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Author : Reformed Church in America
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America written by Reformed Church in America and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The historical Series of the Reformed Church in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gordon Laman
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ISBN 13 : 9781950572212
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (722 download)
Download or read book Pioneers to Partners written by Gordon Laman and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Japan's early exposure to Christianity by the very successful Roman Catholic mission to Japan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the resultant persecution and prohibition of Christianity, Laman lays the groundwork for understanding the experience of nineteenth-century Protestant missionaries, among whom those of the Reformed Church in America were in the forefront. The early efforts of the Browns, Verbecks, Ballaghs, and Stouts, their failures and successes, are recounted within the cultural and political context of the anti-Western, anti-Christian Japan of the time. Verbeck's service to the government helped bring about gradual change. The first Protestant church was organized with a vision for ecumenical mission, and during several promising years, churches and mission schools were organized. Reformed Church missionaries encouraged and trained Japanese leaders from the beginning, the first Japanese ministers were ordained in 1877, and the Japanese church soon exhibited a spirit of independence, ushering in an era of growing missionary/Japanese partnership. The rise of the Japanese empire, a reinvigorated nationalism, and its progression to militarist ultranationalism brought on a renewed anti-Western, anti-Christian reaction and new challenges to both mission and church. With the outbreak of World War II, the Japanese government consolidated all Protestant churches into the Kyodan to facilitate control. Laman continues the account of Reformed Church partners in mission in Japan in the midst of post-war devastation and subsequent social and political tensions. The ecumenical involvement and continued clarification of mutual mission finds the Reformed Church a full participant with a mature Japanese church.
Author : Allan J. Janssen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802848826
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Constitutional Theology written by Allan J. Janssen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the RCAs foremost researchers here offers commentary that explains the proper roles of elders, deacons, classes, and synods and details the procedures necessary for successful church life. Based on the Book of Church Order, this helpful volume will assist church leaders in their callings and prevent the myriad difficulties that arise when appropriate procedures are not followed. A necessity for every pastor, elder, and deacon.
Author : Gerald Francis De Jong
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802806611
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (66 download)
Download or read book The Reformed Church in China, 1842-1951 written by Gerald Francis De Jong and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benedetto
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810866293
Total Pages : 1122 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches written by Benedetto and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1999-11-03 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As its name implies, the Reformed tradition grew out of the 16th century Protestant Reformation. The Reformed churches consider themselves to be the Catholic Church reformed. The movement originated in the reform efforts of Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) of Zurich and John Calvin (1509-1564) of Geneva. Although the Reformed movement was dependent upon many Protestant leaders, it was Calvin's tireless work as a writer, preacher, teacher, and social and ecclesiastical reformer that provided a substantial body of literature and an ethos from which the Reformed tradition grew. Today, the Reformed churches are a multicultural, multiethnic, and multinational phenomenon. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches contains information on the major personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches. This is done through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries on leaders, personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches.
Author : Robert P. Swierenga
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802813114
Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Dutch Chicago written by Robert P. Swierenga and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2002-11-07 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now at least 250,000 strong, the Dutch in greater Chicago have lived for 150 years "below the radar screens" of historians and the general public. Here their story is told for the first time. In Dutch Chicago Robert Swierenga offers a colorful, comprehensive history of the Dutch Americans who have made their home in the Windy City since the mid-1800s. The original Chicago Dutch were a polyglot lot from all social strata, regions, and religions of the Netherlands. Three-quarters were Calvinists; the rest included Catholics, Lutherans, Unitarians, Socialists, Jews, and the nominally churched. Whereas these latter Dutch groups assimilated into the American culture around them, the Dutch Reformed settled into a few distinct enclaves -- the Old West Side, Englewood, and Roseland and South Holland -- where they stuck together, building an institutional infrastructure of churches, schools, societies, and shops that enabled them to live from cradle to grave within their own communities. Focusing largely but not exclusively on the Reformed group of Dutch folks in Chicago, Swierenga recounts how their strong entrepreneurial spirit and isolationist streak played out over time. Mostly of rural origins in the northern Netherlands, these Hollanders in Chicago liked to work with horses and go into business for themselves. Picking up ashes and garbage, jobs that Americans despised, spelled opportunity for the Dutch, and they came to monopolize the garbage industry. Their independence in business reflected the privacy they craved in their religious and educational life. Church services held in the Dutch language kept outsiders at bay, as did a comprehensive system of private elementary and secondary schools intended to inculcate youngsters with the Dutch Reformed theological and cultural heritage. Not until the world wars did the forces of Americanization finally break down the walls, and the Dutch passed into the mainstream. Only in their churches today, now entirely English speaking, does the Dutch cultural memory still linger. Dutch Chicago is the first serious work on its subject, and it promises to be the definitive history. Swierenga's lively narrative, replete with historical detail and anecdotes, is accompanied by more than 250 photographs and illustrations. Valuable appendixes list Dutch-owned garbage and cartage companies in greater Chicago since 1880 as well as Reformed churches and schools. This book will be enjoyed by readers with Dutch roots as well as by anyone interested in America's rich ethnic diversity.
