{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"ItemList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"An introduction to the reformed tradition : a way of being the Christian community \/ John H. Leith.","author":"Leith, John H.","isbn":"0804204799","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"John Knox Press"},"datePublished":"1981","inLanguage":"English","description":"1. Traditioning the faith -- The tradition and the traditions -- A secular and pluralistic society -- The open tradition -- 2. The Reformed churches -- The beginnings -- The Reformation in Switzerland -- Europe -- Great Britain -- The United States and Canada -- Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa -- The Reformed tradition and the younger churches -- The ecumenical movement -- 3. The ethos of the reformed tradition -- The majesty and praise of God -- The polemic against idolatry -- The working out of the divine purposes in history -- Ethics, a life of holiness -- The life of the mind as the service of God -- Preaching -- The organized church and pastoral care -- The disciplined life -- Simplicity. \r\n4. Theology and the Reformed tradition -- What is theology? -- Characteristics of reformed theology -- The development of Reformed theology -- Representative theologians -- Reformed confessions -- 5. Polity and the Reformed tradition -- The significance of polity -- The subordination of polity to the Gospel -- The one, holy Catholic, apostolic church -- Reformed polities -- Calvin's polity -- Presbyterianism -- Episcopacy -- Congregationalism. \r\n6. Liturgy and the Reformed tradition -- John Calvin and Karl Barth on worship -- Reformed liturgies -- Calvin's liturgy of 1545 -- Farel's liturgy -- The Westminster directory -- The American experience -- 7. Culture and the Reformed tradition -- Visual arts -- Literature -- Architecture -- Music -- Political order -- Economic order -- Learning -- 8. Prospects -- The freedom of God -- The reality of the power and presence of God -- The Bible as the Word of God -- The emphasis on the Word: spoken and written -- The vision of the Christian community -- The possibility of discipline -- The simple life.\n\nPublished in: Atlanta\n\nPhysical description: 264 pages ; 21 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Church history in plain language \/ Bruce L. Shelley.","author":"Shelley, Bruce L.","isbn":"0849938619","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Nelson Books"},"datePublished":"1982","inLanguage":"English","description":"The age of Jesus and the apostles: 6 BC -- AD 70 -- The age of Catholic Christianity: 70 -- 312 -- The age of the Christian Roman empire: 312 -- 590 -- The Christian middle ages: 590-1517 -- The age of the reformation: 1517 -- 1648 -- The age of reason and revival: 1648 -- 1789 -- The age of progress: 1789 -- 1914 -- The age of ideologies:\n\nPublished in: Nashville\n\nPhysical description: xvii, 520 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm","bookEdition":"UPdated 2nd editn","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Let the reader understand : a guide to interpreting and applying the Bible \/ Dan McCartney, Charles Clayton.","author":"McCartney, D.","isbn":"0875525164","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"P & R Pub."},"datePublished":"2002","inLanguage":"English","description":"Introduction: God's Word and human understanding: What is the problem? -- Part One: The foundation of understanding: Presuppositions -- 1. Truth, language, and sin -- The pillar of understanding: Truth -- The vehicle of understanding: Language -- The spoiler of understanding: Sin -- Summary -- 2. Knowing God: Presuppositions about the Bible and creation -- Is the Bible the Word of God? -- Is the Bible true? -- Is the Bible coherent? -- The Bible and the world -- 3. The foundation and the frame: Presuppositions and interpretation -- Presuppositions and method -- Tradition and the church -- The Holy Spirit: The ultimate interpreter -- Part Two: Interpretation in theory -- 4. The church and biblical interpretation -- The early church: Justin Martyr and Irenaeus -- The developing church: Origen and Theodore -- The Middle Ages: Aquinas -- The Reformation: Luther and Calvin -- The modern church: From Schleirmacher to Bultmann -- The literary turn: From literary criticism to postmodernism -- Summary -- 5. The grammatical-historical method: Knowing what it meant -- Meaning and understanding semantics -- Culture and understanding -- Context and understanding -- Genre and understanding -- 6. Removing the veil: From what it meant to what it means -- History and beyond -- Typology and \"fuller meaning\" -- The Bible interprets itself -- Redemptive history and present application -- Conclusion. \r\nPart Three: Interpretation in practice -- 7. Studying God's Word -- Spiritual preparation -- Analyzing passages -- Understanding the Bible on its own terms -- Priorities of interpretation -- Two examples -- 8. Biblical genres -- Theological history -- Law -- Poetry -- Prophecy -- Parables -- Epistles -- Apocalyptic -- 9. The Bible in worship and witness -- Scripture and worship -- Scripture and witness -- 10. Scripture and guidance -- Guidance needs to be in context -- What is \"God's will\"? -- Submission to God -- Understanding God and His ways -- Understanding God's sovereignty -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Where is meaning? -- Authorial intent -- Autonomous texts -- Reader response -- Conclusion -- Appendix B: The historical-critical method -- General description and evaluation -- \"Scholarly\" methods.