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J. C. Ryle's classic guide for Christians, wherein he outlines the
principles of sin, sanctification, spiritual growth and the
importance of Christ is published here complete. The spiritual
excellence displayed in J. C. Ryle's writings cannot be
underestimated: a lengthy introduction tells us the seven
aspirations which Ryle holds when teaching his fellow Christian.
Delving into great detail to explain each aim, and supporting his
statements by citing scripture, the author displays an impressive
devotion both to the Lord and to all believers who choose to read
his words. Moses is identified as being foremost among God's
saints, standing among the best examples of men ever lived. His
surrender of a high ranked position, his abstentious attitude to
worldly pleasures and wealth, and his opting for an ascetic life
full of hardships and pain in service of the Lord are mentioned.
Moses' followers were despised by others, yet he took up and
ultimately proved their cause.
The nature of evangelical identity in Britain is both a perennial
issue and an urgent one. This is especially the case because
evangelical Christianity has, throughout its history, been
characterised by a remarkable degree of dynamism and diversity.
These essays, by a distinguished list of contributors, explore the
issue of evangelical identity and the nature of evangelical
diversity by investigating the interactions of evangelicalism with
national and denominational identities, race and gender, and its
expression in spirituality and culture from the evangelical
revivals of the eighteenth century to evangelical churches and
movements of the present.
The Assemblies of God (AG) is the ninth largest American and the
world's largest Pentecostal denomination, with over 50 million
followers worldwide. The AG embraces a worldview of miracles and
mystery that makes"supernatural" experiences, such as speaking in
tongues, healing, and prophecy, normal for Christian believers.
Ever since it first organized in 1916, however, the "charismata" or
"gifts of the Holy Spirit" have felt tension from institutional
forces. Over the decades, vital charismatic experiences have been
increasingly tamed by rituals, doctrine, and denominational
structure. Yet the path towards institutionalization has not been
clear-cut. New revivals and direct personal experience of God-the
hallmarks of Pentecostalism-continue as an important part of the AG
tradition, particularly in the growing number of ethnic
congregations in the United States. The Assemblies of God draws on
fresh, up-to-date research including quantitative surveys and
interviews from twenty-two diverse Assemblies of God congregations
to offer a new sociological portrait of the AG for the new
millennium. The authors suggest that there is indeed a potential
revitalization of the movement in the works within the context of
the larger global Pentecostal upswing, and that this revitalization
may be spurred by what the authors call "godly love:" the dynamic
interaction between divine and human love that enlivens and expands
benevolence. The volume provides a wealth of data about how the
second-largest American Pentecostal denomination sees itself today,
and suggests trends to illuminate where it is headed in the future.
This book examines the relationship between race, religion, and
economics within the black church. The book features unheard voices
of individuals experiencing economic deprivation and the faith
communities who serve as their refuge. Thus, this project examines
the economic ethics of black churches in the rural South whose
congregants and broader communities have long struggled amidst
persistent poverty. Through a case study of communities in
Alabama's Black Belt, this book argues that if the economic ethic
of the Black Church remains accommodationist, it will continue to
become increasingly irrelevant to communities that experience
persistent poverty. Despite its historic role in combatting racial
oppression and social injustice, the Church has also perpetuated
ideologies that uncritically justify unjust social structures.
Wilson shows how the Church can shift the conversation and reality
of poverty by moving from a legacy of accommodationism and toward a
legacy of empowering liberating economic ethics.
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Cathars in Question
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Antonio Sennis; Contributions by Antonio Sennis, Bernard Hamilton, Caterina Bruschi, Claire Taylor, …
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The question of the reality of Cathars and other heresies is
debated in this provocative collection. Cathars have long been
regarded as posing the most organised challenge to orthodox
Catholicism in the medieval West, even as a "counter-Church" to
orthodoxy in southern France and northern Italy. Their beliefs,
understood to be inspired by Balkan dualism, are often seen as the
most radical among medieval heresies. However, recent work has
fiercely challenged this paradigm, arguing instead that "Catharism"
is a construct, mis-named and mis-represented by generations of
scholars, and its supposedly radical views were a fantastical
projection of the fears of orthodox commentators. This volume
brings together a wide range of views from some of the most
distinguished internationalscholars in the field, in order to
address the debate directly while also opening up new areas for
research. Focussing on dualism and anti-materialist beliefs in
southern France, Italy and the Balkans, it considers a number of
crucial issues. These include: what constitutes popular belief; how
(and to what extent) societies of the past were based on the
persecution of dissidents; and whether heresy can be seen as an
invention of orthodoxy. At the same time, the essays shed new light
on some key aspects of the political, cultural, religious and
economic relationships between the Balkans and more western regions
of Europe in the Middle Ages. Antonio Sennis is Senior Lecturer in
Medieval History at University College London Contributors: John H.
