Christian Unity and North America; Faith and Order Studies

Christian Unity and North America; Faith and Order Studies
Author: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Faith and Order
Publisher:
Total Pages: 8
Release:
Genre: Christian union
ISBN:

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Christian Unity in North America

Christian Unity in North America
Author: John Robert Nelson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1958
Genre: Christian union
ISBN:

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Christian Unity

Christian Unity
Author: Thomas Ryan
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2015
Genre: Christian union
ISBN: 1587685493

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Christian Unity

Christian Unity
Author: Thomas Ryan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780809149506

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In this inspirational book, Fr. Thomas Ryan harvests his thirty-five years of experience in the work for Christian unity, putting it on the table for popular consumption and to renew energy for the cause. In addition, he gives voice to the experience of others from around the continent and beyond who have shared the journey with in-depth experience in particular domains of ecumenical endeavor. A parish priest in Los Angeles. A couple who have exercised leadership in the Canadian Association of Interchurch Families. Another couple whose lives have been enriched and faith deepened through their collaboration in social action projects with other local churches in Virginia. A group of men in Portland, Oregon, who bring together community leaders in the public, private and nonprofit sectors to support and encourage one another in their personal faith journeys and to find Christian community in a secular society. Ryan recounts stories as well of the growing number of lay movements and institutes of consecrated life who carry the work for unity at their core, such as Focolare and the Community of Sant'Egidio. Similarly, the significant contribution monastic and religious communities and societies of apostolic life can make is exemplified in the stories of Taizé and Bose, the Paulists, Atonement Friars, Glenmary Missioners, and Jesuits. The "new monastics" who are springing up within a variety of Protestant traditions in North America are also featured. All of the above are lifted up as exemplifications that our bonds with one another in the body of Christ are being experienced and manifested in new ways. We are witnessing the emergence of a new reality: the priority of Christian community over a purely doctrinal approach. And the implications are both profound and exciting. The question framed for the reader is: If you are not already doing so, how might you participate and make a difference there, where you are? +

In Search of Christian Unity

In Search of Christian Unity
Author: Henry E. Webb
Publisher: Leafwood Publishers & Acu Press
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2003
Genre: Restoration movement (Christianity)
ISBN:

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Comprehensive history of the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement, including Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Independend Christian Churches, and Churches of Christ, both in the US and around the world

Unity in Christ and Country

Unity in Christ and Country
Author: William Harrison Taylor
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2017-06-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 081731945X

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Examines the interdenominational pursuits of the American Presbyterian Church from 1758 to 1801 In Unity in Christ and Country: American Presbyterians in the Revolutionary Era, 1758–1801, William Harrison Taylor investigates the American Presbyterian Church’s pursuit of Christian unity and demonstrates how, through this effort, the church helped to shape the issues that gripped the American imagination, including evangelism, the conflict with Great Britain, slavery, nationalism, and sectionalism. When the colonial Presbyterian Church reunited in 1758, a nearly twenty-year schism was brought to an end. To aid in reconciling the factions, church leaders called for Presbyterians to work more closely with other Christian denominations. Their ultimate goal was to heal divisions, not just within their own faith but also within colonial North America as a whole. Taylor contends that a self-imposed interdenominational transformation began in the American Presbyterian Church upon its reunion in 1758. However, this process was altered by the church’s experience during the American Revolution, which resulted in goals of Christian unity that had both spiritual and national objectives. Nonetheless, by the end of the century, even as the leaders in the Presbyterian Church strove for unity in Christ and country, fissures began to develop in the church that would one day divide it and further the sectional rift that would lead to the Civil War. Taylor engages a variety of sources, including the published and unpublished works of both the Synods of New York and Philadelphia and the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, as well as numerous published and unpublished Presbyterian sermons, lectures, hymnals, poetry, and letters. Scholars of religious history, particularly those interested in the Reformed tradition, and specifically Presbyterianism, should find Unity in Christ and Country useful as a way to consider the importance of the theology’s intellectual and pragmatic implications for members of the faith.

Bible Made Impossible, The

Bible Made Impossible, The
Author: Christian Smith
Publisher: Brazos Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2011-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1587433036

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A world-renowned sociologist argues that evangelical biblicism is impossible and produces unwanted pastoral consequences.