Author : John Stott
Publisher : IVP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 1995-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830818648
John R. W. Stott challenges us to move with the times while standing firmly on the truth of God's Word.
Author : Richard Beck
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 071884047X
I desire mercy, not sacrifice. Echoing Hosea, Jesus defends his embrace of the unclean in the Gospel of Matthew, seeming to privilege the prophetic call to justice over the Levitical pursuit of purity. And yet, as missional faith communities arewell aware, the tensions and conflicts between holiness and mercy are not so easily resolved. In an unprecedented fusion of psychological science and theological scholarship, Richard Beck describes the pernicious (and largely unnoticed) effects of the psychology of purity upon the life and mission of the church.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 10,27 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004310789
The Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity: Movements, Institutions & Allegiance traces how the largest religion in the world continues to be expressed in energetic global dynamic forms. In contemporary times Christianity is increasingly exposed to divisions, not only through its traditional channels – Roman Catholic, Protestant and the Orthodoxy – nor conservative and liberal streams, but numerous nuanced articulations. This is reflected in the roles of clergy and lay people, in organisational dynamics, sources of allegiance and articulations of the faith, movements of renewal and revivalism, syncretic modes, and broader relationships with wider cultural trajectories and changing social circumstances. Collectively the contributors to this volume offer a comprehensive exploration of these themes. The volume is a companion to the Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity.
Author : E. Patterson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 10,87 MB
Release : 2008-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230610536
This volume aims to reconstruct and debate a contemporary Christian realist framework, while also applying such a perspective to the issues of contemporary politics such as the Bush Doctrine, the laws of war, democracy and democratization, U.S. participation in international institutions, and apocalyptic terrorism.
Author : Mark Coppenger
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0805464204
A respected Christian apologist thoughtfully pushes back against critics of the faith as well as cultural relativists, arguing that Christianity is morally superior to its competitors and, above all, true.
Author : Cynthia White
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,45 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0800697472
This brief survey text tells the story of early Christianity. Cynthia White explores the emergence of Christianity in Rome during the first four centuries of the Greco-Roman empire, from the first followers of Jesus Christ, to conflicts between Christians and Jewish kings under Roman occupation, to the torture of Christian followers, Diocletian's reforms, and Constantine's eventual conversion to monotheism, which cemented Christianity's status as the official religion of Rome. The text's chapters will integrate key pedagogy, including introductions, study questions, textboxes, photos, maps, suggested readings, and a glossary and timeline.
Author : Dan Lucarini
Publisher : EP BOOKS
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 15,92 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780852345177
For many churches today, music has become one of the most important factors in attempting to reach unbelievers with the gospel. Writing from his own personal experience as a former worship leader, Dan Lucarini questions the use of contemporary music in the worship of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Author : Cecilia Nahnfeldt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,45 MB
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 100039249X
This book reconstructs the connection between religion and migration, drawing on post-colonial perspectives to shed light on what religion can contribute to migrant encounters. Examining the resources and motives for hospitality as lived in Christian contexts in the Nordic region, it addresses the content of talk about religion in public discourse, the concept having become something of an empty signifier in debates surrounding migration. Multidisciplinary in approach, this volume demonstrates that religion is not, in fact, an empty signifier, but gains substance through practice and interpretation. Considering the undeveloped potentiality of religion and the manner in which the unseen religious perspective in secularity becomes manifest in practice, this volume will appeal to social scientists and scholars of religion with interests in migration, refugee studies, theology, and Christian practice.
Author : Paul Copan
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0805445382
Popular Christian apologists, from Emir Caner to N.T. Wright, present their dynamic defenses of faith in Passionate Conviction.
Author : Li Ma
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 3030318028
Women make up the vast majority of Protestant Christians in China—a largely faceless majority, as their stories too often go untold in scholarly research as well as popular media. This book writes Protestant Chinese women into the history of twenty-first-century China. It features the oral histories of over a dozen women, highlighting themes of spiritual transformation, politicized culture, social mobility, urbanization, and family life. Each subject narrates not only her own story, but that of her mother, as well, revealing a deeply personal dimension to the dramatic social change that has occurred in a matter of decades. By uncovering the stories of Christian women in China, Li Ma offers a unique window onto the interactions between femininity and Christianity, and onto the socioeconomic upheavals that mark recent Chinese history.
