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Book Synopsis The Egalitarian Spirit of Christianity by : Stephen Strehle
Download or read book The Egalitarian Spirit of Christianity written by Stephen Strehle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion no longer plays a dominant role in the everyday consciousness of modern Western society. Few people recognize the underlying role of religious beliefs and practices in their life choices. Stephen Strehle shows the significance and ongoing influence of religion in contemporary life by revealing the sacred roots of modern political ideas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He discusses the role of the church in government, probing into the sources of democratic, federal, and egalitarian ideas on the continent of Europe during the Reformation. The separation of church and state in America and the diminished power of the Church of England were the culmination of secular forces evolving since the Enlightenment. This secular view of life represents the basic mentality of the culture and the government in general; yet there is much to contradict it. The last half of the twentieth century witnessed a surge of grassroots movements from all sides of the political/religious spectrum. These included the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the Moral Majority of the 1980s, both of which provided an effective challenge to a simple separation of the two realms. Strehle explores some of the most cherished political ideals of modern society, including equality and democracy, liberty and natural rights, progress and capitalism, federalism and mixed government. He does not dismiss the vital contribution of other possible sources of inspiration from the world of religion or undermine the well-established place of “secular” sources. But he does show that certain ideas associated with the religious community have left an indelible mark upon significant aspects of the emerging American landscape.
Book Synopsis Egalitarians and the Bible by : Frank Gies III
Download or read book Egalitarians and the Bible written by Frank Gies III and published by CBE Bookstore. This book was released on with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Christian Egalitarian Leadership by : Aida Besancon Spencer
Download or read book Christian Egalitarian Leadership written by Aida Besancon Spencer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written on servant leadership, but it is not always tied to egalitarian leadership. Sometimes authority and power instead of God’s love are presented as the core of the Christian faith. The church at times derails, imitating worldly culture, emphasizing entitlement that relies on an innate or permanent human hierarchy of rank. Responding to today’s conflict over leadership, Christian Egalitarian Leadership calls us back to its biblical roots: what is Christian egalitarian leadership? Why is it biblical? How does it work? Thoughtful and devout Christian leaders carefully explain how sharing leadership follows God’s intentions and is crucial to implement today. The theoretical and practical ramifications of these concepts are extended to many areas of the Christian life by numerous qualified individuals, women and men of different races and economic and social classes. Chapters overview New Testament teachings, biblical authority, Old Testament and contemporary examples, God’s intention at creation, pagan philosophy’s influence on Christian hierarchal leadership, multicultural and multi-ethnic leadership in the United States and Africa, marriage, rearing children, equipping youth and laity, church planting, retirement, and missions, from the cradle to the mission field.
Download or read book Paul Distilled written by Gary W. Burnett and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What the apostle Paul has to say is transformative and utterly inspiring. But too often he is clouded in complicated explanations and murky misunderstandings. Paul Distilled gets to the essence of Paul, and uncovers what is at the heart of his thinking and why he's had such an impact on the world since the first century until today. Drawing on many years of teaching and study of Paul's writings, Gary Burnett explains the driving forces behind the apostle's thinking from the letters he wrote to groups of Jesus-followers dotted around the Roman empire, addressing the real issues they faced, and shows why this matters today. A study guide with each chapter will enable church groups to get to grips with the life-changing potential of understanding Paul better.
Book Synopsis Partners in Christ by : John G. Stackhouse Jr.
Download or read book Partners in Christ written by John G. Stackhouse Jr. and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to understanding what Scripture says about men and women, those on both sides of the debate can and do marshal strong evidence from the Bible. Does the Bible contradict itself then? Not so. John Stackhouse describes the single approach in Scripture that guides us with clear direction and moves us beyond the impasse in this important debate.
