Author: Brian A. Wren
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664256708
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Wren discusses the thorny issues involving congregational singing today: the indispensable nature of public worship; contemporary worship music; the lyrics of different types of congregational songs, such as choruses, hymns, chants and ritual songs; and the importance of using hymn lyrics as poetry. He shows why hymn lyrics are altered throughout time and how they illustrate theology.
Author: United States. President
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Author: William Cooke
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Category : Classical biography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Author: United States. President
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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Author: Stephen Bromley McCracken
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Category : Centennial Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Author: Roland H. Worth
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532685858
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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“To understand the immediate cultural and societal background of the cities to which John wrote in Revelation 1 and 2, we must first understand the broader background of Roman civilization and its impact upon Asian province,” writes Roland H. Worth in the introduction to this fascinating, information-packed work. It is an in-depth study of the history, culture, society, economics, and environment of early Christians living in Roman Asia. Drawing on a multitude of resources from diverse disciplines, Worth surveys Roman life and attitudes in general, and demonstrates how Roman power developed and was exercised in Asia. He describes life in Roman Asia: what it was like to live in that province, how the imperial cult grew and prospered there, as well as the nature of official governmental persecution in the first century. A second book, The Seven Cities of the Apocalypse and Greco-Asian Culture, will fill in the details of the local background of the Christians for whom the “mini-epistles” in the book of Revelation were written.
Author: United States. President
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Author: Jason A. Whitlark
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1606084771
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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The primary focus of this book is to demonstrate how Hebrews represents, in view of its historical and religious context, human fidelity to God. Thus, the basic thesis is twofold. First, with regard to the divine-human relationship in the ancient Mediterranean world, the belief in the reciprocity rationale was one primary dynamic for establishing fidelity to a relationship and has been applied by some scholars, such as David deSilva, to Hebrews as the way to understand its strategy for creating perseverance. A major problem with the application of this dynamic is that a common optimistic anthropological assumption is associated with the various reciprocity systems in the ancient world, both Jewish and pagan. This assumption is required if reciprocity is to be effective for establishing ongoing fidelity. Second, there was, however, a middle Judaic stream that can be traced from the period of the exile which held to a pessimistic anthropology. This anthropological assumption crippled the perceived success of reciprocity to secure fidelity. Thus, the solution to God's people's inability to remain faithful was an act of God that transformed the human condition and enabled faithfulness to the relationship. The argument of this book is that Hebrews, with its emphasis upon the inauguration of the new covenant by Jesus' high priestly ministry, belongs to this latter stream of thought in understanding how fidelity is secured between God and his people. Hebrews, thus, implicitly rejects the rationale of reciprocity for fidelity. The implications of this offers a fresh perspective on the soteriology of Hebrews.
Author: James Parton
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Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Author: Frederic De Peyster
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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