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Reformation Roots
$70.00A series of documents, statements, and commentaries that chronicle the history, faith, and practices of the UCC.
Annotation: A fresh and highly accessible collection of the most significant writings of this critical time in the life of the church, this volume begins with the influence of medieval thought and proceeds to all the major movements and thinkers of the period. This is a major new study of the Reformation for scholars, pastors, and laypersons alike.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Faces Of Latin American Protestantism A Print On Demand Title
$21.99Only recently have protestant histories begun to address historical, ideological, and theological questions in relation to the Protestant church in Latin America. In this book renowned theologian Jose Miguez Bonino distinguishes four “faces” with which Protestantism appears in Latin America: the mission and expansion of mainline churches, the evangelical missionary wave at the turn of the nineteenth century, the growth of Pentecostalism, and the Protestant immigration churches from Europe all along modern Latin American history.
In order to understand these religious expressions, Miguez Bonino relates internal conditions in Latin America to international relations, explores the religious and theological Anglo-Saxon trends that fed early Protestantism in Latin America, and discusses the transformations experienced by these churches in the local cultural, social, and religious conditions prevalent at different times in Latin America. Working from the thesis that evangelicalism has been the common denominator of all Protestant churches in Latin America, Miguez Bonino offers a theological critique of these different “faces” of Protestantism, discusses the conflicts that have appeared since the 1940s in the polarization of fundamentalism, evangelicalism, and liberation theology, and suggests a rereading of the evangelical tradition along trinitarian and missiological lines.
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Methodist Conference In America
$28.99In the Methodist lexicon, ‘conference’ refers to a body of preachers (and later, of laity as well) that exercises legislative, judicial and (to some extent) executive functions for the church or some portion thereof. But ‘confenrece,’ Richey argues here, defined the Methodist movement in more than political ways: On conference hinged religious time, religious space, religious belonging, religious structure, even religiosity itself. Methodist histories uniformity recognize, typically even feature, conference’s centrality, but describe that in primarily constitutional and political terms. The purpose of this volume is to present conference as a distinctively American Methodist manner of being the church, a multifaceted mode of spirituality, unity, mission, governance, and fraternity that American Methodists have lived and operated better than they have interpreted.
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Reforming Fundamentalism A Print On Demand Title
$37.99This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable.
“The best telling of the story of the past,” writes George Marsden, “relies on a balance of the general and the particular.” In this book, a sequel and companion to his widely acclaimed Fundamentalism and American Culture (Oxford, 1980), Marsden uses the history of Fuller Theological Seminary – a durable evangelical institution – as a lens through which to focus an examination of the broader story of evangelicalism and fundamentalism since the 1940s.
In fact, at the time of the school’s founding in 1947, “evangelicalism” and “fundamentalism” were not considered separate entities. Though Fuller Seminary later became so thoroughly identified with the “new evangelicalism” (or neo- evangelicalism) that its fundamentalist roots are sometimes overlooked, in the school’s early years it was in striking ways a fundamentalist institution with a thoroughly fundamentalist constituency.
Marsden’s detailed history relies heavily on primary sources: personal recollections and correspondence of the seminary’s founders, and discussions with students and staff from throughout the seminary’s history. Although the story of Fuller Seminary provides the framework for this fascinating look at a segment of American religious history, Marsden’s careful and knowledgeable attention to the surrounding worlds of mainline denominations and stricter fundamentalism makes this book a major contribution to the study of a movement that has played an important role in shaping American culture.
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Christianity And Economics In The Post Cold War Era A Print On Demand Title
$24.99This engaging book contains the Oxford Declaration on Christian Faith and Economics and eleven critical responses to what is being called the most important evangelical declaration on the subject of Christian faith and economics in decades. Developed from the second Oxford Conference on Christian Faith and Economics held in Oxford, England, in 1990, the declaration is the work of a group of notable evangelical spokespersons representing a global range of geographical, denominational, and socio-political viewpoints. The result is the most comprehensive approach to the subject of faith and economics yet taken by evangelical scholars.
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Christendom And Christianity In The Middle Ages A Print On Demand Title
$40.99Though buffeted on all sides by rapid and at times cataclysmic social, political, and economic change, the medieval church was able to make adjustments that kept it from becoming simply a fossil from the past rather than an enduring institution of salvation.
The dynamic interaction between the medieval church and society gives form to this compelling and well-informed study by Adriaan Bredero. By considering medieval Christianity in full relation to its historical context, Bredero elucidates complex medieval realities – many of which run counter to common modern notions about the Middle Ages. Bredero moves beyond the usual treatment of history by framing his overall discussion in terms of a fascinating and relevant question: To what extent is Christianity today still molded by medieval society?
The book begins with an overview of religion and the church in medieval society, from the early Christianization of Western Europe through the fifteenth century. Bredero counters earlier romanticized assessments of the Middle Ages as a thoroughly Christian period by arriving at a definition of Christendom, not in its original sense as the empire of Charlemagne, but rather as “the countries, people, and matters which stood under the influence of Christ.”
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Lutherans In Crisis
$33.33The first complete account in English of the American Lutheran controversy of 1849-1867. . .
Tension between a religion’s heritage and its social context forms the everpresent question of group identity. In the United States, this question has been posed in a particular way for religious traditions as the tension between “Americanization”-being assimilated into social and cultural structures of the new world-and “confessional identity”-seeking to sustain and understand a religious heritage in light of a new context and its questions. Lutherans in the mid-nineteenth century provide one illustration of this social and theological tension.
