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Author: Silke Muylaert
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-10-20
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9004439536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSilke Muylaert explores the struggles of the Netherlandish migrant churches in England in engaging with the Reformation and the Revolt in their fatherland.
Author: Silke Muylaert
Publisher: Studies in Medieval and Reform
Published: 2020-10-22
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9789004389366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe London stranger churches in the international Reformation, 1547-1565 -- Between dissent and cooperation : relations between the foreign churches in England and connections with the Low Countries -- The entanglements of stranger churches with growing resistance in the Low Countries, 1560-1565 -- The impact of the Wonderjaar (1566) on the stranger churches -- The foreign churches and the Dutch Revolt, 1567-1585 -- The foreign churches and the Reformation, 1567-1585.
Author: Jodi Mullen Fondell
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2019-08-06
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1532679580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKI Was a Stranger will help you build empathy for the strangers and foreigners among you. Through personal experience and through the narratives of people who have moved to a foreign country for a variety of reasons, Jodi Mullen Fondell offers encouragement for churches desiring to be a place of welcome and embrace for those who often find themselves rejected by the broader society. Packed with tips on how to help your church navigate the road toward greater openness, this book offers advice on how to avoid the pitfalls that prevent churches from truly welcoming and embracing the stranger among them. Rev. Fondell gently guides readers in examining their own experiences of alienation in order to understand the profound disorientation that being a stranger in a strange land entails. This identification with the pain of being an outsider, she asserts, can move, motivate, and mobilize the church to live out God’s calling to welcome in the stranger. As the body of Christ embraces the members we are tempted to exclude, a new level of joy and a taste of heaven await our congregations. Includes a small-group Bible-study guide for communities ready to grow in ministry and hospitality.
Author: Patrick R. Keifert
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781451415506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an astute rethinking of theology and pastoral ministry that overcomes sentimental notions of hospitality.
Author: Thomas G. Bandy
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2011-12-01
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1426721854
DOWNLOAD EBOOK95 Questions to Shape the Future of Your Church is a comprehensive commentary on systemic change for the church. It combines the spirit of Luther’s 95 Theses with depth of insight akin to Luther’s reformation catechism. This book will be essential for every congregational, denominational, and seminary bookshelf. Church leaders and members all yearn for a new Reformation that will realign Christian congregations with God’s mission. This book frames the right questions, and focuses the right answers. It helps church leaders do the hard work of assessment and planning. The next Reformation will be an extraordinarily practical endeavor. Leaders need to apply the tactics that will leverage the greatest change, and guide the church deeper into the mystery of Christ and further in companionship with Christ. We want to be faithful. Now we know how to be faithful.
Author: John Koessler
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2009-08-30
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0310864216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrowing up the son of agnostics, John Koessler saw a Catholic church on one end of the street and a Baptist on the other. In the no-man’s land between the two, this curious outside wondered about the God they worshipped—and began a lifelong search to comprehend the grace and mystery of God. A Stranger in the House of God addresses fundamental questions and struggles faced by spiritual seekers and mature believers. Like a contemporary Pilgrim’s Progress, it traces the author’s journey and explores his experiences with both charismatic and evangelical Christianity. It also describes his transformation from religious outsider to ordained pastor. John Koessler provides a poignant and often humorous window into the interior of the soul as he describes his journey from doubt and struggle with the church to personal faith
Author: Sjoerd Levelt
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-02-10
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1000837726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ground-breaking collection reveals the networks of interrelation between Early Modern England and the Dutch Republic. As people, ideas and goods moved back and forth across the North Sea – or spread further afield in the vanguard of globalisation and empire – Anglo-Dutch relations shaped all aspects of life, with profound implications still relevant today. A diverse range of expert scholars share new research in their discipline, ranging across technology, trade, politics, religion and the arts. Different aspects of this history of competition, alliance, migration and conflict are taken up by each chapter, providing the reader with detailed case studies as well as the broader background and its historical roots. Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World aims to be both accessible and innovative. It will be essential to students and researchers interested in European politics, intellectual history, and shared Anglo-Dutch society, while showcasing current research in multiple facets of the Early Modern World.
Author: Lucy E. C. Wooding
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2022-01-01
Total Pages: 737
ISBN-13: 0300162723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England When Henry VII landed in a secluded bay in a far corner of Wales, it seemed inconceivable that this outsider could ever be king of England. Yet he and his descendants became some of England's most unforgettable rulers, and gave their name to an age. The story of the Tudor monarchs is as astounding as it was unexpected, but it was not the only one unfolding between 1485 and 1603. In cities, towns, and villages, families and communities lived their lives through times of great upheaval. In this comprehensive new history, Lucy Wooding lets their voices speak, exploring not just how monarchs ruled but also how men and women thought, wrote, lived, and died. We see a monarchy under strain, religion in crisis, a population contending with war, rebellion, plague, and poverty. Remarkable in its range and depth, Tudor England explores the many tensions of these turbulent years and presents a markedly different picture from the one we thought we knew.
Author: Ian Bremmer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2006-09-15
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780743293716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLocate nations on the J Curve -- left for authoritarian, right for democratic. Then figure out how to force those on the left to open their societies, rather than encouraging them to shut them tighter by further isolating them. The West's isolation of Kim Jong-il's North Korea gives him the cover he needs to extend his brutal regime (the mistake the U.S. made for a long time with Saddam Hussein and Castro); in Saudi Arabia, western governments should encourage manageable change before the country breaks apart; they should help strengthen China's economy so it can further liberalize; they must encourage Israel to decide what kind of country it will be. Filled with imaginative and surprising examples of how to correct outworn political ideas, The J Curve points the way for western governments to lead the way to a realistic political balance and a healthier economic future.
Author: Eddie Gibbs
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2005-12
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0801027152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a comprehensive examination of the emerging church phenomenon, considering emerging patterns in leadership, worship, mission, spiritual practices, and cultural engagement.
