Download or read book Preaching the Converted written by Samantha Zacher and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-05-16 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vercelli Book is one of the oldest surviving collections of Old English homilies and poems, compiled in England in the tenth century. Preaching the Converted provides a sustained literary analysis of the book's prose homilies and demonstrates that they employ rhetorical techniques commonly associated with vernacular verse. The study argues that the dazzling textual complexity of these homilies rivals the most accomplished examples of Old English poetry. Highlighting the use of word play, verbal and structural repetition, elaborate catalogues, and figurative language, Samantha Zacher's study of the Vercelli Book fills a gap in the history of English preaching by foregrounding the significance of these prose homilies as an intermediary form. Also analyzing the Latin and vernacular sources behind the Vercelli texts to reveal the theological and formal interests informing the collection as a whole, Preaching the Converted is a rigorous examination of Old English homiletic rhetoric and poetics.
Download or read book Preaching to Convert written by John Fletcher and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preaching to Convert offers an intriguing new perspective on the outreach strategies of U.S. evangelicals, framing them as examples of activist performance, broadly defined as acts performed before an audience in the hopes of changing hearts and minds. Most writing about activist performance has focused on left-progressive causes, events, and actors. Preaching to Convert argues against such a constricted view of activism and for a more nuanced understanding of U.S. evangelicalism as a movement defined by its desire to win converts and spread the gospel. The book positions evangelicals as a diverse, complicated group confronting the loss of conservative Christianity’s default status in 21st-century U.S. culture. In the face of an increasingly secular age, evangelicals have been reassessing models of outreach. In acts like handing out Bible tracts to strangers on the street or going door-to-door with a Bible in hand, in elaborately staged horror-themed morality plays or multimillion-dollar creationist discovery centers, in megachurch services beamed to dozens of satellite campuses, and in controversial “ex-gay” ministries striving to return gays and lesbians to the straight and narrow, evangelicals are redefining what it means to be deeply committed in a pluralist world. The book’s engaging style and careful argumentation make it accessible and appealing to scholars and students across a range of fields.
Download or read book The Preaching of the Gospel the Principal Instrument Appointed for the Conversion of the Heathen Extracted from the Sermons and Proceedings of the Missionary Society May 1812 written by London Missionary Society and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert written by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. She had a tenured position at a large university in a field for which she cared deeply. She owned two homes with her partner, in which they provided hospitality to students and activists that were looking to make a difference in the world. In the community, Rosaria was involved in volunteer work. At the university, she was a respected advisor of students and her department's curriculum. And then, in her late 30s, Rosaria encountered something that turned her world upside down -- the idea that Christianity, a religion that she had regarded as problematic and sometimes downright damaging, might be right about who God was. That idea seemed to fly in the face of the people and causes that she most loved. What follows is a story of what she describes as a train wreck at the hand of the supernatural. These are her secret thoughts about those events, written as only a reflective English professor could."--Back cover.
Download or read book A Call to the Converted written by William George Lambert and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Treatise of Conversion Preached and Now Published for the Use of Those that are Strangers to a True Conversion Especially the Grosly Ignorant and Ungodly written by Richard Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1658 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conversion 6 plain sermons written by Nathaniel Dimock and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Church the Converter of the Heathen written by Edward Bouverie Pusey and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Discourse on Conversion written by Aaron Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sermons on Conversion written by Richard Rogers and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his continual walking with God, Richard Rogers (1551-1618) was 'the Enoch of his age.' He was also a pious Cambridge scholar and early organizing and influential presbyterian. These four, newly edited sermons on Conversion from Isaiah 55:1-2 and Deut. 5:28-29 are experientially rich. They lay the entrance to God's kingdom sweetly low: to any that thirst for it. Rogers, with a discerning and soft hand, reproves worldly minded persons who do not desire the best things of God, shows that the way to be saved is to thirst for what God offers, and assures those that do so that God will surely make good his end of the deal. It is in thirsting that the Christian continues in this life to receive the best spiritual graces from God for everything that he or she needs. This work also includes a short poem of his about the benefits of spiritual reading, conferencing, meditation and prayer. You will find it delightful.
Download or read book A Way with Words written by Daniel Darling and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social media was made to bring us together. But few things have driven us further apart. Sadly, many Christians are fueling online incivility. Others, exhausted by perpetual outrage and shame-filled from constant comparison, are leaving social media altogether. So, how should Christians behave in this digital age? Is there a better way? Daniel Darling believes we need an approach that applies biblical wisdom to our engagement with social media, an approach that neither retreats from modern technology nor ignores the harmful ways in which Christians often engage publicly. In short, he believes that we can and should use our online conversations for good.
Download or read book Preaching to Convert written by John Fletcher and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preaching to Convert offers an intriguing new perspective on the outreach strategies of U.S. evangelicals. Author John Fletcher frames these activities, from door-to-door proselytizing to the spirited sermons of superstar televangelists, as examples of activist performance, broadly defined here as acts performed before an audience in the hopes of changing hearts and minds. Most writing about activist performance has focused on left-progressive causes, events, and actors, and if evangelicals have appeared at all, they often appear as one-dimensional forces of ignorance or bigotry against which brave (left-leaning) activists must fight. Preaching to Convert argues against such a constricted view of activism and for a more nuanced understanding of U.S. evangelicalism as a movement defined by its desire to win converts and spread the gospel. In other words, evangelicals are activist performers par excellence. The book positions evangelicals as a diverse, complicated group confronting the loss of conservative Christianity’s default status in twenty-first–century U.S. culture. In the face of an increasingly secular age, evangelicals have been reassessing models of outreach. In acts like handing out Bible tracts to strangers on the street or going door-to-door with a Bible in hand, in elaborately staged horror-themed morality plays or multi-million-dollar creationist discovery centers, in megachurch services beamed to dozens of satellite campuses, and in controversial “ex-gay” ministries striving to return gays and lesbians to the straight and narrow, evangelicals are redefining what it means to be deeply committed in a pluralist world. The book’s engaging style and careful argumentation make it accessible and appealing to scholars and students across a range of fields.
Download or read book The Converted Sinner A Sermon on Ephes Ii 1 on the Wonderful Conversion of J Woossencraft Etc written by Deuel PEAD and published by . This book was released on 1701 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preaching to the Converted written by Richard Leonard and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short (700 word) homilies for each Sunday for all three cycles, in one volume.
Download or read book Conversion six plain sermons preached in the Church of the Holy Trinity New Hythe during Lent 1855 written by Nathaniel DIMOCK and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preaching for conversion It is a matter of interpretation written by Joseph O. Silva and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preaching is one of the most fundamental ways in which the church, as the body of Christ, proclaims the dynamic word of God. In exploring ways that preaching can take the faithful to a deeper experience of Jesus in the Word, interpretation of scripture becomes critical. Knowing what Jesus meant to those who first heard the words of the gospels provides a means to critically understand what it means for us now within our specific context. Within this context the community is more likely to embrace the scriptures in a way that conforms one's life to the gospel.
Download or read book Why are So Few Converted at the Present Day written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
