From Nomads To Pilgrims

Author : Diana Butler Bass,J. Stewart-Sicking
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781566995290

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From Nomads to Pilgrims by Diana Butler Bass,J. Stewart-Sicking Pdf

In The Practicing Congregation (Alban, 2004), Diana Butler Bass explored the phenomenon of "intentional congregations," an emerging style of congregational vitality in which churches creatively and intentionally re-appropriate traditional Christian practices such as hospitality, discernment, contemplative prayer, and testimony. Against the steady flow of stories highlighting "mainline decline," The Practicing Congregation suggested that there is a new and often overlooked renaissance occurring in mainline Protestant churches. The success of The Practicing Congregation made it clear that the next step was to provide examples that would illustrate the concepts laid out in that initial work. In From Nomads to Pilgrims, the editors continue to build this narrative, gathering specific stories of congregational vitality and transformation from participants in their research at the Project on Congregations of Intentional Practice, a Lilly Endowment Inc. funded study at Virginia Theological Seminary. Including stories from a variety of faith traditions across the U.S., From Nomads to Pilgrims explores: how intentional congregations develop ; how they negotiate the demands of interpreting traditional Christian practices in a postmodern culture ; how these practices lead to congregational and personal transformation. Each chapter is an instructive case study, illustrating a unique expression of the vitality experienced by a congregation that intentionally reclaims a traditional Christian practice. The pastors who have been involved in these congregations’ stories share their practical wisdom gained through the experience of leading these churches. - how intentional congregations develop - how they negotiate the demands of interpreting traditional Christian practices in a postmodern culture - how these practices lead to congregational and personal transformation.

Author : Diana Butler Bass,Joseph Stewart-Sicking
Publisher : Alban Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1566993237

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From Nomads to Pilgrims by Diana Butler Bass,Joseph Stewart-Sicking Pdf

"Collection of stories from pastors and congregations that have been on a pilgrimage to vitality, retrieving and reworking Christian pratice, tradition and narrative. In these pages, readers are invited to ... listen as these ministers share their pilgrimage tales. ... Against the steady flow of stories highlighting 'mainline decline' these stories tell us that a new and often overlooked renaissance is occuring in mainline Protestant churches" -- Back cover.

Author : Isabelle Charleux
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004297784

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Nomads on Pilgrimage by Isabelle Charleux Pdf

Nomads on Pilgrimage: Mongols on Wutaishan is a social history of the Mongols’ pilgrimages to one of the main Buddhist mountain of China in late imperial and Republican times (1800-1940).

Author : Kathleen S. Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781566996419

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Stilling the Storm by Kathleen S. Smith Pdf

When congregations go through difficult times, worship will both reflect and influence those difficulties. The practice of worship itself can be a key part of the congregation's healing process. Teacher and consultant Kathleen Smith successfully demonstrates this truth in Stilling the Storm, a book for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the ways that worship intertwines with the life and health of a congregations. There are three main types of difficulty congregations can face: times of crisis, transition, and conflict. Smith considers their differences, similarities, and implications for worship, and explains the congregational dynamics that accompany such times and the roles that leaders play. She reviews basic principles of worship and the ways that unique moments and regular habits of worship shape the congregation. For each type of difficulty she suggests important themes for congregations and their worship planners. Smith explores the wide range of liturgical resources available for congregations going through difficult times and how those resources can best be shaped to fit the specific situation they are experiencing. A perceptive guide to the worship we offer to God in all times and situation, Stilling the Storm is an important resource for all congregations of all worship traditions.

Author : David Greshel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 069280336X

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Nomads, Pilgrims, Troubadours by David Greshel Pdf

Life's a journey...that's what they tell us right? It's not about a single place that you end up but the experiences you have along the way that yield the satisfaction we're all looking for. Nomads, Pilgrims, Troubadours is a representation of that and the stages the journey might take. We're all wanderers....seekers...and bards in our own way. We're all digging for the light to illuminate the way home. David Greshel is back with his second collection of poetry that attempts to shine a light into the darkest corners of life and engage the heart and mind in another round of self-reflection and discovery. There's an epiphany waiting within these pages if you're brave enough to look...

