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Wesleyan Perspectives on Human Flourishing (Hardcover): Dean G Smith, Rob A Fringer Wesleyan Perspectives on Human Flourishing (Hardcover)
Dean G Smith, Rob A Fringer
R1,169 R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Save R188 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Kenotic Trajectory of the Church in Donald MacKinnon's Theology - From Galilee to Jerusalem to Galilee (Hardcover,... The Kenotic Trajectory of the Church in Donald MacKinnon's Theology - From Galilee to Jerusalem to Galilee (Hardcover, New)
Timothy G. Connor
R4,927 Discovery Miles 49 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Timothy Connor shows how Donald MacKinnon's extension concept of kenosis to the doctrine of the Church offers a critical corrective to ecclesiological triumphalism. This book explores those aspects of Donald MacKinnon's theological writings which challenge the claim of the liberal Catholic tradition in the Church of England to have forged an ecclesiological consensus, namely that the Church is the extension of the incarnation. MacKinnon destabilized this claim by exposing the wide gulf between theory and practice in that church, especially in his own Anglo-Catholic tradition within it. For him the collapse of Christendom is the occasion for a dialectical reconstruction of the relation of the Church to Jesus Christ and to the world on the basis of the gospel. His basic claim is that authentic ecclesial existence must correspond with what was revealed and effected by Jesus along his way from Galilee to Jerusalem to Galilee. Reflection on the Church thus takes the form of a lived response shaped by a Christocentric grammar of faith: the submission of the church to Jesus' contemporaneous interrogation, a sustained attentiveness to him and the willing embrace of his 'hour'. "T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology" is a series of monographs in the field of Christian doctrine, with a particular focus on constructive engagement with major topics through historical analysis or contemporary restatement.

Christian Dogmatics Index (Hardcover, Index ed.): Frances Pieper Christian Dogmatics Index (Hardcover, Index ed.)
Frances Pieper
R1,747 Discovery Miles 17 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Rise of Baptist Republicanism (Hardcover, New): Oran P Smith The Rise of Baptist Republicanism (Hardcover, New)
Oran P Smith
R3,128 Discovery Miles 31 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A Choice Outstanding Academic Book

"Smith has written a richly detailed, valuable study that clearly deserves a place on the shelves of scholars of southern politics and of religion and politics."
"--American Political Science Review"

""A fascinating and well-documented study of the transformation of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) into the single largest religious force in modern American politics.""
"--Southeastern Political Review"

By championing the ideals of independence, evangelism, and conservism, the Southern Baptist Covention (SBC) has grown into the largest Protestant denomination in the country. The Convention's mass democratic form of church government, its influential anual meetings, and its sheer size have made it a barometer for Southern political and cultural shift. Its most recent shift has been starboard-toward fundementalism and Republicanism.

While the Convention once ofered a happy home to Harry Truman, Jimmy Carter, and church-state separationists, in the past two decades the SBC has become an uncomfortable institution for Democrats, progressive theologians, and other moderate voices. Current SBC member-heroes include Senators Trent Lott and Jesse Helms. Despite this seeming marginalization, Southern Baptist politicians have grown from political obscurity to occupying the four highest positions in the constitutional order of succesion to the presidency. President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, Senate President pro-tempore Strom Thurmond, and House Speaker Newt Gingrich are all Southern Baptists.

In its emerging Republicanism, the SBC has taken on characteristics of its more active fellow travelers in the Christian Right, forgingalliances with former enemies (African Americans amd Roman Catholics), playing presidential politics, establishing a Washington lobbying presence, working the political grassroots, and declaring war on Walt Disney. Each of these missions has been accomplished with calculating political precision.

The Rise of Baptist Republicanism traces the Republicanization of the SBC's Republicanism in the context of the rise of the Fundamentalist Right and the emergence of a Republican majority in the South. Describing the SBC's political roots, Oran P. Smith contrasts Baptist Republicans with the rest of the Christian Right while revealing the theological, cultural, and historical factors which have made Southern Baptists receptive to Republican/Fundamentalist Right influences. The book is a must read for anyone wishing to understand the intersection of religion and politics in America today.

