In Pursuit Of The Almighty S Dollar

Author : James Hudnut-Beumler
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807883042

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In Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar by James Hudnut-Beumler Pdf

Every day of the week in contemporary America (and especially on Sundays) people raise money for their religious enterprises--for clergy, educators, buildings, charity, youth-oriented work, and more. In a fascinating look into the economics of American Protestantism, James Hudnut-Beumler examines how churches have raised and spent money from colonial times to the present and considers what these practices say about both religion and American culture. After the constitutional separation of church and state was put in force, Hudnut-Beumler explains, clergy salaries had to be collected exclusively from the congregation without recourse to public funds. In adapting to this change, Protestants forged a new model that came to be followed in one way or another by virtually all religious organizations in the country. Clergy repeatedly invoked God, ecclesiastical tradition, and scriptural evidence to promote giving to the churches they served. Hudnut-Beumler contends that paying for earthly good works done in the name of God has proved highly compatible with American ideas of enterprise, materialism, and individualism. The financial choices Protestants have made throughout history--how money was given, expended, or even withheld--have reflected changing conceptions of what the religious enterprise is all about. Hudnut-Beumler tells that story for the first time.

Author : James David Hudnut-Beumler
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807830796

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In Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar by James David Hudnut-Beumler Pdf

Every day of the week in contemporary America (and especially on Sundays) people raise money for their religious enterprises--for clergy, educators, buildings, charity, youth-oriented work, and more. In a fascinating look into the economics of American Pr

Author : James David Hudnut-Beumler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798890878984

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In Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar by James David Hudnut-Beumler Pdf

Author : Dharshini David
Publisher : Elliott & Thompson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : Dollar, American
ISBN : 1783963980

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The Almighty Dollar by Dharshini David Pdf

The dollar is the lifeblood of globalisation: China holds billions in reserve for good reason. Greenbacks, singles, bucks or dead presidents, call them what you will, $1.2 trillion worth are floating around right now - and half the dollars in circulation are actually outside of the USA. But what is really happening as these billions of dollars go around the world every day? By following $1 from a shopping trip in suburban Texas, via China's Central Bank, Nigerian railroads, the oil fields of Iraq and beyond, The Almighty Dollar answers questions such as: why is China the world's biggest manufacturer - and the US its biggest customer? Is free trade really a good thing? Why would a nation build a bridge on the other side of the globe? In lively and entertaining prose Dharshini David lays bare these complex interrelationships through the simple story of one dollar as it moves through the opaque international system. This is essential reading that gets to the heart of how our new globalised world really works.

Author : Philip Goff
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1444324098

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The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America by Philip Goff Pdf

This authoritative and cutting edge companion brings togethera team of leading scholars to document the rich diversity andunique viewpoints that have formed the religious history of theUnited States. A groundbreaking new volume which represents the firstsustained effort to fully explain the development of Americanreligious history and its creation within evolving political andsocial frameworks Spans a wide range of traditions and movements, from theBaptists and Methodists, to Buddhists and Mormons Explores topics ranging from religion and the media,immigration, and piety, though to politics and social reform Considers how American religion has influenced and beeninterpreted in literature and popular culture Provides insights into the historiography of religion, butpresents the subject as a story in motion rather than a snapshot ofwhere the field is at a given moment

Author : D. A. Carson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625649621

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Themelios, Volume 33, Issue 2 by D. A. Carson Pdf

Themelios is an international, evangelical, peer-reviewed theological journal that expounds and defends the historic Christian faith. Themelios is published three times a year online at The Gospel Coalition (http://thegospelcoalition.org/themelios/) and in print by Wipf and Stock. Its primary audience is theological students and pastors, though scholars read it as well. Themelios began in 1975 and was operated by RTSF/UCCF in the UK, and it became a digital journal operated by The Gospel Coalition in 2008. The editorial team draws participants from across the globe as editors, essayists, and reviewers. General Editor: D. A. Carson, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Managing Editor: Brian Tabb, Bethlehem College and Seminary Consulting Editor: Michael J. Ovey, Oak Hill Theological College Administrator: Andrew David Naselli, Bethlehem College and Seminary Book Review Editors: Jerry Hwang, Singapore Bible College; Alan Thompson, Sydney Missionary & Bible College; Nathan A. Finn, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary; Hans Madueme, Covenant College; Dane Ortlund, Crossway; Jason Sexton, Golden Gate Baptist Seminary Editorial Board: Gerald Bray, Beeson Divinity School Lee Gatiss, Wales Evangelical School of Theology Paul Helseth, University of Northwestern, St. Paul Paul House, Beeson Divinity School Ken Magnuson, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Jonathan Pennington, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary James Robson, Wycliffe Hall Mark D. Thompson, Moore Theological College Paul Williamson, Moore Theological College Stephen Witmer, Pepperell Christian Fellowship Robert Yarbrough, Covenant Seminary

Author : Mark Elsdon
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467462440

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We Aren't Broke by Mark Elsdon Pdf

What if everything you need is already there? Many Christian churches and related institutions in the United States are struggling or, in some cases, facing imminent crisis, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Attendance is down. Funding is harder to come by. People are no longer drawn to traditional church services and programming in the ways that they once were. Often, we feel broke and powerless to do much about it. We settle for doing more with less: Less money. Fewer people. Fewer churches. But if we reexamine our perceived limits and our assumptions about how resources are supposed to be used, then something remarkable and beautiful comes into view: we aren’t broke at all but have enormous resources at our disposal. Church and missional organizations nationwide own billions of dollars of prime property and investment assets, which, when combined with social enterprise and new expressions of mission, can be put to work for innovation and transformation. And these resources are often available to us right now. This book is an invitation to envision a different way of putting God’s gifts to work in the world. It draws upon a remarkable story of rebirth at a Presbyterian affiliated campus ministry center at the University of Wisconsin, along with profiles of other creative social enterprises, to describe how church property and investment assets can be put to work for innovation, transformation, and financial sustainability. Theologically rooted but practically minded, it provides guidance and tools for church and nonprofit leaders, entrepreneurs, and investors of all kinds who are seeking new ways to fund and participate in God’s work in the world.

