Download or read book The Reformers and Their Stepchildren written by Leonard Verduin and published by The Baptist Standard Bearer, Inc.. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reformers and Their Stepchildren written by Leonard Verduin and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Christian Theology written by Roger E. Olson and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his book, poised to become a standard historical theology textbook, Roger Olson takes us on a journey of events ranging from the apostolic fathers to the Reformation to the present.
Download or read book Luther and the Radicals written by Harry Loewen and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their zeal to tell the true story of sixteenth-century radicalism, some sympathizers of the Anabaptist movement have portrayed the once maligned individuals and groups as innocent, pious people who suffered cruel persecution at the hands of the wicked state-churchmen. Their side of the story is thus often as one-sided as was the story of the enemies of Anabaptism. This book, written by a Mennonite scholar, seeks to understand the reasons for the clash between Luther and the radicals, a point often neglected when one or the other side is emphasized. The study keeps Luther, however, in a central position, exploring the issues which led to the Reformer’s attitude toward the radicals and analyzing the principles that were at stake in his struggle with the dissident groups.
Download or read book The Inquisitor written by Phil Erk and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the second book in the CHAIN OF WITNESSES series opens, Anseo and Eveline Tescher's grandson, James, has just turned 13. His father, Henry, is trying to counsel him about some important decisions he needs to make. Choices made by James' family will land them in jail as heretics and lead to serious consequences for everyone. Will the outcome of all these choices help him move his life in the right direction? Join the Tescher family and many other historical figures. You will experience their heartache, humanly insurmountable obstacles, and surprising events along this incredible journey of faith. One of the historical characters that we will meet is the Little Greek engineer, Sorbolo who suggested a feat of war second only to Hannibal's elephants crossing the Alps. Two other historical persons of interest are the opposing generals Sforza and Piccinino, who were both involved in an incident that was stranger than fiction. We cannot omit the historical hero of faith, the Lollard Peter English, the 'Braveheart' of Bohemia. We hope you will enjoy meeting Sir George as much as we did. He will draw out a wide range of emotions. This knight was an unplanned character that won our hearts and wrote himself into our story. In this link of the CHAIN OF WITNESSES, The Old Heretic and His Wife have made every effort to give the reader a greater sense of appreciation for the sacrifices made to keep the gospel alive. It may also provide a glimpse into our own future as the end time draws closer. If you happen to read THE INQUISITOR first, it will not diminish your enjoyment of THE OVERCOMERS, if you read it later. Be looking for book three, THE GREEK PRINTING PRESS coming soon.
Download or read book The Naked Anabaptist written by Stuart Murray and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Click here to read the introduction to The Naked Anabaptist. In churches and kitchens and neighborhood centers across the world, communities of Jesus-followers are crafting a vision of radical service, simple living, and commitment to peace. Many are finding a home in a Christian tradition almost five centuries old: Anabaptism. Who are the Anabaptists? What do they believe? Where did they come from? What makes them different from other Christians? And can you become an Anabaptist without leaving your own church? Follow Stuart Murray as he peels back the layers to reveal the core convictions of Anabaptist Christianity, a way of following Jesus that challenges, disturbs, and inspires. Glimpse an alternative to nationalistic, materialistic, individualistic Christian faith. If you are seeking a community of authentic discipleship, heartfelt worship, sacrificial service, and radical peacemaking, consider this your invitation. This new edition features: Voices and stories from North America and the global church. Updated and expanded definition and discussion of Christendom. Updated resource section. Free downloadable study guide available here.
Download or read book Fullerism as Opposed to Calvinism written by A. Chadwick Mauldin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calvinism and its impact upon Baptist and other free-church traditions is an issue of perennial importance. Indeed, much ink has been employed throughout the years for the purpose of considering just this topic. Obviously Calvinism is a complete doctrinal system, and it bears upon many other areas of theological concern beyond the doctrine of salvation. While many Baptists have had a long and historic association with Calvinistic soteriology, Calvinism's approach to ecclesiology and missiology should leave most self conscious Baptists dissatisfied at best. This book provides a missiological comparison of Fullerism and Calvinism. Andrew Fuller or Fullerism (while admittedly a form of Calvinism) is shown in this book to be an exciting and vibrant alternative to historic Reformed theology-particularly for Baptists and other free-church traditions. Fuller made a tremendous theological contribution in his day; through his writings he established the doctrinal rationale for indiscriminate gospel proclamation (a concept that was heavily under attack in eighteenth-century Baptist life). Consequently, this book hopes to encourage its readers to contemplate the lack of precision in the term "Calvinism" when used as a Baptistic nomenclature and to promote "Fullerism" (with its acute missiological emphasis) as a more helpful theological descriptor for the Baptist.
Download or read book The Reformation Era written by Robert D. Linder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although religious unrest had been brewing in Western Europe long before Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, historians view this event as the tipping point that shattered the unity of the Medieval Catholic civilization. Disillusioned by Church bureaucracy and awakened by the rise of Renaissance Humanism, Western Europe was primed for an alternative to the old order. Protestant reformers called for a return to scripture and a focus on individual faith, and the Catholic Church responded with a new focus on spirituality that culminated in the Council of Trent. In modern spiritual revivals, religious debates, and newer Church reforms, we can still see the legacy of the era Linder calls Midwife to the Modern World.
Download or read book Wonderful Ways to Be a Stepparent written by Judy Ford and published by Mango Media. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their practical and supportive book, Judy Ford and Anna Chase offer a helping hand and show how to transform a seemingly impossible situation into a relationship filled with love. "In the end," write the authors,"the labels mother, father, stepmother, stepfather matter less than the quality of our interactions with the young ones entrusted to our care."
