A New Evangelical Manifesto

Author : David P Gushee
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 082720034X

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A New Evangelical Manifesto by David P Gushee Pdf

Being religiously conservative does not necessarily mean being politically conservative. There is a significant, emerging segment of conservatively theological Christians who agree with politically liberal counterparts while staying true to their own faith regarding a wide variety of political issues in contemporary America. It is time for a new look at faith and politics in America. It is time for A New Evangelical Manifesto. Written by authors, theologians, and instructors affiliated with the The New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good (NEP), the aim of A New Evangelical Manifesto is to introduce the work and vision of the New Evangelical Partnership and other leaders gathered who think differently about how conservative faith relates to politics. The New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good (NEP) exists to advance human well-being as an expression of our love for Jesus Christ, which is itself a grateful response to his love for us and for a good but suffering world. A New Evangelical Manifesto discusses many "hot button" issues such as human trafficking, healthcare, race, abortion, nuclear weapons, war, global poverty, Christianity, the church, and theology. Contributors: David P. Gushee, Jennifer Crumpton, Charlie Camosy, Jim Ball, Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, Paul Alexander, Timothy W. Floyd, Adam Phillips, Scott Claybrook, Lisa Sharon Harper, Rick Love, Andi Thomas Sullivan, Steven Martin, Glen Stassen, Richard Cizik, Paul Markham, Cheryl Bridges Johns, and Brian McLaren

Author : Bob Ekblad
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Church renewal
ISBN : 9780664236625

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A New Christian Manifesto: Pledging Allegiance to the Kingdom of God by Bob Ekblad Pdf

Author : Leonard Sweet,Frank Viola
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781418560355

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Jesus Manifesto by Leonard Sweet,Frank Viola Pdf

Jesus Manifesto presents a fresh unveiling of Jesus, seeking to restore the supremacy and sovereignty of Christ in a world—and a church—that has lost sight of Him. Christians have made the gospel about so many things—things other than Christ. Religious concepts, ideas, doctrines, strategies, and methods that begin to eclipse the beauty, the glory, and the reality of the Lord Jesus Himself. We know a lot about our Lord, but we don't know Him very well. We know a lot about trying to be like Jesus, but very little about living by His indwelling life. Jesus Manifesto provides clarity on the most important points of our faith. It is a prophetic call to restore the supremacy and sovereignty of Christ in a world and church that has lost sight of Him. This manifesto emphasizes ten crucial areas of restoring the supremacy of Jesus Christ, noting: Christians don’t follow Christianity; they follow Christ Christians don't proclaim themselves; they proclaim Christ Christians don’t point people to core values; they point people to the Cross Christians don't preach about Christ; they preach Christ Read this book to see your Lord like you've never seen Him before and restore the sovereignty of Jesus in your life.

Author : Dave Tomlinson
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781444752267

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The Bad Christian's Manifesto by Dave Tomlinson Pdf

Dave Tomlinson's book How to Be a Bad Christian was written for all those who want God without the guff - revealing that being a 'bad' Christian is perfectly good enough, and that it's possible to ditch religion without losing the faith. The Bad Christian's Manifesto continues the conversation, unpacking what spiritual intelligence - from an unapologetically Christian viewpoint - might look like for all the self-confessed bad Christians of the world. Join Dave as he explores how to befriend your inner sceptic, make a virtue of pleasure and find heaven in the ordinary things of life.

Author : Robin Meyers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780787997861

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Why the Christian Right Is Wrong by Robin Meyers Pdf

