Reformation Spirituality

Author : D. A. Carson
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 0801025699
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Call to Spiritual Reformation written by D. A. Carson and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 1992-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carson calls believers to revolt against superficiality and find again the deeper knowledge of God at Paul's school of prayer. Strong expositional study.

Author : Gene E. Veith
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725232626
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reformation Spirituality written by Gene E. Veith and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Herbert, in his poetic skill and the depth of the spiritual experiences he explores, may be the greatest of all religious poets. This is a study of the specific religious experiences and beliefs that Herbert writes about, both in his poetry and in his prose. As such, it also examines the spiritual landscape of seventeenth-century England, a period, for all of its controversies, still dominated by the understanding of God and the human condition articulated by Martin Luther and systematized by John Calvin. Reformation spirituality, which was different both from medieval Catholicism and late Protestantism, is itself little understood by literary historians, who have tended to look to medieval or Counter-Reformation ideas and practices or to a simplistic distinction between "Anglicans" and "Puritans" as ways of understanding the religion of the time. This study presents Reformation spirituality phenomenologically, from the inside. Just as Reformation spirituality reflects Herbert's poetry, Herbert's poetry illuminates Reformation spirituality, showing the experiential and mystical dimensions of an important religious tradition.

Author : Bernard McGinn
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780824508470
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Spirituality written by Bernard McGinn and published by Crossroad Publishing Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multivolume series with more than 500 contributing scholars worldwide, presenting the spiritual wisdom of the human race in its historical unfolding, from prehistoric times through the great religions to the meeting of the traditions at the present.

Author : Joel R. Beeke
Publisher : EP BOOKS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Puritan Reformed Spirituality written by Joel R. Beeke and published by EP BOOKS. This book was released on 2006 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these pages Dr Joel Beeke provides us with a first-class tour of some of the great sites of Reformed theology and spirituality. Here we meet John Calvin, reformer extraordinaire; then we encounter the learned Dr William Ames and the insightful Anthony Burgess. Soon we have traveled north to meet the Scotsmen John Brown of Haddington, the great Thomas Boston and the remarkable brothers, Ebenezer and Ralph Erskine. Predictably, but happily our guide brings us to The Netherlands and to the time of the Nadere Reformatie, before taking us back to the New World in the company of the remarkable Theodorus Jacobus Freylinghuysen. But the climax of this tour is not reached until our trusted guide has brought us to the family roots from which all these theologians and pastors came to the strong foundations of Christian living in justification by faith and sanctification in life, nourished by the power of biblical preaching. Author Joel R. Beeke (Ph.D. Westminster Theological Seminary) is president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, pastor of the Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, editor of The Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth, and author of numerous books.

Author : Matthew Fox
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594776318
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Reformation written by Matthew Fox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-02-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern-day theologian’s call for the radical transformation of Christianity • Echoes the Reformation initiated by Martin Luther in 1517 • Addresses the corruption and authoritarian tendencies that distinguish today’s Christian institutions from the spiritual message upon which they are founded • Offers a new vision of Christianity that values the Earth, honors the feminine, and emphasizes spiritual tolerance In 1517, Martin Luther, disgusted at the corruption then reigning in the Catholic Church, nailed on the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, 95 theses calling for a Reformation. During Pentecost week 2005, former Dominican priest Matthew Fox nailed at that same church door a new set of 95 theses calling for a reawakening of the Christian spirit and a repudiation of the authoritarian, punitive tendencies that prevail in modern churches today. Fox’s theses not only condemn the deep corruption in the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, made evident by the pedophile scandal and the recent canonization of a fascist admirer of Hitler, but also speak to the loss of inspiration and resulting apathy that have emptied churches of all denominations. Fox says, “At this critical time in human and planetary history, when the earth is being ravaged by the violence of war, poverty, sexism, homophobia, and eco-destruction, we need to gather those who offer a future that is one of compassion, creativity, and justice to speak their conscience as never before. Religion ought to be part of the solution, not the problem.” His 95 theses call for a New Reformation, a radical transformation that will allow us to move once again from the hollow trappings of organized religion to genuine spirituality.

