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Author : Tord Fornberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Early Church in a Pluralistic Society written by Tord Fornberg and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802804266
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Gospel in a Pluralist Society written by Lesslie Newbigin and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1989-10-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSPIRATIONAL
Author : Zondervan,
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
ISBN 13 : 0310872383
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World written by Zondervan, and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious pluralism is the greatest challenge facing Christianity in today's Western culture. The belief that Christ is the only way to God is being challenged, and increasingly Christianity is seen as just one among many valid paths to God. In Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World, four perspectives are presented by their major proponents: Normative Pluralism: All ethical religions lead to God (John Hick) Inclusivism: Salvation is universally available, but is established by and leads to Christ (Clark Pinnock) Salvation in Christ: Agnosticism regarding those who haven't heard the gospel (Alister McGrath) Salvation in Christ Alone: Salvation depends on explicit personal faith in Jesus Christ alone (R. Douglas Geivett and W. Gary Phillips) This book allows each contributor to not only present the case for his view, but also to critique and respond to the critiques of the other contributors. The Counterpoints series presents a comparison and critique of scholarly views on topics important to Christians that are both fair-minded and respectful of the biblical text. Each volume is a one-stop reference that allows readers to evaluate the different positions on a specific issue and form their own, educated opinion.
Author : Ron Dart
Publisher : Lexham Press
ISBN 13 : 1683592883
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (835 download)
Download or read book Christianity and Pluralism written by Ron Dart and published by Lexham Press. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are the world's great religions ultimately all the same? Christianity and Pluralism is a collection of concise yet thoughtful essays by J. I. Packer and Ron Dart, interacting with and responding to the four traditional models used to answer the existence of multiple faiths (exclusive, inclusive, pluralist, and syncretist), but focusing particularly that form of syncretism which claims that all faiths find commonality through their mystical traditions. Written in response to key events in the history of the Anglican church, Packer and Dart's analysis gives us a perennially relevant model for how the church ought to respond to our own pluralistic culture with integrity and kindnessâ€"and how to uphold the distinctiveness of the gospel. Christians directly or indirectly engaging our pluralist world will find their ideas enriched by this short yet powerful book.
Author : Gary W. Moon
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830835954
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Eternal Living written by Gary W. Moon and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curated by Dallas Willard's long-time colleague and friend Gary Moon, this medley of images, snapshots and "Dallas-isms" moves readers toward deeper experiences of God. Whether influenced by him as a family member, friend, professor, philosopher or reformer, contributors bring refreshing insight into his ideas, what shaped him and also his contagious theology of grace and joy.
Author : Harold Netland
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 9780830815524
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Encountering Religious Pluralism written by Harold Netland and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2001-08-14 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold Netland traces the emergence of the pluralistic ethos that challenges Christian faith and mission, interacting heavily with philosopher John Hick and providing a framework for developing a comprehensive evangelical theology of religions.
Author : Jürgen Zangenberg
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826466709
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (667 download)
Download or read book Christians as a Religious Minority in a Multicultural City written by Jürgen Zangenberg and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-12-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial Rome truly was one of the most "multicultural" cities in antiquity. Syrians, Africans, Gauls, Egyptians, Jews and other groups flocked into the city and formed their communities—as well as Christians. The essays here examine questions such as: How did these ethnic and religious minority groups maintain and develop their identity? How did the "cultural majority" react towards these sometimes exotic groups? The first section gives a general survey about living conditions in early Christian Rome and how Christians, Jews and Egyptians related to their urban context. The second part focuses on the interaction between majorities and minorities in the early Christian community of Rome on the basis of New Testament texts and traditions. The third and final part follows the development of the post-New Testament Christian community into the second and third centuries.
Author : Thomas R. Schreiner
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0805401377
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)
Download or read book 1, 2 Peter, Jude written by Thomas R. Schreiner and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2003 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One in an ongoing series of esteemed and popular Bible commentary volumes based on the New International Version text.
Author : Bryan Stone
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493414569
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)
Download or read book Evangelism after Pluralism written by Bryan Stone and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to evangelize ethically in a multicultural climate? Following his successful Evangelism after Christendom, Bryan Stone addresses reasons evangelism often fails and explains how it can become distorted as a Christian practice. Stone urges us to consider a new approach, arguing for evangelism as a work of imagination and a witness to beauty rather than a crass effort to compete for converts in pluralistic contexts. He shows that the way we lead our lives as Christians is the most meaningful tool of evangelism in today's rapidly changing world.
Author : Robert E. Webber
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 0801091608
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Ancient-Future Evangelism written by Robert E. Webber and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feel like the church is a mile wide but only an inch deep? Robert Webber offers the remedy by translating evangelism wisdom from the past into the future.
Author : Rodney R. Clapp
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 9780830819904
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (199 download)
Download or read book A Peculiar People written by Rodney R. Clapp and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 1996-11-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rodney Clapp asks and answers the question, How can the church provide a significant alternative to the culture in which it is embedded?
