Pagans In The Pews

Author : Peter Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780830727988
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pagans in the Pews written by Peter Jones and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Straightforward discussion about how the new spirituality, or paganism, is creeping into the Church, & how to stand firm in Biblical Christianity.

Author : Frank Viola
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1414341652
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pagan Christianity? written by Frank Viola and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why we Christians do what we do for church every Sunday morning? Why do we “dress up” for church? Why does the pastor preach a sermon each week? Why do we have pews, steeples, and choirs? This ground-breaking book, now in affordable softcover, makes an unsettling proposal: most of what Christians do in present-day churches is rooted, not in the New Testament, but in pagan culture and rituals developed long after the death of the apostles. Coauthors Frank Viola and George Barna support their thesis with compelling historical evidence and extensive footnotes that document the origins of modern Christian church practices. In the process, the authors uncover the problems that emerge when the church functions more like a business organization than the living organism it was created to be. As you reconsider Christ's revolutionary plan for his church—to be the head of a fully functioning body in which all believers play an active role—you'll be challenged to decide whether you can ever do church the same way again.

Author : Sarah M. Pike
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520923804
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves written by Sarah M. Pike and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-01-24 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent decades have seen a revival of paganism, and every summer people gather across the United States to celebrate this increasingly popular religion. Sarah Pike's engrossing ethnography is the outcome of five years attending neo-pagan festivals, interviewing participants, and sometimes taking part in their ceremonies. Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves incorporates her personal experience and insightful scholarly work concerning ritual, sacred space, self-identity, and narrative. The result is a compelling portrait of this frequently misunderstood religious movement. Neo-paganism began emerging as a new religious movement in the late 1960s. In addition to bringing together followers for self-exploration and participation in group rituals, festivals might offer workshops on subjects such as astrology, tarot, mythology, herbal lore, and African drumming. But while they provide a sense of community for followers, Neo-Pagan festivals often provoke criticism from a variety of sources—among them conservative Christians, Native Americans, New Age spokespersons, and media representatives covering stories of rumored "Satanism" or "witchcraft." Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves explores larger issues in the United States regarding the postmodern self, utopian communities, cultural improvisation, and contemporary spirituality. Pike's accessible writing style and her nonsensationalistic approach do much to demystify neo-paganism and its followers.

Author : James Aten
Publisher : James Aten
ISBN 13 : 0615209459
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Truth About Wicca and Witchcraft Finding Your True Power written by James Aten and published by James Aten. This book was released on 2008-03-22 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books separates myth from truth in order to lean what Wicca really is.

Author : David W. Bercot
Publisher : Scroll Publishing Co.
ISBN 13 : 9780924722004
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up written by David W. Bercot and published by Scroll Publishing Co.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Avery Dulles
Publisher : Image
ISBN 13 : 0385505450
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Models of the Church written by Avery Dulles and published by Image. This book was released on 2002-05-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is today a dramatic reexamination of structure, authority, dogma -- indeed, every aspect of the life of the Church is held up to scrutiny. Welcoming this as a sign of vitality, Avery Dulles has carefully studied the writings of contemporary Protestant and Catholic ecclesiologists and sifted out six major approaches, or "models," through which the Church's character can be understood: as Institution, Mystical Communion, Sacrament, Herald, Servant, and, in a recent addition to the book, as Community of Disciples. A balanced theology, he concludes, must incorporate the major affirmations of each. "The method of models or types," observes Cardinal Dulles, "can have great value in helping people to get beyond the limitations of their own particular outlook and to enter into fruitful conversation with others... Such conversation is obviously essential if ecumenism is to get beyond its present impasses." This new edition includes a new Appendix and Preface by the author.

Author : Edward Carpenter
Publisher : NuVision Publications, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.B5/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pagan & Christian Creeds written by Edward Carpenter and published by NuVision Publications, LLC. This book was released on 1920 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays was Carpenter's attempt to make an objective comparison between the origins and practices of pagan religions and Christianity.

Author : Edward Carpenter
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528767950
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pagan and Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning written by Edward Carpenter and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1921, this vintage book looks at paganism and Christianity, exploring their various connections and analysing where these similarities came from and what they mean. Edward Carpenter (1844 – 1929) was an English philosopher, poet, and pioneering activist for gay rights. He had many notable friends including the Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore and celebrated American poet Walt Whitman; and also corresponded with many famous figures, including Jack London, Mahatma Gandhi and Annie Besant, amongst others. Contents include: “Solar Myths and Christian Festivals”, “The Symbolism of the Zodiac”, “Totem-Sacraments and Eucharists”, “Food and Vegetation Magic”, “Magicians, Kings and Gods”, “Rites of Expiation and Redemption”, “Pagan Initiations and the Second Birth”, “Myth of the Golden Age”, “The Savior-god and the Virgin-mother”, “Ritual Dancing”, “The Sex-Taboo”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Abram Herbert Lewis
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9780368089848
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paganism in Christianity written by Abram Herbert Lewis and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally written as a polemic designed to encourage Protestants to return to the original Jewish origins and rules of the Bible, this work provides a thorough and complete overview of how paganism was absorbed into the Christian religion. Starting with an overview of how the scriptural texts were interpreted by pagan Gnostics to reflect their value systems and culture, the author then shows that anti-Semitism caused the first non-Jewish converts to the new religion to reject many of the original rules of Christianity. Next, he shows how most of the outer forms of what became familiar church rites were taken over almost without change from earlier pre-Christian religions and institutions. Included in these pagan-origin rites incorporated into Christianity are the more famous rituals of Easter and Christmas-but a host of others which will astonish the reader-including the sign of the Cross itself, perhaps one of the most used symbols of Christianity; most baptism rituals-including child-naming ceremonies; Sunday observance; the "mother and child" symbolism of Mary and Jesus; the universally-used "Chi-ro" symbol; the use of candles in churches; the structure and prayer rituals of church services of all denominations, and much more. The author points out that although all of these pagan influences entered Christianity through the Roman Catholic Church, most were taken over into Protestantism as well. About the author: Abram Herbert Lewis (1832-1908) was born in Scott, Cortland, New York, and served as Professor of Church History at the Theological Department at Alfred University in his home state. An avowed Seventh Day Baptist, he produced 11 books, 25 pamphlets and tracts, and was editor of 5 periodicals, all dealing with the history of Christianity.

Author : Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Paganism in Our Christianity written by Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: