In Search of the New Testament Church - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Search of the New Testament Church write by C. Douglas Weaver. This book was released on 2008. In Search of the New Testament Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When John Smyth organized the first Baptist church, he wanted to establish the New Testament church; believer's baptism was the missing link. Baptists of subsequent eras often continued the search to embody New Testament Christianity. Alongside the quest for the New Testament church (and congregational community), Weaver especially highlights the Baptist commitment to religious liberty and the individual conscience. Both chronological and thematic, this book addresses such themes as the role of women, the social gospel, ecumenism, charismatic influences, and theological emphases in Baptist life.
In Search of the New Testament Church
In Search of the New Testament Church - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Search of the New Testament Church write by C. Douglas Weaver. This book was released on 2008. In Search of the New Testament Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When John Smyth organized the first Baptist church, he wanted to establish the New Testament church; believer's baptism was the missing link. Baptists of subsequent eras often continued the search to embody "New Testament Christianity." Unique to surveys of Baptist life, Doug Weaver highlights this restorationist theme as a way to understand Baptist identity. Weaver does not force the theme, but the "search" is ever present. It is found in the insistence upon believer's baptism, but also in examples like the Sabbath worship of Seventh Day Baptists, the "nine rites" of colonial Separate Baptists, the women preachers of Free Will Baptists, the "trail of blood" of Landmarkism, the social gospel of Walter Rauschenbusch, the "fundamentals" of fundamentalism and the ministry of the European pioneer Johann Oncken. Like other recent Baptist studies, Weaver describes Baptist diversity. Still, he highlights the persistent commitment of most Baptists to an informal constellation of "Baptist distinctives." Alongside the quest for the New Testament church (and congregational community), Weaver especially highlights the Baptist commitment to religious liberty and the individual conscience. This emphasis, while later reinforced by Enlightenment ideals, could already be found in the biblicist piety of the earliest Baptists who insisted that individual believers must have the right to choose their religious beliefs because they would stand alone before God at the final judgment. Both chronological and thematic, this book addresses such themes as the role of women, the social gospel, ecumenism, charismatic influences, and theological emphases in Baptist life. The book's focus is America, but it also includes helpful introductory chapters on early English Baptists and international Baptists.
The Church According to the New Testament
The Church According to the New Testament - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Church According to the New Testament write by Daniel J. Harrington. This book was released on 2001. The Church According to the New Testament available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the last days of the twentieth century, leading New Testament scholar and popular preacher Daniel Harrington, S.J., asked himself two powerful questions: What might the church of the first century have to say to the church of the twenty-first century? And How might a brief sythesis of what the New Testament says and does not say about the church help bring greater vitality within and unity among the churches? The result of Father Harrington's research and thinking is this timely and important book.
Church Order in the New Testament
Church Order in the New Testament - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Church Order in the New Testament write by Eduard Schweizer. This book was released on 2006-07-01. Church Order in the New Testament available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Schweizer listens carefully to the testimony of the various New Testament writers in order to understand the theological problem of how the New Testament church understood itself, and how it expressed that understanding in its order. The purely historical question about the form of the church at different times is seen by Schweizer as necessary, but need only be asked insofar as the actual shaping of the church is always evidence of the concept of its own nature to which it testifies. Thus, Schweizer arranges the New Testament writings primarily by the theological kinship of their idea of the church, providing a comprehensive examination of the church in the New Testament and Apostolic Fathers. He treats both the diversity of views and the unity found in these writings. He also discusses issues relating to church office, ministry, and ordination.
Families in the New Testament World
Families in the New Testament World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Families in the New Testament World write by Carolyn Osiek. This book was released on 1997-01-01. Families in the New Testament World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What was the family like for the first Christians? Informed by archaeological work and illustrated by figures, this work is a remarkable window into the past, one that both informs and illuminates our current condition. The Family, Culture, and Religion series offers informed and responsible analyses of the state of the American family from a religious perspective and provides practical assistance for the family's revitalization.
