Practice Of Faith

Author : Dorothy C. Bass
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0787938831

Get Book

Practicing Our Faith by Dorothy C. Bass Pdf

As wise as grandparents, a good guide to living within our families and communities with integrity and generosity. -- Kathleen Norris, author of Dakota and The Cloister Walk Many people are looking for ways to deepen their relationship with God by practicing their faith in everyday life. Some go on retreats but are often disappointed. Many thoughtful, educated people search for spiritual guidance in Eastern religious traditions, unaware of the great riches within their own heritage. Dorothy Bass and the other contributors to this multi-denominational collection show how they can shape a faithful way of life during challenging times at work, at home, and in the community. This book explores the stuff of everyday life, placing ordinary activities in a biblical and historical context, and discovering in them opportunities to realize God's active presence in life. Practices include: * Honoring the body * Hospitality * Household economics * Saying yes and saying no * Keeping Sabbath * Testimony * Discernment * Shaping Communities * Forgiveness * Healing

Author : Karl Rahner
Publisher : Herder & Herder
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1986-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824507797

Get Book

Practice of Faith by Karl Rahner Pdf

Karl Rahner was not only one of the architects of modern Roman Catholic theology but also a master of the spiritual life - a pastor among pastors as well as a theologian among theologians. His writings on spirituality and pastoral matters nearly equal the number of his strictly theological ones. This volume is in one sense the spiritual and pastoral counterpart of Rahner's theological masterpiece, Foundations of-Christian Faith, and is a distillation of his thought on spirituality which is likely to prove more accessible to readers than the forbidding volumes of Theological Explorations. Divided into three parts, Faith, Hope and Love, it deals with the sacraments, the theological virtues, the states of life, the various kinds of prayer and religious devotion, and other aspects of ascetical and mystical theology. There are contemporary themes as well: basic Christian community, worshipping communities in the home and a new asceticism for the consumer society. Last but not least there are the themes relating to basic human experience: courage, suffering, death and peace. Karl Ramer, who died in 1984, taught at the universities of Innsbruck, Munich and Munster. He was one of the greatest twentieth-century Roman Catholic theologians.

Author : Martin Lindhardt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857450487

Get Book

Practicing the Faith by Martin Lindhardt Pdf

Over the past decades, Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity has arguably become the fastest growing religious movement in the world. Distinguishing features of this variant of Christianity include formal ritual activities as well as informal, experiential, and ecstatic forms of worship. This book examines Pentecostal-charismatic ritual practice in different parts of the world, highlighting, among other things, the crucial role of ritual in creating religious communities and identities.

Author : Frank E. Wilson
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1989-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780819224576

Get Book

Faith and Practice by Frank E. Wilson Pdf

The Rt. Rev. Frank E. Wilson (1855-1944), late Bishop of Eau Claire, was perhaps the most prolific Episcopal writer of his era, authoring dozens of books geared to lay people. Over the years, his works have helped to renew the Church, encourage social and ecumenical progress, and provide guidance and insight to generations of Episcopalians. Faith and Practice’s reaffirming message celebrates our unique Anglican way of thinking while calling us to act faithfully upon those beliefs. More than 50 years after its original publication, this timely book that explores core Christian beliefs, continues to inspire and instruct Anglicans throughout the world.

Author : Dorothy C. Bass
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506454740

Get Book

Practicing Our Faith by Dorothy C. Bass Pdf

Twelve time-honored Christian practices that will help us, and the world, to flourish Practicing Our Faith offers help to Christians who are asking how our faith can help us discern what we might do and who we might become. How can we live faithfully and with integrity in a world where the pace of existence is so fast and life's patterns are changing all around us? Can we conduct our daily lives in ways that help us not just get by but flourish--as individuals, as communities, and as a society in concert with creation and in communion with God? These questions are on the hearts and minds of many seekers who are exploring spirituality today. They are also at the heart of Practicing Our Faith. Practices are those shared activities that address fundamental needs of humankind and creation and that, woven together, form a way of life. The twelve practices explored in this book are practices that human beings simply cannot do without, particularly at this time in history. This book will stimulate your imagination. It will encourage you to reflect. It initiates a conversation that will spread into many contexts, each of which presents unique opportunities for noticing, discussing, and living the practices of faith.

Author : David I. Smith
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467450645

Get Book

On Christian Teaching by David I. Smith Pdf

Christian teachers have long been thinking about what content to teach, but little scholarship has been devoted to how faith forms the actual process of teaching. Is there a way to go beyond Christian perspectives on the subject matter and think about the teaching itself as Christian? In this book David I. Smith shows how faith can and should play a critical role in shaping pedagogy and the learning experience.

Author : David Smith,James K. A. Smith
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780802866851

Get Book

Teaching and Christian Practices by David Smith,James K. A. Smith Pdf

In Teaching and Christian Practices several university professors describe and reflect on their efforts to allow historic Christian practices to reshape and redirect their pedagogical strategies. Whether allowing spiritually formative reading to enhance a literature course, employing table fellowship and shared meals to reinforce concepts in a pre-nursing nutrition course, or using Christian hermeneutical practices to interpret data in an economics course, these teacher-authors envision ways of teaching and learning that are rooted in the rich tradition of Christian practices, as together they reconceive classrooms and laboratories as vital arenas for faith and spiritual growth.

