Download or read book The Malady of American Christianity written by Franklin L. Grepke and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This author combines the Ten Commandments and how they affect the purpose of God’s plan for making Disciples. Social issues and a congregation’s lack of mission contribute to a weak and ineffective ministry. They are missing God’s specific plan found in the Great Commission. The malady or illness of a church can be cured by two things, God’s law, and the Gospel. This author brings focus to both cures throughout the book. His focus is to stir up the Christian church, one believer at a time.
Download or read book The Malady of American Christianity written by Franklin L. Grepke and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This author combines the Ten Commandments and how they affect the purpose of God's plan for making Disciples. Social issues and a congregation's lack of mission contribute to a weak and ineffective ministry. They are missing God's specific plan found in the Great Commission. The malady or illness of a church can be cured by two things, God's law, and the Gospel. This author brings focus to both cures throughout the book. His focus is to stir up the Christian church, one believer at a time.
Download or read book The Malady of the Christian Body written by Brian Brock and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ailments of the contemporary church are remarkably similar to those suffered by the fractious Corinthian church in the first century. This is the challenge presented in The Malady of the Christian Body, a two-volume commentary by Brian Brock and Bernd Wannenwetsch. The manner in which Paul engages questions of factionalism, sexuality, legal conflict, idolatry, dress codes, and eating habits reveals that neither the malady he diagnoses nor the therapy he offers track the dominant accounts currently on offer of the malaise suffered by today's church. This volume depicts the Apostle as carefully examining the organic whole that is the body of Christ in order to detectobstacles to the healthy flow of powers that sustain its life. The therapy that is then offered comes by way of a redirection of the Corinthian believers' attention to the ways in which they can embrace God's active working among them to heal their broken unity. This book breaks new ground in crossing and reconfiguring the traditional disciplinary boundaries between biblical studies, systematic theology, and theological ethics. ""Thick--that is the word that comes to mind for characterizing this extraordinary commentary. 'Thick' is sometimes associated with 'slow, ' but I am using the term to indicate the richness of the theological readings of Paul offered in this book. I think they touch on every theological issue we confront today. As a result I cannot imagine another resource taking its place for many years."" --Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Emeritus Professor of Divinity and Law, Duke University ""While theological readings of Scripture often glide over the text, this one plunges into it. The authors' interpretations are sometimes controversial, often highly original, and always theologically rich and insightful. Most importantly, they invite the reader to participate in their own act and practice of reading 1 Corinthians from and for the church. It is an invitation any theologian or Christian ethicist--indeed, any Christian--would do well to accept."" --Gerald McKenny, Walter Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame; author of The Analogy of Grace: Karl Barth's Moral Theology ""How are we to learn to hear Paul in such a way that we also may be convicted by his writings to the Corinthians? All too often our hermeneutical preliminaries, historical contextualizations, and efforts to find coherence serve as unconscious stratagems for evading the apostle's message. By helping us to learn to read Paul over against ourselves, Brian Brock and Bernd Wannenwetsch's immensely rewarding and illuminating commentary on 1 Corinthians points us the way to the Christ who is profoundly and truly for us."" --Robert Song, Durham University Brian Brock is Reader in Moral and Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of Singing the Ethos of God, Christian Ethics in aTechnological Age, and most recently, Captive to Christ, Open to the World. Bernd Wannenwetsch was Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics at the University of Oxford, Chair in Theological Ethics at the University of Aberdeen and the presidentof the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics. His publications includePolitical Worship, Guter schneller Tod?, andVerlangen."
