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EVANGELISM MANUAL
This manual exemplifies the most effective methods of
evangelism. It also provides many strategic plans and guidelines
for effective evangelism. All believers, particularly those who
aspire to be in leadership or are currently in ministry should own
this evangelism manual. This manual is a much-needed resource in
the field of evangelistic outreach. It seeks to give practical
training and equipping to those who wish to fulfill the call of the
Great Commission. The manual is useful for teaching, training,
witnessing, follow-up discipleship, launching your own ministry,
and even for acquiring personal knowledge of evangelism.
Considers many facets of the medieval church, dealing with
institutions, buildings, personalities and literature. The text
explores the origins of the diocese and the parish, the history of
the See of Hereford and of York Minster. It discusses the arrival
of the archdeacon, the Normans as cathedral builders and the kings
of England and Scotland as monastic patrons. The studies of
monastic life deal with the European question of monastic vocation
and with St Bernard's part in the sensational expansion of the
early 12th century. An epilogue takes us to the 14th century,
contrasting Chaucer's parson with an actual Norfolk rector.
This book is a critical study of the role played by architecture
and texts in promoting political and religious ideologies in the
ancient world. It explains a palace as an element in royal
propaganda seeking to influence social concepts about kingship, and
a text about a temple as influencing social concepts about the
relationship between God and human beings. Applying the methods of
analysis developed in built environment studies, the author
interprets the palace and temple building programs of Sennacherib,
King of Assyria, and Solomon, King of Israel. The physical evidence
for the palace and the verbal evidence for the temple are explained
as presenting communicative icons intended to influence
contemporary political and religious concepts. The volume concludes
with innovative interpretations of the contributions of
architectural and verbal icons to religious and political reform.
Love in a marriage is often expected to bear only the sweet
fruits. Nevertheless, every married couple can testify that
disappointment is unavoidable and bitter. At this point, throwing
in the towel seems to be the only solution, but those who have
lived to witness victory can tell a different story. This book
takes us through a couple whose marriage had hit a hard rock.
However, one spouse's commitment to God through pain, temptations,
and despair won her husband back and restored their marriage. If
you care for your marriage, be daring enough to read this book.
Your marriage is not beyond repair, because God is here to turn
that bitter experience into something better
Examining the concept of 'Temple' throughout Scripture, HEAVEN ON
EARTH explores one of the most interesting, but least appreciated
themes in biblical theology. Far from being a building used simply
for religious activities, the Temple in biblical literature
embodies a rich variety of theological ideas. At the heart of these
is the interface provided between a holy God and sinful people. An
understanding of the role of the Temple (and its predecessor, the
Tabernacle) in biblical history provides a remarkable insight into
the redemptive purposes of God. From the Garden of Eden in Genesis
to the new creation in Revelation, biblical literature abounds with
references and allusions to the Temple, all of which underline its
significance as an institution and concept. HEAVEN ON EARTH brings
evangelical biblical scholars and theologians together to offer a
fresh approach to this often neglected area. The biblical essays
cover Old Testament, inter-testamental and New Testament material.
From Paternoster Press.
The Safavid period represents an immensely rich chapter in the
history of Iranian architecture. In this discussion of Safavid
architecture in the context of its political, social and religious
milieu, Kishwar Rizvi gives special consideration to the shrine of
Shaykh Safi, built in AD 1334, as an important template for an
emergent Safavid taste. Of both regal and religious significance,
the shrine's direct relationship to imperial power is unique in
Islamic architecture and provides valuable information about the
methods of architectural benefaction prevalent in early modern
Iran. Rizvi examines the ways in which the transition from a
devotional aesthetic to an imperial one represented the young
dynasty's imperial aspirations, and affected a wide range of public
buildings from mosques to palaces during the early Safavid period
and beyond.
This pivot sets Muslim shrines within the wider context of Heritage
Studies in the Muslim world and considers their role in the
articulation of sacred landscapes, their function as sites of
cultural memory and their links to different religious traditions.
Reviewing the historiography of Muslim shrines paying attention to
the different ways these places have been studied, through
anthropology, archaeology, history, and religious studies, the text
discusses the historical and archaeological evidence for the
development of shrines in the region from pre-Islamic times up to
the present day. It also assesses the significance of Muslim
shrines in the modern Middle East, focusing on the diverse range of
opinions and treatments from veneration to destruction, and argues
that shrines have a unique social function as a means of direct
contact with the past in a region where changing political
configurations have often distorted conventional historical
narratives.