Arnold, Peter Biller, Caterina Bruschi, David d'Avray, Joerg
Feuchter, Bernard Hamilton, R.I. Moore, Mark Gregory Pegg, Rebecca
Rist, Lucy J. Sackville, Antonio Sennis, Claire Taylor, Julien
Thery-Astruc, Yuri Stoyanov
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The Reformation in Germany" provides readers with a strong
narrative overview of the most recent work on this topic. It
addresses the central concerns of Reformation historiography as
well as providing a distinct interpretation of the movement.
The book examines the spread and reception of the evangelical
movement, the historical dynamic created by the fusion of religious
ideas and the social context, the religious imagination of the
common man and utopian visions of reform, and the relationship
between political culture and religious change. The narrative goes
on to consider the long-term legacy of the Reformation movement in
Germany. The book provides readers with a fresh perspective on the
movement, one which seeks to understand its rise and evolution as a
historical process in constant dialogue with the cultural and
political context of the age.
Robert South (1634-1716) was one of the great Anglican writers and
preachers of his age. A contemporary of Dryden and Locke, he faced
the profound political and philosophical changes taking place at
the beginning of the Enlightenment in England. With the
interdependence of Church and State forcing a conjunction of
religious and political issues, South's life and work as a preacher
show him reacting to changes in civil and ecclesiastical polity
over the course of his active public life. Gerard Reedy's book, the
first major study of South, makes a strong case for the importance
of his sermons, their complexity, beauty and wit, and their place
in the history of post-Restoration English literature. Discussing
sermons of South which deal with his theory of politics, language,
the sacrament and mystery, Reedy reintroduces us to a lively and
seminal master of prose, politics and theology in the late Stuart
era.
Short Description: Many Christians reject the consensus of
contemporary science about the age of the universe, the
implications of genetics, and so on. This book presents interviews
with 15 eminent scientists who discuss the compatibility of their
Christian faith and their mainstream scientific commitments.
Features John Polkinghorne, Alister McGrath, John Lennox, Francis
Collins, and John Houghton. A collection of exclusive interviews in
which 15 eminent scientists talk about their science and their
Christian faith. In this collection of interviews, scientists show
how Bible-believing Christianity is compatible with contemporary
scientific thinking. Christians do not have to choose, they say,
between big bang and the Bible. Genesis and genetics can go
together. In this book, big questions of the past, the present and
the future are asked and answered; the physical impacts and moral
implications of climate change are investigated and the intricacies
of human DNA and the morality of genetic engineering are
unravelled. Physicists, immunologists, astrophysicists, biochemists
and mathematicians discuss what it means for humankind to be made
in the image of God and how Christians can translate the gospel for
our science-savvy society.
In his provocative book offers a revisionist history of the
trans-denominational initiatives of English evangelicals from 1965
to 2000. 'Based on inside knowledge as well as telling statistics
and sound sociological method Rob Warner's study of English
evangelicals in the late 20th century tells a masterly though
sobering tale of an era of evangelical entrepreneurs who had great
success in gather- ing together the evangelical clans but suffered
from a seeming in- ability to separate reality from hype, or what
Dr Warner calls 'vision inflation'. The book is a must for every
serious Evangelical leader as well as seasoned sociological
scholars.' Professor Andrew Walker, King's College, London.
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Los Evangelicos
(Hardcover)
Juan F. Martinez, Lindy Scott
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Apostolic networks link congregations together through personal
relationships. They center around apostolic figures who have the
ability to mobilize resources, make rapid decisions, and utilize
charismatic gifts. Networks of churches organized in this way can
respond to postmodernity and cultural innovation. This book takes
the story of the emergence of apostolic networks in Britain from
the visionary work of Arthur Wallis through the charismatic renewal
into the full-fledged Restoration Movement of the 1980s. It covers
the events of the 1990s, including the Toronto Blessing, and
contains fresh information based upon interviews with leading
players and new survey data as well as reanalysis of historical
documents.