Book Synopsis Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian by : Michelle Lee-Barnewall
Download or read book Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian written by Michelle Lee-Barnewall and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity Today Book Award Winner Regarding gender relations, the evangelical world is divided between complementarians and egalitarians. While both perspectives have much to contribute, the discussion has reached a stalemate. Michelle Lee-Barnewall critiques both sides of the debate, challenging the standard premises and arguments and offering new insight into a perennially divisive issue in the church. She brings fresh biblical exegesis to bear on our cultural situation, presenting an alternative way to move the discussion forward based on a corporate perspective and on kingdom values. The book includes a foreword by Craig L. Blomberg and an afterword by Lynn H. Cohick.
Book Synopsis Is It Me? Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage by : Natalie Hoffman
Download or read book Is It Me? Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage written by Natalie Hoffman and published by Flying Free. This book was released on 2018 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One out of three married women sitting in an average conservative Christian church is in a confusing and painful marriage relationship. Those women believe they are alone. I want them to know they aren't. They believe they can't find peace. I want them to know they can. They believe they don't have choices. I want them to know they do.This book isn't for the parents who raised them. It's not for the pastors who condemn them. It's not for the friends who don't understand them. And it's not for the partner who dehumanizes them. This book is for the woman in the pew who somehow, by God's divine intervention, finds it in her hand and has to catch her breath because she suddenly feels like she's free falling.I wrote this book just for you. Let's dig in.
Book Synopsis On Human Worth by : Duncan B. Forrester
Download or read book On Human Worth written by Duncan B. Forrester and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the roots, development and fruits of a Christian understanding of and commitment to equality, this work argues that Christian notions of equality are still challengingly relevant in today's world and in contemporary discussion.
Book Synopsis Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (Revised Edition) by : John Piper
Download or read book Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (Revised Edition) written by John Piper and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Guide to Navigate Evangelical Feminism In a society where gender roles are a hot-button topic, the church is not immune to the controversy. In fact, the church has wrestled with varying degrees of evangelical feminism for decades. As evangelical feminism has crept into the church, time-trusted resources like Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood help remind Christians of what the Bible has to say. In this edition of the award-winning best seller, more than 20 influential men and women such as John Piper, Wayne Grudem, D. A. Carson, and Elisabeth Elliot offer thought-provoking essays responding to the challenge egalitarianism poses to life in the church and in the home. Covering topics like role distinctions in the church, how biblical manhood and womanhood should work out in practice, and women in the history of the church, this helpful resource will help readers learn to orient their beliefs with God's unchanging word in an ever-changing culture.
Book Synopsis Discovering Biblical Equality by : Ronald W. Pierce
Download or read book Discovering Biblical Equality written by Ronald W. Pierce and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ronald W. Pierce and Rebecca Merrill Groothuis (general editors), with the aid of Gordon D. Fee (contributing editor), assemble a distinguished array of twenty-six evangelical scholars firmly committed to the authority of Scripture who offer a fresh, positive, up-to-date defense of biblical equality.
Book Synopsis Man and Woman, One in Christ by : Philip Barton Payne
Download or read book Man and Woman, One in Christ written by Philip Barton Payne and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does Paul teach a hierarchy of authority of man over woman, or does he teach the full equality of man and woman in the church and home? In Man and Woman, One in Christ, Philip Barton Payne answers this question and more, injecting crucial insights into the discussion of Paul’s view of women. Condensing over three decades of research on this topic, Payne’s rigorous exegetical analysis demonstrates the consistency of Paul’s message on this topic and its coherence with the rest of his theology. Payne’s exegetical examination of the Pauline corpus is thorough, exploring the influences on Paul, his practice as a church leader, and his teachings to various Christian communities. Paul’s theology, instruction, and practice consistently affirm the equal standing of men and women, with profound implications for the church today. Man and Woman, One in Christ is required reading for all who desire to understand the meaning of Paul’s statements regarding women and their relevance for Christian relationships and ministry today. This work has the potential of uniting the church on this contentious issue.
