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"New York Times" eBook bestseller One fateful starless night,
17-year-old Ira Wagler got up at 2 AM, left a scribbled note under
his pillow, packed all of his earthly belongings into in a little
black duffel bag, and walked away from his home in the Amish
settlement of Bloomfield, Iowa. Now, in this heartwarming memoir,
Ira paints a vivid portrait of Amish life--from his childhood days
on the family farm, his Rumspringa rite of passage at age 16, to
his ultimate decision to leave the Amish Church for good at age 26.
"Growing Up Amish" is the true story of one man's quest to discover
who he is and where he belongs. Readers will laugh, cry, and be
inspired by this charming yet poignant coming of age story set
amidst the backdrop of one of the most enigmatic cultures in
America today--the Old Order Amish.
During the sixteenth century, England underwent a religious
revolution. This book examines the reverberations of this
Protestant Reformation, which continued to be felt until at least
the end of the seventeenth century. Brings together twelve essays
by Nicholas Tyacke about English Protestantism, which range from
the Reformation itself, and the new market-place of ideas opened
up, to the establishment of freedom of worship for Protestant
nonconformists in 1689. For this collection the author has written
a substantial introduction, and updated the essays by incorporating
new research. -- .
Daily encounters with danger and death lead to greater faith
As the minister of St George's Anglican Church, Baghdad, Andrew
White encounters daily tragedy, yet he remains a man of profound
faith. Under constant threat of death, shadowed by bodyguards, he
builds and encourages and loves and consoles his beleaguered
congregation.
In this candid book he squarely answers the questions that his
circumstances force into the open. What happened to his faith, for
example, when a young girl in his congregation died, after much
hope and prayer? He is trusted by all sides in this tormented
region, and has met the best and worst: articulate, agreeable imams
and rabbis; Christian venality and dishonesty. What has kept him
willing to see the best?
Every time he returns to Iraq, he may be saying goodbye to his
family for the last time. What do they think? He suffers from MS.
How does he remain cheerful despite his physical weakness, and its
progression? What does he say to God, alone in his study, late at
night? He has been caught up in momentous events. Can he see the
hand of God? Looking ahead, can he be optimistic about the future?
Where are his sources of spiritual energy? He solicits prayer:
why?
This case study examines the history of the Netherlandic Mennonite
community living in and around Hamburg after the Thirty Years War.
Based on detailed archival research, it expands the scope of
Radical Reformation studies to include the confessional age (c.
1550-1750). During this period Mennonites had to conform
politically while trying to preserve many of the nonconformist
ideals of their forebears, such as the refusal to baptize children,
bear arms and swear solemn oaths. The research presented in
Obedient Heretics will, therefore, be of interest to scholars of
minority communities in addition to those concerned with the
Reformation's legacy, confessionalization and confessional
identity.
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Leading Reformed pastors and scholars reflect on the importance of
John Calvin's life and teaching for the church today.
The book examines the nexus between political and religious thought
within the Prussian old conservative milieu. It presents
early-nineteenth-century Prussian conservatism as a phenomenon
connected to a specific generation of young Prussians. The book
introduces the ecclesial-political 'party of the Evangelische
Kirchenzeitung' (EKZ), a religious party within the Prussian state
church, as the origins of Prussia's conservative party post-1848.
It traces the roots of the EKZ party back to the experiences of the
Napoleonic Wars (1806-15) and the social movements dominant at that
time. Additionally, the book analyses this generation's increasing
politicization and presents the German revolution of 1848 and the
foundation of Prussia's first conservative party as the result of a
decade-long struggle for a religiously-motivated ideal of church,
state, and society. The overall shift from church politics to state
politics is key to understanding conservative policy post-1848.
Consequently, this book shows how conservatives aimed to maintain
Prussia's character as a Christian and monarchical state, while at
the same time adapting to contemporary political and social
circumstances. Therefore, the book is a must-read for researchers,
scholars, and students of Political Science and History interested
in a better understanding of the origins and the evolution of
Prussian conservatism, as well as the history of political thought.
Drawing on the early correspondence of Martin Luther, Timothy Dost
presents a reassessment of the degree to which humanism influenced
the thinking of this key reformation figure. Studying letters
written by Luther between 1507 and 1522, he explores the various
ways Luther used humanism and humanist techniques in his writings
and the effect of these influences on his developing religious
beliefs. The letters used in this study, many of which have never
before been translated into English, focus on Luther's thoughts,
attitudes and application of humanism, uncovering the extent to
which he used humanist devices to develop his understanding of the
gospel. Although there have been other studies of Luther and
humanism, few have been grounded in such a close philological
examination of Luther's writings. Combining a sound knowledge of
recent historiography with a detailed familiarity with Luther's
correspondence, Dost provides a sophisticated contribution to the
field of reformation studies.
Over the first four decades of the Reformation, hundreds of songs
written in popular styles and set to well-known tunes appeared
across the German territories. These polemical songs included
satires on the pope or on Martin Luther, ballads retelling
historical events, translations of psalms and musical sermons. They
ranged from ditties of one strophe to didactic Lieder of fifty or
more. Luther wrote many such songs and this book contends that
these songs, and the propagandist ballads they inspired, had a
greater effect on the German people than Luther's writings or his
sermons. Music was a major force of propaganda in the German
Reformation. Rebecca Wagner Oettinger examines a wide selection of
songs and the role they played in disseminating Luther's teachings
to a largely non-literate population, while simultaneously
spreading subversive criticism of Catholicism. These songs formed
an intersection for several forces: the comfortable familiarity of
popular music, historical theories on the power of music, the
educational beliefs of sixteenth-century theologians and the need
for sense of community and identity during troubled times. As
Oettinger demonstrates, this music, while in itself simple,
provides us with a new understanding of what most people in
sixteenth-century Germany knew of the Reformation, how they
acquired their knowledge and the ways in which they expressed their
views about it. With full details of nearly 200 Lieder from this
period provided in the second half of the book, Music as Propaganda
in the German Reformation is both a valuable investigation of music
as a political and religious agent and a useful resource for future
research.
This book surveys developments in sacramental and liturgical
discourse and discord, exploring the writings of English and
Scottish divines, and focusing on baptism and the Lord's Supper.
The reigns of James I and Charles I coincided with divergence and
development in teaching on the sacraments in England and Scotland
and with growing discord on liturgical texts and the ceremonial.
Uniquely focusing on both nations in a single study, Bryan Spinks
draws on theological treatises, sermons, catechisms, liturgical
texts and writings by Scottish theologians hitherto neglected.
Exploring the European roots of the churches of England and
Scotland and how they became entwined in developments culminating
in the Solemn League and Covenant and Westminster Directory, this
book presents an authoritative study of sacramental and liturgical
debate, developments, and experiments during the Stuart period.
This book analyses the most sung contemporary congregational songs
(CCS) as a global music genre. Utilising a three-part music
semiology, this research engages with producers, musical texts, and
audiences/congregations to better understand contemporary worship
for the modern church and individual Christians. Christian
Copyright Licensing International data plays a key role in
identifying the most sung CCS, while YouTube mediations of these
songs and their associated data provide the primary texts for
analysis. Producers and the production milieu are explored through
interviews with some of the highest profile worship
leaders/songwriters including Ben Fielding, Darlene Zschech, Matt
Redman, and Tim Hughes, as well as other music industry veterans.
Finally, National Church Life Survey data and a specialized survey
provide insight into individual Christians' engagement with CCS.
Daniel Thornton shows how these perspectives taken together provide
unique insight into the current global CCS genre, and into its
possible futures.
The normative edition for all who sing, choir and congregation
alike, containing all hymns and service music.
