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Book The Church with a Human Face

Download or read book The Church with a Human Face written by Edward Schillebeeckx and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Human Face of Church

Download or read book The Human Face of Church written by Sara Savage and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now, Fresh Expressions has been about starting and sustaining mission initiatives among people with little or no church contact. As these projects mature, pastoral problems easily arise - how do you integrate the old with the new? How do you get an established congregation to change it views and practices? How do you cope with conflict? What if newcomers challenge set patterns of church behaviour rather than conform with them? The publication is structured for use for training in local churches, theological colleges and as a research tool in postgraduate study.

Book God s Human Face

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  • Author : Christoph Schoenborn
  • Publisher : Ignatius Press
  • Release : 2011-03-30
  • ISBN : 1681492121
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book God s Human Face written by Christoph Schoenborn and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principal editor of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, presents the sources of meditation on the mystery of God's human face from the great Masters of early Christianity. Artists and theologians have meditated upon the mystery of God's human countenance and tried to express it. This book seeks to present the great sources of this meditation--sources which today are widely unknown, or have become foreign or obscure. These sources are above all the great masters of early Christianity. In their meditation upon Christ, Bishop Schonborn seeks the sources of the art on the Icon. The reader will find not only an engaging introduction to the meaning and beauty of Icons, but an invitation to draw closer to the One who inspired these Masters of theological expression and holy art. Includes beautiful color Icon illustrations.

Book The Church of God and Its Human Face

Download or read book The Church of God and Its Human Face written by Martin Madar and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Church of God and Its Human Face is the first comprehensive study of perhaps the most original U.S. ecclesiologist of our times, Joseph A. Komonchak. In language accessible to a wide audience, the author offers an exposition of Komonchak’s thought on the church and explores its distinctive features, including its implications for church practice.

Book The Church with a Human Face

Download or read book The Church with a Human Face written by Edward Schillebeeckx and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Church with a Human Face: A New Expanded Theology of Ministry elaborates historically and theologically the main line of his argument. It further includes reactions and reflections on criticism he received. The work outlines the evolution of ecclesiastical office, starting with Jesus Christ and his messianic community, followed by a description of the practice and theology of ministry in the early Christian communities, and tracing different forms of ministry in the history of the Church. Of particular interest is the section on the ''Complaints of the People'', which deals with the discon.

Book The Human Face of God

Download or read book The Human Face of God written by John Arthur Thomas Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Clerical Errors

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  • Author : Peter Murnane
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2022-08-04
  • ISBN : 1666740020
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Clerical Errors written by Peter Murnane and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catholic church is in serious decline. This book claims that the corruption of the institution derives from various "clerical errors," especially clericalism, which assumes that clergy are superior and deserve privileges. Clericalism divides the church into two unequal classes, betraying the gospel, which teaches that all people are equal. Clerical privilege makes the sexual abuse of children more likely, and has led most bishops to conceal it. Clerical Errors begins by examining the trials and acquittal of Cardinal Pell. Was it the jury who made a grave error--or was it the cardinal? Other chapters look at worldwide sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy and traumatic impacts on survivors. What might have caused this tragedy? The institutional nature of the church? Defective Canon Law? Misuse of the sacrament of Confession? Compulsory celibacy? Homosexuality? The book's last, hopeful chapter proposes a radical but simple model for restoring the Christian church.

Book The Language of God

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  • Author : Francis Collins
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2008-09-04
  • ISBN : 1847396151
  • Pages : 227 pages

Download or read book The Language of God written by Francis Collins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Francis S. Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, working at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of life. Yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God. How does he reconcile the seemingly unreconcilable? In THE LANGUAGE OF GOD he explains his own journey from atheism to faith, and then takes the reader on a stunning tour of modern science to show that physics, chemistry and biology -- indeed, reason itself -- are not incompatible with belief. His book is essential reading for anyone who wonders about the deepest questions of all: why are we here? How did we get here? And what does life mean?

Book A Church with a Human Face

Download or read book A Church with a Human Face written by Chris Masingi and published by . This book was released on with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gospel of Life

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  • Author : Pope John Paul II
  • Publisher : Random House Incorporated
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780679758648
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book The Gospel of Life written by Pope John Paul II and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book God with a Human Face

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  • Author : John C. Purdy
  • Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
  • Release : 1993-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780664251734
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book God with a Human Face written by John C. Purdy and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To see God's face is something more than theoretical, mystical, or conceptional--and to see it, we must look at the face of Jesus. In this innovative book, Purdy focuses on the face of Jesus and explores 12 gospel stories--from the birth of Jesus through His crucifixion and resurrection--to show that by looking at Jesus, God's intentions toward us can be discerned.

