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| Author | : Michael J. Kruger |
| Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2018-03-06 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0830887512 |
Christianity in the twenty-first century is a global phenomenon. But in the second century, its future was not at all certain. Michael Kruger's introductory survey examines how Christianity took root in the second century, how it battled to stay true to the vision of the apostles, and how it developed in ways that would shape both the church and Western culture over the next two thousand years.
| Author | : Michael W. Goheen |
| Publisher | : Baker Academic |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2008-11-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9781441201997 |
How can Christians live faithfully at the crossroads of the story of Scripture and postmodern culture? In Living at the Crossroads, authors Michael Goheen and Craig Bartholomew explore this question as they provide a general introduction to Christian worldview. Ideal for both students and lay readers, Living at the Crossroads lays out a brief summary of the biblical story and the most fundamental beliefs of Scripture. The book tells the story of Western culture from the classical period to postmodernity. The authors then provide an analysis of how Christians live in the tension that exists at the intersection of the biblical and cultural stories, exploring the important implications in key areas of life, such as education, scholarship, economics, politics, and church.
| Author | : Claude Barthe |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2006-06 |
| Genre | : Catholic traditionalist movement |
| ISBN | : 9781929291830 |
Attempts to bridge the divide in the Catholic Church between traditionalists and the mainstream Church.
| Author | : D. Neal MacPherson |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 179 |
| Release | : 2008-02-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1556352840 |
Facing the uncertainty of their present life and ministry, the American and Canadian churches of mainline Protestantism are, for the most part, responding in one of two ways. Some are simply choosing to ignore the process of their disestablishment. They continue to carry on with their church life as though nothing were happening, as though they were still occupying a place at the center of society. Others, knowing that they are being moved to the periphery of social and political life, are seeking to regain their past power and influence by adopting one or another program of church growth, many of which are being promoted by the newly emerging megachurches of the Christian right. Based upon the history and experience of a particular congregation, Church of the Crossroads in Honolulu, Hawaii, this book suggests a third option for the churches of mainline Protestantism: to embrace their ongoing disestablishment and to see it not as a burden or as something to be either ignored or reversed, but as an opportunity to envision a new way of being in the world.
| Author | : Michael J. Bakalis |
| Publisher | : WestBow Press |
| Total Pages | : 138 |
| Release | : 2024-09-05 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
Recent research reveals a mass exodus from Eastern Orthodoxy in America. But why have so many people left the Church?
| Author | : Ronald E. Vallet |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2006-08-11 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1597528757 |
The most vital question confronting the church in North America at the turn of the century is whether it can, in the face of the myriad distractions of modern society, remember who it is, what it is called to do, and, especially, whose it is. In this volume Ronald Vallet explores the biblical basis for stewardship, with major emphasis on God's promises and commands, to help congregations become the households of God that he intends them to be. Vallet also discusses several church-related issues that affect the life and practices of congregations today. He deals with fantasies and fears about money in the congregation, shows the central role that authentic worship plays in focusing congregations on God, examines the proper roles of pastors and laity, and considers the prevailing concepts and practices of modern culture that can entangle today's churches. Vallet's work provides an insightful map for churches as they confront the confusing crossroads of life in our world.
| Author | : Gerhard Sauter |
| Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2007-04-26 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0802840345 |
In an atmosphere of growing skepticism and discouragement, what hope has theology for the future, and what sources might deliver that hope? In this astute analysis of Protestant theology today, Gerhard Sauter sets himself to help theology answer critical questions and accomplish crucial tasks in order to move forward with hope. Protestant Theology at the Crossroads examines contextual theology, in which particular cultural heritages, race and gender, economic conditions, and the structure of social life inform the teachings of the faith rather than vice versa. How, for example, do we approach the crisis in American self-understanding caused by terrorism? Do changes in European politics alter our theological perceptions? Sauter argues that dogmatics -- properly understood as the process of theological reasoning that supports the life of the church -- can and should be used as the tool to save theology. Dogmatics, he says, can break through pious isolationism and converge with genuine public theology, leading to the church's understanding of its own essence.
| Author | : Melinda A. Quivik |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2023-04-13 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1666735205 |
This book calls Protestant churches, and the ELCA in particular, to a church-wide conversation about racism. It is a response to the 2019 book Dear Church by Lenny Duncan, a former Lutheran pastor who is Black and who, among other reparations, calls for changing the church’s worship in order to address segregated Sundays. Changes in worship affect theological foundations. Informed consideration is essential. Because entering into life-changing conversations requires vulnerability and commitment, this book includes several narratives: my life as a White woman and pastor, the history of the Black church as defined by Black theologians, the development of the liturgical renewal movement, and my experiences as a professor navigating worship conflicts as my seminary struggled with financial constraints and a changing student body. The seminary conflicts offered me a window into how better to address racism inspired by the example of post-WWII German truth-telling and how some US Southern states have come to grips with the history of the Jim Crow South (described in Susan Neiman’s Learning from the Germans). This book outlines a way forward for churches in responding to racism by encouraging healthy engagement with contentious relationships as a necessity for healing.
| Author | : Benjamin L. Hartley |
| Publisher | : UPNE |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 2011-01-11 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1584659416 |
The story of Boston revivalism and social reform
| Author | : Maria Alessia Rossi |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 605 |
| Release | : 2021-11-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3110695634 |
This volume builds upon the new worldwide interest in the global Middle Ages. It investigates the prismatic heritage and eclectic artistic production of Eastern Europe between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, while challenging the temporal and geographical parameters of the study of medieval, Byzantine, post-Byzantine, and early-modern art. Contact and interchange between primarily the Latin, Greek, and Slavic cultural spheres resulted in local assimilations of select elements that reshaped the artistic landscapes of regions of the Balkan Peninsula, the Carpathian Mountains, and further north. The specificities of each region, and, in modern times, politics and nationalistic approaches, have reinforced the tendency to treat them separately, preventing scholars from questioning whether the visual output could be considered as an expression of a shared history. The comparative and interdisciplinary framework of this volume provides a holistic view of the visual culture of these regions by addressing issues of transmission and appropriation, as well as notions of cross-cultural contact, while putting on the global map of art history the eclectic artistic production of Eastern Europe.
