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Book Kingdom and Community

Download or read book Kingdom and Community written by John G. Gager and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1975 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The volumes in this series are intended to contribute to the development of the study of religion. It seems to us that it is especially important that appropriately conceived and well-written materials be available for use in undergraduate and graduate instruction. Moreover, it is our hope that this series will not only be a useful teaching instrument within the formal curriculum, but will also play an important role in shaping the study of religion. Individual Volumes fall into one of three subsections in the series. One set of studies, small in number, will be concerned with theories of religion or methodological approaches to the study of religion. Our attempts will be to offer books were none are available or where the existing materials are inadequate. A second group of books, also small, will deal with general aspects of religion in various traditions. Mysticism, symbol and myth, religious ethics, and other comparable topics deserve theoretical and systematic treatments not available at present, The third section of the series consists of the particular studies of various religious traditions, periods or movements. The editors will try to identify areas of study to which sufficient attention has not been given, as well as classical subjects which deserve or even require fresh approaches. We hope that each of the volumes in the series will be sufficiently lucid to serve as an introductory study, while also providing insights that will contribute to the work of specialists. Scholarly apparatus and bibliographies will be included to provide direction for further study. Throughout the project the editors will seek out studies which manifest unquestioned quality in scholarship and writing." -Editors

Book Church

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  • Author : John Fuellenbach
  • Publisher : American Society of Missiology
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9781570754166
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Church written by John Fuellenbach and published by American Society of Missiology. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating missiology and ecclesiology in a vision of a church in mission made up of all the world's peoples, Fuellenbach explores the church's life as worshiping community, as communion, as Body of Christ working to make the world reflect Kingdom values.

Book Discipleship in Community

Download or read book Discipleship in Community written by Mark E. Powell and published by ACU Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus said, “Go and make disciples.” So, what exactly are we doing? Western churches face a difficult future marked by numerical decline and evident signs of shrinking cultural influence. But Discipleship in Community wisely asks the church to go back to basics. What does it mean to follow Jesus? What does a life of discipleship look like? Trusted scholars Mark Powell, John Mark Hicks, and Greg McKinzie invite you to consider how good theology can lead to better, more intentional discipleship. In Discipleship in Community you will learn • how the language of Trinity matters to everyday disciples; • how God’s plan and mission is unfolding and how, as disciples, we can participate in that mission; • how the Bible is more than a book of facts and how it guides us into a relationship with God; • how baptism and the Lord’s Supper allow us to experience God’s saving power; and • how local churches can encourage intentional discipleship.

Book The Tangible Kingdom

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  • Author : Hugh Halter
  • Publisher : Jossey-Bass
  • Release : 2008-07-21
  • ISBN : 0470267666
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book The Tangible Kingdom written by Hugh Halter and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2008-07-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for those who are trying to nurture authentic faith communities and for those who have struggled to retain their faith, The Tangible Kingdom offers theological answers and real-life stories that demonstrate how the best ancient church practices can re-emerge in today's culture, through any church of any size. In this remarkable book, Hugh Halter and Matt Smay "two missional leaders and church planters" outline an innovative model for creating thriving grass-roots faith communities.

Book The Miracles of Jesus

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  • Author : Reverend Devin Miller
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2018-12-11
  • ISBN : 1532063520
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book The Miracles of Jesus written by Reverend Devin Miller and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Miracles of Jesus: The Process for Community Building through Kingdom Expansion is a blueprint for both community and church leadership to look at as they face timely issues in their own leadership environments. For community leaders, it will assist you in addressing issues in a more compassionate yet practical way. For church leaders, it will interpret the miracles of Christ from a community perspective, allowing churches to reconnect with communities and become more engaged to expand the kingdom. And for other Christians, The Miracles of Jesus will inform and allow you to see the Gospels and the miracles in the Bible in a whole new way, showing you that the Word of God is just as relevant today as when it was written. For both community and church leaders alike, The Miracles of Jesus will reveal that the way to expand the kingdom of God is through community building and involvement with the church and with civic and social organizations. This approach will breathe new life into an institution that’s being left behind.