Book Christianity

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  • Author : Philip Kennedy
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2011-02-22
  • ISBN : 0857737880
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Christianity written by Philip Kennedy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian faith has the allegiance of one third of the human race. It has succeeded in influencing civilization to such a degree that we now take its existence almost for granted. Yet it might all have been so different. Christianity began with the words and deeds of an obscure village carpenter's son who died a shameful criminal's death at the hands of the Roman occupiers of his country: itself an insignificant outpost of the powerful ruling Empire. The feverish land of biblical Palestine, awash with apocalyptic expectations of deliverance from its foreign overlords, was hardly short of seers and prophets who claimed to be sent visions from God. Yet the followers of this man thought he was different: so different, in fact, that some years after his death and asserted resurrection they scandalously insisted not only that he was sent by God, but that he 'was' God. How a provincial sect, with its seemingly outrageous ideas, became first the sanctioned religion of the Roman Empire and then, over the course of 2000 years, the creed of billions of people, is the improbable story that this book tells. It is a story of freethinkers, friars, fanatics and firebrands; and of the lay people (not just the clerical or the powerful) who have made up the great mass of Christians over the centuries. Many introductions to Christianity are written by Christians, for Christians. This elegant textbook, by contrast, shows that the history of the religion, while often glorious, is not one of unimpeded progress, but something still more remarkable, flawed and human.

Book The Church of God and Its Human Face

Download or read book The Church of God and Its Human Face written by Martin Madar and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Church of God and Its Human Face is the first comprehensive study of perhaps the most original U.S. ecclesiologist of our times, Joseph A. Komonchak. In language accessible to a wide audience, the author offers an exposition of Komonchak's thought on the church and explores its distinctive features, including its implications for church practice.

Book The Human Faces of God

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  • Author : Thom Stark
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 160899323X
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book The Human Faces of God written by Thom Stark and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does accepting the doctrine of biblical inspiration necessitate belief in biblical inerrancy? The Bible has always functioned authoritatively in the life of the church, but what exactly should that mean? Must it mean the Bible is without error in all historical details and ethical teachings? What should thoughtful Christians do with texts that propose God is pleased by human sacrifice or that God commanded Israel to commit acts of genocide? What about texts that contain historical errors or predictions that have gone unfulfilled long beyond their expiration dates? In The Human Faces of God, Thom Stark moves beyond notions of inerrancy in order to confront such problematic texts and open up a conversation about new ways they can be used in service of the church and its moral witness today. Readers looking for an academically informed yet accessible discussion of the Bible's thorniest texts will find a thought-provoking and indispensible resource in The Human Faces of God. ""Christians can ignore the facts that Stark brings into the light of day only if they want to be wrong."" --Dale C. Allison, Jr. author of Constructing Jesus ""The Human Faces of God is one of the most challenging and well-argued cases against the doctrine of biblical inerrancy I have ever read."" --Greg A. Boyd author of The Myth of a Christian Nation ""I learned so much from this book that I can strongly encourage anyone who is seeking to move from simplistic proof-texting to a comprehensive understanding of the Bible to read this book carefully."" --Tony Campolo author of Red Letter Christians ""This is must reading for Christians who have agonized over their own private doubts about Scripture--and for others who have given up hope that evangelical Christians can practice intelligent, moral interpretation of the Bible."" --Neil Elliot author of Liberating Paul ""[W]ith the help of this book, we may discover that the Bible--when we read it in all its diversity and vulnerability--does bring healing words to those who keep listening."" --Ted Grimsrud author of Embodying the Way of Jesus ""Stark's book effectively demonstrates how the Bible, in practice, is the most dangerous enemy of fundamentalists."" --James F. McGrath author of The Only True God ""Stark provides a model for theology that is committed to hearing the voice of the victims of history, especially the victims of our own religious traditions."" --Michael J. Iafrate PhD Cadidate, University of Toronto ""This book is the most powerful antidote to fundamentalism that I've ever read."" --Frank Schaeffer author of Crazy for God Thom Stark was a Fig Tree and Ledbetter scholar at Emmanuel School of Religion. His academic interests include second temple apocalyptic Judaism and Christian origins, as well as modern Christian and Islamic theologies of liberation.

Book Catholicism

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  • Author : Richard P. McBrien
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 1994-05-19
  • ISBN : 9780060654054
  • Pages : 1348 pages

Download or read book Catholicism written by Richard P. McBrien and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1994-05-19 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new study edition of the classic that has sold over 150,000 copies.

Book The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights

Download or read book The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights written by Kristina Stoeckl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the key 2008 publication of the Russian Orthodox Church on human dignity, freedom, and rights. It considers how the document was formed, charting the development over time of the Russian Orthodox Church's views on human rights. It analyzes the detail of the document, and assesses the practical and political impact inside the Church, at the national level and in the international arena. Overall, it shows how the attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church has shifted from outright hostility towards individual human rights to the advocacy of "traditional values."