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Considers many facets of the medieval church, dealing with
institutions, buildings, personalities and literature. The text
explores the origins of the diocese and the parish, the history of
the See of Hereford and of York Minster. It discusses the arrival
of the archdeacon, the Normans as cathedral builders and the kings
of England and Scotland as monastic patrons. The studies of
monastic life deal with the European question of monastic vocation
and with St Bernard's part in the sensational expansion of the
early 12th century. An epilogue takes us to the 14th century,
contrasting Chaucer's parson with an actual Norfolk rector.
Connect your journey of discipleship with a passion for the world
to meet Jesus Christ. For many followers of Jesus, discipleship
means doing certain things to deepen our connection with Jesus
Christ. But our spiritual growth checklists are often disconnected
from the mission of reaching a lost world with the gospel message.
Taking a holistic approach that unites evangelism and discipleship,
Kevin and Sherry Harney demonstrate how God's plan for our
spiritual growth is intimately connected to his mission to the
world. Based on the teachings and reflection of their book, Organic
Disciples, Kevin and Sherry will lead you and your group through
the seven markers of spiritual maturity and how these biblical
practices can connect us with God's work of reaching people with
his love: Bible Engagement Passionate Prayer Wholehearted Worship
Humble Service Joyful Generosity Consistent Community Organic
Outreach True spiritual maturity will always lead believers outward
to engage the world with the good news and truth of Jesus. You'll
learn how to overcome the common roadblocks and false narratives
that stand in the way of spiritual maturity and how to design a
personal pathway of growth to be more like Jesus in character and
mission. Used together with the Organic Disciples book and the free
video study and online assessment available at OrganicOutreach.com,
churches and individuals can better identify where they are in
their growth journey and what the next steps are in becoming more
like Jesus.
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The Bethlehem Story
(Hardcover)
Andy McCullough; Foreword by Jack Sara; Afterword by David Devenish
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I Remember
(Hardcover)
Das Maddimadugu; Edited by David Janzen
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R891
R763
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In this new biography, students will follow Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
from her humble Albanian birth to worldwide celebrity as Mother
Teresa. The nun who attended to the dying and diseased in Calcutta,
India, and established her Missionaries of Charity around the world
is revealed to have a singular determination from a young age. As a
woman in the patriarchal Catholic system, she had to prove to the
hierarchy, even the Vatican, that she was capable of handling each
project she proposed. Her vision to live and work among the poorest
of the poor as one of them led to the founding of a new order that
tended to society's outcasts. The narrative chronicles the
expansion and success of the order and the eventual attention that
was showered on her efforts. This increasing attention led to
scrutiny and criticism of ideology, methods of care, and financing.
Why did she reject better medical equipment for her patients yet
receive the latest treatment and best care when she herself was
ailing? Why did she take money from and try to help Charles
Keating, a major player in the savings and loan scandal of the
1980s? The accusation of hypocrisy, among others, are discussed as
is her controversial beatification. Readers will be challenged to
consider for themselves whether Mother Teresa deserves to be
sainted. Mother Teresa is characterized as being ordinary and her
life as mundane. The biography suggests that she transcended her
ordinariness with a singular belief that she was called to life's
work. When this work brought fame, which she never sought, she used
it to further her causes. In a global age, celebrity worship
allowed her to work the system. She became an icon of service and
selflessness, but her human flaws remained behind the saintliness.
The Budapest Scottish Mission with its two-fold aim, mission to the
Jews and initiating an Evangelical revival in the largest
Protestant body had played a remarkable, decisive and unique role
in the « long 19th century of the Hungarian Kingdom. This study
focuses on how the Scottish Mission implanted British
Evangelicalism, German Pietism, voluntary organisations such as
YMCA, IFES, WSCF, Sunday School, Women's Guild, social outreach,
medical missions, home mission, personal piety, concepts of mission
and evangelisation through their Scottish Presbyterianism into
Hungary. The study presents the interaction of Scottish
Presbyterians, Orthodox, Neolog (Reform and Conservative) and
Status Quo Ante Jews of Hungary, and the Hungarian Reformed
Protestants. It also discusses their attitudes to conversion,
mission, proselytising, education, assimilation, and nationalism.
While discussing the Mission's aims, the book pays careful
attention to church, institutional, and religious histories. In
addition to these, local theologies, ideologies and world-views of
the people are scrutinized. Through these issues this study
introduces the reader to the daily life of a multicultural
community gathered around the Scottish community.
Social movements inspired by powerful ideological beliefs
continue to define global and national politics. In Yugoslavia,
civil war is justified in the name of religion and ethnic identity.
The Arab-Israeli conflict rages on, fuelled on either side by a
conviction of indisputable ideological truth. Closer to home,
American religious organizations consistently challenge political
authority in the name of a higher morality. Existing theories
either ignore the role of religion in social movement formation or
discredit the claim that religious convictions can directly lead
adherents to engage in political action. Through a detailed
analysis of American and British evangelical Christians, J.
Christopher Soper here demonstrates that religious commitments
were, in fact, crucial in promoting political activism in both
countries. Evangelical Christianity in the United States and Great
Britain is the first book to provide such a comparative
perspective.
Focussing on the temperance movement and the politics of
abortion, Soper highlights the similarities, and equally intriguing
differences, between British and American political/evangelical
structures. Using interviews and literature gathered from
evangelical organizations on both sides of the Atlantic, he paints
a fascinating picture of a hitherto neglected aspect of social
movement theory. Evangelical Christianity in the United States and
Great Britain is an invaluable new resource for scholars of
religious studies, political science and sociology alike. Soper
provides a unique model with which to view a dominant political
trend: the mobilization of collective action groups around a set of
powerful beliefs. His research can thus be applied beyond the
boundaries of his chosen topic, and will be an important
contribution to the study of any movement in which ideology assumes
a significant role.
In The Great Omission, respected missions thinker Robertson
McQuilkin answers the question, "How is it--with so many unreached
peoples, there are so few Christians going?" He investigates the
reasons so few attempt to carry the message of Christ to the
multitudes who have never heard of him. Not only is McQuilkin
well-versed on trends and strategies in world missions, he also
knows how to present the challenge of world evangelism in an
unforgettable way.
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Body and Blood
(Hardcover)
Andrew R. Hardy, Keith Foster
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R822
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The Emerging Church movement developed in the mid-1990s among
primarily white, urban, middle-class pastors and laity who were
disenchanted with America's conservative Evangelical sub-culture.
It is a response to the increasing divide between conservative
Evangelicals and concerned critics who strongly oppose what they
consider overly slick, corporate, and consumerist versions of
faith. A core feature of their response is a challenge to
traditional congregational models, often focusing on new church
plants and creating networks of related house churches. Drawing on
three years of ethnographic fieldwork, James S. Bielo explores the
impact of the Emerging Church movement on American Evangelicals. He
combines ethnographic analysis with discussions of the movement's
history, discursive contours, defining practices, cultural logics,
and contentious interactions with conservative Evangelical critics
to rethink the boundaries of "Evangelical" as a category.
Ultimately, Bielo makes a novel contribution to our understanding
of the important changes at work among American Protestants, and
illuminates how Emerging Evangelicals interact with the cultural
conditions of modernity, late modernity, and visions of
"postmodern" Christianity.
This book brings together lectures and articles by the renowned
historian of world Christianity, making them available, many for
the first time, to scholars and students of world mission. While
examining the many aspects that have characterized mission,
indigenous Christianity, and colonialism in modern Africa, The
Missionary Movement in Christian History has a far broader reach.
Essays such as "The Gospel as the Prisoner and Liberator of
Culture" reveal the paradoxes of the Christian movement as a whole
in discussing how different primitive Mediterranean Christianity is
from early Catholicism, from Celtic monasticism, from Reformation
Protestantism, and from Nigerian Spirit Christianity. Andrew Walls
shows how the central question for Christianity has always been one
of identity in many different forms, a phenomenon revealed at each
stage of its history by the missionary movement. What this means
for theology, however, has hardly been explored. This is the
subtext of Walls' work, providing extraordinary insights and
successful counters to secular critiques of world Christianity.
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