Download or read book United Methodist Doctrine written by Scott J. Jones and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout this book, Scott J. Jones insists that for United Methodists the ultimate goal of doctrine is holiness. Importantly, he clarifies the nature and the specific claims of "official" United Methodist doctrine in a way that moves beyond the current tendency to assume the only alternatives are a rigid dogmatism or an unfettered theological pluralism. In classic Wesleyan form, Jones' driving concern is with recovering the vital role of forming believers in the "mind of Christ, " so that they might live more faithfully in their many settings in our world.

Download or read book Mainline Or Methodist written by Scott Thomas Kisker and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do we go from here? The dynamic history and identity of the United Methodist Church is lost among the pluralistic landscape in America today. As a living organism, the church can expect to evolve with the culture that surrounds it. The problem, according to lifelong member and author Scott Kisker, is that the United Methodist Church seems to have lost its missional foundation as it climbed to mainline American Protestant church status. Trying to be both mainline and Methodist is a deadly combination. In fact, it's a leading cause for the denomination's spiritual and numerical decline, Kisker asserts. "Real Methodism declined because we replaced those peculiarities that made us Methodist with a bland, acceptable, almost civil religion, barely distinguishable from other traditions," writes Kisker. "Like the Israelites under the judges, we wanted to be like other nations. We no longer wanted to be an odd, somewhat disreputable people. And we have begun to reap the consequences." So...where do we go from here? In his passionate yet critical review, Kisker says we must reclaim the rich roots of salvation, disciple-making, and witness that made the tradition so strong. In Mainline or Methodist? he reveals what's not working and unveils a vision for renewal that embodies the distinctive Wesleyan tradition of the apostolic and universal Christian faith.

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Download or read book On the Road to Civil Rights written by Inman Moore and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inman Moore grew up in Southern Mississippi, mainly along the Gulf Coast. He is a graduate of Long Beach High School, Mississippi, and Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, and holds a graduate degree in theology from the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Inman has been pastor of churches in both Mississippi and California. While in Mississippi, during the late fifties and early sixties, Inman was very involved in the civil rights movement. He was a founding member of the reconstituted Mississippi Council on Human Relations. In January of 1963, while pastor of Leggett Memorial United Methodist Church in Biloxi, Mississippi, he was one of twenty-eight Mississippi ministers who signed a statement on civil rights entitled Born of Conviction. In April of 1963, Inman and his family moved to California, to a pastorate in Palmdale.

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Download or read book The New International Encyclopaedia written by Frank Moore Colby and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Sangamon County written by Newton Bateman and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book History of the South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church 1866 2018 written by Anne Packard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Georgia Conference, created in 1866 by the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, began at a time of great change in the region. This updated edition of the History of the South Georgia Conference 1866 - 2018 traces the roots of Georgia Methodism from John Wesley's residence in Savannah in 1736 through present day. The subsequent struggles, triumphs, decisions and concerns can all be found within these pages. The South Georgia Conference's come alive with photos and histories documented by each church historian and now compiled within this second edition of History. The Archives and History Committee of the South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church collaborated and edited this edition. Anne Packard, Curator of the Moore Methodist Museum and Archivist for the conference, working with the Assistant Curators, Cindy Angelich and Marlee Pack, are indebted to both the committee and church historians for their time and energy in creating this book.

Download or read book Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans written by James B. Bennett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans examines a difficult chapter in American religious history: the story of race prejudice in American Christianity. Focusing on the largest city in the late-nineteenth-century South, it explores the relationship between churches--black and white, Protestant and Catholic--and the emergence of the Jim Crow laws, statutes that created a racial caste system in the American South. The book fills a gap in the scholarship on religion and race in the crucial decades between the end of Reconstruction and the eve of the Civil Rights movement. Drawing on a range of local and personal accounts from the post-Reconstruction period, newspapers, and church records, Bennett's analysis challenges the assumption that churches fell into fixed patterns of segregation without a fight. In sacred no less than secular spheres, establishing Jim Crow constituted a long, slow, and complicated journey that extended well into the twentieth century. Churches remained a source of hope and a means of resistance against segregation, rather than a retreat from racial oppression. Especially in the decade after Reconstruction, churches offered the possibility of creating a common identity that privileged religious over racial status, a pattern that black church members hoped would transfer to a national American identity transcending racial differences. Religion thus becomes a lens to reconsider patterns for racial interaction throughout Southern society. By tracing the contours of that hopeful yet ultimately tragic journey, this book reveals the complex and mutually influential relationship between church and society in the American South, placing churches at the center of the nation's racial struggles.

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Download or read book Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Harrison and Carroll Ohio Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and of Many of the Early Settled Families written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 2011 Official Journal of the Indiana Annual Conference written by The Indiana Conference of The United Methodist Church and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official 2011 Journal of the Indiana Conference of The United Methodist Church with proceedings of the Third Annual Session at Ball State, Muncie, Indiana, June 8-11, 2011.

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