Christian Churches, denominations, groups

In this theoretically rich work, Mason Kamana Allred unearths the ways Mormons have employed a wide range of technologies to translate events, beliefs, anxieties, and hopes into reproducible experiences that contribute to the growth of their religious systems of meaning.

The theodicy of the remarkable Scottish Congregationalist theologian Peter Taylor Forsyth has long been recognized as a vital and significant contribution to twentieth-century theology.

This book argues that local and global religious social forces are primarily responsible for the social developments in communities in the global south.

A look at the history of censorship, science, and magic from the Middle Ages to the post-Reformation era.

In the Gospel of John Jesus directs us, Abide in me, as I abide in you.

In Understanding Your Mormon Neighbor, Ross Anderson seeks to help Christians relate to Latter-day Saints by giving insights into Mormon life and culture.

Journey into the profound spiritual world of Jakob Lorber, the Austrian mystic whose revelations continue to captivate seekers and scholars alike.

The Mystical Presence (1846), John Williamson Nevin's magnum opus, was an attempt to combat the sectarianism and subjectivism of nineteenth-century American religion by recovering the robust sacramental and incarnational theology of the Protestant Reformation, enriched with the categories of German idealism.

The Irish Presbyterian Mind considers how one protestant community responded to the challenges posed to traditional understandings of Christian faith between 1830 and 1930.

Being a follower of Jesus in the evangelical community in America is equated to a posture, practice, and pursuit of triumphalism.

Becca Stevens extolls the power of love in this inspirational collection of letters.

For those who are called to it, pastoral ministry can be a source of deep joy.

Women in the Bible aren't shy or retiring; they're fierce and funny and demanding and relevant to 21st-century people.

Five Views on the Gospel presents five different perspectives on the question "e;What is the gospel?

If you want to be the best, you have to have the right skillset.

Religious traditions provide the stories and rituals that define the core values of church members.

Many Christians struggle to balance the religious and secular elements of Christmas, but the history of the feast shows that this is nothing new.

The definitive history of the Wesleyan movement in the United States.

Augustine's vision at Ostia is one of the most influential accounts of mystical experience in the Western tradition, and a subject of persistent interest to Christians, philosophers and historians.

In the lives of ordinary people are the truths of history.

An exploration of the development of a contextualized Roman Catholic moral theology in an African context is warranted in our day.

When I speak of liberal Protestants, I have in mind those Protestants who feel free to depart from classical Protestantism (the Protestantism of the Reformers) in order, as they see it, to keep Christianity in step with the best of secular wisdom--a secular wisdom that often includes attacks on Christianity.

This diary is a fine-grained, often daily, theological reflection on the author's final ponderings on his ordeal with a serious illness, a concluding sabbatical, a last year of teaching, a culminating lecture, presiding at Eucharist, and summarial notes about "e;what God is doing in the world.

As Barbara Brown Taylor reminds us, the Israelites received the bread of angels- manna-as they made their way through the wilderness.

We suffer today from a crisis not of confidence, but of trust.

The moral values and interpretive systems of religions are crucially involved in how people imagine the challenges of sustainability and how societies mobilize to enhance ecosystem resilience and human well-being.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Originally published in 1992, Channeling is a comprehensive bibliography on the subject of channeling.

Every conversation with God holds great power.

Interrogates the belief that the clergy defined German Catholic reading habits, showing that readers frequently rebelled against their church''s rules.

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"e;My dear Jack--before I met you my life seemed like a train pulling a trail of empty carriages, and then there you were, and suddenly most of them were full--with people and noise and laughter, with faith and vision and your extraordinary, electric vitality.

This book brings together Methodist scholars and reflective practitioners from around the world to consider how emerging practices of mission and evangelism shape contemporary theologies of mission.

The Protestant Reformation of the 16th century has traditionally been viewed as marking the onset of modernity in Europe.

Why do groups such as Christadelphians, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Unitarians have such difficulty with the doctrine of the Trinity?

This volume brings together philosophers, social theorists, and theologians in order to investigate the relation between future(s) of the Revolution and future(s) of the Reformation.

Groundless Gods: The Theological Prospects of Post-Metaphysical Thought deals with possible interpretations of an emerging interest in contemporary theology: postmetaphysical theology.

Why does God have to be so exasperatingly silent?

How are we to care for our bodies and our health as part of faithful Christian living?

It is quite an assertion to claim that one is filled with the Spirit of God.

The book is the first of its kind to draw together in conversation the views of the early Church, contemporary biblical and theological scholarship, and post-conciliar teachings.

In 1623 John Donne, dean of Saint Paul's Cathedral in London, suddenly fell ill of a pestilential illness.

The Canons of the Church of England are an essential reference for anyone responsible for the legal aspects of running a church

The Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, is the most successful and enduring global missionary enterprise in history.

This text is a comprehensive introduction to mission and ministry in the contemporary Church which enables students to prepare for ministry in a changing church within a changing world.