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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 160 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 The Free Church Today: New Life for the Whole Church by : Arthur A. Rouner Jr.
Download or read book The Free Church Today: New Life for the Whole Church written by Arthur A. Rouner Jr. and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 160 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 A Free Church, a Holy Nation by : John Bolt
Download or read book A Free Church, a Holy Nation written by John Bolt and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In addition to considering such key issues as poverty, wealth and power, theocracy and pluralism, civil religion, the culture wars and political cooperation between evangelicals and Roman Catholics. Bolt also draws extended comparisons between Kuyper's views and the thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, Lord John Acton, Pope Leo XIII, Walter Rauschenbusch, and Jonathan Edwards. A distinctive feature of this study is its focus on the rhetorical, poetic character of Kuyper's public theology and practice as a political leader. Bolt shows how focusing on Kuyper's rhetorical and mythopoetic perspective, rather than on his theological and philosophical ideas, provides contemporary evangelicals with a more credible and effective theology for the public square."--Jacket.
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 140 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 Missionary Baptism & Evangelical Unity by : J. Cameron Fraser
Download or read book Missionary Baptism & Evangelical Unity written by J. Cameron Fraser and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of missionary baptism is based on the household baptism of converts and their families described in the New Testament. This is most commonly experienced today in missionary situations, when entire families become Christians. Building on the work of nineteenth-century Scottish theologian William Cunningham, this study explores some implications for the connection between believers’ baptism, infant baptism, baby dedication, and Christian unity, particularly among evangelicals.
Book Synopsis The Second Disruption by : James Lachlan MacLeod
Download or read book The Second Disruption written by James Lachlan MacLeod and published by John Donald. This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian period in Scotland was remarkable, with rapid changes and immense wealth coexisting alongside entrenched conservatism and great poverty. For the churches also, the Victorian period was a time of transformation - with every assumption being challenged and tested. In this context it is not surprising that some churches fragmented, and the Free Church was one of them.
Book Synopsis Journal of the Seminary of the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) by : J W Keddie (Editor)
Download or read book Journal of the Seminary of the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) written by J W Keddie (Editor) and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth annual Journal of the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) Seminary based in Inverness. The lecturers have produced articles on a variety of topics relating to biblical doctrine, practical theology, church history and biblical language. In this volume a piece has also been included from 19th century Free Church Professor, George Smeaton (1814-1889).
Book Synopsis Journal of the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) Seminary - Volume 2, 2016 by : J W Keddie (Editor)
Download or read book Journal of the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) Seminary - Volume 2, 2016 written by J W Keddie (Editor) and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second annual volume of the Journal of the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) Seminary in Inverness, the lecturers have again provided articles on a variety of theological, exegetical and historical topics relating to their own disciplines. In this volume a piece has been included from 19th century Free Church Professor, George Smeaton (1814-1889) formerly published in the Christian Treasury in 1872.
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 336 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.
Book Synopsis The History of the Georgetown Evangelical Free Church by : Glynda Joy Nord
Download or read book The History of the Georgetown Evangelical Free Church written by Glynda Joy Nord and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swedish immigrate settlers in Williamson County met together in homes for worship services as early as 1884. In 1891 this congregation was organized in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sven Peterson by 21 charter members, known as Brushy Evangelical Free Church. The congregation built a sanctuary in 1892 on land southeast of Georgetown donated by C. J. Gustafson. This Georgetown site was acquired in 1960, and a new sanctuary was dedicated in 1963. This church has been part of Williamson County history for nearly a century. (1988)
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.
Download or read book A Divided Church written by John W Keddie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Divided Church is an account of the division that took place in the Free Church of Scotland, a conservative evangelical and reformed church, in the year 2000. The story is told of events that led to the division and the perceived inadequacies of procedures in church and state which impacted upon events leading up to the division. The book is written from the perspective of the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing), the smaller part of the divided Church. It is a story that requires to be told and it is written with care and conciseness by the lecturer in Church History and Church Principles at the Seminary of the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing).
Book Synopsis The Free Church Today by : Arthur Acy Rouner
Download or read book The Free Church Today written by Arthur Acy Rouner and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal of the Free Church of Scotland (Cont.) Seminary by : M J Roberts (Editor)
Download or read book Journal of the Free Church of Scotland (Cont.) Seminary written by M J Roberts (Editor) and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-05-02 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a Journal comprising papers written by the lecturers in the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) Seminary located at Westhill Church, Inverness, Scotland. These have been prepared from the perspective of the Historic Reformed Protestant Faith to which the Seminary and its lecturers are committed. The purpose of the Seminary is to maintain the principles of the Reformation faith in doctrine, worship, church government and discipline. The Journal is intended to provide stimulating and challenging material which will advance a greater understanding of the Biblical evangelical faith and encourage the practice of godliness. It is aimed at students in theology, preachers and pastors as well as interested lay persons. The desire is for faithfulness to Jesus Christ in every area of biblical, theological and historical studies and church life today.
Book Synopsis Ordained Ministry in Free Church Perspective by : Jan Martijn Abrahamse
Download or read book Ordained Ministry in Free Church Perspective written by Jan Martijn Abrahamse and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ordained Ministry in Free Church Perspective Jan Martijn Abrahamse offers a methodologically innovative way to understand ordained ministry in terms of covenantal theology by returning to the life and thought of the English Separatist Robert Browne (c. 1550-1633).
Book Synopsis Catechism of the Catholic Church by : U.S. Catholic Church
Download or read book Catechism of the Catholic Church written by U.S. Catholic Church and published by Image. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 3 million copies sold! Essential reading for Catholics of all walks of life. Here it is - the first new Catechism of the Catholic Church in more than 400 years, a complete summary of what Catholics around the world commonly believe. The Catechism draws on the Bible, the Mass, the Sacraments, Church tradition and teaching, and the lives of saints. It comes with a complete index, footnotes and cross-references for a fuller understanding of every subject. The word catechism means "instruction" - this book will serve as the standard for all future catechisms. Using the tradition of explaining what the Church believes (the Creed), what she celebrates (the Sacraments), what she lives (the Commandments), and what she prays (the Lord's Prayer), the Catechism of the Catholic Church offers challenges for believers and answers for all those interested in learning about the mystery of the Catholic faith. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is a positive, coherent and contemporary map for our spiritual journey toward transformation.
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.
