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Author: Charles H. Kraft Publisher: ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 380
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"This new edition includes reflections on themes that have emerged since the book's initial publication in 1979. It takes on squarely the task of helping both outsiders and insiders understand the hidden language of culture and learning how culture affects a people's appropriation of the person and message of Jesus Christ."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780156177351 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 220
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Two long essays: "The Idea of a Christian Society" on the direction of religious thought toward criticism of political and economic systems; and "Notes towards the Definition of Culture" on culture, its meaning, and the dangers threatening the legacy of the Western world.
Author: H. Richard Niebuhr Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061300039 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 324
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This 50th-anniversary edition, with a new foreword by the distinguished historian Martin E. Marty, who regards this book as one of the most vital books of our time, as well as an introduction by the author never before included in the book, and a new preface by James Gustafson, the premier Christian ethicist who is considered Niebuhr’s contemporary successor, poses the challenge of being true to Christ in a materialistic age to an entirely new generation of Christian readers.
Author: Feyi Boroffice Publisher: ISBN: 9780998530222 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 110
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Christ versus Culture examines the liberal and conservative responses to the culture wars and presents a biblical basis for Christians to engage with the world.
Author: Charles H. Kraft Publisher: ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 380
Book Description
"This new edition includes reflections on themes that have emerged since the book's initial publication in 1979. It takes on squarely the task of helping both outsiders and insiders understand the hidden language of culture and learning how culture affects a people's appropriation of the person and message of Jesus Christ."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Marvin Keene Mayers Publisher: Zondervan ISBN: 9780310289012 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 440
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In this revised edition you will find discussions and definitions of the impact of Christian gospel, its ethics, and its lifestyle. Numerous case studies are included.
Author: Néstor Medina Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004363092 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 380
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In Christianity, Empire and The Spirit, Néstor Medina uncovers the interwoven cultural processes that influence how people understand reality, express faith, and think about God. Countering Eurocentric theological articulations, he proposes that the Spirit is at work in the cultural.
Author: J. Gresham Machen Publisher: Ravenio Books ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages :
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J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937) was Professor of New Testament at Princeton Seminary, before leaving in 1929 to establish Westminster Theology Seminary and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Machen was one of the last intellectual defenders of orthodox Christianity in the seemingly triumph of liberalism in the early 20th century. Originally published in The Princeton Theology Review in 1913, Machen’s essay on Christianity and Culture continues to be relevant today. Writes Machen, “The Church is puzzled by the world’s indifference. She is trying to overcome it by adapting her message to the fashions of the day. But if, instead, before the conflict, she would descend into the secret place of meditation, if by the clear light of the gospel she would seek an answer not merely to the questions of the hour but, first of all, to the eternal problems of the spiritual world, then perhaps, by God’s grace, through His good Spirit, in His good time, she might issue forth once more with power, and an age of doubt might be followed by the dawn of an era of faith.”
Author: Andrew F. Walls Publisher: Orbis Books ISBN: 1608331822 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 442
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Walls shows how the demographic transformation of the church has brought us to a new "Ephesian moment." The church is challenged as never before to become one global body with its many cultural and ethnic members contributing their gifts. Former patterns of domination need to be superseded. His seer's eyes probe beneath the surface to bring the readerinsights into Pentecostalism, African traditional religion, and the ironic ways in which the Western missionary movement often accomplished things--both for good and for ill--that its agents never dreamed of