Download or read book A History of American Christianity written by Leonard Woolsey Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Christianities written by Catherine A. Brekus and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the founding of the first colonies until the present, the influence of Christianity, as the dominant faith in American society, has extended far beyond church pews into the wider culture. Yet, at the same time, Christians in the United States have disagreed sharply about the meaning of their shared tradition, and, divided by denominational affiliation, race, and ethnicity, they have taken stances on every side of contested public issues from slavery to women's rights. This volume of twenty-two original essays, contributed by a group of prominent thinkers in American religious studies, provides a sophisticated understanding of both the diversity and the alliances among Christianities in the United States and the influences that have shaped churches and the nation in reciprocal ways. American Christianities explores this paradoxical dynamic of dominance and diversity that are the true marks of a faith too often perceived as homogeneous and monolithic. Contributors: Catherine L. Albanese, University of California, Santa Barbara James B. Bennett, Santa Clara University Edith Blumhofer, Wheaton College Ann Braude, Harvard Divinity School Catherine A. Brekus, University of Chicago Divinity School Kristina Bross, Purdue University Rebecca L. Davis, University of Delaware Curtis J. Evans, University of Chicago Divinity School Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University Divinity School W. Clark Gilpin, University of Chicago Divinity School Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado at Boulder Jeanne Halgren Kilde, University of Minnesota David W. Kling, University of Miami Timothy S. Lee, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University Dan McKanan, Harvard Divinity School Michael D. McNally, Carleton College Mark A. Noll, University of Notre Dame Jon Pahl, The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia Sally M. Promey, Yale University Jon H. Roberts, Boston University Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University
Download or read book A History of American Christianity written by Leonard Woolsey Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evangelicalism written by Richard Kyle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most forms of religion are best understood in the con- text of their relationship with the surrounding culture. This may be particularly true in the United States. Certainly immigrant Catholicism became Americanized; mainstream Protestantism accommodated itself to the modern world; and Reform Judaism is at home in American society. In Evangelicalism, Richard Kyle explores paradoxical adjustments and transformations in the relationship between conservative Protestant Evangelicalism and contemporary American culture. Evangelicals have resisted many aspects of the modern world, but Kyle focuses on what he considers their romance with popular culture. Kyle sees this as an Americanized Christianity rather than a Christian America, but the two are so intertwined that it is difficult to discern the difference between them. Instead, in what has become a vicious self-serving cycle, Evangelicals have baptized and sanctified secular culture in order to be considered culturally relevant, thus increasing their numbers and success within abundantly populous and populist-driven American society. In doing so, Evangelicalism has become a middle-class movement, one that dominates America's culture, and unabashedly populist. Many Evangelicals view America as God's chosen nation, thus sanctifying American culture, consumerism, and middle-class values. Kyle believes Evangelicals have served themselves well in consciously and deliberately adjusting their faith to popular culture. Yet he also thinks Evangelicals may have compromised themselves and their future in the process, so heavily borrowing from the popular culture that in many respects the Evangelical subculture has become secularism with a light gilding of Christianity. If so, he asks, can Evangelicalism survive its own popularity and reaffirm its religious origins, or will it assimilate and be absorbed into what was once known as the Great American Melting Pot of religions and cultures? Will the Gospel of the American dream ultimately engulf and destroy the Gospel of Evangelical success in America? This thoughtful and thought-provoking volume will interest anyone concerned with the modern-day success of the Evangelical movement in America and the aspirations and fate of its faithful.
Download or read book THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY written by RONALD E. OSBORN and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inventing a Christian America written by Steven Keith Green and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Inventing a Christian America, Green, a leading historian of religion and politics, explores the historical record that is purported to support the popular belief in America's religious founding and status as a Christian nation. He demonstrates that, like all myths, these claims are based on historical 'facts' that have been colored by the interpretive narratives that have been imposed upon them. In tracing the evolution of these claims and the evidence levied in support of them from the founding of the New England colonies, through the American Revolution, and to the present day, he investigates how they became leading narratives in the country's collective identity."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book An American Revival Why American Christianity Is Failing How to Fix It written by Jon Fleetwood and published by Liberty Hill Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are 1 million fewer Christians in America every year. Data show that Christianity in America is declining at an alarming rate, Pew Research indicating each American generation is less Christian than the last. There were 178 million Christian adults in America in 2009, but only 167 million by 2019. American Christianity is failing at its primary task-making American disciples. Theologians call Jesus's command to "make disciples of all nations" the "Great Commission" (Matt. 28:19-20) because it is the greatest of all Jesus's mandates. Motivating all forms of evangelism, the purpose of the Great Commission is to increase the number of believers. But America is losing more than 1 million Christians per year. However, research also shows that "Gen Z"-the youngest American generation-is becoming more politically conservative. A study conducted by The Gild found that almost 60 percent of Gen Zers describe their views as either "conservative" or "moderate." Forbes refers to Gen Z as "possibly the most conservative generation since World War II." In An American Revival: Why American Christianity Is Failing and How to Fix It, author Jon Fleetwood explains how Christians must remove post-Westernism (Cultural Marxism) from the American Church. The American Church will then be able to reach Gen Z with the gospel by using Gen Zers' increasingly conservative political beliefs as evidence for the truth of the Christian worldview. Blending politics, apologetics, philosophy, and the Bible, Fleetwood casts a vision for igniting the next great Christian revival in America. Jon Fleetwood holds degrees from Biola University and Liberty University. He is Managing Editor for American Faith, a conservative news organization receiving over 1 million content impressions every month. Coauthor of What We're Afraid to Ask: 365 Days of Healing for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse (Circle Books, 2016), Jon was certified by Dr. William Lane Craig as Chapter Director for 'Reasonable Faith' Orange, California in 2016.
