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Author |
: John Corrigan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2022 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1469670615 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781469670614 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Global Faith, Worldly Power by : John Corrigan
"Assessing the grand American evangelical missionary venture to convert the world, this international group of leading scholars reveals how theological imperatives have intersected with worldly imaginaries from the nineteenth century to the present. Countering the stubborn notion that conservative Protestant groups have steadfastly maintained their distance from governmental and economic affairs, these experts show how believers' ambitious investments in missionizing and humanitarianism have connected with worldly matters of empire, the Cold War, foreign policy, and neoliberalism"--
Author |
: John Corrigan |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 411 |
Release |
: 2022-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469670607 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469670607 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Global Faith, Worldly Power by : John Corrigan
Assessing the grand American evangelical missionary venture to convert the world, this international group of leading scholars reveals how theological imperatives have intersected with worldly imaginaries from the nineteenth century to the present. Countering the stubborn notion that conservative Protestant groups have steadfastly maintained their distance from governmental and economic affairs, these experts show how believers' ambitious investments in missionizing and humanitarianism have connected with worldly matters of empire, the Cold War, foreign policy, and neoliberalism. They show, too, how evangelicals' international activism redefined the content and the boundaries of the movement itself. As evangelical voices from Africa, Asia, and Latin America became more vocal and assertive, U.S. evangelicals took on more pluralistic, multidirectional identities not only abroad but also back home. Applying this international perspective to the history of American evangelicalism radically changes how we understand the development and influence of evangelicalism, and of globalizing religion more broadly. In addition to a critical introduction and essays by editors John Corrigan, Melani McAlister, and Axel R. Schafer are essays by Lydia Boyd, Emily Conroy-Krutz, Christina Cecelia Davidson, Helen Jin Kim, David C. Kirkpatrick, Candace Lukasik, Sarah Miller-Davenport, Dana L. Robert, Tom Smith, Lauren F. Turek, and Gene Zubovich.
Author |
: David F. Wells |
Publisher |
: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2006-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802824554 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802824552 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Above All Earthly Pow'rs by : David F. Wells
In this prophetic call to the evangelical church, Wells stresses that Christians need to confess Christ as the center in a society lacking a center, as the sovereign in a world seemingly ruled by chance, and as the one who can give meaning in a nihilistic culture.
Author |
: Melani McAlister |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2022-09-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0197660428 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780197660423 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Kingdom of God Has No Borders by : Melani McAlister
Award of Merit, 2019 Christianity Today Book Awards (History/Biography) More than forty years ago, conservative Christianity emerged as a major force in American political life. Since then the movement has been analyzed and over-analyzed, declared triumphant and, more than once, given up for dead. But because outside observers have maintained a near-relentless focus on domestic politics, the most transformative development over the last several decades--the explosive growth of Christianity in the global south--has gone unrecognized by the wider public, even as it has transformed evangelical life, both in the US and abroad. The Kingdom of God Has No Borders offers a daring new perspective on conservative Christianity by shifting the lens to focus on the world outside US borders. Melani McAlister offers a sweeping narrative of the last fifty years of evangelical history, weaving a fascinating tale that upends much of what we know--or think we know--about American evangelicals. She takes us to the Congo in the 1960s, where Christians were enmeshed in a complicated interplay of missionary zeal, Cold War politics, racial hierarchy, and anti-colonial struggle. She shows us how evangelical efforts to convert non-Christians have placed them in direct conflict with Islam at flash points across the globe. And she examines how Christian leaders have fought to stem the tide of HIV/AIDS in Africa while at the same time supporting harsh repression of LGBTQ communities. Through these and other stories, McAlister focuses on the many ways in which looking at evangelicals abroad complicates conventional ideas about evangelicalism. We can't truly understand how conservative Christians see themselves and their place in the world unless we look beyond our shores.
Author |
: John Micklethwait |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1594202133 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781594202131 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis God is Back by : John Micklethwait
On the street and in the corridors of power, religion is surging worldwide. From Russia to Turkey to India, nations that swore off faith in the last century--or even tried to stamp it out--are now run by avowedly religious leaders. This book examines this new world, from exorcisms in São Paulo to religious skirmishing in Nigeria, to televangelism in California and house churches in China. Since the Enlightenment, intellectuals have assumed that modernization would kill religion--and that religious America is an oddity. As these authors argue, religion and modernity can thrive together, and America is becoming the norm. The failure of communism and the rise of globalism helped spark the global revival, but, above all, 21st century religion is being fueled by a very American emphasis on competition and a customer-driven approach to salvation, and its destabilizing effects can already be seen far from Iraq or the World Trade Center.--From publisher description.
