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Author : Todd Miles
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 9780805448221
A thoughtful Christian theology of religions that emphasizes the no-compromise importance of faith in Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit in relation to others' beliefs.
Author : Todd Miles
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433671432
Western Christianity’s interaction with world religions used to be, for the most part, overseas. Today, “religious others” often live next door. At a changing time when one public prayer spoken during the 2009 U.S. presidential inauguration festivities was addressed to “O god of our many understandings,” the evangelical Christian church should do more than simply dismiss non-Christian religions as pagan without argument or comment. The Church needs a theology of religions that is Christ-honoring, biblically faithful, intellectually satisfying, compassionate, and that will encourage Spirit-powered mission. Oregon-based theology professor Todd L. Miles writes to that end in A God of Many Understandings?, attempting, as the scholar Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen puts it, “to think theologically about what it means for Christians to live with people of other faiths and about the relationship of Christianity to other religions."
Author : Daryl Aaron
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441260543
Short, Friendly Beginner's Guide to Theology Theology can be intimidating with its unfamiliar words and seemingly difficult concepts. Many Christians would like to know the basics of theology but are unsure where to begin. These short, easy-to understand readings answer some of the most perplexing questions about the nature of God, heaven, the Bible, church, and even ourselves. Daryl Aaron blends the knowledge of a college professor with the friendly, welcoming tone of a pastor. Broken into forty small chapters, this book is perfect for those who want quick and clear answers to their questions.
Author : T.M. Luhrmann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307277275
A New York Times Notable Book A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012 A bold approach to understanding the American evangelical experience from an anthropological and psychological perspective by one of the country's most prominent anthropologists. Through a series of intimate, illuminating interviews with various members of the Vineyard, an evangelical church with hundreds of congregations across the country, Tanya Luhrmann leaps into the heart of evangelical faith. Combined with scientific research that studies the effect that intensely practiced prayer can have on the mind, When God Talks Back examines how normal, sensible people—from college students to accountants to housewives, all functioning perfectly well within our society—can attest to having the signs and wonders of the supernatural become as quotidian and as ordinary as laundry. Astute, sensitive, and extraordinarily measured in its approach to the interface between science and religion, Luhrmann's book is sure to generate as much conversation as it will praise.
Author : Patricia Beall Gruits
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Catechisms
ISBN : OCLC:1311150211
Author : Paul R. House,Greg Thornbury
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1581341431
Some of the most significant figures in evangelical theology explore the traditional view of the doctrine of salvation and its impact on evangelism in this age. Beginning with the doctrine of God as the author of salvation, pressing issues such as the exclusivity of the gospel and modern evangelism strategies, are examined. It's a forceful, clear presentation of how to stay true to biblical doctrines and faithful to the Great Commission in postmodern times.
Author : Joseph K. Gordon
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268105204
In six closely-reasoned chapters, Joseph Gordon presents a detailed account of a Christian doctrine of Scripture in the fullest context of systematic theology. Divine Scripture in Human Understanding addresses the confusing plurality of contemporary approaches to Christian Scripture—both within and outside the academy—by articulating a traditionally grounded, constructive systematic theology of Christian Scripture. Utilizing primarily the methodological resources of Bernard Lonergan and traditional Christian doctrines of Scripture recovered by Henri de Lubac, it draws upon achievements in historical-critical study of Scripture, studies of the material history of Christian Scripture, reflection on philosophical hermeneutics and philosophical and theological anthropology, and other resources to articulate a unified but open horizon for understanding Christian Scripture today. Following an overview of the contemporary situation of Christian Scripture, Joseph Gordon identifies intellectual precedents for the work in the writings of Irenaeus, Origen, and Augustine, who all locate Scripture in the economic work of the God to whom it bears witness by interpreting it through the Rule of Faith. Subsequent chapters draw on Scripture itself; classical sources such as Irenaeus, Origen, Augustine, and Aquinas; the fruit of recent studies on the history of Scripture; and the work of recent scholars and theologians to provide a contemporary Christian articulation of the divine and human locations of Christian Scripture and the material history and intelligibility and purpose of Scripture in those locations. The resulting constructive position can serve as a heuristic for affirming the achievements of traditional, historical-critical, and contextual readings of Scripture and provides a basis for addressing issues relatively underemphasized by those respective approaches.
Author : Charles Halton
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781646982219
A Human-Shaped God approaches the humanlike accounts of God in the Old Testament as the starting places for theology and uses them to build a picture of the divine. This understanding of God is then brought into conversation with traditional conceptions that depict God as a being who knows everything that happens, is at every place at the same time, is constant and unchanging, and does not ultimately have material form. But instead of pitting the Old Testament's humanlike view of God against traditional theology and assuming that only one of these understandings is correct, A Human-Shaped God posits that theologians should embrace both of these constructions simultaneously. This is a new way of theological inquiry that embraces both the humanlike characteristics of God and the transcendence of God in traditional theology. By seeing and understanding the humanlike depictions of God in the Old Testament and by using the rich language of traditional theology together in tandem, the reader acquires a much deeper and meaningful understanding of God.