Download or read book Calvin and the Anabaptist Radicals written by Willem Balke and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 1999-10-13 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book has many fine features..... Dr. Balke has done thorough research on his subject and presented its results in an excellent combination of chronological review and systematic analysis. The principal significance of this book, however, is that it vindicates and in a sense rehabilitates John Calvin over against the Anabaptists, and does so without perpetuating the unfair criticism of the Anabaptists which was prevalent for a long time. The treatment is fair, balanced, and firm, and of genuine historical value. John H. Kromminga, President, Calvin Theological Seminary
Download or read book Radical Reformation Studies written by James M. Stayer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review brings together new research in three areas of Anabaptist studies and the Radical Reformation. Part One focuses on sixteenth-century Anabaptism, re-examining the 'polygenesis model' of Anabaptism articulated by Stayer, Packull and Depperman. Part Two deals with the connections between Anabaptists and other Reformation dissenters, their marginalisation as social groups and their relations with the intellectual movements of the age. The final section addresses historiographic and comparative issues of writing the history of marginalised groups, investigating some preconceptions which influence historians' approaches to Anabaptism and their implications for understanding other religious groups.
Download or read book The Radical Reformation 3rd ed written by George Huntston Williams and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1995-04-24 with total page 1562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Williams' monumental The Radical Reformation has been an essential reference work for historians of early modern Europe, narrating in rich, interpretative detail the interconnected stories of radical groups operating at the margins of the mainline Reformation. In its scope—spanning all of Europe from Spain to Poland, from Denmark to Italy—and its erudition, The Radical Reformation is without peer. Now in paperback format, Williams' magnum opus should be considered for any university-level course on the Reformation.
Download or read book Shepherding Movement written by S. David Moore and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-04-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging history of the Shepherding Movement, an influential and controversial expression of the charismatic renewal in the 1970s and 1980s. This neopentecostal movement, led by popular Bible teachers Ern Baxter, Don Basham, Bob Mumford, Derek Prince and Charles Simpson, became a house church movement in the United States. The Shepherding Movement is a case study of an attempt at renewing church structures. Many critics accused the movement of being authoritarian because of its emphasis on submission to a personal pastor or "shepherd" as they termed it.
Download or read book Pleading for Diversity written by Linda Stuckrath Gottschalk and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coolhaes was a Reformed preacher, a writer of theology, a critic of the churches of his day, and an advocate of religious diversity. Coolhaes opposed much of the building up of the organization of the Reformed Church in the Northern Netherlands and Dutch Republic in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The struggle between Coolhaes and the Leiden magistrates on one side and the Leiden consistory and fellow-preacher Pieter Cornelisz on the other encapsulated the question of authority which was being asked by many. At the same time, Coolhaes' theology, especially his Spiritualistic understanding of the sacraments, his Erastianism, and his views on free will made him suspicious to his Reformed colleagues. The latter of which leading him later to be labeled »the forerunner of Arminius and the Remonstrants«. All this eventually led to his defrocking at the synod of Middelburg and soon after to excommunication from the Reformed Church. The question this book answers, therefore, is: What sort of church would the critic Coolhaes himself have wanted to design for the new Republic?The first part of the book gives a new biographical sketch. Fresh information, sources, and un-examined works by Coolhaes himself have been uncovered since H.C. Rogge's nineteenth-century biography. In the second part the ecclesiology of Coolhaes takes center stage: His ideal church would have been characterized by diversity, for diversity of religious confessions in the same society would stabilize it and diversity of views even within a confession would not harm it.
Download or read book Recovering from the Anabaptist Vision written by Laura Schmidt Roberts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume performs a critical and vibrant reconstruction of Anabaptist identity and theological method, in the wake of the recent revelations of the depth of the sexual abuse perpetrated by the most influential Anabaptist theologian of the 20th century, John Howard Yoder. In an attempt to liberate Anabaptist theology and identity from the constricting vision appropriated and reformulated by Yoder, these essays refuse the determinative categories of the last half century supplied by and carried beyond Harold Bender's The Anabaptist Vision. While still under the shadow of decades of trauma, a recontexualized conversation about Anabaptist theology and identity emerges in this volume that is ecumenically engaged, philosophically astute, psychologically attuned, and resolutely vulnerable. The volume offers a Trinitarian and Christological framework that holds together the importance of Scripture, tradition, and the lived experience of the Christian community, as the contributors examine a wide variety of issues such as Mennonite feminism, Anabaptist queer theology, and Mennonite theological methods. These essays interrogate the operations of power, violence, exclusion, and privilege in methodology in this changed context, offering self-critical constructive alternatives for articulating Anabaptist theology and identity.
Download or read book You Mean I Don t Have to Tithe written by David A. Croteau and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tithing is a well-known church practice in our day and age, but do church-goers really practice it? When did the concept of tithing begin? How is it justified? What does the Bible say about it? You Mean I Don't Have to Tithe? is a detailed study on the controversial topic of tithing, covering over 2,000 years of well-known theologians regarding this topic. Dr. Croteau's intense tithing investigation will enable you to explore tithing and related topics in-depth, expounding many misconceptions of tithing as well as aiding in a correct understanding of this popular topic.Ê
Download or read book The Anabaptists and Contemporary Baptists written by Malcolm B. Yarnell and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars and pastors (Paige Patterson, Rick Warren, etc.) offer essays on sixteenth-century Anabaptists (Balthasar Hubmaier, Leonhard Schiemer, Hans Denck, etc.) proposing to recover the Anabaptist vision among Baptists as a means of restoring New Testament Christianity.
