Author: Paul Wilkes
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664223298
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Profiles eight dynamic and diverse congregations, identifiying the characteristics that make each distinctive while explaining how any church can apply their ideas locally, in a resource that also lists more than 300 recommended Protestant congregations. Original.
Author: John A. Hardon
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Author: J. Gordon Melton
Publisher: Infobase Learning
ISBN: 1438140398
Category : RELIGION
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Examines the oldest Christian communion in the United States, the Protestant faith.
Author: James K. Wellman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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"One of the nation's best known churches, Fourth Presbyterian is a thriving mainline church housed in an elegant Gothic building in Chicago's wealthy Gold Coast neighborhood. Less than a mile to the west is another world: the Cabrini-Green low- income housing projects. In this evenhanded account, James Wellman surveys the church's history of balancing its theological aims and its social boundaries and sheds light on the strengths and weaknesses of liberal Protestantism as a modern religious institution. Wellman shows how Fourth Presbyterian has moved from an establishment congregation to what he calls a lay liberal church working to overcome class and race inequality in its urban context while carving out its institutional identity in an increasingly pluralistic environment. By examining the church's four main leaders over the course of the century, Wellman tracks Fourth Presbyterian's gradual shift away from an evangelical role and toward the current focus on service, epitomized in the church's main outreach program, an extensive volunteer tutoring program that serves hundreds of Cabrini-Green residents each week. In documenting Fourth Presbyterian's struggle to meet the needs of its privileged congregants while challenging them to move beyond exclusive boundaries of race and class, The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto opens a window into the past, present, and future of the Protestant mainline."
Author: Louis Bouyer
Publisher: Scepter Publishers
ISBN: 9781889334318
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Author: Joseph B. Tamney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521008679
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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The recent growth and popularity of conservative churches contradicts the idea that late-modern societies have outgrown the need for such relics of the past as traditionalist religions. In this book Joseph Tamney offers an explanation for this this apparent incongruity by looking at the case of growing, popular, conservative Protestant congregations in the United States. His findings represent a synthesis of ideas from supporters of secularization theory and from those who stress the competitive market of churches in America as a factor in church growth.
Author: Peter J. Leithart
Publisher: Brazos Press
ISBN: 1493405837
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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The Failure of Denominationalism and the Future of Christian Unity One of the unforeseen results of the Reformation was the shattering fragmentation of the church. Protestant tribalism was and continues to be a major hindrance to any solution to Christian division and its cultural effects. In this book, influential thinker Peter Leithart critiques American denominationalism in the context of global and historic Christianity, calls for an end to Protestant tribalism, and presents a vision for the future church that transcends post-Reformation divisions. Leithart offers pastors and churches a practical agenda, backed by theological arguments, for pursuing local unity now. Unity in the church will not be a matter of drawing all churches into a single, existing denomination, says Leithart. Returning to Catholicism or Orthodoxy is not the solution. But it is possible to move toward church unity without giving up our convictions about truth. This critique and defense of Protestantism urges readers to preserve and celebrate the central truths recovered in the Reformation while working to heal the wounds of the body of Christ.
Author: Jerald C. Brauer
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Author: Winthrop Still Hudson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Author: John P. Burgess
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 0664235905
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 227
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When author and theologian John P. Burgess first travelled to Russia, he was hoping to expand his theological horizons and explore the rebirth of the Orthodox Church since the fall of Communism. But what he found changed some fundamental assumptions about his own tradition of North American Protestantism. In this book, Burgess looks to Orthodoxy to help the North American Protestant churchwhich has seen membership decline to below 50% of the population for the first timefind new ways to worship, teach, and spread its message. He considers Orthodox rituals, icons, the attention to saints and miracles, monastic life, and Eucharistic theology and practice. He then explores whether and how Protestants can use these elements of Orthodoxy to help revitalize the mainline church. Burgess helpfully demonstrates the ways in which Orthodoxy calls us back to what is most important in Christian faith and life.
