Church Institutions category: 259 books
Inside the Vatican
The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 1998
Drawing on more than a hundred interviews with Vatican officials, this book affords a firsthand look at the people, the politics, and the organization behind the institution. Throughout, revealing and colorful anecdotes from church history and the present day bring the unique culture of the Vatican to life.
Epistles on Clergy Abuse
The Clergy Abuse Scandal Chronicled Through Letters
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2006
What makes Epistles on Clergy Abuse unique? It is written from a very personal perspective; it is a living chronological history of the clergy abuse scandal in letter form; it contains numerous no-holds barred letters sent to the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in America over a nine year...
The Coming Catholic Church
How the Faithful Are Shaping a New American Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Rather than chronicling the well-reported sexual abuse scandal or advocating a particular reform agenda, David Gibson shows how the crisis in the church is unleashing forces that will change American Catholicism forever.
Opus Dei
An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
The first serious journalistic investigation of the highly secretive, controversial organization Opus Dei provides unique insight about the wild rumors surrounding it and discloses its significant influence in the Vatican and on the politics of the Catholic Church.
Opus Dei (literally “the...
Dog Training, Fly Fishing, and Sharing Christ in the 21st Century
Empowering Your Church to Build Community Through Shared Interests
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2008
Ted Haggard presents a successful and tested model for a small group ministry here that can be implemented by a church of any size. By enabling members to embrace and capitalize on their own unique abilities, the diverse groups create an environment where people meet mentors that can disciple and...
Solus Jesus
A Theology of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
If you read one book this year about the future of Christianity, then choose this book. Five hundred years ago the Protestant Reformation claimed the Bible as the authoritative guide for Christian living (“Sola Scriptura!” Only Scripture!). In this groundbreaking work, Emily Swan and Ken Wilson...
Churches That Make a Difference
Reaching Your Community with Good News and Good Works
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Churches over the past generations have been weakened by a failure to meet both the physical and spiritual needs of their communities. Many have adopted a narrow vision, focusing on only one aspect of ministry. But in today's environment of faith-based opportunities many Christians are eager to start...
by James Oscar Boyd, John Gresham Machen, Walter Scott Athearn
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
A recent book intimates that there are three kinds of Sunday-school teachers. Some are so poor that they must be forgiven by those who had the disadvantage of having Christianity interpreted through their words and spirit. Some are so colorless, so neutral, so neither poor nor rich, that they are...
Essence of the Church, The
A Community Created by the Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
This fresh perspective on the church explores its essential nature as a community of people governed by the Word and led and taught by the Spirit.
Catholicity Challenging Ethnicity
An Ecclesiological Study of Congregations and Churches in Post-apartheid South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book deals with the relationship between the catholicity of the Church and ethnicity. Churches confess their «catholicity» – which means that they declare that their members belong to one community; but at the same time, the churches are often internally divided along ethnic lines. South...
Not Trying Too Hard
New Basics for Sustainable Congregations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
The Christian church in America is doing its best to be relevant. Its leaders are trying harder, working longer hours, offering more programs, and trying to solve more problems. Not coincidentally, more clergy than ever before are burning out or "browning out," losing their edge, becoming...
Lay People in the Asian Church
A Critical Study of the Theology of the Laity in the Documents of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences with Special Reference to John Paul IIs Apostolic Exhortation «Ecclesia in Asia» and the Pastoral Letters of the Vietnamese Episcopal Conf
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This book investigates the role of the laity in the Asian Church. Lay people have three responsibilities: proclaiming the Gospel, be a witness of life, and the triple dialogue with the cultures, the religions, and the poor. Focusing on the triple dialogue, the bishops of Asia have offered fresh ideas...
Here Comes The Bride
A Critique of the Baptist Bride Heresy
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Is a local, Baptist church the bride of Christ? Did John the Baptist start the first Baptist church with Jesus as one of his members? Is a saved Methodist, Lutheran or Catholic in the bride of Christ? What is the Baptist Bride heresy?You may wonder at the absurdity of these questions, and yet...
The Once and Future Church Study Guide
Transforming Congregations for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
Church boards, congregational planning groups, judicatory study groups, and people exploring their own religious experiences in the congregation will find themselves in new territory, using their own insights as well as Mead's. Can be used independently with either or both of Mead's books; includes suggestions for Bible study and group exercises.