Tag: Church

Free Download John Valentine, "Jesus, the Church and the Mission of God: A Biblical Theology of Church Planting"
English | ISBN: 178974427X | 2023 | 512 pages | EPUB | 561 KB
Church planting is in vogue, yet there is a paucity of sustained biblical and theological reflection on the topic.

Free Download John Valentine, "Jesus, the Church and the Mission of God: A Biblical Theology of Church Planting"
English | ISBN: 178974427X | 2023 | 512 pages | EPUB | 561 KB
Church planting is in vogue, yet there is a paucity of sustained biblical and theological reflection on the topic.

Free Download John Gillibrand, "Disabled Church-Disabled Society: The Implications of Autism for Philosophy, Theology and Politics"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1843109689 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.7 mb
In this moving and intelligent book John Gillibrand, an Anglican priest, draws on his experience of caring for his non-verbal son, Adam, who has autism and is now a teenager. He reflects on how the experience has changed not just his life, but also his whole way of thinking about theology, politics and philosophy.

Free Download Claire Sotinel, "Church and Society in Late Antique Italy and Beyond "
English | ISBN: 1138375764 | 2019 | 340 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The papers presented here explore in various ways the interactions between clerics and the society in which Christian churches put down roots in Late Antiquity. Some of these complex processes, involved in the christianization of the Late Roman world, form the theme of the first three sections. Amongst other aspects, the essays in these sections examine the Three Chapters controversy and the participation of lay and clerical protagonists in it, the social standing of Italian bishops (including their use of lay personnel and their economic impact), and a comparison of pagan and Christian places of worship. The essays included in the last section deal with communication in Late Antiquity. They present the first results of a long-term project on the changing role of information during the last centuries of the Roman world. Eight papers in the volume are published in English for the first time.

Free Download Jae Yang, "Christianity Outside the Church: Pannenberg’s Public Theology in Dialogue with Max Stackhouse"
English | ISBN: 1978715900 | 2024 | 200 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1351 KB + 2 MB
Wolfhart Pannenberg’s understanding of "public," based on his view of revelation as history, is that everything is potentially a theology. Of course, a public theology of everything is impossible; therefore, Jae Yang develops a Pannenbergian public theology by correlating Pannenberg’s theological methods (postfoundational, eschatological, and trinitarian) with the aims and methods of public theology, and second, with Pannenberg’s views on various spheres, arguing that Pannenberg’s public theology engages not just the academic world, but also the political, economic, familial, religious, and cultural ones. This book argues that Pannenberg is a public theologian because the public purpose of his theology is not to coerce or inject a Christian agenda onto the public (political theology), challenge and subvert unjust structures (liberation theology), or substitute overtly Christian religion with a publicly palatable secular and vaguely religious one (civil religion), but to cooperate and dialogue with the established order under the presumption of a "Christianity outside the church."

Free Download Samuel Yonas Deressa, "Theology and Ethics for the Public Church: Mission in the 21st Century World"
English | ISBN: 1978713231 | 2023 | 294 pages | EPUB | 538 KB
How might the Christian church effectively engage today’s politically charged, profit-motivated world while remaining faithful to its biblical and theological roots? The contributors in this book argue that public theology provides a promising pathway forward. The public theology emerging from these pages has been influenced by the theological interests and commitments of Gary M. Simpson, Lutheran pastor and systematic theologian. His approach to public theology is intersectional and global; he artfully weaves together Lutheran theology and the civil society arena of Critical Social Theory. These essays provide three angles of vision on faith active in twenty-first century public contexts: contextual, ethical, and theological. While not mutually exclusive, these distinct strands of thought engage and challenge the church to substantial reflection on the challenging and often bewildering circumstances of the twenty-first century social world. Some reflect on God’s activity within particular global contexts, others offer new perspectives on Lutheran confessional traditions, still others step boldly into innovative theological assertions. As the Christian church is ever forming and reforming, this book urges it to grapple with the "publicness" of its timely and timeless mission.

Free Download Bernt Oftestad, "The Catholic Church and Liberal Democracy"
English | 2021 | pages: 227 | ISBN: 0367786966, 1138714666 | PDF | 2,5 mb
The Roman Catholic Church’s critical stance towards liberalism and democracy following the French Revolution and through the 19th century was often entrenched, but the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s saw a shift in the Church’s attitude towards democracy. In recent years, a conflict has emerged between Church doctrine and modern liberalism under Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.

Free Download Jonathan Spencer, "Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque: A Collaborative Ethnography of War and Peace "
English | ISBN: 074533122X | 2014 | 224 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Is religion best seen as only a cause of war, or is it a source of comfort for those caught up in conflict?

Free Download The Old Testament Law for the Life of the Church: Reading the Torah in the Light of Christ by Richard E. Averbeck
English | September 6, 2022 | ISBN: 0830841008 | 352 pages | EPUB | 5.83 Mb
From the early days of the church to the present, the Old Testament Law has been a subject of much confusion, debate, and outright theological division. And with good reason: the way Christians understand the Law has massive implications for their individual lives and for the life of the church. To sort through the numerous interpretations and approaches to this thorny issue, we need to start with a solid knowledge of the Law itself.

Free Download The Making of Holy Russia: The Orthodox Church and Russian Nationalism Before the Revolution by John Strickland
English | September 1, 2013 | ISBN: 0884653293 | 356 pages | EPUB | 4.18 Mb
This book is a critical study of the interaction between the Russian Church and society in the late 19th and early 20th century. While other studies exist that draw attention to the voices in the Church typified as liberal in the years leading up to the Revolution, this work introduces a wide range of conservative opinion that equally strove for spiritual renewal and the spread of the Gospel. Grounded in original research conducted in the newly accessible libraries and archives of post-Soviet Russia, this study is intended to reveal the wider relevance of its topic to an ongoing discussion of the relationship between national or ethnic identities on the one hand, and the self-understanding of Orthodox Christianity as a universal and transformative faith on the other.