| Author | : Rudy Rasmus |
| Publisher | : Abingdon Press |
| Total Pages | : 157 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Church renewal |
| ISBN | : 1426740417 |
Jesus Insurgency
| Author | : Rev. Rudy Rasmus |
| Publisher | : Abingdon Press |
| Total Pages | : 157 |
| Release | : 2012-02-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1426753780 |
Crunching more data maybe helpful but will not revolutionize, let alone save, a declining church. We need creative thinking done by people who are not afraid to face the institutional church. Indeed, the change we long for is already happening. It is happening on the margins in ministries to the least, the last, and the lost. Written by two creative pastors with different but successful ministries, this breathtaking book will show you how the church can live out its mission and ignite a movement. If we pay attention, we can let this Jesus Insurgency create new life.
The Insurgency of the Spirit
| Author | : Robert E. Shore-Goss |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 339 |
| Release | : 2020-10-06 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1793623198 |
The Insurgency of the Spirit taps mutli-disciplinary methodologies of post-colonial biblical scholarship and anthropology, liberation theologies, indigenous studies, grief/trauma research, and nature-meditation writings to shape a constructive retrieval of the animist Jesus. The vision that emerges is one that sets forward an Earth-loving Jesus who challenges Christians in particular to mobilize against the destructive relationship that exists between imperial religion and political systems.
Understanding The Lord's Resistance Army Insurgency
| Author | : Adam Dolnik |
| Publisher | : World Scientific |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2016-12-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1786341468 |
Understanding the Lord's Resistance Army Insurgency provides a concise overview of the LRA, which has, for almost 30 years, conducted untold atrocities across the central African nations of Uganda, Southern Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic. This book examines the LRA's emergence and evolution, the ideology, strategy and tactics behind it, motivational aspects of its recruitment, its engagement in peace processes, and a detailed description of leadership and group dynamics. This work is based on a wide range of written sources and extensive interviews with individuals intimately related to the group including top LRA commanders, government sources, victims, child soldiers, abductees and wives of Joseph Kony. Moving past stories of unimaginable brutality, forced recruitment, and the group's mystical belief system, the book provides a well-grounded analysis of the different stages of the LRA's development. It demonstrates how the group represents an obscure case study that challenges many of the common assumptions about the operational dynamics of terrorist organizations.Written to fill a gap in academia in relation to African- and Christianity-based terrorism, this book is suitable for students, researchers and practitioners in political sciences, war, conflict and terrorism studies, African politics and international relations and development.
Christ: The Dark Years Historical Edition
| Author | : Brian Diederich |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 127 |
| Release | : 2010-02-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0578009137 |
Christ: The Dark Years is a descriptive narrative that combines historical findings and legend to chronicle the life Jesus lived during the years that are not included in the bible. Lead on journeys of philosophical and psychological self discovery by the Three Wise Men and women in his life, Jesus struggles with his own humanity and the ideas of early Religious Sects. His major struggle was the method by which he would convert the world to Monotheism. He is influenced by the people he meets on his travels through Africa, Babylon, India, and Asia. In fact he works to fight Sexism, Social Justice, and the Secret Societies that would one Exploit the Religion that he founded.
Political Demonology
| Author | : Richard Faber |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 147 |
| Release | : 2018-01-05 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1498201296 |
“The structural core problem of the Gnostic dualism between the god of creation and the god of redemption governs not only every religion of salvation and redemption. It is immanently given in every world in need of change and renewal, inescapably and ineradicably. The lord of a world in need of change, that is, a misconceived world and the liberator, the creator of a transformed, new world cannot be good friends. They are, so to speak, enemies by definition.” Whether Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin, or Erich Auerbach and Hans Blumenberg, Ernst Bloch and Jacob Taubes, or Carl Schmitt (cited above)—all of them have been more or less fascinated or awed by the dualistic theology of St. Paul’s disciple Marcion, and have as prominently and as differently referred to him. Already Adolf von Harnack, author of the Marcion monograph that even today sets the standard, was aware of the timeliness of his research object, in view of a modern Marcionism, right after the First World War.
Cover-up
| Author | : Lawrence Goudge |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1469787288 |
The Christian church hides a multitude of secrets; it is, after all, a mysterious religion. For instance, what if Jesus did not start Christianity? What if Paul, who knew Jesus only through visions, created it? In Cover-Up, author and lay minister Lawrence Goudge disputes the Christian theology that has dominated the world for millennia. G oudge, who has spent more than twenty-four years researching the suppressed history of Jesus's Jewish followers, demonstrates how the church has corrupted Jesus's message. Cover-Up takes an innovative and investigative approach to Christianity, St. Paul's credibility, and ways in which theological truths have been concealed for two thousand years. Goudge's analysis debunks the myths and provides alternative theories. A s hatred and heresy haunt Christianity's shadows, this study addresses the intolerant nature of the Christian church and sets out to right the wrongs by bringing the truth about the Nazarenes into the light of day. Goudge's message presents hope for a just world.
The Parables of Jesus and the Problems of the World
| Author | : Richard Q. Ford |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 183 |
| Release | : 2016-09-09 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1498232973 |
Remarkable is how extensively in each parable Jesus provides a subtle but rich array of unexpected possibilities hidden within the hierarchies of power so commonplace in his world. By doing so he profoundly addresses the perils inherent in the prerogatives of many of us living in today's world. In these ancient interpersonal tragedies, readers can discover modern global analogues--where the powerful still control the powerless and where others of us, immersed as we are in privilege, are still willing to side with control.
Signs of the Times
| Author | : Brian A. Ross |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 203 |
| Release | : 2016-03-18 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1498220606 |
All ministry leaders concern themselves with the intersection of Jesus-centered ministry and contemporary culture. They ask themselves questions such as, "What do we need to change in order to keep up with a wired world?" "What should never change?" "What are the nonnegotiables of faith in Jesus?" Many have attempted to answer these questions. However, most of these leaders offer solutions that the everyday ministry leader simply cannot replicate. Signs of the Times is a unique offering to those who wrestle with the mash-up of ministry and culture. All of the contributors have found success within their ministries, and yet most do not minister to thousands on a weekly basis. Additionally, all of them have had the privilege of studying directly with Dr. Leonard I. Sweet. Despite having authored more than fifty books, Sweet can still be a bit of an enigma. Many of his readers have been deeply influenced by him, and yet they may still struggle to understand what his insights might mean for their ministry. Each of the contributors to this work thoughtfully engages with a key idea that they personally learned from Sweet and they translate it for ministry in the early twenty-first century.
