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Christianity In The Twenty First Century
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Book Synopsis Christians in the Twenty-First Century by : George D. Chryssides
Download or read book Christians in the Twenty-First Century written by George D. Chryssides and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Christians in the Twenty-First Century' examines Christianity as it is understood and practised both by active followers and those who regard themselves as Christian. The book opens with an examination of key Christian concepts - the Bible, the Creeds, the Church and the sacraments - and the major traditions of Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism as well as more recent movements. The book continues with an analysis of the challenges presented by the rise of science, new approaches to biblical scholarship, the rise of fundamentalist movements, the ordination of women, secularization, the interfaith movement, and the impact of the electronic revolution.
Book Synopsis Being Christian in the Twenty-First Century by : Sam Gould
Download or read book Being Christian in the Twenty-First Century written by Sam Gould and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Christian in the Twenty-first Century was written to help struggling and doubting Christians develop an understanding of Christianity that avoids literalism, creeds, and doctrines--all factors which seem to be driving people away from the church. The book is well suited for individual or group study, complete with a study guide and sample lesson plans. It responds to the call for theological reform advocated by many contemporary clergy and religious leaders. Being Christian does not restate orthodox positions or drift into fundamentalism or sentimentalism. Instead it draws from a broad base of historical, theological, archaeological, and sociological scholarship to place Scripture within its original context, yet present it within a perspective suitable for the twenty-first-century mind. Being Christian is scholarly, yet readable, interesting, and often provocative. One reviewer put it this way, "the book reminds me of a baseball pitcher with a long wind up and a hard fastball getting better in every inning." By building upon progressive thought available today and throughout history, it offers an important resource for Christians and would-be Christians seeking a more fulfilling and thoughtful faith journey.
Book Synopsis Christian Thought in the Twenty-First Century by : Douglas H. Shantz
Download or read book Christian Thought in the Twenty-First Century written by Douglas H. Shantz and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume some of the outstanding Christian scholars of our day reflect on how their minds have changed, how their academic fields have changed over the course of their careers, and the pressing issues that Christian scholars will need to address in the twenty-first century. This volume offers an accessible portrait of key trends in the world of Christian scholarship today. Christian Thought in the Twenty-First Century features scholars from Great Britain, Canada, the United States, and Switzerland. The contributors represent a wide variety of academic backgrounds--from biblical studies to theology, to religious studies, to history, English literature, philosophy, law, and ethics. This book offers a personal glimpse of Christian scholars in a self-reflective mode, capturing their honest reflections on the changing state of the academy and on changes in their own minds and outlooks. The breadth and depth of insight afforded by these contributions provide rich soil for a reader's own reflections, and an agenda that will occupy Christian thinkers well into the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis Spirit-empowered Christianity in the Twenty-first Century by : Vinson Synan
Download or read book Spirit-empowered Christianity in the Twenty-first Century written by Vinson Synan and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2011 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirit-Empowered Christianity in the 21st Century is an authoritative compilation of the presentations from thirty leaders in the Charismatic/Pentecostal movement given at the Empowered 21 Conference in Tulsa, OK, in April 2010. These chapters share emerging insights on how the next generation will handle the profound issues facing Christians within the Charismatic/Pentecostal movement in the 21st century.
Book Synopsis Christianity in the Twenty-first Century by : Robert Wuthnow
Download or read book Christianity in the Twenty-first Century written by Robert Wuthnow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 2000--and beyond--what will the church be like? What challenges will it face? Will the church be able to provide a strong sense of community? Will it be an ethical force in the lives of Americans? And what role will religion play in politics and in the marketplace? In Christianity in the 21st Century Robert Wuthnow reflects on these provocative questions as he seeks to identify changes that are taking place now in American society that churches must address if they are to remain vital in the future. He foresees five critical areas--institutional, ethical, doctrinal, political, and cultural--in which major challenges will arise, then meets the thorny issues head-on. How will churches' resource bases, their very identity, and their capacity to carry on their spiritual traditions be altered? till they continue to function as sources of caring in a needy world? What impact will the resurgence of fundamentalism have, and how will moderate and liberal congregations react? How will the political activities of churches influence their capacity to be heard in the public arena, and what will the impact be of pluralism and the prevailing materialism of our society? Drawing on a wide range of first-hand observations and research, Wuthnow demontrates that in each of these five areas people of faith have strong reasons to enter the next century with confidence in their religious institutions. But he also highlights worrisome signs, and points to specific areas that need to be addressed to ensure the continuing vitality for Christianity in America--not least among these are the rampant individualism that erodes spiritual communities and the religious infighting that diminishes the Christian sense of unity. The onset of a new millennium affords a historic opportunity to take stock of the present situation and to plan for the future--in the years ahead, much reflection is likely to occur about all our major institutions. Christianity in the 21st Century aims to contribute to those reflections by offering a sobering, realistic, and ultimately hopeful assessment of where the church is now, and where the church is headed.
Book Synopsis Eastern Christianity and Politics in the Twenty-First Century by : Lucian N. Leustean
Download or read book Eastern Christianity and Politics in the Twenty-First Century written by Lucian N. Leustean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of Eastern Christian churches in Europe, the Middle East, America, Africa, Asia and Australia. Written by leading international scholars in the field, it examines both Orthodox and Oriental churches from the end of the Cold War up to the present day. The book offers a unique insight into the myriad church-state relations in Eastern Christianity and tackles contemporary concerns, opportunities and challenges, such as religious revival after the fall of communism; churches and democracy; relations between Orthodox, Catholic and Greek Catholic churches; religious education and monastic life; the size and structure of congregations; and the impact of migration, secularisation and globalisation on Eastern Christianity in the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis Christ of the 21st Century by : Ewert Cousins
Download or read book Christ of the 21st Century written by Ewert Cousins and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1994-06-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cousins evaluates our present religious condition and reflects on the importance of tradition, spirituality, and mysticism in understanding ourselves and others.
Book Synopsis Introducing Christian Education by :
Download or read book Introducing Christian Education written by and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the success of his 1992 collection Foundations of Ministry (over 17,000 sold), Michael Anthony offers Introducing Christian Education to fill the need in the C.E. curriculum for an introductory foundations textbook--one that provides an overview and understanding of the broad range of subjects included in C.E.--for college and seminary use. Thirty-one chapters are offered under the following sections: 1) Foundations of C.E.; 2) Developmental Perspectives of C.E.; 3) Educational Implications of C.E.; 4) Organization, Administration, and Leadership; 5) C.E. Applied to the Family; and 6) Specialized Ministries. Contributors include Robert Pazmiño, Jim Wilhoit, Julie Gorman, Klaus Issler, and Ted Ward. FROM THE FOREWORD BY LESTER C. BLANK JR. Introducing Christian Education will become a major resource text for church leaders and Christian education leaders who are professors of Christian education. It will be a valuable resource in my personal library. The desired outcome will be Psalm 78:72: "He cared for them with a true heart and led them with skillful hands."
Book Synopsis Christianity in the Twentieth Century by : Brian Stanley
Download or read book Christianity in the Twentieth Century written by Brian Stanley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonization, and powerful ideological currents, many of them hostile to Christianity"--Amazon.com.
Book Synopsis Contextual Theology for the Twenty-First Century by : Stephen B. Bevans
Download or read book Contextual Theology for the Twenty-First Century written by Stephen B. Bevans and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from the United States, Latin America, and Oceania reflect in this volume on the importance of contextual theology for our twenty-first century. Contextual theology offers fresh voices from every culture, and not just from the West. It calls for new ways of doing theology that embrace cultural values, but at the same time challenges them to the core. And it opens up new and fresh topics out of which and about which people can theologize. If the church is to be faithful to its mission, it needs to provide a feast at which all can be nourished.
Book Synopsis The 21st Century Christian by : Michael Beck
Download or read book The 21st Century Christian written by Michael Beck and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Journey Through Christian Theology by : William P. Anderson
Download or read book A Journey Through Christian Theology written by William P. Anderson and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The history of Christian theology can be a daunting, even forbidding field for the novice, who sees neither the need for nor pertinence of rummaging around dusty old texts. This people-friendly volume, a full-scale reader in the history of Christian theology, offers an easy, non-threatening, occasionally humorous yet quite thorough entry into Christianity's central texts from the Apostolic Fathers to Mary Daly. It is also enlivened by dozens of cartoons by Rich Diesslin. Highly accessible introductions to five periods precede brief introductions to and texts from more than fifty key thinkers. The texts highlight perennial themes and questions in Christian tradition, especially the meaning and importance of Jesus, challenges to the institutional church, tensions of faith and reason, spirituality, and the Christian quest for social justice. The new edition, half again as large as the original, adds significant work from the Cappadocian Fathers and the Christological controversialists, the Franciscan tradition, the Radical and English reforms, and deeper coverage of twentieth-century theologians. With learning aids, research-paper suggestions and guide, and glossary" -- Publisher description.
Book Synopsis A Church for the 21st Century by : Leith Anderson
Download or read book A Church for the 21st Century written by Leith Anderson and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Dying for Change, a book on how to bring change to a local church to meet the challenges of a changing society.
Book Synopsis First-Century Christians in Twenty-First Century Africa by : Nathan P. Devir
Download or read book First-Century Christians in Twenty-First Century Africa written by Nathan P. Devir and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever comparative ethnographic study of its kind, this monograph analyzes the syncretistic phenomenon of Messianic Judaism in Gabon and Madagascar, focusing on the motivations, geneses, settings, and contexts of one of global Christianity’s most overlooked iterations.
Book Synopsis Christianity for the Twenty-first Century by : Aleksandr Menʹ
Download or read book Christianity for the Twenty-first Century written by Aleksandr Menʹ and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1996 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These writings by the assassinated Russian Orthodox Church leader examine the place of Christianity and of Russia in human history
Book Synopsis Christianity and the Social Crisis by : Walter Rauschenbusch
Download or read book Christianity and the Social Crisis written by Walter Rauschenbusch and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Twenty-first Century Confronts Its Gods by : David J. Hawkin
Download or read book The Twenty-first Century Confronts Its Gods written by David J. Hawkin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maintains that the secular West has its gods—such as market capitalism—and that veneration of these contributes to the cultural and religious unrest of our time.
