Church Institutions category: 259 books
The Once and Future Church
Reinventing the Congregation for a New Mission Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1991
Mead takes a broad look at past and present changes in the church, and postulates a future to which those changes are calling us. Denominations, once structured to deliver resources to far-off lands of foreign mission, now encounter the mission field in the layperson's workplace and the community...
by Arthur Herzog
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Churches today are caught in a sociological trap. Parishioners want to keep comfortable status quo organization. Churchmen feel pressure to modernize, to "get where the action is." This book is a provovative and zesty analysis of the problem. The churches have followed corporations in emphasizing...
The Practicing Congregation
Imagining a New Old Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
The conventional wisdom about mainline Protestantism maintains that it is a dying tradition, irrelevant to a postmodern society, unresponsive to change, and increasingly disconnected from its core faith tenets. In her provocative new book, historian and researcher Diana Butler Bass argues that there...
The Didascalia Apostolorum
The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Didascalia Apostolorum, or just Didascalia, is a Christian treatise which belongs to the genre of the Church Orders. It presents itself as being written by the Twelve Apostles at the time of the Council of Jerusalem; however, scholars agree that it was actually a composition of the 3rd century, perhaps...
C. H. Spurgeon and the Metropolitan Tabernacle
Addresses and Testimonials, 1854-1879
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Charles Haddon Spurgeon passed away on January 31, 1892, but the influence of his faith lives on. He is not the Forgotten Spurgeon. Besides, he has been called the Prince of Preachers, the Heir of the Puritans, the Peoples Preacher, the Preacher who had Communion with Christ and his people, and one...
Faith, Power and Territory
A Handbook of British Islam
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
Islam is a religion that seeks also to be a political and territorial power. This book is an easy-to-use resource to understand Islam in Britain today, how it is developing and its influence on the country. It asks penetrating questions about how Muslim communities in the UK could develop in the future,...
by Loren B. Mead
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1996
Mead presents five key challenges facing today’s churches-and how they represent opportunities for the evolutionary, transformative changes he believes must take place in congregations if the church is to remain a viable institution into the twenty-first century. Readers of Mead's Once and Future...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
A record of the papers presented and recommendations made during the informal dialogue between The Catholic Church and The Salvation Army in five meetings covering the period between 2007 and 2012.
During the conversations papers were delivered which presented the Catholic and Salvationist...
Playlist Judaism
Making Choices for a Vital Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
"Every Jewish institution," writes Kerry Olitzky, "is undergoing significant change and is in danger of becoming irrelevant to the majority of North American Jews. All these institutions will have to reimagine themselves if they are to survive and grow. And the most numerous of these...
Tomorrow's Synagogue Today
Creating Vibrant Centers of Jewish Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
In the past decade many intelligent people who care deeply about synagogues have written about them. So how is this book different from all other books? Many books take the overall mission of the synagogue as a given, and the recommendations around structure are really about incremental change. Tomorrow's...
When Leadership and Spiritual Direction Meet
Stories and Reflections for Congregational Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Modern church leaders need to cultivate innovative and creative leadership skills, as they navigate today’s post-Christian world, and as their congregations look to them for insight and guidance. Gil Stafford takes a fresh look at this vital need, drawing upon his experience as a college coach,...
Covenant Keeper's Weapon
Tithes and Offerings
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In my previous book, Giving to God Is an Investment, my emphasis was prophetically based on the auditorium to be built. In this book, I am now talking about the auditorium worth six point five million rand that was dedicated in 2005. With God all things are possible. Those who trust in him, their...
Neither Jew Nor Gentile
Exploring Issues of Racial Diversity on Protestant College Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
In recent years, Protestant churches and denominations have become increasingly concerned with issues of racial diversity and reconciliation. Recent scholarship has examined this growing awareness, but has seldom attended to issues of diversity on the campuses and seminaries that educate the leaders...
by Wylie, James A.
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This was originally published as a large 24 book set. All 24 books are published here in one volume. There is a linked table of contents to all 24 book at the beginning of the volume, as well as a fully descriptive table of contents at the beginning of each book. The History of Protestantism'...