Author: Albert Elijah Dunning
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Congregationalists in America
Author: Albert Elijah Dunning
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Congregations in America
Author: Mark Chaves
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674012844
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Providing a comprehensive overview of the most significant form of collective religious expression in American society--local congregations--this book reveals that, despite the media focus on the political and social activities of religious groups, the arts are actually far more central to the workings of congregations.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674012844
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Providing a comprehensive overview of the most significant form of collective religious expression in American society--local congregations--this book reveals that, despite the media focus on the political and social activities of religious groups, the arts are actually far more central to the workings of congregations.
The Last Puritans
Author: Margaret Bendroth
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146962401X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Congregationalists, the oldest group of American Protestants, are the heirs of New England's first founders. While they were key characters in the story of early American history, from Plymouth Rock and the founding of Harvard and Yale to the Revolutionary War, their luster and numbers have faded. But Margaret Bendroth's critical history of Congregationalism over the past two centuries reveals how the denomination is essential for understanding mainline Protestantism in the making. Bendroth chronicles how the New England Puritans, known for their moral and doctrinal rigor, came to be the antecedents of the United Church of Christ, one of the most liberal of all Protestant denominations today. The demands of competition in the American religious marketplace spurred Congregationalists, Bendroth argues, to face their distinctive history. By engaging deeply with their denomination's storied past, they recast their modern identity. The soul-searching took diverse forms--from letter writing and eloquent sermonizing to Pilgrim-celebrating Thanksgiving pageants--as Congregationalists renegotiated old obligations to their seventeenth-century spiritual ancestors. The result was a modern piety that stood a respectful but ironic distance from the past and made a crucial contribution to the American ethos of religious tolerance.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146962401X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Congregationalists, the oldest group of American Protestants, are the heirs of New England's first founders. While they were key characters in the story of early American history, from Plymouth Rock and the founding of Harvard and Yale to the Revolutionary War, their luster and numbers have faded. But Margaret Bendroth's critical history of Congregationalism over the past two centuries reveals how the denomination is essential for understanding mainline Protestantism in the making. Bendroth chronicles how the New England Puritans, known for their moral and doctrinal rigor, came to be the antecedents of the United Church of Christ, one of the most liberal of all Protestant denominations today. The demands of competition in the American religious marketplace spurred Congregationalists, Bendroth argues, to face their distinctive history. By engaging deeply with their denomination's storied past, they recast their modern identity. The soul-searching took diverse forms--from letter writing and eloquent sermonizing to Pilgrim-celebrating Thanksgiving pageants--as Congregationalists renegotiated old obligations to their seventeenth-century spiritual ancestors. The result was a modern piety that stood a respectful but ironic distance from the past and made a crucial contribution to the American ethos of religious tolerance.
Congregationalists in America
Author: Albert Elijah Dunning
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Don't Fire Your Church Members
Author: Jonathan Leeman
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1433686228
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Church membership is not just a status, it’s an office. Leaders shouldn’t fire members from the responsibilities given to them by Jesus—they should train them! When members are trained, the church grows in holiness and love, discipleship and mission. Complacency and nominalism are diminished. Jesus gives every church member an office in the church’s government: to assume final responsibility for guarding the what and the who of the gospel in the church and its ministry. Similarly, Jesus gives leaders to the church for equipping the members to do this church-building and mission-accomplishing work. In our day, the tasks of reinvigorating congregational authority and elder authority must work together. The vision of congregationalism pictured in this book offers an integrated view of the Christian life. Congregationalism is biblical, but biblical congregationalism just might look a little different than you expect. It is nothing less than Jesus’ authorization for living out his kingdom rule among a people on mission.
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1433686228
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Church membership is not just a status, it’s an office. Leaders shouldn’t fire members from the responsibilities given to them by Jesus—they should train them! When members are trained, the church grows in holiness and love, discipleship and mission. Complacency and nominalism are diminished. Jesus gives every church member an office in the church’s government: to assume final responsibility for guarding the what and the who of the gospel in the church and its ministry. Similarly, Jesus gives leaders to the church for equipping the members to do this church-building and mission-accomplishing work. In our day, the tasks of reinvigorating congregational authority and elder authority must work together. The vision of congregationalism pictured in this book offers an integrated view of the Christian life. Congregationalism is biblical, but biblical congregationalism just might look a little different than you expect. It is nothing less than Jesus’ authorization for living out his kingdom rule among a people on mission.
Congregational Social Work
Author: Diana S. Richmond Garland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971531888
Category : Church and social problems
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971531888
Category : Church and social problems
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A Manual of Congregational Principles
Author: Robert William Dale
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Congregationalists
Author: Theodore Philander Prudden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Elders in Congregational Life (Newton)
Author: Phil A. Newton
Publisher: Kregel Academic
ISBN: 9780825494789
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
(Foreword by Mark Dever) A biblically functioning church requires intentional devotion to the New Testament model of the church. In this practical book, Phil Newton gives a definitive and biblical study of elder-based leadership.
Publisher: Kregel Academic
ISBN: 9780825494789
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
(Foreword by Mark Dever) A biblically functioning church requires intentional devotion to the New Testament model of the church. In this practical book, Phil Newton gives a definitive and biblical study of elder-based leadership.
The Congregationalist
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass. )
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass. )
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description