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2018-10-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781732637313

Pastor Kevin was three hundred and forty-seven miles from home. Out of gas and out of options, he turns into a small town where he meets an elderly pastor and a community that change his perspective on church success. There he learns the principles that can make any church The Greatest Church in the World.

SimChurch

SimChurch
Author: Douglas Estes
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2009-09-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310314135

The meeting place for the church of tomorrow will be a computer screen. Don’t laugh, and don’t feel alarmed. The real-world church isn’t going anywhere until Jesus returns. But the virtual church is already here, and it’s poised for explosive growth. SimChurch invites you to explore the vision, the concerns, the challenges, and the remarkable possibilities of building Christ’s kingdom online. What is the virtual church, and what different forms might it take? Will it be an extension of a real-world church, or a separate entity? How will it encourage families to worship together? Is it even possible or healthy to “be” the church in the virtual world? If you’re passionate about the church and evangelism, and if you feel both excitement and concern over the new virtual world the internet is creating, then these are just some of the vital issues you and other postmillennial followers of Jesus must grapple with. Rich in both biblical and current insight, combining exploration and critique, SimChurch opens a long-overdue discussion you can’t afford to miss.

Radical Discipleship

Radical Discipleship
Author: Jennifer M. McBride
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1506401902

Reminiscent of Bonhoeffer’s Discipleship, Jennifer McBride’s Radical Discipleship utilizes the liturgical seasons as a framework for engaging the social evils of mass incarceration, capital punishment, and homelessness, arguing that to be faithful to the gospel, Christians must become disciples of, not simply believers in, Jesus. The book arises out of McBride’s extensive experience teaching theology in a women’s prison while participating in a residential Christian activist and worshipping community. Arguing that disciples must take responsibility for the social evils that bar “beloved community,” Martin Luther King’s term for a just social order, the promised kingdom of God, McBride calls for a dual commitment to the works of mercy and the struggle for justice. This work seeks to form readers into an understanding of the social and political character of the good news proclaimed in the Gospels. Organically connecting liturgy with activism and theological reflection, McBride argues that discipleship requires that privileged Christians place their bodies in spaces of social struggle and distress to reduce the distance between themselves and those who suffer injustice, and stand in solidarity with those whom society deems guilty, despises, and rejects—which makes discipleship radical as Christians take seriously the Jesus of the Gospels.

The Church in the Bible and the World

The Church in the Bible and the World
Author: D. A. Carson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2002-09-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1592440479

As Christianity makes its impact upon widely different social contexts around the world, new questions arise about the interpretation of the church's biblical identity and mission. Contributors include Edmund P. Clowney, P.T. O'Brien, Russell P. Shedd, Ronald Y. K. Fung, D. A. Carson, Sunand Sumithra, and David Adeney. Among the topics dealt with are mission, ministry, worship, syncretism, persecution, the church as a heavenly and eschatological entity and the biblical theology of the church. Published on behalf of the World Evangelical Fellowship.