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Ambition
Essays by members of The Chrysostom Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
What role should ambition play in our lives? Our culture generally buys the American Dream that yes, we can fulfill all our aspirations. But to seek personal power and fame in the competitive world of Western culture has a dark side. Ambition can be subtle and enticing, leading to great unhappiness....
A Glimpse of the Kingdom in Academia
Academic Formation as Radical Discipleship
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
University is a major way that our society prepares professionals and leaders in education, health, government, business, arts, church--all components of our communal lives. Although the beginnings of the first universities were Christian, academia has become more and more adrift from these foundations....
Being Church
Reflections on How to Live as the People of God
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
What modern church doesn't call itself a community? Yet for how many is it real? How many churches form disciples intimately connected enough to call themselves Christ's body? How many form disciples who know the relational arts that create a robust unity? How many form disciples practiced in the...
Of Martyrs, Monks, and Mystics
A Yearly Meditational Reader of Ancient Spiritual Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Everywhere there are voices calling for a new Reformation, marked by a return to the older sources of Christian wisdom, and for drinking anew the inspiration of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, the church fathers, those from the monastic tradition and the medieval Christian mystics. This anthology...
Awakening Desire
Encountering the Divine Feminine in the Masculine Christian Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
The hope of this book is that it awakens desire to know more intimately the God who breaks through our compartmentalization and naming. While most in the West have heard God's name as almost exclusively masculine, a child growing up in Israel would have experienced the Spirit of God, and Lady Wisdom,...
Black Fire Reader
A Documentary Resource on African American Pentecostalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
This compendium of primary resources reflects the important but often overshadowed contribution of African American believers to the dynamic growth of the modern Pentecostal movement--the fastest-growing segment of global Christianity. The doctrinal statements, sermons, songs, testimonies, news articles,...
The Dictionary of Pan-African Pentecostalism, Volume One
North America
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
This volume is the first in a series of volumes surveying the important names, movements, and institutions that have been significant in forging black renewal movements in various contexts worldwide. In this volume the entries cover the more than 150 identifiable Holiness, Pentecostal, Charismatic,...
Preaching Master Class
Lessons from Will Willimon’s Five-Minute Preaching Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2010
Preachers around the globe have come to rely on Will Willimon for insight and advice on the craft of preaching. For over a decade, Willimon has published his reflections in the Five-Minute Preaching Workshop, a quarterly column he writes as editor of Pulpit Resource. Here the best selections from...
by Mark Beaumont
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Jesus is a revered messenger of God for Muslims and Lord and Savior for Christians. How can Muslims and Christians relate to each other when this figure from the past attracts them yet drives them apart? Jesus is the very center of the Christian faith, but for Muslims he is a faithful witness to God,...
A Companionable Way
Path of Devotion in Conscious Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
In today's polarized publics, we are rarely prepared to encounter one another peaceably and deeply across irreconcilable difference. A Companionable Way invites inquisitive minds, body-souls, and spiritual hearts into the delightful but demanding inner work required for peaceable encounters with integrity...
Artisanal Theology
Intentional Formation in Radically Covenantal Companionship
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Paradox and surprise face those who pursue deeper spiritual practice, theological wisdom, and even a religious calling into the ministry. Unbeknownst to incoming students, the pursuit of theological education in established institutions today furthers a faith that is recognizable in delight and compassion,...
The Politics of Practical Reason
Why Theological Ethics Must Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Ought we conceive of theological ethics as an activity that draws from a community's vision of human goodness and that has implications for the kind of person each of us is to be? Or, can students of the discipline map the ethical implications of what Christians confess about God, themselves, and...
The Middle of Things
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
In the tradition of classic essayists from Virginia Woolf to Annie Dillard, Meghan Florian combines personal narrative with careful analysis, taking the ordinary material of undramatic daily life and distilling it into moments of clarity and revelation. Centering each essay in this collection on a...
The Rule of Faith
A Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
The rule of faith was a summary of apostolic preaching and teaching made by writers of the early Christian centuries. As such it carries great importance for what the early church considered basic to its being and identity. It was not a fixed text, like a creed, but varied in wording and content according...