Apostles of Culture
Apostles of Culture

Author: Dee Garrison

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780299181147

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In her Foreword, Christine Pawley sums up the importance of Dee Garrison's book as follows: "Nearly a quarter-century has passed since the first edition of Apostles of Culture appeared. Since no book-length study of the formation of the American public library has yet challenged Dee Garrison's 1979 analysis, it remains the most recent---and most-cited--- interpretation of the public library's past, a landmark in the history, and the historiography, of libraries and librarianship...For students and researchers who want to understand the development of a field that still suffers the status of the taken-for-granted, Apostles of Culture stands as a historical document. Its reissue allows its historiographical and political---as well as its historical---significance to be more fully appreciated."

Apostolicity
Apostolicity

Author: John G. Flett

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 0830899731

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At the heart of the ecumenical discussions over the past century lies the issue of what constitutes the apostolicity of the church. In an attempt to forge structural agreements, these discussions have ignored the diversity of world Christianity. In this groundbreaking study, John Flett presents a bold account of an apostolicity that embraces plurality.

Apostles of Reason
Apostles of Reason

Author: Molly Worthen

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 0190630515

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In Apostles of Reason, Molly Worthen offers a sweeping history of modern American evangelicalism, arguing that the faith has been shaped not by shared beliefs but by battles over the relationship between faith and reason.

The Search for the Twelve Apostles
The Search for the Twelve Apostles

Author: William Steuart McBirnie

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Published: 2013-03-22

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1414385358

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Simon Peter, Andrew, James the son of Zebedee, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Jude, Simon, Judas, and Matthias—what happened to the men who answered Jesus' call to follow him? What impact did they have on the world? Where did they go and what did they do after Jesus' resurrection and ascension? In these fascinating profiles, Dr. McBirnie offers readers a snapshot of the lives of each apostle. His information was compiled by traveling to places where the apostles lived and visited, by studying the Scriptures and biblical history, by listening to local traditions, and by engaging in his own original research. Picking up where the book of Acts leaves off, McBirnie brings these men to life as he explores the legends, traditions, and real lives of the Twelve as they built the foundation of Christianity.

Apostles of Rock
Apostles of Rock

Author: Jay R. Howard

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0813148057

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Apostles of Rock is the first objective, comprehensive examination of the contemporary Christian music phenomenon. Some see CCM performers as ministers or musical missionaries, while others define them as entertainers or artists. This popular musical movement clearly evokes a variety of responses concerning the relationship between Christ and culture. The resulting tensions have splintered the genre and given rise to misunderstanding, conflict, and an obsessive focus on self-examination. As Christian stars Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, DC Talk, and Sixpence None the Richer climb the mainstream charts, Jay Howard and John Streck talk about CCM as an important movement and show how this musical genre relates to a larger popular culture. They map the world of CCM by bringing together the perspectives of the people who perform, study, market, and listen to this music. By examining CCM lyrics, interviews, performances, web sites, and chat rooms, Howard and Streck uncover the religious and aesthetic tensions within the CCM community. Ultimately, the conflict centered around Christian music reflects the modern religious community's understanding of evangelicalism and the community's complex relationship with American popular culture.

Creating a Missional Culture
Creating a Missional Culture

Author: JR Woodward

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2013-09-20

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0830866795

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Missiologist and church planter JR Woodward offers a blueprint for the missional church--not small adjustments around the periphery of the infrastructure but a radical revisioning of how a church ought to look that entails changing how we think about leadership and what we expect out of discipleship.

Apostles of Empire
Apostles of Empire

Author: Bronwen McShea

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1496229088

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Apostles of Empire contributes to ongoing research on the Jesuits, New France, and Atlantic World encounters, as well as on early modern French society, print culture, Catholicism, and imperialism.

The Cultural World of the Apostles
The Cultural World of the Apostles

Author: John J. Pilch

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9780814627822

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Brief historical and liturgical information on the second reading for Sundays, with information about the culture of the first-century Eastern Mediterranean world of the period, and cross-cultural comparisons with Western culture to suggest pastoral applications to modern life.

Apostles of the Alps
Apostles of the Alps

Author: Tait Keller

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2015-12-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1469625040

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Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize. Tait Keller examines the mountains' threefold role in transforming the two countries, as people sought respite in the mountains, transformed and shaped them according to their needs, and over time began to view them as national symbols and icons of individualism. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Alps were regarded as a place of solace from industrial development and the stresses of urban life. Soon, however, mountaineers, or the so-called apostles of the Alps, began carving the crags to suit their whims, altering the natural landscape with trails and lodges, and seeking to modernize and nationalize the high frontier. Disagreements over the meaning of modernization opened the mountains to competing agendas and hostile ambitions. Keller examines the ways in which these opposing approaches corresponded to the political battles, social conflicts, culture wars, and environmental crusades that shaped modern Germany and Austria, placing the Alpine borderlands at the heart of the German question of nationhood.

Apostles of Modernity
Apostles of Modernity

Author: Osama Abi-Mershed

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2010-05-10

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0804774722

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Between 1830 and 1870, French army officers serving in the colonial Offices of Arab Affairs profoundly altered the course of political decision-making in Algeria. Guided by the modernizing ideologies of the Saint-Simonian school in their development and implementation of colonial policy, the officers articulated a new doctrine and framework for governing the Muslim and European populations of Algeria. Apostles of Modernity shows the evolution of this civilizing mission in Algeria, and illustrates how these 40 years were decisive in shaping the principal ideological tenets in French colonization of the region. This book offers a rethinking of 19th-century French colonial history. It reveals not only what the rise of Europe implied for the cultural identities of non-elite Middle Easterners and North Africans, but also what dynamics were involved in the imposition or local adoptions of European cultural norms and how the colonial encounter impacted the cultural identities of the colonizers themselves.