The Continuing Conversion of the 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 The Continuing Conversion of the Church write by Darrell L. Guder. This book was released on 2000-03-20. The Continuing Conversion of the Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Western society is now a very different, very difficult mission field. In such a situation, the mission of evangelism cannot succeed with an attitude of "business as usual." This volume builds a theology of evangelism that has its focus on the church itself. Darrell Guder shows that the church's missionary calling requires that the theology and practice of evangelism be fundamentally rethought and redirected, focused on the continuing evangelization of the church so that it can carry out its witness faithfully in today's world. In Part 1 Guder explores how, under the influence of reductionism and individualism, the church has historically moved away from a biblical theology of evangelism. Part 2 presents contemporary challenges to the church's evangelical ministry, especially those challenges that illustrate the church's need for continuing conversion. Part 3 discusses what a truly missional theology would mean for the church, including sweeping changes in its institutional structures and practices. Written for teachers, church leaders, and students of evangelism, this volume is vital reading for everyone engaged in mission work.
The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert
The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert - 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 Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert write by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield. This book was released on 2014. The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. She had a tenured position at a large university in a field for which she cared deeply. She owned two homes with her partner, in which they provided hospitality to students and activists that were looking to make a difference in the world. In the community, Rosaria was involved in volunteer work. At the university, she was a respected advisor of students and her department's curriculum. And then, in her late 30s, Rosaria encountered something that turned her world upside down -- the idea that Christianity, a religion that she had regarded as problematic and sometimes downright damaging, might be right about who God was. That idea seemed to fly in the face of the people and causes that she most loved. What follows is a story of what she describes as a train wreck at the hand of the supernatural. These are her secret thoughts about those events, written as only a reflective English professor could."--Back cover.
Tilling the Church
Tilling the 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 Tilling the Church write by Richard Lennan. This book was released on 2022-05-14. Tilling the Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tilling the Church is a theology for the pilgrim church. In this book, Richard Lennan shows how the ecclesial community looks toward the fullness of God’s reign but lives within the flux of history, the site of its relationship to the trinitarian God. In this way, God’s grace “tills” the church, constantly refreshing the tradition of faith and prompting the discipleship that embodies the gospel. Tilling the Church explores the possibilities for a more faithful, just, and creative church, one responsive to the movement of grace. Fruitful engagement with grace requires the church’s conversion, the ongoing formation of a community whose words and actions reflect the hope that grace engenders.
Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic
Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic - 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 Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic write by David Currie. This book was released on 2009-09-03. Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. David Currie was raised in a devout Christian family whose father was a fundamentalist preacher and both parents teachers at Moody Bible Institute. Currie's whole upbringing was immersed in the life of fundamentalist Protestantism - theology professors, seminary presidents and founders of evangelical mission agencies were frequent guests at his family dinner table. Currie received a degree from Trinity International University and studied in the Masters of Divinity program. This book was written as an explanation to his fundamentalist and evangelical friends and family about why he became a Roman Catholic. Currie presents a very lucid, systematic and intelligible account of the reasons for his conversion to the ancient Church that Christ founded. He gives a detailed discussion of the important theological and doctrinal beliefs Catholic and evangelicals hold in common, as well as the key doctrines that separate us, particularly the Eucharist, the Pope, and Mary.
From Fire, by Water
From Fire, by Water - 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 From Fire, by Water write by Sohrab Ahmari. This book was released on 2019-01-29. From Fire, by Water available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sohrab Ahmari was a teenager living under the Iranian ayatollahs when he decided that there is no God. Nearly two decades later, he would be received into the Roman Catholic Church. In From Fire, by Water, he recounts this unlikely passage, from the strident Marxism and atheism of a youth misspent on both sides of the Atlantic to a moral and spiritual awakening prompted by the Mass. At once a young intellectual’s finely crafted self-portrait and a life story at the intersection of the great ideas and events of our time, the book marks the debut of a compelling new Catholic voice.
