Download or read book Reasons why a Low Church Protestant Episcopalian Should Become a Reformed Episcopalian written by Charles H. Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reasons why I Became a Reformed Episcopalian written by William Rufus Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Common Worship written by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 101 Reasons to Be Episcopalian written by and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful compendium of insightful, disarming, and sometimes funny reasons why Episcopalians are members of the Church. "The Episcopal Church is a secret too well kept, " says compiler Louie Crew. "Many are starved for what we experience daily and too easily take for granted." With these words, Crew invited thousands of people online to participate in creating a list of reasons to be Episcopalian. Portions of that list, and many additional contributions, fill this charming, pocket-sized celebration of the Episcopal Church. These 101 thoughtful, poignant, and sometimes humorous responses not only entertain but also teach about the Church's gifts. From the beauty of its prayer and liturgy, to its inclusiveness, and its reliance on Scripture, tradition, and reason in balance with one another, there is much to celebrate in the Anglican/Episcopal tradition. 101 Reasons to Be Episcopalianmakes the perfect gift for confirmands, newcomers, and anyone interested in dialogue about why we are Episcopalians.
Download or read book Isaiah by the Day written by Alec Motyer and published by Daily Readings. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These daily devotionals are birthed from a lifetime of study on the prophecy of Isaiah. Day by day you will be provided with passages from Isaiah and an opportunity to explore the passage further. Take time to acquaint yourself with these passages from God's Word and treasure them in your heart.
Download or read book Missa Est written by Eugene R. Schlesinger and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first-century church cannot afford to neglect mission. When church and culture no longer share a common outlook, the only way forward is mission. Pope Francis recognizes this in his call for a missionary conversion of the church. Responding to this invitation, is a constructive work in ecclesiology addressing the relationship between liturgy and mission in the church's life. It advances a notion of the church grounded in both liturgy and mission, where neither is subordinated to nor collapsed into the other. The church's liturgical rites disclose and enact the church's identity as a missionary community. Close examination of the sources at the heart of traditional communion ecclesiology: Trinitarian theology, the sacraments of initiation, and eucharistic theology, yields an ecclesiology in which the church is constituted by both liturgy and mission. These are two distinct ways of participating in the triune life of God, which is revealed in the paschal mystery. The church's pilgrimage to God's kingdom takes it through the world in mission. The church, as the body of Christ, is given away to God and to the world, for the world's salvation. The result is a contemporary restatement of traditional ecclesiology, transposed into a missional key.
Download or read book Sacrificing the Church written by Eugene R. Schlesinger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a context of scandal and decline, the Christian church cannot afford to do business as usual. It must regain its bearings and clarify its nature and purpose. Sacrificing the Church provides this clarity by returning to the church’s foundation: Jesus Christ and him crucified. It presents an ecclesiological vision in which every aspect of the church’s life flows from and expresses the one sacrifice of Christ. This sacrifice is the basis of every ecclesial experience, the form and content of the church’s life, a life which shares in the eternal Trinitarian life of God. By and as Christ’s sacrifice we are introduced into the divine life. This participation plays out in three key areas, which set the church’s agenda in the contemporary world: its worship of God (Mass), mission to the world (mission), and efforts toward the unity of all people, beginning with divided Christians (ecumenism).
Download or read book The 1928 Book of Common Prayer written by Oxford University Press and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-11-16 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1928 Book of Common Prayer is a treasured resource for traditional Anglicans and others who appreciate the majesty of King James-style language. This classic edition features a Presentation section containing certificates for the rites of Baptism, Confirmation, and Marriage. The elegant burgundy hardcover binding is embossed with a simple gold cross, making it an ideal choice for both personal study and gift-giving. The 1928 Book of Common Prayer combines Oxford's reputation for quality construction and scholarship with a modest price - a beautiful prayer book and an excellent value.
Download or read book Our Bodies Tell God s Story written by Christopher West and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to a world awash in sexual chaos and gender confusion, this book offers a bold and thoroughly biblical look at the meaning of the body, sex, gender, and marriage. Bestselling author, cultural commentator, and popular theologian Christopher West is one of the world's most recognized teachers of John Paul II's Theology of the Body. He specializes in making this teaching accessible to all Christians, with particular attention to evangelicals. As West explains, from beginning to end the Bible tells a story of marriage. It begins with the marriage of man and woman in an earthly paradise and ends with the marriage of Christ and the church in an eternal paradise. In our post-sexual-revolution world, we need to remember that our bodies tell a divine story and proclaim the gospel itself. As male and female and in the call to become "one flesh," our bodies reveal a "great mystery" that mirrors Christ's love for the church (Eph. 5:31-32). This book provides a redemptive rather than repressive approach to sexual purity, explores the true meaning of sex and marriage, and offers a compelling vision of what it means to be created male and female. Foreword by Eric Metaxas.