Author : Robert Ward
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781459726147

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All the Good Pilgrims by Robert Ward Pdf

Robert Ward has always enjoyed travelling, especially on foot. When he discovered the ancient pilgrimage route to Santiago in Spain, he felt compelled to walk and experience this historic road. From his first journey along the Camino de Santiago, Ward fell in love with the pace, landscape, history, art, and romance of this old pilgrimage path. Above all, however, Ward fell in love with the people of the Camino – both the welcoming Spaniards and the pilgrims who come from all over the world to find out what it means to travel five hundred miles, one step at a time. In All the Good Pilgrims, Ward returns to Spain to walk the Camino for the fifth time. He thinks he knows what he’s getting into but, as his many Camino journeys have taught him, the Camino never runs out of surprises. Each day brings new lessons, friendships, questions, memories, gifts and challenges, reminding Ward that it isn’t the pilgrim who walks the Camino – it’s the Camino that walks the pilgrim. An engaging travel narrative, All the Good Pilgrims is a personal and insightful tour of the Camino de Santiago, as Ward takes readers on a secular pilgrimage in which he reflects on his past journeys and contemplates the mysterious and enduring allure of this ancient and historic road.

Author : Robert P. Hoch
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451438505

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By the Rivers of Babylon by Robert P. Hoch Pdf

The language of exile, focused with theological and biblical narratives and coupled with depictions of real-life exilic communities, can equip church leaders as agents in the creation of new communities. Robert Hoch reads the larger North American tradition of Christian worship and mission through the prism of visibly marginalized communities. Through this lens, leaders may come to see diversity as an indication of mission vitality, and focus less on assimilating people and more on the future promises of God and the manifold textures of incarnation.

Author : Brent Waters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317166719

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Christian Moral Theology in the Emerging Technoculture by Brent Waters Pdf

We are living in an emerging technoculture. Machines and gadgets not only weave the fabric of daily life, but more importantly embody philosophical and religious values which shape the contemporary moral vision-a vision that is often at odds with Christian convictions. This book critically examines those values, and offers a framework for how Christian moral theology should be formed and lived-out within the emerging technoculture. Brent Waters argues that technology represents the principal cultural background against which contemporary Christian moral life is formed. Addressing contemporary ethical and religious issues, this book will be of particular interest to students and scholars exploring the ideas of Heidegger, Nietzsche, Grant, Arendt, and Borgmann.

Author : Thomas B Ellis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400752313

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On the Death of the Pilgrim: The Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Jarava Lal Mehta by Thomas B Ellis Pdf

This searching examination of the life and philosophy of the twentieth-century Indian intellectual Jarava Lal Mehta details, among other things, his engagement with the oeuvres of Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Jacques Derrida. It shows how Mehta’s sense of cross-cultural philosophy and religious thought were affected by these engagements, and maps the two key contributions Mehta made to the sum of human ideas. First, Mehta outlined what the author dubs a ‘postcolonial hermeneutics’ that uses the ‘ethnotrope’ of the pilgrim to challenge the philosophical hermeneutic emphasis on supplementation and augmentation. For Mehta, the hermeneutic encounter ruptures, rather than supplements, the self. Secondly, Mehta extended this concept of hermeneutics to interrogate the Hindu tradition, arriving at the concept of the ‘negative messianic’. In contrast to Derrida's emphasis on the 'one to come', Mehta shows how the Hindu bhakti model represents the very opposite, that is, the 'withdrawn other,' identifying thereby the ethical pitfalls of deconstructivism's emphasis on the messianic tradition. This is the only full-length study in English of this high-profile Hindu philosopher.

Author : M. Barbato
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137275813

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Pilgrimage, Politics, and International Relations by M. Barbato Pdf

A standout contribution to post-secular IR theory, this book addresses issues of global politics, from cooperation to conflict, and shows how a religious metaphor, the pilgrim, can help us to rethink our concepts of self, agency, and community in a time of changing world order.

Author : Paul Rohde
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610977425

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And Grace Will Lead Me Home by Paul Rohde Pdf

And Grace Will Lead Me Home is gift for new and seasoned journal writers alike. Using the insights of pilgrimage theology and practice, this guide serves faithful integration for students and others involved in service learning, study abroad, and immersion programs. The prompts spur expanded awareness and description so writers notice the breadth of their experience. Bible verses and quotations from pilgrims across the ages support journaling with perspective, wisdom, and wit. The progression of the guide encourages attentiveness before travelers depart, validates the disconcerting reality of culture shock and liminal spaces, and then supports claiming God's presence and gifts in new discoveries and transformations. And Grace Will Lead Me Home has been tested by undergraduates and seminarians, pastors and lay leaders in a myriad of travel and service opportunities. Journal writers consistently acclaim that the guide serves both breadth and depth in writing and reflection.

Author : United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : China
ISBN : UCBK:C083593390

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Annual Report by United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China Pdf

Author : Lois Beck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317743873

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Nomads in Postrevolutionary Iran by Lois Beck Pdf

Examining the rapid transition in Iran from a modernizing, westernizing, secularizing monarchy (1941-79) to a hard-line, conservative, clergy-run Islamic republic (1979-), this book focuses on the ways this process has impacted the Qashqa’i—a rural, nomadic, tribally organized, Turkish-speaking, ethnic minority of a million and a half people who are dispersed across the southern Zagros Mountains. Analysing the relationship between the tribal polity and each of the two regimes, the book goes on to explain the resilience of the people’s tribal organizations, kinship networks, and politicized ethnolinguistic identities to demonstrate how these structures and ideologies offered the Qashqa’i a way to confront the pressures emanating from the two central governments. Existing scholarly works on politics in Iran rarely consider Iranian society outside the capital of Tehran and beyond the reach of the details of national politics. Local-level studies on Iran—accounts of the ways people actually lived—are now rare, especially after the revolution. Based on long-term anthropological research, Nomads in Postrevolutionary Iran provides a unique insight into how national-level issues relate to the local level and will be of interest to scholars and researchers in Anthropolgy, Iranian Studies and Middle Eastern Studies.

Author : Eunjoo Mary Kim,Deborah Beth Creamer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608999019

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Women, Church, and Leadership: New Paradigms by Eunjoo Mary Kim,Deborah Beth Creamer Pdf

This book is about leadership, a scholarly and pastoral response to the urgent demand for the renewal of the contemporary Christian church. It challenges readers to articulate the identity and vision of the church in new ways, and encourages them to revitalize their ministry with fresh insight and passion from women's perspectives. The eight essays written by female scholars in relation to various areas of theological study and the nine pastoral responses to the essays written by ministers from seven different denominations, based on their experiences of actual ministerial settings, provide new paradigms of church leadership--theologically profound, practically relevant, and historically timely. This volume, a product of a collaborative process between academia and church, promises to be a most useful resource to renew the leadership of the church and its vocational commitment to the transformation of the church and society.

Author : Julio Baena,Carmen Hsu,Fernando Rodríguez Mansilla,Natalio Ohanna,Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684483709

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Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World by Julio Baena,Carmen Hsu,Fernando Rodríguez Mansilla,Natalio Ohanna,Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez Pdf

Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World examines portrayals of nautical disasters in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature and culture. The essays collected here showcase shipwreck's symbolic deployment to question colonial expansion and transoceanic trade; to critique the Christian enterprise overseas; to signal the collapse of dominant social order; and to relay moral messages and represent socio-political debates.