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2021 Book Award Winner, The Gospel Coalition (Public Theology &
Current Events) Christians are often thought of as defending only
their own religious interests in the public square. They are viewed
as worrying exclusively about the erosion of their freedom to
assemble and to follow their convictions, while not seeming as
concerned about publicly defending the rights of Muslims, Hindus,
Jews, and atheists to do the same. Andrew T. Walker, an emerging
Southern Baptist public theologian, argues for a robust Christian
ethic of religious liberty that helps the church defend religious
freedom for everyone in a pluralistic society. Whether explicitly
religious or not, says Walker, every person is striving to make
sense of his or her life. The Christian foundations of religious
freedom provide a framework for how Christians can navigate deep
religious difference in a secular age. As we practice religious
liberty for our neighbors, we can find civility and commonality
amid disagreement, further the church's engagement in the public
square, and become the strongest defenders of religious liberty for
all. Foreword by noted Princeton scholar Robert P. George.
Outreach 2022 Resource of the Year (Cross-Cultural and Missional)
Southwestern Journal of Theology 2021 Book of the Year Award
(Evangelism/Missions/Global Church) Representing the fruit of a
lifetime of reflection and practice, this comprehensive resource
helps teachers understand the way people in different cultures
learn so they can adapt their teaching for maximum effectiveness.
Senior missiologist and educator Craig Ott draws on extensive
research and cross-cultural experience from around the world. This
book introduces students to current theories and best practices for
teaching and learning across cultures. Case studies, illustrations,
diagrams, and sidebars help the theories of the book come to life.
The petitions received and the letters sent by the Papal Chancery
during the Late Middle Ages attest to the recognition of disability
at the highest levels of the medieval Church. These documents
acknowledge the existence of physical and/or mental impairments,
with the papacy issuing dispensations allowing some supplicants to
adapt their clerical missions according to their abilities. A
disease, impairment, or old age could prevent both secular and
regular clerics from fulfilling the duties of their divine office.
Such conditions can, thus, be understood as forms of disability. In
these cases, the Papal Chancery bore the responsibility for
determining if disabled people were suitable to serve as clerics,
with all the rights and duties of divine services. Whilst some
petitioners were allowed to enter the clergy, or - in the case of
currently serving churchmen - to stay more or less active in their
work, others were compelled to resign their position and leave the
clergy entirely. Petitions and papal letters lie at intersection of
authorized, institutional policy and practical sources chronicling
the lived experiences of disabled people in the Middle Ages. As
such, they constitute an excellent analytical laboratory in which
to study medieval disability in its relation to the papacy as an
institution, alongside the impact of official ecclesiastical
judgments on disabled lives.
Learn to apply the lessons found in the Bible to the struggles of
day-to-day life Pastoral Care from the Pulpit connects the head,
heart, and soul issues of everyday life, presenting a pastoral care
approach to preaching and teaching practical Christianity. This
powerful, progressive book gives hope to anyone struggling to
survive and thrive as a spiritual person in difficult times. The
author, a practicing psychotherapist who is also an ordained
minister, explores Biblical stories and passages to find practical
motivations for living as a Christian, offering encouragement to
those suffering from a lack of purpose, identity, or acceptance.
Pastoral Care from the Pulpit makes creative use of counseling and
pastoral care principles to serve as a handbook for spiritual
survival against life's everyday challenges. The book is an
outgrowth of sermons delivered by the author at First Christian
Church in Rome, Georgia, creative explorations of the Bible that
blend theology with preaching to remain relevant to real life. It
can be read a chapter at a time for daily affirmation, or taught
one chapter a week as a class study; questions are provided at the
end of each chapter to encourage reflection. Pastoral Care from the
Pulpit provides positive principles for living and powerful
encouragements for transformation during life's journey. The book
includes: The Transforming Power of Touch (Matthew 8:40-48) Seeing
Possibilities and Potentialities in Your Identity (Mark 10:46-52)
Does God Put You to the Test or Take the Test for You? (Genesis
22:1-18) A Not-So-Modest Proposal: Follow Jesus (Matthew 4:18-23)
Wandering into Far Countries: With Whom Are You Traveling? (Luke
15:11-31) Finding Freedom from False Assumptions (John 14:25-27)
Saying YES to the Way of Jesus (John 10:10) Drinking Out of a Glass
with a Hole in the Bottom (Jeremiah 2:1-13) and much more! Pastoral
Care from the Pulpit is an invaluable aid for ministers, chaplains,
and pastoral counselors working with mainstream Christian
denominations.
"Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor" represents Leonardo Boff's most
systematic effort to date to link the spirit of liberation theology
with the urgent challenge of ecology. Focusing on the threatened
Amazon of his native Brazil, Boff traces the ties that bind the
fate of the rain forests with the fate of the Indians and the poor
of the land. In this book, readers will find the keys to a new,
liberating faith.
A leading scholar offers an up-to-date articulation of the
theological grounding of the missionary endeavor. Lalsangkima
(Kima) Pachuau argues that theology of mission deals with God's
work in and for the world, which is centered on salvation in Christ
through the power of the Holy Spirit. Pachuau brings a global
perspective to mission theology, explains how theology of mission
is related to theology as a discipline, and recognizes recent
critiques of "missions," offering a compelling response rooted in
the very nature of God.
Learn to balance the professional demands of your ministry with
your personal needs No amount of research, study, or planning can
prepare pastoral care givers for the stress placed on their
personal lives by the demands of their ministries. But Grief, Loss,
and Death: The Shadow Side of Ministry can help anyone involved in
pastoral counseling close the gap between their professional and
personal needs, encouraging them to use the stress, loss, and grief
that accompanies pastoral care giving as opportunities to humanize
their ministries and reaffirm their faith. This unique book offers
comfort and solace to those in the chaplaincy who are torn between
professional obligations and the limits and boundaries of the
shadow side of their ministrythe human side. The shadow side of
ministry shoots a bullet through the brain that does not kill or
prevent thinking or feeling. But the bullet creates a hole, a long,
hollow, empty wound that thinking and feeling must somehow bypass.
The wounded minister does not recover the previous self, cannot
remember what the old self thought or felt. Like a veteran of a
secret war, there may be a new life after the shameful wound, but
no public way to heal. But there is a public way of speaking about
it and this may help relieve some of the shame and some of the
self-blaming. Author Halbert Weidner Grief, Loss, and Death: The
Shadow Side of Ministry can help in your search for the answers to
questions you may have already found yourself asking, including: Do
I prefer co-workers or friends? How did I lose focus of my original
goals? How did I become isolated? How can I share authority without
giving up responsibility? How do I cope when family issues arise?
The book also addresses issues of illness, death and suicide,
funerals, the confrontation between joy and sorrow, and how life's
stages are often like the Stations of the Cross. Grief, Loss, and
Death: The Shadow Side of Ministry is help against despair.
Newcomers to the profession can use the book as a guide to the
difficulties that lie ahead, and experienced pastoral care givers
can employ it as a catalogue to be consulted when all hope seems
lost.
This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own
version of Christian idealism against scientific racism,
missionaries developed a complex theology of race that prefigured
modern ideologies of multiculturalism and reached its final,
belated culmination in the liberal Protestant support of the civil
rights movements in the 1960s
A major and continuing problem for theological education and the
practice of Christian ministry is how to best achieve a genuine
integration between theory and practice, theology and experience.
The key claim of this book is that theological reflection,
beginning with experience, is a method of integration and that
pastoral supervision is a vehicle for theological reflection. In
establishing this claim, John Paver demonstrates that the model and
method have potential to be a catalyst for reform within
theological colleges and seminaries. Three different theological
reflection models are developed and critiqued in this book, and
their capacity to be developed in particular contexts is explored.
This book does not stop at ministry, cultural and personal
integration, but is bold enough to make recommendations for
structural integration within the theological institution.
