Superchurch

Author : Jonathan J. Edwards
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628951702
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Superchurch written by Jonathan J. Edwards and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Fundamentalism is a doctrine and a discourse in tension. Fundamentalists describe themselves as both marginal and a majority. They announce the imminent end of the world while building massive megachurches and political lobbying organizations. They speak of the need for purity and separation from the outside world while continually innovating in their search for more effective and persuasive ways to communicate with and convert outsiders. To many outsiders, Fundamentalist speech seems contradictory, irrational, intolerant, and dangerously antidemocratic. To understand the complexity of Fundamentalism, we have to look inside the tensions and the paradoxes. We have to take seriously the ways in which Fundamentalists describe themselves to themselves, and to do that, we must begin by exploring the central role of “the church” in Fundamentalist rhetoric and politics. Drawing on five fascinating case studies, Superchurch blends a complex yet readable treatment of rhetorical and political theory with a sophisticated approach to Fundamentalism that neither dismisses its appeal nor glosses over its irresolvable tensions. Edwards challenges theories of rhetoric, counterpublics, deliberation, and civility while offering critical new insights into the evolution and continuing influence of one of the most significant cultural and political movements of the past century.

Author : John O'Loughlin
Publisher : John O'Loughlin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book About-Face written by John O'Loughlin and published by John O'Loughlin. This book was released on 2022-02-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:  Much of the material included in each superbook (of supernotational aphorisms/maxims) in this volume is, of course, complementary, since their author's structural and thematic integrity has remained fairly consistent throughout. But if that were only the case he could have settled for one such superbook instead of two, the latter of which gradually emerged in its own right with a thematic and stylistic integrity of its own that, in many instances, not only went beyond but corrected and even contradicted some of the material already broached, thereby justifying its inclusion as a separate superbook that, nonetheless, was not unrelated, in most respects, to its predecessor. Some incidental material in the four supernotebooks of the first superbook and two of the second was not used or could not, for various reasons, be used, but what has been extracted from them has undergone sufficient rewriting and revision, not to say expansion, as to justify the concept of 'superbook', the intent of which is to draw a firm line under the biconical criteria which characterize not only this volume but other recent titles by John O'Loughlin, and all in the interests of a fresh approach to both logic and civilization that should enhance, rather than diminish, the capacity of the human mind to embrace morality and the complexities of moral issues to a degree and in a way arguably never before broached in the history of serious theoretical, or philosophical, endeavour. Every light of faith is dogged by a shadow of doubt, and it would be strange to the point of absurd if that were not the case with John O'Loughlin, even here in what should be a definitive account of his philosophical evolution. But such a shadow is actually complementary to the light and in no way a hindrance to the faith but, rather, a means of questioning and modifying one's approach to it so that the end-product, if end-product there be, will serve to enhance one's concept of truth and make one's faith in it all the more justifiably credible.– A Centretruths editorial

Author : Charles Caldwell Ryrie
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780802449382
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best is Yet to Come written by Charles Caldwell Ryrie and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert Stollorz
Publisher : Faith in Future Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1419674013
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 2012 and the End of Institutional Evil written by Herbert Stollorz and published by Faith in Future Foundation. This book was released on 2008-09-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2012 and the End of Institutional Evil is an edited digest of Herbert R. Stollorz' two books, Apocalypse Prophesied and Mystery of Tammuz 17. Its 209 pages provide the core discoveries and reasoning found in the 1,000+ pages of those two books. A projected calendar of events describes the key players in the biblical Last Days: Satan, Antichrist, and the Mahdi. The books use science and mathematics to uncover extraordinary information in the Bible that theologians routinely miss. This unique approach presents a revolutionary new way of looking at the universe. The first book focused on Godâs Plan for Humanity from before time into eternity. The second book detailed Herbert R. Stollorzâ research methodology and thinking in an expanded discussion of the Last Days and the book of Revelation. His third book, Asteroid Answers to Ancient Calendar Mysteries, presents a hypothesis that explains why confirmation to the dating of key events in Bible prophecy may be found in the calendars and clocks of ancient cultures located around the world. It also explains other ancient mysteries by resolving apparent discrepancies between science and the Bible.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004496246
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 4 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to provide an outlet for original research articles examining the role and value of religious and spiritual constructs across the social sciences. The aim of the series is to include an international and interfaith voice to this research dialogue. An effort is made to be interdisciplinary and academically eclectic. The articles in each volume represent a wide array of perspectives and research projects. Most of the articles report the findings of quantitative or qualitative investigations, but some deal with methodology, theory, or applications of social science studies in the field of religion, and some are applied, demonstrating the relevance of the social sciences to religious organizations and their clergy. The value of the volume is that it gives to researchers in this area a broad perspective on the issues and methods of religious research across a spectrum of academic disciplines. The aim of the book is to stimulate a creative, integrative dialogue that will enhance interdisciplinary research.

