The Quest for Holiness & Unity
Author: John W. V. Smith
Publisher: Warner Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9781593173739
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Author: John W. V. Smith
Publisher: Warner Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9781593173739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ephraim Radner
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781602586291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo describe the Church as "united" is a factual misnomer--even at its conception centuries ago. Ephraim Radner provides a robust rethinking of the doctrine of the church in light of Christianity's often violent and at times morally suspect history. He holds in tension the strange and transcendent oneness of God with the necessarily temporal and political function of the Church, and, in so doing, shows how the goals and failures of the liberal democratic state provide revelatory experiences that greatly enhance one's understanding of the nature of Christian unity.
Author: Matt Ayars
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2023-10-17
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1514002310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe command to "be holy" is one of Christian life's most challenging and misunderstood commands. Three scholars from the Wesleyan tradition constructively argue for a "neo-holiness" that encourages the pursuit of Christian perfection while incorporating historic understandings of grace and the work of the Holy Spirit.
Author: John W. V. Smith
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 512
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Van Dyke
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Published: 2024-03-26
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1665758406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is Holiness? Is it a title we give to religious leaders or special religious movements? Is it an expression to describe the extreme righteousness and purity of God and people? Or is it simply a vague, ethereal term we use to express the nature of someone or something? The Bible states that because God is holy, people must be holy, and without holiness, no one will see God. Such statements should compel us to explore this topic and give it a high priority in our lives. In this book, the author attempts to provide us with a working definition of holiness and how it applies to our lives. He explains holiness as a relational term as opposed to a behavioral term such as righteousness and shows how it should characterize not only our relationship with God but all relationships in God’s creation. Finally, the author explores the various characteristics of holiness, such as its beauty, power, discipline, and peacefulness.
Author: Rufus Burrow
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2016-02-16
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1498237657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Church of God Reformation Movement (founded in 1881) has the distinction of having been founded on the two core principles of holiness and visible unity. Standard histories of the group proudly argue that the founder and pioneers exhibited a zeal for interracial unity that began to wane only in the early years of the twentieth century. This book rejects that claim and argues instead that little to no extant hard evidence supports that view. Moreover, Making Good the Claim argues that while blacks eagerly joined the group, they did so not because whites expended much energy evangelizing among them but because they heard something deeper in the message of holiness and visible unity than God's expectation that members achieve spiritual and church unity. Unlike most whites, blacks interpreted the message to call for unity along racial lines as well. This book challenges members of the Church of God to begin forthwith to make good their historic claim about holiness and visible unity, particularly as it applies to interracial unity.
Author: Darwell Stone
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 136
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Published: 1870
Total Pages: 1036
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brother Tristram
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Published: 2013-01-03
Total Pages: 704
ISBN-13: 1848253656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains information on public worship, private devotion, and connecting us with our spiritual heritage. This work offers a resource for Eucharistic worship on all festivals and feast days. It provides prayers and Scripture readings for each day of the calendars of four national Anglican provinces.
Author: Joshua J. Whitfield
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2009-08-01
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1606081756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKlimited but vital description of the present within the various and unpredictable arenas of living, suffering, and dying. That is to say, martyrdom is not the tragic conclusion of some fatal ideological conflict but a momentary truthful glimpse of present circumstances. Martyrdom reveals, clarifies, and illumines what we take for the real. Martyrs are therefore significant for the church today because they exhibit the sort of truthful living that refuses the claims of history and power without Christ; they show the sort of living and dying that returns forgiveness upon murder, and patience beyond domination. Meditating primarily on the second-century martyrdoms in Lyons and Vienne, France, Pilgrim Holiness offers a view of Christian martyrdom that challenges prevalent misunderstandings about what martyrs are doing in sacrificing their lives, Joshua J. Whitfield argues that martyrdom is a moment of truthful disclosure and thus a moment of forgiveness and peace---gifts for which we are in desperate need. "In a time when critics of Christianity, and religion in general, point to the practices of martyrs as examples of the inherently irrational, violent, and dangerous character of religious devotion, Whitfield challenges Christians to reconsider Christ's call to "take up one's cross" by suspending our suspicions and listening to the stories of the martyrs in conversation with contemporary theological voices such as Rowan Williams, Stanley Hauerwas, Sam Wells, and others."---J. Warren Smith, Duke University. "We are not superior or inferior to those who came before us, we are simply in the same situation as them: called to bear witness---in our lives and perhaps in our deaths---to the nonviolent truth embodied by Jesus Christ. This book, which is steeped in the patristic martyr narratives, unpacks this simple statement in skillful dialogue with contemporary thought. Its goal is to show that the hoped for unity of Christians has no other plausible basis than peaceful limitation of Christ."---Charles K. Bellinger, Brite Divinity School "Joshua Whitfield has concocted a perceptive and important antidote to the secular politics of death-making . Insisting that martyrs die for love of truth armed only with the power of description. Whitfield stands against the acrimonious caricatures du jour by uncoupling Christian martyrdom from power but not from truth. This book is clarion call to any church tht has brokered an unholy trade-off in producing members who would more readily kill than die."---Craig Hovey, author of To Share in the Body: A Theology of Martyrdom for Today's Church