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21. Introduction to Eastern Christian Spirituality: The Syriac Tradition by Chorbishop Seely Beggiani | |
Paperback: 124
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(2005-06-23)
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a treasury |
22. The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul by Wayne A. Meeks | |
Paperback: 320
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(2003-02-08)
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Superior Analysis of Early Christianity. Read it now.
Slow, complex, cumbersome reading
Information Galore
Excellent!
An Excellent Introduction to New Testament Sociology Meeks studies the earliest Christian communities established by St. Paul. Meeks acknowledges that in the minds of most people, the first Christians were poorer peasant and agrarian people, but the reality is probably different. While the gospel may have been first preached in such settings, the faith started in urban areas and spread first from one city to another, then to the countryside. While Meeks does mention many of the early Christian leaders in his work, his primary focus is on the writings of St. Paul and the day to day life behind these writings, since historically these writings are the earliest Christian sources. Topics in the book include the urban environment of Pauline Christianity, social life of the early Christian community, the formations of churches, conflicts, rituals, and how belief shaped the lives of the early Christians. The book also has an index to help with information on specific subjects and a scriptural reference index for people who need to use the book for a quick reference for study or preparation of preaching. Meeks has a scholar's attention to detail and provides a great deal of information in this work. He also has the reader in mind. Knowing that the work will be read both by scholars, students, and those interested in a deeper knowledge of scripture, the work is informative and readable. While the information in the book is no longer new, it is still current. Students and those wishing further study will find Meeks' copious notes as well as his bibliography helpful for further study. ... Read more |
23. The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism in Its Jewish Context by James F. McGrath | |
Hardcover: 168
Pages
(2009-06-03)
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Beginning Thoughts on The Only True God - Copernicum |
24. Christian denominations, by Konrad Algermissen | |
Hardcover: 1051
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(1945)
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25. Pages From Church History: A Guided Tour of Christian Classics by Stephen J. Nichols | |
Paperback: 329
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(2006-11)
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So much to learn about our past...
The Book to Buy |
26. Those Incredible Christians by Hugh Schonfield | |
Paperback: 266
Pages
(1991-11)
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A fine read!
The incredible Dr Schonfield The first three Chapters are somewhat painful, and Schonfield provides what he admits is a "strange introduction" into the rise and rise of Christianity. Where Schonfield treads bold new ground is in the enlightening treatise on "the Christology of Paul". Schonfield alone seems to understand that in Paul's cosmology Jesus is not God, rather he is GOD's FIRST PERFECT CREATION. Furthermore, he is man in his original unadulterated spiritual state. How did orthodox Christianity end up so confused? This is detailed in the Chapter "The man called John" where new light is shed on the mysterious author of the fourth Gospel. 1) John Son of Zebedee is simply a red herring, he was executed before the fall of Jerusalem and could not have written the classic Greek of the fourth Gospel Some 30 years after the death of Paul, itwas the Johanine tradition that gave Paul's Christology a good dose of Asian Hellenism incorporating the Logos and Gnostic themes, and as Schonfield so aptly notes, other then Paul "John" has provided the greatest influence on the modern Church. If you can stick with Dr Schonfield past his extended "introduction", the book becomes a real page turner by Chapter Four. An interesting side issue is Schonfield's explanation of the meaning of 666 or 616 in some early manuscripts)tracing it to the value inscribed on coins of Emperor Domitian. (Domitian also placed an imperial Mark on the hand or forehead for trade) |
27. Telling Truths in Church: Scandal, Flesh, and Christian Speech by Mark D. Jordan | |
Paperback: 128
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(2004-06-15)
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The Vital Importance of "Telling Truths" This is not to state, however, that the scandals have nothing to do with the topics Jordan addresses. It is Jordan's contention that speech in the Christian churches (and Jordan refers not only to the Catholic Church but to other Christian churches) has become narrowed and self-censored in such a way that it has seriously compromised the Churches' ability to speak truthfully about people's lives and faith experiences. In a series of essays, Jordan discusses several topics: Church reform, Christian marriage, the practice of theology, and Jesus Christ as a fully human and sexual being. Jordan asserts that the Churches fail in speaking truthfully about these topics, and also that the Churches try to silence or discourage additional points of view that speak to the range of human experiences not addressed in "official" speech. To put it more simply, current Church talk doesn't give us the whole story, and it's up to us as people of faith to speak up and fill in the missing pieces. Jordan's book is full of insights and observations that make it ideal for public discussion or private, prayerful reflection. The book is particularly important in an age when the task of theology is often misunderstood: some Church authorities, with the current emphasis on "obedience," feel theologians should supply believers with authoritative propositions to be memorized, rather than questions to help guide our reflection on God's mystery.As Jordan states in the concluding essay, "obedience [should] mean not that you take as true whatever you are told, but that you commit yourself to consider carefully what is said to you." In other words, the lived practice of theology--the process of "telling truths"--becomes a loving task for all believers, not just for leaders who think they have all the answers! ... Read more |
28. Readings in World Christian History by John W. Coakley, Andrea Sterk | |
Paperback: 435
Pages
(2004-05-25)
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Great companion book
Excellent companion |
29. Early Christian Thought in its Jewish Context | |
Paperback: 316
Pages
(2007-11-05)
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30. Christian Initiation and Baptism in the Holy Spirit: Evidence from the First Eight Centuries (Michael Glazier Books) by Kilian McDonnell, George T. Montague | |
Paperback: 368
Pages
(1990-09)
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Very Excited to get this Book!
