Confessing History

Author : John Fea,Jay Green,Eric Miller
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268079895

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Confessing History by John Fea,Jay Green,Eric Miller Pdf

At the end of his landmark 1994 book, The Soul of the American University, historian George Marsden asserted that religious faith does indeed have a place in today’s academia. Marsden’s contention sparked a heated debate on the role of religious faith and intellectual scholarship in academic journals and in the mainstream media. The contributors to Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation expand the discussion about religion’s role in education and culture and examine what the relationship between faith and learning means for the academy today. The contributors to Confessing History ask how the vocation of historian affects those who are also followers of Christ. What implications do Christian faith and practice have for living out one’s calling as an historian? And to what extent does one’s calling as a Christian disciple speak to the nature, quality, or goals of one’s work as scholar, teacher, adviser, writer, community member, or social commentator? Written from several different theological and professional points of view, the essays collected in this volume explore the vocation of the historian and its place in both the personal and professional lives of Christian disciples.

Author : John Webster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567658883

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Confessing God by John Webster Pdf

Put together as a companion volume to his earlier volume, Word and Church, in this book John Webster begins to give voice to a reordered conception of the substance of Christian teaching, at the heart of which lies a discovery of the content and consequences of Christian teaching about God's perfection. Webster gives the readers a worked example of 'theological theology', that is, Christian theology which takes its rise in the Christian confession of the gospel which seeks to hear, celebrate and commend. This classic volume from one of the leading theologians in the world remains an important contribution to the field of systematic theology. For this Cornerstones edition Webster has written a new preface in which he sets the work against the current debate and his own current theology.

Author : Allan Janssen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498286244

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Confessing the Faith Today by Allan Janssen Pdf

With the understanding that confession is a witness to the gospel, Confessing the Faith Today investigates how a sixteenth-century Reformation confession, the Belgic Confession, can assist contemporary Christians testify to the truth of Gods gracious turn toward creation and do so in the context of the twenty-first century's competing claims. A close examination of the internal coherence of the Belgic Confession, along with an exploration of how that confession might engage contemporary life, offers fresh insight into how Christians might articulate what is at stake in the gospel. Janssen encourages the church to enter a conversation with the forebears of the faith, acknowledging the historical nature of not only the confession but of God's involvement in all creation.

Author : Taimaya Ragui
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781506486789

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Confessing Community by Taimaya Ragui Pdf

This book offers an entryway to the discussion between theological interpretation of Scripture and contextual theology (i.e., tribal theology). It argues for the need to consider the importance of reading the Bible with multiple contexts in mind, while addressing the tension between church and academy in the area of biblical interpretation. Adapting from the theological method of Kevin J. Vanhoozer, it argues for a multi-contextual biblical-theological interpretation of Scripture that maintains evangelical ethos (i.e., the solas of the Reformation), recognizes canonical sense (i.e., the measuring and guiding criteria), asserts Catholic sensibility (i.e., value the contribution of the local and Catholic church), and affirms contextual sensitivity (i.e., the local/tribal confessing community). These are the contexts that enable Christians to read the Bible as what it is, namely, human and divine discourse.

Author : Alan P.F. Sell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597528726

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Confessing and Commending the Faith by Alan P.F. Sell Pdf

Since Christianity is a way and not simply a theory, commending the faith to others is an activity in which every Christian participates. Confessing and Commending the Faith discusses the presuppositions which underlie the intellectual commendation of Christianity in the face of the philosophical challenges of the present day.Following his earlier books, John Locke and the Eighteenth-Century Divines and Philosophical Idealism and Christian Belief, Alan Sell proposes a way of proceeding with Christian apologetics in the twenty-first century. He discusses what Christians wish to proclaim, asks whether these claims are reasonable and examines what is involved in the intellectual commendation of the Christian faith.Confessing and Commending the Faith makes extensive use of the historical tradition of apologetics and brings this work to bear on contemporary questions such as the meaning, use and reference of religious language, and the question of transcendence in relation to history. Alan Sell argues that if the intellectual commendation of Christianity's claim to truth is to be viable, contemporary apologetics must draw upon reason, revelation and experience to do justice to Christianity's basic confession of Christ as Saviour and Lord.

Author : John Perkins
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781576755129

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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins Pdf

Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.

Author : Carole Spitzack
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1990-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 079140272X

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Confessing Excess by Carole Spitzack Pdf

Looking at the discourse on female weight reduction in American culture, Confessing Excess analyzes contemporary dieting and the weight loss literature by taking up the themes of confession and surveillance. Spitzack argues that dieting is characterized by confession (of “excess”) which women internalize and which necessitates ongoing surveillance or monitoring of the body. Informal conversations and in-depth interviews also juxtapose women’s everyday dieting experiences with the discourse of dieting texts. By evaluating the cultural construction of women in this manner, the author illuminates the power strategies that offer self-acceptance at the price of self-condemnation.

