From the Heart Volume 1

From the Heart Volume 1

Author: OCDS BALDWIN (DEACON RUSTY.)

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08-07

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780359835515

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A collection of homilies given by Deacon Rusty Baldwin at St. Peter Catholic Church and Emmanuel Catholic Church in Dayton, Ohio.


The Routledge Companion to John Wesley

The Routledge Companion to John Wesley

Author: Clive Murray Norris

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-08-01

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13: 1000928225

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The Routledge Companion to John Wesley provides an overview of the work and ideas of one of the principal founders of Methodism, John Wesley (1703-91). Wesley remains highly influential, especially within the worldwide Methodist movement of some eighty million people. As a preacher and religious reformer his efforts led to the rise of a global Protestant movement, but the wide-ranging topics addressed in his writings also suggest a mind steeped in the intellectual developments of the North Atlantic, early modern world. His numerous publications cover not only theology but ethics, history, aesthetics, politics, human rights, health and wellbeing, cosmology and ecology. This volume places Wesley within his eighteenth-century context, analyzes his contribution to thought across his multiple interests, and assesses his continuing relevance today. It contains essays by an international team of scholars, drawn from within the Methodist tradition and beyond. This is a valuable reference particularly for scholars of Methodist Studies, theology, church history and religious history.


Christmas Sermons

Christmas Sermons

Author: Friedrich Schleiermacher

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-09-11

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1532667418

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New discoveries arise alongside memories in every Christmas sermon that Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) ever delivered. This book invites readers into an informed experience of Christmas through eleven sermons. In these pages readers watch Schleiermacher lay discovery and memory side by side, because this is how his own famed systemic theological views of Christian faith and life developed throughout his life. These sermons evoke first curiosity then wonderment at the prospects reading can open. For Schleiermacher, Christmas was always a special time to engender such experiences--a time to survey different vistas of Jesus' birth and career. Schleiermacher lived when the modern age was being born. He contributed substantially to that birth and to the health of modern times. His sermons collected here display the main theological grounds for his worldview, which is still quite timely today.


A Home for the Heart (The Journals of Corrie Belle Hollister Book #8)

A Home for the Heart (The Journals of Corrie Belle Hollister Book #8)

Author: Michael Phillips

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2018-01-02

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1493413503

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The Civil War is finally over, and it has been more than two years since Corrie Belle Hollister left her home and family in Miracle Springs, California, to travel across the country at President Lincoln's invitation. Her writing skills and reporting experience have made their own contribution to the Union's success, and now she is on her way home . . . back to the community where she grew to maturity, back to the family she loves. But Corrie is returning a different young woman than the one who left with her journal tucked into her suitcase and the dream of being a writer tucked into her heart. She feels restless as she tries to settle back into the pace of a small town, and the latest letter from Christopher only creates more questions. Perhaps the most relentless among them: Where will she find a home for her heart?


Ritual and Social Dynamics in Christian and Islamic Preaching

Ritual and Social Dynamics in Christian and Islamic Preaching

Author: Ruth Conrad

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-12-14

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1350408859

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Christian and Islamic sermons from past and present, and their preachers, are analyzed to reveal the socio-cultural dynamics of religious speeches. Part I focuses on the explicit contribution of sermons in socio-cultural transformation processes. It shows how sermons connect with holy texts, religious norms of the specific group, and social-cultural contexts. Part II analyzes the dynamic tension between normativity and popularity. Rather than juxtaposing normative stances and the popularity of sermons, it shows how that normativity can itself contribute to popularity and the quest of popularity carries its own normative stances. Part III explores the ritual embeddedness of religious speech in the sermon in relation to social dynamics, normativity, and popularity, and shows how speech and rituals have a reciprocal relationship.