Reimagining Church

Reimagining Church

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  • Author: Frank Viola
  • Publisher: David C Cook
  • ISBN: 1434766535
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 320

Author Frank Viola gives readers language for all they knew was missing in their modern church experience. He believes that many of today's congregations have shifted from God's original intent for the church. As a prominent leader of the house church movement, Frank is at the forefront of a revolution sweeping through the body of Christ. A change that is challenging the spiritual status quo and redefining the very nature of church. A movement inspired by the divine design for authenticity community. A fresh concept rooted in ancient history and in God Himself. Join Frank as he shares God's original intent for the church, where the body of Christ is an organic, living, breathing organism. A church that is free of convention, formed by spiritual intimacy, and unbound by four walls.


Re-Membering and Re-Imagining

Re-Membering and Re-Imagining

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  • Author: Nancy J. Berneking
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • ISBN: 1606087452
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 265

The most controversial ecumenical church event in decades, the first Re-Imagining Conference shook the foundations of mainline Protestantism. In this anthology of ninety-five articles, reflections, letters, poetry, and artwork, participants in the conference offer a candid, inside look at what actually occurred in Minneapolis, and at the aftershocks that followed. Amid the cacophonous rumors, hearsay, and ideological clashes that continue to stalk Re-Imagining, the clear voices in this remarkable volume reveal fresh ways of understanding faith, God, and community. They speak to the church today--and to the church of tomorrow.


Imagining the Catholic Church

Imagining the Catholic Church

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  • Author: Ghislain Lafont
  • Publisher: Liturgical Press
  • ISBN: 9780814659465
  • Category : Church
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 260

"Father Lafont challenges the Church to offer a renewed image and to speak credibly, without abandoning any essentials given by God to the Church and without sacrificing the radicalism of the Gospel message."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved


Reimagining with Christian Doctrines

Reimagining with Christian Doctrines

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  • Author: Grace Ji-Sun Kim
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137382988
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 140

This collection demonstrates a constructive potential in reimagining with doctrines, which unlocks them from centuries of patriarchal constraint. It opens the way for glimpsing divine action in the economy of salvation, while human struggles for justice are placed within a wider arena when discrete theological resources are deployed in this way.


Re-Imagining the Church

Re-Imagining the Church

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  • Author: Robert J. Suderman
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • ISBN: 1498290949
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 258

The church. What has it become? What was it meant to be? Does it pave the way or get in the way? Are we suspicious of the institutionalization of church bureaucracy? Or thrilled with the relevant impact of its presence? Robert J. Suderman writes about the church as a practitioner. His inspiration emerges out of the crossroads of biblical vision and human sincerity always tempered with frailty. Years of ministry, never a stranger to complexity, only serve to sharpen the vision of possibility. His imagination of what can be is never divorced from the realities of what is. He does not bow to the common assumption that "you can't get there from here." "Here" is the only possible point of origin for us. In his succinct, easy to understand writing style, Suderman provides insightful and thought-provoking perspectives to what it means to be the church. To be a people "called out" to participate together in God's activity in the world, and to create programs and structures needed for effective ministry are two sides of the same coin. This book is for dreamers and bureaucrats alike; indeed, it assumes that the two are indispensable pieces of God's coming presence. Introduction by: Tom Yoder Neufeld


Liberating Evangelism

Liberating Evangelism

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  • Author: Stephen K. Pickard
  • Publisher: A&C Black
  • ISBN: 9781563382796
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 136

Has the church abdicated its responsibility for and privilege of spreading the gospel? Has this baptismal birthright been forgotten or denied out of ignorance, poor example, or even misinformation? Stephen Pickard argues that the church is called to be a community of the evangel and thus a community that seeks to embody the glad tidings of God in all of its life. He addresses two issues: the relationship of evangelism to systematic theology and the relationship of evangelism to the church. In the case of the former, he calls for a recovery of the complementary nature of theology and evangelism (the theory and practice of the gospel), discussing what this might involve and how it may benefit the church's evangelistic task. This evangelistic task is then developed further in terms of the dynamics of communication. Regarding evangelism and its relation to the church, Pickard contends that the locus for evangelism has to be the Christian community, its life of worship and discipleship in the world. But the church must be reconceived missiologically in terms of the Great Commission and as a community for the praise of God.


Reaching People under 30 while Keeping People over 60

Reaching People under 30 while Keeping People over 60

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  • Author: Edward H Hammett
  • Publisher: Chalice Press
  • ISBN: 082723306X
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 228

Seasoned church consultant Edward H. Hammett shares his latest insights and suggestions for churches seeking to serve all generations. This is an updated version of Hammett's 2007 book Reaching People Under 40 while Keeping People Over 60 that expands the reach another decade and emphasizes diversity with insight from new contributors Paul L. Anderson and Cornell Thomas. A TCP Books title.


Re-Imagining the Parish

Re-Imagining the Parish

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  • Author: Patrick J. Brennan
  • Publisher: Crossroad Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780824510749
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 172


Religion and Place

Religion and Place

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  • Author: Peter Hopkins
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 9400746849
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 232

This unique collection highlights the importance of landscape, politics and piety to our understandings of religion and place. The geographies of religion have developed rapidly in the last couple of decades and this book provides both a conceptual framing of the key issues and debates involved, and rich illustrations through empirical case studies. The chapters span the discipline of human geography and cover contexts as diverse as veiling in Turkey, religious landscapes in rural Peru, and refugees and faith in South Africa. A number of prominent scholars and emerging researchers examine topical themes in each engaging chapter with significant foci being: religious transnationalism and religious landscapes; gendering of religious identities and contexts; fashion, faith and the body; identity, resistance and belief; immigrant identities, citizenship and spaces of belief; alternative spiritualities and places of retreat and enchantment. Together they make a series of important contributions that illuminate the central role of geography to the meaning and implications of lived religion, public piety and religious embodiment. As such, this collection will be of much interest to researchers and students working on topics relating to religion and place, including human geographers, sociologists, religious studies and religious education scholars.


Evangelical Feminism

Evangelical Feminism

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  • Author: Pamela Cochran
  • Publisher: NYU Press
  • ISBN: 0814716504
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 245

For most people, the terms “evangelical” and “feminism” are contradictory. “Evangelical” invokes images of conservative Christians known for their strict interpretation of the Bible, as well as their support of social conservatism and traditional gender roles. So how could an evangelical support feminism, a movement that seeks, at its most basic level, to redress the inequalities, injustice, and discrimination that women face because of their sex? Evangelical Feminism offers the first history of the evangelical feminist movement. It traces the emergence and theological development of biblical feminism within evangelical Christianity in the 1970s, how an internal split among members of the movement came about over the question of lesbianism, and what these developments reveal about conservative Protestantism and religion generally in contemporary America. Cochran shows that biblical feminists have been at the center of changes both within evangelicalism and in American culture more broadly by renegotiating the religious symbols which shape its deepest values.