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52 Hymn Story Devotions
$14.99Add to cart52 Hymn Story Devotions is ideal for anyone who enjoys hymns and leads devotions at the church meetings, choir rehearsals, and Sunday school. The volume can also be used by individuals for personal devotions.
Key Features: * Each devotion includes a Scripture reference, printed hymn text, and commentary * Provides devotionals based on 52 familiar hymns * Devotions can be read verbatim by leader or party member Key Benefits: * Helps choirs with the spiritual aspect of choir membership * Can be given to a choir member to read with no advanced preparation * Allows choir directors to use devotions to strengthen the choir ministry -
Discovering Our Roots
$16.99Add to cartThis rich and challenging book explores the roots or ancestry of the Churches of Christ and others who stand as heirs to the Stone-Campbell movement of the early nineteenth century. It asks, “Where did we come from? How did we get this way? Why do we read the Bible the way we do? What has been the heart of our movement?” And it asks further,”What can we learn from those who have viewed restoration of apostolic Christianity in ways quite different from our own?”
The authors begin their story in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries – the age of Renaissance and Reformation. They isolate the stream of restorationist thought that arose in that age and then follow that stream through the Puritans, the early Baptists in America, the frenzy of pure beginnings in the early decades of American nationhood, and down to the Stone-Campbell movement.
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Christianity And Western Thought 3
$44.99Add to cartColin Brown’s Christianity & Western Thought, Volume 1: From the Ancient World to the Age of Enlightenment was widely embraced as a text in philosophy and theology courses around the world. His project was continued with the same spirit, energy and design by Steve Wilkens and Alan Padgett in volume 2, which explores the main intellectual streams of the nineteenth century.
This, the third and final volume, also by Wilkens and Padgett, examines philosophers, ideas and movements in the twentieth century and how they have influenced Christian thought. Students, pastors and thoughtful Christians will benefit from this volume which, when combined with the previous two, completes an authoritative history of Western thought since the birth of Christianity.
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When The Spirit Comes With Power
$32.99Add to cartWhat do you make of powerful signs—uncontrolled shaking, sudden falls during prayer, healings? White conducted many interviews and researched past revivals to determine if signs are psychological, demonic, or divine. This biblical book handles controversial issues evenly while drawing important conclusions.
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Biblical Foundations For Small Group Ministry
$45.99Add to cartIf you think small groups are some newfangled gimmick—think again! Icenogle examines both Old and New Testament texts to explain the basis for small groups, emphasizing the early church. He reveals why small groups are a crucial part of any ministry, shows how to apply biblical principles to set up small groups, and includes suggestions for training leaders. This is an invaluable resource for anyone who works with, or plans to work with, small groups.
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Introduction To Mennonite History (Revised)
$29.99Add to cartA unique resource for a generation, the preeminent textbook in its field. Cornelius J. Dyck interacts with the many changes in Anabaptist/Mennonite experience and historical understandings in this revised and updated edition. This is a history of Mennonites from the 16th century to the present. Though simply written, it reflects fine scholarship and deep Christian concern.
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Brief History Of Christian Worship
$23.99Add to cart192 Pages
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Writing from an ecumenical perspective, White surveys 2,000 of Christian worship, emphasizing the rich liturgical experiences of North American Christians in recent centuries. A groundbreaking revisionist work that is destined to redirect liturgical history by treating the worshipping community itself as the primary liturgical document. 192 pages, softcover from Abingdon. -
Occasions Of Grace
$43.95Add to cartThis latest offering of Byron Stuhlman is the third in his trilogy on the Prayer Book. It is also the conclusion of his study of the liturgy of the church begun in his previous book, Redeeming the Time. This book deals with the pastoral offices and episcopal services in the Book of Common Prayer using the method known as “comparative liturgy.” Stuhlman’s purpose is to explore at a deeper level the theological connections between these services and the faith which they articulate, rendering them effective in shaping lives according to the gospel.
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Introduction To The Episcopal Church (Revised)
$18.95Add to cartThis classic resource offers an enlightening overview of the Episcopal Church’s fascinating history and lore, including the Church year, buildings, symbolism, its vestments and customs. The author also offers insights into the Church’s government, Bible and Prayer Book, moral law, doctrine, sacraments, and requirements. Appendices on preparation for confirmation, an aid to self – examination, and prayers.
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Authority Vested A Print On Demand Title
$31.99Add to cartIn recounting the history of the denomination, TOdd uses the ministry of women as a case study to show how the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has continually redefined its concept of authority in order to maintain its own historic identity. Based on oral histories and solid archival research, Authority Vested not only explores the internal life of a significant denomination but also offers critical insights for other churches seeking to maintain their Christian distinctives in religiously pluralistic America.
