Boundless Faith

Author : Robert Wuthnow
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520943063
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boundless Faith written by Robert Wuthnow and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Boundless Faith, the first book to look systematically at American Christianity in relation to globalization, Robert Wuthnow shows that American Christianity is increasingly influenced by globalization and is, in turn, playing a larger role in other countries and in U.S. policies and programs abroad. These changes, he argues, can be seen in the growth of support at home for missionaries and churches in other countries and in the large number of Americans who participate in short-term volunteer efforts abroad. These outreaches include building orphanages, starting microbusinesses, and setting up computer networks. Drawing on a comprehensive survey that was conducted for this book, as well as several hundred in-depth interviews with church leaders, Wuthnow refutes several prevailing stereotypes: that U.S. churches have turned away from the global church and overseas missions, that congregations only look inward, and that the growing voice of religion in areas of foreign policy is primarily evangelical. This fresh and revealing book encourages Americans to pay attention to the grass-roots mechanisms by which global ties are created and sustained.

Author : Robert Wuthnow
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520268083
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boundless Faith written by Robert Wuthnow and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Wuthnow shows that American Christianity is increasingly influenced by globalization and is, in turn, playing a larger role in other countries and in US policies and programmes abroad.

Author : Bryan Bishop
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441227474
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boundless written by Bryan Bishop and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his many travels as a researcher for Youth With A Mission, Bryan Bishop discovered a startling phenomenon: hidden movements of Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists who are experiencing and following Jesus outside the boundaries of traditional Western Christianity. And they have plenty to teach Christians in the West who feel spiritually stagnant or disillusioned. Through colorful firsthand accounts, Bishop unveils fresh expressions of faith that can revitalize our own. Those who have left or are feeling the pull to leave the church, along with those who chafe against Christianity's European-American cultural box, will welcome this expansive view of what it looks like to follow Christ.

Author : Trevor Littleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692838198
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boundless written by Trevor Littleton and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FAITH is our greatest adventure. BOUNDLESS is a fresh look at the signature moments of faith in the Old Testament. You've heard the stories, but have you felt them? Journey with Adam, Noah, Sarah, Moses and the heroes of old as you challenge your faith and learn to dream big. We serve a LIMITLESS God. It is time for a LIMITLESS faith!

Author : Women of Faith Conferences,
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 141855118X
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boundless Love written by Women of Faith Conferences, and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2002-08-31 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 345,000 women attended the 2001 Women of Faith conferences and experienced the fun, fellowship, and excitement for which the conference is widely known. Now, Women of Faith is offering the core message of the six dynamic speakers, in a Bible study for group or personal use. This unique application guide will include an outline of the talk given, excerpts from the talk that lead into questions for reflection or study, Bible references that delve deeper into the topic of dicussion, and a life application section. Each of the WOF speakers offers unique perspective and insight that will touch every woman at any point on the journey to becoming a more whole woman with a vital, living faith. Topics and speakers are: Sheila Walsh: Boundless Love Patsy Clairmont: Fearless Love Thelma Wells: Lavish Love Barbara Johnson: Stubborn Love Marilyn Meberg: Outlandish Love Luci Swindoll: Intentional Love

Author : Philip Yancey
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 031021436X
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disappointment with God written by Philip Yancey and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No part of the Bible goes unstudied in this book's search for God's hidden nature.

Author : Jack Levison
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493422324
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Boundless God written by Jack Levison and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word rûaḥ (commonly translated as breath, wind, spirit, or Spirit) occurs in the Old Testament 378 times--more frequently than torah, shalom, or Sabbath. In this volume, a popular Old Testament scholar, whose previous books have received wide acclaim, cracks open the challenging and provocative world of the Spirit in the Old Testament, offering readers cogent yet comprehensive insights. Grounded in scholarship yet accessible and inviting, this book unlocks the world of the Spirit, plunging readers into an imaginative realm of fresh senses, sounds, and skills. The book gives readers the opportunity to recapture Israel's tenacious sense of the Spirit's energy as it was expressed by a series of vibrant verbs: blowing, breathing, coming, resting, passing, pouring, filling, cleansing, standing, and guiding. Readers will encounter in these pages all of the Old Testament expressions of the Spirit--passages that will challenge the conventional, confront the commonplace, and transport them to a world of wisdom, work, and wonder.

Author : Don Mosley
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426722508
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith Beyond Borders written by Don Mosley and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than thirty years, Don Mosley has traveled the globe, working for the cause of justice on behalf of two organizations he helped to found: Habitat for Humanity and Jubilee Partners, a community of believers who have welcomed 3,000 refugees from danger zones around the world. In this book, he uses stories from his remarkable walk of faith to issue an action call for Christians to live out the teachings of Jesus, no matter where they take us or what they require us to do.

Author : Peter S. Dillard
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532662351
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fate and Faith after Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy written by Peter S. Dillard and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-11 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking new work, Dillard makes a powerful case for bringing contemporary Christian theology into critical dialogue with Martin Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event). Following his initial receptivity to theology in his early writings, Heidegger becomes increasingly agnostic and even atheistic in the 1930s until the sudden resurgence of religious discourse in Contributions. Dillard shows that there are good reasons for Heidegger's striking reversal. Key philosophical concepts from Contributions enable Heidegger to overcome earlier theological conundrums left unresolved in his earlier engagements with themes in St. Paul and Luther, while the need to make a fateful decision regarding "the last god" prevents the central philosophical task of Contributions from collapsing into empty tautology or relapsing into objectionable metaphysics. Nevertheless, Heidegger leaves us in the predicament of having no clear idea of how we are to make the crucial decision about divinity. After considering several unsuccessful proposals for escaping the dilemma, Dillard develops a christological solution based on Heidegger's engagement with the poetry of Georg Trakl. The resulting theological perspective is defended from some possible criticisms and situated within the broader context of contemporary postmetaphysical Heideggerian theology.

Author : Amanda Porterfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190694599
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Business Turn in American Religious History written by Amanda Porterfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business has received little attention in American religious history, although it has profound implications for understanding the sustained popularity and ongoing transformation of religion in the United States. This volume offers a wide ranging exploration of the business aspects of American religious organizations. The authors analyze the financing, production, marketing, and distribution of religious goods and services and the role of wealth and economic organization in sustaining and even shaping worship, charity, philanthropy, institutional growth, and missionary work. Treating religion and business holistically, their essays show that American religious life has always been informed by business practices. Laying the groundwork for further investigation, the authors show how American business has functioned as a domain for achieving religious goals. Indeed they find that religion has historically been more powerful when interwoven with business. Chapters on Mormon enterprise, Jewish philanthropy, Hindu gurus, Native American casinos, and the wedding of business wealth to conservative Catholic social teaching demonstrate the range of new studies stimulated by the business turn in American religious history. Other chapters show how evangelicals joined neo-liberal economic practice and right-wing politics to religious fundamentalism to consolidate wealth and power, and how they developed marketing campaigns and organizational strategies that transformed the American religious landscape. Included are essays exposing the moral compromises religious organizations have made to succeed as centers of wealth and influence, and the religious beliefs that rationalize and justify these compromises. Still others examine the application of business practices as a means of sustaining religious institutions and expanding their reach, and look at controversies over business practices within religious organizations, and the adjustments such organizations have made in response. Together, the essays collected here offer new ways of conceptualizing the interdependence of religion and business in the United States, establishing multiple paths for further study of their intertwined historical development.