| Author | : John Stott |
| Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
| Total Pages | : 443 |
| Release | : 2020-12-29 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 083082488X |
The experiences of the early church have much to say about issues that concern Christians today. What can Acts tell us about tongues and other manifestations of the Spirit? How should the church reach out into the world with the message of salvation? This revised BST volume from John Stott opens to us the early days of the church as recorded by Luke in the book of Acts.
| Author | : Edward R. Brown |
| Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2008-03-24 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0830834842 |
What does the Bible have to say about creation care and the responsibility of Christians? Edward Brown offers a biblical framework for creation care as well as practical steps that ordinary Christians can take to exercise good ecological stewardship.
| Author | : Nicholas Thomas Wright |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Christianity |
| ISBN | : 9781556613180 |
As he convincingly demonstrates that the Western world is becoming increasingly, overtly pagan, Wright articulates how paganism now manifests itself in Western culture, shows how the gospel confronts it at the roots, and presents a challenging agenda for the church. "An urgent book for the times--passionate, brilliant, filled with hope".--Timothy George, Beeson Divinity School.
| Author | : Michael S. Horton |
| Publisher | : Moody Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Christian life |
| ISBN | : 9780802492395 |
Have Christians misunderstood what it means to be in the world but not of it? Has the church, in a sense, neglected the world to the detriment of all? Michael S. Horton has written Where in the World Is the Church? for "those Christians who struggle with a subculture that stifles rather than encourages their divinely given impulses and ambitions." He does so "with the hope that theologians will learn more about other disciplines and that Christians in those other disciplines will anchor themselves more firmly in biblical theology before they attempt to 'integrate' their faith and life."
| Author | : David L. Schindler |
| Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2001-09 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780802839855 |
| Author | : Michael G. Lawler |
| Publisher | : Liturgical Press |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2014-09-25 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0814682952 |
Gaudium et Spes, Vatican II’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, marked fundamental shifts in ethical methodology, in how we do ethics in the Catholic tradition, and in how we think about ethical and ecclesial issues in the Catholic Church in the modern world. On the document’s fiftieth anniversary, this book explores the historical origins of Gaudium et Spes, its impact on the Church’s ecclesial self-understanding, and its implications for doing Catholic theological ethics for the specific ethical issues of marriage, social justice, politics, and peacebuilding.The book engages in the ongoing communal discernment of the aggiornamento sought by the council’s convener, Pope John XXIII, seeking to bring the Church up to date in the twenty-first century.
| Author | : Anthea Butler |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 2012-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0807882909 |
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States today. In this first major study of the church, Anthea Butler examines the religious and social lives of the women in the COGIC Women's Department from its founding in 1911 through the mid-1960s. She finds that the sanctification, or spiritual purity, that these women sought earned them social power both in the church and in the black community. Offering rich, lively accounts of the activities of the Women's Department founders and other members, Butler shows that the COGIC women of the early decades were able to challenge gender roles and to transcend the limited responsibilities that otherwise would have been assigned to them both by churchmen and by white-dominated society. The Great Depression, World War II, and the civil rights movement brought increased social and political involvement, and the Women's Department worked to make the "sanctified world" of the church interact with the broader American society. More than just a community of church mothers, says Butler, COGIC women utilized their spiritual authority, power, and agency to further their contestation and negotiation of gender roles in the church and beyond.
| Author | : Skip Carney |
| Publisher | : R. R. Bowker |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2018-10-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781732637313 |
Pastor Kevin was three hundred and forty-seven miles from home. Out of gas and out of options, he turns into a small town where he meets an elderly pastor and a community that change his perspective on church success. There he learns the principles that can make any church The Greatest Church in the World.
| Author | : Peter Seewald |
| Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2010-10-29 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1681493004 |
Never has a Pope, in a book-length interview, dealt so directly with such wide-ranging and controversial issues as Pope Benedict XVI does in Light of the World. Taken from a recent week-long series of interviews with veteran journalist Peter Seewald, this book tackles head-on some of the greatest issues facing the world of our time. Seewald poses such forthright questions to Pope Benedict as: What caused the clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Church? Was there a "cover up"? Have you considered resigning? Does affirming the goodness of the human body mean a plea for "better sex"? Can there be a genuine dialogue with Islam? Should the Church rethink Catholic teaching on priestly celibacy, women priests, contraception, and same-sex relationships? Holy Communion for divorced-and-remarried Catholics? Is there a schism in the Catholic Church? Should there be a Third Vatican Council? Is there any hope for Christian unity? Is Christianity the only truth? Can the Pope really speak for Jesus Christ? How can the Pope claim to be "infallible"? Is there a "dictatorship of relativism" today? Twice before these two men held wide-ranging discussions, which became the best-selling books Salt of the Earth and God and the World. Then, Seewald's discussion partner was Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican's chief doctrinal office. Now, Joseph Ratzinger is Pope Benedict XVI, the spiritual leader of the world's over one billion Catholics. Though Seewald now interviews the Pope himself, the journalist "pulls no punches", posing some of the thorniest questions any Pope has had to address. Believers and unbelievers will be fascinated to hear Benedict's thoughtful, straightforward and thought-provoking replies. This is no stern preachment or ponderous theological tract, but a lively, fast-paced, challenging, even entertaining exchange.