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Reclaiming Our Roots 1
$74.95Add to cartReclaiming Our Roots, the most inclusive church history textbook on the market today, pays special attention to such matters as Christanity in the southern hemisphere, Eastern Orthodoxy, the church among miniority cultures in North America, and the role of women in church history. It includes not just names, dates, and events in church history but also sophisticated theological analyses of the issues that have made history, making it usable both as a text for ” history of Christian thought” as well as ” introduction to church history, courses.
Readers are exposed to a variety of credible, scholarly interpretations of issues, events and major figures, and encouraged to make thier own judgments based on the evidence and with the help of suggested primary source readings. Leading questions that open doors for group discussion and individual reflection on the core issues follow each section.
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Greco Roman World Of The New Testament Era
$35.99Add to cartJeffers opens the narrative of Scripture and tours everyday Greco-Roman life. Advancing understanding of the New Testament and early Christianity, he treats class and status, family and community, work and leisure, religion and organization, city and country, law and government, death and taxes, and epochal events of Roman history. Includes photos and illustrations.
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Religion Of The Earliest Churches
$30.00Add to cartPicking up where he left off in The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide, Theissen discusses religion as “a cultural sign language that promises a gain in life by corresponding to an ultimate reality”; and presents Christianity as a religion with elements of myth, ritual, ethics, and an emergent symbolic system.
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Grace Sufficient : A History Of Women In American Methodism 1760-1968
$38.99Add to cartHistories of women and American religion have tended to focus on women’s religious activities rather than on women’s religious lives. Studies of early American religion and spirituality have usually depended on the journals and sermons of male preachers. In order to understand the religious lives of ordinary Methodist women, Jean Miller Schmidt has looked at their diaries, letters, spiritual autobiographies, and the accounts of their pious lives and holy deaths that appeared as obituaries in publications like the Methodist Magazine. These powerful stories of faith are part of the shared history of Methodist people.
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Practical Divinity 2
$34.99Add to cartThis companion to “Practical Divinity, Volume 1: Theology in the Wesleyan Tradition” brings together a unique collection of writings that trace the development of the Methodist theological tradition from Wesley and his immediate successors through the twentieth century. These readings give life to the major themes and postitions, theological continuities and changes and cultural contexts, as well as national and international characteristics that enrich this tradition. These documents follow Methodism from its origins in Great Britian to its movement around the world, and open a new window for the reader on the people and issues which have given character to the movement.
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Soulfaring : Celtic Pilgrimage Then And Now
$30.95Add to cartThe ancient Celtic custom of peregrinatio (or wandering) is fully evident in Pemberton’s introduction to 15 ancient sites on the British Isles (e.g., Croagh Patrick, Iona, St. David’s). A member of the Episcopal Order of St. Helena, she has been leading workshops and retreats there for years.
In the past few years pilgrimage-going to ancient holy sites in search of God-has become increasingly popular for people seeking to deepen their relationship with the Holy. Sister Cintra Pemberton seeks to enrich the experiences of today’s pilgrims by helping them draw on the history of pilgrimage itself, as well as by suggesting particularly rich sites to visit. Part One of Soulfaring explores the history of pilgrimage, beginning in Celtic times, and moving through the early Christian period, the Middle Ages, and even the revival of pilgrimage today. Part Two explores fifteen sites in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man. Each of the descriptions of the various sites includes not only suggestions of what may be seen there, but the author’s personal meditations on the experience of the Holy in each place.
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Reclaiming Our Roots 2
$59.95Add to cartThis second volume carries readers on a whirlwind journey from the eve of Reformation to developments of Christianty in the twentieth century. As in the first volume, Mark Ellingsen gives special attention to the history of Christianity in the southern hemisphere, the church among minority cultures in North America, and the role of women in church history
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Torch Of The Testimony
$14.95Add to cartThe 2,000 year history of those Christians – and churches – that have stood outside the Protestant-Catholic tradition. This book was originally published in India in 1964 and is little known in the western world. Beginning in the first century John Kennedy traces the history of Christian groups who remained outside formalized religion down through the ages. A stirring, passionate and sometimes heart-rending story of suffering to the centrality of Christ within the Body of Christ.
John W. Kennedy is from Great Britian, but has lived in India since 1952 ministering among indigenous and apostolic Christian groups.
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Retrieving The Tradition And Renewing Evangelicalism
$33.99Add to cartA learned and uniquely constructive book that gently urges “suspicious” Christians to reclaim the patristic roots of their faith. This is the first book of its kind meant to help Protestant Christians recognize the early church fathers as an essential part of their faith. Writing primarily to the evangelical, independent, and free church communities, who remain largely suspicious of church history and the relationship between Scripture and tradition, D. H. Williams clearly explains why every branch of today’s church owes its heritage to the doctrinal foundation laid by postapostolic Christianity. Based on solid historical scholarship, this volume shows that embracing the “catholic” roots of the faith will not lead to the loss of Protestant distinctiveness but is essential for preserving the Christian vision in our rapidly changing world.
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Martin Luther Volume 3
$39.00Add to cartThe third volume of Brecht’s magnificent biorgraphy describes the final fourteen years of Luther’s life, beginning with the accession of Elector John Frederick in 1532. A work of immense and engaging scholarship, gracefully translated by the late James Schaaf, this volume offers comprehensive and original interpretations of Luther’s private life, his congregation and the church in Saxony, his professorial lectures and theological controversies, Bible translation, Luther and the Council of Trent, and his later writings about the Jews and Turks.
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Betrayal : German Churches And The Holocaust
$29.00Add to cartHow did the churches respond to National Socialism? Were they victims of th regime, persecuted by a government that sought here also a final solution, the elimination of Christianity? Or did improtant elements within the churches seek accommodation? This book is a broad overview of the Protestant and Cathlolic churches, with attention to the institutional churches, the theological faculties, and individual theologians, such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Joseph Lortz. Included are assessments of the German Christian movement, the Confessing church, the Germen Catholic church, the Vatican, and the free churches. Various responses–villians, heroes, equivocators–are highlighted.
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Trial And Triumph
$21.00Add to cartChristians find their true family line not through tribes and ethnic blood but in the bond of faithfulness and shed blood that has united our family for millennia. We too often view Church history as the story of obscure aliens instead of the lives of brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers. In this collection of forty-six brief biographies for children, Hannula sketches the stirring trials and triumphs of many famous and some lesser known figures in our family of faith – including Augustine, Charlemagne, Anselm, Luther, Bunyan, and C. S. Lewis. Through them we can begin to enjoy the old paths and find rest for our souls.
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Feminism And Christianity
$20.99Add to cart160 Pages
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The book begins with an examination of women and the Bible, exploring biblical texts that define women negatively as well as those that emphasize women’s strength and ability, and then outlining the various feminist approaches to Scripture. From here it moves to an overview of women in the history of Christianity and in American religion, presenting both prevailing attitudes about women and the usually unheard stories of women. -
Birth Of Christianity
$27.99Add to cartIn this national bestseller, John Dominic Crossan, the world’s leading expert on the historical Jesus, reveals how Christianity emerged in the period following Jesus’ death. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Crossan shines new light on the theological and cultural contexts from which the Christian church arose. He argues powerfully that Christianity would have happened with or without Paul and contends that Jesus’ “resurrection” meant something vastly different for his early followers than it does for many traditional Christians today–what mattered was Christina origins finally illuminates the mysterious period that set Western religious history in its decisive course.
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Practical Divinity 1 (Revised)
$35.99Add to cartThere is a Wesleyan theological tradition. It is richly varied and continuing. This is a recounting of that history; it reviews important intellectual leaders and theological spokespersons–persons who have challenged, significantly enriched, and extended distinctive characteristics of the tradition. From its beginning in John Wesley, the movement went around the world, faced different societies and cultures, and attempted, throughout, to speak faithfully with an authentic voice. Methodists and other Christians need to hear these voices and discover the contributions of this Wesleyan tradition.
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Resurrections Children : Exploring The Way Towards God
$11.99Add to cartAn exploration of the spirituality of the Welsh people through the ages by means of a study of the spiritual pilgrimages of seven Welsh men and women, namely Meilyr Brydydd, Guto’r Glyn, William Williams, Pantycelyn, Mary Jones, Ann Griffiths, Ruth Evans, Waldo Williams and D. Gwenallt Jones.
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Remaking Of Evangelical Theology
$50.00Add to cartIn this in-depth historical analysis of evangelical theology, Dorrien describes how evanelicalism has developed and matured. Beginning at the turn of the twentieth century and the start of the fundamentalist-modernist controversies, he notes the key figures and institutions of the evangelical movement. He also shows how evangelicalism has both diversified and entered into the broader theological discussions of today.
