Download or read book Half a Century of Apostasy written by Russell R. Standish and published by Hartland Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blinded by the Light written by Philip W. Dunham and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Apostasy written by James Edward Talmage and published by Binker North. This book was released on 1909 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History is a 1909 book by James E. Talmage that summarizes the Great Apostasy, Mormon doctrine, from the viewpoint of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Talmage wrote his book with the intention that it be used as a teaching tool within the LDS Church's Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association and the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association. The book is "in many ways quite derivative" of B. H. Roberts's 1893 Outlines of Ecclesiastical History. Both writers borrowed heavily from the writings of Protestant scholars who argued that Roman Catholicism had apostatized from true Christianity. Talmage's book has been described as "the most recognizable and noted work on the topic" of Latter-day Saint views of the Great Apostasy.
Download or read book The Apostasy That Wasn t written by Rod Bennett and published by Catholic Answers Press. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory goes like this: Just a few centuries after Christ's death, around the time the Roman Empire converted to Christianity, the true Faith suffered a catastrophic falling-away, so obscured by worldliness and pagan idolatry, kicking off the Dark Ages of Catholicism, that Christianity required a complete reboot. This theory is popular]] but it's also fiction. This idea of a "Great Apostasy" is one of the cornerstones of American Protestantism, along with Mormonism, the Jehovah's Witnesses, and even Islam. Countless millions today profess a faith built on the assumption that the early Church quickly became broken beyond repair, and needed restoration to the "pure" teaching of Jesus and the apostles. Amid imperial intrigue, military menace, and bitter theological debate, a hero arises in the form of a homely little monk named Athanasius, who stands against the world to prove that there could never be a Great Apostasybecause Jesus promised his Church would never be broken With the touch of a master storyteller, Rod Bennett narrates the drama of the early Church's fight to preserve Christian orthodoxy, while powerful forces try to smash it.
Download or read book The Great Apostasy written by James Edward Talmage and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the apostasy of the primitive church to show that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a restoration of the gospel.
Download or read book The Great Apostasy In the Light of Scriptural and Secular History written by James E. Talmage and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been written in the hope that it may prove of service to missionary elders in the field, to classes and quorum organizations engaged in the study of theological subjects at home, and to earnest investigators of the teachings and claims of the restored Church of Jesus Christ. This religious book is written by James E. Talmage, an English chemist, geologist, and religious leader who served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1911 until his death. Contents: Introduction: The Establishment of the Church of Christ The Apostasy Predicted Early Stages of the Apostasy Causes of the Apostasy.—External Causes Considered Causes of the Apostasy.—External Causes, Continued Causes of the Apostasy.—Internal Causes Internal Causes.—Continued Results of the Apostasy.—Its Sequel
Download or read book The Great Apostasy written by James E. Talmage and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-01-28 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book A Convert s Tale written by Tamar Herzig and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salomone da Sesso was a virtuoso goldsmith in Renaissance Italy. Brought down by a sex scandal, he saved his skin by converting to Catholicism. Tamar Herzig explores Salamone’s world—his Jewish upbringing, his craft and patrons, and homosexuality. In his struggle for rehabilitation, we see how precarious and contested was the meaning of conversion.
Download or read book Seventh Day Adventists Answer Questions on Doctrine written by George R. Knight and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a completely new typeset of the monumental 1957 classic, containing an extensive historical and theological introduction and detailed in-text notations by George R. Knight. Originally produced by the Ministerial Association of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Questions on Doctrine was widely acclaimed and distributed in the late 1950s and early 1960s as a forthright answer to questions from evangelicals about key elements of Adventist doctrine. Controversy regarding the book's position on the nature of Christ and the atonement soon stopped its circulation. As part of the Adventist Classic Library, Knight's essays provide the background for how the book came about and describes the interaction of the principal players involved in the crisis that shelved this classic work for more than a generation.
Download or read book Apostasy and Jewish identity in High Middle Ages Northern Europe written by Simha Goldin and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The attitude of Jews living in the medieval Christian world to Jews who converted to Christianity or to Christians seeking to join the Jewish faith reflects the central traits that make up Jewish self-identification. The Jews saw themselves as a unique group chosen by God, who expected them to play a specific and unique role in the world. This study researches fully for the first time the various aspects of the way European Jews regarded members of their own fold in the context of lapses into another religion. It attempts to understand whether they regarded the issue of conversion with self-confidence or with suspicion, and whether their attitude was based on a clear theological position, or on issues of socialisation. The book will primarily interest students and lecturers of Jewish/Christian relations, the Middle Ages, Jews in the Medieval period, and inter-religious research.
Download or read book Forward Movements of the Last Half Century written by Arthur T. Pierson and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Church of God and the Apostacy written by Donald FRASER (Minister at Marylebone Presbyterian Church.) and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Questions on Doctrine written by Russell R. Standish and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire written by Selim Deringil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire traditional religious structures crumbled as the empire itself began to fall apart. The state's answer to schism was regulation and control, administered in the form of a number of edicts in the early part of the century. It is against this background that different religious communities and individuals negotiated survival by converting to Islam when their political interests or their lives were at stake. As the century progressed, however, conversion was no longer sufficient to guarantee citizenship and property rights as the state became increasingly paranoid about its apostates and what it perceived as their 'denationalization'. The book tells the story of the struggle between the Ottoman State, the Great Powers and a multitude of evangelical organizations, shedding light on current flash-points in the Arab world and the Balkans, offering alternative perspectives on national and religious identity and the interconnection between the two.
Download or read book The Great Apostasy written by James E Talmage and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James E. Talmage's authoritative exploration of the Great Apostasy from the perspective of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon perspective). Studied by Mormon missionaries for generations, the book delves into the Great Apostasy-the concept that the practice of Christianity had diverged from the teachings of Jesus Christ and his twelve Apostles. Topics covered include: The Establishment of the Church of Christ, Conditions at beginning of Christian era, Religious systems, Jewish, Pagan, and Samaritan, Jewish sects and parties, Law of, Moses fulfilled and superseded, Apostles chosen and ordained, Apostolic administration, The Church established on the western, hemisphere, The "meridian of time, ", The Apostasy Predicted, The Church has not continued in unbroken succession, Divine fore-knowledge, The divine purposes not thwarted, Apostasy from the Church compared with the apostasy of the Church, Specific predictions concerning the apostasy, The Law of Moses a temporary measure, Isaiah's fateful prophecy, Predictions by Jesus Christ, By Paul, By Peter, By Jude, By John the Revelator, Apostasy on the western hemisphere predicted, Early Stages of the Apostasy, The apostasy recognized in apostolic age, Testimony of, Paul, "Mystery of iniquity, "Summary of Paul's utterances, concerning early apostasy, Testimony of Jude, Of John the, Revelator, Messages to the churches of Asia, Nicolaitanes, denounced, Testimonies of Hegesippus, Early schisms in the, Church, Declension of the Church before close of first, century, Apostasy on the western hemisphere, Destruction of, Nephite nation by the Lamanites, Causes of the Apostasy, External Causes Considered, Causes of the apostasy, external and internal, Persecution as an external cause, Judaism and Paganism arrayed against the Church, Judaistic persecution, Predictions of Judaistic opposition, Fulfillment of the same, Destruction of Jerusalem, Pagan persecution, Roman opposition to Christianity, explanation, of, Number of persecutions by the Romans, Persecution under, Nero, Under Domitian, Under Trajan, Under Marcus Aurelius, Later, persecutions, Persecutions under Diocletian, Extent of the, Diocletian persecution, Diocletian boast that Christianity was, extinct, The Church taken under state protection by Constantine the, Great, Causes of the Apostasy, Internal Causes, Diverse effect of persecution, Imprudent zeal of some, Return to idolatry by others, "Libels" attesting individual apostasy, Sad condition of the Church in third century, Testimony as to conditions of apostasy at this period, Decline of the Church antedates the conversion of Constantine, Departure from Christianity, Specific causes of the growing apostasy, First specific cause: "The corrupting of the simple principles of the gospel by the admixture of the so-called philosophic systems of the times, "Judaistic perversions, Admixture of Gnosticism with Christianity, Gnosticism unsatisfying, New platonics, Doctrine of the Logos, "The World, "Sibellianism, Arianism, The Council of Nice and its denunciation of Arianism, The Nicene Creed, The Creed of Athanasius, Perverted view of life, Disregard for truth, Second specific cause: "Unauthorized additions to the ceremonies of the Church, and the introduction of vital changes in essential ordinances, "Simplicity of early form of worship ridiculed, Formalism and superstition increase, Adoration of images, etc, Changes in baptismal ordinance, Time of its administration restricted, Ministrations of the exorcist introduced, Immersion substituted by sprinkling, Infant baptism introduced, Changes in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, Fallacy of transubstantiation, Adoration of the "host, "Proof of apostate condition of the Church, Third specific cause: "Unauthorized changes in church organization and government, "Early form of church government, Equality of the bishops, Origin of synods or church councils, Bishops of Rome claimed supremacy, Title of Pope assumed.
