When Leadership and Spiritual Direction Meet: Stories and Reflections for Congregational Life
ISBN: 9781566994415 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern church leaders need to cultivate innovative and creative leadership skills, as they navigate today's post-Christian world, and as their congregations look to them for insight and guidance. Gil Stafford takes a fresh look at this vital need, drawing upon his experience as a college coach, university president, and parish priest, and interweaving them with ancient spiritual practices found within the discipline of spiritual direction. Personal anecdotes help the reader envision their own life-transforming pilgrimage, as they develop into the type of adaptive leader that churches need in...
Modern church leaders need to cultivate innovative and creative leadership skills, as they navigate today's post-Christian world, and as their congreg...
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199,16 zł |
The Benedictines in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9781843839736 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The men and women that followed the sixth-century customs of Benedict of Nursia (c.480-c.547) formed the most enduring, influential, numerous and widespread religious order of the Latin middle ages. Their liturgical practice, and their acquired taste for learning, served as a model for the medieval church as a whole: while new orders arose, they took some of their customs, and their observant and spiritual outlook, from the Regula Benedicti. The Benedictines may also be counted among the founders of medieval Europe. In many regions of the continent they created, or consolidated, the first...
The men and women that followed the sixth-century customs of Benedict of Nursia (c.480-c.547) formed the most enduring, influential, numerous and wide...
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130,92 zł |
Whose God Is God?: Exploring the Concept of God Within Religions
ISBN: 9781909112452 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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154,29 zł |
The Praise of 'Sons of Bitches': On the Worship of God by Fallen Men
ISBN: 9781587316548 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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84,84 zł |
A Simplified Life: A Contemporary Hermit's Experience of Solitude and Silence
ISBN: 9781848257078 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today, as increasing numbers of people try to make sense of their lives in the face of unexpected or unlooked for change, this direct and compelling memoir by someone who has voluntarily embraced a life of radical simplicity and solitude is a real message for our times.
What makes a young, Cambridge educated woman first join a religious order and then, if that were not demanding enough, seek a hermit vocation, literally on the edge of the world with only a simple hut as protection against Atlantic winds and storms? Here the author tells her story. For more than forty years Sr Verena... Today, as increasing numbers of people try to make sense of their lives in the face of unexpected or unlooked for change, this direct and compelling m...
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137,76 zł |
Do This: The Shape, Style and Meaning of the Eucharist
ISBN: 9781848257122 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In introducing eight new eucharistic prayers, "Common Worship" has focused fresh attention on the most central act of Christian worship. This text offers a wealth of information on both the words and actions of the Eucharist.
Part one focuses on the content of the Eucharist, from the opening greeting to the final blessing and dismissal. Each stage of the service is explored from a biblical and historical perpective and readers discover how the Eucharist has evolved from the days of the Early Church. Part two focuses on the actions of the Eucharist: the posture and movement of the... In introducing eight new eucharistic prayers, "Common Worship" has focused fresh attention on the most central act of Christian worship. This text off...
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172,20 zł |
Turns of Faith, Search for Meaning: Orthodox Christianity and Post-Soviet Experience
ISBN: 9783631639733 / Angielski / Twarda / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book examines deep shifts in the religious life of Russia and the post-Soviet world as a whole. The author uses combined methods of history, sociology and anthropology to grasp transformations in various aspects of the religious field, such as changes in ritual practices, the emergence of a hierarchical pluralism of religions, and a new prominence of religion in national identity discourse. He deals with the Russian Church s new internal diversity in reinventing its ancient tradition and Eastern Orthodoxy s dense and tense negotiation with the State, secular society and Western liberal...
The book examines deep shifts in the religious life of Russia and the post-Soviet world as a whole. The author uses combined methods of history, socio...
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402,35 zł |
Managing Religion: The Management of Christian Religious and Faith-Based Organizations: Volume 1: Internal Relationships
ISBN: 9780230347946 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This two-volume work explores the management of religious and faith-based organizations. Each chapter offers a discussion of the earliest Christian organizations based on New Testament evidence; a study of managing faith-based organizations; and an exploration of secular management theory in relation to the management of faith-based organizations.
This two-volume work explores the management of religious and faith-based organizations. Each chapter offers a discussion of the earliest Christian or...
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389,09 zł |
Managing Religion: The Management of Christian Religious and Faith-Based Organizations: Volume 2: External Relationships
ISBN: 9781137439260 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Religion is an increasingly significant factor in our society, so understanding religious and faith-based organizations is more important than ever. Until now Malcolm Torry's Managing God's Business has been the only wide-ranging survey of the characteristics of religious and faith-based organizations. Now his new two-volume work, Managing Religion: The Management of Religious Organizations offers the first comprehensive discussion of the management of religious and faith-based organizations (in this case of Christian ones). Each chapter offers a discussion of the earliest Christian...
Religion is an increasingly significant factor in our society, so understanding religious and faith-based organizations is more important than ever. U...
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389,09 zł |
C. H. Spurgeon and the Metropolitan Tabernacle: Addresses and Testimonials, 1854-1879
ISBN: 9781491734032 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,37 zł |
Calling on God: Inclusive Christian Prayers for Three Years of Sundays
ISBN: 9781594735684 / Angielski / Miękka / 385 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fresh, inclusive, creation-conscious prayers to nourish your soul--and the soul of your worship community. "We are called to name the extravagant wildness of God, the overflowing abundance of creation, and the deep aching need of a broken world in new words and images that speak to contemporary concerns.... These prayers] are an invitation to pray boldly." This special prayerbook is for today's Christians who find comfort in the rhythm of the traditional lectionary but long to connect with God in ways that are satisfying to the... Fresh, inclusive, creation-conscious prayers to nourish your soul--and the soul of your worship community. "We are called to... |
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81,75 zł |
11 Innovations in the Local Church: How Today's Leaders Can Learn, Discern and Move Into the Future
ISBN: 9780764216138 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Join three seasoned church-ministry experts on an insider's tour of the most innovative churches today Discover a dozen types of innovation, each with profiles of congregations that have implemented that innovation. This is more than a show-and-tell tour, however. Each chapter offers a solid take-away for church leaders on how to learn and apply the appropriate innovation profiled. The authors also offer scripturally based assessments of both the positive and negatives implications of implementing each innovation, providing guidance and wisdom. There are many ways to present the gospel, and...