Download or read book Reformation Anglicanism The Reformation Anglicanism Essential Library Volume 1 written by Ashley Null and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Clear Vision for What It Means to Be Anglican Today Conceived under the conviction that the future of the global Anglican Communion hinges on a clear, welldefined, and theologically rich vision, the Reformation Anglicanism Essential Library was created to serve as a go-to resource aimed at helping clergy and educated laity grasp the coherence of the Reformation Anglican tradition. With contributions from Michael Jensen, Ben Kwashi, Michael Nazir-Ali, Ashley Null, and John W. Yates III, the first volume in the Reformation Anglicanism Essential Library examines the rich heritage of the Anglican Communion, introducing its foundational doctrines rooted in the solas of the Reformation and drawing out the implications of this tradition for life and ministry in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book The Nature of Salvation written by Robert W. Prichard and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Prichard examines both high-church and evangelical theology in the nineteenth-century Episcopal church, claiming a commonality between the two that has been neglected in the study of Anglican history. Parting company with the interpretation dominant among historians of the Episcopal church for more than sixty years, he focuses on shared theological assumptions rather than on liturgical divisions. By focusing on these shared theological assumptions, he sheds new light on the Episcopal church, helping the reader to see the evangelical and high-church parties as concerned with theological as well as liturgical topics. Prichard's approach avoids overemphasis on division and opens the way for a broader comparison of the Episcopal church's relationship to other Protestant churches.
Download or read book For the Union of Evangelical Christendom written by Allen C. Guelzo and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Episcopalians have long prided themselves on their love of consensus and their position as the church of American elites. They have, in the process, often forgotten that during the nineteenth century their church was racked by a divisive struggle that threatened to tear apart the very fabric of the Episcopal Church. On one side of this struggle was a powerful and aggressive Evangelical party who hoped to make the Episcopal Church into the democratic head of "the sisterhood of Evangelical Churches" in America; on the other side was the Oxford Movement, equally powerful and aggressive but committed to a range of Romantic principles which celebrated disillusion and disgust with evangelicalism and democracy alike. The resulting conflict--over theology, liturgy, and, above all, culture--led to the schism of 1873, in which many Evangelicals left the church to form the Reformed Episcopal Church. For the Union of Evangelical Christendom tells this largely forgotten story using the case of the Reformed Episcopalians to open up the ironic anatomy of American religion at the turn of the century. Today, as the Episcopal Church once again finds itself enmeshed in cultural and religious crisis, the remembrance of a similar crisis a century ago brings an eerily prophetic ring to this remarkable work of cultural and religious history.
Download or read book Handbook of Denominations in the United States 14th Edition written by Roger E. Olson and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Denominations in the United States has long been the gold standard for reference works about religious bodies in America. The purpose of this Handbook is to provide accurate and objective information about the most significant Christian traditions and denominations in the United States today. It contains descriptions of over 200 distinct Christian denominations as well as overviews of the several major Christian traditions to which they belong—based on shared historical and theological roots and commitments. The information for each denomination has been provided by the religious organizations themselves and focuses on the denominations' doctrines, statistics, and histories. The 14th edition is completely updated with current statistics, new denominations, and recent trends. The book has been made more useful and manageable by moving very small groups into broader articles while giving more detail and description to the large and influential denominations.
Download or read book Standing Against the Whirlwind written by Diana Butler Bass and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result is a fascinating picture of the struggle and ultimate failure of the movement - a loss, Butler shows, not to the ritualist opponents against whom they struggled for the better part of the century, but to the liberal forces of the secularized twentieth century.
Download or read book From Pentecostal to Episcopalian written by John Guice and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . not a seminary text book . . . (but) an excellent book which is appropriate for lay preacher preparation, (church) officer training, group study and individual reading . . . a point of view which is highly relevant in today's cafeteria worship." Rev. John B. Rogers, Jr. - Montreat, NC " . . . some really good stuff here. Written to the level of the person who sits in the pew each Sunday, this book speaks to a generation that may rightfully fear for their worship tradition." Rev. Spencer Murray - Shreveport, LA "From Pentecostal to Episcopalian" raises issues which should be of interest to all Christians regardless of worship tradition . . . a useful study guide appropriate for all lay persons." Rev. John Albright - Winnsboro, LA It is a long road which separates Pentecostals from Episcopalians. Yet both denominations - and all the churches in between - claimallegiance to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. The worship styles cover the gamut from the free wheeling, spontaneous worship of the "low churches" to the set order of worship of the "high churches" dating back for centuries. All these churches, in some fashion or the other, claim kinship to American Protestantism. Why do Baptist in every worship service extend an invitation to come "and be saved'? Why do Presbyterians and Lutherans seem so staid and rigid? Why do Methodist appeal to "what's in your heart" and why do Episcopalians seem so much like the Catholics? Why do Pentecostals and non-denominational churches reject the worship traditions of the ancient church? In From Pentecostal to Episcopalian, the author traces the development of worship and attempts to provide answers as to why Christianity seems more divided than ever before. John Guice is a teacher in a long line of educators. Having taught Sunday School classes for over forty years, John is also an accomplished lay preacher having filled the pulpit of many of the Presbyterian churches in North Louisiana and South Arkansas. He is in demand as a leader of officer training events in many local churches and has served his denomination at every level of church government. His particular interests are in the fields of theology and church history. In addition, John has served on themission field in Haiti havingmost recently gone to Haiti some six weeks after the earthquake. Here on the mission field, he works with Living Waters for the World to install water purification systems for people who desperately need clean water.
Download or read book The Failure of Ritualism written by Benjamin Franklin DeCosta and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Points of Difference Between the Protestant Episcopal Church and the Reformed Episcopal Church written by Reformed Episcopal Church. General Council and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
