[PDF] Organizing To Beat The Devil eBook

Author : George R. Knight
Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Seventh-Day Adventists
ISBN : 9780828019804

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The twentieth century brought new problems: racial conflict that led to the establishment of regional conferences and the call for Black unions, and congregational rumblings that continue to the present. As the church contemplates a third cycle of restructuring, the author wonders whether it will be flexible enough to change again.

Author : George R. Knight
Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 35,81 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780828018159

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This biography by historian George Knight makes use of previously unavailable sources, letters, and logbooks to shed new light on the first theologian and real founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Author : Charles Wright Ferguson
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,1 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Methodists
ISBN :

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Relates developments within the Methodist Church to American history, particularly with regard to social issues such as slavery and women's rights.

Author : Robert Ellis Haynes
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1532639198

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Short-term mission trips are commonplace in American church life. Yet their growth and practice have largely been divorced from theological education, seminary training, and mission studies. Consuming Mission takes important steps in offering a theological assessment of the practice of STM and tools for subsequent mission training. Using relevant academic studies and original focus-group interviews, Haynes offers important insights into this ubiquitous practice. While carefully examining the biblical and historical foundations for mission, Consuming Mission engages more contemporary movements like the Missio Dei, Fresh Expressions, the Emergent Church, and Third-Wave Mission movements that have helped shape mission. The unique role of United Methodist mission is illustrated through its historical roots and contemporary expression in the ubiquitous STM movement in the United States. Haynes uses original field research data to gather the implicit and explicit theologies of lay and clergy participants. Cultural influences are significantly influencing STM participants as they use their time, money, sacrifice, and service, applied in the name of mission, to purchase a personal growth experience commonly sought by pilgrims. The resulting tensions from mixing mission, pilgrimage, and tourism creates are explored. Haynes offers important steps to move the practice away from using mission for personal edification.

Author : Gary Land
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810853454

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Profiles a large Christian denomination that is only two centuries old, but has a rapidly growing member base, including a large presence in the Third World. Reviews the notable historical events in a chronology; explains the development of the Seventh-day Adventist as a world religion in the introductory essay; describes the persons, places, events, doctrines, publications, institutions, organizations, and societies that played a significant role in shaping the religion; and provides an extensive bibliography of works on Seventh-day Adventism and books expressing Adventist views on theological and other issues.