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Author : Frank Ronge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Church
ISBN : 0809156873
"This collection of chapters offers interesting and instructive insights to broaden readers' understanding of the Church and its many paths"--
Author : Richard Rohr
Publisher : Convergent Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781524762100
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From one of the world’s most influential spiritual thinkers, a long-awaited book exploring what it means that Jesus was called “Christ,” and how this forgotten truth can restore hope and meaning to our lives. “Anyone who strives to put their faith into action will find encouragement and inspiration in the pages of this book.”—Melinda Gates In his decades as a globally recognized teacher, Richard Rohr has helped millions realize what is at stake in matters of faith and spirituality. Yet Rohr has never written on the most perennially talked about topic in Christianity: Jesus. Most know who Jesus was, but who was Christ? Is the word simply Jesus’s last name? Too often, Rohr writes, our understandings have been limited by culture, religious debate, and the human tendency to put ourselves at the center. Drawing on scripture, history, and spiritual practice, Rohr articulates a transformative view of Jesus Christ as a portrait of God’s constant, unfolding work in the world. “God loves things by becoming them,” he writes, and Jesus’s life was meant to declare that humanity has never been separate from God—except by its own negative choice. When we recover this fundamental truth, faith becomes less about proving Jesus was God, and more about learning to recognize the Creator’s presence all around us, and in everyone we meet. Thought-provoking, practical, and full of deep hope and vision, The Universal Christ is a landmark book from one of our most beloved spiritual writers, and an invitation to contemplate how God liberates and loves all that is.
Author : John Burley Waring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600088021
Author : Hermann Vorlander
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532614323
"Mission is nothing but the one church of God in motion." With these words the famous German Lutheran theologian Wilhelm Loehe described the essence of missionary work. Mission moves the church and crosses boundaries to form the one universal church. In 1842, Loehe started missionary work in the small Bavarian town of Neuendettelsau in southern Germany, as he sent two young men as "emergency helpers" to North America. He supported the formation of Lutheran congregations that later joined together to become the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS). Together with Friedrich Bauer he founded a mission seminary that sent, until 1985, nearly 900 graduates as pastors and missionaries not only to the USA, but also to Australia, Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Palestine. From this the present center Mission One World of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria developed, which maintains partnership relations to churches in Africa, Asia/Pacific, and Latin America. This book describes the history of this missionary movement up to the present time and puts the Bavarian missionary work into the context of mission theology and strategies in the twentieth century.
Author : Naomi van der Meer
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Africans
ISBN : 9783643900517
Since the late 1980's the major cities in the Netherlands are home to a growing number of Christian congregations, founded in particular by Africans. This study investigates whether, for African Catholics in the Netherlands, religion contributes to their segregation, integration or assimilation. It contains a comparative case study of the experiences, patterns of affiliation, identity discourse, and social relationships encountered among African Catholics in three faith communities: a Dutch, an international, and an African parish respectively.
Author : Walter Russell
Publisher : David De Angelis
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9791221329421
THE UNIVERSAL ONE was originally published in 1927 and distributed to the top scientists in the country. It is being republished at this crucial period for the sole purpose of again releasing vital new scientific knowledge to this new age- of new comprehension. Today the whole world is in a state of chaos fighting against the forces of greed, envy, jealousy and fear. Disharmony is rife. All of our human relations are in a state of violent upheaval. Civilization is in reverse. Science is being used to destroy instead of to build. We talk of world peace, yet those who are to plan the new world do not know the answer, the solution. Present knowledge of man's relation to Nature and Natural Law which controls his human relations is, as yet, inadequate to meet the situation. Man is still too near his jungle to either know the law which inexorably governs his every action and that of everything in Nature or to comprehend that he must obey Nature or be self-destroyed. Still dominated by jungle habits, he settles his human relations by jungle methods. Wars and world chaos will continue until new knowledge applicable to the coming new cycle in man's evolution is acquired by him. What is this new knowledge? A consistent cosmogony is sorely needed for this newly dawning day of man's exaltation which is to come. Walter Russell spent a full seven years in writing this book. When it was first published in 1927, it won more condemnation than favor from a world which was not then as ready for it as now. The book mixed science and metaphysics in a manner which nullified its impression upon physicists. Gradually, however, many of its then radical statements have been verified by some of the world's greatest scientists and have won him many followers. The physicist draws a sharp line between things which he can in some way detect by the evidence of his senses and things which lie beyond that evidence. There is no denial of a "something" beyond the range of his senses and his sensed instruments, but what may be there is conjectural and, therefore, inadmissible as scientific data of a reliable nature. In other words, material evidence which lies within the narrow limits of man's sense-range is the only admissible evidence to science. But what about that vast range which will not respond to our sensed bodies and sensed instruments? Down the ages a rare few have been permitted to sever the senses which connect matter with its motivated Source in the consciousness of Universal Mind. These few have become conscious of the cosmos and have tried to tell the world of its simplicity. Each of these has faced an impossible task. The generalities and symbols which they did set down have been discounted and relegated to poetry or metaphysics or mysticism.
