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A Formula for Parish Practice

Author : Timothy J. Wengert
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506427049
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book A Formula for Parish Practice written by Timothy J. Wengert and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-02-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines a rich description of the (Lutheran) Formula of Concord (1577) with experiences in today's Lutheran parishes to demonstrate how confessional texts may still come to life in modern Christian congregations. Timothy Wengert takes the Formula of Concord, traditionally used as ammunition in doctrinal disagreements, back to its historical home, the local congregation, giving pastors, students, and theologians a glimpse into the original debates over each article. The most up-to-date English commentary on the Formula of Concord, A Formula for Parish Practice provides helpful, concise descriptions of key theological debates and a unique weaving of historical and textual commentary with modern Lutheran experience. Covering the entire Formula of Concord the book includes discussion questions at the end of each chapter.

Preaching the Manifold Grace of God, Volume 1

Author : Ronald J. Allen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725259605
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Preaching the Manifold Grace of God, Volume 1 written by Ronald J. Allen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preaching the Manifold Grace of God is a two-volume work describing theologies of preaching from the historical and contemporary periods. Volume 1 focuses on historical theological families: Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Anabaptist, Anglican/Episcopal, Wesleyan, Baptist, African American, Stone-Campbell, Friends, and Pentecostal. Volume 2 focuses on families that are evangelical, liberal, neo-orthodox, postliberal, existential, radical orthodox, deconstructionist, Black liberation, womanist, Latinx liberation, Mujerista, Asian American, Asian American feminist, LGBTQAI, Indigenous, postcolonial, and process. In each case, the author describes the circumstances in which the theological family emerged and describes the purposes and characteristics of preaching from that perspective.

Church After the Corona Pandemic

Author : Kyle K. Schiefelbein-Guerrero
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031237315
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Book Synopsis Church After the Corona Pandemic by : Kyle K. Schiefelbein-Guerrero

Download or read book Church After the Corona Pandemic written by Kyle K. Schiefelbein-Guerrero and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the church's engagement with worship and theology as a result of the pandemic, especially as it relates to digital worship and the means of grace. Organized around the four-fold pattern of Sunday worship—Gathering, Word, Meal, Sending—this collection of essays provides source material for both theological discernment and practical implementation. Topics include preparing and theologizing worship no matter the modality, engaging the questions of embodiment as related to the incarnation of Christ, and looking at the theology of church in a digital age. Renowned scholars in the field explore how online worship provides for the visibility of the gospel, how to lament and pray in the midst of pandemic and future crises, and how the mission of the church through its worship can continue regardless of physical restrictions. This timely collection appeals to researchers, professionals, and practitioners in the field.

Putting it Together in the Parish

Author : James D. Glasse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780687349326
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Putting it Together in the Parish written by James D. Glasse and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a report of some professional models and strategies that I have observed while watching responsible pastors at work around the country. The emphasis is on getting started, simple disciplines that set the direction for the pastor in his professional development. - Preface.

Teaching Reformation

Author : Luka Ilić
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506467679
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Reformation written by Luka Ilić and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, this collection of essays honors the life and work of Dr. Timothy J. Wengert. Wengert, a pastor, a teacher of pastors, and a noted Reformation historian, brings to the work of scholarship a deep sense of its practical dimensions in the life of the church. Over the course of his career, Wengert's work and insights have been marked by the way in which they apply to and make different the lived life of the church, whether in preaching, worship, or theology. In these essays, Wengert's students, colleagues, and peers follow in their honoree's footsteps by highlighting the practical and pastoral implications of a rich tapestry of Reformation topics organized into three parts. In Part One, Luther and a diverse cast of colleagues are considered in light of their significance for today. In Part Two, the texts of the Reformation are examined, opening to Part Three, where the formation of faith through catechesis and the life of the church bring the book to a close.

