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Author : Marty Guise,Bill Wichman
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781594672330
Author : Marty Guise,Bill Wichman
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12
Category : Church management
ISBN : 9781594672323
Author : Michael Lukaszewski
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780557501991
In this book, you'll find real answers to real questions about starting churches.
Author : Steven E. Silvern,Edward H. Davis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811576461
This book explores how religious groups work to create sustainable relationships between people, places and environments. This interdisciplinary volume deepens our understanding of this relationship, revealing that the geographical imagination—our sense of place—is a key aspect of the sustainability ideas and practices of religious groups. The book begins with a broad examination of how place shapes faith-based ideas about sustainability, with examples drawn from indigenous Hawaiians and the sacred texts of Judaism and Islam. Empirical case studies from North America, Europe, Central Asia and Africa follow, illustrating how a local, bounded, and sacred sense of place informs religious-based efforts to protect people and natural resources from threatening economic and political forces. Other contributors demonstrate that a cosmopolitan geographical imagination, viewing place as extending from the local to the global, shapes the struggles of Christian, Jewish and interfaith groups to promote just and sustainable food systems and battle the climate crisis.
Author : John H. Arnold
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192699794
What was Christianity like for ordinary people between the turn of the millennium and the coming of the Black Death? What changed and what continued, in their experiences, habits, feelings, hopes, and fears? How did they know themselves to be Christians, and indeed to be good Christians? This book answers those questions through a focus on one specific region — southern France — across a particularly fraught period of history, one beset by the changes wrought by the Gregorian reforms, the spectre of heresy, the violence of crusade, the coming of inquisition, and the pastoral revolution associated with the Fourth Lateran Council (1215). Using an array of different historical documents, John H. Arnold explores the material contexts of Christian worship from the eleventh through to the fourteenth centuries, the shifting episcopal expectations of the ordinary laity, the changes wrought through wider socioeconomic developments, and periods of sharp inflection brought by the Albigensian crusade and its aftermath. Throughout, the book explores the complex spectrum of lay piety, finding enthusiasms and doubts, faith and scepticism, agency and negotiation. It explores not just developments in the content of faith for the laity but the very dynamics of belief as a lived experience. We are shown how across these key centuries Christianity developed in its external practices, but also via inculcating a more interiorized and affective mode of belief; and thus, it is argued, it can be said to have become truly a 'religion' — a structured, demanding, and rewarding faith — for the many and not just the few.
Author : Damon Mayrl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107103719
This book reveals how taken-for-granted political structures have shaped the fate of religion in Australian and American public life.
Author : Bill Vincent
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781365823572
It is easy to speak against something you don't fully understand. Listen you need to be open to what God wants to do. You have never seen such a level of power, grace, and holiness of God all at one time. The church is outgrowing itself month by month. Are you ready for miracles as commonplace; the amazing and incredible presence of God to be everywhere. The team that you are part of, which is caught up in the epicenter of all this activity, is the most profound experience that you have ever encountered. Of course, there are problems-problems that often are huge and time-consuming. However, as you pray for wisdom, the anointing to move forward is so great that godly insight seems to spring into your conscious mind with ease. During the moving forward to becoming a prototype Church you will find oppositions.
Author : Pavel A. Rappoport
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351954167
This work is the first systematic study of how monumental buildings were constructed in medieval Russia. It deals specifically with ecclesiastical architecture, but also discusses such secular architecture, palaces or towers. In scope the book covers the territory of the Kievan state and the principalities that succeeded it, from the 10th century to the 13th century. Pavel Aleksandrovich Rappoport was the author of many of the standard works on the architectural history of Russia, whether monumental, military or domestic. He was also a leading archaeologist. In Building the Churches of Kievan Russia his aim is to investigate how people went about building them: from brickmaking and lime-firing to the roofing and decoration, from how the churches were laid out to how much brickwork was laid in a day. This book treats all these processes as one integrated and interconnected procedure. The detailed analysis enables Rappoport to identify the work of particular teams of builders, even individual masters, and to follow their progress from one site to another, and one town to a second. Similarly, he documents how the Byzantine styles and methods of church building, imported into Russia after its conversion in 989, were gradually adapted to meet the needs of local circumstances and climate. This study will be of direct relevance to those concerned with the architecture and the Church of pre-Mongol Russia, as well as its social history. The investigation of the earliest churches, furthermore, represents the sole extended discussion of Byzantine building practices. In terms of methodology, the book will be of interest to all architectural historians and archaeologists concerned with the Middle Ages, and makes accessible in English material that has hitherto only been available in Russian.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004273689
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas brings together 15 archaeological case studies that offer new perspectives on colonial period interactions in the Caribbean and surrounding areas through a specific focus on material culture and indigenous agency.
