Politics Quaker Style: A History of the Quakers from 1624 to 1718
ISBN: 9780809511013 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although the early Quakers disclaimed political intent, their messianic objectives to align human society with the teachings of Jesus often put them at odds with government in seventeenth-century England.
Although the early Quakers disclaimed political intent, their messianic objectives to align human society with the teachings of Jesus often put them a...
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Home Church
ISBN: 9780615171081 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an alternate title to the book ""The Way Church Was Meant To Be."" This book is a roadmap for the millions of people coming out of traditional church and meeting in simpler ways. The author has 18 years experience meeting outside of traditional church. Topics include Biblical pastors, why ""going to church"" is not in the Bible, how to meet, why home churches don't survive, common pitfalls in home church, how to start, the essence of church life, tithing, and church leadership and government.
This is an alternate title to the book ""The Way Church Was Meant To Be."" This book is a roadmap for the millions of people coming out of traditional...
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The Rise of the Korean Holiness Church in Relation to the American Holiness Movement: Wesley's 'Scriptural Holiness' and the 'Fourfold Gospel'
ISBN: 9780810858169 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Rise of the Korean Holiness Church in Relation to the American Holiness Movement argues that the theological foundation of the Korean Holiness Church can best be understood by analyzing the fourfold gospel in the history of the Korean Holiness Church and its internationally connected holiness movement. The brief, though rich, biographical accounts of the Korean Christians and American and British Missionaries woven into this book finally give these great men and women their due.
The Rise of the Korean Holiness Church in Relation to the American Holiness Movement argues that the theological foundation of the Korean Holiness Chu...
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Dictionary of Christian Denominations
ISBN: 9780826457455 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contrary to Jesus' wish that his followers 'may all be one', Christianity has become, over time, ever more schismatic. This concise, one-volume dictionary provides information on over a thousand significant denominations and movements, ranging from the mainstream historical churches, for example Roman Catholic and Orthodox, to heretical sects that flourished briefly in the third or fourth centuries to groups that sprang up around charismatic leaders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Alternatives names are given at the end of entries and are cross-referenced in an... Contrary to Jesus' wish that his followers 'may all be one', Christianity has become, over time, ever more schismatic. This concise, one-volu... |
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A Mighty Baptism: Race and Gender, in the Creation of American Protestantism
ISBN: 9780801482120 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Follows the influences of race and gender on the Protestant tradition in America from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
Follows the influences of race and gender on the Protestant tradition in America from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
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171,83 zł |
African Pentecostalism: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780195339994 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Across Africa, Christianity is thriving in all shapes and sizes. But one particular strain of Christianity prospers more than most -- Pentecostalism. Pentecostals believe that everyone can personally receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit such as prophecy or the ability to speak in tongues. In Africa, this kind of faith, in which the supernatural is a daily presence, is sweeping the continent. Today, about 107 million Africans are Pentecostals -- and the numbers continue to rise. In this book, Ogbu Kalu provides the first ever overview of Pentecostalism in Africa. He shows the amazing diversity...
Across Africa, Christianity is thriving in all shapes and sizes. But one particular strain of Christianity prospers more than most -- Pentecostalism. ...
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181,37 zł |
African Pentecostalism
ISBN: 9780195340006 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Across Africa, Christianity is thriving in all shapes and sizes. But one particular strain of Christianity prospers more than most -- Pentecostalism. Pentecostals believe that everyone can personally receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit such as prophecy or the ability to speak in tongues. In Africa, this kind of faith, in which the supernatural is a daily presence, is sweeping the continent. Today, about 107 million Africans are Pentecostals -- and the numbers continue to rise. In this book, Ogbu Kalu provides the first ever overview of Pentecostalism in Africa. He shows the amazing diversity...
Across Africa, Christianity is thriving in all shapes and sizes. But one particular strain of Christianity prospers more than most -- Pentecostalism. ...
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262,82 zł |
No Time for Silence
ISBN: 9780310294511 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Debate over women's public ministry tends to focus on biblical and theological issues without grappling with the historical questions. Janette Hassey counters the popular but misleading claim that evangelical feminism (the movement for women's equality rooted in Scripture and evangelical Christian faith) is simply an accommodation to recent secular feminist and theologically liberal movements for women's rights. Rather, evangelical feminism in America first surfaced in the mid-nineteenth century and accelerated at the turn of the century. Those who endorsed women's public ministry were...
Debate over women's public ministry tends to focus on biblical and theological issues without grappling with the historical questions. Janette Hassey ...
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77,47 zł |
Evangelical vs. Liberal
ISBN: 9780195300116 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The cultural conflict that increasingly divides American society is particularly evident within Protestant Christianity. Liberals and evangelicals clash in bitter competition for the future of their respective subcultures. In this book, James Wellman examines this conflict as it is played out in the American Northwest. Drawing on an in-depth study of twenty-four of the area's fastest-growing evangelical churches and ten vital liberal Protestant congregations, Wellman captures the leading trends of each group and their interaction with the wider American culture. He finds a remarkable...
The cultural conflict that increasingly divides American society is particularly evident within Protestant Christianity. Liberals and evangelicals cla...
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635,25 zł |
Lost Way: The Call, The – Book 1
ISBN: 9781846941443 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents the story of a small Christian community that has discovered studying a different kind of living Christianity.
Presents the story of a small Christian community that has discovered studying a different kind of living Christianity.
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54,76 zł |
Christian Universalism: God's Good News for All People
ISBN: 9780967063188 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An introduction to Christian Universalism, the belief that Christ is the Savior of all mankind. An exploration of the biblical, historical and theological arguments for the doctrine that all will be saved in the end.
An introduction to Christian Universalism, the belief that Christ is the Savior of all mankind. An exploration of the biblical, historical and theolog...
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God's World of Good and Evil: A Life History of Our World from Its Birth to Its Expected Death and Then on to Eternity
ISBN: 9781418433833 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Image of the Invisible : The Visualization of Religion in the Welsh Nonconformist Tradition
ISBN: 9780708314753 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This illustrated book examines the Welsh Nonconformists' expression of religious and spiritual concepts in a visual form. It studies this subject within a broad cultural context that includes not only fine art but also architecture, preaching, hymnology and intangible manifestations such as visions. As such, the book presents an integrated study of various and related aspects of the Non-conformist imagination.
This illustrated book examines the Welsh Nonconformists' expression of religious and spiritual concepts in a visual form. It studies this subject with...
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Growing Together in Unity and Mission: Building on 40 Years of Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue: An Agreed Statement of the International Anglican-ROM
ISBN: 9780281059393 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an Agreed Statement of the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission. Discussions have been taking place between Roman Catholics and Anglicans over the past 40 years. Since 2000 Bishops from both churches have established a new body 'o promote our relationship by seeking to translate our manifest agreement in faith into common life and mission.'This is quite different from the theological discussions among experts, known as ARCIC. This statement is intended to foster discussion and reflection; it is also a call to action, based upon 'an honest appraisal of...
This is an Agreed Statement of the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission. Discussions have been taking place between ...
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Them That Believe: The Power and Meaning of the Christian Serpent-Handling Tradition
ISBN: 9780520255876 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although outlawed in many states, serpent handling remains an active religious practice--and one that is far more stereotyped than understood. Ralph W. Hood, Jr. and W. Paul Williamson have spent fifteen years touring serpent-handling churches in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, and West Virginia, conducting scores of interviews with serpent handlers, and witnessing hundreds of serpent-handling services. In this illuminating book they present the most in-depth, comprehensive study of serpent handling to date. Them That Believe not only explores facets of this...
Although outlawed in many states, serpent handling remains an active religious practice--and one that is far more stereotyped than understood. Ralph W...
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Evangelical vs. Liberal
ISBN: 9780195300123 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The cultural conflict that increasingly divides American society is particularly evident within Protestant Christianity. Liberals and evangelicals clash in bitter competition for the future of their respective subcultures. In this book, James Wellman examines this conflict as it is played out in the American Northwest. Drawing on an in-depth study of twenty-four of the area's fastest-growing evangelical churches and ten vital liberal Protestant congregations, Wellman captures the leading trends of each group and their interaction with the wider American culture. He finds a remarkable...
The cultural conflict that increasingly divides American society is particularly evident within Protestant Christianity. Liberals and evangelicals cla...
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164,10 zł |
Korean American Evangelicals New Models for Civic Life
ISBN: 9780195372595 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studies of religion among our nation's newest immigrants largely focus on how religion serves the immigrant community -- for example by creating job networks and helping retain ethnic identity in the second generation. In this book Ecklund widens the inquiry to look at how Korean Americans use religion to negotiate civic responsibility, as well as to create racial and ethnic identity. She compares the views and activities of second generation Korean Americans in two different congregational settings, one ethnically Korean and the other multi-ethnic. She also conducted more than 100 in-depth...
Studies of religion among our nation's newest immigrants largely focus on how religion serves the immigrant community -- for example by creating job n...
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Reinventing English Evangelism, 1965-2000: A Theological and Sociological Study
ISBN: 9781842275702 / Angielski / Miękka / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his provocative book offers a revisionist history of the trans-denominational initiatives of English evangelicals from 1965 to 2000. 'Based on inside knowledge as well as telling statistics and sound sociological method Rob Warner's study of English evangelicals in the late 20th century tells a masterly though sobering tale of an era of evangelical entrepreneurs who had great success in gather- ing together the evangelical clans but suffered from a seeming in- ability to separate reality from hype, or what Dr Warner calls 'vision inflation'. The book is a must for every serious...
In his provocative book offers a revisionist history of the trans-denominational initiatives of English evangelicals from 1965 to 2000. 'Based on insi...
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Smith's Friends: A Religion Critic Meets a Free Church Movement
ISBN: 9780275960841 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lowell Streiker, a longtime expert on free church movements and cults, examines a vital and growing free church movement--an impressive movement that is yet largely unknown. Founded in Norway more than 90 years ago, it is a church without membership rolls, clergy, central administration, tithing, or even a name. Outsiders call them Smith's Friends after their founder, Johan Oscar Smith. On a worldwide basis, some 30,000 people participate in more than 200 churches in 50 countries. As a phenomenologist of religion, Streiker attempts to be descriptive, analytic, and constructively... Lowell Streiker, a longtime expert on free church movements and cults, examines a vital and growing free church movement--an impressive movement th... |
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The Love Israel Family: Urban Commune, Rural Commune
ISBN: 9780295988856 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Malstrom Award of the League of Snohomish County Historical Organizations In 1968, a time of turbulence and countercultural movements, a one-time television salesman named Paul Erdmann changed his name to Love Israel and started a controversial religious commune in Seattle's middle-class Queen Anne Hill neighborhood. He quickly gathered a following and they too adopted the Israel surname, along with biblical or virtuous first names such as Honesty, Courage, and Strength. The burgeoning Love Israel Family lived a communal lifestyle centered on meditation and the... Winner of the Malstrom Award of the League of Snohomish County Historical Organizations In 1968, a time of turbulence and countercultural mov... |
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124,92 zł |