The first part shows how, in spite of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg’s efforts, early Lutheranism adopted congregational polity, democratic structures, voluntary membership, and freer liturgical forms. Then the formation of the General Synod (1820) is traced and its chief spokespersons and their theological and practical innovations highlighted. Gustafson locates the movements toward confessional revival among Lutherans in Germany-many of whom emigrated to the United States in the 1830s-in reaction to unification with the Reformed. The final chapters chart the actual controversy (1849?1867) between the less confessional Lutherans of the General Synod and the recent, more confessional Lutheran immigrants.
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ReForming Tradition
$36.00SKU (ISBN): 9780664252991ISBN10: 0664252990Editor: Milton Coalter | Editor: John Mulder | Editor: Louis WeeksBinding: Trade PaperPublished: January 1992Presbyterian Presence Twentieth Century ExperiencePublisher: Geneva Press Print On Demand Product
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Story Of The Church (Revised)
$23.99The Story of the Church gives an accessible and concise survey of the history of the Christian church, from the first century to the twenty-first. Here is an epic tale of high hopes and great disappointments, of bitter persecution and heroic loyalty. The Story of the Church is an established classic, widely appreciated by several generations of readers. It addresses the central question of why Christianity has spread around the world so successfully, and offers a distinctly evangelical perspective. Its clear structure pinpoints significant people, places, movements and events. This new edition has been completely revised and updated by Allan Harman.
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Black Religious Leaders
$50.00This analysis of four Black religious leaders-Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, Joseph Jackson, and Adam Clayton Powell Jr reviews their differences and determines whether grounds for coalitional acitivity still exist. These leaders all agreed that racism should be opposed but disagreed vigorously on the forms the opposition should take. Peter paris analyzes the various positions of these leaders and finds all their views to be necessary for any comprehensive understanding of racism.
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Religion And The Rise Of Western Culture
$19.00n this new edition of his classic work, Religion and the Rise of Western Culture, Christopher Dawson addresses two of the most pressing subjects of our day: the origin of Europe and the religious roots of Western culture. With the magisterial sweep of Toynbee, to whom he is often compared, Dawson tells here the tale of medieval Christendom. From the brave travels of sixth-century Irish monks to the grand synthesis of Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century, Dawson brilliantly shows how vast spiritual movements arose from tiny origins and changed the face of medieval Europe from one century to the next. The legacy of those years of ferment remains with us in the great cathedrals, Gregorian chant, and the works of Giotto and Dante. Even more, though, for Dawson these centuries charged the soul of the West with a spiritual concern — a concern that he insists “can never be entirely undone except by the total negation or destruction of Western man himself.”
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History Of The Church In Latin America A Print On Demand Title
$39.99Today Latin America is in the throes of a cultural and theological awakening that is challenging its dependence on Europe and North America. The Christians of Latin America are therefore brought face to face with the option of revolution as a means of achieving liberation from European and North American theologies. As a result, liberation theology, which had its beginnings in Latin America, is rapidly gaining popularity among nations of the Third World.
Author Enrique Dussel believes that a history of the church in Latin America is essential to understanding the direction of the contemporary church. This comprehensive history, with its emphasis on theology, will thus help historians and theologians to better understand the formation and continuity of the Latin American tradition.
The book is divided into four parts: “A Hermeneutical Introduction,” “The Christianization of the West Indies (1492-1808),” “The Agony of Colonial Christianity (1808- 1962),” and “The Church and Latin American Liberation.” Dussel’s aim in these sections is not to record all the events of each period, but to demonstrate the validity of establishing limits for each time span. Therefore, this is not a “finished” history; rather, it is one method of delineating certain historical periods which can be expanded upon and completed by later historians. This book is a translation of the revised, second Spanish edition.
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Born Againism : Perspectives On A Movement
$20.00What are the origins of the born-again movement? How does the born-again experience relate to Baptism? Why do fundamentalists argue the literal inspiration of the Bible? Answers to these questions and many more emerge from the story of the born-again movement. Born Againism places the born-again phenomenon in historical perspective, beginning in the late eighteenth century as a movement propelled by speculations about the end time (millennialism). When millennialists merged with fundamentalists and charismatics, a powerful movement was born.
In direct non-technical language, Gritsch offers an ecumenical focus that should promote honest dialogue and critical reflection on a vital aspect of contemporary religious life. An annotated bibliography of suggested additional readings is provided.
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How Mennonites Came To Be
$9.99Fear, loneliness, and despair describe the pain so many people feel today. One alternative to the emptiness of our time is a living faith. How Mennonites Came To Be& sets forth such a faith. It’s a faith rooted in Jesus Christ and His word, a faith born of intense suffering and persecution. The author, a noted historian and biblical scholar, writes of the people he loves so well. His story touches the real meaning of life.
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Blood Of Martyrs
$29.99The Blood of Martyrs takes the reader on an exciting journey through the trials and tribulations of church history. In a postmodern age it is easy to forget the lessons of history, yet can we afford to when our faith is only a generation away from extinction?
As you travel through the first four centuries of the church with the saints and sinners who carried the gospel to all the world, be encouraged and strengthened. The books in this series are written in a lively and engaging style that is perfect not only for teens and adults but also for family reading.
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Spiritual And Anabaptist Writers
$52.00These books meet the need of lay people and libraries, students and pastors, for a single set of books containing the great literature of the Chirstian heritage. The texts are heightened in usefulness by a wealth of introductory material, explanatory notes, bibliographies, and indexes. The contest of each volume are exactly the same as in the original hardbound edition.
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