Author : Raphaël Ingelbien,Susan Galavan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789622409
This interdisciplinary collection investigates the forms that authority assumed in nineteenth-century Ireland, the relations they bore to international redefinitions of authority, and Irish contributions to the reshaping of authority in the modern age. At a time when age-old sources of social, political, spiritual and cultural authority were eroded in the Western world, Ireland witnessed both the restoration of older forms of authority and the rise of figures who defined new models of authority in a democratic age. Using new comparative perspectives as well as archival resources in a wide range of fields, the essays gathered here show how new authorities were embodied in emerging types of politicians, clerics and professionals, and in material extensions of their power in visual, oral and print cultures. These analyses often eerily echo twenty-first-century debates about populism, suspicion of scholarly and intellectual expertise, and the role of new technologies and forms of association in contesting and recreating authority. Several contributions highlight the role of emotion in the way authority was deployed by figures ranging from Daniel O'Connell to W.B. Yeats, foreshadowing the perceived rise of emotional politics in our own age. This volume demonstrates that many contested forms of authority that now look 'traditional' emerged from nineteenth-century crises and developments, as did the challenges that undermine authority.
Author : Chris Howson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441179470
What does liberation theology actually look like in 21st century Britain? How can the Church respond faithfully to issues like war, climate change and vast global inequalities? A 'fresh expression' church in the centre of Bradford has explored these questions through radical forms of worship, non-violent direct action (for example, physically resisting the unjust detentions of asylum seekers) and experimenting with new ways of being community that help to build the reign of God. Church members have been arrested, come under the scrutiny of security forces and been super-glued together at the gates of hell (aka Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment). This is their story: their successes and disasters, and their modelling of a new version of the Action/Reflection cycle called EARS (Education, Action, Reflection, Sustaining), aimed at helping other Christians to evolve their own way of thinking, growing - and demonstrating the relevance of Church in today's contexts.
Author : Bill Vincent
Publisher : RWG Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798201885908
The Church has been spinning out of control for hundreds of years. The current state of the Church is no match for the Early Church. This book is being published in order to restore the Church and to establish a new form of church known as a Prototype. Things don't always turn out the way we expect them to. It doesn't seem to matter how hard we prepare and strategize, keep the chain of command minimal to avoid confusion, work within strict constraints, and generally/specifically stay on top of things. I'm here to inform you that this book is inspired by the Holy Spirit and will undoubtedly stir up some religious debate. Some strange variable that we hadn't expected will enter into the mix and cause havoc. Assume you're in the midst of a full-fledged revival. There has been a great move of God that has shattered all of your comfortable church beliefs and traditions. The Holy Spirit has instilled in you and your church a strong desire to evangelize and combat demonic forces wherever they may be found. Even the weakest brethren now have considerably more anointing than your most powerful preachers did before the march of God began! Thousands of people are being rescued. Sick people are being healed, demons are being thrown out, and the country is being turned inside out. Are you prepared for a Church like this? I'm here to inform you that today is your day to seize God's intentions for you.
Author : Aubrey Malphurs,Will Mancini
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801091711
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Author : Alexander Nagel,Christopher S. Wood
Publisher : Zone Books
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781942130345
A reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance, examining the complex and layered temporalities of Renaissance images and artifacts. In this widely anticipated book, two leading contemporary art historians offer a subtle and profound reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance. Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood examine the meanings, uses, and effects of chronologies, models of temporality, and notions of originality and repetition in Renaissance images and artifacts. Anachronic Renaissance reveals a web of paths traveled by works and artists—a landscape obscured by art history's disciplinary compulsion to anchor its data securely in time. The buildings, paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and medals discussed were shaped by concerns about authenticity, about reference to prestigious origins and precedents, and about the implications of transposition from one medium to another. Byzantine icons taken to be Early Christian antiquities, the acheiropoieton (or “image made without hands”), the activities of spoliation and citation, differing approaches to art restoration, legends about movable buildings, and forgeries and pastiches: all of these emerge as basic conceptual structures of Renaissance art. Although a work of art does bear witness to the moment of its fabrication, Nagel and Wood argue that it is equally important to understand its temporal instability: how it points away from that moment, backward to a remote ancestral origin, to a prior artifact or image, even to an origin outside of time, in divinity. This book is not the story about the Renaissance, nor is it just a story. It imagines the infrastructure of many possible stories.
Author : David K. Pettegrew,William R. Caraher,Thomas W. Davis
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199369041
"This handbook brings together work by leading scholars of the archaeology of early Christianity in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The 34 essays to this volume ground the history, culture, and society of the first seven centuries of Christianity in the latest currents of archaeological method, theory, and research."--