\n\nPublished in: Phillipsburg, N.J.\n\nPhysical description: ix, 378 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm","bookEdition":"2nd edtion","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Money and the church \/ by Luther P. Powell.","author":"Powell, Luther P.","isbn":null,"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Association Press"},"datePublished":"1962","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents: Part One: Money and the church previous to the American period -- I. The early church to Constantine -- Voluntary offerings -- First fruits -- Tithing -- Endowments -- II. Constantine to Gregory the Great -- Endowments and legacies -- Oblations -- First fruits -- Tithing -- Decrees of councils on the tithe -- III. The Middle Ages (Methods) -- Gifts -- Vacancies -- Papal taxations -- Church courts -- IV. The Middle Ages (Motives) -- Revenue producing doctrines -- Indulgences -- Relics -- Absolutions and dispensations -- V. The Reformation and later in Europe -- The tithe system -- Church rates -- State support -- Part Two: Money and the church in early America -- VI. Philosophies of voluntary support -- On the congregational level -- On the national level -- VII. Philosophies of compulsory support -- On the town level -- By the authority of the patroon -- By the authority of the colony and the king -- VIII. Methods of support -- Glebes -- Pew revenues -- Collections and offerings -- Subscription lists -- Lotteries -- Part Three: Money and the church in contemporary America -- IX. Lottery and merchandising -- Variations of the lottery -- Bingo -- Merchandising schemes -- Church farm and Lord's acre -- Business enterprises -- Activity and faith -- X. Every member canvass -- Budgets -- Education and promotion -- Pledges -- Envelopes -- Youth participation -- Secondary accomplishments -- Professional fund raisers -- XI. Motives for giving -- Oblation and fear -- Legal compulsion -- Personal glorification -- Personal profit -- Self interest -- Missionary -- Love -- XII: Guiding principles -- Stewardship -- Proportionate giving -- First fruits -- XIII: The discipline of giving -- A rise in interest -- Tithing defined -- Five witnesses for tithing -- XIV. The ministry of Christian giving -- The gospel imperative -- The meaning of money -- Money is you -- Evangelists all. \r\n\r\nAbstract : The meaning of Christian stewardship from ancient times to the present, from simony to bingo, with suggestions on the philosophy of giving in a cash-and-credit economy.\n\nPublished in: New York\n\nPhysical description: 252 pages ; 21 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Readings in the history of Christian theology \/ Vol. 1 [edited by] William C. Placher.","author":"Placher, W.  C.","isbn":"0664240577","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Westminster Press"},"datePublished":"1988","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents\tV. 1. From its beginnings to the eve of the Reformation.\r\n\r\nAbstract\tVolume 1: William C. Placher compiles significant passages written by the most important Christian thinkers through the early sixteenth century. It contains excerpts preceded by the author's illuminating introductions so that the book can stand alone as a coherent history. Rather than institutional history, the book focuses on ideas presented from an ecumenical perspective.\n\nPublished in: Philadelphia, Pa.\n\nPhysical description: 204p. 23 cm","bookEdition":"1st ed. Vol. 1","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":6,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Readings in the history of Christian theology. Vol. 2, From the Reformation to the present.","author":"Placher, W. C.","isbn":"0664240585","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Westminster Press, cop."},"datePublished":"1988","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents: From the Reformation to the present.\r\n\r\nAbstract:  William C. Placher begins with a decisive transition, the Reformation of the sixteenth century, and opens with an excerpt from Martin Luther's The freedom of a Christian. From the sixteenth century into the twentieth, he presents significant selections from works of the principal Protestant and Catholic thinkers. Quoted passages are accompanied by Placher's illuminating introductions. Placher adopts an ecumenical approach, representing diverse traditions. He focuses on ideas rather than on the history of institutions. Bibliographies enhance the value of this work as a theological resource.\n\nPublished in: Philadelphia, Pa.\n\nPhysical description: 213p.","bookEdition":"Vol. 2","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":7,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Silent fire : an invitation to Western mysticism \/ edited by Walter Holden Capps and Wendy M. Wright.","author":"Capps, Walter H.; Wright, Wendy M.","isbn":"0060613149","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Harper & Row"},"datePublished":"1978","inLanguage":"English","description":"The founding fathers -- The twelfth century, spiritual formation and monastic reform -- The poetic vision of the thirteenth century, the spirit of the friars -- The mystic flowering of fourteenth-century England -- The Rhineland and the Netherlands, beyond God to the Godhead -- The Italian mystic Renaissance, the two Catherines -- The Reformation, new dimensions of Christian spirituality -- Spain in the sixteenth century, anatomies of the inner life -- The surrender of the will, seventeenth-century France -- Modern and contemporary masters of the contemplative life.