"I join the ranks of those who are angry, because I have watched as the faith I love has been taken over by fundamentalists who claim to speak for Jesus but whose actions are anything but Christian." —Robin Meyers, from his "Speech Heard Round the World" Millions of Americans are outraged at the Bush administration's domestic and foreign policies and even angrier that the nation's religious conservatives have touted these policies as representative of moral values. Why the Christian Right Is Wrong is a rousing manifesto that will ignite the collective conscience of all whose faith and values have been misrepresented by the Christian Right. Praise for Why the Christian Right Is Wrong: "In the pulpit, Robin Meyers is the new generation's Harry Emerson Fosdick, George Buttrick, and Martin Luther King. In these pages, you will find a stirring message for our times, from a man who believes that God's love is universal, that the great Jewish prophets are as relevant now as in ancient times, and that the Jesus who drove the money changers from the Temple may yet inspire us to embrace justice and compassion as the soul of democracy. This is not a book for narrow sectarian minds; read it, and you will want to change the world." —Bill Moyers "In this book, a powerful and authentic religious voice from America's heartland holds up a mirror to the Bush administration and its religious allies. The result is a vision of Orwellian proportions in which values are inverted and violence, hatred, and bigotry are blessed by one known as 'The Prince of Peace,' who called us to love our enemies. If you treasure this country and tremble over its present direction, this book is a must-read!" —John Shelby Spong author, The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love "This is a timely warning and a clarion call to the church to recover the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to a great nation to resist the encroachment of the Christian Right and of Christian fascism. Many of us in other parts of the world are praying fervently that these calls will be heeded." —Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Author : Francis A. Schaeffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1433573067

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A Christian Manifesto by Francis A. Schaeffer Pdf

In this repackaged edition of A Christian Manifestoby Francis Schaeffer, readers will be encouraged to think deeply about the implications of Western Culture's shifting morality and freedom as they seek to live out their faith in a post-Christian world.

Author : Robin Meyers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780470184639

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Why the Christian Right Is Wrong by Robin Meyers Pdf

"I join the ranks of those who are angry, because I have watched as the faith I love has been taken over by fundamentalists who claim to speak for Jesus but whose actions are anything but Christian." —Robin Meyers, from his "Speech Heard Round the World" Millions of Americans are outraged at the Bush administration's domestic and foreign policies and even angrier that the nation's religious conservatives have touted these policies as representative of moral values. Why the Christian Right Is Wrong is a rousing manifesto that will ignite the collective conscience of all whose faith and values have been misrepresented by the Christian Right. Praise for Why the Christian Right Is Wrong: "In the pulpit, Robin Meyers is the new generation's Harry Emerson Fosdick, George Buttrick, and Martin Luther King. In these pages, you will find a stirring message for our times, from a man who believes that God's love is universal, that the great Jewish prophets are as relevant now as in ancient times, and that the Jesus who drove the money changers from the Temple may yet inspire us to embrace justice and compassion as the soul of democracy. This is not a book for narrow sectarian minds; read it, and you will want to change the world." —Bill Moyers "In this book, a powerful and authentic religious voice from America's heartland holds up a mirror to the Bush administration and its religious allies. The result is a vision of Orwellian proportions in which values are inverted and violence, hatred, and bigotry are blessed by one known as 'The Prince of Peace,' who called us to love our enemies. If you treasure this country and tremble over its present direction, this book is a must-read!" —John Shelby Spong author, The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love "This is a timely warning and a clarion call to the church to recover the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to a great nation to resist the encroachment of the Christian Right and of Christian fascism. Many of us in other parts of the world are praying fervently that these calls will be heeded." —Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Author : Samuel E. Waldron,Richard C. Barcellos
Publisher : Reformed Baptist Academic PressInc
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0976003902

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A Reformed Baptist Manifesto by Samuel E. Waldron,Richard C. Barcellos Pdf

Author : Rob Bell,Don Golden
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310295310

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Jesus Wants to Save Christians by Rob Bell,Don Golden Pdf

There is a church not too far from us that recently added a $25 million addition to their building. Our local newspaper ran a front-page story not too long ago about a study revealing that one in five people in our city lives in poverty. This is a book about those two numbers. Jesus Wants to save Christians is a book about faith and fear, wealth and war, poverty, power, safety, terror, Bibles, bombs, and homeland insecurity. It's about empty empires and the truth that everybody's a priest. It's about oppression, occupation, and what happens when Christians support, animate and participate in the very things Jesus came to set people free from. It's about what it means to be a part of the church of Jesus in a world where some people fly planes into buildings while others pick up groceries in Hummers.