Excellent Contribution to Charisma and Christian Initiation
Invaluable for Protestants and Catholics Alike
The Best Theology Book on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit! |
31. Nelson's Guide to Denominations: The Primary Resource for Understanding and Navigating America's Christian Organizations | |
Hardcover: 416
Pages
(2007-04-03)
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Editorial Review Product Description The Complete Guide to American Denominations and Christian Organizations. Nelson's Guide to Denominations provides essential data on 800+ Protestant and Catholic churches operating in the United States and Canada, plus ecumenical and cooperative associations and parachurch organizations. Every entry reports the name of the group, a brief history, key leaders or a contact person, address, email and/or website, membership stats, unique features, world mission affiliates, and sidebars on special ministry initiatives. The guide also includes a section on trends and prospects for the church in North America and a symposium on the Bible in America. Customer Reviews (2)
too long
Not as expected. |
32. Serve the Community of the Church: Christians as Leaders and Ministers (First-Century Christians in the Graeco-Roman World) by Andrew D. Clarke | |
Paperback: 316
Pages
(2000-03)
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Editorial Review Product Description This volume explores the nature of leadership roles and positions in the Christian communities of the early church. Drawing from ancient source material as well as from the New Testament, Andrew Clarke describes the theories and practices of organization and leadership in key areas of first-century Graeco-Roman society--the city, the colony, associations, Jewish synagogues, the family--and discusses the extent to which these models influenced the first Christians in defining their own communities. Providing a fascinating look at the social and historical background of the New Testament, this volume is also important for focusing on a theme that has implications for the organization of church life in our own time. |
33. Scientific Christian Mental Practice by Emma Curtis Curtis Hopkins | |
Hardcover: 276
Pages
(2009-11-01)
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Scientific Christian Mental Practices
One of the most informative books I have read
Great insights
Excellent read, informative
Prefer Ernest Holmes |
34. The Origins of Christian Morality: The First Two Centuries by Professor Wayne A. Meeks | |
Paperback: 285
Pages
(1995-09-27)
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Origins of Christian Morality
Why do we do what we do? In this book, Meeks has presented `an ecology of moral notions'. This is not a guidebook to state in unambiguous terms questions of present-day moral questions. For reasons explained early, Meeks avoids that kind of question because the question can usually be framed by parameters that pre-suppose the answer. Also, Meeks avoids the term `New Testament ethics' for some particular reasons. Firstly, the early church did not have a New Testament -- the collection of writings we have come to accept as the New Testament had not been collected and recognised as a single body of writings during the first, second and third centuries after the time of Christ, the time during which Christian views of morality were being formed. Morality is also discussed, rather than ethics, because ethics tends to be a second-order reflection on morality. This is not what was occurring generally or primarily at this time. In a unique feature, Meeks gives a brief summary, an almost Cliff-notes-lite, of each of the chapters in his Introduction. He traces his development chapter by chapter, highlighting each main point and its connection to the overall theme of the origins of Christian morality as well as the progression through sociology, politics, philosophy, and theology. Meeks admits to being less than systematic in approach, yet this is reflective of the subject. Christian morality did not evolve in a coherent and orderly fashion. It continues to be polyphonic to this day, with varying degrees of acceptance and intolerance by individuals and communities in the name of a 'purer' morality. `Obviously there can be no community and no tradition if everything is permitted ('All things are lawful, but not all things build up'), and therefore there can be no community without some degree of coercion. Yet unity coerced is unstable ('For why is my freedom judged by a conscience not mine?')' Unlike today, early Christianity was primarily a religion of converts. Today, most Christians of most denominations are born into the community of people and of thought. This was untrue in the time of the apostles, and continued to be untrue for several hundred years, even after Christianity became the religion of the establishment. Conversion was usually a social act, something done in public, and something that would have public consequences. How the public Christian world-view intersects and coincides with the outside (some might say, secular) world has always been a problem, from these earliest times to the present (Augustine works with the idea, but only briefly, in his massive description of