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- Author: George Ross Mather
- Publisher: CSS Publishing Company
- ISBN:
- Category : History
- Languages : en
- Pages : 360
Frontier of Faith
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- Author: Sana Haroon
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- ISBN: 9780199326365
- Category : History
- Languages : en
- Pages : 0
Sana Haroon examines religious organisation and mobilisation in the North-West Frontier Tribal Areas, a non-administered region on the Indo-Afghan border. The Tribal Areas was defined topographically as a strategic zone of defence for British India, but also determined to be socially distinct and hence left outside the judicial, legislative and social institutions of greater colonial India. Conditions of Tribal Areas autonomy came to emphasize the role and importance of the mullahs operating in the region, and the mullahs jealously protected this administrative alienation. Despite its great distance from the centers of political organization in India and Afghanistan, the frontier occasionally functioned as a military organization ground for both Indian and Afghan anti-colonial activists until independence and partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. Thereafter the Tribal Areas maintained status as an administratively and socially autonomous region in both the Afghan and Pakistani national imaginations and cartographic descriptions. The regional mullas continued to contribute to armed mobilizations of national importance in Pakistan and in Afghanistan over the next half century, in return for which nationalist actors supported the mullahs and their personal interest in regional autonomy. This was the hinterland of successive, contradictory jihads in support of Pakhtun ethnicism, anti-colonial nationalism, Pakistani territorialism, religious revivalism, Afghan anti-Soviet resistance, and anti-Americanism. Only the claim to autonomy persisted unchanged and uncompromised, and within that claim the functional role of religious leaders as social moderators and ideological guides was preserved. From outside, patrons recognised and supported that claim, reliant in their own ways on the possibilities the autonomous Tribal Areas and its mullahs afforded.
Frontiers of Faith
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- Author: David E. Schroeder
- Publisher: AuthorHouse
- ISBN: 1524671665
- Category : Religion
- Languages : en
- Pages : 141
Biblical illiteracy and doctrinal ignorance are like two subtle viruses of twenty-first century America. Always only one generation away from being a pagan nation, as has been said, America needs the Christian Church to rise to the challenge of imparting true and vigorous Christian education to todays generation. Frontiers of Faithseeks to arouse the faith of young believers and to deepen the faith of veteran Christians. Theology, which was once called the Queen of the sciences, today is an unexplored frontier for many Christians. Our hope is that this book will be a trustworthy guide for many into the primary paths of truth that are foundational for a Christians faith.
Faith on the Frontier
Faith and Frontiers
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- Author: Eli Miller
- Publisher: FriesenPress
- ISBN: 1039112951
- Category : Biography & Autobiography
- Languages : en
- Pages : 172
Faith and Frontiers is a story about how trusting in God leads a man and his wife into unchartered territories and allows them to soar to new heights. In his inspirational memoirs, Eli Miller shares how even as a young Amish boy in Ohio he knew his path lay outside the community. Leaving his home at the tender age of seventeen, and with very little real-life experience, Eli soon finds his life is off track – so much so that even meeting and marrying the love of his life is not enough to settle him down. But then in a moment of despair, an encounter with the Holy Spirit turns his life around and sets him on a path to share the Word of God with others. As Eli continues his spiritual journey and becomes an ordained minister, he and his wife take a leap of faith and become founding members of a Christian community that embraces a frontier lifestyle in the wilderness of Northern British Columbia. After a multitude of adventures, and several years and children later, Eli then leans into his next calling and moves back to “civilization” where he becomes influential in the development and growth of several congregations and begins to lecture and minister across five continents. Told with humour and sincerity, Eli recounts the trials and tribulations of a lifetime of living on faith and shares the message of hope that he has spent his whole life proclaiming.
Pilgrim's Wilderness
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- Author: Tom Kizzia
- Publisher: Crown
- ISBN: 0307587835
- Category : True Crime
- Languages : en
- Pages : 338
Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness—and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch. When Papa Pilgrim, his wife, and their fifteen children appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy, their new neighbors saw them as a shining example of the homespun Christian ideal. But behind the family's proud piety and beautiful old-timey music lay Pilgrim's dark past: his strange connection to the Kennedy assassination and a trail of chaos and anguish that followed him from Dallas and New Mexico. Pilgrim soon sparked a tense confrontation with the National Park Service fiercely dividing the community over where a citizen’s rights end and the government’s power begins. As the battle grew more intense, the turmoil in his brood made it increasingly difficult to tell whether his children were messianic followers or hostages in desperate need of rescue. In this powerful piece of Americana, written with uncommon grace and high drama, veteran Alaska journalist, Tom Kizzia uses his unparalleled access to capture an era-defining clash between environmentalists and pioneers ignited by a mesmerizing sociopath who held a town and a family captive.
