[PDF] Pagans In The Pews eBook

Author : Peter Jones
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,82 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : 9780830727988

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Straightforward discussion about how the new spirituality, or paganism, is creeping into the Church, & how to stand firm in Biblical Christianity.

Author : Frank Viola
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1414341652

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Have you ever wondered why we Christians do what we do for church every Sunday morning? Why do we “dress up” for church? Why does the pastor preach a sermon each week? Why do we have pews, steeples, and choirs? This ground-breaking book, now in affordable softcover, makes an unsettling proposal: most of what Christians do in present-day churches is rooted, not in the New Testament, but in pagan culture and rituals developed long after the death of the apostles. Coauthors Frank Viola and George Barna support their thesis with compelling historical evidence and extensive footnotes that document the origins of modern Christian church practices. In the process, the authors uncover the problems that emerge when the church functions more like a business organization than the living organism it was created to be. As you reconsider Christ's revolutionary plan for his church—to be the head of a fully functioning body in which all believers play an active role—you'll be challenged to decide whether you can ever do church the same way again.

Author : Sarah M. Pike
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 2001-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520220862

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This book incorporates the author's personal experience and scholarly work concerning ritual, sacred space, self-identity, and narrative.

Author : Dana D. Eilers
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,32 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 1564146715

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New Age, Pagans & law

Author : James Aten
Publisher : James Aten
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 2008-03-22
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0615209459

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This books separates myth from truth in order to lean what Wicca really is.

Author : Avery Dulles
Publisher : Image
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 2002-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0385505450

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There is today a dramatic reexamination of structure, authority, dogma -- indeed, every aspect of the life of the Church is held up to scrutiny. Welcoming this as a sign of vitality, Avery Dulles has carefully studied the writings of contemporary Protestant and Catholic ecclesiologists and sifted out six major approaches, or "models," through which the Church's character can be understood: as Institution, Mystical Communion, Sacrament, Herald, Servant, and, in a recent addition to the book, as Community of Disciples. A balanced theology, he concludes, must incorporate the major affirmations of each. "The method of models or types," observes Cardinal Dulles, "can have great value in helping people to get beyond the limitations of their own particular outlook and to enter into fruitful conversation with others... Such conversation is obviously essential if ecumenism is to get beyond its present impasses." This new edition includes a new Appendix and Preface by the author.

Author : Abram Herbert Lewis
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 15,85 MB
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780368089848

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Originally written as a polemic designed to encourage Protestants to return to the original Jewish origins and rules of the Bible, this work provides a thorough and complete overview of how paganism was absorbed into the Christian religion. Starting with an overview of how the scriptural texts were interpreted by pagan Gnostics to reflect their value systems and culture, the author then shows that anti-Semitism caused the first non-Jewish converts to the new religion to reject many of the original rules of Christianity. Next, he shows how most of the outer forms of what became familiar church rites were taken over almost without change from earlier pre-Christian religions and institutions. Included in these pagan-origin rites incorporated into Christianity are the more famous rituals of Easter and Christmas-but a host of others which will astonish the reader-including the sign of the Cross itself, perhaps one of the most used symbols of Christianity; most baptism rituals-including child-naming ceremonies; Sunday observance; the "mother and child" symbolism of Mary and Jesus; the universally-used "Chi-ro" symbol; the use of candles in churches; the structure and prayer rituals of church services of all denominations, and much more. The author points out that although all of these pagan influences entered Christianity through the Roman Catholic Church, most were taken over into Protestantism as well. About the author: Abram Herbert Lewis (1832-1908) was born in Scott, Cortland, New York, and served as Professor of Church History at the Theological Department at Alfred University in his home state. An avowed Seventh Day Baptist, he produced 11 books, 25 pamphlets and tracts, and was editor of 5 periodicals, all dealing with the history of Christianity.