the City of God centuries after the period Meeks, investigates; H. Richard Niebuhr was still wrestling with the problem in the twentieth century). There is a tendency to continue ancient heresies today without realising they are such. In his chapter `Loving and Hating the World', Meeks investigates some of the gnostic divisions (the material world is evil inherently, once declared a heresy but which continues to pop up in practical theology of various Catholic and Protestant thinkers). In the following chapter, `The Language of Obligation', Meeks presents lists of vices and virtues, commands, actions, and the way in which these concepts are dealt with, in the attribution of authority (or lack thereof) and the desirability/requirement of deliberate practice. Meeks states that no list is present as exhaustive in the positive or the negative -- even the sum total leaves important things out on both listing of virtue and vice. There is no definitive list for all early Christians. This made formulating a way of discovering right belief and practice all the more important. In the chapter `History, Pluralism and Morality', Meeks outlines particular theses toward understanding the original concepts of Christian morality: Thesis 1 -- Making morals and making community are one, dialectical process. There is no definitive ending to this book -- just as Christian belief and practice has continued to evolve, so to is it impossible to come to a definitive statement about all-encompassing Christian normative standards at any given point even near the beginnings of the religion, and particularly before the canon of the scriptures have been determined. Perhaps Meeks' Theses 6 and 7 are the most important for us today. The determination of moral confidence with the understanding that God continues to act in our lives and in our world can both reassure and comfort us in the knowledge of God's love and protection, as well as the recognition that in a world in which people have been given freedom of action, God's own freedom can occasionally (or perhaps even frequently) surprise us.
Feels like a book on mystery religion, not morality Meeks' style of approach is not at all devotional, but rather, is an engaging and straightforward type of scholarship portraying the early mystic form of Christianity including social aspects. ... Read more |
35. The Lutherans (Denominations in America) by L. DeAne Lagerquist | |
Hardcover: 272
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(1999-10-30)
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36. The Christian Imagination: G.K. Chesterton on the Arts by Thomas C. Peters | |
Paperback: 157
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(2000-03)
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An excellent examination of art from a Christian perspective that will delight and challenge you
The Topsy Turvy Giant Peters hit the nail on the head in summarizing Chesterton's opinion of art and how it uniquely qualifies man as children of God.Chesterton argued that the arts show the difference between men and animals to be qualitative and not quantative.A man does not paint more than a monkey!He paints! Peters accurately states that "in Chesterton's view, the arts are the very essence of humanity, the very thing that differentiates the human from the nonhuman, in that sense the very breath of life from God." If you have never read Chesterton before, I recommend that you start with Orthodoxy, Everlasting Man or Heretics.Once you get one or more of these under your belt you will not only understand what Peters is getting at, but you will also have a greater desire to find out just what Chersterton had to say on the subject, why it is important to man, and what significance it has for the Christian. To that end, I recommend this as your second or third Chesterton book.Happy reading!
An excellent overview of GKC on the arts
An essential intro to a great writer |
37. Christian Origins (A People's History of Christianity) | |
Paperback: 318
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(2010-01)
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Wonderful title for book club discussion
Again, Great and great!
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History without people is not history at all!
A fresh perspective |
38. Walking in the Spirit (Holy Spirit Christian Classics) by A B Simpson, Albert Benjamin Simpson | |
Paperback: 108
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(2007-12-07)
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39. Christian Courtship In An Oversexed World: A Guide For Catholics by Thomas G. Morrow | |
Paperback: 299
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(2003-09-30)
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This book changed my life!
Excellent Resource for Parents
A book in the best tradition of Father Morrow.
The most insulting, depressing book that I have read
Advice not for everybody |
40. Baptism and Christian Identity: Teaching in the Triune Name by Gordon S. Mikoski | |
Paperback: 288
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(2009-07-02)
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Baptism Reinvigorated |
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