Author |
: David F. Wells |
Publisher |
: Crossway |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2014-01-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781433531347 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1433531348 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis God in the Whirlwind by : David F. Wells
Building on years of research and teaching, experienced author and theologian David Wells offers a remedy for evangelicalism’s superficial theology and weightless conception of God: a journey to discover the paradoxical nature of his holiness and love. We all struggle, at times, to hold that paradox together, commonly resulting in problems such as liberalism or legalism. Yet understanding how God’s holiness is inextricably bound to his love is what enables us to live between the two extremes and defines our life of service in this world. In the vein of classics such as Packer’s Knowing God, Wells’s biblical theology is written at an accessible level so that all readers can cultivate a balanced vision of the God who belongs in the center of it all.
Author |
: Mark R. Shaw |
Publisher |
: InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages |
: 223 |
Release |
: 2010-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780830867165 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0830867163 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Global Awakening by : Mark R. Shaw
The last century has seen the revolutionary remaking of Christianity into a truly world religion. How did it happen? What triggered the emergence of this new global faith no longer dominated by the West, full of new and vital forms of devotion? Mark Shaw's provocative thesis is that far-flung revivals are at the heart of the global resurgence of Christianity. These were not the quirky folk rituals associated with rural America and nineteenth-century camp meetings that belong more to an age of plows and prairies than of postmodernity and globalization. Rather they were like forces of nature, protean, constantly adjusting their features and ferocity to new times and to new places, speaking Spanish, Portuguese, Yoruba, Korean, Mandarin and Gujarati. They crossed the equator. As they traveled abroad they grabbed hold of missionaries, Bible translations, national evangelists, globalization and glossolalia and turned them into a religious revolution. In this engaging book we read the stories of Joseph Babalola and the Aladura Revival in Africa, of Kil Sun-Ju and the great Korean revival of 1907, of Paulo Borges Jr. and explosion of neo-Pentecostalism in Brazil, and of V. S. Azariah and the mass conversions of the Dalit people in India. As Shaw paints portraits of these and many more, his gallery fills, and we begin to see beyond isolated pictures to the sweeping landscape that we didn't realize was before our eyes all the time.
Author |
: Melanie Phillips |
Publisher |
: Encounter Books |
Total Pages |
: 508 |
Release |
: 2011-12-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781594035753 |
ISBN-13 |
: 159403575X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis The World Turned Upside Down by : Melanie Phillips
In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. An astonishing number of people subscribe to celebrity endorsed cults, Mayan armageddon prophecies, scientism, and other varieties of new age, anti-enlightenment philosophies. Millions more advance popular conspiracy theories: AIDS was created in a CIA laboratory, Princess Diana was assassinated, and the 9/11 attacks were an inside job. In The World Turned Upside Down, Melanie Phillips explains that the basic cause of this explosion of irrationality is the slow but steady marginalization of religion. We tell ourselves that faith and reason are incompatible, but the opposite is the case. It was Christianity and the Hebrew Bible, Phillips asserts, that gave us our concepts of reason, progress, and an orderly world on which science and modernity are based. Without its religious traditions, the West has drifted into mass derangement where truth and lies, right and wrong, victim and aggressor are all turned upside down. Scientists skeptical of global warming are hounded from their posts, Israel is demonized, and the US is vilified over the war on terror—all on the basis of blatant falsehoods and obscene propaganda. Worst of all, asserts Phillips, this abandonment of rationality leaves the West vulnerable to its legitimate threats. Faced with the very real challenges of spiraling demographics and violent, confrontational Islamism, the West is no longer willing or able to defend the modernity and rationalism that it once brought into being.
Author |
: Donald E. Miller |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 431 |
Release |
: 2013-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199920570 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199920575 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Spirit and Power by : Donald E. Miller
An exploration of the global growth and social and political impact of Pentecostalism.
Author |
: Andy Mcquitty |
Publisher |
: Moody Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2018-02-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802496386 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802496385 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Way to Brave by : Andy Mcquitty
Want to grow in courage? It’s getting harder to be a Christian in our post-Christian culture. As a pastor of 35 years, Andy is seeing the church wake from a “Christian Pax Americana” to an era of intensified hostility. Based on David’s courage before Goliath, The Way to Brave helps readers face the giants looming over us today, such as secularism and relativism. Bent on banishing Christian influence from public life, their power is shocking, their reach expansive, and their deployment quick. But still they are no match for our God. The Way to Brave guides readers through the five ways God prepared David to be intrepid in facing the giant who opposed him. The qualities and experiences David possessed are the ones Christians need today. Pastor Andy McQuitty will walk you through what those are and how they can mark your life, bolstering you for the storms ahead.