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Comparing Christianities

Author : April D. DeConick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119086051
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Comparing Christianities written by April D. DeConick and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking introductory textbook for the study of the New Testament and the first Christians, written for the next generation of students Comparing Christianities: An Introduction to the New Testament and the First Christians maps the historical rise of Christianity out of a network of early Christian movements. This major new textbook systematically explores the struggles to define the faith by presenting Christianity as the result of a lengthy process of religious consolidation which emerged from a landscape of persistent Christian diversity. The book delves into the history of the first five generations of Christians, from Paul to Origen. The first chapter considers the challenges of constructing Christian histories and offers a new model of Christian families to organize and explain the emergence and competition of different varieties of Christianity. Each successive chapter focuses on key issues that Christian leaders engaged over the centuries, demonstrating how the questions they posed and the answers they provided gave Christianity its distinct shape. As the movements competed for social advantage, Christians began identifying certain Christian movements as enemies and consolidated against them. The final chapter schematizes the Christians studied in the book into three families of Christian movements based on the particular God they worshipped and other shared patterns of thought and practice. This chapter also explains where the varieties of Christianities came from and how the process of consolidation undertaken by some churches shaped Christian identity within a forge of intolerance that still affects us today. Comparing Christianities explores the answers to questions: Who were the early Christians and what did they write? What did Christians think about sex, women, immortality, Judaism, suffering and death? What rituals did the first Christians practice, and what did their religious experiences mean to them? How did Christians live in a Roman-dominated world? How did the first Christians explain the origins of their movement? Comparing Christianities: An Introduction to the New Testament and the First Christians serves as an excellent primary textbook in undergraduate classrooms for Introduction to Christianity, Introduction to Religion, New Testament Studies, Christian Origins, World Religions, and Western World Religions, and a thought-provoking resource for anyone wishing to know more about Christianity.

Comparative Christianity

Author : Thomas Arthur Russell
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1599428776
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Christianity written by Thomas Arthur Russell and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative Christianity: A Student's Guide to a Religion and its Diverse Traditions explores what Christians have in common and then works through the three major subdivisions of the faith: Eastern, Roman, and Protestant. Using categories common to many definitions of religion, each chapter employs the categories of belief, individual and group moral codes, ceremonies, and associations. The book is a good choice for a textbook on Christianity, for the general reader and/or the follower of other religious traditions who want to learn about the Christian faith. By reading this book, readers will have a fuller knowledge of what Christians, whatever tradition, have in common and what distinguishes one Christian group from another. Comparative Christianity is different than other similar books on the market. It includes groups normally ignored, such as the Coptic and Ethiopian Orthodox Christians and Mormon groups beyond the scope of the Salt Lake City Latter-day Saints community (including the recent Texas group at the center of a polygamy controversy). Also, Comparative Christianity includes a review quiz at the end of each chapter so that readers can see how much knowledge they have acquired. These quizzes may also be used by professors if the text is used in a course.

Comparing Judaism and Christianity

Author : E. P. Sanders
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506406084
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Comparing Judaism and Christianity written by E. P. Sanders and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few scholars have so shaped the contemporary debate on the relation of early Christianity to early Judaism as E. P. Sanders, and no one has produced a clearer or more distinctive vision of that relationship as it was expressed in the figures of Jesus of Nazareth and Paul the apostle. Gathered for the first time within one cover, here Sanders presents formative essays that show the structure of his approach and the insights it produces into Paul’s relationship to Judaism and the Jewish law. Sanders addresses matters of definition (“common Judaism,” “covenantal nomism”), diversity (the Judaism of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Diaspora), and key exegetical and historical questions relative to Jesus, Paul, and Christian origins in relationship to early Judaism. These essays show a leading scholar at his most erudite as he carries forward and elaborates many of the insights that have become touchstones in New Testament interpretation.

Comparing Christianity with World Religions

Author : Steven Cory
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1575674343
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book Comparing Christianity with World Religions written by Steven Cory and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world has always been a melting pot of beliefs, but now more than ever, your neighbor may be part of a differing world religion. In Comparing Christ with World Religions, the truths of Christianity are compared to key beliefs of Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and tribal religions. This is a most helpful tool in answering questions you or seekers have about other religious beliefs, and a handy overview for sharing your faith with others. * Formerly titled The Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Error II

Drudgery Divine

Author : Jonathan Z. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226763620
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Drudgery Divine written by Jonathan Z. Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990-09-18 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major theoretical and methodological statement on the history of religions, Jonathan Z. Smith shows how convert apologetic agendas can dictate the course of comparative religious studies. As his example, Smith reviews four centuries of scholarship comparing early Christianities with religions of late Antiquity (especially the so-called mystery cults) and shows how this scholarship has been based upon an underlying Protestant-Catholic polemic. The result is a devastating critique of traditional New Testament scholarship, a redescription of early Christianities as religious traditions amenable to comparison, and a milestone in Smith's controversial approach to comparative religious studies. "An important book, and certainly one of the most significant in the career of Jonathan Z. Smith, whom one may venture to call the greatest pathologist in the history of religions. As in many precedent cases, Smith follows a standard procedure: he carefully selects his victim, and then dissects with artistic finesse and unequaled acumen. The operation is always necessary, and a deconstructor of Smith's caliber is hard to find."—Ioan P. Coulianu, Journal of Religion

The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old

Author : George Bethune English
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old written by George Bethune English and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old" by George Bethune English George Bethune English was an American adventurer, diplomat, soldier, and convert to Islam. As a convert from Christianity, he was uniquely qualified to examine the religion. This book, written in the early 19th century, is among the first to seriously challenge that assertion in a detailed manner. It examines in depth the textual claims made in the New Testament for the fulfillment by Jesus of Old Testament prophecies, and offers substantive and serious counter-claims that cannot be lightly or easily dismissed.

Comparing Christianity with the Cults

Author : Keith L. Brooks
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1575674335
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book Comparing Christianity with the Cults written by Keith L. Brooks and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What constitutes a cult? How does it contrast with what the Bible says? These colorful and concise brochures will answer seven fundamental questions of life and belief. Contrasted with the truth of God's Word are cults such as Christian Science, Spiritualism, Jehovah's Witness, Scientology, Mormonism, Eastern Mysticism, Unification Church, Wicca, and others. Perfect for training or for keeping by your front door. * Formerly titled The Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Error.

Christianity and Hinduism Compared

Author : Keshava Deva Shastri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Hinduism Compared written by Keshava Deva Shastri and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Classical Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism

Author : Bruce D. Chilton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725229269
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Book Synopsis Classical Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism by : Bruce D. Chilton

Download or read book Classical Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism written by Bruce D. Chilton and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the world's religions, Christianity and Judaism are the most symmetrical. But in our day of religious tolerance, a tendency to overlook the vital differences between the two religions in the name of good will can undermine constructive Jewish-Christian dialogue. In this book, Bruce D. Chilton describes early Christian thought and Jacob Neusner describes early Judaic thought on fundamental issues such as creation and human nature, Christ and Torah, sin and atonement, and eschatology. At the end of each chapter, each assesses the other's perspective, and a final chapter explains why the authors believe theological confrontation--not just comparison--defines the task of interfaith dialogue today.

Denominations Comparison

Author : Rose Publishing
Publisher : Rose Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1596365390
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book Denominations Comparison written by Rose Publishing and published by Rose Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling Denominations Comparison ebook contains a side-by-side comparison of what 12 Christian denominations believe about God, the Trinity, Jesus, and other spiritual issues. This easy-to-read ebook summarizes the beliefs of the different denominations on key topics and includes a "Family Tree of Denominations" which reveals the roots of today's denominations. Denominations Comparison includes a look at: Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, Anabaptist, Congregational, Baptist, Presbyterian, Churches of Christ, Adventist, and Pentecostal churches. Each denomination believes in the deity of Christ and the importance of Scripture, so how are the groups different? The Denominations Comparison shows what denominations have in common as well as where they differ. The Denominations Comparison ebook compares 12 denominations on 11 different topics, such as: •When it was founded and by whom •The number of adherents in 2000 •How Scripture is viewed •Who God is •Who Jesus is •How individuals are saved •What happens after death •The definition of the Church •How each looks at the Sacraments •Other practices and beliefs •The major divisions and trends today. The Denominations Comparison ebook is an excellent source for pastors and teachers who want to present denominational beliefs in a concise and focused manner. The full color ebook organizes the denominations comparisons in the order in which they came to be, first covering the six liturgical denominations followed by the six non-liturgical denominations. The Liturgical Churches compared are: •Catholic •Orthodox •Lutheran (Evangelical Lutheran Church of America; The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod) •Anglican (Episcopal Church; Reformed Episcopal Church) •Presbyterian (The Presbyterian Church (USA) or PCUSA; The Presbyterian Church in America or PCA) •Methodist Churches (United Methodists Church; African Methodist Episcopal; Free Methodists) The Non-Liturgical Churches compared are: •Anabaptist (The Mennonite Church; Church of the Brethren; Amish) •Congregational (United Church of Christ: The National Association of Congregational Christian Churches; The Conservative Congregational Christian Conference) •Baptist (Southern Baptists, American Baptists; National Baptists) •Churches of Christ (Christian Church, Disciples of Christ) •Adventist (Seventh-Day Adventist Church, SDA, 7th Day Adventist) •Pentecostal Churches (Assemblies of God; Church of God in Christ) In addition to the side-side comparison of the 12 Christian denominations, the Denominations Comparison ebook contains a list of 42 "Helpful Words to Know" for studying denominational differences. This list defines words such as: Anabaptist, apocrypha, canon, Eucharist, incarnate, pope, predestination, and puritan. The Denominations Comparison ebook also contains several helpful references, such as: •Official web sites for major denominations •General online references •Other web sites for the major traditions. Denominations Comparison also contains a short summary on the following Christian groups, their founders, size, and denominational ties (if applicable): •Calvary Chapel •Christian and Missionary Alliance •Church of God •Church of the Nazarene •Evangelical Covenant Church •Evangelical Free Church of America •International Church of the Foursquare Gospel •Salvation Army •Vineyard Ministries International Topical index: Adventists, African Methodist Episcopal,Anglican,Assemblies of God, Baptists, Calvary Chapel, Catholic Church, Charismatic, Church of Christ, Church of England, Church of God, Congregational Churches, Episcopal Church, Evangelical Church, Foursquare Church, Free Methodists, Holiness Churches, liberal denominations, Lutheran Churches, Methodist Church, Orthodox Church, Pentecostal Church, Presbyterian Church, Quakers, Reformed Church, Roman Catholicism, Salvation Army, Trinity, United Methodist Church, Vineyard Churches, Westminster Confession.

Comparing Spiritualities

Author : Bruce D. Chilton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1563383098
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Comparing Spiritualities written by Bruce D. Chilton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful exploration of similarities and differences in Jewish and Christian understands of conversion, life after death, and martyrdom.

Faith and History - A Comparison of Christian and Modern Views of History

Author : Reinhold Niebuhr
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447496558
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Faith and History - A Comparison of Christian and Modern Views of History written by Reinhold Niebuhr and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FAITH AND HISTORY A COMPARISON OF CHRISTIAN AND MODERN VIEWS OF HISTORY by REINHOLD NIEBUHR. PREFACE: THE theme of this volume was first presented as the Lyman Beecher Lectures On Preaching at the Yale Divinity School in 1945. Some of the same lectures were given, by arrange ment, under the Warrack Lectureship On Preaching at the Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen in Scotland in the winter of 1947. Some of the chapters were used as the basis of lectures given under the Olaf Petri Foundation of the University of Uppsala in Sweden. I sought to develop various portions of a general theme in these various lectureships. In this volume I have drawn these lectures into a more comprehensive study of the total problem of the relation of the Christian faith to modern conceptions of history. While the total work, therefore, bares little resemblance to the lectures, it does contain consideration of the specific problems which were dealt with in the lectures. I shall not seek to identify this material by chapters as I subjected the whole to reorganization. Two of these lectureships usually deal with the art of preaching, though not a few of the actual lectures have been concerned with the preachers message. Since I had no special competence in the art of homiletics I thought it wise to devote the lectures to a definition of the apologetic task of the Christian pulpit in the unique spiritual climate of our day. Since several of the Beecher lecturers in the past half-century sought to accommodate the Christian message to the prevailing evolutionary optimism of the nineteenth and early twen tieth centuries, I thought it might be particularly appropriate to consider the spiritual situation in a period in which this evolutionary optimism is in the process of decay. This volume is written on the basis of the faith that the Gospel of Christ is true for men of every age and that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. It is, nevertheless, the task of the pulpit to relate the ageless Gospel to the special problems of each age. In doing so, however, there is always a temptation to capitulate to the characteristic prejudices of an age. The preaching of the Gospel was not immune to this temptation in the past centuries. The real alternative to the Christian faith elaborated by modern secular culture was the idea that history is itself Christ, which is to say that historical development is redemp tive. Typical modern theology accommodated itself to this secular scheme of redemption much too readily. Meanwhile the experiences of contemporary man have refuted the modern faith in the redemp tive character of history itself. This refutation has given the Christian faith, as presented in the Bible, a new relevance. It is not the thesis of this new volume that this new relevance could establish the truth of the Christian Gospel in the mind of modern man. The truth of the Christian faith must, in fact, be apprehended in any age by repentance and faith. It is, therefore, not made acceptable by rational validation in the first instance. It is important, nevertheless, for the preacher of the Gospel to understand, and come to terms with, the characteristic credos of his age. It is important in our age to understand how the spiritual com placency of a culture which believed in redemption through history is now on the edge of despair.

So What's the Difference?

Author : Fritz Ridenour
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459607074
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book So What's the Difference? written by Fritz Ridenour and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How World Faiths Compare to Christianity So What's the Difference? has been revised and updated for the 21st Century to help Christians better understand their own beliefs. A classic first released in 1967, this revision takes a current look at the answer to the question, How does orthodox biblical Christianity differ from other faiths? In a straightforward, non - critical comparison, Fritz Ridenour explores and explains the basic tenets of Roman Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science, Scientology, New Age and Mormonism.

The New Testament in Comparison

Author : John M.G. Barclay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567684792
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book The New Testament in Comparison written by John M.G. Barclay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nine essays in this volume, written by leading international scholars in New Testament studies, examine in new depth the method of comparison so frequently deployed in the study of the New Testament. They raise and reflect on deep questions on the possibility and validity of such comparative exercise, on the methods that are most effective and intellectually defensible, on the purpose of such comparison, and on the perils and pitfalls in such exercises. Addressing these questions at both a theoretical, hermeneutical level, and through case-studies of actual examples, the book provides a much needed and up-to-date methodological resource for the numerous comparative projects spawned by New Testament studies throughout the world.

The Grounds of Christianity Examined

Author : George Bethune English
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Grounds of Christianity Examined written by George Bethune English and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Christian Faith and History

Author : Thomas W. Ogletree
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664227555
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Christian Faith and History written by Thomas W. Ogletree and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Olgetree's Christian Faith and History offers a critical analysis of the views of Ernst Troeltsch and Karl Barth regarding Christian faith and history. Troeltsch and Barth appraoched theology from seemingly antithetical vantage points, but Ogletree seeks to identify overlapping interests in the writing of these two authors, and to suggest a broader framework for understanding that constructively combines the insights of both.

So What's the Difference?

Author : Fritz Ridenour
Publisher : Gospel Light Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780830718986
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book So What's the Difference? written by Fritz Ridenour and published by Gospel Light Publications. This book was released on 2001-03-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So What’s the Difference has been revised and updated for the 21st Century to help Christians better understand their own beliefs. A classic first released in 1967, this revision takes a current look at the answer to the question, How does orthodox biblical Christianity differ from other faiths? In a straightforward, objective comparison, Fritz Ridenour explores and explains the basic tenets of 20 worldviews, religions and faiths, including Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Science, New Age and Mormonism.