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Advanced Christian Essays

Author : Richard Dean Pyle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781548144517
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book Advanced Christian Essays written by Richard Dean Pyle and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-24 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lessons of My Life. Learning the hard way, this is the story of my life in these 100 Advanced Christian Essays. The Advanced Christian Essays here and also free at www.richarddeanpyle.com reveal vital secrets lost to many Christians. Among these are what will happen to a Christian when they will commit to love the Divine more than anyone or anything. What to do today so Jesus will daily shepherd and bless a Christian's life. Why the best tasting food is a clear conscience. Why Christianity is not fun for so many. Take a look through the book and see what the Holy Spirit speaks to you. Good to read. The many essay lessons of my life will make a reader's life much easier. Learning the lessons of my life the hard way is a difficult experience. These insights will help readers to enjoy their life, the easy way, by the positive results from applying the insights in these many essays. These essays are informative, provocative, entertaining, challenging, conversational, and all-inclusive for complete discussion.

Come Let Us Reason

Author : Paul Copan
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433672200
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Come Let Us Reason written by Paul Copan and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divine hiddenness, naturalism, Zeitgeist: The Movie, Hinduism. Addressing contemporary challenges to the church, nineteen respected modern Christian apologists offer thoughtful new essays on culture, the historical Jesus, other religions, and more.

Facing the World

Author : Anastasios (Archbishop of Tirana and all Albania)
Publisher : World Council of Churches
ISBN 13 : 9782825413869
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Facing the World written by Anastasios (Archbishop of Tirana and all Albania) and published by World Council of Churches. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of globalization evokes either euphoria or alarm. Some view it as an unmistakable sign of progress, while others see it as a threat. Nevertheless, the accelerated development of economic, scientific, political and social links among all the peoples of the world has turned our planet into a megalopolis replete with slums. In this work, Archbishop Anastasios presents his conviction that the ecumenical vision of the Orthodox Church is the "best response" to the growing global condition. In the Orthodox tradition, everything is understood within a universal context, from the creation of the world to the vision of the new heaven and new earth. Human enterprise as a whole and the salvation of the entire world are seen as the basic themes of Holy Scripture. In this work, Archbishop Anastasios discusses Orthodox perspectives on human rights, the dialogue with Islam, and the relationship between culture and the gospel, and provides an analysis of world religions. His words invite us to broaden our field of vision to encompass the whole earth.

Essays on Apostolic Themes

Author : Paul Elbert
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725218631
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Apostolic Themes written by Paul Elbert and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of studies, prepared in honor of one of the church's distinguished teachers and pastoral servants, Dr. Howard M. Ervin, attempts to address some of the pressing theological issues of our day. Important matters of biblical interpretation in the evangelical and charismatic scenes are treated by three of the contributors, including one by the honoree himself. The role of the Holy Spirit in interpretation is critiqued by professor Horner, while professors F. F. Bruce and J. D. G. Dunn offer some penetrating insights into the work of the Spirit in Paul's churches and into the nature of the New Testament believer as understood by the great apostle. Professor Rea gives us his timely observations on the nature of spiritual experience in the lives of Old Testament believers, drawing out appropriate lessons for today. We trust further that 'Essays on Apostolic Themes' may have something to offer to the discipline of historical theology with five essays, ranging from prophetic-type phenomena in Iranaeus's church and charismatic motifs in Calvin's thoughts to critical assessments of Lewi Pethrus and Donald Gee, who are, within their own cultures, appraised as being dynamic figures of leadership in the pentecostal tradition. Similarly, based on his earlier book of the eighteenth century pioneer of pentecost, Dr. Strachan presents a stimulating piece on the development of Edward Irving's thought. The early reception in America of the charismatic movement is sagaciously surveyed by Dr. Connelly and productive ideas on the mystical presence of Christ in our Lord's supper are advanced by professor Gelpi. 'Essays' concludes with a contribution to the much discussed issues of church growth, wherein practical suggestions are tabled based on the potential implied by Luke's text of the book of Acts. Overall, the editor and respective authors submit this anniversary volume to their colleague and friend, Dr. Howard M. Ervin, and to its readers everywhere in the hope that these fourteen studies may make a useful international contribution to scholarship and that 'Essays' may be found helpful to preachers, teachers, and students of God's word.

