Church category: 10276 books
Ordained Holy Men
Power, sex and sexuality in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
This provocative work presents a layperson perspective of a Catholic Church bureaucracy, a male clerical caste of privilege, which manifests controlling power, secrecy and resistance to conform to a fast-paced and changing world. The author's three year mission service in Africa became an enlightening...
by Stephen Tomkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Worshipped by 2 billion Christians worldwide, Jesus Christ is the most famous human being ever. Stephen Tomkins takes the reader on a enlightening and enjoyable journey through the key stages of Christian development, covering the people, the events, the movements, the controversies and the expansion...
CHARISMATIC CONTROL
Witchcraft in Neo-Pentecostal Churches
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Multitudes of sincere and trusting believers are caught unawares in the virtually invisible web of religious captivation in certain Charismatic/Neo-Pentecostal churches. They are unwitting victims of spiritual abuse, psychological enslavement, and various forms of exploitation perpetrated...
Catholic History for Today's Church
How Our Past Illuminates Our Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
We can’t understand the issues swirling in today’s Catholic church without understanding the past. In Catholic History for Today’s Church acclaimed historian John W. O’Malley, SJ, illuminates some of today’s most contentious issues—from celibacy to the role of the pope—through their...
Cover-Up
How the Church Silenced Jesus's True Heirs
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
The Christian church hides a multitude of secrets; it is, after all, a mystery religion. For instance, what if Jesus did not start Christianity? What if Paul, who knew Jesus only through visions, created it? In Cover-Up, author and lay minister Lawrence Goudge disputes the Christian theology that...
Gospel Coach
Shepherding Leaders to Glorify God
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
In order to help pastors and other Christian leaders to lovingly lead God’s flock to Jesus Christ and into God’s mission, Scott Thomas and Tom Wood clarify a process of coaching and shepherding that is rooted in the patterns of the Good Shepherd himself, a process in which leaders stir up the...
Refining Fire
New Healing for Old Wounds
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
This is a book for healing wounded churches. When a church experiences conflict, it results in a wounded people. Healing for the church involves a healing of the people involved. The process is essentially the same for both. That is because the church is Gods vessel for healing the deep wounds of...
by Abraham Kuyper
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2013
Abraham Kuyper’s Rooted & Grounded is the Word of the Lord for the Christian church today. Christians know the Gospel must permeate every area of life organically, that every vocation is integral and not accidental to the missio Dei, as my friend and colleague Steven Garber is fond of saying. This...
Politics in the Pews
The Political Mobilization of Black Churches
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
"Politics in the Pews probes the internal dynamics of political decision making within the Black church."
---William E. Nelson, Jr., Research Professor, Department of African American and African Studies, Ohio State University
As Eric McDaniel demonstrates in his study of Black congregations...
by Witness Lee
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
The four pillars in the Lord's recovery are the truth, life, the church, and the gospel. The truth brings us life, life produces the church, and the church is responsible for the preaching of the gospel.
Origen : Scholarship in the Service of the Church
Scholarship in the Service of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
This book is about the life and thought of Origen (c.185-254 A.D.) the most important Greek-speaking Christian theologian and Biblical scholar in antiquity. His writings included works on the text of the Bible commentaries and sermons on most of the books of the Bible a major defense of the Christian...
by G. H. Lang
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
If you've ever wondered what the churches of the New Testament looked like - how they functioned, how they were governed, how they conducted their evangelistic and missionary enterprises, what ordinances they observed, what their liturgy consisted of, how decisions were made, how discipline was administered;...
The Penguin History of the Church
Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The history of the Western church in the Middle Ages is the history of the most elaborate and thoroughly integrated system of religious thought and practice the world has ever known. It is also the history of European society during eight hundred years of sometimes rapid change. This authoritative...
by Reformed Churches in the Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Church Order
by Reformed Churches in the Netherlands
Administration for the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands.