Religious and ceremonial art

Imagine being able to connect everything you do in life with God's dream of shalom.

Patrick O'Connor highlights specific action-oriented principles from the teachings of George Patterson as he guides the reader through the various aspects of cross-cultural ministry: the gathering of new believers, the development of new churches, the mobilization of new churches into a movement, the training of new leaders, and the departure of the pioneering ministers.

Is social enterprise yet another example of the expansion of the market into all areas of life and society, in this case the marketization of poverty?

Christians ought to be leading the way in creativity, but we rarely do.

Music and Liturgy, Identity and Formation is a one-of-a-kind book about All Saints Moda Church in Istanbul.

Essays in Honor of J.

L’art a été profondément marqué par la figure de la Vierge Marie, le symbole de la maternité, rayonnante de jeunesse, de tendresse et de compassion depuis deux mille ans.

In this lavishly illustrated book, David Morgan surveys the visual culture that shaped American Protestantism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--a vast record of images in illustrated bibles, Christian almanacs, children's literature, popular religious books, charts, broadsides, Sunday school cards, illuminated devotional items, tracts, chromos, and engravings.

Tauchen Sie ein in das faszinierende Leben eines der schillerndsten Künstler der Renaissance: Benvenuto Cellini.

We issue this book amidst the challenges arising from the resurgence of religions in the various nations of the post-modern world.

Few people have any extensive knowledge of the life and witness of the Protestant churches in the former Portuguese colonies of southern Africa.

Among the 12 disciples of Jesus, perhaps none has inspired more magnificent art--as well as political upheaval--than Saint James the Greater.

Profiles of African-American Missionaries features the lives and ministries of the great African-Americans who have gone to the world with the message of Christ.

The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Melanesia and Micronesia, 1850 to 1875 is the result of Father Ralph Wiltgen's years of archival work in Rome and at the headquarters of religious orders who worked in Micronesia and Melanesia.

Pioneer missionary Timothy Richard served forty-five years in China and became a household name among educated Chinese.

Missionaries must know God, be able to relate well to other people, understand and engage with another culture, and be able to use the Bible in a way that informs all aspects of their lives and ministries.

2022 Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period before 16002021 International Center of Medieval Art Annual Book PrizePioneering investigation of the popular "e;double tomb"e; effigies in the Middle Ages.

Over the centuries, humans have conjured images--the stuff of dreams, convictions, and ardent desire--to describe our afterlife.

This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China.

This compelling collection tells five stories of young Australian women who served in times of armed conflict in early twentieth-century China.

Christian mission has often been a project allied with colonial powers and conquests.

The problem of the barbarous excess of human suffering is becoming the main question of global Christianity.

"e;This volume is not a set of textbook answers on how to witness to Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and people with other religions based on simple formulas.

The work of American Baptist missionaries among the Telugu people in India in the nineteenth century came to fruition in 1897, when Telugus established their own indigenous missionary organization, the Telugu Home Missionary Society.

Michael Haneke is one of Europe's most successful and controversial film directors.

Reflections and Case Studies in Contextualization for the Whole ChurchGlobal Mission is divided into two sections: the first, Reflections and Foundations, comprises nine essays of a more general nature; the second, Contextualization at Work, contains twenty one essays of a more specific nature, most of them case studies from a particular location and people group.

With increased globalization and modernization reaching into the furthest corners of the earth also comes the influence of secularization.

The title of this book points to a feature-the missionary family-often considered to be a distinctive of the Protestant missionary movement.

Few subjects in Christianity have inspired artists as much as the last judgment.

The sea has been both a source of bounty and a bridge of communication through the ages.

Imagine being able to connect everything you do in life with God's dream of shalom.

Films are modern spiritual phenomena.

Your congregation is teeming with people already doing community ministry.

"e;A global journey revealing multiple expressions of the Islamic faith.

The mission church literature seems to be dominated by idealized conceptions of the benefits of equipping congregations to participate in local mission work.

Will you help Chinese students bear fruit in China?

Most Christians claim to know to Jesus as a friend or guide, as an inspiration and model.

In the early twentieth century, theological modernism was gaining ground in the Presbyterian Church in the U.

The need to train Christian missionaries was an afterthought of the Protestant missionary movement in the early nineteenth century.

« L'iconographie chrétienne, et surtout la représentation du Christ, se base dans la doctrine de l'Incarnation.

Too often, Christ followers are content to live inside the church walls with other Christians.

In the Bible, faith is contrasted with sight, not with reason.

The essays in this volume, which are written by friends, colleagues, and former students, are dedicated to Gary B.

Millions of tourists visit Washington, D.

Navigating Ethnic Identity for Gospel WitnessIn most peoples minds ethnic or ethnicity are terms associated with conflict, cleansing, or even genocide.

Is Jesus really the only way?