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Church councils and leadership groups will discover ten helpful
devotional reflections and discussion starters for a three-year
cycle, focusing on the task of serving from a biblical and
theological perspective. Insights from family systems theory
provide a framework for the reflections. Through discussion of
theory and by encountering and responding to real-life situations,
participants will ponder aspects of what they are called to do
together.
They sought to transform the world, and ended up transforming
twentieth-century America Between the 1890s and the Vietnam era,
tens of thousands of American Protestant missionaries were
stationed throughout the non-European world. They expected to
change the peoples they encountered abroad, but those foreign
peoples ended up changing the missionaries. Missionary experience
made many of these Americans critical of racism, imperialism, and
religious orthodoxy. When they returned home, the missionaries and
their children liberalized their own society. Protestants Abroad
reveals the untold story of how these missionary-connected
individuals left their enduring mark on American public life as
writers, diplomats, academics, church officials, publishers,
foundation executives, and social activists. David Hollinger
provides riveting portraits of such figures as Pearl Buck, John
Hersey, and Life and Time publisher Henry Luce, former "mish kids"
who strove through literature and journalism to convince white
Americans of the humanity of other peoples. Hollinger describes how
the U.S. government's need for people with language skills and
direct experience in Asian societies catapulted dozens of
missionary-connected individuals into prominent roles in
intelligence and diplomacy. He also shows how Edwin Reischauer and
other scholars with missionary backgrounds led the growth of
Foreign Area Studies in universities during the Cold War. Hollinger
shows how the missionary contingent advocated multiculturalism at
home and anticolonialism abroad, pushed their churches in
ecumenical and social-activist directions, and joined with
cosmopolitan Jewish intellectuals to challenge traditional
Protestant cultural hegemony and promote a pluralist vision of
American life. Missionary cosmopolitans were the Anglo-Protestant
counterparts of the New York Jewish intelligentsia of the same era.
Protestants Abroad sheds new light on how missionary-connected
American Protestants played a crucial role in the development of
modern American liberalism, and helped Americans reimagine their
nation as a global citizen.
This innovative volume provides an interdisciplinary, theoretically
innovative answer to an enduring question for
Pentecostal/charismatic Christianities: how do women lead churches?
This study fills this lacuna by examining the leadership and legacy
of two architects of the Pentecostal movement - Maria
Woodworth-Etter and Aimee Semple McPherson.
From the beginning of his career, Swiss theologian Karl Barth
(1886-1968) was often in conflict with the spirit of his times.
While during the First World War German poets and philosophers
became intoxicated by the experience of community and
transcendence, Barth fought against all attempts to locate the
divine in culture or individual sentiment. This freed him for a
deep worldly engagement: he was known as "the red pastor," was the
primary author of the founding document of the Confessing Church,
the Barmen Theological Declaration, and after 1945 protested the
rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany. Christiane Tietz
compellingly explores the interactions between Barth's personal and
political biography and his theology. Numerous newly-available
documents offer insight into the lesser-known sides of Barth such
as his long-term three-way relationship with his wife Nelly and his
colleague Charlotte von Kirschbaum. This is an evocative portrait
of a theologian who described himself as "God's cheerful partisan,"
who was honored as a prophet and a genial spirit, was feared as a
critic, and shaped the theology of an entire century as no other
thinker.
"This is a wonderful anthology . Its texts not only span the whole
of Luther's reforming career, but also cover the theological,
political, and social issues that mattered most to him and his age.
Best of all, the original integrity of the texts remains
perceptible, even when abridged. This valuable collection will be a
great teaching tool and also a most useful resource for anyone
interested in Luther or the Protestant Reformation." -Carlos Eire,
Yale University, author of Reformations: The Early Modern World,
1450-1650 (Yale University Press) CONTENTS: Thematic Table of
Contents General Introduction 1. Preface to the Complete Edition of
the Latin Writings (1545) 2. Disputation on the Power of
Indulgences (The Ninety-Five Theses) (1517) 3. Sermon on Indulgence
and Grace (1518) 4. Disputation Held at Heidelberg (1518) 5. To the
Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520) 6. The Babylonian
Captivity of the Church (1520) 7. On the Freedom of a Christian
(1520) 8. Preface to the New Testament (1522) 9. Preface to the
Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans (1522) 10. On Married Life (1522)
11. On Secular Authority: To What Extent It Must Be Obeyed (1523)
12. That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew (1523) 13. Against the
Heavenly Prophets Concerning Images and the Sacrament (1525) 14.
Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants (1525) 15. The
Bondage of the Will (1525) 16. The German Mass and Order of Divine
Service (1526) 17. How Christians Should Regard Moses (1527) 18.
Concerning Rebaptism (1528) 19. Hymns (pre-1529) 20. On the War
against the Turks (1529) 21. The Small Catechism (1529) 22.
Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians (1535) 23. The
Schmalkald Articles (1537) 24. Letter to Landgrave Philipp of Hesse
(1539) 25. On the Jews and Their Lies (1543) Suggestions for
Further Reading Index
The Preacher King investigates Martin Luther King Jr.'s religious
development from a precocious "preacher's kid" in segregated
Atlanta to the most influential America preacher and orator of the
twentieth century. To give the most accurate and intimate portrait
possible, Richard Lischer draws almost exclusively on King's
unpublished sermons and speeches, as well as tape recordings,
personal interviews, and even police surveillance reports. By
returning to the raw sources, Lischer recaptures King's truest
preaching voice and, consequently, something of the real King
himself. He shows how as the son, grandson, and great-grandson of
preachers, King early on absorbed the poetic cadences, traditions,
and power of the pulpit, more profoundly influenced by his fellow
African-American preachers than by Gandhi and the classical
philosophers. Lischer also reveals a later phase of King's
development that few of his biographers or critics have addressed:
the prophetic rage with which he condemned American religious and
political hypocrisy. During the last three years of his life,
Lischer shows, King accused his country of genocide, warned of long
hot summers in the ghettos, and called for a radical redistribution
of wealth. 25 years after its initial publication, The Preacher
King remains a critical study that captures the crucial aspect of
Martin Luther King Jr.'s identity. Human, complex, and passionate,
King was the consummate American preacher who never quit trying to
reshape the moral and political character of the nation.