Book Kingdom Values

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  • Author : Suzy Silk
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-05-28
  • ISBN : 9781689376808
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Kingdom Values written by Suzy Silk and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, we live in a multi-cultural, post-modern society that offers us a variety of ways to pursue the identity, community, power, and purpose we need to "live our best lives." But the writer of Proverbs warns us that there are ways that seem right to us that actually lead to death--not the life we seek. Jesus spoke about a narrower road that leads to life. How do we find it? This book unpacks the five central teachings of Jesus that point the way to abundant lives marked by freedom, purpose, and joy. Each section contains exercises and practices that you can engage alone or with a group as you learn to walk in the way of Jesus.

Book The Kingdom of God

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  • Author : Christopher W. Morgan
  • Publisher : Crossway
  • Release : 2012-11-30
  • ISBN : 1433523582
  • Pages : 355 pages

Download or read book The Kingdom of God written by Christopher W. Morgan and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kingdom of God is a very large biblical category indeed. Accordingly, a comprehensive understanding of the kingdom would illuminate many aspects of theology. With this in mind, Bruce Waltke, Robert Yarbrough, Gerald Bray, Clinton Arnold, Gregg Allison, Stephen Nichols, and Anthony Bradley have collaborated to articulate a full view of the kingdom of God across multiple disciplines. One of the most important books on the kingdom since G. E. Ladd, this volume offers a robust theology and is corroborated by the very series in which it stands. Fourth in the noted Theology in Community series, The Kingdom of God establishes the significance of the kingdom from the perspectives of biblical theology, systematic theology, history, pastoral application, missiology, and cultural analysis. Part of the Theology in Community series.

Book Kingdom of the Wicked

Download or read book Kingdom of the Wicked written by Kerri Maniscalco and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A James Patterson Presents Novel From the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Stalking Jack the Ripper series comes a new blockbuster series... Two sisters.One brutal murder. A quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself... And an intoxicating romance. Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe -- witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family's renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin...desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister's killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means using dark magic that's been long forbidden. Then Emilia meets Wrath, one of the Wicked-princes of Hell she has been warned against in tales since she was a child. Wrath claims to be on Emilia's side, tasked by his master with solving the series of women's murders on the island. But when it comes to the Wicked, nothing is as it seems...

Book The Kingdom Experiment

Download or read book The Kingdom Experiment written by Bruce Nuffer and published by House Studio. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Start living the backwards kingdom Jesus spoke of. This book is an 8-week community study on the Beatitudes. Each week, unpack how you can bring these scriptures into present day. Then, choose from 8 experiments challenges to live the kingdom in a purposeful (and sometimes uncomfortable) way. How it works: 1. Read and discuss each chapter with your group 2. Pick one of eight experiments (challenges to live intentionally) to do throughout the week. 3. Journal your thoughts and experiences 4. Share your experiences as a group the following week The point of The Kingdom Experiment is community. And to share stories while we're at it. To grapple with what "good news" means in the context of this specific time and place. The Kingdom Experiment is an 8-week challenge, but who says it has to end there?

Book The Tangible Kingdom Primer

Download or read book The Tangible Kingdom Primer written by Hugh Halter and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Peaceable Kingdom

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  • Author : Stanley Hauerwas
  • Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
  • Release : 1991-08-31
  • ISBN : 0268081786
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book The Peaceable Kingdom written by Stanley Hauerwas and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 1991-08-31 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley Hauerwas presents an overall introduction to the themes and method that have distinguished his vision of Christian ethics. Emphasizing the significance of Jesus’ life and teaching in shaping moral life, The Peaceable Kingdom stresses the narrative character of moral rationality and the necessity of a historic community and tradition for morality. Hauerwas systematically develops the importance of character and virtue as elements of decision making and spirituality and stresses nonviolence as critical for shaping our understanding of Christian ethics.