Author : Groody, Daniel G.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608339495
"A systematic look at migration that seeks to reimagine the operative political, social, and cultural narratives of immigration through a Eucharistic theology"--
Author : Ken Hancherick
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781491749746
To understand God one must seek him in the Spirit. God is not flesh and blood and not of this world therefore. God must be separated from worldly things and comprehended in the Spirit. When striving to understanding God in the spirit the questions of why, how and when will be answered. These questions and more are answered in the pages of this book. Who is God? Where is the Garden of Eden? Where will the New Jerusalem be? What and where is Babylon? Where did Cain get his wife? Why are we here? Why does God allow evil? What are the images and likenesses God gave to man? What is Sin and how does one commit sin? How long did God take to create Heaven and Earth? Why is Adam the first man? The writings in the book; Understanding the Spit of God are not meant for an interpretation of a Bible the purpose is to acknowledge and understand the Spirit of God. I would like offer my sincere thanks to my friend Roland B Selma for his help in putting this manuscript together.
Author : Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271079707
In this volume, Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot, a sociologist and son of a Kimbanguist pastor, provides a fresh and insightful perspective on African Kimbanguism and its traditions. The largest of the African-initiated churches, Kimbanguism claims seventeen million followers worldwide. Like other such churches, it originated out of black African resistance to colonization in the early twentieth century and advocates reconstructing blackness by appropriating the parameters of Christian identity. Mokoko Gampiot provides a contextual history of the religion’s origins and development, compares Kimbanguism with other African-initiated churches and with earlier movements of political and spiritual liberation, and explores the implicit and explicit racial dynamics of Christian identity that inform church leaders and lay practitioners. He explains how Kimbanguists understand their own blackness as both a curse and a mission and how that underlying belief continuously spurs them to reinterpret the Bible through their own prisms. Drawing from an unprecedented investigation into Kimbanguism’s massive body of oral traditions—recorded sermons, participant observations of church services and healing sessions, and translations of hymns—and informed throughout by Mokoko Gampiot’s intimate knowledge of the customs and language of Kimbanguism, this is an unparalleled theological and sociological analysis of a unique African Christian movement.
Author : Dr. Supreme Understanding
Publisher : Supreme Design Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Lewis Erickson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1640858970
DOES GOD SEEM CONFUSING TO YOU? Don't live another day without understanding and knowing God. The God of the Bible's Old Testament can seem downright scary and hard to please. Our misconceptions of Him can discourage us from ever wanting to know Him. In God the Father Revealed, author Lewis Erickson assists you in easy-to-understand language through the first book of the Bible, Genesis, showing you wonderful personality traits of God the Father that are often overlooked. As these traits are revealed and you begin to understand God's side of the Genesis stories, you will be drawn to Him and changed. These traits are further developed and reinforced through humorous and inspiring personal stories from the author's life. As a result of reading God the Father Revealed, you will Understand God better and be drawn to know Him. Feel differently about yourself in light of how God sees you. See the people around you as God sees them. UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWING GOD CHANGES EVERYTHING "This book has made me feel so loved by God. I would definitely recommend this book to people questioning God's goodness " - Catherine Christie, Hope Ranch for Women Residential Coach
Author : Robert Sokolowski
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0813208270
Identifies what is most radically distinctive about Christian belief. Addressed to a non-technical audience, the book helps the reader examine the most basic questions concerning Christian faith.
Author : Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, DHL
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580237888
You no longer have to choose between what you know and what you believe—an accessible introduction to a theological game-changer. "I wrote this book for you if you want to be able to locate your life in a single, encompassing story, one that includes everything from the first moment the universe began until yesterday, a narrative that embraces deepest personal meaning, a yearning to love and be loved, a quest for social justice and compassion." —from the Introduction Much of what you were told you should believe when you were younger forces you to choose between your spirit and your intellect, between science and religion, between morality and dogma: unchanging laws of nature vs. miracles that sound magical; a good God vs. the tragedies that strike all living creatures; a God who knows the future absolutely vs. an open future that you help to shape through your choices. This fascinating introduction to Process Theology from a Jewish perspective shows that these are false choices. Inspiring speaker, spiritual leader and philosopher Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson presents an overview of what Process Theology is and what it can mean for your spiritual life. He explains how Process Theology can break you free from the strictures of ancient Greek and medieval European philosophy, allowing you to see all creation not as this or that, us or them, but as related patterns of energy through which we connect to everything. Armed with Process insights and tools, you can break free from outdated religious dichotomies and affirm that your religiosity, your spirit, your mind and your ethics all strengthen and refine each other.