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Book Synopsis Free Churches and Society by : Lesley Husselbee
Download or read book Free Churches and Society written by Lesley Husselbee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the key improvements to social conditions in the United Kingdom have been made by Christians. Most of us would be able to think of such key Anglican figures as William Wilberforce, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury or Dr Thomas Barnardo, but lesser known contributions were made behind the scenes by significant members of the Non-Conformist Churches. This book traces the Free Church contribution to society from 1800 to the present day. It looks at the work of campaigners, co-operative societies, philanthropists and politicians, and traces the ways in which conditions in slums, education, and industry were improved, including work with women and with black and ethnic minorities. There is a growing interest in the part the churches can play today in community development and in the building of social capital. This book will show that some of the things now seen as government initiatives had their origins in the work of Free Church pioneers.
Book Synopsis A Short History of the Free Churches by : J. A. Houlder
Download or read book A Short History of the Free Churches written by J. A. Houlder and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Popular History of the Free Churches by : Charles Silvester Horne
Download or read book A Popular History of the Free Churches written by Charles Silvester Horne and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The United Methodist Free Churches by :
Download or read book The United Methodist Free Churches written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Free Churches and the Body of Christ by : Jeffrey W. Cary
Download or read book Free Churches and the Body of Christ written by Jeffrey W. Cary and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those within the free church tradition have often appealed to the notion of the invisible church to account for the unity of the Body of Christ. A growing number of free church theologians, however, are giving increased attention to the importance of visible ecclesial unity, which immediately raises the perennial problem of the authorities by which unity is maintained. There is also a growing recognition among free church theologians of the need to recognize the authority of tradition in tandem with the authority of Scripture. In this book, Cary affirms these recent developments but then inquires whether a turn toward visible unity, together with an embrace of the authority of tradition, can eventually be coherent without also embracing the authority of an extra-congregational teaching office. To guide his study, Cary engages the work of two theologians from outside the free church tradition: Robert Jenson and Rowan Williams. He then brings them into contact with the prominent free church theologian James McClendon in order to supplement some of the deficiencies Cary perceives in McClendon's groundbreaking work. Once these deficiencies are addressed, however, the question intensifies whether the free church tradition, as such, can remain a coherent ecclesial option over time.
Book Synopsis united methodist free churches by : william reed
Download or read book united methodist free churches written by william reed and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The People are Holy by : Graydon F. Snyder
Download or read book The People are Holy written by Graydon F. Snyder and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using biblical and historical data, this book first describes the biblical and theological basis for worship in the Free Church tradition, then shows how this tradition is expressed in worship at special occasions as well as in traditional services. The People Are Holy describes the characteristics of early church worship, then traces how those qualities and practices are realized in the Free Churches. In addition to analyzing all parts of the Sunday worship services, the book includes a consideration of key special services such as baptisms, communions, weddings, installations, healing services, and funerals. In order to demonstrate how preaching functions, the book contains four sermons on key concerns for the Free Church. This book will help members of Free Churches understand why they do what they do when they come together as a faith community. It will help pastors reflect on the theological and biblical basis of how they conduct worship. This is not a "how-to" book. Based on the faith stance of Free Churches in general, it describes what would be the reasonable application of those principles in worshipping communities. Christians not of a Free Church persuasion can discover in this book what inspires so many Americans and marks the way they worship. Book jacket.
Book Synopsis Twentieth Century Reformation by : Carl McIntire
Download or read book Twentieth Century Reformation written by Carl McIntire and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents The Real Issues Involved In The Movements Which Gave Rise To The Organization Of The Federal Council Of The Churches Of Christ In America And The American Council Of Christian Churches.
Book Synopsis Labour and the Free Churches, 1918-1939 by : Peter Catterall
Download or read book Labour and the Free Churches, 1918-1939 written by Peter Catterall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did the Labour Party, in Morgan Phillips' famous phrase, owe 'more to Methodism than Marx'? Were the founding fathers of the party nurtured in the chapels of Nonconformity and shaped by their emphases on liberty, conscience and the value of every human being in the eyes of God? How did the Free Churches, traditionally allied to the Liberal Party, react to the growing importance of the Labour Party between the wars? This book addresses these questions at a range of levels: including organisation; rhetoric; policies and ideals; and electoral politics. It is shown that the distinctive religious setting in which Labour emerged indeed helps to explain the differences between it and more Marxist counterparts on the Continent, and that this setting continued to influence Labour approaches towards welfare, nationalisation and industrial relations between the wars. In the process Labour also adopted some of the righteousness of tone of the Free Churches. This setting was, however, changing. Dropping their traditional suspicion of the State, Nonconformists instead increasingly invested it with religious values, helping to turn it through its growing welfare functions into the provider of practical Christianity. This nationalisation of religion continues to shape British attitudes to the welfare state as well as imposing narrowly utilitarian and material tests of relevance upon the churches and other social institutions. The elevation of the State was not, however, intended as an end in itself. What mattered were the social and individual outcomes. Socialism, for those Free Churchmen and women who helped to shape Labour in the early twentieth century, was about improving society as much as systems.
Download or read book The Free Church written by James D. Murch and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Contributor(s): James DeForest Murch (1892-1973) was born in Ohio, where he was educated in Ohio University and the University of Cincinnati. He was an editor, organizer, historian, and unity activist among the Christian Churches and Churches of Christ in the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis A Free Church in a Free State by : Surya Harefa
Download or read book A Free Church in a Free State written by Surya Harefa and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does Christ call his people to engage the societies, cultures, and politics of the nations they call home? From prioritizing patriotism over faith to withdrawing from the public sphere entirely, the struggle to navigate the intersection of an earthly and heavenly kingdom remains an ongoing challenge for Christians around the world. Bridging cultures and time periods, Dr. Surya Harefa brings Abraham’s Kuyper’s ecclesiology to bear on questions of Japanese Christian engagement within the political sphere. Harefa offers a contextually robust exploration of evangelical Japanese approaches to ecclesiology and political involvement. Taking care to place Kuyper’s conception of the church within Kuyper’s own political and historical context, careful lines of application are drawn between Kuyper’s theological perspectives and the need for an active Japanese church engaged in all spheres of life. This book is an excellent resource for those seeking to equip Christians to engage politically as followers of Christ for the good of the church and their nations. It also provides an example of the rich and powerful insight offered by exploring Western and non-Western theologies within their diverse contexts and in conversation with each other.
Book Synopsis Free Church, Free State by : Nigel G. Wright
Download or read book Free Church, Free State written by Nigel G. Wright and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A church free from state control and a state free from church control"--Such is one of the radical insights of a baptist vision of church and society. -- What exactly is a baptist vision of the church? -- What are the biblical, historical and theological roots of this approach to Christian community? -- What is the place of such a vision in the context of a global church that includes alternative notions of the body of Christ? Free Church, Free State is a textbook on baptist ways of being church and a proposal for the future of baptist churches in an ecumenical context. Nigel Wright argues that both baptist (small 'b') and catholic (small 'c') church traditions should seek to enrich and support each other as valid expressions of the body of Christ without sacrificing what they hold dear. Written for pastors, church planters, evangelists and preachers, Nigel Wright offers frameworks of thought for baptists and non-baptists in their journey together following Christ.
Book Synopsis A History of the Free Churches of England, from A.D. 1688-A.D. 1851 by : Herbert S. Skeats
Download or read book A History of the Free Churches of England, from A.D. 1688-A.D. 1851 written by Herbert S. Skeats and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Home and Foreign Record of the Free Church of Scotland by : Free Church of Scotland
Download or read book The Home and Foreign Record of the Free Church of Scotland written by Free Church of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Free Church Today: New Life for the Whole Church by : Arthur A. Rouner
Download or read book The Free Church Today: New Life for the Whole Church written by Arthur A. Rouner and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important contribution to American ecumenism is an impassioned plea for an encounter between the mainline denominational churches and the vital new “third force” of the evangelical and “free” churches. It strives to bridge the gulf between the most uncritical supporters of organic church union and those most suspicious of its organizational purpose and theology. It suggests that the common elements of the New Testament church life in all local churches provide a basis for understandings out of which a new spirit and a broad new alignment can evolve. It urges the mainline groups to achieve an understanding with these free churches—whose doctrine of authority posits a direct, personal rule of Christ over each local “gathered” congregation without the meditation of bishops, priests, synods or councils—in seeking a new basis for achieving the reality of the “great church coming” which is the ecumenical hope. The author’s conviction is that the future of the church in America and of any vital ecumenical witness rests with these “left out” churches and their creative rapprochement with other life of all churches together in an exciting and meaningful mission in which American churches of all traditions can share completely, yet without compromise.
Book Synopsis Catechism on the Principles and Constitution of the Free Church of Scotland by : Andrew Gray
Download or read book Catechism on the Principles and Constitution of the Free Church of Scotland written by Andrew Gray and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Church Leader in the Cities by : Alvin W. Skardon
Download or read book Church Leader in the Cities written by Alvin W. Skardon and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