The Augsburg Confession

Author : Timothy J. Wengert
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506432956
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Augsburg Confession written by Timothy J. Wengert and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Augsburg Confession is the single most-important confession of faith among Lutherans today. However, it is often taught either from a historical perspective or from a dogmatic one. Yet the context out of which it arose was far more practical and lively: marked from the outset as confessions of faith in the face of fierce opposition and threats. The original princely signers, while clearly outlining the teaching of their churches, were also staking their lives on the witness to the gospel that had been emanating from Wittenberg since 1517, when Martin Luther first published his Ninety-Five Theses. By situating both the history and the theology of this document within the practice and life of faith, Timothy J. Wengert shows just how relevant the Confession's witness is for today's Lutheran parishes and their leaders by unlocking how its articles can shape and strengthen the church's witness today.

The Nearness of God

Author : Julia Gatta
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0819223182
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book The Nearness of God written by Julia Gatta and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What distinguishes Christian ministry from other helping professions? While many books tell clergy how to run a capital campaign, handle conflict, and lead a vestry, this book helps pastors, chaplains, and lay professionals appreciate the spiritual depth of their calling and reminds them that Christian ministry is Christs ministry working through them.

Excellent Catholic Parishes

Author : Paul Wilkes
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809139927
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Excellent Catholic Parishes written by Paul Wilkes and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author provides an in-depth look at eight diverse models of excellence, a directory of hundreds of great parishes throughout the country, and listings of those traits common to excellence that can be reproduced in parishes everywhere.

Cross-Shaped Leadership

Author : John A. Berntsen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1566995043
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (669 download)

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Book Synopsis Cross-Shaped Leadership by : John A. Berntsen

Download or read book Cross-Shaped Leadership written by John A. Berntsen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-11-07 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Lutheran pastor John Berntsen, the cross is about more than the crucifixion on Good Friday. It is shorthand for the whole drama of salvation--God's decisive act of reconciling the world to God's own self. The cross is dying and rising with Christ, but at a deeper level it is the story of the world's resistance to grace. Those who lead are subject to the cross no less than others. In contrast with the current fashion for "visionary" or "purpose-driven" leaders, cross-shaped leaders are not primarily the providers of master plans, nor are they master builders. Cross-shaped leadership is provisional, contextual, and fallible--open-ended ministry that has the character of a pilot project. It is always under construction and revision. Our moment-by-moment functioning in ministry is subject to countless deaths and resurrections, few of which are heroic or glorious. But Berntsen offers good news within this potentially dismal perspective. He writes, "Once we've accepted the truth that ministry is hard, even impossible--once we've stopped living in denial of this reality, or perhaps whining about it--it becomes the truth that sets us free. We cease being gloomy servants, weighed down by our resentful conviction that we are all alone in our work--the closet atheism born of the worry, 'If I don t do it, nobody will'--and instead become joyful coworkers of a strong, wise, and consoling Lord." With optimism, humor, and deep empathy, Berntsen's Cross-Shaped Leadership offers hope and challenge in the midst of the rough and tumble of parish practice.

The Lutheran Confessions

Author : Charles P. Arand
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 145141059X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Lutheran Confessions written by Charles P. Arand and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important new volume, Arand, Kolb, and Nestingen bring the fruit of an entire generation of scholarship to bear on these documents, making it an essential and up-to-date class text. The Lutheran Confessions places the documents solidly within their political, social, ecclesiastical and theological contexts, relating them to the world in which they took place. Though the book is not a theology of the Confessions, readers will clearly understand the issues at stake in the narratives, both in their own time, and in ours.

Debated Issues in Sovereign Predestination

Author : Joel R. Beeke
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647552607
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Debated Issues in Sovereign Predestination written by Joel R. Beeke and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joel R. Beeke's work is an academic monograph of historical theology that examines three flashpoints of controversy in Reformation and Post-Reformation theology. As the subtitle, Early Lutheran Predestination, Calvinian Reprobation, and Variations in Genevan Lapsarianism implies, the work addresses, first, the development of the Lutheran doctrine of predestination from Martin Luther (1483–1546) and Philip Melanchthon (1497–1560) to the Formula of Concord (1577); second, the development of John Calvin's (1509–1564) doctrine of reprobation as traced through his writings; and third, the doctrine of predestination in Geneva with a particular emphasis on lapsarianism from Theodore Beza (1519–1605) in the sixteenth century to Jean-Alphonse Turretin (1671–1737) and Jacob Vernet (1698–1789) in the eighteenth century. The fruit of three decades of study by a professor of systematic theology who specializes in Reformation and Post-Reformation theology, this book offers a harvest of insights into questions that stood at the center of Reformation debates. Dr. Donald Sinnema, a leading scholar in predestinarian theology and the Synod of Dort, writes: "Beeke addresses these difficult matters with sensitivity to historical context and development, with systematic acuity, and a broad grasp of secondary scholarly literature with which he dialogues. The result is a balanced analysis of these issues that should bring greater clarity to scholarly understanding of the doctrine of predestination in the early modern era."

