Testing Faith And Tradition
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Testing Faith And Tradition
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Author : John Lapp
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2006-10-01
Testing Faith And Tradition written by John Lapp and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-01 with Religion categories.
The Anabaptist movement had its beginning in scattered places throughout Europe during the 16th century. Today these Anabaptist-descended Mennonite churches are declining in membership, but they are not without reinvigorated faith and hope. Frequent wars during the past 480 years strained these Mennonite churches immeasurably, especially when their governments battled each other. This volume recounts those torturous and formative experiences. Seldom have the distinguishing features of the Dutch, the French, the German, the Swiss, the Russian -- and more recently, the U.K. and the Spanish-Mennonite churches been examined. These churches' cultural and historical differences are significantly unique, and they are a key part of the history told in these chapters by European Mennonite historians and church leaders. The Umsiedler, with their sheer numbers and religious vigor, are a current force included in this ongoing story. Testing Faith and Tradition is the second volume in the Global Mennonite History Series.
Testing The Boundaries
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Author : Patricia ‘Iolana
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2011-01-18
Testing The Boundaries written by Patricia ‘Iolana and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-18 with Social Science categories.
As individuals, we have the ability (although not always the opportunity) to create our own paradigmatic image of the Divine; moreover, as a society we can alter, transform, or even replace those paradigms. Progressive movements exist in nearly every faith tradition—moving towards the future of our world and our belief systems; these movements include both radical and reformist thinkers, and they are challenging the lenses that we employ to image, worship, connect with and understand the Divine. With so many possible interpretations and paradigms competing for social acceptance and support, the choice must be made carefully and wisely, bearing in mind the inevitability of change whilst remaining open to pluralities of thought and practice. This is especially important when it comes to the future of theology and religious studies—in particular to the relations between the various global faith traditions. In Testing the Boundaries, ten scholars explore the praxis of faith including our image of Self in relation to the Divine, our relation to the religious Other, our struggle for religious identity in new locales, the limits of language and translations in sacred texts, our responsibility to nature, our nomadic and transitory tendencies, traditions in the academy, and our interreligious relationships. They test the boundaries of traditional theology and their interdisciplinary fields—dancing in the liminal space where possibilities gather.
Religion And The State
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Author : Evarts Boutell Greene
language : en
Publisher: AMS Press
Release Date : 1941
Religion And The State written by Evarts Boutell Greene and has been published by AMS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Political Science categories.
The Great Tradition A Great Labor
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Author : Philip Harrold
language : en
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Release Date : 2012-05-31
The Great Tradition A Great Labor written by Philip Harrold and has been published by Lutterworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-31 with Religion categories.
At a recent conference entitled Ancient Wisdom-Anglican Futures, theologians from across the denominational spectrum considered the question, What does it mean to inhabit the 'Great Tradition' authentically? As an expression of what C. S. Lewis called Deep Church, Anglicanism offers a test case of Tradition with a capital T in late modernity. Of particular interest is the highly dynamic transmission that has preserved a recognizable Anglican Way over the centuries. The process has been enlivened through constant negotiation and exchange with surprising convergences that have brought new life and direction. The contributors to this volume show how profitable and commodious (as Richard Hooker has said) the Great Tradition can be innurturing the worship, communal life, and mission of the Church. But it often demonstrates how hard it is to uphold the varied integrities of historic faith in the contemporary marketplace of religion and, especially, among evangelicals who continueto follow the Canterbury Trail.
The Critical Way In Religion
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Author : Duncan Howlett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
The Critical Way In Religion written by Duncan Howlett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Knowledge, Theory of (Religion). categories.
In The Critical Way in Religion, Duncan Howlett proposes a new approach to the age-old question of religious belief. According to the author, authority and tradition cannot provide adequate answers for religion, nor can modern liberalism. These approaches fail to come to terms with the problems of human error and the need for innovation. Organized religion has not subjected its claim to know eternal truth to the severe testing accepted in all other disciplines and has been highly resistant to the introduction of new practices and patterns of thought. The Critical Way in Religion identifies a religious tradition older than Christianity and at least as old as Judaism that has taken human fallibility and human resourcefulness fully into account. The author traces the evolution of this tradition from its beginning in Greece in the sixth century B.C. and shows how its characteristic principles have developed. Today, although worldwide in scope but by no means universally accepted, the critical approach to religion is found inside as well as outside organized religion, among churchgoers and among the supposedly nonreligious as well. Howlett maintains that the critical tradition in religion developed independent of the Judeo-Christian tradition but that the two are closely related. The critical tradition has its heroes, its martyrs, and a growing body of thought, but as yet no name and no church fully committed to it. Although the modern worldwide university system is the critical spirit institutionalized, it is primarily nonreligious. This book calls for the institutionalizing of the critical spirit in religion and concludes with a set of clear and positive, yet critical, religious principles. - Back cover.