Jesus before Pentecost studies the history of Jesus' ministry from
William P. Atkinson's Pentecostal perspective. This perspective
affects both his method and the book's content. In terms of method,
Atkinson puts forward a strong argument for looking carefully at
John's Gospel, as well as the synoptic gospels, as a reliable
historical source for Jesus' life. In terms of content, his main
areas of study follow key Pentecostal interests, summed up in the
"foursquare" Pentecostal rubric of Jesus as Saviour, Healer,
Baptiser in the Spirit, and Soon-Coming King. The picture that
emerges offers fresh insights into Jesus' life: notably, the
symbolic meaning Jesus invested in the feeding of the five
thousand; the effect that Jesus' approach to healing the sick had
on Him; the involvement of God's Spirit in His life and in the
lives of those around Him; and, lastly, His enigmatic predictions
of his future coming. Overall, the study is both academically
rigorous and warmly engaging. It will appeal to anyone who is
interested in Jesus, regardless of whether or not they are
associated with the Pentecostal tradition.
This book presents a theological and missiological argument for
pentecostals to engage more forcefully in higher education by
expanding and renewing their commitment toward operating their own
colleges and universities. The volume's first part describes past
and present developments within higher education, highlighting
strengths and weaknesses of both pentecostal and (post)secular
institutions. The second part highlights the future potential of
pentecostal higher education, which is enriched by a
Spirit-empowered and mission-minded spirituality that focuses on
forming the hearts, heads, and hands of students. Pentecostals
increasingly desire to influence all spheres of society, an
endeavor that could be amplified through a strengthened engagement
in higher education, particularly one that encompasses a variety of
institutions, including a pentecostal research university. In
developing such an argument, this research is both comprehensive
and compelling, inviting pentecostals to make a missional
difference in the knowledge-based economies that will characterize
the twenty-first century.
This book considers the work of Charles Taylor from a theological
perspective, specifically relating to the topic of ecclesiology. It
argues that Taylor and related thinkers such as John Milbank and
Rowan Williams point towards an "Aesthetic Ecclesiology," an
ecclesiology that values highly and utilizes the aesthetic in its
self-understanding and practice. Jamie Franklin argues that
Taylor's work provides an account of the breakdown in Modernity of
the conceptual relationship of the immanent and the transcendent,
and that the work of John Milbank and radical orthodoxy give a
complementary account of the secular from a more metaphysical
angle. Franklin also incorporates the work of Rowan Williams, which
provides us a way of thinking about the Church that is rooted in a
material and historical legacy. The central argument is that the
reconnection of the transcendent and the immanent coheres with an
understanding of the Church that incorporates the material reality
of the sacraments, the importance of artistic beauty and
craftsmanship, and the Church's status as historical, global, and
eschatological. Secondly, the aesthetic provides the Church with a
powerful apologetic: beauty cannot be reduced to the
presuppositions of secular materialism, and so must be accounted
for by recourse to transcendent categories.
The Waldenses, like the Franciscans, emerged from the apostolic
movements within the Latin Church of the decades around 1200, but
unlike the Franciscans they were driven underground. Not a full
counter-Church, like the Cathar heretics, they formed a clandestine
religious order, preaching to and hearing the confessions of their
secret followers, and surviving until the Reformation. This volume
begins by surveying modern historiography. Then, using both
inquisition records from the Baltic to the Alps and the Waldenses'
own books, the author deals with the asceticism of the Waldensian
order, its practice of poverty and medicine, the culture of the
Brothers and the preaching of the Waldensian Sisters, the way both
used and mythicised history to support their position, and the
composition of their followers. The final chapters examine their
origins and authorship of the inquisitors' texts, and look through
them to see how inquisitors viewed the Waldenses.
This book examines Protestant loss of power and self-confidence in
Ireland since 1795. David Fitzpatrick charts the declining power
and influence of the Protestant community in Ireland and the
strategies adopted in the face of this decline, presenting rich
personal testimony that illustrates how individuals experienced and
perceived 'descendancy'. Focusing on the attitudes and strategies
adopted by the eventual losers rather than victors, he addresses
contentious issues in Irish history through an analysis of the
appeal of the Orange Order, the Ulster Covenant of 1912, and
'ethnic cleansing' in the Irish Revolution. Avoiding both
apologetics and sentimentality when probing the psychology of those
undergoing 'descendancy', the book examines the social and
political ramifications of religious affiliation and belief as
practised in fraternities, church congregations and isolated
sub-communities.
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