By 2030, 20% of the people living in the United States will be age
65 or older, with unique spiritual needs that can affect their
physical and mental well-being. This book answers the critical need
for a ministry that doesn't center primarily on youth and families
in its outreach, instead presenting a step-by-step guide to
developing a ministry for the aged that is focused on the needs and
resources of each congregation. This program has been used
effectively with nearly 50 congregations, both large and small, to
create a focused older adult ministry. No two congregations are
alike. The resources, perspectives, and skills of each congregation
are different, as are the needs of its members. This book provides
a framework for use by planning groups within communities of any
religious tradition. The book presents a process that includes
essential questions that allow planning groups to develop answers
that fit the needs, cultural, history, and structure of their
individual congregations. The book is divided into three sections:
"The Fundamentals"-defining your audience, your mission, and the
skills and existing programs that can be brought to the planning
process "Programming Possibilities"-spiritual needs based on the
aging process, continued learning for older adults, opportunities
to serve and be served, providing quality pastoral care, and
community building "Putting it All Together"-deciding on a
direction, using desired outcomes for evaluation, establishing
target dates, and ongoing evaluation This book also includes forms
and charts to help in the planning process. The book is an
invaluable resource for clergy, ministry committees and planning
groups, and staff persons responsible for older adult ministries.
First published in 2006. The reform of the Church of England in the
first half of the nineteenth century was moulded considerably by
the same pressures of industrialization, urbanization, and
population growth that rapidly altered English society adn its
institutions as a whole. The present work examines the responses of
the episcopal leadership of the Church of England and Wales to the
transformation of teh soceity to which they ministered. It
considers primarily their social ideas and policies from teh decade
preceding the French Revolution to the middle of the nineteenth
century: from the period when a few bishops began to worry abotu
the effectiveness of their abuse-ridden Church to the time when teh
established Church,ecclesiastically reformed and spiritually
revitalized, looked forward to evangelizing the multitudes who
peopled the new age. The study concentrates on the attitudes and
policies of those prelates installed in the years before 1783,
between 1783 and 1812, between 1812 and 1830, and finally between
1830 and 1852. Professor Soloway also examines their
socialconnections, showingthe predominantly aristocratic nature of
the Church's leadership in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries.He emphasises the importance of the role of these men in
guiding, administering and reforming the established Church in a
period of unprecedented economic and socialchange.
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trusted translation for millions of Christians worldwide.
Understand the basic practical aspects of pastoral careand make
your visit to the sick meaningful for both of you! Training Guide
for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call is a useful handbook
from a Christian perspective that provides the common sense and
not-so-common answers to your questions on how best to minister to
the sick. Drawing on his three decades of experience as a bedside
hospital chaplain, the author explains appropriate and
inappropriate behaviors and suggests things to say (or not to say)
to truly make your next visit fruitful for you and the patient.
More than simply an educational tool, this guidebook provides
clergy and Christian laypeople with spiritual explanations and
straightforward strategies to not only comfort the patient but also
foster the sense of joy and accomplishment in oneself. Training
Guide for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call teaches you to
glean a positive experience from a difficult task, the visit to the
sick. The author shares his insights learned in his lengthy and
distinguished career in this instructional guidebook. Honest and
compassionate in its portrayal of the sick and dying, the book
prepares the reader spiritually, emotionally, and even physically
for the challenge of the visit while focusing on the distress and
the needs of the patient. At times stating practical common sense,
other times shining an insightful light on the less physical
aspects of the visit, this educational handbook is invaluable for
all who minister, or wish to minister, to the sick. Training Guide
for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call discusses: Jesus'
Eleventh CommandmentTo Love One Another how to prepare yourself
spiritually and emotionally for the visit the hospital patient's
world explanations of patients' possible emotional, financial,
family, and spiritual distress do's and don'ts to note before and
during a visit to the patient's room the special needs of shut-ins
ministering to the dying ministering to difficult patients
ministering to Alzheimer's or comatose patients Training Guide for
Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call is a practical
educational guide for pastors, supervisors in clinical pastoral
education programs, CPE students, college and seminary students in
courses in ministry to the sick, police and fire department
chaplains, and family and friends of hospitalized, nursing home,
and assisted living patients/residents.
