Church Institutions category: 259 books
by James R. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009
Scientology is arguably the most persistently controversial of all contemporary New Religious Movements. James R. Lewis has assembled an unusually comprehensive anthology, incorporating a wide range of different approaches. In this book, a group of well-known scholars of New Religious Movements offers...
The World-Conquering Fiction
A critique of the Christian claim that Christ's death on the Cross provides salvation for a 'lost' humankind
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
The grand claim of the Christian religion is that it alone has the answer to the human ‘plight’, which is that all people are born into a state of ‘lostness’, and are estranged from God. If they die outside of God’s grace and salvation, they will enter an eternal state of separation from...
by T. Austin-Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
We are occupied at this time with that great thing that God is doing in this dispensation. He is constituting a new, heavenly Israel and preparing it for the day when its King comes and it will reign with Him forever. The members of this spiritual Israel are called, "the companions of a heavenly...
In Remembrance of Me
A Manual on Observing the Lord's Supper
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
In this authoritative guide to the Lord's Supper, Jim Henry underscored the biblical basis for the practice, then offers practical suggestions for congregations seeking to conform their worship service to the will of God.
by Ralph P. Lester
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
This book contains the complete work of the Entered Apprentice, Fellow-craft, and Master-mason's Degrees, along with their ceremonies, lectures, etc. It has doubtless been a matter of comment and surprise among the Members of the Fraternity that all the books which are avowedly intended to serve as...
How Your Congregation Learns
The Learning Journey from Challenge to Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Change isn’t always easy or intuitive. How Your Congregation Learns introduces churches and leaders—both lay and ordained—to the process of the learning journey. By understanding learning dynamics and working to become a learning community, the congregation will be able to move more purposefully...
Welcoming Resistance
A Path to Faithful Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Resistance can be a sign of vital, high-quality, and faithful life in a congregation, and a learning opportunity for congregational leaders who recognize the value of hearing from those who resist ministry initiatives, inviting their input and listening to their response.
Hobgood proposes a "continuum...
Journal
Passages in a Turbulent Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This intimate record - written by a gifted story-teller in spurts from 1931 to 1974 - provides glimpses into a girlhood in pre-World War I Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Pigeon Cove summer colony on Cape Ann as well as experiences as a young woman in the Roaring Twenties in New York City.
Bayliss’s...
A Theology of Community Organizing
Power to the People
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The rising importance of community organizing in the US and more recently in Britain has coincided with the developing significance of social movements and identity politics, debates about citizenship, social capital, civil society, and religion in the public sphere. At a time when participation in...
Cyberhenge
Modern Pagans on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Cyberhenge examines the use of Internet technology in shaping religious traditions and rituals. Cowan asks how and why Neopaganism has embraced the Internet in such an innovative and imaginative way.
by Daniel Clausen
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Ordo Aurum, The Golden Order of the Almighty. In 171 pages, it contains the internal structure, teachings of five degrees, and symbology of the Order. Most importantly, through the tireless work of the Loremaster and his assistant, a detailed, yet succinct record of the 2,500 year history, covering...
Military Chaplains as Agents of Peace
Religious Leader Engagement in Conflict and Post-Conflict Environments
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
By way of theoretical analysis and documented case studies from a number of countries, Military Chaplains as Agents of Peace considers Religious Leader Engagement as an emerging domain that advances the cause of reconciliation via the religious peacebuildingof chaplains*—*a construct that may be...
by Tanya B. Schwarz
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
How do faith-based organizations influence the work of transnational peacebuilding, development, and human rights advocacy? How is the political role of such organizations informed by their religious ideas and practices?
This book investigates this set of questions by examining how three transnational...
by Lynne M. Baab
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
"I can only shake my head in the face of the irony that all too often the very place where we look for life and health, the very place where we expect to nurture and deepen a loving relationship with God, can cause so many to experience the exact opposite." So remarks author Lynne Baab in...