A Quest for Security - The Life of Samuel Parris, 1653-1720 (Hardcover, New): Larry D. Gragg A Quest for Security - The Life of Samuel Parris, 1653-1720 (Hardcover, New)
Larry D. Gragg
R2,778 Discovery Miles 27 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A Quest for Security is the first book-length biography of Samuel Parris, the man who led the 1692 struggle against the scourge of witchcraft. While an examination of Samuel Parris's actions reveals his crucial part in the witchcraft crisis, this biography also serves as a reminder of the concern of early Americans to sustain economic independence for their families. Fully documented with endnotes and featuring a complete bibliography of primary and secondary works, this volume fills a noticeable gap in the literature on Salem witchcraft. The first chapter looks at Samuel Parris's early years. Born in London in 1653, Parris moved with his family to Barbados in the 1660s where both his uncle and father had prospered as sugar planters. Next, the book examines his stay in Boston where he met with modest success as a merchant and started a family. The book then recounts the eight years Parris spent in Salem Village as that divided community's pastor. Beginning with his "call to the clergy," the book examines his life as a Puritan pastor, and then covers the conflict in his congregation. In the first year of his ministry, a faction had developed that sought to oust Parris by refusing to pay him. Next the book covers Parris's actions in the spring of 1692 which changed a seemingly ordinary case of a handful of accusations into a full-scale witchhunt. Convinced that an organized witch cult threatened his congregation, Parris sought to root out all conspirators. His leadership in the effort led to an ever increasing escalation of accusations. When the episode finally ended, family members of some of the twenty executed "witches" conducted a campaign that ultimately resulted in Parris's removalfrom the pulpit. The final chapter looks at Parris's last years, in which he moved from one small Massachusetts community to another. Parris died in obscurity in 1720. But he achieved his most important goal--that of providing material security for his children.

Episcopal Vision / American Reality - High Church Theology and Social Thought in Evangelical America (Hardcover): Robert Bruce... Episcopal Vision / American Reality - High Church Theology and Social Thought in Evangelical America (Hardcover)
Robert Bruce Mullin
R1,826 Discovery Miles 18 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The high church movement within the Episcopal Church was antithetical to both the intellectual and social worlds of antebellum America, for it challenged the underlying assumptions of evangelicalism and held itself aloof from reform impulses. This book by Robert Bruce Mullin-the first to study the high church movement from the context of nineteenth-century American culture-discusses how the spiritual descendents of those who harassed the Pilgrims out of England defined themselves in an America that was "the land of the Pilgrims' pride." Mullin discusses the problems that faced the Episcopal Church after the American Revolution, analyzes the intellectual currents in Anglicanism of this period, and sketches the backgrounds of the chief individuals involved with the high church revival-in particular, John Henry Hobart, later bishop of New York. He shows how Hobart's theological and social-alternative synthesis, which called for a radical division between church and state, provoked controversy with evangelical Protestants on issues as diverse as theology, revivalism, temperance, and slavery. Tracing the history of the Episcopal Church from the early nineteenth century, when it was seen as an ark of refuge by critics of the "excesses" of evangelicalism, to 1870, when the antebellum high church synthesis had largely collapsed, Mullin explains its success and subsequent decline. Mullin's examination of the high church movement not only sheds light on the reasons for the flourishing of this alternative social and intellectual vision but also helps to account for the general crisis that confronted all American religious communities at the end of the century. In addition, his reconstruction of the tension between high church Episcopalians and evangelical Protestants provides a new historical perspective from which to view the larger debate over the nature and direction of the antebellum nation.

