Download or read book Familiar Leadership Heresies Uncovered written by Bruce C.E. Fleming and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-01-04 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever think some passages are impossible to understand? Think Again! Bruce C. E. Fleming has uncovered familiar ÒleadershipÓ heresies through careful study of the Genesis passage on the Garden of Eden and five New Testament passages on church and home life. Heresies are not good for your health, nor are they good for the life of your church. This book is an important one to read, to share, to use in group study, and to keep close at hand for reference purposes too. Think Again! about the Bible ÒClear and compelling!Ó ÒExplains why passages have been difficult.Ó ÒTaught me how to study my Bible!Ó Meet the author. Bruce has been married to Joy for more than twenty-five years and they are the parents of Christy and Mark. An ordained pastor with graduate and postgraduate degrees in theology, Bruce has been a church planter in the U.S., in Europe and in Africa. The author of Contextualization of Theology : an Evangelical Assessment, he served as Professor of Practical Theology and Academic Dean of the Bangui Evangelical Graduate School of Theology in French-speaking Africa. This book provides practical Bible study help for Christians in the U.S., Africa and worldwide. Featured contents in Familiar ÒLeadershipÓ Heresies Uncovered Part One: The ÒEdenÓ Heresies - Two Sinners in the Hands of an Angry (and loving) God: the story of Eden (Gn 2-3) - Sinners in the Hands of a Loving (& just) Judge: the story of church leaders (1 Tm 1-3) Part Two: The ÒHeadshipÓ Heresies - One body divided : the story of unequally yoked spouses (1 Peter 3:1-7) - One body, indivisible: getting along with other Christians (Ephesians 5:15-6:9) Part Three: The ÒLegalistÓ Heresies - Our rules, not God's: dealing with the proposal for special privileges (1 Co 11:2-16) - Our rules, not God's: dealing with the proposal for special restrictions (1 Co 14:34-40) Part Four: ÒHow toÓ Think Again! about the Bible - The ÒFour PrinciplesÓ and the ÒSeven Think Again Bible Study StepsÓ
Download or read book Heresies Exposed written by William C. Irvine and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema written by Alicia Izharuddin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a historical overview of the Indonesian film industry, the relationship between censorship and representation, and the rise of Islamic popular culture. It considers scholarship on gender in Indonesian cinema through the lens of power relations. With key themes such as nationalism, women's rights, polygamy, and terrorism which have preoccupied local filmmakers for decades, Indonesia cinema resonates with the socio-political changes and upheavals in Indonesia’s modern history and projects images of the nation through the debates on gender and Islam. The text also sheds light on broader debates and questions about contemporary Islam and gender construction in contemporary Indonesia. Offering cutting edge accounts of the production of Islamic cinema, this new book considers gendered dimensions of Islamic media creation which further enrich the representations of the 'religious' and the 'Islamic' in the everyday lives of Muslims in South East Asia.
Download or read book Words Aptly Spoken written by Linda Schreurs and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women and Men in the Light of Eden written by Bruce C. E. Fleming and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together with God in the Garden (Genesis 2-3)Together with Christ in the Church (Ephesians 5-6)Corrected and Restored by Christ (1 Timothy 2-3)with discussion starters after each chapterThis easy-to-read commentary helps us think again about what happened in the Garden of Eden and about the meaning of the New Testament passages built on Eden."Increased my love for God!""Explained why passages have been difficult.""Taught me how to study my Bible!"Married for more than thirty years, a father and grandfather, Bruce C. E. Fleming is an ordained pastor with three graduate and post-graduate degrees in theology. He has been a church planter in the U.S., Europe, and in Africa.He was the Secretary for "Inspiration and Authority of the Bible" in the Lausanne Compendium (1975), and author of Contextualization of Theology: an Evangelical Assessment (1980), and Familiar "Leadership" Heresies Uncovered (2005).He served as Professor of Practical Theology of the Bangui Evangelical Graduate School of Theology in French-speaking Africa and has specialized in Bible training for churches among oral learners.
Download or read book American Heresy written by John Fanestil and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2023 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Heresy uncovers the complex legacy of America's founding principles, demonstrating how the very same values have produced both good fruit and the bitter harvest of white Christian nationalism. Fanestil adeptly traces an early American story that reaches into our present with alarming immediacy. Using cogent examples from the earliest days of colonial settlement through the Revolutionary War era, Fanestil helps us understand how many of the principles we view as paradigmatic expressions of American identity have had contested histories from the start. Virtue has brought both self-sacrifice and extremism; progress, both cultural pride and white racism. The very same principles that underpin the United States' proudest moments also forged the white Christian nationalism that fruited so dangerously in the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021. The implications of Fanestil's complex history are highly pertinent--and alarming. Far from a fringe movement embraced by a violent few, white Christian nationalism is a spiritual inheritance shared by all white American Christians. Grappling with this history is vital if the United States is ever to move beyond its tragic legacy as a white settler society.
Download or read book Our Old Monsters written by Brenda S. Gardenour Walter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The witch, the vampire and the werewolf endure in modern horror. These "old monsters" have their origins in Aristotle as studied in the universities of medieval Europe, where Christian scholars reconciled works of natural philosophy and medicine with theological precepts. They codified divine perfection as warm, light, male and associated with the ethereal world beyond the moon, while evil imperfection was cold, dark, female and bound to the corrupt world below the moon. All who did not conform to divine goodness--including un-holy women and Jews--were considered evil and ascribed a melancholic, blood hungry and demonic physiology. This construct was the basis for anti-woman and anti-Jewish discourse that has persisted through modern Western culture. Nowhere is this more evident than in horror films, where the witch, the vampire and the werewolf represent our fear of the inverted other.
Download or read book Presidential Lessons in Leadership written by Ron Felber and published by Government Institutes. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presidential Lessons in Leadership crystallizes the methods of leadership from six of America's greatest presidents during moments of personal challenge and turns them into concrete lessons that business leaders, and anyone interested in becoming a more effective leader, can use each day. The six presidents include: Abraham Lincoln: Principle-based Leadership John F. Kennedy: Leadership through critical thinking Franklin D. Roosevelt: Leadership through innovation Teddy Roosevelt: Leadership through influence Ronald Reagan: Leadership through ideology In this exciting and instructive book, CEO-historian Dr. Ron Felber dramatically renders the moral complexities behind these presidents' moment of greatest challenge and crystallizes the essence of the character-driven leadership they exercised into practical lessons that readers can apply in the workplace as well as in their day-to-day lives. Once a reader delves into these inspirational tales of challenge and triumph and the lessons they teach, they will never forget them!
Download or read book The World Changers Top 100 Political Leaders Of All Time written by Savita Pandit and published by True Sign Publishing House. This book was released on with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The World Changers: Top 100 Political Leaders Of All Time" is an insightful exploration of the most influential figures in the realm of politics throughout history. From ancient rulers to modern-day statesmen, this comprehensive book illuminates the lives and legacies of leaders who have shaped the course of nations and left an indelible mark on the world stage. Through compelling narratives and meticulous research, readers are introduced to iconic figures such as Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, Cleopatra, and Abraham Lincoln, among others, whose leadership and vision have inspired generations. Each leader's story is intricately woven, highlighting their triumphs, challenges, and enduring impact on society, governance, and international relations. "The World Changers" serves as a timeless testament to the power of leadership in shaping history and offers invaluable insights into the qualities and actions that define exceptional political leadership.
Download or read book The European Witch Hunt written by Julian Goodare and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Witch-Hunt seeks to explain why thousands of people, mostly lower-class women, were deliberately tortured and killed in the name of religion and morality during three centuries of intermittent witch-hunting throughout Europe and North America. Combining perspectives from history, sociology, psychology and other disciplines, this book provides a comprehensive account of witch-hunting in early modern Europe. Julian Goodare sets out an original interpretation of witch-hunting as an episode of ideologically-driven persecution by the ‘godly state’ in the era of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Full weight is also given to the context of village social relationships, and there is a detailed analysis of gender issues. Witch-hunting was a legal operation, and the courts’ rationale for interrogation under torture is explained. Panicking local elites, rather than central governments, were at the forefront of witch-hunting. Further chapters explore folk beliefs about legendary witches, and intellectuals’ beliefs about a secret conspiracy of witches in league with the Devil. Witch-hunting eventually declined when the ideological pressure to combat the Devil’s allies slackened. A final chapter sets witch-hunting in the context of other episodes of modern persecution. This book is the ideal resource for students exploring the history of witch-hunting. Its level of detail and use of social theory also make it important for scholars and researchers.
Download or read book Lives Uncovered written by Nicholas Terpstra and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curated by acclaimed scholar Nicholas Terpstra, Lives Uncovered is a captivating collection of early modern primary sources organized around the human life cycle. The collection begins with a short essay titled "How to Read a Primary Source," which helps readers recognize different kinds of primary sources and introduces the idea of critical reading. A second brief essay, "Life Cycles in the Early Modern Period," details the organization of the volume and explains each stage in the life cycle within its historical context. Over 150 readings examine men and women from different social classes and different religious and racial groups, addressing topics that include sex and sexuality, food and drink, poverty, crime and punishment, religious tension and coexistence, and migration and emigration. Using a creative range of sources such as letters, wills, laws, diaries, fiction, and poems, Terpstra gives readers a comprehensive picture of everyday life in early modern Europe and in other parts of the globe that Europeans were beginning to settle and colonize. Each of the life-cycle chapters includes a combination of longer readings, shorter readings, and images. Every reading begins with a short introduction that sets the context of the primary source, while review questions complement the main themes of the readings. Over 30 illustrations serve as non-textual primary sources. An index is also provided.
Download or read book The Protocols of Ambiguity written by B. B. Jacobson and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the seventh night of a Holy Ghost revival a six-year-old boy has just received the Gift. He is autonomous, he is content, and he is speaking in tongues. Hes been told the Gift would lead and guide him into all truth. While instability, confusion, and rage surround his family and home, the boy grows older and must experience unthinkable acts of violence, and the uncertainty of moving from place to place. The troubled boy seeks refuge in books and learning but oceans of questions flood his mind and he is forced to reckon with a world of myriad coexisting, coequal truths. As years pass, he begins to receive visitations. Unwilling to seek council regarding these occurrences, deeper questions emerge: Is it possible that there be a solitary, absolute truth? Is that truth so obvious that it is obscured only by its sheer enormity? Author B.B. Jacobson takes you on a remarkable journey into the life of an unassuming boy in this coming-of-age story of how the power of a calling exceeds the affect of circumstance. The Protocols of Ambiguity is a modern day statement that reveals the potency of a planted seed; it defies the mainstream and lays the challenge at the feet of the avant-garde to return to the root.
Download or read book The Bible Tells Me So written by Peter Enns and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversial Bible scholar and author of The Evolution of Adam recounts his transformative spiritual journey in which he discovered a new, more honest way to love and appreciate God’s Word. Trained as an evangelical Bible scholar, Peter Enns loved the Scriptures and shared his devotion, teaching at Westminster Theological Seminary. But the further he studied the Bible, the more he found himself confronted by questions that could neither be answered within the rigid framework of his religious instruction or accepted among the conservative evangelical community. Rejecting the increasingly complicated intellectual games used by conservative Christians to “protect” the Bible, Enns was conflicted. Is this what God really requires? How could God’s plan for divine inspiration mean ignoring what is really written in the Bible? These questions eventually cost Enns his job—but they also opened a new spiritual path for him to follow. The Bible Tells Me So chronicles Enns’s spiritual odyssey, how he came to see beyond restrictive doctrine and learned to embrace God’s Word as it is actually written. As he explores questions progressive evangelical readers of Scripture commonly face yet fear voicing, Enns reveals that they are the very questions that God wants us to consider—the essence of our spiritual study.
Download or read book The Nag Hammadi Scriptures written by Marvin W. Meyer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, edited by Marvin Meyer, is the most complete, up-to-date, one-volume, English-language edition of the renowned library of Gnostic manuscripts discovered in Egypt in 1945, which rivaled the Dead Sea Scrolls find in significance. It includes the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, and the recently discovered Gospel of Judas, as well as other Gnostic gospels and sacred texts. This volume also includes introductory essays, notes, tables, glossary, index, etc. to help the reader understand the context and contemporary significance of these texts which have shed new light on early Christianity and ancient thought. The compilation of ancient manuscripts that constitute The Nag Hammadi Scriptures is a discovery that challenges everything we thought we knew about the early Christian church, ancient Judaism, and Greco-Roman religions.
Download or read book Rediscovering Scripture s Vision for Women written by Lucy Peppiatt and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does God call women to serve as equal partners in marriage and as leaders in the church? With careful exegetical work, Lucy Peppiatt considers relevant passages in Ephesians, Colossians, 1 Peter, 1 Timothy, and 1 Corinthians. There she finds a story of God releasing women alongside men into all forms of ministry, leadership, work, and service on the basis of character and gifting, rather than biological sex.
Download or read book According to Mary Magdalene written by Marianne Fredriksson and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ater the death of Christ, the apostles seek out Mary Magdalene. They have come for her memories of Jesus, as she was closest to and most loved by him. Thus begins her story: her childhood and the murder of her parents; her education and service at a brothel; her first love. Mary recounts her intimate experience with Jesus of Nazareth--of meeting this remarkable man, their all-too-human relationship, and his journey toward destiny. Later, when she realizes the apostles are intentionally altering Christ's teachings to suit their own goals, Mary struggles to spread theundistorted teachings herself, joining with her sisters who would otherwise have no place, and no voice, in the new church the apostles are creating. In sharing her own story, Mary weaves a richly textured tapestry of people, landscapes, cultures, and beliefs, and provides new insight into the role of women in the early Christian church. Marianne Fredrikkson masterfully breathes new life into the figure of Mary Magdalene in this triumphal novel of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, seen through the eyes of the woman who loved him most.
Download or read book The Mixed Multitude written by Paweł Maciejko and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1756, Jacob Frank, an Ottoman Jew who had returned to the Poland of his birth, was discovered leading a group of fellow travelers in a suspect religious service. At the request of the local rabbis, Polish authorities arrested the participants. Jewish authorities contacted the bishop in whose diocese the service had taken place and argued that since the rites of Frank's followers involved the practice of magic and immoral conduct, both Jews and Christians should condemn them and burn them at the stake. The scheme backfired, as the Frankists took the opportunity to ally themselves with the Church, presenting themselves as Contra-Talmudists who believed in a triune God. As a Turkish subject, Frank was released and temporarily expelled to the Ottoman territories, but the others were found guilty of breaking numerous halakhic prohibitions and were subject to a Jewish ban of excommunication. While they professed their adherence to everything that was commanded by God in the Old Testament, they asserted as well that the Rabbis of old had introduced innumerable lies and misconstructions in their interpretations of that holy book. Who were Jacob Frank and his followers? To most Christians, they seemed to be members of a Jewish sect; to Jewish reformers, they formed a group making a valiant if misguided attempt to bring an end to the power of the rabbis; and to more traditional Jews, they were heretics to be suppressed by the rabbinate. What is undeniable is that by the late eighteenth century, the Frankists numbered in the tens of thousands and had a significant political and ideological influence on non-Jewish communities throughout eastern and central Europe. Based on extensive archival research in Poland, the Czech Republic, Israel, Germany, the United States, and the Vatican, The Mixed Multitude is the first comprehensive study of Frank and Frankism in more than a century and offers an important new perspective on Jewish-Christian relations in the Age of Enlightenment.