Read the Jewish Idea Daily's review here. In 1789, when George
Washington was elected the first president of the United States,
laymen from all six Jewish congregations in the new nation sent him
congratulatory letters. He replied to all six. Thus, after more
than a century of Jewish life in colonial America the small
communities of Jews present at the birth of the nation proudly
announced their religious institutions to the country and were
recognized by its new leader. By this time, the synagogue had
become the most significant institution of American Jewish life, a
dominance that was not challenged until the twentieth century, when
other institutions such as Jewish community centers or Jewish
philanthropic organizations claimed to be the hearts of their
Jewish communities. Concise yet comprehensive, The Synagogue in
America is the first history of this all-important structure,
illuminating its changing role within the American Jewish community
over the course of three centuries. From Atlanta and Des Moines to
Los Angeles and New Orleans, Marc Lee Raphael moves beyond the New
York metropolitan area to examine Orthodox, Reform, Conservative,
and Reconstuctionist synagogue life everywhere. Using the records
of approximately 125 Jewish congregations, he traces the emergence
of the synagogue in the United States from its first instances in
the colonial period, when each of the half dozen initial Jewish
communities had just one synagogue each, to its proliferation as
the nation and the American Jewish community grew and diversified.
Encompassing architecture, forms of worship, rabbinic life,
fundraising, creative liturgies, and feminism, The Synagogue in
America is the go-to history for understanding the synagogue's
significance in American Jewish life.
This is the first detailed study of Scottish post-Reformation
church interiors for fifty years. This study follows on from Yate's
standard work "Buildings, Faith and Worship: The Liturgical
Arrangement of Anglican Churches 1600-1900" (OUP 1991, revised
edition 2000) and "Liturgical Space" in Western Europe since the
Reformation (Ashgate, 2008) to provide the first detailed study of
Scottish post-Reformation church interiors for fifty years.In the
intervening period many of the buildings described by George Hay
have been demolished, converted to non-ecclesiastical use or
liturgically reordered. However, this study goes further to include
many surviving examples not noted by Hay, and extends his work
further into the nineteenth century, with a detailed study of
buildings up to 1860, and with a more general consideration of
later nineteenth and early twentieth century church architecture in
Scotland. The detailed study of developments in Scotland,
especially those in the Presbyterian churches, are set in the
context of comparative developments in other parts of Britain and
Europe, especially those in the Reformed churches of the
Netherlands and Switzerland to create a groundbreaking new study by
an established author.
The churches of Wales are one of Britain's great unheralded
treasures, yet for many years there has been no book devoted to
them and they await the kind of complete coverage given to churches
elsewhere in Britain. Astonishingly, this is the first opportunity
for a book on the subject to show them at their best in colour as
well as words.The archetypal Welsh church is not in town or
village, enhanced by generations of patronage: it is the isolated,
simple, evocative walls-with-roof, in a landscape often spiritually
charged. The Welsh churches tell us about medieval times, and the
Age of Saints that came before and, amazingly of the pagan Celtic
times before that, which they were meant to erase.Illustrated in
colour, "One Hundred Welsh Churches" encompasses a millennium of
churches around Wales, from tiny St Govan's tucked in its
cliff-face, through ruined Llanthony to the magnificence of the
cathedrals at Llandaff and St David's. It is an invaluable
repository of history, art and architecture, spirituality and
people's lives which will appeal to the historian and the tourist,
communicants and those without a god.
Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning
of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading
lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Samuel Collins explores how
ninth-century authors articulated the relationship of form to
function and ideal to reality in the ecclesiastical architecture of
the Carolingian empire. This debate involved many of the major
figures of the era, and at its core questioned what it meant for
any given place or building to be thought of as specially holy.
Many of the signature moments of the Carolingian Renaissance, in
church reform, law, and political theory, depended on rival and
bitterly controversial definitions of sacred architecture in the
material world.
When Seon (Zen) Buddhism was first introduced to Korea around
Korea's late Silla and early Goryeo eras, the function of the
"beopdang" (Dharma hall) was transfused to the lecture hall found
in ancient Buddhist temples, establishing a pivotal area within the
temple compound called the "upper monastic area." By exploring the
structural formation and dissolution of the upper monastic area,
the author shows how Korea established its own distinctive Seon
temples, unlike those of China and Japan, in the course of
assimilating a newly-introduced foreign culture as its own. To
accomplish this, the author analyzed the inscriptions on stone
monuments which recorded the lives of eminent monks and also
numerous excavated temple ruins. These analyses give us a new
perspective on the evolution of the upper monastic area, which had
the beopdang as its center, at a time when early Seon temples were
being established under very adverse and unstable circumstances.
The exploration of the spatial organization and layout of Korean
Seon temple architecture has illuminated the continuity between
Korean Buddhist temples of both the ancient and medieval eras.
The architecture of the Islamic world is predominantly considered
in terms of a dual division between 'tradition' and 'modernity' - a
division which, Saeid Khaghani here argues, has shaped and limited
the narrative applied to this architecture. Khaghani introduces and
reconsiders the mosques of eighth- to fifteenth-century Iran in
terms of poststructural theory and developments in historiography
in order to develop a brand new dialectical framework. Using the
examples of mosques such as the Friday Mosques in Isfahan and Yazd
as well as the Imam mosque in Isfahan, Khaghani presents a new way
of thinking about and discussing Islamic architecture, making this
valuable reading for all interested in the study of the art,
architecture and material culture of the Islamic world.
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