Author : Ilana van Wyk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1107686253
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), a church of Brazilian origin, has been enormously successful in establishing branches and attracting followers in post-apartheid South Africa. Unlike other Pentecostal Charismatic Churches (PCC), the UCKG insists that relationships with God be devoid of "emotions", that socialisation between members be kept to a minimum and that charity and fellowship are "useless" in materialising God's blessings. Instead, the UCKG urges members to sacrifice large sums of money to God for delivering wealth, health, social harmony and happiness. While outsiders condemn these rituals as empty or manipulative, this book shows that they are locally meaningful, demand sincerity to work, have limits and are informed by local ideas about human bodies, agency and ontological balance. As an ethnography of people rather than of institutions, this book offers fresh insights into the mass PCC movement that has swept across Africa since the early 1990s.
Author : World Council of Churches. Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Church
ISBN : UCAL:$B53762
Author : Franco Serafini
Publisher : Sophia
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1644134772
The Gospels might not be "good enough" for modernity, and science is certainly its god. But neither is an impediment to the one, true God. Indeed, He is using methods of the twenty-first century -- His twenty-first century -- to show how our Faith can be proven through Eucharistic miracles with clinical scientific precision. In this astounding book, prominent cardiologist and author Dr. Franco Serafini walks us through the extensive medical and scientific research into five Eucharistic miracles, unveiling the stunning testimonies of hematologists, oncologists, neurologists, geneticists, molecular biologists, and more who all concluded the same thing: the five Eucharistic miracles are undeniably authentic. In surprising and fascinating ways, each of these miracles relates to the others: all reveal heart muscle tissue, many reveal a heart that was experiencing extreme suffering, and some reveal a heart still enduring tissue trauma. You'll learn how the human DNA found in Eucharistic substances was identified, what kept a revered eighth-century relic alive until the twenty-first century, and how the identical blood group recurred in the unique miracles to provide contemporary man with a thrilling statistical fortress. Best of all, you'll be armed with the scientific data to prove not only that God is still active in the world but that He desires all of us to be in union with Him through His Most Precious Body and Blood.
Author : Carla Brewington
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620322840
The person of exile may be considered a wanderer, a nomad, a refugee, or a rebel. People of exile can be the marginalized, the disenfranchised, the outcast, the left out, and the pushed away. Different terms are used, but what defines them all is separation. Exile is a dangerous and dominant theme that runs through Scripture, through the lives of the people of Israel, and through the universal church. Women who have known the sacred place of exile are uniquely qualified to form a women's mission. The case is made for a momentum shift in missiological thinking. There is a desperate and aching need for a women's mission, which could lead the way to a women's missionary movement. The emergence of such a mission/movement is indeed fraught with skepticism and suspicion from many of those inside the church and leaders in the missionary world. But the radical, disruptive, costly following of Jesus to those outside the camp is our calling.
Author : Michael Williams,Zsolt Aradi,Brother Hermenegild
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1484044770
IN THIS book an attempt is made to describe briefly and accurately the main outlines of the organized system by means of which the Catholic Church carries on its work in the world today. Only the most elementary summary of this tremendous subject is possible within the limits of a single volume, not meant for ecclesiastical students, but for the average reader, whether Catholic or non-Catholic, who would like to know in a general way how the Church is constructed and how its various parts are put together to function within the framework of the institution as a whole. There are a multitude of works, ranging from the most profound theological, historical, and scientific studies of the universal Church, or of its various parts, down to the most elementary pamphlets, but so far as we know, there is no other book in English which provides the average reader with a non-controversial, general account of the whole subject. It is a non-controversial account in the sense that its authors (or perhaps its compilers would be the more accurate designation) make no effort to prove or to defend the fundamental, spiritual, moral, and intellectual teachings of the Church. These teachings are simply stated, or reported, when and where their statement is necessary for the reader to grasp the meaning, the purpose, . the end of the operations of the Church as an entity, or of any particular department of its intricate organization. There are at least two good reasons for believing that a book like this is likely to be useful today and in the years immediately ahead of us. There is, first of all, the interest created by the steadily increasing activities of the Catholic Church throughout the world and, secondly, the still more important fact that the effects and consequences of these activities are not confined to the avowed members of the Church, but are also affecting profoundly the whole human society of which Catholics form a comparatively small minority, yet a highly important one because of the social consequences of their beliefs as taught and controlled by a worldwide, centralized organization, by far the oldest and most deeply rooted of all human institutions. That the Catholic Church is, to say the least, certainly one of the major forces of the world-even if it only represents, as its enemies believe, a declining and baseless superstition-is generally admitted. Its own claim, of course, is that it is incomparably, uniquely, the supreme spiritual power in all the world. As we have already stated, it is not the purpose of this book to argue for the truth of this claim. Yet in order to make comprehensible even an outline sketch of the mechanism by means of which the Catholic Church attempts to realize this claim, it is necessary to give a brief definition of what is meant by the term, "the Catholic Church in Action." Upon that definition each and every item of the multitudinous activities of the Catholic Church absolutely depends for justification by the believers in the Church, and for correct understanding by others. First of all, then, by the term "the Catholic Church" we mean that visible society, real, one, and actively at work in the world today, which was established by Jesus Christ nineteen hundred and thirty-four years ago. Furthermore, we mean that visible society, real, one, and clearly present before the world today, which is in communion with the Apostolic See of Rome, and which accepts not only the supremacy of that See, but also the infallibility of its occupant, the Pope, when, as shepherd and teacher of all the faithful, he defines a matter of faith or morals.
