Author: Kevin F Scott
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 468
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This book explores the foundation of authentic of Christianity from the witness of those in the Upper Room with the Risen Christ and the continuing mystical presence of Christ among his people down the ages. The author charts the disruption of this authenticity by the adoption of Christianity as the State Religion of the Roman Empire and the degree to which that adoption has tended to qualify the Christian Church's loyalty to Christ and thus to become inauthentic even to the point of becoming seriously fake. However, the Church, properly founded on the supernatural reign of Christ, continually recovers its authenticity as its members return to the company of Christ. This book charts this triumph throughout the first millennium of Christian History, and projects it forward into the future and envisages a new and authentic Christianity emerging from the rubble of a discredited State Church.
Author: Friedrich Bente
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040616953
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
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"Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church" by F. Bente. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author: Daniel Topf
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 131
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The Church's New Front Door introduces Christians to the critically important concept of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, an era that will be dominated by powerful technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced robotics. While the Fourth Industrial Revolution is powered by technological developments, it has far-reaching political, socio-economic, ethical, and spiritual implications as well. To be missional, the church needs to be relevant; and in order to be relevant in the twenty-first century, believers must engage with novel technologies and the impact they are having on areas like work, education, and healthcare. Each chapter includes discussion questions and suggestions for further reading, making this book an accessible resource for diverse audiences, including church members, ministry leaders, and students at Christian colleges and seminaries. Whether you agree or disagree with the author's description of how our world might change in the next ten to twenty years--this book will make you think!
Author: Peter Lake
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191068667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Bad Queen Bess? analyses the back and forth between the Elizabethan regime and various Catholic critics, who, from the early 1570s to the early 1590s, sought to characterise that regime as a conspiracy of evil counsel. Through a genre novel - the libellous secret history - to English political discourse, various (usually anonymous) Catholic authors claimed to reveal to the public what was 'really happening' behind the curtain of official lies and disinformation with which the clique of evil counsellors at the heart of the Elizabethan state habitually cloaked their sinister manoeuvres. Elements within the regime, centred on William Cecil and his circle, replied to these assaults with their own species of plot talk and libellous secret history, specialising in conspiracy-driven accounts of the Catholic, Marian, and then, latterly, Spanish threats. Peter Lake presents a series of (mutually constitutive) moves and counter moves, in the course of which the regime's claims to represent a form of public political virtue, to speak for the commonweal and true religion, elicited from certain Catholic critics a simply inverted rhetoric of private political vice, persecution, and tyranny. The resulting exchanges are read not only as a species of 'political thought', but as a way of thinking about politics as process and of distinguishing between 'politics' and 'religion'. They are also analysed as modes of political communication and pitch-making - involving print, circulating manuscripts, performance, and rumour - and thus as constitutive of an emergent mode of 'public politics' and perhaps of a 'post reformation public sphere'. While the focus is primarily English, the origins and imbrication of these texts within, and their direct address to, wider European events and audiences is always present. The aim is thus to contribute simultaneously to the political, cultural, intellectual, and religious histories of the period.
Author: Heinrich Brück
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Author: Maurice Pinay
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365162427
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 517
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This book, The Plot Against the Church, was published prior to the beginning of the Second Vatican Council as a warning of what the dark powers had in store for the Church. The high ranking clerics, writing as Maurice Pinay, stated that the ultimate purpose of the Council was to remove the crime of Deicide from the Jews and assign it instead to the Romans. It is a scholarly work, worthy of consideration of all who would understand Christian history and Christian defense against forces seeking to destroy the Church and Faith. While written in 1962, Rabbi Louis Israel Newman wrote much the same from the Jewish side in his 1925 work Jewish Influence in Christian Reform Movements, which is quoted extensively in The Plot.
Author: Johann Heinrich Kurtz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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Author: Johann Heinrich KURTZ
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Author: William Maxwell Blackburn
Publisher:
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Author: Owen Chadwick
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141967056
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 489
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The beginning the sixteenth century brought growing pressure within the Western Church for Reformation. The popes could not hold Western Christendom together and there was confusion about Church reform. What some believed to be abuses, others found acceptable. Nevertheless over the years three aims emerged: to reform the exactions of churchmen, to correct errors of doctrines and to improve the moral awareness of society. As a result, Western Europe divided into a Catholic South and Protestant North. Across the no man's land between them were fought the bitterest wars of religion in Christian historyThis third volume of ‘The Penguin History of the Church’ deals with the formative work of Erasmus, Luther, Zwingli and Calvin, and analyses the special circumstances of the English Reformation as well as the Jesuits and the Counter-Reformation
