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This book presents the first comprehensive account of the changing
ecumenical relationships between Britain and Serbia. While the
impetus for the collection is the commemoration of the Serbian
seminarians who settled in and around Oxford towards the end of the
First World War, the scope is much broader, including detailed
accounts of the relationships between the Church of England and
Serbia and its Orthodox Church from the middle of the nineteenth
century until World War II. It includes studies of leading thinkers
from the period, especially the charismatic Nikolaj Velimirovic.
The contributors use many unpublished resources that reveal the
centrality of the churches in promoting the Serbian cause through
the course of the First World War and in its aftermath.
The Jesus People movement of the late 1960s and 1970s was an
important force in the lives of millions of American Baby Boomers.
This unique combination of the hippie counterculture and
evangelical Christianity first appeared amid 1967's famed "Summer
of Love" in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and grew like
wildfire in Southern California and in cities like Seattle,
Atlanta, and Milwaukee. In 1971 the growing movement found its way
into the national spotlight, attracting a great deal of
contemporary media and scholarly attention. In the wake of
publicity, the movement gained momentum and attracted a huge new
following among evangelical church youth who enthusiastically
adopted the Jesus People persona as their own. In the process, the
movement spread across the country - particularly into the Great
Lakes region - and coffeehouses, "Jesus Music" singers, and "One
Way" bumper stickers soon blanketed the land. Within a few years,
however, the movement faded and disappeared and was largely
forgotten by everyone but those who had filled its ranks. God's
Forever Family is the first major attempt to re-examine the Jesus
People phenomenon in over thirty years. It reveals that it was one
of the most important American religious movements of the second
half of the 20th-century. Not only did the Jesus movement produce
such burgeoning new evangelical groups as Calvary Chapel and the
Vineyard movement, but the Jesus People paved the way for the huge
Contemporary Christian Music industry and the rise of "Praise
Music" in the nation's churches. More significantly, perhaps, it
revolutionized evangelicals' relationship with youth and popular
culture-important factors in the evangelical subculture's emerging
engagement with the larger American culture from the late 1970s
forward. God's Forever Family makes the case that the Jesus People
movement not only helped create a resurgent evangelicalism but -
alongside the hippie counterculture and the student movement - must
be considered one of the major formative powers that shaped
American youth in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Wife No. 19 is the compelling, informative and emotionally fraught
biography of Ann Eliza Young, a member and wife within the Mormon
church during the 19th century. Young sets out to chronicle a
lengthy expos of the various misdeeds she witnessed or was
personally part of. She describes the character of the founder and
prophet of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith, in the context of his
interpersonal relationships. The gradual emergence of polygamy, and
its uptake among the higher ranking members of the church, is
detailed. Although the title highlights the polygamous
relationships for which Mormonism gained notoriety, this book does
not shy away from the other scandals or controversies. For example;
the means via which Brigham Young dishonestly relieved his
followers of their money, possessions and cattle via a number of
schemes, and the frequent use of the local Native American
populations as scapegoats.
Escaping from narrative history, this book takes a deep look at the
Catholic question in 18th-century Ireland. It asks how people
thought about Catholicism, Protestantism and their society, in
order to reassess the content and importance of the religious
conflict. In doing this, Dr Cadoc Leighton provides a study which
offers thought-provoking ways of looking not only at the 18th
century, but at modern Irish history in general. It also places
Ireland clearly within the mainstream of European historical
developments.
'...a masterly study.' Alister McGrath, Theological Book Review
'...a splendid read.' J.J.Scarisbrick, TLS '...profound, witty...of
immense value.' David Loades, History Today Historians have always
known that the English Reformation was more than a simple change of
religious belief and practice. It altered the political
constitution and, according to Max Weber, the attitudes and motives
which governed the getting and investment of wealth, facilitating
the rise of capitalism and industrialisation. This book
investigates further implications of the transformative religious
changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for the nation,
the town, the family, and for their culture.