The Letters of Charles Wesley - A Critical Edition, with Introduction and Notes: Volume 1 (1728-1756) (Hardcover, Critical):... The Letters of Charles Wesley - A Critical Edition, with Introduction and Notes: Volume 1 (1728-1756) (Hardcover, Critical)
Kenneth G.C. Newport, Gareth Lloyd
R8,459 Discovery Miles 84 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This first volume of a two volume edition contains letters written between 1727 and 1756 by the famous hymn writer, poet, and co-founder of Methodism, Charles Wesley (1707-1788), Volume 2 will contain letters written between 1757 and 1788. The edition brings together texts which are located in libraries and archives from across the globe and here presents them as a complete collection for the first time - many of the letters have never been previously published. The appended notes help the reader locate the letters in their proper historical and literary context and provide full information regarding the location of the original source and, where possible, something of its provenance.
These texts provide an intimate glimpse into the world of early Methodism and Charles' own struggles and triumphs as a central figure within it. They collectively document the story of Charles Wesley's early experiences as he sought to find his own place in Methodism and, of key importance for Charles, Methodism's place in the wider purposes of God. Here are letters of a theological kind, letters that reflect on his experiences as an itinerant preacher, letters that show something of his rather unsettled personality and letters that relate to his own personal and domestic circumstances. Here we see something of the inner workings of a nascent religious group. These are not sanitised accounts written by those looking back, but first-hand accounts written from the heart of a lived experience.
While this book will naturally appeal to those who have a specialist interest in the early history of Methodism, for others there is much to be gained from the picture it gives of the wider eighteenth-century world in which Charles and his co-religionists worked and lived.

Reformed Orthodoxy in Scotland - Essays on Scottish Theology 1560-1775 (Hardcover): Aaron Clay Denlinger Reformed Orthodoxy in Scotland - Essays on Scottish Theology 1560-1775 (Hardcover)
Aaron Clay Denlinger
R4,930 Discovery Miles 49 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Recent decades have witnessed much scholarly reassessment of late-sixteenth through eighteenth-century Reformed theology. It was common to view the theology of this period--typically labelled 'orthodoxy'--as sterile, speculative, and rationalistic, and to represent it as significantly discontinuous with the more humanistic, practical, and biblical thought of the early reformers. Recent scholars have taken a more balanced approach, examining orthodoxy on its own terms and subsequently highlighting points of continuity between orthodoxy and both Reformation and pre-Reformation theologies, in terms of form as well as content. Until now Scottish theology and theologians have figured relatively minimally in works reassessing orthodoxy, and thus many of the older stereotypes concerning post-Reformation Reformed theology in a Scottish context persist. This collection of essays aims to redress that failure by purposely examining post-Reformation Scottish theology/theologians through a lens provided by the gains made in recent scholarly evaluations of Reformed orthodoxy, and by highlighting, in that process, the significant contribution which Scottish divines of the orthodox era made to Reformed theology as an international intellectual phenomenon.

Forbidden Gift (Hardcover): Debra Torres Forbidden Gift (Hardcover)
Debra Torres
R854 Discovery Miles 8 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Mental Floss - Volume Five (Hardcover): Philip M Hudson Mental Floss - Volume Five (Hardcover)
Philip M Hudson
R880 Discovery Miles 8 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Art of Divine Contentment (Hardcover): Thomas Watson The Art of Divine Contentment (Hardcover)
Thomas Watson
R791 Discovery Miles 7 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
John Gerstner and the Renewal of Presbyterian and Reformed Evangelicalism in Modern America (Hardcover): Jeffrey S McDonald John Gerstner and the Renewal of Presbyterian and Reformed Evangelicalism in Modern America (Hardcover)
Jeffrey S McDonald
R1,351 R1,120 Discovery Miles 11 200 Save R231 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reformed Resurgence - The New Calvinist Movement and the Battle Over American Evangelicalism (Hardcover): Brad Vermurlen Reformed Resurgence - The New Calvinist Movement and the Battle Over American Evangelicalism (Hardcover)
Brad Vermurlen
R2,596 Discovery Miles 25 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

One of the most significant developments within contemporary American Christianity, especially among younger evangelicals, is a groundswell of interest in the Reformed tradition. In Reformed Resurgence, Brad Vermurlen provides a comprehensive sociological account of this phenomenon - known as New Calvinism - and what it entails for the broader evangelical landscape in the United States. Vermurlen develops a new theory for understanding how conservative religion can be strong and thrive in the hypermodern Western world. His paradigm uses and expands on strategic action field theory, a recent framework proposed for the study of movements and organizations that has rarely been applied to religion. This approach to religion moves beyond market dynamics and cultural happenstance and instead shows how religious strength can be fought for and won as the direct result of religious leaders' strategic actions and conflicts. But the battle comes at a cost. For the same reasons conservative Calvinistic belief is experiencing a resurgence, present-day American evangelicalism has turned in on itself. Vermurlen argues that in the end, evangelicalism in the United States consists of pockets of subcultural and local strength within the "cultural entropy" of secularization, as religious meanings and coherence fall apart.

