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Author | : Justo L Gonz Lez |
Publisher | : Chalice Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2012-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780827205741 |
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New, different readings of church history are finally reflecting Christianity s deep roots in every culture worldwide. Gonz lez listens to voices from centers other than the North Atlantic to help us see a different perspective of church history -a global story that includes those previously marginalized -as he offers us a hopeful outlook for the future of world Christianity.
Author | : Scott W. Sunquist |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2022-06-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 151400223X |
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How should thoughtful Christians—especially historians and missiologists—make sense of global Christianity as an unfolding historical movement? Highlighting both the continuity and the diversity within the Christian movement over the centuries, this comprehensive resource from Scott Sunquist offers a framework for how to read and write church history.
Author | : Allan Doig |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Church architecture |
ISBN | : 0199575363 |
Download A History of the Church Through Its Buildings Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Allan Doig explores the Christian Church through the lens of twelve particular churches, looking at their history, archaeology, and how the buildings changed over time in response to developing usage and beliefs.
Author | : Michael A. G. Haykin |
Publisher | : Crossway |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2011-03-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1433523574 |
Download Rediscovering the Church Fathers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
While the church today looks quite different than it did two thousand years ago, Christians share the same faith with the church fathers. Although separated by time and culture, we have much to learn from their lives and teaching. This book is an organized and convenient introduction to how to read the church fathers from AD 100 to 500. Michael Haykin surveys the lives and teachings of seven of the Fathers, looking at their role in such issues as baptism, martyrdom, and the relationship between church and state. Ignatius, Cyprian, Basil of Caesarea, and Ambrose and others were foundational in the growth and purity of early Christianity, and their impact continues to shape the church today. Evangelical readers interested in the historical roots of Christianity will find this to be a helpful introductory volume.
Author | : Mark A. Noll |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2009-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830828478 |
Download The New Shape of World Christianity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Noll makes a compelling case that how Americans have come to practice the Christian faith is just as globally important as what the American church has done in the world.
Author | : John Philip Jenkins |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2008-10-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0061472808 |
Download The Lost History of Christianity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this groundbreaking book, renowned religion scholar Philip Jenkins offers a lost history, revealing that, for centuries, Christianity's center was actually in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, with significant communities extending as far as China. The Lost History of Christianity unveils a vast and forgotten network of the world's largest and most influential Christian churches that existed to the east of the Roman Empire. These churches and their leaders ruled the Middle East for centuries and became the chief administrators and academics in the new Muslim empire. The author recounts the shocking history of how these churches—those that had the closest link to Jesus and the early church—died. Jenkins takes a stand against current scholars who assert that variant, alternative Christianities disappeared in the fourth and fifth centuries on the heels of a newly formed hierarchy under Constantine, intent on crushing unorthodox views. In reality, Jenkins says, the largest churches in the world were the “heretics” who lost the orthodoxy battles. These so-called heretics were in fact the most influential Christian groups throughout Asia, and their influence lasted an additional one thousand years beyond their supposed demise. Jenkins offers a new lens through which to view our world today, including the current conflicts in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Without this lost history, we lack an important element for understanding our collective religious past. By understanding the forgotten catastrophe that befell Christianity, we can appreciate the surprising new births that are occurring in our own time, once again making Christianity a true world religion.
Author | : Patrick Johnstone |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2014-01-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830857125 |
Download The Future of the Global Church Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In The Future of the Global Church, Patrick Johnstone, author of six editions of the phenomenal prayer guide, Operation World, draws on his fifty years experience to present a breathtaking, full-color graphical and textual overview of the past, present and possible future of the church around the world.
Author | : Everett Ferguson |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 988 |
Release | : 2009-03-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0802827489 |
Download Baptism in the Early Church Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A comprehensive survey of the doctrine and practice of baptism in the first five centuries of Christian history, arranged geographically within chronological periods.
Author | : Dale A. Johnson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Dissenters, Religious |
ISBN | : 0195121635 |
Download The Changing Shape of English Nonconformity, 1825-1925 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book addresses several dimensions of the transformation of English Nonconformity over the course of an important century in its history. It begins with the question of education for ministry, considering the activities undertaken by four major evangelical traditions (Congregationalist,Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian) to establish theological colleges for this purpose, and then takes up the complex three-way relationship of ministry/churches/colleges that evolved from these activities. As author Dale Johnson illustrates, this evolution came to have significant implicationsfor the Nonconformist engagement with its message and with the culture at large. These implications are investigated in chapters on the changing perception or understanding of ministry itself, religious authority, theological questions (such as the doctrines of God and the atonement), and religiousidentity.In Johnson's exploration of these issues, conversations about these topics are located primarily in addresses at denominational meetings, conferences that took up specific questions, and representative religious and theological publications of the day that participated in key debates or advocatedcontentious positions. While attending to some important denominational differences, The Changing Shape of English Nonconformity, 1825-1925 focuses on the representative discussion of these topics across the whole spectrum of evangelical Nonconformity rather than on specific denominationaltraditions.Johnson maintains that too many interpretations of nineteenth-century Nonconformity, especially those that deal with aspects of the theological discussion within these traditions, have tended to depict such developments as occasions of decline from earlier phases of evangelical vitality and appeal.This book instead argues that it is more appropriate to assess these Nonconformist developments as a collective, necessary, and deeply serious effort to come to terms with modernity and, further, to retain a responsible understanding of what it meant to be evangelical. It also shows thesedevelopments to be part of a larger schema through which Nonconformity assumed a more prominent place in the English culture of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author | : Paul Johnson |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 2012-03-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1451688512 |
Download History of Christianity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude—“a tour de force, one of the most ambitious surveys of the history of Christianity ever attempted and perhaps the most radical” (New York Review of Books). In a highly readable companion to books on faith and history, the scholar and author Johnson has illuminated the Christian world and its fascinating history in a way that no other has. Johnson takes off in the year AD 49 with his namesake the apostle Paul. Thus beginning an ambitious quest to paint the centuries since the founding of a little-known ‘Jesus Sect’, A History of Christianity explores to a great degree the evolution of the Western world. With an unbiased and overall optimistic tone, Johnson traces the fantastic scope of the consequent sects of Christianity and the people who followed them. Information drawn from extensive and varied sources from around the world makes this history as credible as it is reliable. Invaluable understanding of the framework of modern Christianity—and its trials and tribulations throughout history—has never before been contained in such a captivating work.