Author : Harvie M. Conn
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441205985
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planting and Growing Urban Churches written by Harvie M. Conn and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the church is to thrive in the twenty-first century, it will have to take on a new form as it ministers to the 120 million unchurched people in the United States. Planting and Growing Urban Churches is still virtually the only available text on church planting in North America and beyond. In this third edition, readers will find material on the importance of healthy, biblical change in our churches, updated appendices, insight on our postmodern ministry context, and strategies for reaching new population demographics such as Generation X and Y. Pastors, ministry leaders, and church planters will find the information and advice found in this book invaluable as they carry out their ministries.

Author : Jerome L. Himmelstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520340930
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To the Right written by Jerome L. Himmelstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely book, Jerome Himmelstein offers a new interpretation of the growth of conservatism in American politics. Tracing the New Right of the 1970s and 1980s back to the Old Right of the 1950s, Himmelstein provides an interpretive map of the political landscape over the past decades, showing how conservatives ascended to power by reconstructing their ideology and building an independent movement.

Author : A. Krawchuk
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137377380
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eastern Orthodox Encounters of Identity and Otherness written by A. Krawchuk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From diverse international and multi-disciplinary perspectives, the contributors to this volume analyze the experiences, challenges and responses of Orthodox Churches to the foundational transformations associated with the dissolution of the USSR.

Author : John O'Loughlin
Publisher : Centretruths Digital Media
ISBN 13 : 1446105334
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last (W)rites written by John O'Loughlin and published by Centretruths Digital Media. This book was released on 2022-04-17 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As suggested by the pun-like title, LAST (W)RITES is both a bringing to a conclusion of certain previous theories by John O'Loughlin, self-taught philosopher and literary writer, which here attain to a well-nigh definitive presentation, and a ceremonial conclusion to certain lifestyles which this book is intended to assist kill off in the interests of what it calls a Superchristian dispensation commensurate with Social Transcendentalism and, hence, with an antithesis to all that, in contemporary terms, is effectively Superheathen, though the term 'secular', not least in relation to 'feminism' is of course more germane.

Author : Jared N. Champion
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496835522
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking a Stand written by Jared N. Champion and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Jared N. Champion, Miriam M. Chirico, Thomas Clark, David R. Dewberry, Christopher J. Gilbert, David Gillota, Kathryn Kein, Rob King, Rebecca Krefting, Peter C. Kunze, Linda Mizejewski, Aviva Orenstein, Raúl Pérez, Philip Scepanski, Susan Seizer, Monique Taylor, Ila Tyagi, and Timothy J. Viator Stand-up comedians have a long history of walking a careful line between serious and playful engagement with social issues: Lenny Bruce questioned the symbolic valence of racial slurs, Dick Gregory took time away from the stage to speak alongside Martin Luther King Jr., and—more recently—Tig Notaro challenged popular notions of damaged or abject bodies. Stand-up comedians deploy humor to open up difficult topics for broader examination, which only underscores the social and cultural importance of their work. Taking a Stand: Contemporary US Stand-Up Comedians as Public Intellectuals draws together essays that contribute to the analysis of the stand-up comedian as public intellectual since the 1980s. The chapters explore stand-up comedians as contributors to and shapers of public discourse via their live performances, podcasts, social media presence, and political activism. Each chapter highlights a stand-up comedian and their ongoing discussion of a cultural issue or expression of a political ideology/standpoint: Lisa Lampanelli’s use of problematic postracial humor, Aziz Ansari’s merging of sociology and technology, or Maria Bamford’s emphasis on mental health, to name just a few. Taking a Stand offers a starting point for understanding the work stand-up comedians do as well as its reach beyond the stage. Comedians influence discourse, perspectives, even public policy on myriad issues, and this book sets out to take those jokes seriously.