A Methodist Pioneer: the Life and Labours of John Smith. Including Brief Notices of the Origin and Early History of Methodism in Different Parts of the North of Ireland

A Methodist Pioneer: the Life and Labours of John Smith. Including Brief Notices of the Origin and Early History of Methodism in Different Parts of the North of Ireland
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Total Pages : 180
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:600018712
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Synopsis A Methodist Pioneer: the Life and Labours of John Smith. Including Brief Notices of the Origin and Early History of Methodism in Different Parts of the North of Ireland by : Charles Henry Crookshank

Women Pioneers in Continental European Methodism, 1869-1939

Women Pioneers in Continental European Methodism, 1869-1939
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9781351802109
ISBN-13 : 1351802100
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Synopsis Women Pioneers in Continental European Methodism, 1869-1939 by : Paul W. Chilcote

Despite the fact that women are often mentioned as having played instrumental roles in the establishment of Methodism on the Continent of Europe, very little detail concerning the women has ever been provided to add texture to this historical tapestry. This book of essays redresses this by launching a new and wider investigation into the story of pioneering Methodist women in Europe. By bringing to light an alternative set of historical narratives, this edited volume gives voice to a broad range of religious issues and concerns during the critical period in European history between 1869 and 1939. Covering a range of nations in Continental Europe, some important interpretive themes are suggested, such as the capacity of women to network, their ability to engage in God’s work, and their skill at navigating difficult cultural boundaries. This ground breaking study will be of significant interest to scholars of Methodism, but also to students and academics working in history, religious studies, and gender.

Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810

Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 262
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ISBN-10 : 9780195354249
ISBN-13 : 0195354249
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Synopsis Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810 by : Cynthia Lynn Lyerly

This book looks at the role of Methodism in the Revolutionary and early national South. When the Methodists first arrived in the South, Lyerly argues, they were critics of the social order. By advocating values traditionally deemed "feminine," treating white women and African Americans with considerable equality, and preaching against wealth and slavery, Methodism challenged Southern secular mores. For this reason, Methodism evoked sustained opposition, especially from elite white men. Lyerly analyzes the public denunciations, domestic assaults on Methodist women and children, and mob violence against black Methodists. These attacks, Lyerly argues, served to bind Methodists more closely to one another; they were sustained by the belief that suffering was salutary and that persecution was a mark of true faith.

How to Pioneer

How to Pioneer
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Publisher : Church House Publishing
Total Pages : 136
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ISBN-10 : 9781781400012
ISBN-13 : 1781400016
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Synopsis How to Pioneer by : David Male

Small new Christian communities created by pioneer ministers, both lay and ordained, are popping up everywhere – on housing estates, in community centres, schools, cafes, among different age groups and in numerous other contexts beyond the local church. This practical book is for all who are engaged in this form of ministry and it begins by identifying some basic principles from a wide variety of creative examples of pioneer ministry. Illustrated with actual examples throughout, it explores • how to ‘listen’ to the physical, social and spiritual environment of a local context • how to discern a community’s needs and the appropriate missional response • how to build a creative team • the art of the start – how to begin well • how to build relationships and create community by acts of authentic love • how to become and stay Jesus-centred • how to live and tell the gospel in meaningful ways • how to grow disciples • how to stay fresh (and avoid rotas!)

Embracing the Passion

Embracing the Passion
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Publisher : SCM Press
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : 9780334053132
ISBN-13 : 0334053137
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Embracing the Passion by : Nigel Pimlott

A timely and topical resource that looks into the areas of Christian youth work, faith and politics. Nigel Pimlott aims to inform, engage, empower and resource Christian youth workers and those studying youth work, so that they have a better understanding about the relationship between their work, their faith and politics.

Life and Labors of Rev. Jordan W. Early

Life and Labors of Rev. Jordan W. Early
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Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:1078812949
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Synopsis Life and Labors of Rev. Jordan W. Early by : Sarah Jane Woodson Early

Methodism in the American Forest

Methodism in the American Forest
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9780190266561
ISBN-13 : 0190266562
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Synopsis Methodism in the American Forest by : Russell E. Richey

Winner of the 2015 Saddleback Selection Award from the Historical Society of The United Methodist Church During the nineteenth century, camp meetings became a signature program of American Methodists and an extraordinary engine for their remarkable evangelistic outreach. Methodism in the American Forest explores the ways in which Methodist preachers interacted with and utilized the American woodland, and the role camp meetings played in the denomination's spread across the country. Half a century before they made themselves such a home in the woods, the people and preachers learned the hard way that only a fool would adhere to John Wesley's mandate for preaching in fields of the New World. Under the blazing American sun, Methodist preachers sought and found a better outdoor sanctuary for large gatherings: under the shade of great oaks, a natural cathedral where they held forth with fervid sermons. The American forests, argues Russell E. Richey, served the preachers in several important ways. Like a kind of Gethesemane, the remote, garden-like solitude provided them with a place to seek counsel from the Holy Spirit. They also saw the forest as a desolate wilderness, and a means for them to connect with Israel's years after the Exodus and Jesus's forty days in the desert after his baptism by John. The dauntless preachers slashed their way through, following America's expanding settlement, and gradually sacralizing American woodlands as cathedral, confessional, and spiritual challenge-as shady grove, as garden, and as wilderness. The threefold forest experience became a Methodist standard. The meeting of Methodism's basic governing body, the quarterly conference, brought together leadership of all levels. The event stretched to two days in length and soon great crowds were drawn by the preaching and eventually the sacraments that were on offer. Camp meetings, if not a Methodist invention, became the movement's signature, a development that Richey tracks throughout the years that Methodism matured, to become a central denomination in America's religious landscape.

Being Interrupted

Being Interrupted
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Publisher : SCM Press
Total Pages : 153
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ISBN-10 : 9780334058625
ISBN-13 : 0334058627
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Synopsis Being Interrupted by : Al Barrett

Beginning with a ‘Street Nativity Play’ that didn’t end as planned, and finishing with an open-ended conversation in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, "Being Interrupted" locates an institutionally-anxious Church of England within the wider contexts of divisions of race and class in ‘the ruins of empire’, alongside ongoing gender inequalities, the marginalization of children, and catastrophic ecological breakdown. In the midst of this bleak picture, Al Barrett and Ruth Harley open a door to a creative disruption of the status quo, ‘from the outside, in’: the in-breaking of the wild reality of the ‘Kin-dom’ of God. Through careful and unsettling readings in Mark’s gospel, alongside stories from a multicultural outer estate in east Birmingham, they paint a vivid picture of an 'alternative economy' for the Church's life and mission, which begins with transformative encounters with neighbours and strangers at the edges of our churches, our neighbourhoods and our imaginations, and offers new possibilities for repentance and resurrection.

The Lord's Dominion

The Lord's Dominion
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 580
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ISBN-10 : 0773514007
ISBN-13 : 9780773514003
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis The Lord's Dominion by : Neil Semple

The Lord's Dominion describes the development of mainstream Canadian Methodism, from its earliest days to its incorporation into the United Church of Canada in 1925. Neil Semple looks at the ways in which the church evolved to take its part in the crusade to Christianize the world and meet the complex needs of Canadian Protestants, especially in the face of the challenges of the twentieth century.