The Last Reformation

The Last Reformation
Author: Torben Sondergaard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781938526428

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Much of what we see expressed in the church today is built on more than just the New Testament. It's built mostly on the Old Testament, Church culture, and Paganism. If we are to succeed in making disciples of all nations then we must go back to the "template" we find in the Bible. Let the reformation begin!

The Pioneer Preacher

The Pioneer Preacher
Author: Sherlock Bristol
Publisher:
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1887
Genre: Autobiography
ISBN:

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Claiming the Call to Preach

Claiming the Call to Preach
Author: Donna Giver-Johnston
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2021
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0197576370

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"Claiming the Call to Preach traces the history of call through the nineteenth century, at a time when the question of women's call to preach, although seemingly fixed by ecclesial authority and cultural convention, was being raised by courageous women in different settings, through different genres, and to different effect. This book recovers the neglected narrative of women's call to preach through the historical accounts and rhetorical witness of four ground-breaking women preachers: Jarena Lee, Frances Willard, Louisa Woosley, and Florence Spearing Randolph. Scholarship has been written on women who have preached in history, but not on how they managed to claim their call to preach despite the restrictions of gender inequality. This project explores the question: how did women claim their call to preach? Through feminist hermeneutics, this book examines call narratives which used rhetorical strategies to articulate effective arguments for women's call to the preaching ministry of the church. In response, these women received endorsement of their claims to pulpit places, engaged in sacred persuasive speech, and preached as ministers of the sacred office. This project examines women's call to preach-the history and theology, rhetoric and practice, struggle and success, and the necessary work of interpretation and re-interpretation through call narratives. This book concludes with practical applications for contemporary homiletics, showing how historical tradition can be re-invented in order to give women-and anyone struggling with their call to preach-rhetorical tactics and narrative scripts in order to make effective claims to preach today"--

Biographical Sketches of the Pioneer Preachers of Indiana

Biographical Sketches of the Pioneer Preachers of Indiana
Author: Madison Evans
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781230224282

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ...indomitable Roman who said, Viam aut veniam aut faciam--" I will either find a way, or make a way." These will think that Elder Emmons ought to have found a Christian church or built up one; but they must not charge him too hastily with unfaithfulness. His fault seems to have been, chiefly, lack of energy--" the very head and front of his offending hath this extent, no more." That he has not denied the faith is clearly established by indubitable testimony. In a letter to J. M. Mathes, he himself says, "In uniting as I did with the First Baptist church in Boston, in 1843, J renounced no Reformation principle that I ever held." The pastor of that church, Dr. Neale, says of him: "His reception into my church was owing to my knowledge of his character as a Christian, and not to any sympathy with the peculiar speculative notions in which it was somewhat natural for him to indulge." "For these 'peculiar notions, ' and 'theological speculations' "--says Elder E. in his letter to Elder Mathes--" or for the faith and teaching contained in them, has my name been cast out as evil. I have been looked upon as a speckled bird, having had no call, and no pastoral charge in any Baptist church since 1830. So, for my Reformation principles--nicknamed 'Campbellism'--for their avowal and advocacy, I have been, still am, and expect to be a living martyr." He acknowledges no creed but the Bible; preaches no baptism but that "for the remission of sins;" employs his pen in support of no faith but that "once delivered to the saints;" and wherever in his travels he meets with a congregation of Disciples, with them he fraternizes, advocating their cause. He is still to be regarded, ...

The Pioneer Preacher

The Pioneer Preacher
Author: Sherlock Bristol
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1989
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780252060915

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Originally published in 1887, The Pioneer Preacher is a lively account of a Congregationalist minister's attempts to lead a sin-free existence on the American frontier. Sherlock Bristol (1815-1906) was a California gold miner, wagon train captain, Wisconsin farmer, Idaho rancher, Indian fighter, abolitionist, and Oberlin-trained clergyman. While serving a series of churches in the East, he periodically cured himself of "nervous disorders" by journeying out West. He only broke the Sabbath once---during an Indian attack Reflecting in his memoirs the exploits of Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett, Bristol delights in recounting his adventures, ecclesiastical or otherwise. He vividly recalls his redemption in the wilderness where he enjoyed having "little opportunity for reading books or mental exercise, and an abundance of calls for muscular employment." Greatly influenced by the evangelist Charles G. Finney at Oberlin, Bristol tried to teach miners and frontiersmen the principles of revivalism, postmillennialism, and perfectionism. In The Pioneer Preacher he shares his own disputatious views on abolition, American Indians, temperance, and other issues of his day.