52 Churches - A Yearlong Journey Encountering God, His Church, and Our Common Faith (Hardcover): Peter deHaan 52 Churches - A Yearlong Journey Encountering God, His Church, and Our Common Faith (Hardcover)
Peter deHaan
R799 Discovery Miles 7 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Decent and in Order - Conflict, Christianity, and Polity in a Presbyterian Congregation (Hardcover, New): Ronald R. Stockton Decent and in Order - Conflict, Christianity, and Polity in a Presbyterian Congregation (Hardcover, New)
Ronald R. Stockton
R2,782 Discovery Miles 27 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a systematic study of how a congregational conflict involving allegations of sexual harassment and power abuse against a minister was seriously mishandled by church authorities. The conflict escalated to entangle regional and national authorities and worked its way into the civil courts. Stockton focuses on the interaction of organizational dynamics and ill-defined Christian concepts (such as reconciliation and discipline), showing that in conflict situations the ideals of pastoral care are squeezed by an organizational mentality. Key themes involve the role of women in the church, the complex question of sexual harassment, and the interface between church law and civil law. The narrative, which is based on interviews and official documents, captures the human dimensions of the story while simultaneously giving unique insight into congregational disputes and organizational behavior.

Desmond Tutu - A Biography (Hardcover, New): Steven D. Gish Desmond Tutu - A Biography (Hardcover, New)
Steven D. Gish
R1,451 Discovery Miles 14 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

History will remember Desmond Tutu, who has been called South Africa's Martin Luther King, Jr., as a great leader in the struggle against apartheid. In this new biography, which includes original quotations from the author's interviews with Tutu, readers will follow the steady progress of a boy and man who has held an irrepressible faith in humankind and his God. They will learn about his family, schooling, important mentors, and extraordinary career trajectory in South Africa and abroad. Now retired, Tutu's accomplishments and contributions to the world can be fully appreciated. The clear explanation of the policy of apartheid, how it affected Tutu and his family, and how he helped to bring it crashing down will affect and inform students as no history alone can. They will marvel over his sparkling wit and effervescent personality, his nonviolent stance in the face of intense racial hatred and harassment, and his persistence against enormous odds. This will be an effortless, enjoyable, enlightening and inspiring read.

Southern Anglicanism - The Church of England in Colonial South Carolina (Hardcover): S.Charles Bolton Southern Anglicanism - The Church of England in Colonial South Carolina (Hardcover)
S.Charles Bolton
R2,763 Discovery Miles 27 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
New Directions in Gender and Religion - The Changing Status of Women in African Independent Churches (Hardcover): Brigid M... New Directions in Gender and Religion - The Changing Status of Women in African Independent Churches (Hardcover)
Brigid M Sackey
R2,819 R2,529 Discovery Miles 25 290 Save R290 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Brigid M. Sackey's book is a comprehensive analysis of gender relations in religion in Ghana, using gendered anthropological tools of rare insight and originality. The book chronicles the efforts of men and women who bring a repackaged and customized Christianity and health delivery to meet with the specific cultural needs. Sackey disabuses notions of the helplessness of women in Ghana specifically (and Africa in general) as it highlights women's initiatives and assertiveness as healers and leaders of the churches they have founded, in addition to their increased involvement and participation in gender discourses and social change. Sackey also addresses the question of HIV and the AIDS epidemic, detailing how the churches, through the specific leadership of women, are supporting a national campaign on the disease. Basing her research on an exhaustive library of oral history, ethnography, theory, and case studies, Sackey has brilliantly chronicled the relentless proliferation of and innovations in African Independent Churches, and their impact on the national health delivery system and its development.