Author : Bendangjungshi
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643900715

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Confessing Christ in the Naga Context by Bendangjungshi Pdf

In this book, author Bendangjungshi brings into dialogue the three leading Northeast Indian tribal theologians - Renthy Keitzar, K. Thanzauva, and Wati Longchar - with the Western theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who suffered martyrdom under the Nazi dictatorship in Germany. Negotiating between Bonhoeffer's political approach and Naga cultural identity, Bendangjungshi develops a liberating ecclesiology for Naga Christians, who have been suffering under Indian military occupation since the withdrawal of the British colonizers from Nagaland. (Series: ContactZone. Explorations in Intercultural Theology - Vol. 8)

Author : Luigi Francesco L. Desanctis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600102046

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Confession: a doctrinal and historical essay, tr. by M.H.G. Buckle by Luigi Francesco L. Desanctis Pdf

Author : John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Augsburg Confession
ISBN : OSU:32435078642758

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The History of the Augsburg Confession by John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg Pdf

Author : David J. Lose
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0802849830

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Confessing Jesus Christ by David J. Lose Pdf

With its relentless insistence that there is no reality beyond that which we construct, postmodern thought questions the presuppositions of many disciplines, including homiletics. Offering a lively description of the postmodern worldview and its implications for Christian faith, Confessing Jesus Christ by David Lose teaches preachers how to rise to the challenges posed by our postmodern world. Few if any books on preaching offer such a comprehensive investigation of postmodern thought or yield such a wealth of insights for relevant Christian proclamation. Significantly, Lose sees postmodernism not primarily as an obstacle to the church but as an opportunity for it to stand once again on faith alone rather than on attempts to prove the faith. According to Lose, preaching that seeks to be both faithful to the Christian tradition and responsive to our pluralistic, postmodern context is best understood as the public practice of confessing faith in Jesus Christ. He explores the practical implications of a confessional homiletic for preaching and also provides concrete methods for preparing sermons that meaningfully bridge biblical texts and contemporary congregations.

Author : Henry Charles Lea
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Absolution
ISBN : UOM:39015005887636

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A History of Auricular Confession and Indulgences in the Latin Church: Indulgences by Henry Charles Lea Pdf

Author : Alan P.F. Sell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621895718

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Confessing the Faith Yesterday and Today by Alan P.F. Sell Pdf

What is it to confess the Christian faith, and what is the status of formal confessions of faith? How far does the context inform the content of the confession? These questions are addressed in Part One, with reference to the Reformed tradition in general, and to its English and Welsh Dissenting strand in particular. In an adverse political context the Dissenters' plea for toleration under the law was eventually granted. The question of tolerance remains alive in our very different context, and in addition we face the challenge of confessing and commending the faith in an intellectual environment in which many question Christianity's relevance and rebut traditional defenses of it. In Part Two it is recognized that Christian confessing is an ecclesial, not simply an individual, calling, and that the one confessing church catholic is visibly divided over doctrine and practice. Suggestions for ameliorating this situation are offered, though the final resolution may be a matter for the eschaton. Until then Christians are called to witness faithfully and to live hopefully as citizens of heaven. In an epilogue the challenges and pitfalls of systematic theology as a discipline involving both confession and commendation are explored.

Author : Mark Douglas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0742514331

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Confessing Christ in the Twenty-first Century by Mark Douglas Pdf

Confessing Christ in the Twenty-First Century, written for the layperson and for those who lead and teach them, challenges the readers to think about how their confession is the basis for claiming not only a relationship to a savior, but a way of living in the world--a politics--that is countercultural in the literal sense of that term. At the same time, it comforts them by reminding that the Lord they proclaim is one who opens up a way of living in genuine freedom and equality with others. Douglas probes essential issues in philosophy, theology, worship, ethics, and politics in a way that offers understanding and a comprehensive view, even as it stimulates readers to explore the meaning of their faith in vigorous conversation.

Author : Douglas John Hall
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451407157

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Confessing the Faith by Douglas John Hall Pdf

This bold work culminates Hall's three- volume contextual theology, the first to take the measure of Christian belief and doctrine explicitly in light of North American cultural and historical experience.Hall is deeply critical of North American culture but also of sidelined Christian churches that struggle to gain dominance within it. "We must stop thinking of the reduction of Christendom as a tragedy!" he says. The disestablishment that the churches reluctantly enjoy can enable them to develop genuine community, uncompromised theology, and honest engagement with the larger culture. To a failed culture and a struggling church Hall shows the radical implications of a theology of the cross for the shape and practice of church, preaching, ministry, ethics, and eschatology.Hall's frank and prophetic volume is the trilogy's most practical, and the most sustained probe to date of Christian life in a post-Christian context.