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by Jesse A. Hoover
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The Donatist Church in an Apocalyptic Age examines an apocalypse that never happened, seen through the eyes of a dissident church that no longer exists. Jesse A. Hoover considers Donatists, members of an ecclesiastical communion that for a brief moment formed the majority church in Roman North Africa—modern...
The Irony of Modern Catholic History
How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
A powerful new interpretation of Catholicism's dramatic encounter with modernity, by one of America's leading intellectuals
Throughout much of the nineteenth century, both secular and Catholic leaders assumed that the Church and the modern world were locked in a battle to the death. The triumph...
Legal Flexibility and the Mission of the Church
Dispensation and Economy in Ecclesiastical Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Legal scholars and authorities generally agree that the law should be obeyed and should apply equally to all those subject to it, without favour or discrimination. Yet it is possible to see that in any legal system there will be situations when strict application of the law will produce undesirable...
by Leonard Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The church is heading into a “perfect storm” of cultural forces. Will you sink beneath the waves, or ride the winds of the Spirit?
An array of cultural forces is coming together to present the church with unprecedented challenge and unequaled opportunity. Such “category 5" realities...
Approaching the End
Eschatological Reflections on Church, Politics, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
In this book Stanley Hauerwas explores the significance of eschatological reflection for helping the church negotiate the contemporary world.
In Part One, "Theological Matters," Hauerwas directly addresses his understanding of the eschatological character of the Christian faith. In...
by Dr. Samuel Kirk Mills
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
This is your companion workbook to your study book titled The Abrahamic Christian Tithing: A Study book for the Church. The study delves into the cause of Abrahams tithing to Melchizedek, in order to indicate the fundamental spiritual benefits of Christian tithing to every individual member of a local...
The Paradox of Church and World
Selected Writings of H. Richard Niebuhr
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
“Ultimately,” or so H. Richard Niebuhr wrote as early as 1929, “the problem of church and world involves us in a paradox; unless the church accommodates itself to the world, it becomes sterile inwardly and outwardly; unless it transcends the world, it becomes indistinguishable from the world...
Recovering Hope for Your Church
Moving Beyond Maintenance and Missional to Incarnational Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
"Why?" seems to be on the lips of many church, judicatory, and denominational leaders today. "Why has our church plateaued?" "Why are so few young leaders going into church-based ministries?" "Why are so few interested in church these days?" Recovering Hope...
Fresh Ideas
1,000 Ways to Grow a Thriving and Energetic Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Columnist and pastor’s wife Diana Davis has been compiling new ways of conducting various church programs for decades—paying close attention to everything from how a church interior is best utilized to how congregations most effectively engage in community outreach.These creative methods are generously...
Augustine, the Trinity, and the Church
A Reading of the Anti-Donatist Sermons
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The legacy of Augustine of Hippo (354-430) continues to shape Western Christian language about both the Trinity and the Church, yet scholars rarely treat these two topics as related in his work. In Augustine, the Trinity, and the Church, Adam Ployd argues that Augustine's ecclesiology drew upon his...
The Challenge of Pluralism
Church and State in Six Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
In a thoroughly revised and expanded edition that now includes France, this essential text offers a rigorous, systematic comparison of church-state relations in six Western nations: the United States, France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Australia. As successful and stable political democracies,...
Conciliarism
A History of Decision-Making in the Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Conciliarism is one of the oldest and most essential means of decision-making in the history of the Christian church. Indeed, as a leading Orthodox theologian Alexander Schmemann states, 'Before we understand the place and the function of the council in the church, we must, therefore, see the church...
Viva Cristo Rey!
The Cristero Rebellion and the Church-State Conflict in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Between 1926 and 1929, thousands of Mexicans fought and died in an attempt to overthrow the government of their country. They were the Cristeros, so called because of their battle cry, Viva Cristo Rey!—Long Live Christ the King! The Cristero rebellion and the church-state conflict remain one of the...
Wounded Shepherd
Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Following his critically acclaimed The Great Reformer, Austen Ivereigh's colorful, clear-eyed portrait of Pope Francis takes us inside the Vatican's urgent debate over the future of the church in Wounded Shepherd.
This deeply contextual biography centers on the tensions generated by the pope’s...