Created For Purpose (Paperback): Guillermo Maldonado Created For Purpose (Paperback)
Guillermo Maldonado
R531 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R37 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

You are no accident. Your presence on this earth is not a mistake. Neither is it insignificant. On the contrary, you are wanted here—and needed!

You are a creation of God with a unique purpose. Many people “do” things to try to gain acceptance by others, so that they can “be” someone. They become slaves to public opinion and never really know who they were meant to be.

When we know that we are God’s beloved children, chosen from the foundation of the world, and discover who He designed us to be, we will think and act from that perspective. Everything else will develop from our identity and existence in Him. That identity goes beyond even our personal purpose to God’s eternal plans for the world and our exciting role in them.

God created all human beings to have dominion over the earth. And He has assigned each of us a portion of “territory” where we can exercise the measure of our dominion on earth. This dominion is based on the faith, anointing, and gifts He has given us. Our words and actions are most effective when we are in the territory God has assigned to us and are seeking first His kingdom. This “territorial” power is not merely symbolic. It is a reality in which we must live. The territory in which we are to be fruitful is not random or general but specific.

In Created for Purpose, you will discover God’s plan for your life as a loved and valuable member of His creation, what it means to be called by God, and how to know and live in your purpose throughout your life.

You are not an accident. You are present on this earth for a significant reason. Find out who you were meant to be!

Release Your Anointing - Tapping the Power of the Holy Spirit in You (Hardcover): T.D. Jakes Release Your Anointing - Tapping the Power of the Holy Spirit in You (Hardcover)
T.D. Jakes
R866 Discovery Miles 8 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Christians must know that their lives with God can be full of new experiences every day through the fullness of the Holy Ghost. In this text, Jakes discusses ways to meet challenges and realize one's full potential. (Practical Life)

Can You Stand to Be Blessed? - Insights to Help You Survive the Peaks and Valleys (Hardcover): T.D. Jakes Can You Stand to Be Blessed? - Insights to Help You Survive the Peaks and Valleys (Hardcover)
T.D. Jakes
R836 Discovery Miles 8 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Citizens Family Worship Book (Hardcover): Wildfire D-Favour Citizens Family Worship Book (Hardcover)
Wildfire D-Favour; Contributions by Sharon D-Favour; Compiled by Uche Blessing Okafor
R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Hacia El Infinito (English, Spanish, Hardcover): Jorge Mendez Zayas Hacia El Infinito (English, Spanish, Hardcover)
Jorge Mendez Zayas
R1,083 Discovery Miles 10 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Hacia El Infinito, es un libro que trata de aclarar toda una serie de dudas, en las cuales el hombre occidental actual desconoce, debido al estilo de vida y valores creado por la sociedad contemporanea, apego a las cosas materiales y las carencias de valores espirituales, estamos viviendo en una epoca de crisis espiritual e ignoramos toda una serie de sabiduria que debemos conocer, la vida no es difrute, es un aprendizaje, donde venimos a perfeccionarnos y liberarnos de la ignorancia, debemos comprender que nacemos y morimos pero no una sola vez, como la gran mayoria de la sociedad actual cree, nacemos muchas veces mas, en una sola vida no nos complementamos, la sabiduria y perfeccionamiento no se logra en una sola vida, vivimos para cumplir un Karma (relacion, causa-efecto) que tenemos todos, a traves del Karma y Reencarnacion es por la cual vamos evolucionando hacia dimensiones cada vez superiores a la anterior, viajando hacia el infinito.

Ecclesiology in Reformed Perspective (Hardcover): Billy Kristanto Ecclesiology in Reformed Perspective (Hardcover)
Billy Kristanto
R866 Discovery Miles 8 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Voice of the Bride - Entering Our Identity, Anointing, and Kingdom Purpose for the Last Days (Hardcover): Paul Keith Davis The Voice of the Bride - Entering Our Identity, Anointing, and Kingdom Purpose for the Last Days (Hardcover)
Paul Keith Davis
R897 Discovery Miles 8 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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