Book Synopsis If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich? by : G. A. Cohen
Download or read book If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich? written by G. A. Cohen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents G. A. Cohen's Gifford Lectures, delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1996. Focusing on Marxism and Rawlsian liberalism, Cohen draws a connection between these thought systems and the choices that shape a person's life. In the case of Marxism, the relevant life is his own: a communist upbringing in the 1940s in Montreal, which induced a belief in a strongly socialist egalitarian doctrine. The narrative of Cohen's reckoning with that inheritance develops through a series of sophisticated engagements with the central questions of social and political philosophy. In the case of Rawlsian doctrine, Cohen looks to people's lives in general. He argues that egalitarian justice is not only, as Rawlsian liberalism teaches, a matter of rules that define the structure of society, but also a matter of personal attitude and choice. Personal attitude and choice are, moreover, the stuff of which social structure itself is made. Those truths have not informed political philosophy as much as they should, and Cohen's focus on them brings political philosophy closer to moral philosophy, and to the Judeo-Christian ethical tradition, than it has recently been.
Download or read book Powerful and Free written by Danny Silk and published by Loving On Purpose. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What comes to mind when you hear the phrase, "Women in Ministry"? A. Nursery Worker B. Children's leader C. Pastor D. It's complicated If you are like most your answer would be, "It's complicated". Many believers are still confused about the proper place for women in the church. Powerful and Free is a call to address the structural message of inequality.It is not a theological treatise on the biblical case for female leaders (there are many excellent resources for this already). It is not a political program to implement some kind of affirmative action in our leadership teams, because that doesn't work. Rather, it is an appeal to the hearts of men and women to recognize the existence of the glass ceiling for women and to challenge themselves to align more fully with a Kingdom vision for gender-blind leadership in the Body and equal male-female partnership in the home.
Book Synopsis The Dark Side of Church/State Separation by : Stephen Strehle
Download or read book The Dark Side of Church/State Separation written by Stephen Strehle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dark Side of Church/State Separation analyzes the Enlightenment's attack upon the Judeo-Christian tradition and its impact upon the development of secular regimes in France, Germany, and Russia. Such regimes followed the anti-Semitic/anti-Christian agenda of the French Enlightenment in blaming the Judeo-Christian tradition for all the ills of European society and believing that human beings can develop their own set of values and purposes through rational means, apart from any revelation from God or Scripture. Stephen Strehle's analysis extends our understanding of church/state relations and its history. He confirms the spiritual roots of modern anti-Semitism within the ideology of the Enlightenment and recognizes the intimate relationship between anti-Semitism and anti-Christianity. Strehle questions the absolute doctrine of church/state separation, given its background in the bigotries of the philosophes. He notes the nefarious motives of subsequent regimes, which used the French doctrine to replace the religious community with the state and its secular ideology. This detailed historical analysis of original sources and secondary literature is woven together with special appreciation for the philosophical and theological ideas that contributed to the emergence of political institutions. Readers will gain an understanding of the most influential ideas shaping the modern world and present-day culture.
Book Synopsis Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian by : Michelle Lee-Barnewall
Download or read book Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian written by Michelle Lee-Barnewall and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarding gender relations, the evangelical world is divided between complementarians and egalitarians. While both perspectives have much to contribute, the discussion has reached a stalemate. Michelle Lee-Barnewall critiques both sides of the debate, challenging the standard premises and arguments and offering new insight into a perennially divisive issue in the church. She brings fresh biblical exegesis to bear on our cultural situation, presenting an alternative way to move the discussion forward based on a corporate perspective and on kingdom values. The book includes a foreword by Craig L. Blomberg and an afterword by Lynn H. Cohick.
Book Synopsis The Rise and Fall of the Complementarian Doctrine of the Trinity by : Kevin Giles
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Complementarian Doctrine of the Trinity written by Kevin Giles and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1970s complementarian theologians have been arguing that the divine three persons in the Trinity are ordered hierarchically, and that this is the ground for the hierarchical ordering of the sexes. Suddenly and unexpectedly in June 2016 a number of complementarian theologians of confessional Reformed convictions came out and said that to so construe the Trinity is "heresy"; it is a denial of what the creeds and confessions of the church rule is the teaching of Scripture. A civil war among complementarians followed and in a very short time those arguing for hierarchical ordering in the Trinity capitulated. This book tells the story.
