Author: John Guthrie (M.A., D.D.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Conversations on Church Establishments
Author: John Guthrie (M.A., D.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Conversations on Church establishments
Author: John GuthriePublisher:
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Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Conversations on Church Establishments
Author: John GUTHRIE (D.D.)A church establishment lawful, scriptural, and necessary. Six dialogues. ... New edition
Author: Samuel Charles WILKSSpent Matches
Author: Roy MoranPublisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 071803063X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Spent Matches explores the possibility that a few small paradigm shifts within the church might make the difference between extinction and effectiveness. In fact, taking a clue from the automobile industry, the church might be able to not only halt the rapid decay in attendance but also become an effective tool in achieving Jesus' final command. For instance, the Hybrid car has become the answer to Detroit's environmental and oil crisis issues. Finding the synergy between two technologies, gas and electric has created a new day for the auto industry. Likewise, Spent Matchesexplores how the church can find synergy between two seemingly competing thoughts: an invitation to come and a command to go. The Hybrid metaphor brings energy to the church's mission and an explanation to the age-old argument of Missional versus Attractional methods. Features include: Innovative ideas for growing the church Methods to reach those who may never have attended church Scripture passages that touch on the subject of church growth
An Anxious Age
Author: Joseph BottumPublisher: Image
ISBN: 0385521464
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
We live in a profoundly spiritual age, but not in any good way. Huge swaths of American culture are driven by manic spiritual anxiety and relentless supernatural worry. Radicals and traditionalists, liberals and conservatives, together with politicians, artists, environmentalists, followers of food fads, and the chattering classes of television commentators: America is filled with people frantically seeking confirmation of their own essential goodness. We are a nation desperate to stand of the side of morality--to know that we are righteous and dwell in the light. In An Anxious Age, Joseph Bottum offers an account of modern America, presented as a morality tale formed by a collision of spiritual disturbances. And the cause, he claims, is the most significant and least noticed historical fact of the last fifty years: the collapse of the mainline Protestant churches that were the source of social consensus and cultural unity. Our dangerous spiritual anxieties, broken loose from the churches that once contained them, now madden everything in American life. Updating The Protestant Ethic and the Sprit of Capitalism, Max Weber's sociological classic, An Anxious Age undertakes two case studies of contemporary social classes adrift in a nation without the religious understandings that gave them meaning. Looking at the college-educated elite he calls "the Poster Children," Bottum sees the post-Protestant heirs of the old mainline Protestant domination of culture: dutiful descendants who claim the high social position of their Christian ancestors even while they reject their ancestors' Christianity. Turning to the Swallows of Capistrano, the Catholics formed by the pontificate of John Paul II, Bottum evaluates the early victories--and later defeats--of the attempt to substitute Catholicism for the dying mainline voice in public life. Sweeping across American intellectual and cultural history, An Anxious Age traces the course of national religion and warns about the strange angels and even stranger demons with which we now wrestle. Insightful and contrarian, wise and unexpected, An Anxious Age ranks among the great modern accounts of American culture.
Conversations on Gardening. With incidental remarks on natural history. By the author of the Elements of Botany
Author: CONVERSATIONS.The Liberator
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Dissenters, Religious
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Annals of the Christian Church in Familiar Conversations for Young People
Author: Mrs. ParkerPublisher:
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Author: James Kennedy