Author : Chris Stedman
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807014394

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Faitheist by Chris Stedman Pdf

The story of a former Evangelical Christian turned openly gay atheist who now works to bridge the divide between atheists and the religious The stunning popularity of the “New Atheist” movement—whose most famous spokesmen include Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens—speaks to both the growing ranks of atheists and the widespread, vehement disdain for religion among many of them. In Faitheist, Chris Stedman tells his own story to challenge the orthodoxies of this movement and make a passionate argument that atheists should engage religious diversity respectfully. Becoming aware of injustice, and craving community, Stedman became a “born-again” Christian in late childhood. The idea of a community bound by God’s love—a love that was undeserved, unending, and guaranteed—captivated him. It was, he writes, a place to belong and a framework for making sense of suffering. But Stedman’s religious community did not embody this idea of God’s love: they were staunchly homophobic at a time when he was slowly coming to realize that he was gay. The great suffering this caused him might have turned Stedman into a life-long New Atheist. But over time he came to know more open-minded Christians, and his interest in service work brought him into contact with people from a wide variety of religious backgrounds. His own religious beliefs might have fallen away, but his desire to change the world for the better remained. Disdain and hostility toward religion was holding him back from engaging in meaningful work with people of faith. And it was keeping him from full relationships with them—the kinds of relationships that break down intolerance and improve the world. In Faitheist, Stedman draws on his work organizing interfaith and secular communities, his academic study of religion, and his own experiences to argue for the necessity of bridging the growing chasm between atheists and the religious. As someone who has stood on both sides of the divide, Stedman is uniquely positioned to present a way for atheists and the religious to find common ground and work together to make this world—the one world we can all agree on—a better place.

Author : Robert Horton Gundry
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802849806

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Jesus the Word According to John the Sectarian by Robert Horton Gundry Pdf

Built on a unique combination of biblical exegesis, sociological analysis, and contemporary applications, this book traces the influence of Word-Christology throughout the Gospel of John, unpacking its implications for North American evangelicalism. Sure to create discussion are Gundry's adoption of a sectarian interpretation of John and his evaluation of contemporary North American evangelicalism.

Author : Abraham Kuyper,Jordan J. Ballor,Melvin Flikkema
Publisher : Lexham Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781577996828

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Our Program by Abraham Kuyper,Jordan J. Ballor,Melvin Flikkema Pdf

In Our Program, Abraham Kuyper presents a Christian alternative to the secular politics of his day. At that time, the church and state were closely tied, with one usually controlling the other. But Kuyper's political framework showed how the church and state could engage with each other while remaining separate. His insights, though specific to his time and place, remain highly relevant to Christians involved in the political sphere today. This new translation of Our Program, created in partnership with the Kuyper Translation Society and the Acton Institute, is part of a major series of new translations of Kuyper's most important writings. The Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology marks a historic moment in Kuyper studies, aimed at deepening and enriching the church's development of public theology.

Author : Lisa Sharon Harper
Publisher : Does Not Equal
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : UCSC:32106019867727

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Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican ... Or Democrat by Lisa Sharon Harper Pdf

A new breed of evangelicals, with a fiery passion for economic justice, racial reconciliation and a care for the environment, has abandoned the religious right. Harper, a rising star in this movement, describes the roots of this political shift, the agents of change driving it and the extent of the evangelical rejection of the right-wing political agenda. Here, Harper offers a powerful indictment of the religious right demonstrating how it has abandoned the gospel in its racist and sexist core beliefs.

Author : Frank Viola
Publisher : David C Cook
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781434703316

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Revise Us Again by Frank Viola Pdf

Every person follows a script for living, a life guide that directs our behavior and shapes our choices. As believers, we find the original script for living woven throughout the Bible. Yet while the Christian message is simple, it can become complicated by our environment, our culture, and our religious ideas and traditions. For this reason, we are all in constant need of revising the scripts by which we live. Author Frank Viola believes we need to revisit and revise what it means to live the Christian life. Drawing from his rich background in ministry, Viola examines ten key areas that impact every believer and explores fresh ways to revise them. Conversational, insightful, and practical, Revise Us Again encourages us to examine those religious habits that we unconsciously pick up from others and rescript them with new habits that line up with our new nature in Christ.

Author : Dr. D. Carlton O'Rork Dmin. Phd.
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781973688495

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A Christian Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century by Dr. D. Carlton O'Rork Dmin. Phd. Pdf

First Francis Shaffer and now Dennis O’Rork try to explain what is going wrong in the church today and how to fix it. Will God Himself have to return and tell us the same thing. Why not listen to them today and be ready for His return. This book is an attempt to wake up the latest generations of citizens to the growing threat of religious breakdown.