Book Synopsis Understanding Biblical Gender Equality: Women and Men in Marriage, the Home, and the Church by : Hope Abigail Freeman
Download or read book Understanding Biblical Gender Equality: Women and Men in Marriage, the Home, and the Church written by Hope Abigail Freeman and published by Seekye1.com Online Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titus 2, Gen 3, Eph 5 & Submission NT instruction for wives to willingly submit replaces OT "he shall rule over you" 1 Cor 14:34-35 Silence in the Churches Scholarly research 1 Cor 14:34-35 is a gloss, evidence of internal inconsistencies caused in the Bible by it Gen 3 Desire Debunking "desire" means "desire to control or devour," history of "desire" translations, the words "teshuqa" and "teshuba" 1 Cor 11:1-16 Heads and Coverings Analogy of heads and bodies in the NT, Christ head of each person, Jewish tradition of Sotah in relation to legal divorce grounds, shorn heads, the public disgrace Joseph would not inflict upon Mary Eph 5 Marriage, Submit Yourself Hupotasso, Affirming submission of wives to their own husbands, limited by morality, conscience, callings of God, equal authority over each other's body in marriage Eph 5 Marriage, Love Your Wife What Love Is Not from 1 Cor 13, love does not seek it's own way dynamic, study of 1 Pet 3:7 Eph 5 Marriage, Love and Submit The "one flesh" dynamic Gen, The First Marriage Why God had Adam name all the animals, meaning of "help meet" or "ezer kenegdo," creation story reveals the nature and needs of husband and wife Gen, First Marriage Problems Examination of singular and plural "you" in Genesis 1 and 3, "spiritual multiplication" & "paternal spiritual lineage" Gen, First Marriage Problems Cont' What really happened in Genesis, the first lie Gen, Setting a Pattern of Marriage Problems How the serpent deceived Eve, the woman's new name, leaving the garden, the rest of the story of Adam and Eve per Job Lessons from the First Marriage Symbolism of Christ in the feminine in the Bible, authority & equality in the family structure 1 Tim 2, Female Teachers etc Holy Spirit gives gifts, women as apostles (Junia), prophets, teachers (Priscilla), Thorough analysis of 1 Tim 2 using the oldest known manuscript, The Codex Sinaiticus, The double negative negation of "ouk _ oude," we must first learn in order to teach, responsibility placed on the church for women to learn, lack of restrictions placed upon women teaching Pause for a Rom 13 Study Fresh translation of Romans 13, John 19:11-12, 1 Pet 2:12-16 giving clarified meaning Humanity's History First manmade authority structures: polygamy, slavery, concubines, consistency of being declared righteous by faith not works across the OT & NT, the Law Jesus, Women & the Law God's original intent, God's compromise with Moses on divorce, Law as a Schoolteacher which could make no one perfect 1 Pet 3, Actions Louder Than Words Debunking false views, esp. wives "suffering in silence" in abusive marriages, Matthew 18 in marriage, Deploring the incorrect handling of domestic abuse by some Christians, The right of Christian women to seek help for domestic abuse from specialists and legally, The God-Recognized Biblical right of a wife to divorce an abusive Christian husband disciplined by the church per Matt 18, Avoiding divorce, hope and healing available in Jesus Christ 1 Tim 3, Female Deacons etc Servant-leadership structure of the early NT church, Anointing of church-elected qualifying servant-leaders out of the body as elders and deacons, gifts of administration, Junia the female apostle and Phoebe the deacon, The obtusely gender-neutral language of qualifications for elders, female deacons in 1 Tim 3, monogamy clause "of one wife husbands" in polygamous culture, single men and women not excluded Truth of the Church's History Early church was egalitarian, perversion of the original structure, 2000 years of false teaching, Republic of the US led to Christian women regaining their lost freedom and equality, deplorable state of much of the world and church in regards to rights for women Many Who Are Last Will Be First God will set things straight in Heaven, servant-leadership, Love others as yourself, treat them as you want to be treated, without partiality or regard to race, gender, class In Conclusion: Biblical Gender Equali
