Church category: 10276 books
What's Still Right with the Church of England
A Future for the Church of England
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Can the Church of England survive the 21st century? What needs to change and what remains? How does the Church deal with contemporary challenges and how are these related to the situation it faced in 1966?This book is an evaluation of Bishop Ronald Williams' 1966 book What's Right with the Church of...
The Mission of the Church
Five Views in Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Leading Voices from across Christian Traditions Discuss the Mission of the Church
What is the mission of the church? Every seminarian and church leader must wrestle with that question. No matter what designation a church uses to describe itself, it must also think critically about why it exists...
Pagan Christianity?
Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Have you ever wondered why we Christians do what we do for church every Sunday morning? Why do we “dress up” for church? Why does the pastor preach a sermon each week? Why do we have pews, steeples, and choirs? This ground-breaking book, now in affordable softcover, makes an unsettling proposal:...
The Story of Christianity: Volume 1
The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
In this fully revised and updated edition, the lauded church historian Justo González tells the story of Christianity from its fragile infancy to its pervasive dominance at the dawn of the Protestant Reformation. The Story of Christianity, volume 1, relates the dramatic events, the colorful characters,...
Vatican I
The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
The enduring influence of the Catholic Church has many sources—its spiritual and intellectual appeal, missionary achievements, wealth, diplomatic effectiveness, and stable hierarchy. But in the first half of the nineteenth century, the foundations upon which the church had rested for centuries were...
The Church that Multiplies
Growing a Healthy Cell Church in North America
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Does the cell church strategy work in North America? We hear about exciting cell churches in Colombia and Korea, but where are the dynamic North American cell churches? This book not only declares that the cell church concept does work in North America but dedicates an entire chapter to examining...
by J R H Moorman
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1980
A lively account of Christianity in Britain, from the Roman and Celtic eras up through the Reformation and the modern church.
This authoritative account of the Church in England covers its history from earliest times to the late twentieth century—including chapters on the Roman, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon,...
The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Church History
Flaming Heretics and Heavy Drinkers
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Amid the ferment of dissent and the protests of heretics, the church developed most significantly. This guide introduces that history by looking at those periods.
A variety of questions have preoccupied Christian communities throughout history. Christians have attempted to determine who Jesus...
by The Mission
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
If the Christian Church is of the track in small details contrary to the Bible, does it matter? Does Jesus Christ, the Head of the Church care?? King Saul experienced the devastating consequences of deviating from the Word of God and lost his kingship, governing without the Spirit of God. ...
Leading One Another
Church Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Because it can be abused, leadership is a risky business for those in it and those under it. But God has good plans for leadership within the church. This study explores God’s plans for authority by focusing on God’s revelation of himself as shepherd, and how God calls leaders to image him. The...
Missional Church in Perspective, The (The Missional Network)
Mapping Trends and Shaping the Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In this book, two leading ministry experts place the missional church conversation in historical perspective and offer fresh insights for its further development. They begin by providing a helpful review of the genesis of the missional church and offering an insightful critique of the Gospel and Our...
by Alan Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The Church of England and the First World War (first published in 1978) explores in depth the role of the church during the tragic circumstances of the First World War using biographies, newspapers, magazines, letters, poetry and other sources in a balanced evaluation.
The myth that the war...
The Present Future
Six Tough Questions for the Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
In this provocative book, author, consultant, and church leadership developer Reggie McNeal debunks these and other old assumptions and provides an overall strategy to help church leaders move forward in an entirely different and much more effective way. In The Present Future, McNeal identifies the...
UnLearning Church
New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
How many things does your church do just because that's the way it's always been done? Does your congregation value tradition over passion and stability over creativity? If so, it's time to unLearn. Leading congregations into a dynamic and prophetic future requires unLearning what you thought you...