Author : Scott A. Bessenecker
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830896769

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Overturning Tables by Scott A. Bessenecker Pdf

Outreach Resource of the Year Recommendation Best World Missions Book, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore We are more than the businesses we have become. Much of Christian ministry has been shaped to operate not according to the witness of the Scriptures, but according to the values of the free market. We adopt metrics of success that have nothing to do with the state of people's souls or the seeding of the earth with the kingdom of God. We have borrowed our paradigms uncritically from the for-profit corporate sector. The mission of the Church is being held back by the business container into which we have placed the gospel. Every year Scott Bessenecker travels the world with thousands of college students, ministering to those in need and learning from the global church about what God is doing in the world. In Overturning Tables he shows, through stories and analysis, that the mission of God reaches well beyond the grasp of the free market, and if we are willing to reach as well, we will see God do amazing things, even as the world sees the gospel in its fullest sense.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1954 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015012908011

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1952 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN : MINN:31951D03669357B

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Organized Professional Team Sports by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Committee Serial No. 8. pt. 1: Considers legislation on the applicability of the antitrust laws to organize professional sports enterprises. pt. 2: Continuation of hearings on sports teams and antitrust legislation. pt. 3: Continuation of antitrust hearings on professional sports antitrust exemptions.

Author : Craig A. Satterlee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781566996068

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Preaching and Stewardship by Craig A. Satterlee Pdf

Both new and veteran preachers alike find the annual stewardship sermon a challenge and are eager for encouraging, practical advice. In Preaching and Stewardship, Craig Satterlee offers a nuts-and-bolts handbook on preaching stewardship, raising issues preachers need to consider when preparing stewardship sermons and offering advice on how to address them. Satterlee argues that stewardship preaching must include a bold and concrete proclamation of God's love, will, and justice, as well as an invitation to grow as stewards in response to this proclamation. He focuses each chapter on a question preachers ought to ask themselves as they prepare the stewardship sermon, beginning with, 'What do you mean by stewardship?' and 'Why should we give to the church?' In chapters 3 through 6, he explores what the Bible says about stewardship. In chapter 7, he names some of the assumptions both preachers and worshipers bring to the stewardship sermon. The final chapter a variety of ways congregations can support the stewardship sermon. Satterlee illustrates the premise of each chapter with anecdotes from congregational life. Preachers who desire examples of stewardship sermons will especially appreciate stewardship sermons he shares from various preachers to illustrate points in the main text.

Author : T. James Vaughan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781483436029

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Meta-Dream: A Manifesto of Contradiction by T. James Vaughan Pdf

Every action is a mistake. Every meal is a waste. Reality is delusion. Life is death. Death by dumb luck, or by dumb choice. The end is nigh, and that's exactly the way it should be. This is A Manifesto of Contradiction, and it's all lies. A record from an alternate universe, Meta-Dream does not exist. Should not exist. And yet, here it is. Suffering with isolation, drudgery and depression, delivery driver James drives himself insane, and his car into a time-warp, trapping him in a nightmare of his own creation. Now he must rebuild the life he destroyed, and face his own worst enemy... Himself. Ride along with a blue-collar philosopher and journey through an all-too-real and present America, where War is Peace, Debt is Wealth, Corporations are People, and God's Money rules over a nation of drunkards, machines, and slaves.

Author : Daniel Judson
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512602760

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Pennies for Heaven by Daniel Judson Pdf

In the annals of American Jewish history, synagogue financial records have been largely overlooked. But as Daniel Judson shows in his examination of synagogue ledgers from 1728 to the present, these records provide an array of new insights into the development of American synagogues and the values of the Jews who worshipped in them. Looking at the history of American synagogues through an economic lens, Judson examines how synagogues raised funds, financed buildings, and paid clergy. By "following the money," he reveals the priorities of the Jewish community at a given time. Throughout the book, Judson traces the history of capital campaigns and expenditures for buildings. He also explores synagogue competition and debates over previously sold seats, what to do about wealthy widows, the breaking down of gender norms, the hazan "bubble" (which saw dozens of overpaid cantors come to the United States from Europe), the successful move to outlaw "mushroom synagogues," and the nascent synagogue-sharing economy of the twenty-first century. Judson shows as well the ongoing relationship of synagogue and church financing as well as the ways in which the American embrace of the free market in all things meant that the basic rules of supply and demand ultimately prevailed in the religious as well as the commercial realm.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : princeton alumni weekly
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101060937842

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Princeton Alumni Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lewis Baldwin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199701612

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The Voice of Conscience by Lewis Baldwin Pdf

Martin Luther King, Jr. is celebrated widely as the quintessential model of Christian activism in his time, but his understanding of and vision for the church has been surprisingly neglected. In this book, Lewis V. Baldwin contends that King was fundamentally a man of the church. Beginning with King's roots in Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, Baldwin traces the evolution of King's attitude toward the church through his college, seminary, graduate school, and civil rights years. The emphasis is on King's concept of the church as "the voice of conscience." Baldwin persuasively claims that King challenged the church over the need for a higher spiritual and ethical ideal, and that King's moral leadership and eventual martyrdom did much to reestablish the credibility of the church at a time when some theologians were declaring the death of God. Baldwin critiques the contemporary church on the basis of King's prophetic model, and concludes by insisting that this model, not the entrepreneurial spirituality of the contemporary megachurches, embodies the best potential for much-needed church renewal.