Heart to Heart
Heart to Heart

Author: Tanner G. Turley

Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books

Published: 2014-03-12

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1601783124

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Over the course of nearly forty-five years of pastoral ministry, Octavius Winslow (1808–1878) effectively demonstrated the practice of applying doctrine to life through his experimental preaching. In Heart to Heart: Octavius Winslow’s Experimental Preaching , Tanner G. Turley surveys Winslow’s life and ministry and demonstrates how a strong theology of preaching provided the foundation for his preaching methodology. Turley highlights the doctrinal precision and Christological focus of Winslow’s preaching, revealing an aim at holistic change in hearers through the use of application, discrimination, inquiry, illustration, exhortation, and persuasion. By introducing us to this influential preacher of the past, this study shows the significance of Winslow’s homiletic for the church of today. Table of Contents: 1. Life and Ministry 2. Theology and Method of Preaching 3. Preaching Grounded in Doctrine 4. Preaching Centered in Christ 5. Theory and Practice 6. Contemporary Significance Appendix 1: Sermon on Psalm 130:3 Appendix 2: Sermon on Galatians 2:20 Appendix 3: Annotated Bibliography of Winslow’s Works

Landscapes of Christianity
Landscapes of Christianity

Author: James S. Bielo

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-09-22

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 135006291X

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How do Christians make relationships with land central to their faith? How have the realities of materiality, geography, and ecology shaped Christian territories of belonging and theologies of territory? What social-economic-political conditions surround exchanges between religion and nature? This book explores how Christianity intersects with nature to create unique religious landscapes. Case studies range from the Mormon Trail across the USA completed by thousands every year, to the Catholic devotional cult of and shrine to St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina. Contributors examine the entangled forms of agency between nature and culture that are at work as Christians produce, consume, experience, imagine, inhabit, manage, and struggle over formations of land. Focusing on Christian engagements with land forms in the early 21st century, this book advances the spatial turn in the study of religion, contributes to the anthropology of religion and the study of global Christianities, as well as our understanding of the relationship between Christianity, space and place.