Author : Russell L. Gasero
Publisher : Historical Series of the Refor
ISBN 13 : 9780802849014
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Historical Directory of the Reformed Church in America, 1628-2000 written by Russell L. Gasero and published by Historical Series of the Refor. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the names of all the more than 6,000 ministers and missionaries who have worked for the Reformed Church in America from its beginning in 1628 to the present. Accompanying each name is brief biographical information including birth date, marriage, education, and fields of service. The volume also serves as a directory for all of the churches established during the past 372 years along with the ministers who have served them. Appendices provide a chronological list of congregations, the presidents of the General Synod, theological professors, and RCA missionaries.
Author : James Brumm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950572236
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (722 download)
Download or read book An RCA Reader written by James Brumm and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A source book on the history of the Reformed Church in America using documents that illustrate its history from 1628 to the present. The documents reflect the RCA's ecumenical stance, theology, polity, development in the United States, and major issues.
Author : Henry Codman Potter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The American Church History Series: History of the Reformed church, Dutch, by E. T. Corwin. History of the Reformed church, German, by J. H. Dubbs. A history of the Unitas fratrum, or Moravian church, by J. T. Hamilton written by Henry Codman Potter and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : LeRoy Koopman
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802831255
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Taking the Jesus Road written by LeRoy Koopman and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Reformed Church's relationship to Native Americans is one of persistence and optimism in the face of overwhelming odds. Unfortunately, it's also a story that reflects all too well the sad record of U.S. dealings with America's first inhabitants. In this frank, well-balanced account of the Reformed Church's Native American missions and churches, LeRoy Koopman recounts the spiritual journey of the "Jesus Road" shared by Reformed and Native American Christians. "Taking the Jesus Road" outlines how government and church often cooperated with each other in implementing shifting policies that allowed the native peoples little or no voice in their own destiny. Koopman does not hesitate to point out how early missionaries often equated the Christian faith with white culture but also gives credit for their tireless efforts to seek a better life for the people they were serving. Much of the book is devoted to the stories of particular ministries, including the six Native American congregations that remain a vital part of the Reformed Church today.
Author : Jeanette Boersma
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802806031
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Grace in the Gulf written by Jeanette Boersma and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This autobiography bears witness to Jeanette Boersma's lifetime of service in Iraq and Oman as a missionary nurse. An inspiring story of God's grace at work in and through one whose Arabic name, Khatune Naeema, means literally "Respected foreign lady Grace."
Author : Philip Schaff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The American Church History Series: History of the Reformed Church, Dutch, by E.E. Corwin. History of the Reformed Church, German, by J.H. Dubbs. A history of the Unitas fratrum, or Moravian Church, by J.T. Hamilton written by Philip Schaff and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henricus Selyns
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Liber A written by Henricus Selyns and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-10-07 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Liber A of the Collegiate Church archives contains detailed 17th-century records of the Reformed Dutch Church of the City of New York, including correspondence, texts of legal documents, and lists of names of consistory members. Especially significant are records pertaining to the granting in 1696 of the royal charter of incorporation of the Church, and records relating to donations for, and construction of the church building on Garden Street. Nearly all of these pages were written out in the late 1600s, by Domine Henricus Selijns (1636-1701). Most of them are in Dutch, with a few portions (such as records of official governmental proclamations) in English. The historical records of Liber A are here presented with: a detailed historical introduction; a full and complete Dutch text, transcribed from the original manuscript, for the first time; a new English translation of the Dutch text, presented on facing pages; detailed explanatory notes about historical persons, and events; and an index of names of persons and places. The full Dutch texts have never before been published, and they should be of keen interest to readers in the United States and in the Netherlands, concerned with American colonial history--especially the history of New Netherland, and of New York--and the history of the Reformed Dutch Church in America, and its relations with the Reformed Church in the Netherlands."--Front and back flap of book jacket.
Author : Lynn Japinga
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780802870681
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Loyalty and Loss written by Lynn Japinga and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-06-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a meticulously researched yet also deeply personal history of the Reformed Church in America throughout much of the twentieth century, Lynn Japinga's Loyalty and Loss will be of intense interest to the members of the RCA, reminding them of where they have come from, of the bonds that have held them together, and of the many conflicts and challenges that they have together faced and ultimately surmounted. For those outside the RCA the questions of identity raised by this book will often sound very familiar, especially, perhaps, in its account of the church's struggle throughout recent decades to reconcile the persistently ecumenical spirit of many of its members with the desire of others within the denomination to preserve a real or imagined conservative exclusivity. Others may find the conflicts within the RCA reflective of their own experiences, especially as they relate to such issues as denominational mergers, abortion, the Viet Nam war, and women's ordination.
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Publisher : Fig
ISBN 13 : 1623145422
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Belgic Confession written by and published by Fig. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald J. Bruggink
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802826916
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (269 download)
Download or read book By Grace Alone written by Donald J. Bruggink and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story begins in Europe, with a brief history of the church out of which the Reformation grew. The scene then shifts to New Amsterdam in 1628, where a miniscule church survived the English conquest and eventually grew into the Reformed Church in America. By Grace Alone follows its story into the twenty-first century. In addition to the sequential story of the Reformed Church's development, there are vignettes of people involved in events small and great - from the diary of a frail young woman who survived near calamity at sea but ended her life at eighty-one, the widow of the president of Queen's College, to the boy from a farm in Iowa who built the Crystal Cathedral. The reader will also be helped by timelines in every chapter, as well as a glossary, an index, and many illuminating illustrations.
