Download or read book The Broadening Church written by Lefferts A. Loetscher and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The far-reaching social and intellectual changes in the United States since the Civil War have had a definite effect upon the religious thought of American churches. In this volume, a distinguished scholar and theologian has undertaken an inductive study of theological issues in one of the major denominations, the Presbyterian church in the United States of America. Since this church was in the thick of the social and intellectual ferment that changed the living and thinking habits of Americans, much that transpired in it finds broad parallels in other leading American churches. Thus, the story of the Presbyterian church is, in essence, a kind of theological barometer of American history. Avoiding sweeping generalizations, Lefferts A. Loetscher briefly traces the history of the Presbyterian church from its founding by New England Puritans on Long Island in the 1640s to the disruption of 1837 and the "wedding day" of Old School and New School Presbyterians in 1870, following the reunion of 1869. From this point, he examines in detail the development of the church, analyzing the controversies that occurred over the years, interpreting the various theological issues that led to disputes.
Download or read book The Covenanter s Narrative and Plea written by Thomas Houston and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Still Time to Care written by Greg Johnson and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the gay rights movement in 1969, evangelicalism's leading voices cast a vision for gay people who turn to Jesus. It was C.S. Lewis, Billy Graham, Francis Schaeffer and John Stott who were among the most respected leaders within theologically orthodox Protestantism. We see with them a positive pastoral approach toward gay people, an approach that viewed homosexuality as a fallen condition experienced by some Christians who needed care more than cure. With the birth and rise of the ex-gay movement, the focus shifted from care to cure. As a result, there are an estimated 700,000 people alive today who underwent conversion therapy in the United States alone. Many of these patients were treated by faith-based, testimony-driven parachurch ministries centered on the ex-gay script. Despite the best of intentions, the movement ended with very troubling results. Yet the ex-gay movement died not because it had the wrong sex ethic. It died because it was founded on a practice that diminished the beauty of the gospel. Yet even after the closure of the ex-gay umbrella organization Exodus International in 2013, the ex-gay script continues to walk about as the undead among us, pressuring people like me to say, "I used to be gay, but I'm not gay anymore. Now I'm just same-sex attracted." For orthodox Christians, the way forward is a path back to where we were forty years ago. It is time again to focus with our Neo-Evangelical fathers on care--not cure--for our non-straight sisters and brothers who are living lives of costly obedience to Jesus. With warmth and humor as well as original research, Still Time to Care will chart the path forward for our churches and ministries in providing care. It will provide guidance for the gay person who hears the gospel and finds themselves smitten by the life-giving call of Jesus. Woven throughout the book will be Richard Lovelace’s 1978 call for a "double repentance" in which gay Christians repent of their homosexual sins and the church repents of its homophobia--putting on display for all the power of the gospel.
Download or read book The Plea of Presbytery in Behalf of the Ordination Government Discipline and Worship of the Christian Church as Opposed to the Unscriptural Character and Claims of Prelacy in a Reply to the Rev Archibald Boyd on Episcopacy written by William Dool Killen and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Reformation Worship written by Jonathan Gibson and published by New Growth Press. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worship is the right, fitting, and delightful response of moral beings—angelic and human—to God the Creator, Redeemer, and Consummator, for who he is as one eternal God in three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—and for what he has done in creation and redemption, and for what he will do in the coming consummation, to whom be all praise ...
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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches written by Robert Benedetto and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 895 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As its name implies, the Reformed tradition grew out of the 16th century Protestant Reformation. The Reformed churches consider themselves to be the Catholic Church reformed. The movement originated in the reform efforts of Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) of Zurich and John Calvin (1509-1564) of Geneva. Although the Reformed movement was dependent upon many Protestant leaders, it was Calvin's tireless work as a writer, preacher, teacher, and social and ecclesiastical reformer that provided a substantial body of literature and an ethos from which the Reformed tradition grew. Today, the Reformed churches are a multicultural, multiethnic, and multinational phenomenon. Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,000 cross-referenced entries on leaders, personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about reformed churches.
Download or read book The Reformed Presbyterian written by Moses Roney and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Woman Church and State A Historical Account of the Status of Woman Through the Christian Ages With Reminiscences of Matriarchate written by Matilda Joslyn Gage and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Woman, Church and State', Matilda Joslyn Gage delves into the historical account of the status of women through the Christian ages, shedding light on the struggles and triumphs faced by women in a patriarchal society. Written in a scholarly and insightful prose, Gage explores the role of the church in perpetuating gender inequality and the erasure of matriarchal traditions. This work serves as a powerful critique of the oppressive nature of organized religion and its impact on women's rights. Gage's literary style combines meticulous research with a passionate advocacy for gender equality, making this book a significant contribution to feminist literature. 'Woman, Church and State' is a compelling read for anyone interested in women's history and the intersection of religion and gender politics.
Download or read book Herald and Presbyter written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book John Calvin Rediscovered written by Edward Dommen and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having grown out of a 2004 consultation sponsored by the John Knox International Reformed Center, the University of Geneva, and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, the essays inJohn Calvin Rediscoveredrevive the social and economic thought of John Calvin, first exploring Calvin in his own time and then turning to Calvin's global influence.
Download or read book Woman Church and State written by Matilda Joslyn Gage and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explains itself and is given to the world because it is needed. Tired of the obtuseness of Church and State; indignant at the injustice of both towards woman; at the wrongs inflicted upon one-half of humanity by the other half in the name of religion; finding appeal and argument alike met by the assertion that God designed the subjection of woman, and yet that her position had been higher under Christianity than ever before: Continually hearing these statements, and knowing them to be false, I refuted them in a slight resume of the subject at the annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association, Washington, D.C., 1878. A wish to see that speech in print, having been expressed, it was allowed to appear in The National Citizen, a woman suffrage paper I then edited, and shortly afterwards in "The History of Woman Suffrage," of which I was also an editor. The kindly reception given both in the United States and Europe to that meager chapter of forty pages confirmed my purpose of a fuller presentation of the subject in book form, and it now appears, the result of twenty years investigation, in a volume of over five hundred and fifty pages. Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) was a 19th-century women's suffragist, a Native American rights activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was "born with a hatred of oppression."
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