Travels In Faith
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Author : Robert Chamblet Adams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
Travels In Faith written by Robert Chamblet Adams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with Apologetics categories.
Testing Tradition And Liberating Theology
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Author : Val Webb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-03-10
Testing Tradition And Liberating Theology written by Val Webb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-10 with Religion categories.
There has never been one truth, despite what people claim. Theological ideas have waxed and waned through history, taking conflicting turns with changing leaders, worldviews and political forces. This fast-paced, lay-friendly book, backed by serious, inquisitive scholarship, follows this maze, shining a spotlight into dark corners and dusty shelves to observe ideas silenced and others declared eternal. As many people walk away from churches that are unwilling to face the big questions, this book offers readers permission to think for themselves. Val Webb has done it again - bringing God-talk out of both the Academy and the Church; and into the everyday. We are all theologians - God is in our midst and we do not need permission to express what that means to us. This is is a book of liberation in that it allows each one of us to 'do our own theology' - to express what we mean by 'God' and not leave it to the ecclesiastical or scholastic authorities to make up our minds for us. Moreover, as Webb argues, theology has always been what ordinary people declare 'from their heart' about someone/something beyond themselves. This is a brave and challenging book that puts God back in the midst of people - where God belongs! -Revd Dr Nigel Leaves, Canon of St John's Cathedral, Brisbane, Australia, author of Encountering God (2014), Religion Under Attack (2011) and The God Problem (2006) Val Webb invites us into a broad yet comprehensive sweep of much that has influenced the theological landscape for today's 21st century Christian. In doing so Webb both encourages and provokes our thinking about who we are and what we believe. Above all, the book is a call to the lay people of the church to accept responsibility for their own theological explorations and to no longer be shrinking violets in the important matters of informed faith. I encourage the reading of this book to inform, challenge and provoke good conversations and opportunity for lay and ordained to engage and embrace a 'theology that is life transforming'. -Rev Dr Jennifer Byrnes, Executive Director of the Centre for Theology and Ministry, Uniting Church in Australia Synod of Victoria-Tasmania. Val Webb is an Australian who holds a graduate degree in science and a Ph.D. in theology. She has taught in universities in the United States and Australia and has written nine books including Like Catching Water in a Net: human attempts to describe the Divinewhich won the religion category of Best Books USA Award in 2007. She now lives in Mudgee, Australia. (www.valwebb.com.au)
Testing Fresh Expressions
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Author : John Walker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-01
Testing Fresh Expressions written by John Walker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with Religion categories.
Testing Fresh Expressions investigates whether fresh expressions of church really do what is claimed for them by the fresh expressions movement and, in particular, whether their unique approach helps to reverse trends of decline experienced by traditional churches. Part 1 examines those claims and untangles their sociological and theological assumptions. From a careful study of factors underlying attendance decline and growth, Part 2 argues that long-term decline can be resisted only if churches are better able to attract children, the non-churched or both. Part 3 tests the comparative ability of a group of growing parish churches and a group of fresh expressions to resist trends of decline and discovers some intriguing social dynamics common to both groups. Part 4 argues that fresh expressions do not fulfil the unique role often claimed for them but that they do have the capacity to help reinvigorate the whole church.
Just Peace
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Author : Fernando Enns
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2013-09-17
Just Peace written by Fernando Enns and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-17 with Religion categories.
"Christian theology and ethics have wrestled with the challenge to apply Jesus's central message of nonviolence to the injustices of this world. Is it not right to defend the persecuted by using violence? Is it unjust if the oppressed defend themselves--if necessary by the use of violence--in order to liberate themselves and to create a more just society? Can we leave the doctrine of the just war behind and shift all our attention toward the way of a just peace? In 2011 the World Council of Churches brought to a close the Decade to Overcome Violence, to which the churches committed themselves at the beginning of the century. Just peace has evolved as the new ecumenical paradigm for contemporary Christian ethics. Just peace signals a realistic vision of holistic peace, with justice, which in the concept of shalom is central in the Hebrew Bible as well as in the gospel message of the New Testament. This paradigm needs further elaboration. VU University gathered peacebuilding practitioners and experts from different parts of the world (Africa, Latin America, North America, Asia, and Europe) and from different disciplines (anthropology, psychology, social sciences, law, and theology)--voices from across generations and Christian traditions--to promote discussion about the different dimensions of building peace with justice. "
A Whirlpool Of Torment
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Author : James L. Crenshaw
language : en
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Release Date : 1984
A Whirlpool Of Torment written by James L. Crenshaw and has been published by Augsburg Fortress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Religion categories.