Social Distinctives of the Christians in the First Century

Author : Edwin A. Judge
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1441241795
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Social Distinctives of the Christians in the First Century written by Edwin A. Judge and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of pivotal essays by E. A. Judge, who initiated many important discussions in the establishment of social scientific criticism of the Bible. What is it that made the work of Judge in 1960 and in subsequent years so important? Judge was the first in scholarship after the mid-twentieth century to clarify early Christian ideals about society by defining what the social institutions of the broader cultural context were and how they influenced the social institutions of the early Christian communities. Judge points out that earlier scholars had entered into this field of inquiry, but that, in general, they failed due to the lack of careful definitions of the Greco-Roman social institutions at the time based on a thorough use of the primary sources. Thus, Judge was the "new founder" ( a turning point in scholarship) of what came to be called social-scientific criticism of the New Testament. Social-scientific criticism is the term in scholarship that refers to the use of social realities (e.g. institutions, class, factors of community organization) in the critical study of literary sources available (this is an advance over "merely" literary and traditional historical questions).

The Slain God

Author : Timothy Larsen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191632058
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Slain God written by Timothy Larsen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout its entire history, the discipline of anthropology has been perceived as undermining, or even discrediting, Christian faith. Many of its most prominent theorists have been agnostics who assumed that ethnographic findings and theories had exposed religious beliefs to be untenable. E. B. Tylor, the founder of the discipline in Britain, lost his faith through studying anthropology. James Frazer saw the material that he presented in his highly influential work, The Golden Bough, as demonstrating that Christian thought was based on the erroneous thought patterns of 'savages.' On the other hand, some of the most eminent anthropologists have been Christians, including E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, and Edith Turner. Moreover, they openly presented articulate reasons for how their religious convictions cohered with their professional work. Despite being a major site of friction between faith and modern thought, the relationship between anthropology and Christianity has never before been the subject of a book-length study. In this groundbreaking work, Timothy Larsen examines the point where doubt and faith collide with anthropological theory and evidence.

Purity

Author : Andrew Brower Latz
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227906365
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Purity written by Andrew Brower Latz and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient societies and religion, the concept of purity was of central importance; in many modern societies it is either irrelevant or, when it is used, attached to extremely conservative agendas. This suggests an interesting story to be told within the history of ideas and, at the same time, raises questions about the place, meaning, and use of purity in religious traditions. What does purity mean in different scriptural contexts? Is it synonymous with holiness or different? How has it been used within various strands of theology? What should we make of it today? Have we moderns, by discarding purity as an organising social form, lost something essential or have we made a significant moral advance? Or both? This volume addresses these questions in essays on biblical genres, books and different theological traditions. Accessibly written and incisive in its scholarship, Purity will be of interest to both specialists and non-specialists alike.

Pagans and Christians in the City

Author : Steven D. Smith
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467451487
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Pagans and Christians in the City written by Steven D. Smith and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges. Picking up poet T. S. Eliot’s World War II–era thesis that the future of the West would be determined by a contest between Christianity and “modern paganism,” Smith argues in this book that today’s culture wars can be seen as a reprise of the basic antagonism that pitted pagans against Christians in the Roman Empire. Smith’s Pagans and Christians in the City looks at that historical conflict and explores how the same competing ideas continue to clash today. All of us, Smith shows, have much to learn by observing how patterns from ancient history are reemerging in today’s most controversial issues.

