Break Free of Dogma


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Since 2004 the Church of the Churchless blog has been inspiring, entertaining, and educating people who view themselves as spiritual but not religious, an ever-expanding group of truth-seekers. The 93 churchless "sermons" in this book have been selected from the early years of the blog, 2004-06. By turns provocative, heartfelt, challenging, humorous, and philosophical, these blog posts reflect the author's struggle to come to grips with the dogmatism he embraced during 35 years of religiosity. While feeling good about becoming more open-minded, his attempts to salvage the positive aspects of spirituality make for fascinating reading, as do dialogues with visitors to the Church of the Churchless blog.




Break Free


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Do you find that you are living in a spiritual cage, unable to get out, repeating the same sin over and over again? Perhaps, you are living out the sinful tendencies of your parents, instead of the destiny God has prepared for you. If you are tired of taking two steps forward and three steps backwards in your spiritual life, then Holy Spirit will use “Break Free” as a key to get you out of that cage of limitation and stagnation, and into a life of freedom! Break Free will… - Remove the scales from your eyes about the reality of the spiritual world, and give you the tools to stop simply dealing with the symptoms of your problems, but remove the roots of those problems. - Challenge the belief that curses and demons are only problems in third world countries. - Show that demons come to build strongholds in the minds, as well as destroy a person’s life. - Define, once and for all, what freedom really is. - Teach you the practical steps of how to stay free, and never return to a life of bondage. Through powerful, vulnerable, and unforgettable storytelling, Vladimir shares incredible moments in ministry and his personal life experiences, that taught him how to find freedom, and live in it. What he has discovered, as God has taken him through a journey of spiritual growth, is truly life changing.




Break Free Amazon Paperback


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Do you find that you are living in a spiritual cage, unable to get out, repeating the same sin over and over again? Perhaps, you are living out the sinful tendencies of your parents, instead of the destiny God has prepared for you. If you are tired of taking two steps forward and three steps backwards in your spiritual life, then Holy Spirit will use "Break Free" as a key to get you out of that cage of limitation and stagnation, and into a life of freedom! Through powerful, vulnerable, and unforgettable storytelling, Vladimir shares incredible moments in ministry and his personal life experiences, that taught him how to find freedom, and live in it. What he has discovered, as God has taken him through a journey of spiritual growth, is truly life changing.Break Free will...* Remove the scales from your eyes about the reality of the spiritual world, and give you the tools to stop simply dealing with the symptoms of your problems, but remove the roots of those problems. * Challenge the belief that curses and demons are only problems in third world countries. * Show that demons come to build strongholds in the minds, as well as destroy a person's life. * Define, once and for all, what freedom really is. * Teach you the practical steps of how to stay free, and never return to a life of bondage. Reviews for Break Free"Break Free" offers a much-needed perspective on deliverance and exorcism and covers a wide range of topics that every Christian should be aware of. I especially like his emphasis on the renewed mind in Christ and the importance of keeping the freedom that deliverance brings. - Dr. Bob Larson, The world's foremost expert on cults, the occult, and supernatural Through his personal experiences, and Scriptural applications you will receive the knowledge and revelation on how to be set free from mental and physical oppression in your own life. As you read this book the works of the enemy will be exposed, and you will discover the decisions that you must make to experience true liberty in Christ. - Andres Bisonni, Author of "My Beloved Holy Spirit"Pastor Vlad Savchuk's book, "Break Free," is an excellent treatise of the reality of the spirit world and the hold that demonic spirits can have in areas of spiritual bondage. - George Davidiuk, Evangelist The real-life examples described in this book reveal the truth about the reality of the spiritual world and the authority that God has given to us as believers.- Lika Roman, Miss Ukraine 2007If you are asking yourself, "Why won't things change in my life?" read this book...they are about to.- Matt Shea, Washington House of Representatives, 4th Legislative District. If you want to know the rules of engagement in a spiritual warfare, what tactics to use, and how to pray for deliverance, this book is for you.- Roman Sheremeta, Ph.D., Professor at Case Western Reserve UniversityI believe this book is a tool for many to be able to find full freedom and realize their complete potential to live a free life in Christ Jesus.- Andrey Shapoval, Flame of Fire Ministries




Science Set Free


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The bestselling author of Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home offers an intriguing new assessment of modern day science that will radically change the way we view what is possible. In Science Set Free (originally published to acclaim in the UK as The Science Delusion), Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows the ways in which science is being constricted by assumptions that have, over the years, hardened into dogmas. Such dogmas are not only limiting, but dangerous for the future of humanity. According to these principles, all of reality is material or physical; the world is a machine, made up of inanimate matter; nature is purposeless; consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the brain; free will is an illusion; God exists only as an idea in human minds, imprisoned within our skulls. But should science be a belief-system, or a method of enquiry? Sheldrake shows that the materialist ideology is moribund; under its sway, increasingly expensive research is reaping diminishing returns while societies around the world are paying the price. In the skeptical spirit of true science, Sheldrake turns the ten fundamental dogmas of materialism into exciting questions, and shows how all of them open up startling new possibilities for discovery. Science Set Free will radically change your view of what is real and what is possible.