Author : Richard John Neuhaus
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802800800
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Naked Public Square written by Richard John Neuhaus and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Underlying the many crises in American life, writes Richard John Neuhaus, is a crisis of faith. It is not enough that more people should believe or that those who believe should believe more strongly. Rather, the faith of persons and communities must be more compellingly related to the public arena. "The naked public square"--which results from the exclusion of popular values from the public forum--will almost certainly result in the death of democracy. The great challenge, says Neuhaus, is the reconstruction of a public philosophy that can undergird American life and America's ambiguous place in the world. To be truly democratic and to endure, such a public philosophy must be grounded in values that are based on Judeo-Christian religion. The remedy begins with recognizing that democratic theory and practice, which have in the past often been indifferent or hostile to religion, must now be legitimated in terms compatible with biblical faith. Neuhaus explores the strengths and weaknesses of various sectors of American religion in pursuing this task of critical legitimation. Arguing that America is now engaged in an historic moment of testing, he draws upon Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish thinkers who have in other moments of testing seen that the stakes are very high--for America, for the promise of democratic freedom elsewhere, and possibly for God's purpose in the world. An honest analysis of the situation, says Neuhaus, shatters false polarizations between left and right, liberal and conservative. In a democratic culture, the believer's respect for nonbelievers is not a compromise but a requirement of the believer's faith. Similarly, the democratic rights of those outside the communities of religious faith can be assured only by the inclusion of religiously-grounded values in the common life. The Naked Public Square does not offer yet another partisan program for political of social change. Rather, it offers a deeply disturbing, but finally hopeful, examination of Abraham Lincoln's century-old question--whether this nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
Author : Scott W. Sunquist
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830850945
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Gospel and Pluralism Today written by Scott W. Sunquist and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the legacy of Lesslie Newbigin's classic work, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, critically analyzing the nature of Western pluralism and discussing the influence of Newbigin's work on the field of missiology. By looking backward, this volume advances a vision for Christian witness in the pluralistic world of the twenty-first century.
Author : Robert E. Webber
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 080106029X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Ancient-Future Faith written by Robert E. Webber and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world marked by relativism, individualism, pluralism, and the transition from a modern to a postmodern worldview, evangelical Christians must find ways to re-present the historic faith. In his provocative new work, Ancient-Future Faith, Robert E. Webber contends that present-day evangelicalism is a product of modernity. Allegiance to modernity, he argues, must be relinquished to free evangelicals to become more consistently historic. Empowerment to function in our changing culture will be found by adapting the classical tradition to our postmodern time. Webber demonstrates the implications in the key areas of church, worship, spirituality, evangelism, nurture, and mission. Webber writes, The fundamental concern of Ancient-Future Faith is to find points of contact between classical Christianity and postmodern thought. Classical Christianity was shaped in a pagan and relativistic society much like our own. Classical Christianity was not an accommodation to paganism but an alternative practice of life. Christians in a postmodern world will succeed, not by watering down the faith, but by being a counter cultural community that invites people to be shaped by the story of Israel and Jesus. A substantial appendix explores the development of authority in the early church, an important issue for evangelicals in a society that shares many features with the Roman world of early Christians. Students, professors, pastors, and laypeople concerned with the churchs effective response to a postmodern world will benefit from this paradigmatic volume. Informative tables and extensive bibliographies enhance the books educational value. - Amazon.
Author : David E. Aune
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592443028
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)
Download or read book Prophecy in Early Christianity and the Ancient Mediterranean World written by David E. Aune and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-08-12 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aune's comprehensive study of early Christian prophecy includes a review of its antecedents (Greco-Roman oracles, ancient Israelite prophecy, prophecy in early Judaism), a discussion of Jesus as prophet, and analyses of Christian prophetic speeches from Paul to the middle of the second century A.D. The most detailed study of early Christian prophecy written, Aune's book places the phenomenon of early Christian prophecy within the larger Greco-Roman world.
Author : John D. Inazu
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022659243X
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Confident Pluralism written by John D. Inazu and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the three years since Donald Trump first announced his plans to run for president, the United States seems to become more dramatically polarized and divided with each passing month. There are seemingly irresolvable differences in the beliefs, values, and identities of citizens across the country that too often play out in our legal system in clashes on a range of topics such as the tensions between law enforcement and minority communities. How can we possibly argue for civic aspirations like tolerance, humility, and patience in our current moment? In Confident Pluralism, John D. Inazu analyzes the current state of the country, orients the contemporary United States within its broader history, and explores the ways that Americans can—and must—strive to live together peaceably despite our deeply engrained differences. Pluralism is one of the founding creeds of the United States—yet America’s society and legal system continues to face deep, unsolved structural problems in dealing with differing cultural anxieties and differing viewpoints. Inazu not only argues that it is possible to cohabitate peacefully in this country, but also lays out realistic guidelines for our society and legal system to achieve the new American dream through civic practices that value toleration over protest, humility over defensiveness, and persuasion over coercion. With a new preface that addresses the election of Donald Trump, the decline in civic discourse after the election, the Nazi march in Charlottesville, and more, this new edition of Confident Pluralism is an essential clarion call during one of the most troubled times in US history. Inazu argues for institutions that can work to bring people together as well as political institutions that will defend the unprotected. Confident Pluralism offers a refreshing argument for how the legal system can protect peoples’ personal beliefs and differences and provides a path forward to a healthier future of tolerance, humility, and patience.
Author : Douglas A. Campbell
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467449423
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)
Download or read book Paul written by Douglas A. Campbell and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Campbell has made a name for himself as one of Paul’s most insightful and provocative interpreters. In this short and spirited book Campbell introduces readers to the apostle he has studied in depth over his scholarly career. Enter with Campbell into Paul’s world, relive the story of Paul’s action-packed ministry, and follow the development of Paul’s thought throughout both his physical and his spiritual travels. Ideal for students, individual readers, and study groups, Paul: An Apostle’s Journey dramatically recounts the life of one of early Christianity’s most fascinating figures—and offers powerful insight into his mind and his influential message.