\n\nPublished in: San Francisco\n\nPhysical description: x, 262 pages ; 21 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":8,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The Cambridge history of the Bible.","author":"Ackroyd, Peter R.","isbn":"0521074185","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":": Cambridge University Press"},"datePublished":"1969","inLanguage":"English","description":"v. 1. From the beginnings to Jerome \/ edited by P.R. Ackroyd -- v. 2. The West from the fathers to the Reformation \/ edited by G.W.H. Lampe -- v. 3. The West, from the Reformation to the present day \/ edited by S.L. Greenslade. \r\n \tAbstract\tVolume 1 of the Cambridge History of the Bible concerns the earliest period down to Jerome and takes as its central theme the process by which the books of both Testaments came into being and emerged as a canon of scripture, and the use of canonical writings in the early church. Volume 2 of the Cambridge History treats the Bible as a central document of Western civilization, a source of exegesis and of doctrine, an influence on education, on the growth of scholarship, on art and literature, as well as on the liturgy and the life of the Christian church and its members. This volume commences the study of the Bible in the West. It begins with Jerome and the Fathers and goes on to the time of Erasmus. Introductory chapters look back and rapidly survey the growth of the biblical canon in the pre-Christian period and the early church, and early Christian book-production. The central portion of the volume discusses exposition and exegesis of the Scriptures: in the hands of the Fathers, in the Medieval Schools, in the Liturgy and in the tradition of medieval Jewish scholarship. The permeation of European culture by the Scriptures is illustrated by themes in art and manuscript illustration, and by separate sections on each of the main vernacular languages, giving special attention to English. Each chapter is written by a scholar and expert on the subject, who summarizes existing knowledge and, in many cases, advances it by reporting his own research. Volume 3 covers the effects of the Bible on the history of the West between the Reformation and the publication of the New English Bible\n\nPublished in: NEWYORK\n\nPhysical description: 3 volumes : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm","bookEdition":"Vol. 2","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":9,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The story of Christianity : complete in one volume : the early Church to the present day \/ Justo L. Gonza\u0301lez.","author":"Gonza\u0301lez, J. L","isbn":"1565635221","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Prince Press"},"datePublished":"1984","inLanguage":"English","description":"The fullness of time -- The church in Jerusalem -- Mission to the Gentiles -- First conflicts with the state -- Persecution in the second century -- The defense of the faith -- The deposit of the faith -- The teachers of the church -- Persecution in the third century -- Christian life -- The great persecution and the final victory -- Constantine -- Official theology : Eusebius of Caesarea -- The monastic reaction -- The schismatic reaction : Donatism -- The Arian controversy and the Council of Nicea -- The pagan reaction : Julian the Apostate -- Athanasius of Alexandria -- The great Cappadocians -- Ambrose of Milan -- John Chrysostom -- Jerome -- Augustine of Hippo -- The end of an era -- The new order -- Eastern Christianity -- Imperial restoration and continuing decay -- Movements of renewal -- The offensive against Islam -- The golden age of medieval Christianity -- The collapse -- In quest of reformation -- Renaissance and humanism -- Spain and the new world -- The Portuguese enterprise -- The call for reformation -- Martin Luther : pilgrimage to reformation -- Luther's theology -- An uncertain decade -- Ulrich Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation -- The Anabaptist movement -- John Calvin -- The Reformation in Great Britain -- Further developments within Lutheranism -- The Reformation in the low countries -- Protestantism in France -- The Catholic Reformation -- A convulsed age -- An age of dogma and doubt -- The Thirty Years' War -- The church of the desert -- The Puritan revolution -- Catholic orthodoxy -- Lutheran orthodoxy -- Reformed orthodoxy -- The Rationalist option -- The Spiritualist option -- The Pietist option -- The thirteen colonies -- Political horizons : the United States -- Political horizons : Europe -- Political horizons : Latin America -- Protestant theology -- Catholic theology -- Geographic expansion -- An age of drastic change -- Eastern Christianity -- Roman Catholic Christianity -- Protestantism in Europe -- Protestantism in the United States -- From the ends of the earth. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.\n\nPublished in: Peabody, MA\n\nPhysical description: 2 volumes in 1 (xviii, 429, xii, 414 pages) : illu","bookEdition":"Prince Press edition.","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":10,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The story of christianity \/ Justo L Gonzalez.","author":"Gonza\u0301lez, J.L","isbn":"0060633158","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Haper"},"datePublished":"1984","inLanguage":"English","description":"The reformation to the present day v.2.\n\nPublished in: sanfrancisco\n\nPhysical description: xviii, 429 p.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}}]}