Author : Alister E. McGrath
Publisher : Zondervan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirituality in an Age of Change written by Alister E. McGrath and published by Zondervan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McGrath shows that we look to the Reformers for our theology but fail to grasp the profound spirituality that stands at the heart of that theology. It is that spirituality which evangelicalism must recover if it is to replace shallowness with depth and staying power.

Author : Calvin Lane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1978703945
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirituality and Reform written by Calvin Lane and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In colorful detail, Calvin Lane explores the dynamic intersection between reform movements and everyday Christian practice from ca. 1000 to ca. 1800. Lowering the artificial boundaries between “the Middle Ages,” “the Reformation,” and “the Enlightenment,” Lane brings to life a series of reform programs each of which developed new sensibilities about what it meant to live the Christian life. Along this tour, Lane discusses music, art, pilgrimage, relics, architecture, heresy, martyrdom, patterns of personal prayer, changes in marriage and family life, connections between church bodies and governing authorities, and certainly worship. The thread that he finds running from the Benedictine revival in the eleventh century to the pietistic movements of the eighteenth is a passionate desire to return to a primitive era of Christianity, a time of imagined apostolic authenticity, even purity. In accessible language, he introduces readers to Cistercians and Calvinists, Franciscans and Jesuits, Lutherans and Jansenists, Moravians and Methodists to name but a few of the many reform movements studied in this book. Although Lane highlights their diversity, he argues that each movement rooted its characteristic practice – their spirituality – in an imaginative recovery of the apostolic life.

Author : Andrey V. Ivanov
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299327906
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Spiritual Revolution written by Andrey V. Ivanov and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideas of the Protestant Reformation, followed by the European Enlightenment, had a profound and long-lasting impact on Russia’s church and society in the eighteenth century. Though the traditional Orthodox Church was often assumed to have been hostile toward outside influence, Andrey V. Ivanov’s study argues that the institution in fact embraced many Western ideas, thereby undergoing what some observers called a religious revolution. Embedded with lively portrayals of historical actors and vivid descriptions of political details, A Spiritual Revolution is the first large-scale effort to fully identify exactly how Western progressive thought influenced the Russian Church. These new ideas played a foundational role in the emergence of the country as a modernizing empire and the rise of the Church hierarchy as a forward-looking agency of institutional and societal change. Ivanov addresses this important debate in the scholarship on European history, firmly placing Orthodoxy within the much wider European and global continuum of religious change.

Author : Mr Jason Zuidema
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409482154
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early French Reform written by Mr Jason Zuidema and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminding us that the Genevan Reformation does not begin and end with John Calvin, this book provides an introduction to Guillaume Farel (1489-1565), one of several important yet often overlooked French-speaking reformers. Born in 1489 near Gap, France, Farel was an important first-generation French-speaking Reformer and one of the most influential early leaders of the Reform movement in what is now French-speaking Switzerland. Educated in Paris, he slowly began to question Catholic orthodoxy, and by the 1520s was an active protestant preacher, resulting in his exile to Switzerland. Part of Farel's aggressive work in this area brought him to Geneva several times, where in 1535 and 1536 he secured votes in favour of the Reform, and later in 1536 persuaded the young theologian John Calvin to stay. Farel also penned Geneva's confession of faith of that year and their ecclesiastical articles of the next. As such, this volume underlines the fact that Calvin entered the reform movement in Geneva in a situation in which Farel had been already deeply involved. To better understand that situation, the book is divided into two parts. The first provides a rich and nuanced portrait of Farel's early thought by way of interpretive essays; the second section offers translations of a number of Farel's key texts. These translations include some of the first widely-accessible full-length translations of Farel's work into English. Offering both a scholarly overview of Farel and his life, and access to his own words, this book demonstrates the importance of Farel to the Reformation. It will be welcomed not only by scholars engaged in research on French reform movements, but also by students of history, theology, or literature wishing to read some of the earliest theological texts originally written in French.

Author : Howard L. Rice
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664252304
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reformed Spirituality written by Howard L. Rice and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rice makes a concerted effort to point us toward new and exciting avenues of spiritual growth and development. I find the book provocative, stimulating, and challenging".---Ben Campbell Johnson, Peachtree Professor of Evangelism and Church Growth, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia