Download or read book Prayers for the Dead a Universal Practice in the Church written by Samuel Cooper Austen and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prayers for the Dead a Universal Practice in the Church written by Samuel C. Austen and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Practicing Prayer for the Dead written by James B. Gould and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history Christians have prayed for the dead. This book challenges Protestants, who seldom pray for the dead, to begin doing so, and Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox, who pray only for the Christian dead, to include the unsaved as well. Gould discusses the meaning of prayer for final consummation of all things, growth of the blessed in heaven, purification of the imperfect in purgatory, and salvation of the unsaved in hell--identifying the necessary conception of the afterlife required by each particular prayer. He also reflects on the spiritual value of prayer for the departed--how it enhances faith, builds hope, and sharpens discipleship--and provides some sample prayers for public liturgy and private devotion. In essence, Practicing Prayer for the Dead offers an outline of theology from the perspective of death, arguing that prayer for all the departed is one aspect of a tightly knit web of doctrines. The argument, while revisionary in some respects, is orthodox, ecumenical, and integrative, engaging a range of academic disciplines so as to be biblically accurate, historically informed, and philosophically reasoned.
Download or read book Understanding Prayer for the Dead written by James B Gould and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, Christians have prayed for the dead - both for continual growth of the faithful and for their advancement from purgatory, and sometimes, even, for the deliverance of the unsaved from hell. Understanding Prayer for the Dead defends all three kinds of prayer. It challenges Protestants, who seldom pray for the dead, to begin doing so - and Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox, who pray only for the Christian dead, to include the unsaved as well. James B. Gould addresses the biblical credentials of prayer for the dead and provides a historical overview of such prayers from ancient Christianity to the current practice of the three main branches of the Church. He also discusses the logical assumptions prayer for the dead requires - that prayer is effective, that the dead are conscious, and that the afterlife involves change - and lays out a theological framework for such prayers. Prayer for the departed raises the most basic of theological questions, matters that go to the centre of God's purpose in creating spiritual beings and redeeming sinful humankind. The argument, while revisionary in some respects, is orthodox, ecumenical, and integrative, engaging a range of academic disciplines so as to be biblically accurate, historically informed, and philosophically reasoned.
Download or read book Praying for the Dead written by Robert James Edmund Boggis and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An enquiry concerning prayers for the dead written by William Harding Girdlestone and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity written by Éric Rebillard and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative book Éric Rebillard challenges many long-held assumptions about early Christian burial customs. For decades scholars of early Christianity have argued that the Church owned and operated burial grounds for Christians as early as the third century. Through a careful reading of primary sources including legal codes, theological works, epigraphical inscriptions, and sermons, Rebillard shows that there is little evidence to suggest that Christians occupied exclusive or isolated burial grounds in this early period. In fact, as late as the fourth and fifth centuries the Church did not impose on the faithful specific rituals for laying the dead to rest. In the preparation of Christians for burial, it was usually next of kin and not representatives of the Church who were responsible for what form of rite would be celebrated, and evidence from inscriptions and tombstones shows that for the most part Christians didn't separate themselves from non-Christians when burying their dead. According to Rebillard it would not be until the early Middle Ages that the Church gained control over burial practices and that "Christian cemeteries" became common. In this translation of Religion et Sépulture: L'église, les vivants et les morts dans l'Antiquité tardive, Rebillard fundamentally changes our understanding of early Christianity. The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity will force scholars of the period to rethink their assumptions about early Christians as separate from their pagan contemporaries in daily life and ritual practice.
Download or read book Bibliographical Contributions written by Harvard University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A List of Works on North American Fungi written by William Gilson Farlow and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reference Catalogue of Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 2214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 2216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Connecticut Churchman written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catechism of the Christian Religion Being with Some Small Changes a Compendium of the Catechism of Montpellier of F A Pouget by S Keenan written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Scotland from the Earliest Period of the Scottish Monarchy to the Accession Or the Stewart Family written by James Carruthers and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Globe Encyclopaedia of Universal Information written by John Merry Ross and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Reply to the Rev Mr Davis Vicar of Cannington on the Private Interpretation of Scripture as Opposed to the Interpretation of Scripture According to Tradition written by Richard Towers and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
