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Help children understand the sacrament of Baptism with this
scrapbook record of the day they were welcomed into the Church. An
introduction for elementary school children, along with pages for
photographs, prayers, and memories, make this an excellent gift for
your child and a helpful teaching tool.
Water for Life is an illustrated activity book for 8-11 year olds
(although adults will also find it informative) and families. It
can be used in an educational or devotional setting at home,
church, or school. Water connects all physical and spiritual life.
Besides being essential for life, water is the visible sign of
Baptism, which calls us to serve others in the world. Having clean
water for all God s children is an act of justice, love, respect
and a core value of what it means to be a Christian. These
illustrated workbook activities tap into multiple learning levels
and offer a variety of ways for children to interact with this core
value of our faith, making a direct connection for young people
between their faith and daily life. Activities also connect clean
water and the Millennium Development Goals."
How might our worship recapture and reflect the enchanted world of
God's nearness in Jesus Christ? In this first volume in IVP
Academic's Dynamics of Christian Worship series, John D. Rempel
offers a vision for this kind of transformative worship. A
theologian and minister in the Mennonite Church, Rempel considers
the role of the sacraments and ritual within the Free Church
tradition. While the Free Churches rightly sought to cleanse the
church of the abuses of sacramentalism, in that process they also
set aside some of the church's historic practices and the theology
behind them, which ultimately impoverished their worship. In
response to this liturgically thin space, Rempel appeals to the
incarnation of Christ, whose taking on of flesh can help us
perceive the sacramental nature of our faith and worship. By
embracing life-giving and peacemaking practices, the worship of not
only the Free Church tradition but of the whole body of Christ
might be transformed and become enchanted once again. The Dynamics
of Christian Worship series draws from a wide range of worshiping
contexts and denominational backgrounds to unpack the many dynamics
of Christian worship-including prayer, reading the Bible,
preaching, baptism, the Lord's Supper, music, visual art,
architecture, and more-to deepen both the theology and practice of
Christian worship for the life of the church.
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Baptism
- Three Views
(Paperback)
David F. Wright; Contributions by Sinclair B. Ferguson, Anthony N.S. Lane, Bruce A Ware
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The Christian church confesses "one baptism." But the church's
answers to how, whom and when to baptize, and even what it means or
does, are famously varied. This book provides a forum for
thoughtful proponents of three principal evangelical views to state
their case, respond to the others, and then provide a summary
response and statement. Sinclair Ferguson sets out the case for
infant baptism, Bruce Ware presents the case for believers'
baptism, and Anthony Lane argues for a mixed practice. As with any
good conversation on a controversial topic, this book raises
critical issues, challenges preconceptions and discloses the soft
points in each view. Evangelicals who wish to understand better
their own church's practice or that of their neighbor, or who
perhaps are uncertain of their own views, will value this incisive
book.
Although John Calvin often likened sacramental confession to
butchery, the Council of Trent declared that for those who
approached it worthily, it was made easy by its "great benefits and
consolations." Thomas Tentler describes and evaluates the
effectiveness of sacramental confession as a functioning
institution designed "to cause guilt as well as cure guilt," seeing
it in its proper place as a part of the social fabric of the Middle
Ages. The author examines the institution of confession in practice
as well as in theory, providing an analysis of a practical
literature whose authors wanted to explain as clearly as they
safely could what confessors and penitents had to believe, do,
feel, say, and intend, if sacramental confession were to forgive
sins. In so doing he recreates the mentality and experience that
the Reformers attacked and the Counter-Reformers defended. Central
to his thesis is the contention that Luther, Calvin, and the
Fathers of Trent regarded religious institutions as the solution to
certain social and psychological problems, and that an awareness of
this attitude is important for an assessment of the significance of
confession in late medieval and Reformation Europe. Originally
published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
"The heart of this book is about the ways in which the liturgy of
the sacraments has been celebrated and understood in history and
the ways in which the liturgy can (and should) influence how we
understand the sacraments today." In the first text of its kind,
renowned liturgical scholar Kevin W. Irwin offers a thorough
explanation of the sacraments in their intimate relationship to
liturgy. In Part 1 he traces the historical evolution of sacraments
and sacramental practice from their biblical foundations through
the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council. Part 3
concerns a theology of sacraments based on the liturgy as a major
and firm foundation for understanding the theology of the
sacraments today. Bridging these two main parts are two
methodological chapters that describe the sources and method to be
applied in Part 3. The Sacraments: Historical Foundations and
Liturgical Theology is an indispensable resource for scholars and
students who need to understand the sacraments as they should be
understood: in their historical and theological relationships to
the liturgy.
Although John Calvin often likened sacramental confession to
butchery, the Council of Trent declared that for those who
approached it worthily, it was made easy by its "great benefits and
consolations." Thomas Tentler describes and evaluates the
effectiveness of sacramental confession as a functioning
institution designed "to cause guilt as well as cure guilt," seeing
it in its proper place as a part of the social fabric of the Middle
Ages. The author examines the institution of confession in practice
as well as in theory, providing an analysis of a practical
literature whose authors wanted to explain as clearly as they
safely could what confessors and penitents had to believe, do,
feel, say, and intend, if sacramental confession were to forgive
sins. In so doing he recreates the mentality and experience that
the Reformers attacked and the Counter-Reformers defended. Central
to his thesis is the contention that Luther, Calvin, and the
Fathers of Trent regarded religious institutions as the solution to
certain social and psychological problems, and that an awareness of
this attitude is important for an assessment of the significance of
confession in late medieval and Reformation Europe. Originally
published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
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