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Author: Franklin L. Grepke Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 1664228772 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 82
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This author combines the Ten Commandments and how they affect the purpose of God’s plan for making Disciples. Social issues and a congregation’s lack of mission contribute to a weak and ineffective ministry. They are missing God’s specific plan found in the Great Commission. The malady or illness of a church can be cured by two things, God’s law, and the Gospel. This author brings focus to both cures throughout the book. His focus is to stir up the Christian church, one believer at a time.
Author: Franklin L. Grepke Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 1664228772 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 82
Book Description
This author combines the Ten Commandments and how they affect the purpose of God’s plan for making Disciples. Social issues and a congregation’s lack of mission contribute to a weak and ineffective ministry. They are missing God’s specific plan found in the Great Commission. The malady or illness of a church can be cured by two things, God’s law, and the Gospel. This author brings focus to both cures throughout the book. His focus is to stir up the Christian church, one believer at a time.
Author: Franklin L. Grepke Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 9781664228795 Category : Languages : en Pages : 112
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This author combines the Ten Commandments and how they affect the purpose of God's plan for making Disciples. Social issues and a congregation's lack of mission contribute to a weak and ineffective ministry. They are missing God's specific plan found in the Great Commission. The malady or illness of a church can be cured by two things, God's law, and the Gospel. This author brings focus to both cures throughout the book. His focus is to stir up the Christian church, one believer at a time.
Author: Brian Brock Publisher: ISBN: 9781498234207 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 280
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The ailments of the contemporary church are remarkably similar to those suffered by the fractious Corinthian church in the first century. This is the challenge presented in The Malady of the Christian Body, a two-volume commentary by Brian Brock and Bernd Wannenwetsch. The manner in which Paul engages questions of factionalism, sexuality, legal conflict, idolatry, dress codes, and eating habits reveals that neither the malady he diagnoses nor the therapy he offers track the dominant accounts currently on offer of the malaise suffered by today's church. This volume depicts the Apostle as carefully examining the organic whole that is the body of Christ in order to detectobstacles to the healthy flow of powers that sustain its life. The therapy that is then offered comes by way of a redirection of the Corinthian believers' attention to the ways in which they can embrace God's active working among them to heal their broken unity. This book breaks new ground in crossing and reconfiguring the traditional disciplinary boundaries between biblical studies, systematic theology, and theological ethics. ""Thick--that is the word that comes to mind for characterizing this extraordinary commentary. 'Thick' is sometimes associated with 'slow, ' but I am using the term to indicate the richness of the theological readings of Paul offered in this book. I think they touch on every theological issue we confront today. As a result I cannot imagine another resource taking its place for many years."" --Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Emeritus Professor of Divinity and Law, Duke University ""While theological readings of Scripture often glide over the text, this one plunges into it. The authors' interpretations are sometimes controversial, often highly original, and always theologically rich and insightful. Most importantly, they invite the reader to participate in their own act and practice of reading 1 Corinthians from and for the church. It is an invitation any theologian or Christian ethicist--indeed, any Christian--would do well to accept."" --Gerald McKenny, Walter Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame; author of The Analogy of Grace: Karl Barth's Moral Theology ""How are we to learn to hear Paul in such a way that we also may be convicted by his writings to the Corinthians? All too often our hermeneutical preliminaries, historical contextualizations, and efforts to find coherence serve as unconscious stratagems for evading the apostle's message. By helping us to learn to read Paul over against ourselves, Brian Brock and Bernd Wannenwetsch's immensely rewarding and illuminating commentary on 1 Corinthians points us the way to the Christ who is profoundly and truly for us."" --Robert Song, Durham University Brian Brock is Reader in Moral and Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of Singing the Ethos of God, Christian Ethics in aTechnological Age, and most recently, Captive to Christ, Open to the World. Bernd Wannenwetsch was Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics at the University of Oxford, Chair in Theological Ethics at the University of Aberdeen and the presidentof the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics. His publications includePolitical Worship, Guter schneller Tod?, andVerlangen."
