Author: Louis Albert Banks
Publisher:
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Author: Joseph Ratzinger
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1681493349
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Written over three decades ago, Cardinal Ratzinger's profound treatise on the true meaning of Christian brotherhood is perhaps even more timely and important now as a clear statement on the biblical grounds for cooperation among believing Christians. In treating Christian brotherhood from the perspective of salvation history, Ratzinger opens up the meaning of both the Old and New Testament in this most essential area. After establishing the distinctively Christian sense of brotherhood (vis-À-vis Judaism, Hellenism, Stoicism, the Enlightenment, and Marxism), he shows how fraternal charity can only be perfected through God's fatherhood, Christ's divine sonship, and our brotherhood in Christ.

Author: Pope Benedict XVI
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 0898704464
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 93

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Written over three decades ago, Cardinal Ratzinger's profound treatise on the true meaning of Christian brotherhood is perhaps even more timely and important now as a clear statement on the biblical grounds for cooperation among believing Christians. In treating Christian brotherhood from the perspective of salvation history, Ratzinger opens up the meaning of both the Old and New Testament in this most essential area. After establishing the distinctively Christian sense of brotherhood (vis-a-vis Judaism, Hellenism, Stoicism, the Enlightenment, and Marxism), he shows how fraternal charity can only be perfected through God's fatherhood, Christ's divine sonship, and our brotherhood in Christ.

Author: Randall Arthur
Publisher: Multnomah
ISBN: 1590522583
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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A once-respected missionary pastor deserts his wife and children - and so does the church. What makes the Christian community so cruel to its own sheep?

Author: William Unsworth
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Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: Baron Stow
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Category : Christian union
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Author: Frederick DeLand Leete
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Category : Brotherhoods
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Author: Church of the Christian Brotherhood (Toronto, Ont.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 3

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Author: Joseph Ratzinger
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9780860124160
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Brotherhood as an ideal has meant many different things. In this disarmingly simple study Ratzinger begins by examining two contrasting views: that of the ancient mystery religions which created 'closed ' brotherhoods of the initiated; and that of the Enlightenment, which looked to an open brotherhood of all. The author finds the first of these views too restricted and inward looking and the second too extended. After a brilliant exposition of New Testament teaching, he proposes a synthesis in which the Christian ideal of brotherhood is shown to be both 'restricted' and 'universal'. Essential biblical Christianity is once again shown to be more meaningful and more radical than most of us, Christian or non-Christian, imagine.

Author: Ross Fuller
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791422434
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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This book presents a lost tradition of inner work, the way of the householder, which was believed by the Brotherhood of Common Life to have been the teaching of the Apostles. It focuses on the emergence, amidst the decay of medieval culture, of "the mixed life," this reconciliation of action and contemplation, as the essential link between Catholic spirituality and Protestantism. The transmission of this work to lay persons seeking the interior dimensions of their lives without withdrawing from the world is presented. The hitherto monastic spiritual exercises for strengthening attention are discussed in depth. The traditional and vital Christian knowledge of the human condition, which the Brothers and Sisters verified for themselves, is emphasized, especially the crucial significance of the force of attention in the recollection of oneself and God. The importance of strengthening attentive awareness is everywhere alluded to in the sources, but virtually ignored in current accounts of the Christian heritage. The book traces a transmission of spiritual exercises supported by a strongpsychological base that is strangely familiar to the climate of today's search for meaning.