Faith on the Frontier
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- Author: Keith W. Clements
- Publisher: World Council of Churches
- ISBN:
- Category : Christian union
- Languages : en
- Pages : 556
The first biography of J. H. Oldham, one of the greatest pioneers of ecumenism in the twentieth century.Keith Clements draws on important hitherto unexplored archival material. Sections relate to Oldham's time as a missionary in India, his role as Secretary of the World Missionary Conference, usually recognised as the birth of the modern ecumenical movement, his reconciliatory roles in the First and Second World Wars, and his involvement with the 'Life and Work' movement. In a final chapter Dr Clements reflects on Oldham's considerable and continuing relevance today.This book challenges many accepted readings of ecumenical history.
Faith on the Frontier
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- Author: Edmund March Vittum
- Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
- ISBN: 9781230110479
- Category :
- Languages : en
- Pages : 80
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...gentlemen; and she moved fearlessly among them, never bold and unwomanly, yet treating them all with equal kindness. And, though there were undoubtedly dishonest men among them, if any one was disposed to take advantage of Harry's absences to plunder or injure anything about The Warren, he very well knew that his own life would not be worth a penny among those rough men, if they should chance to learn that he had stolen or destroyed anything belonging to Harry Marston. THIS we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.--Sr. PAUL. ONE pleasant day during the third summer of their sojourn on the prairie, Aunt Jennie and Harry were out riding, some miles from The Warren. Harry was looking for antelope, and Aunt Jennie was enjoying the wild, free life of the frontier, by joining him in a long canter across the prairie. They had ridden to the top of a hill, and were carefully looking over the country for game, when Aunt Jennie suddenly broke the silence with the unexpected question, --"How many skulls of dead buffalo do you suppose there are in sight? " _ " Millions, for aught I know," replied Harry. "They are like the stars--innumerable." "But you know," said Aunt J ennie, "that there are, after all, only a few thousand stars visible to the naked eye." "Yes, that is true," said the young man. "And I presume there are not many thousands of those heads within sight; still, they are pretty thick in this region. Do you know, Aunt Jennie, how much one of them is worth? " "Not much, I fancy," she replied with a laugh. " It 's about all your life is worth when your horse steps on one in a dark night. You remember I...
Western Theology
Raccoon John Smith
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- Author: Elder John Sparks
- Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
- ISBN: 0813137268
- Category : Biography & Autobiography
- Languages : en
- Pages : 767
The Disciples of Christ, one of the first Christian faiths to have originated in America, was established in 1832 in Lexington, Kentucky, by the union of two groups led by Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone. The modern churches resulting from the union are known collectively to religious scholars as part of the Stone-Campbell movement. If Stone and Campbell are considered the architects of the Disciples of Christ and America's first nondenominational movement, then Kentucky's Raccoon John Smith is their builder and mason. Raccoon John Smith: Frontier Kentucky's Most Famous Preacher is the biography of a man whose work among the early settlers of Kentucky carries an important legacy that continues in our own time. The son of a Revolutionary War soldier, Smith spent his childhood and adolescence in the untamed frontier country of Tennessee and southern Kentucky. A quick-witted, thoughtful, and humorous youth, Smith was shaped by the unlikely combination of his dangerous, feral surroundings and his Calvinist religious indoctrination. The dangers of frontier life made an even greater impression on John Smith as a young man, when several instances of personal tragedy forced him to question the philosophy of predeterminism that pervaded his religious upbringing. From these crises of faith, Smith emerged a changed man with a new vocation: to spread a Christian faith wherein salvation was available to all people. Thus began the long, ecclesiastical career of Raccoon John Smith and the germination of a religious revolution. Exhaustively researched, engagingly written, Raccoon John Smith is the first objective and painstakingly accurate treatment of the legendary frontier preacher. The intricacies behind the development of both Smith's personal religious beliefs and the founding of the Christian Church are treated with equal care. Raccoon John Smith is the story of a single man, but in carefully examining the events and people that influenced Elder Smith, this book also serves as a formative history for several Christian denominations, as well as an account of the wild, early years of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
