Confessing Christ
Author : Calvin Knox Cummings
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 10,48 MB
Release : 1992-10-01
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9780934688048
Confessing Jesus Christ
Author : David J. Lose
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 2003-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780802849830
Book Description
With its relentless insistence that there is no reality beyond that which we construct, postmodern thought questions the presuppositions of many disciplines, including homiletics. Offering a lively description of the postmodern worldview and its implications for Christian faith, Confessing Jesus Christ by David Lose teaches preachers how to rise to the challenges posed by our postmodern world. Few if any books on preaching offer such a comprehensive investigation of postmodern thought or yield such a wealth of insights for relevant Christian proclamation. Significantly, Lose sees postmodernism not primarily as an obstacle to the church but as an opportunity for it to stand once again on faith alone rather than on attempts to prove the faith. According to Lose, preaching that seeks to be both faithful to the Christian tradition and responsive to our pluralistic, postmodern context is best understood as the public practice of confessing faith in Jesus Christ. He explores the practical implications of a confessional homiletic for preaching and also provides concrete methods for preparing sermons that meaningfully bridge biblical texts and contemporary congregations.
Confessing Christ
Author : Keith S. Whitfield
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 2024-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1087782481
Book Description
Edited by Baptist scholars Steven A. McKinion, Christine E. Thornton, and Keith S. Whitfield, Confessing Christ: An Introduction to Baptist Dogmatics offers a unique and comprehensive exploration of Baptist theology. Grounded in the belief that theology is both exploratory and explanatory, the book introduces a historical, covenantal, ecclesial, and confessional approach to Baptist Dogmatics. Each essay delves into a specific area of dogmatic theology, covering essential topics such as God, Scripture, anthropology, Christology, salvation, ecclesiology, the sacraments, the Christian life, and eschatology. The volume editors emphasize the importance of renewing Baptist life and mission through a rediscovery of the rich theological heritage. By understanding and engaging with this tradition, Baptist Christians can express their faith more authentically in the contemporary context and future endeavors. The book's four key elements—historical, covenantal, ecclesial, and confessional—provide a structured framework for exploring core Christian doctrines within the context of Baptist dogmatics. Each chapter incorporates biblical exegesis and dialogue with at least one historical Baptist theologian. Confessing Christ stands as a significant contribution to the field of Baptist dogmatics, serving as essential reading for Baptist scholars, pastors, and church leaders seeking a deeper understanding of the Baptist theological tradition and its contemporary relevance.
The Gates of Hell
Author : Concordia Publishing House
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780758659132
Book Description
A collaboration of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod's Praesidium, The Gates of Hell gives practical advice to confessional leaders, showing them how to encourage God's people to keep confessing and retain hope as society degrates and becomes even more hostile to the Gospel.
Confessing History
Author : John Fea
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 39,56 MB
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0268079897
Book Description
At the end of his landmark 1994 book, The Soul of the American University, historian George Marsden asserted that religious faith does indeed have a place in today’s academia. Marsden’s contention sparked a heated debate on the role of religious faith and intellectual scholarship in academic journals and in the mainstream media. The contributors to Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation expand the discussion about religion’s role in education and culture and examine what the relationship between faith and learning means for the academy today. The contributors to Confessing History ask how the vocation of historian affects those who are also followers of Christ. What implications do Christian faith and practice have for living out one’s calling as an historian? And to what extent does one’s calling as a Christian disciple speak to the nature, quality, or goals of one’s work as scholar, teacher, adviser, writer, community member, or social commentator? Written from several different theological and professional points of view, the essays collected in this volume explore the vocation of the historian and its place in both the personal and professional lives of Christian disciples.
Confessing Christ for Church and World
Author : Kimlyn J. Bender
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,81 MB
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830840595
Book Description
This collection of new and previously published essays by Kimlyn Bender sheds light on both the task of modern theology and the witness of the church. Among other topics, the essays discuss Barth's understanding of atheism, Schleiermacher's Christology and the challenges posed to the canon by Bart Ehrman.
Confessing Christ in the Naga Context
Author : Bendangjungshi
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 3643900716
Book Description
In this book, author Bendangjungshi brings into dialogue the three leading Northeast Indian tribal theologians - Renthy Keitzar, K. Thanzauva, and Wati Longchar - with the Western theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who suffered martyrdom under the Nazi dictatorship in Germany. Negotiating between Bonhoeffer's political approach and Naga cultural identity, Bendangjungshi develops a liberating ecclesiology for Naga Christians, who have been suffering under Indian military occupation since the withdrawal of the British colonizers from Nagaland. (Series: ContactZone. Explorations in Intercultural Theology - Vol. 8)
Confessing Jesus as Lord
Author : Terry Chrisope
Publisher : Mentor
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781845509620
Book Description
It is so easy to voice the words: 'Jesus is Lord' but what does it mean to be under the rule of the one we confess to be Lord? For this to be our true confession it has to be lived out in our daily lives too. This lucid book provides a Biblical survey on the theme of God's Lordship and how we can make this a living reality every day.
Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart
Author : J.D. Greear
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 18,81 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433679183
Book Description
“If there were a Guinness Book of World Records entry for ‘amount of times having prayed the sinner’s prayer,’ I’m pretty sure I’d be a top contender,” says pastor and author J. D. Greear. He struggled for many years to gain an assurance of salvation and eventually learned he was not alone. “Lack of assurance” is epidemic among evangelical Christians. In Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart, J. D. shows that faulty ways of present- ing the gospel are a leading source of the confusion. Our presentations may not be heretical, but they are sometimes misleading. The idea of “asking Jesus into your heart” or “giving your life to Jesus” often gives false assurance to those who are not saved—and keeps those who genuinely are saved from fully embracing that reality. Greear unpacks the doctrine of assurance, showing that salvation is a posture we take to the promise of God in Christ, a posture that begins at a certain point and is maintained for the rest of our lives. He also answers the tough questions about assurance: What exactly is faith? What is repentance? Why are there so many warnings that seem to imply we can lose our salvation? Such issues are handled with respect to the theological rigors they require, but Greear never loses his pastoral sensitivity or a communication technique that makes this message teachable to a wide audience from teens to adults.
Confessing Christ in a Post-Holocaust World
Author : Henry F. Knight
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 24,47 MB
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1597526282
Book Description
Proposes a new model of Christian faithfulness in a post-Holocaust world.