Author : Rachel G. Hackenberg,Martha Spong
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781640650244

Get Book

Denial Is My Spiritual Practice by Rachel G. Hackenberg,Martha Spong Pdf

Two ministers share their own stories about struggling to live out their faith. It’s the sort of experience familiar to many: Somewhere between illness and divorce, abusive relationships and brushes with death, faith failed to provide answers . . . or we failed to live as though we believed faith held answers. But surely, it’s different for clergy, the ones who preach and practice faith? But faith requires more, and authors Martha Spong and Rachel G. Hackenberg, who grew up in the church and became ordained ministers, know first-hand about coming to terms with God and life, the need to search for answers . . . or at least assurance we are not alone in struggling for renewed hope. Denial is My Spiritual Practice is a companion for the wondering and struggling. The authors offer their own stories as evidence that God remains, both when faith fails and when faith finds new understanding. They combine stark life experiences, offbeat spiritual perspectives, and Scripture to offer comfort, grace, laughter, and a few tears along the way.

Author : Craig Dykstra
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664227589

Get Book

Growing in the Life of Faith by Craig Dykstra Pdf

In this new edition of his popular book, Craig Dykstra explores the contributions of the traditions, education, worship practices, and disciplines of the Reformed Christian community in helping people grow in faith. In doing so, he makes the case that the Christian church, in its own traditions, has a wealth of wisdom about satisfying spiritual hunger and the desire to know God deeply--wisdom that offers coherent, thoughtful guidance in such diverse settings as congregational life, families, youth groups, and higher education.

Author : G. Campbell Morgan
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789124415

Get Book

The Practice of Prayer by G. Campbell Morgan Pdf

Originally published in 1906, Rev. Dr. George Campbell Morgan’s The Practice of Prayer is a devotional commentary on effective prayer. The book will provide the reader with an invaluable tool, intended to enhance personal prayer lives, in turn leading to a deeper understanding of prayer, and God.

Author : Jens Koehrsen,Andreas Heuser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000734645

Get Book

Faith-Based Organizations in Development Discourses and Practice by Jens Koehrsen,Andreas Heuser Pdf

Exploring faith-based organizations (FBOs) in current developmental discourses and practice, this book presents a selection of empirical in-depth case-studies of Christian FBOs and assesses the vital role credited to FBOs in current discourses on development. Examining the engagement of FBOs with contemporary politics of development, the contributions stress the agency of FBOs in diverse contexts of development policy, both local and global. It is emphasised that FBOs constitute boundary agents and developmental entrepreneurs: they move between different discursive fields such as national and international development discourses, theological discourses, and their specific religious constituencies. By combining influxes from these different contexts, FBOs generate unique perspectives on development: they express alternative views on development and stress particular approaches anchored in their theological social ethics. This book should be of interest to those researching FBOs and their interaction with international organizations, and to scholars working in the broader areas of religion and politics and politics and development.

Author : Britain Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Pastoral theology
ISBN : 1907123016

Get Book

Quaker Faith and Practice by Britain Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) Pdf

This book of Quaker faith and practice is an attempt to express Truth through the vital personal and corporate experience of Friends. It is largely composed of extracts: a fitting way of expressing the breadth of Quaker theology. It also describes the current structures of Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.--Back cover.

Author : Mark A. Noll,David F. Wells
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015019951238

Get Book

Christian Faith and Practice in the Modern World by Mark A. Noll,David F. Wells Pdf

Author : Stanley Hauerwas
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725235441

Get Book

Performing the Faith by Stanley Hauerwas Pdf

"Folksy, eclectic, disarmingly humble, and astonishingly wide-ranging, Hauerwas offers us a provocative reading of Bonhoeffer that, not surprisingly, assimilates him closely to John Howard Yoder. At the same time, Hauerwas replies to recent criticisms of his work by Jeffrey Stout. Contending that truth depends on performance far more than on theory, Hauerwas steps forward as a pacifist gadfly for a more truly faithful church and a more recognizably democratic society." --George Hunsinger, Princeton Theological Seminary "This book shows how lively and fecund Hauerwas's thought remains. A dazzling performance, capable of entertaining and instructing professional theologians as much as those who think the world might be a better place without theologians in it." --Paul J. Griffiths, University of Illinois at Chicago "Stan Hauerwas has done it again! He is able skillfully to blend into his book the passion for truth and justice of two of his greatest influences, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and John Howard Yoder. He takes these heroic advocates for peace into his own present-day struggle for the soul of the American nation. Hauerwas, an admirable Christian pacifist himself, dares Christians to be the 'Jesus people' they claim to be and to follow Jesus into the gospel path of nonviolence." --Geffrey B. Kelly, author of Liberating Faith: Bonhoeffer's Message for Today "Never totally predictable. Always a fresh perspective. And yet once again in these essays--on narrative, politics, Bonhoeffer, and the church--we hear the engaging, discerning, and brilliant voice we have come to know as Stanley Hauerwas." --Mark Thiessen Nation, Eastern Mennonite Seminary "Contending with and learning from the witness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose life is often thought to provide a Christian alternative to pacifism, Hauerwas deepens the account of Christian nonviolence he has been articulating for decades. His theology is strengthened and clarified by his encounter with the exemplary figure of Bonhoeffer." --Alan Jacobs, Wheaton College "Without loss of the provocative edge that has made him a vital and distinctive Christian voice, Hauerwas's Performing the Faith allows him to cast a retrospective eye on his work. At the same time, in a brilliant essay under the title of the book, he develops a profoundly important description of faithfulness." --Dennis O'Brien, University of Rochester

Author : Frederic Brussat,Mary Ann Brussat
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998-08-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780684835341

Get Book

Spiritual Literacy by Frederic Brussat,Mary Ann Brussat Pdf

This collection presents "more than 650 readings about daily life from present-day authors ..."--Inside jacket flap.