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Author : Anton Houtepen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book World Christianity Reconsidered written by Anton Houtepen and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Shortall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108424708
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Christianity and Human Rights Reconsidered written by Sarah Shortall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume showcases the work of a new generation of scholars interested in the historical connection between religion and human rights in the twentieth century, offering a truly global perspective on the internal diversity, theological roots, and political implications of Christian human rights theory.
Author : Ben Shaw
Publisher : The Good Book Company
ISBN 13 : 1784986356
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Seven Reasons to (Re)Consider Christianity written by Ben Shaw and published by The Good Book Company. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examine the evidence for Christianity and why it is worth considering. Lots of people assume that Christianity is simply a nice story for kids or a niche hobby for weirdos—or worse, unattractively restrictive. In this book, Ben Shaw invites sceptical readers to think again. He outlines seven reasons why Christianity is worth considering—or reconsidering—not least because it offers some thought-provoking and rational answers to our deepest questions. This warm, honest book shows that the Christian message is both more credible and more wonderful than we might have otherwise thought, and calls readers to investigate the person of Jesus for themselves.
Author : Lamin O. Sanneh
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195189604
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Disciples of All Nations written by Lamin O. Sanneh and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the rise of Christianity to its key role in Europe's maritime and colonial expansion, this text sheds light on the ways in which societies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America have been drawn into the Christian orbit.
Author : Ann Taves
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400830974
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Religious Experience Reconsidered written by Ann Taves and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the sciences of the mind can advance the study of religion The essence of religion was once widely thought to be a unique form of experience that could not be explained in neurological, psychological, or sociological terms. In recent decades scholars have questioned the privileging of the idea of religious experience in the study of religion, an approach that effectively isolated the study of religion from the social and natural sciences. Religious Experience Reconsidered lays out a framework for research into religious phenomena that reclaims experience as a central concept while bridging the divide between religious studies and the sciences. Ann Taves shifts the focus from "religious experience," conceived as a fixed and stable thing, to an examination of the processes by which people attribute meaning to their experiences. She proposes a new approach that unites the study of religion with fields as diverse as neuroscience, anthropology, sociology, and psychology to better understand how these processes are incorporated into the broader cultural formations we think of as religious or spiritual. Taves addresses a series of key questions: how can we set up studies without obscuring contestations over meaning and value? What is the relationship between experience and consciousness? How can research into consciousness help us access and interpret the experiences of others? Why do people individually or collectively explain their experiences in religious terms? How can we set up studies that allow us to compare experiences across times and cultures? Religious Experience Reconsidered demonstrates how methods from the sciences can be combined with those from the humanities to advance a naturalistic understanding of the experiences that people deem religious.
Author : Wanjiru M. Gitau
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830873740
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Megachurch Christianity Reconsidered written by Wanjiru M. Gitau and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this case study of Kenya's Nairobi Chapel and its "daughter" Mavuno Church, Wanjiru M. Gitau offers analysis of the rise, growth, and place of megachurches worldwide in the new millennium. This engaging account centers on the role of millennials in responding to the dislocating transitions of globalization in postcolonial Africa and around the world, gleaning practical wisdom for postdenominational churches everywhere.
Author : Larry W. Hurtado
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781481304757
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Destroyer of the Gods written by Larry W. Hurtado and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Silly," "stupid," "irrational," "simple." "Wicked," "hateful," "obstinate," "anti-social." "Extravagant," "perverse." The Roman world rendered harsh judgments upon early Christianity--including branding Christianity "new." Novelty was no Roman religious virtue. Nevertheless, as Larry W. Hurtado shows in Destroyer of the gods, Christianity thrived despite its new and distinctive features and opposition to them. Unlike nearly all other religious groups, Christianity utterly rejected the traditional gods of the Roman world. Christianity also offered a new and different kind of religious identity, one not based on ethnicity. Christianity was distinctively a "bookish" religion, with the production, copying, distribution, and reading of texts as central to its faith, even preferring a distinctive book-form, the codex. Christianity insisted that its adherents behave differently: unlike the simple ritual observances characteristic of the pagan religious environment, embracing Christian faith meant a behavioral transformation, with particular and novel ethical demands for men. Unquestionably, to the Roman world, Christianity was both new and different, and, to a good many, it threatened social and religious conventions of the day. In the rejection of the gods and in the centrality of texts, early Christianity obviously reflected commitments inherited from its Jewish origins. But these particular features were no longer identified with Jewish ethnicity and early Christianity quickly became aggressively trans-ethnic--a novel kind of religious movement. Its ethical teaching, too, bore some resemblance to the philosophers of the day, yet in contrast with these great teachers and their small circles of dedicated students, early Christianity laid its hard demands upon all adherents from the moment of conversion, producing a novel social project. Christianity's novelty was no badge of honor. Called atheists and suspected of political subversion, Christians earned Roman disdain and suspicion in equal amounts. Yet, as Destroyer of the gods demonstrates, in an irony of history the very features of early Christianity that rendered it distinctive and objectionable in Roman eyes have now become so commonplace in Western culture as to go unnoticed. Christianity helped destroy one world and create another.
Author : Warren Bowles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979946011
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Christianity Reconsidered written by Warren Bowles and published by . This book was released on 2007-12-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Drew Smith
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611648459
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Urban Ministry Reconsidered written by R. Drew Smith and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian ministries often struggle to account for urbanization's growing force, complexities, and reachâ€"and to formulate theologically and sociologically appropriate responses. Urban Ministry Reconsidered features a collection of original essays by leading scholars and practitioners that explores current issues and challenges in urban communities. Together these articles consider how cultural and structural frameworks have led to new conceptualizations and configurations of urban ministry. In addition, they examine the degree to which the social, spiritual, and organizational priorities of urban ministries have been reconceived in response to these shifts.
Author : D. A. Carson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802867383
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Christ and Culture Revisited written by D. A. Carson and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called to live in the world, but not to be of it, Christians must maintain a balancing act that becomes more precarious the further our culture departs from its Judeo-Christian roots. How should members of the church interact with such a culture, especially as deeply enmeshed as most of us have become? In this award-winning book -- now in paperback and with a new preface -- D. A. Carson applies his masterful touch to that problem. After exploring the classic typology of H. Richard Niebuhr with its five Christ-culture options, Carson offers an even more comprehensive paradigm for informing the Christian worldview. More than just theoretical, Christ and Culture Revisited is a practical guide for helping Christians untangle current messy debates about living in the world.
Author : Stephen R. Lawhead
Publisher : IVP Books
ISBN 13 : 9780877848127
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Rock Reconsidered written by Stephen R. Lawhead and published by IVP Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David B. Barrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book World Christian Encyclopedia written by David B. Barrett and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expanded, updated edition of a classic reference source--the comprehensive survey of the status of thje world's largest religion in 238 countries. Many tables, charts, diagrams, maps, photographs, and a rich text present a unmatched look at 33,800 Christian denominations, 12,000 dioceses, 5,000 missions, and other groups--all -set against a detailed historical, political, social, cultural, demographic, background.
Author : Gene L. Green
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830831819
Total Pages : 733 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Majority World Theology written by Gene L. Green and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Christians live in the Majority World than in Europe and North America. Yet most theological literature does not reflect the rising tide of Christian reflection coming from these regions. Bringing together theological resources from past and present, East and West, this work engages conversations with leading global scholars on theology, faith, and mission for the enrichment of the entire church.
Author : Rita Nakashima Brock
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807067505
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (675 download)
Download or read book Saving Paradise written by Rita Nakashima Brock and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Saving Paradise" offers a fascinating new lens on the history of Christianity, asking how its early vision of beauty evolved into a vision of torture, and what changes in society and theology marked that evolution.
Author : John Davis, Jeffers
Publisher : Audubon Press& Christian Book service
ISBN 13 : 9780974236520
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Christ's Victorious Kingdom written by John Davis, Jeffers and published by Audubon Press& Christian Book service. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Schultz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004168206
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Conquering the World written by Brian Schultz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique in its genre and content, the War Scroll (1QM) presents a vision of an impending eschatological war. Although originally interpreted as being the product of a single author from the Qumran Sect, the composition's inconsistencies quickly led to the view that it is in fact an eclectic document with an elaborate compositional history. Yet all such theories were formulated prior to the publication of War Scroll-like texts from Caves 4 and 11. A careful re-examination of the War Scroll suggests instead that what began as a primitive and cohesive composition from the Hellenistic period about a two-stage conquest of the world was eventually updated in order to fit the new historical realities faced by the sectarians under Roman rule.
Author : Robert K. Johnston
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1441246282
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)
Download or read book God's Wider Presence written by Robert K. Johnston and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are we to make of those occasional yet illuminating experiences of God's presence that occur outside both church and Scripture? We may encounter God's revelatory presence as we experience a beautiful sunset, the birth of a child, or a work of art, music, or literature. While theologians have tended to describe such experiences abstractly as mere traces or echoes, those involved often recognize such moments of transcendence as transformative. Here senior theologian Robert Johnston explores how Christians should think theologically about God's wider revelatory presence that is mediated outside the church through creation, conscience, and culture. The book offers a robust, constructive biblical theology of general revelation, rooting its insights in the broader Trinitarian work of the Spirit. Drawing in part from the author's theological engagement with film and the arts, the book helps Christians understand personal moments of experiencing God's transcendence and accounts for revelatory experiences of those outside the believing community. It also shows how God's revelatory presence can impact our interaction with nonbelievers and those of other faiths.