This challenging book sets out what is involved in being a
Christian minister - its joys and difficulties, its
responsibilities and privilege. It discusses the call to and the
work of ministry; the breadth and nature of the task. How to Be a
Church Minister will prove to be immensely useful across a wide
spectrum of church traditions, both to those already in ministry
and to those contemplating the vocation.
The book that can help you reconcile being both gay and Catholic
Sons of the Church: The Witnessing of Gay Catholic Men spotlights
testimonials from over thirty gay Catholic men to answer the
question, How can you be gay and Catholic? Dr. Thomas B. Stevenson,
who received degrees from the University of Notre Dame, Boston
College, and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, explores
this question, using various interviews to thoroughly analyze the
many dimensions of being gay and Catholic while providing a
powerful and convincing criticism of Church teaching on
homosexuality. This thoughtful, surprisingly reverent book is the
answer for those gay readers who long for a religious connection,
as well as for Catholic readers and those in pastoral positions who
want and need to hear the stories of gay people firsthand. Sons of
the Church: The Witnessing of Gay Catholic Men tells one storythe
story of what it is like to be gay and Catholicthrough the various
stories of over thirty gay Catholic men. Each chapter is arranged
thematically, beginning with experiences of being homosexual and
Catholic during childhood and youth. Subsequent chapters delve into
the ways these men each finally accepted themselves and integrated
their sexuality, related to others who did or did not understand,
dealt with homosexual promiscuity, found intimate relationships,
became a part of a community, and ultimately came to terms with the
Catholic Church and their faith. Throughout, these 'witnesses'
explain how their faith in God guides them through the various
experiences and issues they face. The positive aspects of Catholic
Christianity are respectfully explored at the same time as the
present Church teaching on homosexuality is challenged. Sons of the
Church uses interviews to explore: Catholics coming to terms with
their homosexuality the experiences of young men recognizing their
sexuality suffering and oppression by society and the Church
acceptance of self integration of goodness and lovability of
homosexuality moral issues of promiscuity among gay men gay
relationships and the Catholic dimensions of commitment criticisms
of gay culture the Catholic Church teachings on homosexuality the
answer to the question, How can you be gay and Catholic? Sons of
the Church: The Witnessing of Gay Catholic Men is enlightening
reading essential for educators, students, counselors, priests,
nuns, psychologists, and theologians. Catholic people, gay people,
and every educated reader will find that the interviews and ideas
here stimulate thought and create a greater understanding of the
issue of homosexuality and faith.
Catholic and Protestant missionaries followed their own, competing
agendas rather than those of the colonial state. This volume
unravels these agendas and challenges received wisdom on the
histories of Rwanda and Burundi, as well as the colonial
relationship between state and mission. The archives of the White
Fathers Catholic missionary order in Rome and Paris are read
alongside primary sources produced by the British Protestant Church
Missionary Society to analyse their impact between 1900 and 1972 in
Rwanda and Burundi. The colonial state was weaker than often
assumed, and permeable by external radical influences.
Denominational competition between Catholic and Protestant
missionaries was a key motor of this radicalism. The colonial state
in both kingdoms was a weak, reactive agent rather than a
structuring form of power. This volume shows that missionaries were
more committed and influential actors, but their inability to
manage the mass demand for the education that they sought and
delivered finally undermined the achievement of their aims.
Missionaries and the Colonial State is a resource for historians of
Christianity, Belgian Africa specialists, and scholars of
colonialism.
Holy Habits is an initiative to nurture Christian discipleship. It
explores Luke's model of church found in Acts 2:42-47, identifies
ten habits and encourages the development of a way of life formed
by them. These resources, which include an introductory guide, have
been developed to help churches explore the habits in a range of
contexts and live them out in whole-life, missional discipleship.
