Author : Frederick Buechner
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 28,81 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0061842818
Daily meditations taken from the works of an acclaimed novelist, essayist, and preacher who has articulated what he sees with a freshness and clarity and energy that hails our stultified imaginations.
Author : John Allen
Publisher :
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Church and state
ISBN :
Author : Geerhardus Vos
Publisher : Great Christian Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2015-01-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781610100199
Geerhardus Vos devotes this work to a discussion of Jesus' greatest focus in ministry -- the "kingdom of God" (and the "kingdom of heaven," which Vos takes to be referencing the same thing.) Vos begins by connecting Christ's teaching on the kingdom to the Old Testament and its concepts of a Messianic king. Then he moves into the conception of the kingdom during the New Testament with a cursory analysis of the pertinent Greek phrases (but largely accessible to a layman). From there, he moves into the kingdom as it is now, and as it will be in the new heavens and the new earth. Finally, the remaining chapters detail specific aspects and characteristics of the kingdom as it currently exists including the church as it is also compared to the kingdom, and as the means by which one gains entrance into the kingdom. Vos' enlightening treatment of this important theme in the Scriptures ought to be read, particularly by pastors, to assist in preaching and teaching on passages dealing with this vital subject.
Author : Andrew Willard Jones
Publisher : Emmaus Academic
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1945125403
Author : F. W. Mattox
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,86 MB
Release : 2024-07-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781947622227
In accordance with prophecy, Jesus set up His eternal kingdom. But before long, Satan influenced men to start making changes in the structure of Christ's kingdom, the church. These changes took the form of doctrines, practices, and structures that were foreign to the Bible. The result was a new church-the Catholic Church-in competition with Jesus' kingdom. This book shows the path of the Catholic apostasy, but also shows the groups which still followed the truth-though they were labeled as heretics by the Catholics-the people within Catholicism who tried to bring them more in line with the Bible, and finally, many of the individuals who decided to start fresh by restoring New Testament Christianity.
Author : John ALLEN (of Liskeard.)
Publisher :
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 1853
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Scot McKnight
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 32,14 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441221476
An Award-Winning Challenge to Popular Ideas of the Kingdom According to Scot McKnight, "kingdom" is the biblical term most misused by Christians today. It has taken on meanings that are completely at odds with what the Bible says and has become a buzzword for both social justice and redemption. In Kingdom Conspiracy, McKnight offers a sizzling biblical corrective and a fiercely radical vision for the role of the local church in the kingdom of God. Now in paper. Praise for Kingdom Conspiracy 2015 Outreach Resources of the Year Award Winner One of Leadership Journal's Best Books for Church Leaders in 2014 "This is a must-read for church leaders today."--Publishers Weekly "A timely resource for the missional church to reexamine some basic assumptions that impact church practice in the everyday."--Outreach
Author : Jonathan Leeman
Publisher : SPCK
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 22,33 MB
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1783594748
The church is political. Theologians have been debating this claim for years. Liberationists, Anabaptists, Augustinians, neo-Calvinists, Radical Orthodox and others continue to discuss the matter. What do we mean by politics and the political? What are the limits of the church’s political reach? What is the nature of the church as an institution? How do we establish these claims theologically? Jonathan Leeman sets out to address these questions in this significant work. Drawing on covenantal theology and the ‘new institutionalism’ in political science, Leeman critiques political liberalism and explores how the biblical canon informs an account of the local church as an embassy of Christ’s kingdom. Political Church heralds a new era in political theology.
Author : David VanDrunen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 11,56 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 0802864430
Conventional scholarship holds that the theology and social ethics of the Reformed tradition stand at odds with concepts of natural law and the two kingdoms. But David VanDrunen here challenges that status quo through his careful, thoroughgoing exploration of the development of Reformed social thought from the Reformation to the present. - from publisher description.
Author : Howard A. Snyder
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 17,21 MB
Release : 2001-07-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1725203855
Christians often misunderstand one another when they refer to the kingdom of God. They may ask: Is it here on earth? In our hearts? In our churches?" Over the years, best-selling author Howard Snyder has been helping pastors and church leaders understand kingdom terminology. Now he explains in eight models how the kingdom or reign of God has been and may be conceived. Snyder explains with biblical texts and illustrations from church history. If you are a pastor or church leader, you will find guidance for building new kingdom communities in your congregation as well as ways to relate kingdom theology to global crises with the environment and our economy.