The Parish, from Theology to Practice

Author : Hugo Rahner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Parish, from Theology to Practice written by Hugo Rahner and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Calvin and Luther: The Continuing Relationship

Author : R. Ward Holder
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647550574
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Calvin and Luther: The Continuing Relationship written by R. Ward Holder and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reforms begun by Luther and Calvin became two of the largest and most influential movements to arise in the sixteenth century, but frequently, these two movements are seen and defined as polar opposites – one's theology is Reformed or Lutheran, one is a member of a Reformed or Lutheran congregation. Historically, these were two very separate movements – but more remains to be understood that can best be analyzed in the context of the other.Just as surely as the historical question of the boundaries between Calvin and Luther, or Lutheranism and Calvinism must be answered with a resounding yes, the ongoing doctrinal questions offer a different picture. In the more systematic doctrinal articles, an argument is forwarded that the broad confessional continuity between Luther and Calvin on the soteriological theme of union with Christ offers still-unexplored avenues to both deeper understandings of soteriology. Through such articles, we begin to see the possibility of a rapprochement between Calvin and Luther as sources, though not as historical figures. But that insight allows the conversation to extend, and bear far greater fruit.Contributors are, J.T. Billings, Ch. Helmer , H.P. Jürgens, S.C. Karant-Nunn, R. Kolb, Th.F. Latini, G.S. Pak, J. Watt, T.J. Wengert, P. Westermeyer, and D.M. Whitford.

Defending Faith

Author : Timothy J. Wengert
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161517983
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Defending Faith written by Timothy J. Wengert and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2012 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When in 1550 Andreas Osiander (1498-1552) advocated a different understanding of the central Lutheran doctrine of justification by faith alone, most other Lutheran churches in Germany rejected his stance, producing nearly one hundred opposing tracts. Timothy J. Wengert examines these reactions as a way of describing the theological side of confessionalization in Lutheran lands.--Back of dust jacket.

Shared Spiritual Journey

Author : Susan K. Wood
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 1587685957
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book Shared Spiritual Journey written by Susan K. Wood and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Grace of Christ, Third Edition

Author : Eric Roessing
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666760331
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book The Grace of Christ, Third Edition written by Eric Roessing and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to communicate as clearly as possible Paul's gospel of God in its depth, from what I have learned over five decades of studying Paul's letters and theology. But, regardless of how much I have gained from teachers past and present, the bottom line is that "the things freely given us by God" in Paul's gospel can only be known by the Spirit of God, through comparing Paul's Spirit-taught words with Spirit-taught words (1 Cor 2:12-13). Luther's grasp of how justification in Christ--and thus faith in Christ--is central, is verified by what Paul says in Rom 1:16-17; that in the gospel, God's saving righteousness is revealed, from Christ's faith to our faith. The message of this book can be summed up as follows: The life of the person in Christ is to be one of trust in Christ for righteousness before God, and, through that faith, obedience to Christ as Lord. This life is possible because Christ believers have died with Christ to the lordship of the Sin and the law, and are alive to God in Christ Jesus--owned by him as Lord, being one spirit with him.

Athens and Wittenberg

Author : James A. Kellerman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900420671X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Athens and Wittenberg written by James A. Kellerman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athens and Wittenberg explores how Luther and early Lutheranism did not neglect the classics of Greece and Rome, but continued to draw from the philosophy and poetry of antiquity in their quest to reform the church.