Bound to Be Free


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"Bound to Be Free" explores the scriptural concepts of church ("ekklesia"), freedom ("eleutheria"), and truthful speech ("parrhesia"), showing not only that the proper meanings of three concepts interpenetrate one another but also that rending them asunder lies at the root of Christian division today. According to Reinhard Hutter, the crucial interrelationship of these three concepts has long been obscured by ongoing church division. Separated from each other, many Christians assume that freedom can be maintained and truthful speech preserved only at the cost of unity. Others assume that Christian unity can be attained only if freedom and truthful speech are narrowly circumscribed in their proper exercise. Christian division issues from the all too familiar individualistic accounts of church, freedom, and speech that have haunted modernity and clouded the proclamation of the gospel. This book shows that here, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is imperative that Christians attend to this crucial interrelationship and its source in the God of the gospel. Hutter discusses the meaning, role, and importance of each concept in turn, engaging along the way a wide range of classical and contemporary voices in theology, philosophy, and culture that reveal in different ways how church, freedom, and truthful speech support one another."Bound to Be Free" is a groundbreaking work that challenges common approaches to ecumenism and points a fruitful new course ahead.




The Academy


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The Universalist Leader


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What Is Dogma?


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Dogma is one of those words. Many people see dogma as a bad thing-as the unreasonable, unthinking adherence to a belief, even in the face of contrary evidence. But when the Catholic Church presents some of her teachings as dogmas, she does not mean that these tenets are irrational or to be thoughtlessly embraced. Dogma is the bedrock of truth, an inexhaustible feast for the mind, not an impediment to thinking. Why? Because dogmas rest on the Word of God, Truth Himself, who can neither deceive nor be deceived, and who wants his Word to be known. The great theologian Charles Journet explores the meaning of dogma in his classic work What is Dogma? In what sense are dogmas an object of faith? How do reason and faith relate to dogmas? How are dogmas both essentially unchangeable and yet open to development? Are dogmas accessible only in learned theological language or are there common-sense ways of understanding them? Journet addresses these and other important questions. He also discusses examples of dogmatic development: the dogmas of the Trinity, of Christology, and of Mariology. And he explores the relationship of dogma and mystical contemplation. In short, Journet shows why "dogma" is a subject of which Catholics need not be afraid.




Read Him Again and Again


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In Read Him Again and Again, Andrew Zack Lewis explores the reception history of the book of Job and the hermeneutical presuppositions of its interpreters. He pays special attention to the interpretations of Soren Kierkegaard (in his "Upbuilding Discourse" on Job 1:21 and his philosophical novella Repetition), Wilhelm Vischer (in his essay "Hiob, ein Zeuge Jesu Christi"), and Karl Barth (in Church Dogmatics IV.3.1). In looking at Job in these works Lewis examines how each of the thinkers' contexts influence their writings and their understanding of Job. Read Him Again and Again begins with a discussion on the importance of reception history in biblical studies by walking through Mikhail Bakhtin's theories on great time and the chronotope. Great texts, Bakhtin argues, continue to live and grow even after their completion and canonization, expanding in meaning as more readers participate in their interpretations. This is certainly true of the book of Job and Read Him Again and Again shows not only how Kierkegaard, Vischer, and Barth read Job, but also how they inherit the Job of their predecessors in the Christian tradition, maintaining features of earlier allegorical interpretive strategies while remaining firmly established in the critical era.




BREAKING FREE Thinking Outside the Cage of Christian Dogma


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A cerebral man who finally gave Jesus and Christian fundamentalism his entire life shortly after the birth of his first child. D.C. gives a thought provoking dissertation on his thoughts of his immersion into Christianity. Shortly after receiving his biblical theology degree B.S. Summa Cum Laude, he started to see that christianity just didn't make sense if he was to be true to his conscious. D.C. challenges the status quo of Christian dogma and encourages one to follow a truer faith. A faith built on education, science and common since. Most importantly he supports independent faith, one that doesn't have to follow a set of guidelines, to set oneself truly free.