| Author | : Henry Addison Nelson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 586 |
| Release | : 1897 |
| Genre | : Presbyterian Church |
| ISBN | : |
At Home and Abroad
| Author | : Elizabeth Shakm Hurd |
| Publisher | : Religion, Culture, and Public Life |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2021-02-23 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780231198981 |
At Home and Abroad bridges the divide in the study of American religion, law, and politics between domestic and international, bringing together diverse authors to explore ties across conceptual and political boundaries. They examine the ideas, people, and institutions that provide links between domestic and foreign religious politics and policies.
Some Wants of the Church. At Home and Abroad, with Suggestions How to Supply Them
| Author | : Richard Foster |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 38 |
| Release | : 2024-04-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 3385440343 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The Church at Home and Abroad
| Author | : Henry Addison Nelson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 598 |
| Release | : 1890 |
| Genre | : Presbyterian Church |
| ISBN | : |
Boundless Faith
| Author | : Robert Wuthnow |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 2009-05-26 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780520943063 |
In Boundless Faith, the first book to look systematically at American Christianity in relation to globalization, Robert Wuthnow shows that American Christianity is increasingly influenced by globalization and is, in turn, playing a larger role in other countries and in U.S. policies and programs abroad. These changes, he argues, can be seen in the growth of support at home for missionaries and churches in other countries and in the large number of Americans who participate in short-term volunteer efforts abroad. These outreaches include building orphanages, starting microbusinesses, and setting up computer networks. Drawing on a comprehensive survey that was conducted for this book, as well as several hundred in-depth interviews with church leaders, Wuthnow refutes several prevailing stereotypes: that U.S. churches have turned away from the global church and overseas missions, that congregations only look inward, and that the growing voice of religion in areas of foreign policy is primarily evangelical. This fresh and revealing book encourages Americans to pay attention to the grass-roots mechanisms by which global ties are created and sustained.
So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore
| Author | : Wayne Jacobsen |
| Publisher | : Windblown Media |
| Total Pages | : 157 |
| Release | : 2008-09-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1935170015 |
Jake Colsen, an overworked and disillusioned pastor, happens into a stranger who bears an uncanny resemblance (in manner) to the apostle John. A number of encounters with John as well as a family crisis lead Jake to a new understanding of what his life should be like: one filled with faith bolstered by a steady, close relationship with the God of the universe. Facing his own disappointment with Christianity, Jake must forsake the habits that have made his faith rote and rediscover the love that captured his heart when he first believed. Compelling and intensely personal, So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anything relates a man's rebirth from performance-based Christianity to a loving friendship with Christ that affects all he does, thinks, and says. As John tells Jake, "There is nothing the Father desires for you more than that you fall squarely in the lap of his love and never move from that place for the rest of your life."
The Church of Scotland Home and Foreign Mission Record
| Author | : Church of Scotland |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 798 |
| Release | : 1890 |
| Genre | : Missions, Scottish |
| ISBN | : |
The Church State Corporation
| Author | : Winnifred Fallers Sullivan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Christianity and politics |
| ISBN | : 022645469X |
"What is a church and what work does "church"-the church-do today in American law? In Church State Corporation, Sullivan argues that the appeals to "the church" we find in legal opinions express what she calls a "Christian mystical political theology" that naturalizes religion in the American legal imagination and limits the law's ability to acknowledge religion more broadly. To pinpoint the work the church does in US law, Sullivan examines two recent Supreme Court cases, Hosanna-Tabor v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2012) and Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014), in order to map the contours of the "church-shaped space" at the heart of what constitutes religion in US law. Sullivan also examines a constellation of church property cases, cases developing corporate personhood such as Citizens United, and what the "Angola Church"-a collection of churches formed within the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola-reveals about the range of the church's influence in US law. In all, the reader is treated to a remarkably thought-provoking analysis of the ways the church persists in US law, one that calls into question our basic assumptions about our supposedly secular age"--