Join three seasoned church-ministry experts on an insider's tour of the most innovative churches today Discover a dozen types of innovation, each wit...
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81,80 zł |
Biblical Representations of Moab: A Kenyan Postcolonial Reading
ISBN: 9781433126284 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Biblical Representations of Moab: A Kenyan Postcolonial Reading employs critical theories on colonial, anticolonial, and postcolonial ethnicity and African cultural hermeneutics to examine the overlap of politics, ethnicity, nationality, economics, and religion in contemporary Kenya and to utilize those critical tools to illuminate the Hebrew Bible narratives concerning the Moabites.
This book can be used by teachers and students of contemporary methods in Hebrew Bible studies, postcolonial studies, Africana studies, African biblical hermeneutics, political science, gender... Biblical Representations of Moab: A Kenyan Postcolonial Reading employs critical theories on colonial, anticolonial, and postcolonial ethnicity...
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650,88 zł |
A Listening Community: A Commentary on the Prologue and Chapters 1-3 of Benedict's Rule
ISBN: 9780814649220 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new commentary by Sister Aquinata Bockmann discusses the Prologue and chapters 1, 2, and 3 of the Rule of St. Benedict. In a lectio regulae she plumbs the depths of Benedict's vision. Listen, the first word of the Prologue, is a keyword that describes the main stance of the individual monastic, the superior, and the entire community. Listening to the Scriptures and in them to Christ guides individuals and the community on how to "run on the way of God's commandments" toward the goal of communal life in and with Christ. The first three chapters of the Rule concretize the principles of...
This new commentary by Sister Aquinata Bockmann discusses the Prologue and chapters 1, 2, and 3 of the Rule of St. Benedict. In a lectio regulae she p...
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107,42 zł |
Feasting on the Word Worship Companion: Liturgies for Year B, Volume 1
ISBN: 9780664238049 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL), Feasting on the Word Worship Companion: Liturgies for Year B, Volume 1 provides liturgical pieces used in preparing for worship. Written and compiled by an ecumenical team of eleven seasoned liturgy writers, this resource offers a multitude of poetic prayers and responsive readings for all parts of worship and is meant to complement existing denominational resources. In addition, the weekly entries include questions for reflection and household prayers for morning and evening that are drawn from the lectionary, allowing churches to include them... Based on the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL), Feasting on the Word Worship Companion: Liturgies for Year B, Volume 1 provides liturgical pieces use... |
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180,81 zł |
Theology from the Trenches: Reflections on Urban Ministry
ISBN: 9780664239688 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While urban pastors devote time and energy to all the typical demands of ministry, they also grapple with challenges endemic to city life. Achieving a measure of balance amid these competing demands and responsibilities can be daunting. Using his experiences as a pastor in urban settings for nearly three decades, Roger J. Gench offers pastors a close look at the challenges that come from being involved in urban ministry. Throughout, he integrates memoir, sermons, and essays on social ministry, and reflections on the theology and spirituality of parish life. In each chapter, Gench... While urban pastors devote time and energy to all the typical demands of ministry, they also grapple with challenges endemic to city life. Achievin... |
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111,93 zł |
Ecclesial Movements and Communities - Abridged Second Edition: Origins, Significance, and Issues
ISBN: 9781565485389 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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48,55 zł |
Rhythms of Worship: The Planning and Purpose of Liturgy
ISBN: 9780664260170 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are many books written for liturgical experts, but not many for laypeople. This book bridges that gap. In clear, everyday language, Waschevski and Stevens describe why Protestants worship and help to equip worship planners and leaders for excellence in their tasks. The authors explore the different elements of the worship service and how each expresses our Christ-centered faith. They also describe the feasts and festivals of the liturgical year, helping the reader understand and appreciate these special times and seasons in worship. An additional chapter considers music and arts in... There are many books written for liturgical experts, but not many for laypeople. This book bridges that gap. In clear, everyday language, Waschevsk... |
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77,49 zł |
English Monastic Finances in the Later Middle Ages
ISBN: 9781107455542 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1926, as part of the Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought series, this book was formed from an essay that won the Prince Consort Prize in 1912. It provides a discussion of the finances and administration of monasteries in England during the latter part of the medieval period. Appendices and textual notes are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in monastic finances and medieval English history.
Originally published in 1926, as part of the Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought series, this book was formed from an essay that won the Pr...
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115,80 zł |
Sacramental Politics: Religious Worship as Political Action
ISBN: 9781433126154 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Religion and politics have often been called taboo topics for polite dinner conversation, but in political campaigns and religious services, the two often mix. This book looks at how religious worship remains embedded with inherent political messages and behaviors, showing that conflicts between church and state exist not just in the public arena, but in each sanctuary and house of worship. To explore this religious-political tension, the book first examines more obvious examples of worship as political action, such as when candidates speak during church services or when political parties...
Religion and politics have often been called taboo topics for polite dinner conversation, but in political campaigns and religious services, the two o...
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665,05 zł |