Denominations category: 8894 books
Liturgy on the Edge
Pastoral and Attractional Worship
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
• Inspiration and resources for urban parishes from the staff and laypeople of London's celebrat-ed St. Martin-in-the-Fields • Includes practical how-tos • Covers outreach, liturgy, inclusivity, liturgy, and more Using the unique circumstances and opportunities available to historic St. Martin-in-the-Fields...
by Prof Charles Yrigoyen Jr
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
This is an invaluable handbook on Methodism containing an introduction, dictionary of key terms, and concentrates on key themes, methodology and research problems for those interested in studying the origins and development of the history and theology of world Methodism.
The literature describing...
by William J. Abraham
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Beginning as a renewal movement within Anglicanism in the eighteenth century, Methodism had become the largest Protestant denomination in the USA in the nineteenth century, and is today one of the most vibrant forms of Christianity. Representing a complex spiritual and evangelistic experiment that...
Living on the Edge of the Edge
Letters to a Younger Colleague
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
There are several divisive issues that separate Christian from Christian in the current century. One issue is the church’s management of clergy sexual abuses of children, teens and adults. A second is the issue of sexual gender orientation and church membership. Contemporary Christian denominations...
by Thomas Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers, was founded in England in the 17th century as a Christian religious denomination by people who were dissatisfied with the existing denominations and sects of Christianity. Historians generally credit George Fox...
by Thomas Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers, was founded in England in the 17th century as a Christian religious denomination by people who were dissatisfied with the existing denominations and sects of Christianity. Historians generally credit George Fox...
by N. Jean Toomer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers, was founded in England in the 17th century as a Christian religious denomination by people who were dissatisfied with the existing denominations and sects of Christianity. Historians generally credit George Fox...
One Hope
Re-Membering the Body of Christ
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
One Hope: Re-Membering the Body of Christ is a rich ecumenical resource designed to help Catholic and Lutheran communities mark the approaching 500th anniversary of the Reformation. By gathering together to reflect on and discuss its contents, Christians will foster the church’s unity on a grassroots...
Out of Exodus
A Journey of Open and Affirming Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Biblical and progressive. Mainline and charismatic. Faithful and questioning. This book is not what you think it is. The story of the Exodus is told in parallel with testimonies, sermons, and personal reflections from a congregation in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, challenging the reader to a journey of...
Orthodox Radicals
Baptist Identity in the English Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
In the seventeenth century, English Baptists existed on the fringe of the nation's collective religious life. Today, Baptists have developed into one of the world's largest Protestant denominations. Despite this impressive transformation, those first English Baptists remain chronically misunderstood....
Order and Ardor
The Revival Spirituality of Oliver Hart and the Regular Baptists in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
The origins of the Southern Baptist Convention, the world’s largest Protestant denomination, is most often traced back to the colorful, revivalist Separate Baptist movement that rose out of the Great Awakening in the mid-1700s. During that same period the American South was likewise home to the...
My Battle Against Hitler
Defiance in the Shadow of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
How does a person become Hitler’s number one enemy? Not through espionage or violence, it turns out, but by striking fearlessly at the intellectual and spiritual roots of National Socialism.
Dietrich von Hildebrand was a German Catholic thinker and teacher who devoted the full force of his...
A Quaker Officer in the Civil War
Henry Gawthrop of the 4th Delaware
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
His opposition to slavery outweighed his religion’s views of war: “One of the most unique and extensive views of a Delaware war veteran’s experience” (Main Line Times).
When the call went out in 1862 for volunteers for Delaware’s 4th Infantry Regiment, a number of men from prominent Quaker...
Plain Secrets
An Outsider among the Amish
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Joe Mackall has lived surrounded by the Swartzentruber Amish community of Ashland County, Ohio, for over sixteen years. They are the most traditional and insular of all the Amish sects: the Swartzentrubers live without gas, electricity, or indoor plumbing; without lights on their buggies or cushioned...