Author: Catherine A. Brekus Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press ISBN: 0807869147 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 544
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From the founding of the first colonies until the present, the influence of Christianity, as the dominant faith in American society, has extended far beyond church pews into the wider culture. Yet, at the same time, Christians in the United States have disagreed sharply about the meaning of their shared tradition, and, divided by denominational affiliation, race, and ethnicity, they have taken stances on every side of contested public issues from slavery to women's rights. This volume of twenty-two original essays, contributed by a group of prominent thinkers in American religious studies, provides a sophisticated understanding of both the diversity and the alliances among Christianities in the United States and the influences that have shaped churches and the nation in reciprocal ways. American Christianities explores this paradoxical dynamic of dominance and diversity that are the true marks of a faith too often perceived as homogeneous and monolithic. Contributors: Catherine L. Albanese, University of California, Santa Barbara James B. Bennett, Santa Clara University Edith Blumhofer, Wheaton College Ann Braude, Harvard Divinity School Catherine A. Brekus, University of Chicago Divinity School Kristina Bross, Purdue University Rebecca L. Davis, University of Delaware Curtis J. Evans, University of Chicago Divinity School Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University Divinity School W. Clark Gilpin, University of Chicago Divinity School Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado at Boulder Jeanne Halgren Kilde, University of Minnesota David W. Kling, University of Miami Timothy S. Lee, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University Dan McKanan, Harvard Divinity School Michael D. McNally, Carleton College Mark A. Noll, University of Notre Dame Jon Pahl, The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia Sally M. Promey, Yale University Jon H. Roberts, Boston University Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University
Author: Richard Kyle Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351321668 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 485
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Most forms of religion are best understood in the con- text of their relationship with the surrounding culture. This may be particularly true in the United States. Certainly immigrant Catholicism became Americanized; mainstream Protestantism accommodated itself to the modern world; and Reform Judaism is at home in American society. In Evangelicalism, Richard Kyle explores paradoxical adjustments and transformations in the relationship between conservative Protestant Evangelicalism and contemporary American culture. Evangelicals have resisted many aspects of the modern world, but Kyle focuses on what he considers their romance with popular culture. Kyle sees this as an Americanized Christianity rather than a Christian America, but the two are so intertwined that it is difficult to discern the difference between them. Instead, in what has become a vicious self-serving cycle, Evangelicals have baptized and sanctified secular culture in order to be considered culturally relevant, thus increasing their numbers and success within abundantly populous and populist-driven American society. In doing so, Evangelicalism has become a middle-class movement, one that dominates America's culture, and unabashedly populist. Many Evangelicals view America as God's chosen nation, thus sanctifying American culture, consumerism, and middle-class values. Kyle believes Evangelicals have served themselves well in consciously and deliberately adjusting their faith to popular culture. Yet he also thinks Evangelicals may have compromised themselves and their future in the process, so heavily borrowing from the popular culture that in many respects the Evangelical subculture has become secularism with a light gilding of Christianity. If so, he asks, can Evangelicalism survive its own popularity and reaffirm its religious origins, or will it assimilate and be absorbed into what was once known as the Great American Melting Pot of religions and cultures? Will the Gospel of the American dream ultimately engulf and destroy the Gospel of Evangelical success in America? This thoughtful and thought-provoking volume will interest anyone concerned with the modern-day success of the Evangelical movement in America and the aspirations and fate of its faithful.
Author: Jon Fleetwood Publisher: Liberty Hill Publishing ISBN: 9781662834608 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 178
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There are 1 million fewer Christians in America every year. Data show that Christianity in America is declining at an alarming rate, Pew Research indicating each American generation is less Christian than the last. There were 178 million Christian adults in America in 2009, but only 167 million by 2019. American Christianity is failing at its primary task-making American disciples. Theologians call Jesus's command to "make disciples of all nations" the "Great Commission" (Matt. 28:19-20) because it is the greatest of all Jesus's mandates. Motivating all forms of evangelism, the purpose of the Great Commission is to increase the number of believers. But America is losing more than 1 million Christians per year. However, research also shows that "Gen Z"-the youngest American generation-is becoming more politically conservative. A study conducted by The Gild found that almost 60 percent of Gen Zers describe their views as either "conservative" or "moderate." Forbes refers to Gen Z as "possibly the most conservative generation since World War II." In An American Revival: Why American Christianity Is Failing and How to Fix It, author Jon Fleetwood explains how Christians must remove post-Westernism (Cultural Marxism) from the American Church. The American Church will then be able to reach Gen Z with the gospel by using Gen Zers' increasingly conservative political beliefs as evidence for the truth of the Christian worldview. Blending politics, apologetics, philosophy, and the Bible, Fleetwood casts a vision for igniting the next great Christian revival in America. Jon Fleetwood holds degrees from Biola University and Liberty University. He is Managing Editor for American Faith, a conservative news organization receiving over 1 million content impressions every month. Coauthor of What We're Afraid to Ask: 365 Days of Healing for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse (Circle Books, 2016), Jon was certified by Dr. William Lane Craig as Chapter Director for 'Reasonable Faith' Orange, California in 2016.
Author: Gary DeMar Publisher: American Vision ISBN: 0915815710 Category : Christianity Languages : en Pages : 278
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"From the founding of the colonies to the declaration of the Supreme Court, America's heritage is built upon the principles of the Christian religion. And yet the secularists are dismantling this foundation brick by brick, attempting to deny the very core of our national life. Gary DeMar presents well-documented facts which will change your perspective about what it means to be a Christian in America; the truth about America's Christian past as it relates to supreme court justices, and presidents; the Christian character of colonial charters, state constitutions, and the US Constitution; the Christian foundation of colleges, the Christian character of Washington, D.C.; the origin of Thanksgiving and so much more."--Publisher's description
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