There is much talk and teaching about generational curses and how they can be spiritually transmitted through the family bloodline. But what about generational blessings? The same Scriptures that speak of curses that need to be revoked also point to multi-generational blessings that can transform our lives today and impact our children and grandchildren. What you do today in the Courts of Heaven can release generational blessings for you and your family!
Robert Henderson is a recognized apostolic leader in the church and the bestselling author of the Courts of Heaven series. He has given his life to helping individuals, churches, and nations break legal agreements with the enemy by operating in the Courts of Heaven to step into the breakthroughs that Scripture promises. But now, writing alongside his son, Adam, a powerful new revelation is being released. It was his experience praying for breakthrough over Adam that taught Robert Henderson about both breaking curses and releasing generational blessings from the Courts of Heaven.
You will learn how to:
- Experience family freedom by bringing your loved ones before Heaven's Courts and interceding for verdicts of blessing, freedom, and salvation
- Pray according to what's written in the books of Heaven for you and your family
- Approach the Courts of Heaven for generational blessing using a 5-Step Prayer Model observed in the life of David
- Retrieve lost and stolen wealth from past generations
- See prodigals reclaimed and restored to God as you pray Courtroom prayers on their behalf
It's one thing to cancel the enemy’s assignment for our life by dealing with bloodline issues and curses; it’s another dimension to proactively and powerfully enter the Courts of Heaven, partner with the purposes of God, and secure blessing today and in generations to come.
Described by Pope Pius XII as the most important theologian since
Thomas Aquinas, the Swiss pastor and theologian, Karl Barth,
continues to be a major influence on students, scholars and
preachers today.
Barth's theology found its expression mainly through his closely
reasoned fourteen-part magnum opus, Die Kirchliche Dogmatik. Having
taken over 30 years to write, the Church Dogmatics is regarded as
one of the most important theological works of all time, and
represents the pinnacle of Barth's achievement as a theologian.
For all who are interested in the daily office and praying the
hours. People in all kinds of religious traditions, including
Judaism and Christianity, have been marking time with prayer for
almost as long as we've divided the day into hours. "Praying the
hours," as it's called, has always reminded us that God walks with
us throughout each day; "praying the hours" is also a way that the
community of faith comes together, whether we're united all in one
place or scattered like raindrops. In the Episcopal Church, the
Book of Common Prayer offers beautiful services for morning, noon,
evening, and nighttime in a section called "The Daily Office" (pp
35-146). Daily Prayer for All Seasons offers a variation on that
theme, where a complete service covers one or two pages, thereby
eliminating the need to shuffle prayer books and hymnals. Daily
Prayer for All Seasons works for individuals, small groups, and/or
congregations. This prayer book presents a variety of images of
God, uses inclusive and expansive language for and about God, and
presents a rich variety of language, including poetry, meditation,
and prayers from the broader community of faith.
Open the ancient door of an old church, says Ronald Blythe, and
framed in the silence is a house of words where everything has been
said: centuries of birth, marriage and death words, gossip, poetry,
philosophy, rant, eloquence, learning, nonsense, the language of
hymn writers and Bible translators - all of it spoken in one place.
This work contains words spoken by Ronald Blythe in the churches he
serves as a Reader in the Church of England, and as the local
writer expected to add his own distinctive voice. Originating as
addresses given at Matins or Evensong, they follow various paths
into old and new liturgies, literature and the local countryside.
They bring together the author's delight in language, his
recollections of farming, his recognition of friends and
neighbours, and the hopes he has found in faith.
A contribution to the field of theological aesthetics, this book
explores the arts in and around the Pentecostal and charismatic
renewal movements. It proposes a pneumatological model for
creativity and the arts, and discusses different art forms from the
perspective of that model. Pentecostals and other charismatic
Christians have not sufficiently worked out matters of aesthetics,
or teased out the great religious possibilities of engaging with
the arts. With the flourishing of Pentecostal culture comes the
potential for an equally flourishing artistic life. As this book
demonstrates, renewal movements have participated in the arts but
have not systematized their findings in ways that express their
theological commitments-until now. The book examines how to
approach art in ways that are communal, dialogical, and
theologically cultivating.
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