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Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Christian Networks Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brad Christerson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019063569X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Network Christianity written by Brad Christerson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why, when traditionally organized religious groups are seeing declining membership and participation, are networks of independent churches growing so explosively? Drawing on in-depth interviews with leaders and participants, The Rise of Network Christianity explains the social forces behind the fastest-growing form of Christianity in the U.S., which Brad Christerson and Richard Flory have labeled "Independent Network Charismatic." This form of Christianity emphasizes aggressive engagement with the supernatural-including healing, direct prophecies from God, engaging in "spiritual warfare" against demonic spirits--and social transformation. Christerson and Flory argue that macro-level social changes since the 1970s, including globalization and the digital revolution, have given competitive advantages to religious groups organized as networks rather than traditionally organized congregations and denominations. Network forms of governance allow for experimentation with controversial supernatural practices, innovative finances and marketing, and a highly participatory, unorthodox, and experiential faith, which is attractive in today's unstable religious marketplace. Christerson and Flory hypothesize that as more religious groups imitate this type of governance, religious belief and practice will become more experimental, more orientated around practice than theology, more shaped by the individual religious "consumer," and authority will become more highly concentrated in the hands of individuals rather than institutions. Network Christianity, they argue, is the future of Christianity in America.
Author : Eleonora Naxidou
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633867762
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Christian Networks in the Ottoman Empire written by Eleonora Naxidou and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Observers and historians continue to marvel at the diversity and complexity of the Ottoman Empire. This book explores the significant and multifaceted role that Orthodox Christian networks played in the sultan’s realm from the 17th century until WWI. These multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, and multi-confessional formations contributed fundamentally to the political, economic, social, and cultural development of the Empire as well as to its gradual disintegration. Bringing together scholars from most Balkan countries, Christian Networks in the Ottoman Empire describes the variety of Orthodox Christian networks under Ottoman rule. The examples examined include commercial relations, intellectual networks, educational systems, religious dynamics, consular activities, and revolutionary movements, and involve Muslims and Christians, Romanians and Serbs, Bulgarians and Greeks, Albanians and Turks. The contributions show that the Christian populations and their elites were an integral part of Ottoman society. The geographical spread of the formal and informal networks enriches our understanding of the terms ‘center’ and ‘periphery.’ They were either centered within the official Ottoman borders and extended their activities to other states and empires, or vice versa, located elsewhere, but also active in the Ottoman Empire. A common feature of these formations is their constant fluctuation, which enables a dynamic understanding of Ottoman history.
Author : Jeffrey H. Mahan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538135817
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Church as Network written by Jeffrey H. Mahan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as the emergence of print and literacy created conditions for vast religious change at the time of the Reformation, the emergence of a digital culture shaped by computers and the internet has led to radically different assumptions about religious identity, how people connect and maintain transformative relationships, and how people follow and give authority to leaders. The central issues concerning this digital culture are not technological but theological and anthropological. Old models of stable religious identity and community seem irrelevant in a culture in which everyone is in motion. The book identifies three profound changes produced by digital culture which challenge existing understandings of church: 1) a shift to seeing Christian identity as an ongoing constructive project, 2) the development of fluid networked forms of community, and 3) the emergence of less hierarchical more conversational forms of leadership.
Author : Christopher P. Jones
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674369513
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (743 download)
Download or read book Between Pagan and Christian written by Christopher P. Jones and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who and what was pagan depended on the outlook of the observer, as Christopher Jones shows in this fresh and penetrating analysis. Treating paganism as a historical construct rather than a fixed entity, Between Christian and Pagan uncovers the fluid ideas, rituals, and beliefs that Christians and pagans shared in Late Antiquity.
Author : Herbert E. Hudson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532634579
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Anonymous Christians written by Herbert E. Hudson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship of clergy to Twelve Step programs. Field research of pastors in the Florida Keys found that they are unsure if addiction is a disease or a sin, and whether the Twelve Steps are based on Christianity. Lessons learned include the validity of both traditional Twelve Step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Christ-centered programs such as Celebrate Recovery, the coherence of sin and disease explanations of addiction, and the significance of modern addiction theory. The specific outcome of this study is the development of a course syllabus for clergy on addiction recovery through Twelve Step philosophy.
Author : Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503544298
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (442 download)
Download or read book Intricate Interfaith Networks in the Middle Ages written by Ephraim Shoham-Steiner and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent scholarship has suggested that the religious divide between Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages, although ever-present (and at times even violently so), did not stop individuals and groups from forming ties and expanding them in more intricate ways than previously thought. Moreover, these networks appear to have functioned with an apparent disregard towards any confessional and religious differences. Nevertheless, this was by no means a straightforward or simple situation; both the theological background to how each faith viewed 'other' beliefs, as well as the strong social, religious, and authoritative circles that at the least critiqued, even if they did not entirely discourage such contacts, created a formidable opposition to these networks. The articles in this book were presented as papers during an international workshop at the Central European University in Budapest in February 2010. In these presentations and discussions, the premise of interfaith relations and networks was thoroughly explored across Europe from the Iberian Peninsula to the eastern Hungarian frontier, and from England to Italy throughout the high and later medieval period. In this volume, the contributors explore a number of phenomena through different disciplinary approaches. Ties of an economic and cultural nature are examined, and attention is paid to social contacts and networks in the fields of art and the sciences, and matters of daily life. The picture that emerges is altogether more nuanced and diverse than the bipolar paradigm that has dominated previous scholarship.
Author : Joel Carpenter
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467440396
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)
Download or read book Christian Higher Education written by Joel Carpenter and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh report and interpretation of what is happening at the intersection of two great contemporary movements: the rapid growth of higher education worldwide and the rise of world Christianity. It features on-site, evaluative studies by scholars from Africa, Asia, North America, and South America. Christian Higher Education: A Global Reconnaissance visits some of the hotspots of Christian university development, such as South Korea, Kenya, and Nigeria, and compares what is happening there to places in Canada, the United States, and Europe, where Christian higher education has a longer history. Very little research until now has examined the scope and direction of Christian higher education throughout the world, so this volume fills a real gap.
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Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Muehlhoff
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830879463
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Authentic Communication written by Tim Muehlhoff and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What could be more natural, more human, than communication? But we all learn quickly enough that good communication is not always natural. There is much to learn from Scripture and from the academic study of human communication. In this book Tim Muehlhoff and Todd Lewis are able guides, aiding us in understanding the broad field of human communication in Christian perspective.
Author : Sally E. Stuart
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1414334265
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Christian Writers' Market Guide 2011 written by Sally E. Stuart and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12-27 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only guide written exclusively for this specialized market, this title provides the most up-to-date marketing resource information available to beginning and advanced writers, freelancers, editors, publishers, publicists, and all others interested in, or involved with, writing.
Author : Sally Stuart
Publisher : WaterBrook
ISBN 13 : 0307499162
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Christian Writers' Market Guide 2008 written by Sally Stuart and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Resource Guide to Getting Published A unique guide to publishing for Christian readers, the Christian Writers’ Market Guide 2008 offers the most proven and comprehensive collection of ideas, resources, and contact information to the industry. For more than twenty years, the Christian Writers’ Market Guide has delivered indispensable help to Christian writers, from a CD-ROM of the full text of the book so you can easily search for topics, publishers, and other specific names; to up-to-date listings of more than 1,200 markets for books, articles, stories, poetry, and greeting cards, including forty-three new book publishers, fifty-one new periodicals, and fifteen new literary agencies. Perfect for writers in every phase, this is the resource you need to get noticed–and published. “An indispensable tool. The reference you have to buy.” Writers’ Journal “Essential for anyone seeking to be published in the Christian community.” The Midwest Book Review “Stands out from the rest with its wealth of information and helpful hints.” Book Reviews for Church Librarians Completely updated and revised the Guide features more than… 1,200 markets for the written word * 675 periodicals * 405 book publishers * 240 poetry markets * 114 card and specialty markets * 37 e-book publishers * 120 literary agents * 332 photography markets * 98 foreign markets * 98 newspapers * 53 print-on-demand publishers * writers’ conferences and groups * pay rates and submission guidelines * more resources and tools for all types of writing and related topics.
Author : Jeremiah J. Johnston
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493433504
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)
Download or read book Unleashing Peace written by Jeremiah J. Johnston and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here's a powerful, biblical antidote to despair!"--LEE STROBEL, New York Times bestselling author God's peace, his shalom, can penetrate every aspect of your life--spiritually, mentally, physically, and emotionally. Although the word shalom appears 550 times in the Scriptures and was a constant theme in Jesus' teachings, it is a neglected topic today. As a result, God's peace has been elusive to so many followers of Jesus. This book charts a course of shalom for you! As Greg Laurie writes in the foreword, since we are made in God's image, you could say we have been prewired for happiness. We are prewired for hope. We are prewired for peace. If you are longing for healing and wholeness, noted Bible scholar Jeremiah J. Johnston will help you discover how to · Unleash shalom in your life · Live and apply shalom in God's world · Protect your shalom in difficult times This uplifting book is also helpful for ministry leaders and everyone else who recognizes the church's incredible opportunity today to help individuals and families dealing with anxiety, worry, and mental pain. Let this be your guide into the peace that passes all understanding. Shalom! "This is more than surviving; we are offered the gift of truly flourishing."--SHEILA WALSH, author of Holding On When You Want to Let Go "In this reassuring meditation on Christian happiness... Johnston's mix of scholarly and uplifting notes will speak to solace seekers and their ministry leaders alike."--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Author : Sally Stuart
Publisher : WaterBrook Press
ISBN 13 : 0307446433
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Christian Writers' Market Guide 2009 written by Sally Stuart and published by WaterBrook Press. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now updated for 2009 comes one of the most comprehensive marketing resources for Christian writers, with information on agents, editors, publisher guidelines, specialty markets, and more.
Author : Sally E. Stuart
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1414334257
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Christian Writers' Market Guide 2010 written by Sally E. Stuart and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies approximately one thousand markets for Christian writers, including book publishers and periodicals, each with contact information and submission guidelines, and includes listings of literary agents, poetry, greeting card, music, and photography markets, and contests.
Author : Wayne A. Meeks
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664229627
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Christ is the Question written by Wayne A. Meeks and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this series of reflections on the mystery of Jesus and the questions that surround him, noted New Testament scholar Wayne Meeks redirects the course of the Jesus debates. Insisting that we cease focusing on who the historical Jesus was and ask instead, who is Christ? Meeks demonstrates with electric and lucid prose that Jesus is not a permanent artifact whose precise nature can be traced back through history but, rather, a figure whose identity continues to emerge as contemporary persons engage him in their daily lives.
Author : Luann Budd
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830823379
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Journal Keeping written by Luann Budd and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2002-01-29 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luann Budd offers to help you get started journaling, and she introduces you to the power of writing as a spiritual discipline through helpful tips and examples from her own journals.
