Author: Bryan Buchanan (Bookseller)
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ISBN: 9781560853992
Category : Mormon Church
Languages : en
Pages :
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"Determining what is and what is not Mormon doctrine is a difficult endeavor. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints embraces four books of scripture as its canon, but also believes the church is led by a living prophet. Additions to the canon have been rare since the death of church founder Joseph Smith. Joseph Fielding Smith, tenth church president, said that if the prophet ever contradicts cannon, cannon prevails. On the other hand, Ezra Taft Benson, the church's thirteenth president, said that the living prophet's words are more important than cannon. Such messages create no shortage of confusion among church members. The question "What is doctrine?" opens the door for theologians and historians to wrestle over the answer, and to do so thoughtfully and insightfully. In Continuing Revelation, editor Bryan Buchanan has compiled essays that seek greater understanding about what doctrine is and why it matters"--
Author: Boyd K. Packer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781590388013
Category :
Languages : en
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Author: J.D. Greear
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310337852
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Encounter the dynamic presence of God as you learn from pastor and author J. D. Greear how to more fully experience the Holy Spirit within you. Jesus gave his disciples the audacious promise that the Spirit he would send to live inside them would be even better than if he himself remained beside them. Yet how many of us consider our connection to the Holy Spirit so strong that we would call his presence in us better than Jesus himself walking by our side? J. D. Greear was the pastor of a rapidly growing church who still felt like he didn't know how to relate to God personally. Though he knew a lot about God, he wasn't as sure about how to walk with God. Furthermore, he felt overwhelmed by the size of the mission Jesus had left for his church. In a world of so much need, what difference could he possibly make? Learning how God dwells in us and empowers us in the Holy Spirit redefined his life and ministry. Ministry became less about working for God and more about letting God work through him. Drudgery was replaced by delight; helplessness was replaced by empowerment. In Jesus, Continued... Greear explores--in clear and practical language--questions such as: What does it mean to have a relationship with the Holy Spirit? How can we tell when the Spirit is speaking to us? What do you do when God feels absent? If you are longing to know God in a vibrant way, Jesus, Continued... has good news for you: That's exactly what God wants for you too. His Spirit stands ready to guide you, empower you, and use you.
Author: David F. Holland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authority
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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In the first half of the nineteenth century, a diverse contingent of American religious figures promoted the idea of an open canon of divine revelation. Transcendentalists, Hicksite Quakers, Mormons and Shakers defined their faith against a culture that they accused of relegating religion's defining revelations to the ancient past. In this they were joined by some of the most notable characters of their generation, ranging from the provocative African-American prophetess Sojourner Truth to the influential theologian Horace Bushnell. Powerfully wielding this heterodox doctrine, these revelationists left a lasting imprint on the United States' religious culture. This dissertation explores the reasons why the first half of the nineteenth century proved so conducive to the notion of an open canon. Focusing on ideas -- rather than on social or psychological explanations -- it argues that a confluence of conceptual trends gave the tenet of continuing revelation special currency in the antebellum era. It proposes the existence of a "revelatory equation," which reasons that a cultural commitment to the necessity of divine revelation (A), when combined with a sense that the textual source of such revelation is historically distant (B), could both generate and justify appeals to continuing revelations (C). A + B = C. This dissertation argues that antebellum Americans occupied a culture in which -- in response to both deistical attacks on Christianity and historically minded treatments of the Bible -- the A and the B variables of the revelatory equation had never been more pronounced. They subsequently sustained an unusual amount of C. In short, antebellum Americans were living in the sum of a grand cultural equation. The simplicity of this formulation, however, belies the intricate combination of factors in which that cultural logic was embedded. The sequential progression of this society's revelatory reasoning weaved through such phenomena as the rise of common-sense epistemologies, conceptions of natural law, the cult of domesticity, and, of course, the Second Great Awakening. In large measure, to recreate the story of continuing revelation in early American thought is to reconstruct the broad contours of that thought itself -- Author's abstract.
Author: Christopher M. Date
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1630871605
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Most evangelical Christians believe that those people who are not saved before they die will be punished in hell forever. But is this what the Bible truly teaches? Do Christians need to rethink their understanding of hell? In the late twentieth century, a growing number of evangelical theologians, biblical scholars, and philosophers began to reject the traditional doctrine of eternal conscious torment in hell in favor of a minority theological perspective called conditional immortality. This view contends that the unsaved are resurrected to face divine judgment, just as Christians have always believed, but due to the fact that immortality is only given to those who are in Christ, the unsaved do not exist forever in hell. Instead, they face the punishment of the "second death"--an end to their conscious existence. This volume brings together excerpts from a variety of well-respected evangelical thinkers, including John Stott, John Wenham, and E. Earl Ellis, as they articulate the biblical, theological, and philosophical arguments for conditionalism. These readings will give thoughtful Christians strong evidence that there are indeed compelling reasons for rethinking hell.
Author: Jackie Leach Scully
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317126076
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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In this multi-disciplinary collection we ask the question, 'What did, and do, Quakers think about good and evil?' There are no simple or straightforwardly uniform answers to this, but in this collection, we draw together contributions that for the first time look at historical and contemporary Quakerdom's approach to the ethical and theological problem of evil and good. Within Quakerism can be found Liberal, Conservative, and Evangelical forms. This book uncovers the complex development of metaethical thought by a religious group that has evolved with an unusual degree of diversity. In doing so, it also points beyond the boundaries of the Religious Society of Friends to engage with the spectrum of thinking in the wider religious world.
Author: Keith A. Mathison
Publisher: Canon Press & Book Service
ISBN: 1885767749
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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In what shape do we find the doctrine of sola Scriptura today? Many modern Evangelicals see it as a license to ignore history and the creeds in favor of a more splintered approach to the Christian living. In the past two decades, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox apologists have strongly tried to undermine sola Scriptura as unbiblical, unhistorical, and impractical. But these groups rest their cases on a recent, false take on sola Scriptura. The ancient, medieval, and classical Protestant view of sola Scriptura actually has a quite different shape than most opponents and defenders maintain. Therein lies the goal of this book-an intriguing defense of the ancient (and classical Protestant) doctrine of sola Scriptura against the claims of Rome, the East, and modern Evangelicalism. "The issue of sola Scriptura is not an abstract problem relevant only to the sixteenth-century Reformation, but one that poses increasingly more serious consequences for contemporary Christianity. This work by Keith Mathison is the finest and most comprehensive treatment of the matter I've seen. I highly recommend it to all who embrace the authority of sacred Scripture." -R.C. Sproul, Ligonier Ministries
Author: Wilford Woodruff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latter Day Saints
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Author: William Hendriksen
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 158558083X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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With an uninterrupted printing history since it was first published in 1939, this classic interpretation of the book of Revelation has served as a solid resource and source of inspiration for generations. Using sound principles of interpretation, William Hendriksen unfolds the mysteries of the apocalypse gradually, always with the purpose of showing that "we are more than conquerors through Christ." Both beginning and advanced students of the Scriptures will find here the inspiration to face a restless and confusing world with a joyful, confident spirit, secure in the knowledge that God reigns and is coming again soon. This edition features a newly designed interior layout.
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Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 0857861018
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
