Download or read book Sheer Christianity written by Sam Portaro and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calling upon teachers G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis, Sam Portaro wades into the abyss of confronting a life of faithfulness in a world where the Church has created a dictionary unintelligible to anyone not part of itself.
Download or read book The Living Church written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Christianity in Politics written by Henry Watson Fox and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christianity and the Jew written by Delaware Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Death and Resurrection of the Church written by Jeremy Myers and published by Redeeming Press. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if true church growth begins by allowing the church to die? In The Death and Resurrection of the Church, Jeremy Myers proposes that most modern church growth practices are built on faulty premises. Some of these are even rooted in the false promises that Satan offered to Jesus in the wilderness temptations. If we want the church to grow and thrive, it first needs to die to these false promises. The church must stop striving after strength, power, fame, riches, and glory, and instead follow Jesus into death. Only then will we become the church that Jesus wants. Since there can be no resurrection without death, the church must die so that it can rise again. This revised and updated book now includes discussion questions, perfect for a small group setting. Books in the “Close Your Church for Good” series: Preface: Skeleton Church Volume 1: The Death and Resurrection of the Church Volume 2: Put Service Back into the Church Service Volume 3: Dying to Religion and Empire Volume 4: Church is More than Bodies, Bucks, & Bricks Volume 5: Cruciform Pastoral Leadership
Download or read book The Christian World Pulpit written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pneumatology and Theology of the Cross in the Preaching of Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt written by Simeon Zahl and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies the impasse between classical Protestant and contemporary charismatic and Pentecostal pneumatologies as a fundamental theological problem. Its goal is to contribute a constructive pneumatological proposal for moving beyond this impasse, based on the resources of the theology of Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt (1842-1919). The disagreement is over the question of unmediated experience of the Holy Spirit. Luther's rejection of 'enthusiastic' pneumatologies on the basis of a narrow concept of the mediation of the Word and a pessimistic anthropology became Protestant orthodoxy. In relation to classical Protestantism, the primary theological distinctive of charismatic theology is its strong affirmation of unmediated experience of the Spirit in Christian life and worship. The Pentecostal movement's rapid growth in the past century has brought this difference to the fore. Christoph Blumhardt's theology, which integrates pessimistic anthropology and unmediated experience, is well-suited to exploring the impasse between the two theological traditions.
Download or read book Freedom Unlimited written by Jeffrey S. Hocking and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are we to understand the freedom for which Christ has set us free (Gal 5:1)? Could it be that we have barely glimpsed what this might mean? Most theological accounts of freedom frame the discussion in terms of heteronomy or autonomy. In the Protestant tradition, Calvinists are known for championing the former and Arminians are credited with advocating the latter. More recently, open theists, in significantly modifying the Arminian paradigm, argue that neither tradition provides a satisfying account of human freedom and propose a more libertarian form of autonomy. This book joins the debate at this point, not in order to take sides, but to suggest a theology that can get beyond (not between) the heteronomy and autonomy that seem to exhaust the present theological options. Clark Pinnock serves as the chief protagonist because of his role as a leading figure in the "Openness of God" movement. Because his own development can be described as a pilgrimage from Calvinism to Arminianism to open theism, the present work is able to offer its sympathetic critique in the form of an invitation: that we continue to journey in the spirit of openness beyond both heteronomy and autonomy towards a view of divine and human freedom that is covenantal, participatory, and unlimited.
Download or read book German Rationalism a Contribution to the Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries written by Carl Rudolph Hagenbach and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Practice in Christianity written by Robert L. Perkins and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Practice in Christianity is the second volume in what could be called the "collected Works" of "Anti-Climacus," Kierkegaard's new pseudonym. Anti-Climacus's first volume, The Sickness Unto Death, appeared just a year earlier in 1849. The use of a pseudonym is consistent with Kierkegaard's usual practice when presenting an idealized statement of his subject, be it sexual seduction or Christian theology. Anti-Climacus argues the conceptual content of Christianity against the "leading thought of the times" and also against the ethical and social import of the comforts and consolations of bourgeois culture and religion which he called "Christendom." In his own mind at least, Kierkegaards presents Christianity as it must be thought and lived if it is to be authentic. The Sickness unto Death and Practice in Christianity can be and are read quite independently, but jointly they provide the basis of Kierkegaard's devastating critique of a secularized, culturally homogenized, and tame Christianity. The authors of the studies in this present volume, Merold Westphal, Paul R. Sponheim, Murray A. Rae, Niels Jorgen Cappelorn, Sylvia Walsh, David D. Possen, Andrew J. Burgess, Christian Fink Tolstrup, Robert L. Perkins, and Wanda Warren Berry, raise a wide spectrum of issues regarding Practice in Christianity, its theology, its moral and religious psychology, and its cultural, social, and political world" --
Download or read book Mormon Christianity written by Stephen H. Webb and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A non-Mormon theologian explains how Mormonism is a branch of the Christian family tree that extends well beyond what most Christians have ever imagined.
Download or read book MY CHRISTIAN FAITH written by Christopher Goodwins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-03 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a completely fresh and utterly understandable approach to becoming a full member of the Christian Church, from an Anglican viewpoint. Together with 86 wonderful illustrations/cartoons, it is a really attractive Christian Manual.
Download or read book Christians in the Twenty First Century written by George D. Chryssides and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Christians in the Twenty-First Century' examines Christianity as it is understood and practised both by active followers and those who regard themselves as Christian. The book opens with an examination of key Christian concepts - the Bible, the Creeds, the Church and the sacraments - and the major traditions of Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism as well as more recent movements. The book continues with an analysis of the challenges presented by the rise of science, new approaches to biblical scholarship, the rise of fundamentalist movements, the ordination of women, secularization, the interfaith movement, and the impact of the electronic revolution.
Download or read book Kierkegaard and the Bible The Old Testament written by Lee C. Barrett and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Kierkegaard's complex use of the Bible, the essays in this volume use source-critical research and tools ranging from literary criticism to theology and biblical studies, to situate Kierkegaard's appropriation of the biblical material in his cultural and intellectual context. The contributors seek to identify the possible sources that may have influenced Kierkegaard's understanding and employment of Scripture, and to describe the debates about the Bible that may have shaped, perhaps indirectly, his attitudes toward Scripture. They also pay close attention to Kierkegaard's actual hermeneutic practice, analyzing the implicit interpretive moves that he makes as well as his more explicit statements about the significance of various biblical passages. This close reading of Kierkegaard's texts elucidates the unique and sometimes odd features of his frequent appeals to Scripture This volume in the series devotes one tome to the Old Testament and a second tome to the New Testament. Tome I considers the canonically disputed literature of the Apocrypha. Although Kierkegaard certainly cited the Old Testament much less frequently than he did the New, passages and themes from the Old Testament do occupy a position of startling importance in his writings. Old Testament characters such as Abraham and Job often play crucial and even decisive roles in his texts. Snatches of Old Testament wisdom figure prominently in his edifying literature. The vocabulary and cadences of the Psalms saturate his expression of the range of human passions from joy to despair. The essays in this first tome seek to elucidate the crucial rhetorical uses to which he put key passages from the Old Testament, the sources that influenced him to do this, and his reasons for doing so.
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Download or read book German Rationalism in Its Rise Progress and Decline in Relation to Theologians Scholars Poets Philosophers and the People written by Karl Rudolf Hagenbach and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
