| Author | : Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 732 |
| Release | : 1902 |
| Genre | : Periodicals |
| ISBN | : |
Includes section "Reviews of recent theological literature".
On Being Presbyterian
| Author | : Sean Michael Lucas |
| Publisher | : P & R Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9781596380196 |
As I have been doing this work, the questions that I have kept in the forefront of my mind are: How did the PCA come to be the way it currently is? What is the connection between the way the conservative movement in the old southern Presbyterian church developed and the way the PCA lives and breathes as a church of God doing kingdom business today? These historical questions have led me to a more pressing question which I have faced as a teaching elder in the PCA: Do conservative Presbyterian churches, as represented in my denomination, embrace their Presbyterian identity? Or do other ideas, practices, and narratives serve to shape them? In other words, one could read the history of the PCA as an attempt to answer the question: What does it mean to be a (conservative) Presbyterian in the postmodern age? - Preface.
Dictionary of the Presbyterian & Reformed Tradition in America
| Author | : Darryl G. Hart |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
Expanding on the highly regarded Dictionary of Christianity in America, this work, edited by D. G. Hart and Mark Noll, covers the ideas, events, people, movements, practices, institutions and denominations of the Presbyterian and Reformed tradition.
Still Time to Care
| Author | : Greg Johnson |
| Publisher | : Zondervan |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2021-12-07 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0310116066 |
At the start of the gay rights movement in 1969, evangelicalism's leading voices cast a vision for gay people who turn to Jesus. It was C.S. Lewis, Billy Graham, Francis Schaeffer and John Stott who were among the most respected leaders within theologically orthodox Protestantism. We see with them a positive pastoral approach toward gay people, an approach that viewed homosexuality as a fallen condition experienced by some Christians who needed care more than cure. With the birth and rise of the ex-gay movement, the focus shifted from care to cure. As a result, there are an estimated 700,000 people alive today who underwent conversion therapy in the United States alone. Many of these patients were treated by faith-based, testimony-driven parachurch ministries centered on the ex-gay script. Despite the best of intentions, the movement ended with very troubling results. Yet the ex-gay movement died not because it had the wrong sex ethic. It died because it was founded on a practice that diminished the beauty of the gospel. Yet even after the closure of the ex-gay umbrella organization Exodus International in 2013, the ex-gay script continues to walk about as the undead among us, pressuring people like me to say, "I used to be gay, but I'm not gay anymore. Now I'm just same-sex attracted." For orthodox Christians, the way forward is a path back to where we were forty years ago. It is time again to focus with our Neo-Evangelical fathers on care--not cure--for our non-straight sisters and brothers who are living lives of costly obedience to Jesus. With warmth and humor as well as original research, Still Time to Care will chart the path forward for our churches and ministries in providing care. It will provide guidance for the gay person who hears the gospel and finds themselves smitten by the life-giving call of Jesus. Woven throughout the book will be Richard Lovelace’s 1978 call for a "double repentance" in which gay Christians repent of their homosexual sins and the church repents of its homophobia--putting on display for all the power of the gospel.
The Practical Calvinist
| Author | : Peter A. Lillback |
| Publisher | : Mentor |
| Total Pages | : 584 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9781857928143 |
For Thirty Years D. Clair Davis taught Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. His influence will not be fully known until the next life but as a measure of the esteem that he is held in, this remarkable volume has been prepared. Section 1 consists of 5 articles written by D. Clair Davis himself looking anew at the 5 points of Calvinism. Section 2 looks at the Reformed Heritage through Church History. Section 3 is a revealing, charming and often amusing collection of anecdotes by colleagues, students and friends of Dr Davis. Section 4 is a bibliography of Dr Davis' wide and varied writings. A useful reference source in itself.
The Myth of Persecution
| Author | : Candida Moss |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2013-03-05 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0062104543 |
In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the early church exaggerated, invented, and forged stories of Christian martyrs and how the dangerous legacy of a martyrdom complex is employed today to silence dissent and galvanize a new generation of culture warriors. According to cherished church tradition and popular belief, before the Emperor Constantine made Christianity legal in the fourth century, early Christians were systematically persecuted by a brutal Roman Empire intent on their destruction. As the story goes, vast numbers of believers were thrown to the lions, tortured, or burned alive because they refused to renounce Christ. These saints, Christianity's inspirational heroes, are still venerated today. Moss, however, exposes that the "Age of Martyrs" is a fiction—there was no sustained 300-year-long effort by the Romans to persecute Christians. Instead, these stories were pious exaggerations; highly stylized rewritings of Jewish, Greek, and Roman noble death traditions; and even forgeries designed to marginalize heretics, inspire the faithful, and fund churches. The traditional story of persecution is still taught in Sunday school classes, celebrated in sermons, and employed by church leaders, politicians, and media pundits who insist that Christians were—and always will be—persecuted by a hostile, secular world. While violence against Christians does occur in select parts of the world today, the rhetoric of persecution is both misleading and rooted in an inaccurate history of the early church. Moss urges modern Christians to abandon the conspiratorial assumption that the world is out to get Christians and, rather, embrace the consolation, moral instruction, and spiritual guidance that these martyrdom stories provide.
The Ology
| Author | : Marty Machowski |
| Publisher | : New Growth Press |
| Total Pages | : 543 |
| Release | : 2015-10-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1942572573 |
This beautifully illustrated storybook ushers children into a story of adventure, mystery, and wonder in which they discover life-changing truths about God, themselves, and the world around them.
The Presbyterian Review
| Author | : Charles Augustus Briggs |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 842 |
| Release | : 1880 |
| Genre | : Presbyterian Church |
| ISBN | : |
Includes section "Reviews of recent theological literature".
Singing and Making Music
| Author | : Paul S. Jones |
| Publisher | : P & R Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780875526171 |
This book includes thirty-three provocative essays on corporate worship, hymnody and psalmody, issues, and composers and composition. It explores scripture teaching on the role of music in the church. This volume exists because it contains ideas that every worshiper (pastor and layperson) and Christian musician (performer and academic) may benefit from reading, since it is entirely possible to live in the subculture of the evangelical church without encountering some of them. - Publisher.
