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Destination Bethlehem
Daily Meditations, Prayers, and Poems to Light the Way to the Manger
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
This book is intended as a devotional guide for the Advent season. Through the mediums of meditations, poetry, and prayer, it offers a spiritual resource for readers seeking to explore the many dimensions of this beloved season, and to deepen their appreciation of its mystery and wonder. Each day...
by Michael B. Shepherd
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Textuality and the Bible represents a concerted effort to clarify the object of study in biblical scholarship and in the church by bringing together the disciplines of hermeneutics, compositional analysis, canon studies, and textual criticism. It ultimately seeks to issue a call for study of the Bible for its own sake.
by Timothy Carson, Genevieve Howard
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Like a who-done-it of the spirit, Six Doors to the Seventh Dimension escorts travelers through the house of life, revealing at each threshold another critical aspect of the way to wholeness, harmony, and peace. Like a labyrinth of word and image, the pages of this metaphorical travelogue wind toward...
The Faith of Jesus
The Jesus of History and the Stages of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Combining the faith-development theory of James Fowler with the psychodynamics of Viktor Frankl, and utilizing many of the insights of contemporary biblical scholarship, the author has here proposed a unique and provocative interpretation of the life of Jesus as described in the Epistle to the Hebrews...
Faith: Security and Risk
The Dynamics of Spiritual Growth
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2003
Is faith a search for security? Is faith the reason for taking risks? The answer to these questions will ultimately determine the quality of our faith - whether it will be a faith that flourishes and grows or a faith that is stunted and limited. Author Richard Kropf analyzes these faith choices with...
by Paul M. Gould
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
The outrageous idea of this book is that God wants to use professors as professors to reach others, transform the academy, and meet the needs of the world. God is on a mission to redeem and restore this fallen world, and as members of one of the most influential institutions in society, Christian...
by Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, Jean-Daniel Pluss
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
In just over a century, Pentecostalism has rocketed from its humble beginnings in an interracial congregation on Azusa Street in Los Angeles to a global movement counting more than six hundred million members. Confronted with the bewildering array of Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Neocharismatic beliefs...
Communication in Mission and Development
Relating to the Church in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Communication in Mission and Development identifies, unpacks, and articulates fundamental problems in communication in mission and development as it is being carried out in Africa and the majority world today. New technology, unique in the history of mankind, is throwing up vexing issues, to date...
The Godless Delusion
Europe and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
What if the whole "God delusion" approach is a neo-colonial imposition at the linguistic and philosophical level? Could it lead to unmitigated disasters in intercultural communication and development work? This paradigm-challenging book points to the necessity, in light of contemporary impasse...
Theory to Practice in Vulnerable Mission
An Academic Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Missionaries from the West like to hit the ground running to solve as many of other people's problems as possible in the increasingly short term they have available for service. Hang on, says Jim Harries! After twenty-four years in Africa, observing how poverty, traditional practices, dependency,...
Secularism and Africa
In the Light of the Intercultural Christ
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Secular assumptions underlie much formal communication between the West and Africa, and even intra-Africa. Secularism is dualistic by nature, but thinking in Africa is mostly monistic. This book suggests that it is better to be rooted in faith in Christ than in so-called secularism. The great respect...
The Religious Other
Hostility, Hospitality, and the Hope of Human Flourishing
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
One of the biggest challenges for relations between religions is the view of the religious Other. The question touches the roots of our theological views. The Religious Other: Hostility, Hospitality, and the Hope of Human Flourishing explores the views of multiple religious traditions on how to regard...
The Future of Religious Leadership
World Religions in Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
The chapters collected in this book, prepared by a think tank of the Elijah Interfaith Academy, address the subject of religious leadership. The subject is of broad relevance in the training of religious leaders and in the practice of religious leadership. As such, it is also germane to religious...
Lay Spirituality
From Traditional to Postmodern
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Laypeople have a special mission in the church the way they have a special mission in society. In popular devotions the laity created a form of spirituality that lasted for over a millennium. Popular religiosity is alive in Latin America and in US ethnic subcultures. Vatican II redirected lay spirituality...