Essays and Addresses

Author : James Maurice Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Essays and Addresses written by James Maurice Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Christian essays

Author : Samuel Charles Wilks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Christian essays written by Samuel Charles Wilks and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

"Essays and Reviews"

Author : Timothy Loughnan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Essays and Reviews" written by Timothy Loughnan and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Christian Existence Today

Author : Stanley Hauerwas
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608997103
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Christian Existence Today written by Stanley Hauerwas and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley Hauerwas begins this volume with a vigorous response to the charge of sectarianism leveled against his work by James Gustafson, among others. "Show me where I am wrong about God, Jesus, the limits of liberalism, the nature of the virtues, or the doctrine of the church," Hauerwas replies to his critics, "but do not shortcut that task by calling me a sectarian."The essays that follow explore in a lucid, compelling, firm, and provocative way the church's nature, message, and ministry in the world. Hauerwas writes on the church as God's new language, on clerical character, on the pastor as prophet, on the ministry of the local congregation, on grace and public virtue, and on the relation of church and university.Underlying Hauerwas's argument is his conviction that "the most important knowledge Christian convictions involve, and there is much worth knowing for which Christians have no special claim, requires a transformation of the self. Christianity is no 'world view,' not a form of primitive metaphysics, that can be assessed in comparison to alternative 'world views.' Rather, Christians are people who remain convinced that the truthfulness of their beliefs must be demonstrated in their lives. There is a sense in which Christian convictions are self-referential, but the reference is not to propositions but to lives."

The Bible in Theory

Author : Stephen D. Moore
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589835069
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book The Bible in Theory written by Stephen D. Moore and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2010 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteen essays assembled in this volume, four of them co-authored, chart the successive phases of a professional life lived in the interstices of Bible and "theory." Engaging such texts as the Song of Songs, 4 Maccabees, Mark, Luke-Acts, John, and Romans, and such themes as the quest for the historical Jesus, the essays simultaneously traverse postmodernism, deconstruction, New Historicism, autobiographical criticism, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, masculinity studies, queer theory, and "posttheory." Individual essay introductions and periodic annotated bibliographies make the volume an advanced introduction to biblical literary criticism. --From publisher's description.

Love, Divine and Human: Contemporary Essays in Systematic and Philosophical Theology

Author : Oliver D. Crisp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567687740
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Love, Divine and Human: Contemporary Essays in Systematic and Philosophical Theology written by Oliver D. Crisp and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an array of newly commissioned essays, addressing the topic of love in the Christian tradition. Drawn from a range of expert theologians and philosophers in contemporary analytic and non-analytic theology, these essays join current debates within the theology of love, and aim to propose new avenues for future research. Including the last essay written by Marilyn McCord Adams, Love, Divine and Human deals with a rich variety of issues related to divine and human love. The broad scope of the book includes divine transcendence and its methodological bearing on the doctrine of divine love, the nature and scope of divine love, the interrelation between God's love and wrath, the plausibility of an impassable God of love, and the application of various conceptions of divine love to the problem of divine hiddenness, human ethics, and human free will, among other topics. This unified collection of cutting-edge papers will advance discussion for all those focused on the theology of love.

Inquiring about God: Volume 1, Selected Essays

Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139486179
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Inquiring about God: Volume 1, Selected Essays written by Nicholas Wolterstorff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inquiring about God is the first of two volumes of Nicholas Wolterstorff's collected papers. This volume collects Wolterstorff's essays on the philosophy of religion written over the last thirty-five years. The essays, which span a range of topics including Kant's philosophy of religion, the medieval (or classical) conception of God, and the problem of evil, are unified by the conviction that some of the central claims made by the classical theistic tradition, such as the claims that God is timeless, simple, and impassible, should be rejected. Still, Wolterstorff contends, rejecting the classical conception of God does not imply that theists should accept the Kantian view according to which God cannot be known. Of interest to both philosophers and theologians, Inquiring about God should give the reader a lively sense of the creative and powerful work done in contemporary philosophical theology by one of its foremost practitioners.

Christian Essays

Author : Samuel Charles Wilks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Christian Essays written by Samuel Charles Wilks and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plantinga's 'Warranted Christian Belief'

Author : Dieter Schönecker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110430223
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Plantinga's 'Warranted Christian Belief' written by Dieter Schönecker and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alvin Plantinga’s Warranted Christian Belief has very quickly become one of the most influential books in philosophy of religion. In this collection of essays, German philosophers, theologians and a mathematician deal critically with several aspects of Plantinga’s seminal work. In a long essay, Plantinga answers to these critics.