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Author | : John P. Bradbury |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2013-07-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567363333 |
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One of the slogans of the reformation was ecclesia reformata semper reformanda – 'the reformed church always reforming'. Churches throughout the western world are currently engaged in reform and renewal programmes through internal structural reforms as well as movements such as 'emerging church'. This book presents a challenging theology of church reform and renewal that offers a contemporary understanding of this historic slogan. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Bradbury discerns processes and practices which are perpetually reforming and renewing the identity of the church. It examines doctrinal and confessional conceptions of the church, re-examines texts concerned with covenantal renewal and explores Jewish-Christian dialogue as an example of renewal. A constructive theology is offered utilizing the categories of collective memory and mimetic practice. This upholds fundamental Christian identity, whilst driving the process of reform and renewal under God in the context of a three-way relationship between God, the church and the world.
Author | : A. T. B. McGowan |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2007-03-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 083082829X |
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A collection of essays mines the whole terrain of systematic theology to refresh, renew, and reform the church for its next season, featuring contributions from senior theologians like Gerald Bray, Henri Blocher, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, and Stephen Williams among others. Original.
Author | : Craig D. Atwood |
Publisher | : Mercer University Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780865546790 |
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"Always Reforming highlights the fact that in the modern era the notion of heresy has fallen apart. Every church has been declared heretical at some time or other by another church, and it is not the role of the historian to decide who is right or wrong on doctrinal issues. Christians have adapted to sweeping social changes, including scientific discoveries and changing world-views." "This volume attempts to uncover some of the hidden dynamics of faith within the many ways in which other Christians have tried to live out the gospel in an uncertain world. It also demonstrates that all human institutions, including churches, change over time."--Jacket.
Author | : Roger E. Olson |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2007-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1441201106 |
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The community of evangelicals sometimes seems so broad as to defy definition, but theological conservatism has been one consistent marker. Now, says theologian Roger Olson, postconservatism is moving beyond conventional battles against liberalism and heresy to posit a dynamic and realistic approach. While conservatives strive to preserve tradition and protect orthodoxy, postconservatives urge openness to doctrinal reform without abandoning orthodoxy. Where differences exist between doctrine and Scripture, doctrine must be brought into conformity with the Word. Postconservatives want to free evangelical theology from its paradoxical captivity to rationalism and its obsession with "facts" so that it may recognize truth in experience and personal knowledge. Theologians, pastors, seminarians, and serious thinkers will find many depths to plumb in this exhaustive survey of critics, advocates, and fellow travelers on the evangelical journey.
Author | : Roger E. Olson |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2007-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0801031699 |
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Well-known theologian Roger Olson defines and traces the history of postconservative evangelical theology.
Author | : Collin Hansen |
Publisher | : Crossway |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2008-03-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1433521008 |
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From places like John Piper's den, Al Mohler's office, and Jonathan Edwards's college, Christianity Today journalist Collin Hansen investigates what makes today's young Calvinists tick. Church-growth strategies and charismatic worship have fueled the bulk of evangelical growth in America for decades. While baby boomers have flocked to churches that did not look or sound like church, it seems these churches do not so broadly capture the passions of today's twenty-something evangelicals. In fact, a desire for transcendence and tradition among young evangelicals has contributed to a Reformed resurgence. For nearly two years, Christianity Today journalist Collin Hansen visited the chief schools, churches, and conferences of this growing movement. He sought to describe its members and ask its leading pastors and theologians about the causes and implications of the Calvinist resurgence. The result, Young, Restless, Reformed, shows common threads in their diverse testimonies and suggests what tomorrow's church might look like when these young evangelicals become pastors or professors.
Author | : Andy Woods |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2018-02-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781945774195 |
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People tend to place the Reformers on a pedestal and act like they completed the revolution, but they did not. Why was the Protestant Reformation only a partial restoration? It was because they used the literal method of interpreting the Bible selectively. Ever Reforming will guide the reader to understand all that needed to be reformed, how the Reformers started the process, and the way in which that led to Dispensational Theology and the full recovery of the literal method of interpreting God's Word.
Author | : David Hadley Jensen |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-03-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 149822153X |
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One of the most persistent slogans of Reformed theology is that it is "reformed and always being reformed." But what does this slogan mean? This volume gathers thirteen essays written by a younger generation of Reformed theologians who teach and write on five different continents, who together offer this work in Christian systematic theology. Unlike many other works of Reformed theology, however, this book is framed by pressing contextual issues and questions (instead of traditional loci). Each chapter engages classical doctrine, but does so through the lens of contemporary, lived experience in particular contexts. The result is not a theology where doctrines are "applied" to contexts, but an approach where doctrine and context mutually shape one another. The contributors take seriously the notion that theology is "always being reformed" and is always partial, ever on the way--hence it requires conversation partners beyond the Reformed family of faith. The result is a study in Reformed theology that is thoroughly ecumenical.
Author | : Jean Calvin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1844 |
Genre | : Reformation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David Engelsma |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Church controversies |
ISBN | : 9780916206994 |
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A successor to The Sixteenth-Century Reformation of the Church, this book traces the continuing reformation in the Netherlands in the 17th and 18th centuries and in the Protestant Reformed Churches in North America in the 20th century. The book's fivefold division recognizes the ongoing reformation of these Reformed churches as having taken place in five distinct and doctrinally significant controversies.