Understand the basic practical aspects of pastoral careand make
your visit to the sick meaningful for both of you! Training Guide
for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call is a useful handbook
from a Christian perspective that provides the common sense and
not-so-common answers to your questions on how best to minister to
the sick. Drawing on his three decades of experience as a bedside
hospital chaplain, the author explains appropriate and
inappropriate behaviors and suggests things to say (or not to say)
to truly make your next visit fruitful for you and the patient.
More than simply an educational tool, this guidebook provides
clergy and Christian laypeople with spiritual explanations and
straightforward strategies to not only comfort the patient but also
foster the sense of joy and accomplishment in oneself. Training
Guide for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call teaches you to
glean a positive experience from a difficult task, the visit to the
sick. The author shares his insights learned in his lengthy and
distinguished career in this instructional guidebook. Honest and
compassionate in its portrayal of the sick and dying, the book
prepares the reader spiritually, emotionally, and even physically
for the challenge of the visit while focusing on the distress and
the needs of the patient. At times stating practical common sense,
other times shining an insightful light on the less physical
aspects of the visit, this educational handbook is invaluable for
all who minister, or wish to minister, to the sick. Training Guide
for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call discusses: Jesus'
Eleventh CommandmentTo Love One Another how to prepare yourself
spiritually and emotionally for the visit the hospital patient's
world explanations of patients' possible emotional, financial,
family, and spiritual distress do's and don'ts to note before and
during a visit to the patient's room the special needs of shut-ins
ministering to the dying ministering to difficult patients
ministering to Alzheimer's or comatose patients Training Guide for
Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call is a practical
educational guide for pastors, supervisors in clinical pastoral
education programs, CPE students, college and seminary students in
courses in ministry to the sick, police and fire department
chaplains, and family and friends of hospitalized, nursing home,
and assisted living patients/residents.
Stay up-to-date with the latest innovative methods of meeting the
spiritual needs of the elderly Spiritual Assessment and
Intervention: Current Directions and Applications examines current
state-of-the-art efforts in the development and implementation of
spiritual interventions for older adults. Academics and
practitioners working in social work, social welfare, medicine, and
mental health and aging present innovative approaches to meeting
major challenges in the field of gerontology, including elder
abuse, dementia, care giving, palliative care, and
intergenerational relationships. The book provides practical
methods for dealing with the problems and pitfalls of starting and
evaluating interventions of a spiritual nature in a variety of
community-based and institutional settings. Spiritual Assessment
and Intervention: Current Directions and Applications provides you
with an overview of current and future methods and means of
providing spiritual support to the elderly as they struggle with
the problems and possibilities of aging in today's complex
world.Growing interest in the positive effects that religiousness
and spirituality can have on life stress has created a growing need
for research and practice models that strengthen, reinforce, or
promote the spiritual well-being of older adults. This collection
first presented in 2003 at the 56th Annual Scientific Meeting of
the Gerontological Society of America addresses the important care
giving and practice issues involving the physical and psychological
health of older adults.Spiritual Assessment and Intervention:
Current Directions and Applications examines: how older adults use
narrative therapy to manage adversity and maintain self-efficacy
how faith-based communities can be enlisted as important social
resources a pilot government-funded project to raise awareness of
elder abuse in faith communities an intergenerational project
involving a preschool and a retirement community spiritual
activities for adults with Alzheimer's disease the Creating
Alternative Relaxing Environment (CARE) Cabinet intervention
Spiritual Assessment and Intervention: Current Directions and
Applications is an essential resource for gerontological
practitioners from the biological, clinical (including physicians,
physician assistants, nurses, and dentists), behavioral and social
sciences (including anthropologists, psychologists, social workers,
sociologists, and researchers), and for health care administrators.
Holy Habits is an initiative to nurture Christian discipleship. It
explores Luke's model of church found in Acts 2:42-47, identifies
ten habits and encourages the development of a way of life formed
by them. These resources, which include an introductory guide, have
been developed to help churches explore the habits in a range of
contexts and live them out in whole-life, missional discipleship.
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