Book Description
The book explores what it means to be a practising Christian in a variety of traditions and countries, as well as the way it is expressed in 'cultural' and 'commercial' Christianity.
Author : George D. Chryssides
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,49 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845532123
The book explores what it means to be a practising Christian in a variety of traditions and countries, as well as the way it is expressed in 'cultural' and 'commercial' Christianity.
Author : Sam Gould
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 38,75 MB
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1498246184
Being Christian in the Twenty-first Century was written to help struggling and doubting Christians develop an understanding of Christianity that avoids literalism, creeds, and doctrines--all factors which seem to be driving people away from the church. The book is well suited for individual or group study, complete with a study guide and sample lesson plans. It responds to the call for theological reform advocated by many contemporary clergy and religious leaders. Being Christian does not restate orthodox positions or drift into fundamentalism or sentimentalism. Instead it draws from a broad base of historical, theological, archaeological, and sociological scholarship to place Scripture within its original context, yet present it within a perspective suitable for the twenty-first-century mind. Being Christian is scholarly, yet readable, interesting, and often provocative. One reviewer put it this way, "the book reminds me of a baseball pitcher with a long wind up and a hard fastball getting better in every inning." By building upon progressive thought available today and throughout history, it offers an important resource for Christians and would-be Christians seeking a more fulfilling and thoughtful faith journey.
Author : Douglas H. Shantz
Publisher : Cascade Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 2012-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498214308
Description: In this volume some of the outstanding Christian scholars of our day reflect on how their minds have changed, how their academic fields have changed over the course of their careers, and the pressing issues that Christian scholars will need to address in the twenty-first century. This volume offers an accessible portrait of key trends in the world of Christian scholarship today. Christian Thought in the Twenty-First Century features scholars from Great Britain, Canada, the United States, and Switzerland. The contributors represent a wide variety of academic backgrounds--from biblical studies to theology, to religious studies, to history, English literature, philosophy, law, and ethics. This book offers a personal glimpse of Christian scholars in a self-reflective mode, capturing their honest reflections on the changing state of the academy and on changes in their own minds and outlooks. The breadth and depth of insight afforded by these contributions provide rich soil for a reader's own reflections, and an agenda that will occupy Christian thinkers well into the twenty-first century. Endorsements: "I heard many of the lecturers whose essays appear in this book when they were guests of the Chair of Christian Thought at the University of Calgary. Now they reappear to reflect personally on how their minds and academic fields have changed over the course of their careers. They tackle key issues in their disciplines needing future attention and present their views as authentic humans, not only as respected academics." --Wayne Holst University of Calgary and St. David's United Church, Calgary About the Contributor(s): Douglas H. Shantz is Professor of Christian Thought at the University of Calgary. His recent books are Between Sardis and Philadelphia (2008), and A New Introduction to German Pietism (2012). Tinu Ruparell is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary. He is coeditor, with Ian S. Markham, of Encountering Religion (2000). His current work centers on idealism in Ramanuja and Leibniz as well as on science and religion.
Author : Ewert Cousins
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 1994-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0826406998
Cousins evaluates our present religious condition and reflects on the importance of tradition, spirituality, and mysticism in understanding ourselves and others.
Author : Aleksandr Menʹ
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826408945
These writings by the assassinated Russian Orthodox Church leader examine the place of Christianity and of Russia in human history
Author : Robert Wuthnow
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0195096517
Robert Wuthnow contributes to those reflections on religion that are cropping up at the end of the millennium by offering a sobering, realistic, and hopeful assessment of where the church is now, and where the church is heading.
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Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2001-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1585588369
Building on the success of his 1992 collection Foundations of Ministry (over 17,000 sold), Michael Anthony offers Introducing Christian Education to fill the need in the C.E. curriculum for an introductory foundations textbook--one that provides an overview and understanding of the broad range of subjects included in C.E.--for college and seminary use. Thirty-one chapters are offered under the following sections: 1) Foundations of C.E.; 2) Developmental Perspectives of C.E.; 3) Educational Implications of C.E.; 4) Organization, Administration, and Leadership; 5) C.E. Applied to the Family; and 6) Specialized Ministries. Contributors include Robert Pazmiño, Jim Wilhoit, Julie Gorman, Klaus Issler, and Ted Ward. FROM THE FOREWORD BY LESTER C. BLANK JR. Introducing Christian Education will become a major resource text for church leaders and Christian education leaders who are professors of Christian education. It will be a valuable resource in my personal library. The desired outcome will be Psalm 78:72: "He cared for them with a true heart and led them with skillful hands."
Author : Michael Beck
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 2020-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781734508116
Author : Leith Anderson
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 24,86 MB
Release : 1992-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441263071
From the author of Dying for Change, a book on how to bring change to a local church to meet the challenges of a changing society.
Author : Nathan P. Devir
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004507701
Millions of African Christians who consider themselves genealogical descendants of one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel—in other words, Jewish by ethnicity, but Christian in terms of faith—are increasingly choosing a religious affiliation that honors both of these identities. Their choice: Messianic Judaism. Messianic adherents emulate the Christians of the first century, observing the Jewish commandments while also affirming the salvational grace of Yeshua (Jesus). As the first comparative ethnography of such "fulfilled Jews" on the African continent, this book presents case studies that will enrich our understanding of one of global Christianity’s most overlooked iterations.