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Exploring The New Testament World
$26.99Add to cartThe timeless message of the New Testament applies to people of every culture and generation. Yet there is great value in understanding the world in which that message was first revealed – its social manners, politics, religious customs, and culture. Exploring the New Testament World, written by classics and Bible scholar Dr. Albert A. Bell, Jr., illuminates the living context of the New Testament, immersing its readers in the intriguing world of Jesus and the early church. An authority on ancient Greek and Roman language, culture, and history, Dr. Bell writes in a readable style that is accessible and enjoyable to any reader – an uncommon accomplishment among New Testament scholars today. Surveying Jewish factions of the era, the social and political structure of the Roman Empire, and the philosophies and religions that surrounded the early church, Dr. Bell helps his readers learn to think like first-century Jews, Greeks, and Romans, illuminating puzzling New Testament passages for clear understanding. Comprehensive Scripture and Subject Indexes make this volume even more useful as a “manners and customs” Bible companion. This authoritative guide receives high praise from college professors and Sunday school teachers alike, proving its appeal to both popular and academic audiences. A “must-have” reference for every pastor and an indispensable resource to any Bible reader.
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Reading Scriptures With The Church Fathers
$28.99Add to cartWho were the church fathers? Why should we read their works? In this fascinating introduction to patristic commentary, Hall examines the writings of Augustine, Athanasius, Chrysostom, and others to show how they interpreted the Bible in the centuries after it was first written. His analysis will help you understand and apply ancient insights from the early church.
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Study Of Anglicanism (Revised)
$49.00Add to cartIn this authoritative volume, thirty-one of the world’s leading Anglican scholars presents the first sustained and thorough account of the history and ethos of the Churches of the Anglican Communion from the Anglican reform of the sixteenth century to its global witness today.
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Early Church History
$19.99Add to cartWhen busy people want to know more about the Bible and the Christian faith, the Zondervan Quick-Reference Library offers an instant information alternative. Covering the basics of the faith and Bible knowledge in an easy-to-use format, this series helps new Christians and seasoned believers find answers to their questions about Christianity and the Bible.
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Judaism And Christianity In First Century Rome
$33.50Add to cartA collection of the most important papers from a 5-year project of the Seminar on New Testament Texts in Their Cultural Environment sponsored by Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. Archaeological, epigraphic, sociocultural, historical, and literary findings are lucidly, accurately presented.
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Burden Of The Flesh
$29.00Add to cartShaw’s rich and fascinating work provides a startling look at early Christian notions of the body diet, sexuality, the passions, and especially the ideal of virginity and sheds important light on the growth of Christian ideals that remain powerful cultural forces even today.
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Church In The New Testament
$24.99Add to cartThis comprehensive reference work is a must for every serious student of the New Testament church. Encyclopedic in scope yet succinct in presentation, this survey provides greater understanding of the church, both universally and locally. Topics include the church in the Old Testament; the progressive revelation of the church throughout the Gospels; Acts and the Epistles; and more
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Memory And Manuscript A Print On Demand Title
$47.99Add to cartHere in one volume are two of Birger Gerhardsson’s much-debated works on the transmission of tradition in Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity. In Memory and Manuscript (1961), Gerhardsson explores the way in which Jewish rabbis during the first Christian centuries preserved and passed on their sacred tradition, and he shows how early Christianity is better understood in light of how that tradition developed in Rabbinic Judaism. In Tradition and Transmission in Early Christianity (1964), Gerhardsson further clarifies the discussion and answers criticism of his earlier book. This Biblical Resource Series combined edition corrects and expands Gerhardsson’s original works and includes a new preface by the author and a lengthy new foreword by Jacob Neusner that summarizes these works’ importance and subsequent influence.
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New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity 7
$43.99Add to cartThis seventh volume of New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity reviews and reproduces a sample of Greek papyri and inscriptions which were first published or reissued in 1982 and 1983. Documents have been selected to illustrate various aspects of life in the Graeco-Roman world including such topics as how letters were sent, transport and communication, Roman administration, benefaction, the reading of John’s Gospel in the early Church, the adoption of the codex format in Christian texts and the legal topics of forcible acquisition , slavery and execution.
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New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity 6
$43.99Add to cartThis sixth volume of New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity reviews and reproduces a sample of Greek papyri and inscriptions which were first published or reissued in 1980 and 1981. The focus of attention has shifted somewhat from that of previous volumes in the series, with greater emphasis being placed on social history. The sixth volume selects documents illustrating family relations, slavery, the Roman administration and army, medicine and magic.
