Crossing Over Sea and Land
Crossing Over Sea and Land

Author: Michael F. Bird

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780801045639

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What was the extent and nature of Jewish proselytizing activity amongst non-Jews in Palestine and the Greco-Roman diaspora leading up to and during the beginnings of the Christian era? Was there a clear missional direction? How did Second-Temple Judaism recruit converts and gain sympathizers? This book strives to address these questions, representing an update of the discussion while also breaking new ground. A "source book" of key texts is provided at the end.

Early Christian Mission: Jesus and the Twelve
Early Christian Mission: Jesus and the Twelve

Author: Eckhard J. Schnabel

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 968

ISBN-13:

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In a two-volume work, Eckhard J. Schnabel offers a comprehensive and defiinitive examination of the first century of missionary expansion--from Jesus to the last of the apostles.--From publisher's description.

The Emergence of the Hebrew Christian Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain
The Emergence of the Hebrew Christian Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Author: Darby

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-10-05

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9004216278

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In nineteenth-century Britain the majority of Jewish believers in Christ worshipped in Gentile churches. Some attained ethnic and institutional independence. A few debated the implications of incorporating into their worship the observance of Jewish tradition, and advocated the theological and liturgical independence of Hebrew Christianity, characterised by opponents as the "scandal of particularity". Previous scholarship has documented several Hebrew Christian initiatives but this monograph breaks new ground by identifying almost forthy discrete institutions as components of a century-long movement. The book analyses the major pioneers, institutions and ideologies of this movement and recounts how, through identity negotiation, hebrew Christians - and also their Gentile supporters - prepared the way for the development in the twentieth century of Messianic Judaism.

Crusade in the City
Crusade in the City

Author: Marion L. Bell

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780838719299

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This book addresses the religious life of Philadelphia, watches as revivalists come and go from 1828 to 1876, and examines the impact of revivals in the city. Mass revivalism was touted as the solution to cities' social problems, so the account of the close relationship between the YMCA movement and revivalism is appreciated. Meanwhile, America's middle-class evangelical majority, caught in the web of an individualistic ideology, persisted in ignoring the destruction of "community" as the cities grew in complexity, anonymity, and ethnic and class divisiveness. While depending rather too heavily on a "great man" approach to revivalism in Philadelphia, in confirming in a very specific, well-documented manner the inconsistencies in revivalistic preaching and the gap between goals, means, and ends in urban mass evangelism, this work is a significant contribution to the study of American religious history.