Book Half the Kingdom

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  • Author : Lore Segal
  • Publisher : Melville House
  • Release : 2013-10-01
  • ISBN : 161219303X
  • Pages : 127 pages

Download or read book Half the Kingdom written by Lore Segal and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book The renowned New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist delivers a hilarious, poignant, and profoundly moving tale of living, loving, and aging in America today At Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, doctors have noticed a marked uptick in Alzheimer’s patients. People who seemed perfectly lucid just a day earlier suddenly show signs of advanced dementia. Is it just normal aging, or an epidemic? Is it a coincidence, or a secret terrorist plot? In the looking-glass world of Half the Kingdom—where terrorist paranoia and end-of-the-world hysteria mask deeper fears of mortality; where parents’ and their grown children's feelings vacillate between frustration and tenderness; and where the broken medical system leads one character to quip, “Kafka wrote slice-of-life fiction”—all is familiar and yet slightly askew. Lore Segal masterfully interweaves her characters’ lives—lives that, for good or for ill, all converge in Cedar's ER—into a funny, tragic, and tender portrait of how we live today. “Lore Segal may have come closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel.” —The New York Times “I always feel in her work such a sense of toughness and humor . . . Her writing is sad and funny, and that makes it more of both.” —Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad

Book Divided Kingdom

Download or read book Divided Kingdom written by Carl D. Oblinger and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mission From Below

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  • Author : Dr. Janet Hodgson
  • Publisher : Sacristy Press
  • Release : 2018-01-15
  • ISBN : 1910519774
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Mission From Below written by Dr. Janet Hodgson and published by Sacristy Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical and controversial challenge to the top-down leadership models that are so widespread in the church, instead making the case for a new model of people-driven servant leadership, guided by the Holy Spirit towards kingdom growth rather than church growth.

Book Community Centered Journalism

Download or read book Community Centered Journalism written by Andrea Wenzel and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary journalism faces a crisis of trust that threatens the institution and may imperil democracy itself. Critics and experts see a renewed commitment to local journalism as one solution. But a lasting restoration of public trust requires a different kind of local journalism than is often imagined, one that engages with and shares power among all sectors of a community. Andrea Wenzel models new practices of community-centered journalism that build trust across boundaries of politics, race, and class, and prioritize solutions while engaging the full range of local stakeholders. Informed by case studies from rural, suburban, and urban settings, Wenzel's blueprint reshapes journalism norms and creates vigorous storytelling networks between all parts of a community. Envisioning a portable, rather than scalable, process, Wenzel proposes a community-centered journalism that, once implemented, will strengthen lines of local communication, reinvigorate civic participation, and forge a trusting partnership between media and the people they cover.

Book The Kingdom and the Garden

Download or read book The Kingdom and the Garden written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Italian List. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a tour-de-force reinterpretation of the Christian tradition, Agamben shows that the Garden of Eden has always served as a symbol for humanity's true nature. What happened to paradise after Adam and Eve were expelled? The question may sound like a theological quibble, or even a joke, but in The Kingdom and the Garden, Giorgio Agamben uses it as a starting point for an investigation of human nature and the prospects for political transformation. In a tour-de-force reinterpretation of the Christian tradition, Agamben shows that the Garden of Eden has always served as a symbol of humanity's true nature. Where earlier theologians viewed the expulsion as temporary, Augustine's doctrine of original sin makes it permanent, reimagining humanity as the paradoxical creature that has been completely alienated from its own nature. From this perspective, there can be no return to paradise, only the hope for the messianic kingdom. Yet there have always been thinkers who rebelled against this idea, and Agamben highlights two major examples. The first is the early medieval philosopher John Scotus Eriugena, who argued for a radical unity of humanity with all living things. The second is Dante, whose vision of the earthly paradise points towards the possibility of genuine human happiness in this world. In place of the messianic kingdom, which has provided the model for modern revolutionary movements, Agamben contends that we should place our hopes for political change in a return to our origins, by reclaiming the earthly paradise.

Book Transcendent Kingdom

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  • Author : Yaa Gyasi
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2020-09-01
  • ISBN : 052565819X
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Transcendent Kingdom written by Yaa Gyasi and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZE Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief—a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut.