People of God - 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 People of God write by Anthony E. Gilles. This book was released on 2000. People of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The history of Catholicism is the history of Christian faith. Anthony E. Gilles traces its development—from its beginnings in hushed gatherings within the Roman Empire to its current size and influence—in an accessible and enjoyable style. A revised and updated compilation of the history volumes from his best-selling People of God series, this book will help you understand how the Church developed in relation to, or in rebellion against, the larger culture. It details centuries of crucial turning points from the development of apostolic succession to the implementation of the reforms of Vatican II. Complete with maps, timelines and special "focus" sections on important events and issues, this valuable resource belongs in the collection of every student of Church history.
The Word of God for the People of God
The Word of God for the People of God - 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 Word of God for the People of God write by J. Todd Billings. This book was released on 2010. The Word of God for the People of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book fills a real need for pastors and students. Though there is currently a large body of material on the theological interpretation of Scripture, most of it is highly specific and extremely technical. J. Todd Billings here provides a straightforward entryway for students and pastors to understand why theological interpretation matters and how it can be done. / A solid, constructive theological work, The Word of God for the People of God presents a distinctive Trinitarian, participatory approach toward reading Scripture as the church. Billings's accessible yet substantial argument for a theological hermeneutic is rooted in a historic vision of the practice of scriptural interpretation even as it engages a wide range of contemporary issues and includes several exegetical examples that apply to concrete Christian ministry situations.
Jesus, Paul and the People of God
Jesus, Paul and the People of God - 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 Jesus, Paul and the People of God write by Nicholas Perrin. This book was released on 2011-02-09. Jesus, Paul and the People of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the 2010 Wheaton Theology Conference, leading New Testament scholar N. T. Wright and nine other prominent biblical scholars and theologians gathered to consider Wright's prolific body of work. Compiled from their presentations, this volume includes Wright's two main addresses plus nine other essays of critical response.
Empowering the People of God
Empowering the People of God - 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 Empowering the People of God write by Christopher D. Denny. This book was released on 2013-11-01. Empowering the People of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The early 1960s were a heady time for Catholic laypeople. Pope Pius XII’s assurance “You do not belong to the Church. You are the Church” emboldened the laity to challenge Church authority in ways previously considered unthinkable. Empowering the People of God offers a fresh look at the Catholic laity and its relationship with the hierarchy in the period immediately preceding the Second Vatican Council and in the turbulent era that followed. This collection of essays explores a diverse assortment of manifestations of Catholic action, ranging from genteel reform to radical activism, and an equally wide variety of locales, apostolates, and movements.
Does God Need the Church?
Does God Need 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 Does God Need the Church? write by Gerhard Lohfink. This book was released on 2014-12-16. Does God Need the Church? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Are not all religions equally close to and equally far from God? Why, then, the Church? Gerhard Lohfink poses these questions with scholarly reliability and on the basis of his own experience of community in Does God Need the Church? In 1982 Father Lohfink wrote Wie hat Jesus Gemeinde gewollt? (translated into English as Jesus and Community) to show, on the basis of the New Testament, that faith is founded in a community that distinguishes itself in clear contours from the rest of society. In that book he also described a sequence of events that moved directly from commonality to a community that was readily accessible to every group of people and was made legitimate by Jesus himself. Only later did Father Lohfink learn, within a new horizon of experience, that such a description is not the way to community. The story of the gathering of the people of God, from Abraham until today, never took place according to such a model. Today Father Lohfink states that he would not write Wie hat Jesus Gemeinde gewollt? the same way. The situation of belief and believers has undergone a shift: the question of the Church has become much more urgent. Church life is declining and the religions are returning, often in new guises. In light of these shifts and the change in his own view of community, Father Lohfink inquires in Does God Need the Church? of Israel's theology, Jesus' praxis, the experiences of the early Christian communities, and of what is appearing in the Church today. These inquiries lead to an amazing history involving God and the world - a history that God presses forward with the aid of a single people and that always turns out differently from what they think and plan.