Download or read book Seeing Islam as Others Saw It A Survey and Evaluation of Christian Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam written by Robert G. Hoyland and published by eBooks2go, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new approach to the vexing question of how to write the early history of Islam. The first part discusses the nature of the Muslim and non-Muslim source material for the seventh- and eighth-century Middle East and argues that by lessening the divide between these two traditions, which has largely been erected by modern scholarship, we can come to a better appreciation of this crucial period. The second part gives a detailed survey of sources and an analysis of some 120 non-Muslim texts, all of which provide information about the first century and a half of Islam (roughly A.D. 620-780). The third part furnishes examples, according to the approach suggested in the first part and with the material presented in the second part, how one might write the history of this time. The fourth part takes the form of excurses on various topics, such as the process of Islamization, the phenomenon of conversion to Islam, the development of techniques for determining the direction of prayer, and the conquest of Egypt. Because this work views Islamic history with the aid of non-Muslim texts and assesses the latter in the light of Muslim writings, it will be essential reading for historians of Islam, Christianity, Judaism, or Zoroastrianism--indeed, for all those with an interest in cultures of the eastern Mediterranean in its traditional phase from Late Antiquity to medieval times.
Download or read book Bastards and Believers written by Theodor Dunkelgrün and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A formidable collection of studies on religious conversion and converts in Jewish history Theodor Dunkelgrün and Pawel Maciejko observe that the term "conversion" is profoundly polysemous. It can refer to Jews who turn to religions other than Judaism and non-Jews who tie their fates to that of Jewish people. It can be used to talk about Christians becoming Muslim (or vice versa), Christians "born again," or premodern efforts to Christianize (or Islamize) indigenous populations of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. It can even describe how modern, secular people discover spiritual creeds and join religious communities. Viewing Jewish history from the perspective of conversion across a broad chronological and conceptual frame, Bastards and Believers highlights how the concepts of the convert and of conversion have histories of their own. The volume begins with Sara Japhet's study of conversion in the Hebrew Bible and ends with Netanel Fisher's essay on conversion to Judaism in contemporary Israel. In between, Andrew S. Jacobs writes about the allure of becoming an "other" in late Antiquity; Ephraim Kanarfogel considers Rabbinic attitudes and approaches toward conversion to Judaism in the Middles Ages; and Paola Tartakoff ponders the relationship between conversion and poverty in medieval Iberia. Three case studies, by Javier Castaño, Claude Stuczynski, and Anne Oravetz Albert, focus on different aspects of the experience of Spanish-Portuguese conversos. Michela Andreatta and Sarah Gracombe discuss conversion narratives; and Elliott Horowitz and Ellie Shainker analyze Eastern European converts' encounters with missionaries of different persuasions. Despite the differences between periods, contexts, and sources, two fundamental and mutually exclusive notions of human life thread the essays together: the conviction that one can choose one's destiny and the conviction that one cannot escapes one's past. The history of converts presented by Bastards and Believers speaks to the possibility, or impossibility, of changing one's life. Contributors: Michela Andreatta, Javier Castaño, Theodor Dunkelgrün, Netanel Fisher, Sarah Gracombe, Elliott Horowitz, Andrew S. Jacobs, Sara Japhet, Ephraim Kanarfogel, Pawel Maciejko, Anne Oravetz Albert, Ellie Shainker, Claude Stuczynski, Paola Tartakoff.
