Book Description
Helps church leaders recover ancient understandings of Christian belief and practice from the early church fathers and apply them to ministry in the twenty-first century.
Author : D. H. Williams
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 37,42 MB
Release : 2005-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0801027136
Helps church leaders recover ancient understandings of Christian belief and practice from the early church fathers and apply them to ministry in the twenty-first century.
Author : George Kalantzis
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 24,81 MB
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1621899101
In this volume noted Evangelical historians and theologians examine the charge of the supposed "ahistorical nature of Evangelicalism" and provide a critical, historical examination of the relationship between the Protestant evangelical heritage and the early church. In doing so, the contributors show the long and deeply historical rootedness of the Protestant Reformation and its Evangelical descendants, as well as underscoring some inherent difficulties such as the Mercersburg and Oxford movements. In the second part of the volume, the discussion moves forward, as evangelicals rediscover the early church-its writings, liturgy, catechesis, and worship-following the "temporary amnesia" of the earlier part of the twentieth century. Most essays are accompanied by a substantial response prompting discussion or offering challenges and alternative readings of the issue at hand, thus allowing the reader to enter a conversation already in progress and engage the topic more fully. This bidirectional look-understanding the historical background on the one hand and looking forward to the future with concrete suggestions on the other-forms a more full-orbed argument for readers who want to understand the rich and deep relationship between Evangelicalism and the early church.
Author : Bryan M. Litfin
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493404784
A Trusted Introduction to the Church Fathers This concise introduction to the church fathers connects evangelical students and readers to twelve key figures from the early church. Bryan Litfin engages readers with actual people, not just abstract doctrines or impersonal events, to help them understand the fathers as spiritual ancestors in the faith. The first edition has been well received and widely used. This updated and revised edition adds chapters on Ephrem of Syria and Patrick of Ireland. The book requires no previous knowledge of the patristic period and includes original, easy-to-read translations that give a brief taste of each writer's thought.
Author : Ronald E. Heine
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 2007-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0801027772
Examines the role played by the Old Testament in the formation of early Christian thinking.
Author : Paul A. Hartog
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1606088998
As "evangelicals" face future challenges, many are turning back to the ancient church for inspiration. But these ancient-future approaches remain diverse and sometimes even at odds with one another. This volume demonstrates and analyzes the complexity of such contemporary church-early church engagements. Six scholars share diverse insights from the Patristic period, including lessons on evangelism and discipleship, community formation and maintenance, use of the "rule of faith," the preaching of social ethics, responses to cultural opposition, and Christological development. The volume closes with two critical responses, from confessional Lutheran and Baptist perspectives. These collected essays will remind contemporary readers of the importance of a reflective and responsible ressourcement of Patristic wisdom.
Author : Michael Green
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 46,85 MB
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1467465623
Now a modern classic, Michael Green’s Evangelism in the Early Church shows how the first Christians worked to spread the good news to the rest of the world. Studying the New Testament and church fathers, Green explores the earliest methods, motives, and strategies of spreading the good news. He also considers the obstacles to evangelism, using outreach to Gentiles and to Jews as examples of differing contexts for proclamation. Thoroughly informed by primary sources, this book will help contemporary readers learn from the past and renew their own evangelistic vision.
Author : Stefana Dan Laing
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493406671
This volume introduces the early Christian ideas of history and history writing and shows their value for developing Christian communities of the patristic era. It examines the ways early Christians related and transmitted their history: apologetics, martyrdom accounts, sacred biography, and the genre of church history proper. The book shows that exploring the lives and writings of both men and women of the ancient church helps readers understand how Christian identity is rooted in the faithful work of preceding generations. It also offers a corrective to the individualistic and ahistorical tendencies within contemporary Christianity.
Author : Laurie Guy
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 17,9 MB
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830839429
Laurie Guy provides an illuminating, broad-brush survey of the early church in its first four centuries. Readers get to witness the emergence of Great Tradition Christianity as themes unfold over time regarding women, persecution and martyrdom, asceticism and monasticism, eucharist and baptism, doctrine and the ecumenical councils.
Author : David W. Bercot
Publisher : Scroll Publishing Co.
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Church history
ISBN : 9780924722004
Author : Stefana Dan Laing
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801096433
This volume introduces the early Christian ideas of history and history writing and shows their value for developing Christian communities of the patristic era. It examines the ways early Christians related and transmitted their history: apologetics, martyrdom accounts, sacred biography, and the genre of church history proper. The book shows that exploring the lives and writings of both men and women of the ancient church helps readers understand how Christian identity is rooted in the faithful work of preceding generations. It also offers a corrective to the individualistic and ahistorical tendencies within contemporary Christianity.