Download or read book The Christian Evangelist written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Christianity written by Stephen Cox and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging study examines the ever-evolving forms of Christianity in the US, and why this constant reinvention is a vital part of American faith. Christianity takes an astonishing variety of forms in America: from traditional chapels to modern megachurches, from evangelical fellowships to social-action groups, and from Pentecostal faith to apocalyptic movements. Stephen Cox argues that radical and unpredictable change is one of the few dependable features of Christianity in America. It is in a necessary and ongoing state of revolution and has been throughout our history. Cox explores how both Catholic and Protestant churches have evolved in ways that would make them seem alien to their past adherents. He traces the rise of uniquely American movements, from the Mormons to the Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah’s Witnesses, and brings to life the vivid personalities—Aimee Semple McPherson, Billy Sunday, and many others—who have taken the gospel to the masses. Cox also sheds new light on such issues as American Christians’ constantly changing political involvements, their controversial revisions in the style and substance of worship, and their chronic expectation that God is about to intervene conclusively in human life. Asserting that “a church that doesn’t promise new beginnings can never prosper in America,” Cox demonstrates that American Christianity must be seen not as a sociological phenomenon but as the ever-changing story of individual seekers.
Download or read book The American Christian Instructor written by and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Masquerade written by Joseph L. Vincent and published by . This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservative Christianity in the United States has long been a beacon of hope. Conservative churches have withstood tidal waves of liberal theology and cultural shifts towards secularism over recent decades. Through it all, we have stood firm and remained committed to orthodoxy. As good as our intentions have been, however, we are not without fault. In our commitment to conservativism, we have lost our way and failed in some areas. It is important for us to be honest and vulnerable about these failings so we can correct our course and be the people God has called us to be. The American Masquerade confronts many of these failures such as: - Moralism replacing the true gospel - Impotency of the local church - Politicizing of the faith - Worshiping the nation over Christ Pastors, believers, and friends, I urge you to open your hearts and be honest with yourselves. We have done so much right, but we have also done our fair share of wrong. Let God's truth break our hearts, redirect our course, and recover our purpose.
Download or read book The American Christian Expositor written by and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reconstructing the Gospel written by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalists - Multicultural "I am a man torn in two. And the gospel I inherited is divided." Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity proclaimed was not good news for everybody. The same Christianity that sang, "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound" also perpetuated racial injustice and white supremacy in the name of Jesus. His Christianity, he discovered, was the religion of the slaveholder. Just as Reconstruction after the Civil War worked to repair a desperately broken society, our compromised Christianity requires a spiritual reconstruction that undoes the injustices of the past. Wilson-Hartgrove traces his journey from the religion of the slaveholder to the Christianity of Christ. Reconstructing the gospel requires facing the pain of the past and present, from racial blindness to systemic abuses of power. Grappling seriously with troubling history and theology, Wilson-Hartgrove recovers the subversiveness of the gospel that sustained the church through centuries of slavery and oppression, from the civil rights era to the Black Lives Matter movement and beyond. When the gospel is reconstructed, freedom rings both for individuals and for society as a whole. Discover how Jesus continues to save us from ourselves and each other, to repair the breach and heal our land.
Download or read book The Broken Heart of God written by Randy Perkins and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, by the grace of God, America is still a modern-day Promised Land. But as is--not for long. Why? Instead of grateful hearts, most American Christians give back to God a little, some, or at best, most of their hearts.This curse of lukewarm Christianity is killing our churches, destroying our nation and breaking the heart of our loving God. In this book you will discover: - The true source of America's greatness--proven by all History - The connection between our dying churches and our falling nation - Why American Christians are mostly to blame - The One and Only cure for the curse among us For every American Christian, Randy's work is a powerful but loving call--back to our nation's God-given destiny--goodness. Today, the world wonders, "Is America worth one good man's life?" Our Founders believed it. We believed it once. This book will help us believe it again! Randy has been a church planter, a minister and now a full-time author. Having lived in the birthplace of America for over two decades, he has become very passionate for both God and Country. He and his wife now live near his hometown of Mooringsport, Louisiana where he continues to work on his upcoming books.
