Christianity category: 72568 books
Liberal Christianity and Women's Global Activism
The YWCA of the USA and the Maryknoll Sisters
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Religiously influenced social movements tend to be characterized as products of the conservative turn in Protestant and Catholic life in the latter part of the twentieth century, with women's mobilizations centering on defense of the “traditional” family. In Liberal Christianity and Women’s...
The Religious Lives of Older Laywomen
The Last Active Anglican Generation
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The Religious Lives of Older Laywomen draws on ethnographic fieldwork, cross-cultural comparisons, and relevant theories exploring the beliefs, identities, and practices of 'Generation A'—Anglican laywomen born in the 1920s and 1930s. Now in their 70s, 80s, and 90s, they are often described as the...
Global Renewal Christianity
Europe and North America Spirit Empowered Movements: Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
The growth of Spirit-empowered Christianity has been nothing short of phenomenal. From a handful of believers in the early twentieth century to over six hundred million people in almost every culture and denomination today, those who embrace the Holy Spirit and His gifts are now the fastest-growing religious...
Global Renewal Christianity
Latin America Spirit Empowered Movements: Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The growth of Spirit-empowered Christianity has been nothing short of phenomenal. From a handful of believers in the early twentieth century to over six million people in almost every culture and denomination today, those who embrace the Holy Spirit and His gifts are not the fastest-growing religious...
Sacred Power, Sacred Space
An Introduction to Christian Architecture and Worship
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
Jeanne Halgren Kilde's survey of church architecture is unlike any other. Her main concern is not the buildings themselves, but rather the dynamic character of Christianity and how church buildings shape and influence the religion. Kilde argues that a primary function of church buildings is to represent...
Evangelicalism
An Americanized Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Most forms of religion are best understood in the con- text of their relationship with the surrounding culture. This may be particularly true in the United States. Certainly immigrant Catholicism became Americanized; mainstream Protestantism accommodated itself to the modern world; and Reform Judaism...
Rescue for the Dead
The Posthumous Salvation of Non-Christians in Early Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2001
Christianity is a religion of salvation in which believers have always anticipated post-mortem bliss for the faithful and non-salvation for others. Here, Trumbower examines how and why death came to be perceived as such a firm boundary of salvation. Analyzing exceptions to this principle from ancient...
Apostolicity
The Ecumenical Question in World Christian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
What constitutes the unity of the church over time and across cultures? Can our account of the church's apostolic faith embrace the cultural diversity of world Christianity? The ecumenical movement that began in the twentieth century posed the problem of the church's apostolicity in profound new ways....
by Johnnie Moore
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This ancillary booklet to The Martyr’s Oath will introduce people to the scope and depth of the persecution of Christians in today’s world. Christians are in a fight for their lives in the Middle East, Africa, and even in parts of Asia. For Western Christians, who typically run into cultural pressures...
by Joshua Woo (ed.), Soo-Inn Tan (ed.)
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Christianity & Citizenship is a follow-up series to The Bible & the Ballot that focuses on Christians’ participation as citizens. Like the previous series, the present one is also a collective effort by Christians from different parts of the theological spectrum. Six writers weigh...
Found in the Middle!
Theology and Ethics for Christians Who Are Both Liberal and Evangelical
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
There exists a deep and broad population of Christians who feel the labels of 'liberal' and 'evangelical' both describe their faith and limit their expression of it. By working to reclaim the traditional, historical meanings of these terms, and showing how they complement rather than oppose each other,...
by Dennis Soliday
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
This is the book the author wishes he had read when he began exloring the Bible. He pulls no punches in discussing the truths he found in his extensive search of the Scriptures. He fully realizes that these truths may not be popular. But he's found that real truth remains always the same: real truth....
by Abram Herbert Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
A study linking a number of Church practices to other religious traditions and movements.
Sing of Mary
Giving Voice to Marian Theology and Devotion
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Throughout the history of Christianity, Mary has been a beacon of hope to many who look to her. While Christians have always prayed to Mary, they have also sung to her in times of joy and sorrow. Sing of Mary analyzes Marian hymnody throughout Christianity—and particularly in the Roman Catholic...