The thesis of this study is that Christian Science was a
manifestation of the unrest gripping the United States after the
Civil War. The age in which the movement flowered was, at once,
sordid and gilded, commercial and optimistic. The stormy way
through which the new religion passed was, in a sense, the road
upon which all new ideas and schemes are tried. Mrs. Eddy's vision
was subjected to reasoned and irrational scrutiny for 40 years. In
truth, Christian Science belonged only tenuously to a modern era.
It reflected the prevailing optimism, progressivism, utopianism,
and feminism of the Gilded Age but did not illuminate the stage
with a unique light of its own.
This book describes Reformed ecclesiology through the lived faith
of the Filipino American Christian diaspora. It proposes a
contextual, constructive ecclesiology by engaging with the
Presbyterian/Reformed theological tradition's understanding of the
ascension of Jesus Christ with the Old Testament book of Habakkuk
as a conversation partner.
A product of trans-Atlantic revivalism and awakening, Methodism
initially took root in America in the eighteenth century. In the
mid-nineteenth century, Methodism exploded to become the largest
religious body in the United States and the quintessential form of
American religion. This Cambridge Companion offers a general,
comprehensive introduction to various forms of American Methodism,
including the African-American, German Evangelical Pietist,
holiness and Methodist Episcopal traditions. Written from various
disciplinary perspectives, including history, literature, theology
and religious studies, this volume explores the beliefs and
practices around which the lives of American Methodist churches
have revolved, as well as the many ways in which Methodism has both
adapted to and shaped American culture. This volume will be an
invaluable resource to scholars and students alike, including those
who are exploring American Methodism for the first time.
Though known today largely for dating the creation of the world to
400BC, James Ussher (1581-1656) was an important scholar and
ecclesiastical leader in the seventeenth century. As Professor of
Theology at Trinity College Dublin, and Archbishop of Armagh from
1625, he shaped the newly protestant Church of Ireland. Tracing its
roots back to St. Patrick, he gave it a sense of Irish identity and
provided a theology which was strongly Calvinist and fiercely
anti-Catholic. In exile in England in the 1640s he advised both
king and parliament, trying to heal the ever-widening rift by
devising a compromise over church government. Forced finally to
choose sides by the outbreak of civil was in 1642, Ussher opted for
the royalists, but found it difficult to combine his loyalty to
Charles with his detestation of Catholicism.
A meticulous scholar and an extensive researcher, Ussher had a
breathtaking command of languages and disciplines--"learned to a
miracle" according to one of his friends. He worked on a series of
problems: the early history of bishops, the origins of Christianity
in Ireland and Britain, and the implications of double
predestination, making advances which were to prove of lasting
significance. Tracing the interconnections between this scholarship
and his wider ecclesiastical and political interests, Alan Ford
throws new light on the character and attitudes of a seminal figure
in the history of Irish Protestantism.
European Pentecostalism was fortunate in having the wise and
balanced leadership of the evangelical Anglican Alexander Boddy at
its disposal during the formative years of the early 1900s. This
wellresearched and vivid book tells the story of how Boddy helped
to define the doctrine and stance of the first generation of
Pentecostals. Wakefield brings to life the vigorous discussion of
charismata that occupied the minds of early Spiritfilled believers.
He charts Boddys training, explains his beliefs and his
spirituality, records his personal and pastoral work in
northeastern England and explains the style and direction of his
leadership. Boddy was an important figure, even a great man and now
for the first time a fulllength biography of his life and work is
available.
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Out of Adventism
(Hardcover)
Jerry Gladson; Foreword by Edwin Zackrison
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Charles Golightly (1807 85) was a notorious Protestant polemicist.
His life was dedicated to resisting the spread of ritualism and
liberalism within the Church of England and the University of
Oxford. For half a century he led many memorable campaigns, such as
building a martyr?'s memorial and attempting to close a theological
college. John Henry Newman, Samuel Wilberforce, and Benjamin Jowett
were among his adversaries. This is the first study of Golightly?'s
controversial career.
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