Kategoria BISAC: Music >> Religious - Christian

Throughout the modern period, history has been the dominant lens through which preachers have viewed the biblical text. The historical-critical method--with its emphasis on the context of a scriptural text's origins--has been the principal, or sole, tool with which preachers have approached the question of the text's meaning. Preachers have been in danger of losing the Bible as revelation and with that losing the rich varieties of God-centered meanings that our ancient forebears understood were the purpose of Scripture. They devised multiple 'lenses' through which the preacher was enabled...

In Then Sings My Soul, Book 2, Robert Morgan again delves beyond the songwriter's inspiration and explains the real-life events, the tribulations and triumphs, and the fascinating details that led to these classic songs of praise.

These devotional-style stories portray the emotion and drama behind the hymns that have changed many lives throughout history - the people whose walk of faith led them to write these wonderful hymns and the people whose faith was affected by reading, hearing, and singing the songs.

Robert Webber believes that we can get even more out of the Christian calendar. He contends that through its rich theological meanings the Christian year can become a cycle for evangelism and spiritual formation. He offers pastors, church leaders, and those of the "younger evangelical" mind-set practical steps to help achieve this end,...

La confusion entre le domaine ésotérique et initiatique et le domaine mystique, ou, si l’on préfère, entre les points de vue qui leur correspondent respectivement, est une de celles que l’on commet le plus fréquemment aujourd’hui, et cela, semble-t-il, d’une façon qui n’est pas toujours entièrement désintéressée ; il y a là, du reste, une attitude assez nouvelle, ou qui du moins, dans certains milieux, s’est beaucoup généralisée en ces dernières...