Author : Gregory P. Leffel
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781461658573
In Faith Seeking Action, author Gregory Leffel links a description of the church as a global movement with a description of contemporary social movements that are actively challenging today's societies, such as the environmental, global justice, and identity movements. Not surprisingly, Christian communities and communities of social activists share much in common as they each work to enrich their societies. It is natural then to ask what missionally-concerned Christians may learn from social movements about the public role of their churches, the connection of their beliefs to social change, and the mobilization of their people. It can also be asked how these often divided communities may find ways to collaborate around common actions rooted in such shared values as peace, justice, life, and the integrity of the environment. Building on growing interest in the field of missiology and its "missional church" concept, Leffel has created a dialog between the church as a social actor and social movements. Along with introducing movement theory to mission studies, Leffel introduces a new way of addressing the issues involved in the church's engagement with society, a concept he calls missio-ecclesiology. Of interest to those seeking vital ways to live out their faith in the world—missiologists, missional church leaders, and street-level workers alike—this work fuels fresh thinking about the church's role in cultural and social change.
Author : John A. Buehrens,Forrest Church
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807097168
An updated edition of the classic introduction to the history and beliefs of Unitarian Universalism—from a senior minister of the Unitarian Church For those contemplating religious choices, Unitarian Universalism offers an appealing alternative to religious denominations that stress theological creeds over individual conviction and belief. Featuring two new chapters, a revealing and entertaining foreword by best-selling author Robert Fulghum, and a new preface by UU moderator Denise Davidoff, this updated edition of the classic introductory text on Unitarian Universalism explores the many sources of the living tradition of this ‘chosen faith’.
Author : Kenan B. Osborne
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781616437695
Radically rethinks sacramental life and theology from the standpoint of postmodern philosophy.
Author : Christoph Ernst,Leslie Nathaniel,Richard Chartres,Friederike Nüssel
Publisher : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783374047192
This volume documents the ninth theological conference of the Church of England and the Evangelical Church in Germany held in London in January 2016 as part of their Meissen process. The two churches are committed to engage within the Meissen process in joint theological work which, on this occasion, focused on similarities and differences of their respective reformatory origins. The twelve conference papers also paradigmatically discuss the consequential impact that reformation movements have for the churches, for ecumenism and the churches' socio-political responsibilities today. Reformatory origins and evolving tasks merge in light of the upcoming Reformation anniversary of 2017. Mit Beiträgen von Nicholas Baines, Richard Chartres, Carolyn Hammond, Margot Käßmann, Torrance Kirby, Jörg Lauster, Friederike Nüssel, Stephen Plant, Sigurd Rink, Gury Schneider-Ludorff, Elaine Storkey und Michael Weinrich. [Reformation damals und heute] Dieser Band dokumentiert die neunte Theologische Konferenz im Rahmen des Meißen-Prozesses der Kirche von England und der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland, die im Januar 2016 in London stattfand. Die theologische Arbeit, zu der sich beide Kirchen verpflichtet haben, konzentrierte sich bei dieser Konferenz zum einen auf die gemeinsamen und verschiedenen reformatorischen Wurzeln beider Kirchen. Zum anderen werden in den zwölf Konferenzbeiträgen vor dem Hintergrund des bevorstehenden Reformationsjubiläums im Jahr 2017 exemplarisch auch einige aus den jeweiligen Reformationen ableitbare Konsequenzen für die Kirchen, die Ökumene und die heutige gesellschaftspolitische Verantwortung der Kirchen erörtert.