Renewing A Modern Denomination

Author : Andy Goodliff
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725279827

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Renewing a Modern Denomination by Andy Goodliff Pdf

This book is an exploration of the renewal of the Baptist Union of Great Britain in the 1990s, the only historic UK denomination which grew in this period. It was an exciting time, with plenty of denominational activity and engagement, both theological and institutional. The book tells this story focusing on the particular individuals involved and the wide-ranging discussions centered around mission and identity, ministry, associating, and ecumenism. It argues that there were competing visions emerging from two different streams of thought which whilst not divisive caused tension. At the end of the decade structural changes were introduced with hope for the new millennium, but the book contends that opportunities were missed for a more deeply theological renewal.

Author : Alexander J. B. Hampton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108429443

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Romanticism and the Re-Invention of Modern Religion by Alexander J. B. Hampton Pdf

"The fundamental concern of Romanticism, which brought about its inception, determined its development, and set its end, was the need to create a new language for religion"--

Author : Jeff McDonald
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498296311

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John Gerstner and the Renewal of Presbyterian and Reformed Evangelicalism in Modern America by Jeff McDonald Pdf

John Gerstner (1914–96) was a significant leader in the renewal of Presbyterian and Reformed evangelicalism in America during the second half of the twentieth century. Gerstner’s work as a church historian sought to shape evangelicalism, but also northern mainline Presbyterianism. In order to promote evangelical thought he wrote, taught, lectured, debated, and preached widely. In pursuing his aims he promoted the work of the great colonial theologian Jonathan Edwards. He also defended and endorsed biblical inerrancy and the Old Princeton theology. Gerstner was a sharp critic of theological modernism and what he considered its negative influence on the church. Part of Gerstner’s fame was his active participation in mainline Presbyterianism and in so many of the smaller Presbyterian denominations and in the wider evangelical movement. His renewal efforts within the United Presbyterian Church USA (later PCUSA) were largely a failure, but they did contribute to the surprising resurgence of Presbyterian and Reformed evangelicalism. Evangelical marginalization in the mainline led Gerstner and other evangelicals to redirect their energy into new evangelical institutions, groups, and denominations. Gerstner’s evangelical United Presbyterian Church of North America (UPCNA) background influenced the young scholar and the legacy of the UPCNA’s heritage can be detected in the popular forms of the Presbyterian and Reformed evangelical movement that exist today. Moreover, he was significant for the revival of Reformed teaching beyond the bounds of Presbyterianism. This book establishes Gerstner’s significance in American church history and provides a thorough analysis of the evangelical movement he sought to reinvigorate.

Author : Jeff McDonald
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498296328

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John Gerstner and the Renewal of Presbyterian and Reformed Evangelicalism in Modern America by Jeff McDonald Pdf

John Gerstner (1914-96) was a significant leader in the renewal of Presbyterian and Reformed evangelicalism in America during the second half of the twentieth century. Gerstner's work as a church historian sought to shape evangelicalism, but also northern mainline Presbyterianism. In order to promote evangelical thought he wrote, taught, lectured, debated, and preached widely. In pursuing his aims he promoted the work of the great colonial theologian Jonathan Edwards. He also defended and endorsed biblical inerrancy and the Old Princeton theology. Gerstner was a sharp critic of theological modernism and what he considered its negative influence on the church. Part of Gerstner's fame was his active participation in mainline Presbyterianism and in so many of the smaller Presbyterian denominations and in the wider evangelical movement. His renewal efforts within the United Presbyterian Church USA (later PCUSA) were largely a failure, but they did contribute to the surprising resurgence of Presbyterian and Reformed evangelicalism. Evangelical marginalization in the mainline led Gerstner and other evangelicals to redirect their energy into new evangelical institutions, groups, and denominations. Gerstner's evangelical United Presbyterian Church of North America (UPCNA) background influenced the young scholar and the legacy of the UPCNA's heritage can be detected in the popular forms of the Presbyterian and Reformed evangelical movement that exist today. Moreover, he was significant for the revival of Reformed teaching beyond the bounds of Presbyterianism. This book establishes Gerstner's significance in American church history and provides a thorough analysis of the evangelical movement he sought to reinvigorate.

Author : David B. Barrett
Publisher : Nairobi : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCSC:32106000173093

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Schism and Renewal in Africa by David B. Barrett Pdf

Author : Gregory S. Clapper
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606085424

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The Renewal of the Heart Is the Mission of the Church by Gregory S. Clapper Pdf

John Wesley has arguably influenced more American Christians than any other Protestant interpreter. One reason for this wide influence is that Wesley often spoke about the "heart" and its "affections"--that realm of life where all humans experience their deepest satisfactions, as well as some of their deepest conundrums. However, one of the problems of interpreting and appropriating Wesley is that we have been blinded to Wesley's actual views about "heart religion" by contemporary stereotypes about "affections" or "emotions." Because of this, it is rare that either Wesley's friends or his critics appreciate his sophisticated understanding of affective reality.To make clear what Wesley meant when he emphasized the renewal of the heart, Gregory S. Clapper summarizes some recent paradigm-changing accounts of the nature of "emotion" produced by contemporary philosophers and theologians, and then applies them to Wesley's conception of the heart and its affections. These accounts of emotion throw new light on Wesley's vision of Christianity as a renewal of the heart and make it possible to reclaim the language of the heart, not as a pandering or manipulative rhetoric, but as the framework for a comprehensive theological vision of Christian life and thought. The book closes with several practical applications that make clear the power of Wesley's vision to transform lives today.

Author : Douglas H. Shantz
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781421408804

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An Introduction to German Pietism by Douglas H. Shantz Pdf

An up-to-date portrait of a defining moment in the Christian story—its beginnings, worldview, and cultural significance. Winner of the Dale W. Brown Book Award of the Young Center for Anabaptists and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College An Introduction to German Pietism provides a scholarly investigation of a movement that changed the history of Protestantism. The Pietists can be credited with inspiring both Evangelicalism and modern individualism. Taking into account new discoveries in the field, Douglas H. Shantz focuses on features of Pietism that made it religiously and culturally significant. He discusses the social and religious roots of Pietism in earlier German Radicalism and situates Pietist beginnings in three cities: Frankfurt, Leipzig, and Halle. Shantz also examines the cultural worlds of the Pietists, including Pietism and gender, Pietists as readers and translators of the Bible, and Pietists as missionaries to the far reaches of the world. He not only considers Pietism's role in shaping modern western religion and culture but also reflects on the relevance of the Pietist religious paradigm of today. The first survey of German Pietism in English in forty years, An Introduction to German Pietism provides a narrative interpretation of the movement as a whole. The book's accessible tone and concise portrayal of an extensive and complex subject make it ideal for courses on early modern Christianity and German history. The book includes appendices with translations of German primary sources and discussion questions.

Author : William J. Abraham
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802826563

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The Logic of Renewal by William J. Abraham Pdf

Helps Church leaders and members get their bearings in the renewal debate by analyzing the most salient proposals for Church renewal that have surfaced over the last fifty years. In successive chapters the editor pairs outspoken figures who (in all but one chapter) represent strongly contrasting convictions. He also gives special attention to the theological assumptions of each proposal, highlights its overall strengths and weaknesses, and develops hi sown proposals for Church renewal through interaction with those under review.

Author : Crawford Leonard Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : PSU:000014725876

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The Worldly Church by Crawford Leonard Allen Pdf

Author : Amos Yong,Vinson Synan,Miguel Alvarez
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781629989297

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Global Renewal Christianity by Amos Yong,Vinson Synan,Miguel Alvarez Pdf

This book gives an overview of one-hundred years of Pentecostal history in Latin America and addresses the move of the Holy Spirit in nations such as Brazil, Columbia, Argentina Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Mexico, as well as the Caribbean.,

Author : Clive D. Field
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192666024

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Counting Religion in Britain, 1970-2020 by Clive D. Field Pdf

Counting Religion in Britain, 1970-2020, the fourth volume in the author's chronological history of British secularization, sheds significant new light on the nature, scale, and timing of religious change in Britain during the past half-century, with particular reference to quantitative sources. Adopting a key performance indicators approach, twenty-one facets of personal religious belonging, behaving, and believing are examined, offering a much wider range of lenses through which the health of religion can be viewed and appraised than most contemporary scholarship. Summative analysis of these indicators, by means of a secularization dashboard, leads to a reaffirmation of the validity of secularization (in its descriptive sense) as the dominant narrative and direction of travel since 1970, while acknowledging that it is an incomplete process and without endorsing all aspects of the paradigmatic expression of secularization as a by-product of modernization.

Author : Christopher J. Wilson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532651946

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Renewal Apologetics by Christopher J. Wilson Pdf

Why do you believe in God? Why do you believe in the Bible? Why do you believe in miracles? These are questions that Christians are often asked by sceptics. The field of apologetics attempts to provide rational answers to these and other questions. Unfortunately, apologetical answers to these questions are often abstract and philosophical. However, the Christian apologist/evangelist has a much more powerful argument in their arsenal: the argument from miracles. Miracles are the original Christian apologetic. It was through the witnessing of miracles that Christianity was originally spread. By applying modern tools of philosophical inquiry and scientific methodology, Wilson is able to establish a core set of miracles which defy naturalistic explanations and strongly point toward occurrences of Special Divine Action (SDA). However, once these occurrences are proven to be genuine miracles, several questions remain. Why does God sometimes perform miracles? Why does he often answer no? How do these random acts fit into his overall plans of redemption? By answering these and other questions, Wilson develops a comprehensive apologetic for both Christianity in general and the Renewal Movement in particular.

Author : R. Ward Holder
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664229900

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Crisis and Renewal by R. Ward Holder Pdf

This latest volume in the Westminster History of Christian Thought series introduces readers to the events and ideas that propelled the various religious reformations of sixteenth-century Europe. A splendid introduction to this momentous period, Crisis and Renewal examines the historical and theological developments that dramatically changed the religious landscape of Europe and continue to have important effects today. Discussion questions and other aids make this an excellent book for classroom use. Designed particularly for undergraduate courses in theology and religion, the Westminster History of Christian Thought series offers reliable and accessible introductions to Christian thought for each major period in Christian history--the early church, the medieval era, the Reformation, the modern age, and the contemporary period--and concludes with a volume on American religious thought.

Author : A. G. Roeber
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780802868619

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Hopes for Better Spouses by A. G. Roeber Pdf

Modern Protestant debates about spousal relations and the meaning of marriage began in a forgotten international dispute some 300 years ago. The Lutheran-Pietist ideal of marriage as friendship and mutual pursuit of holiness battled with the idea that submission defined spousal roles. Exploiting material culture artifacts, broadsides, hymns, sermons, private correspondence, and legal cases on three continents -- Europe, Asia, and North America -- A. G. Roeber reconstructs the roots and the dimensions of a continued debate that still preoccupies international Protestantism and its Catholic and Orthodox critics and observers in the twenty-first century.

Author : Russell Stannard
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 193203174X

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Science and the Renewal Of Belief by Russell Stannard Pdf

Annotation. Originally published to high acclaim in Great Britain and now updated and available for the first time in a U.S. edition, Science and the Renewal of Belief sheds light on ways in which science and religion influence each other and can help each other. "Science and logic cannot establish belief," writes author Russell Stannard, "but belief can be confirmed and renewed within the changed perspective of modern science."