In a sweeping reconsideration of the relation between religion and
modernity, Jose Casanova surveys the roles that religions may play
in the public sphere of modern societies.
During the 1980s, religious traditions around the world, from
Islamic fundamentalism to Catholic liberation theology, began
making their way, often forcefully, out of the private sphere and
into public life, causing the "deprivatization" of religion in
contemporary life. No longer content merely to administer pastoral
care to individual souls, religious institutions are challenging
dominant political and social forces, raising questions about the
claims of entities such as nations and markets to be "value
neutral," and straining the traditional connections of private and
public morality.
Casanova looks at five cases from two religious traditions
(Catholicism and Protestantism) in four countries (Spain, Poland,
Brazil, and the United States). These cases challenge postwar--and
indeed post-Enlightenment--assumptions about the role of modernity
and secularization in religious movements throughout the world.
This book expands our understanding of the increasingly significant
role religion plays in the ongoing construction of the modern
world.
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Helen Keller had absolutely no hearing or eyesight from the age of
two, but became one of the most inspiring and well known people to
have ever lived. For a number of years she functioned, in her
words, simply as "an unconscious clod of earth." Then quite
suddenly, she experienced the impact of "another mind" within her
own. Despite not knowing where it came from or how it got there,
she awoke to a new awareness of being able to talk and listen with
her hands. She learned to read and write, wrote at least ten books,
and attended college. Her religion developed from living deeply
within her spiritual self, cut off from normal sensation, and
spending her life on a spiritual plane. She incorporated her own
experiences with the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, a mystic born
in 1688, and the Swedenborgian Church. Swedenborg, like Keller, had
experienced other realms of spirit and transmitted deeper teachings
that Helen saw with great clarity. She wrote this book after
receiving many requests for her to describe her religious beliefs.
Weber wrote that capitalism in northern Europe evolved when the
Protestant (particularly Calvinist) ethic influenced large numbers
of people to engage in work in the secular world, developing their
own enterprises and engaging in trade and the accumulation of
wealth for investment. The Protestant ethic was a force behind an
unplanned and uncoordinated mass action that influenced the
development of capitalism. It influenced the development of
capitalism. Religious devotion, however, usually accompanied a
rejection of worldly affairs, including the pursuit of wealth and
possessions. But that was not the case with Protestantism. Weber
addresses this apparent paradox in this books.
For 50 years, Margaret Mead told Americans how cultures worked, and
Americans listened. While serving as a curator at the American
Museum of Natural History and as a professor of anthropology at
Columbia University, she published dozens of books and hundreds of
articles, scholarly and popular, on topics ranging from adolescence
to atomic energy, Polynesian kinship networks to kindergarten,
national morale to marijuana. At her death in 1978, she was the
most famous anthropologist in the world and one of the best-known
women in America. She had amply achieved her goal, as she described
it to an interviewer in 1975, "To have lived long enough to be of
some use." As befits her prominence, Mead has had many biographers,
but there is a curious hole at the center of these accounts: Mead's
faith. Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith introduces a side
of its subject that few people know. It re-narrates her life and
reinterprets her work, highlighting religious concerns. Following
Mead's lead, it ranges across areas that are typically kept
academically distinct: anthropology, gender studies, intellectual
history, church history, and theology. It is a portrait of a mind
at work, pursuing a unique vision of the good of the world.
The Large Catechism of Martin Luther was written to aid the
spiritual leaders of the Lutheran Church. Martin Luther wanted to
remind his followers that they should live a godly life instead of
a worldly life. Surprisingly, though, nowhere in this book does
Luther suggest that anyone should leave their worldly life behind
in order to pursue their godly life. Blunt and straightforward,
this book is remains an inspiration.
This collection of essays charts the influence of the Lutheran
Reformation on various (northern) European languages and texts
written in them. The central themes of Languages in the Lutheran
Reformation: Textual Networks and the Spread of Ideas are: how the
ideas related to Lutheranism were adapted to the new areas, new
languages, and new contexts during the Reformation period in the
16th and 17th centuries; and how the Reformation affected the
standardization of the languages. Networks of texts, knowledge, and
authors belong to the topics of the present volume. The
contributions look into language use, language culture, and
translation activities during the Reformation, but also in the
prelude to the Reformation as well as after it, in the early modern
period. The contributors are experts in the study of their
respective languages, including Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian,
Finnish, High German, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Low German,
Norwegian, Polish, and Swedish. The primary texts explored in the
essays are Bible translations, but genres other than biblical are
also discussed.
Martin Luther, the Augustinian friar who set the Protestant
Reformation in motion with his famous Ninety-Five Theses, was a man
of extremes on many fronts. He was both hated and honoured, both
reviled as a heretic and lauded as a kind of second Christ. He was
both a quiet, solitary reader and interpreter of the Bible and the
first media-star of history, using the printing press to reach many
of his contemporaries and become the most-read theologian of the
sixteenth century. Thomas Kaufmann's concise biography highlights
the two conflicting "natures" of Martin Luther, depicting Luther's
earthiness as well as his soaring theological contributions, his
flaws as well as his greatness. Exploring the close correlation
between Luther's Reformation theology and his historical context, A
Short Life of Martin Luther serves as an ideal introduction to the
life and thought of the most important figure in the Protestant
Reformation.
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