{"@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":"By what authority? \/ William Barclay.","author":"Barclay, W.","isbn":null,"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Judson Press"},"datePublished":"1975","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents:\tAuthority in the Old Testament: The authority of the Spirit -- Authority in the Old Testament: The authority of tradition -- The authority of Jesus -- Authority in the Church: In the New Testament -- Authority in the Church: After the New Testament -- Authority in the Church: In medieval and reformation times -- Authority today.\n\nPublished in: Valley Forge\n\nPhysical description: 221 pages ; 22 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Christian ethics : a historical introduction \/ J. Philip Wogaman.","author":"Wogaman, J. P.","isbn":null,"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Westminster\/John Knox Press"},"datePublished":"1993","inLanguage":"English","description":"The legacies of Christian ethics -- The biblical legacy of Christian ethics -- Philosophical legacies -- The ethics of early Christianity -- The formative years -- Seminal thinkers and transitions -- The moral vision of Saint Augustine -- Medieval Christianity -- Monastic and mystical contributions -- The confessional -- The Thomistic synthesis -- Late medieval forerunners -- The era of Reformation and Enlightenment -- The reformers : Luther and Calvin -- Catholic humanism and Counter-Reformation -- The radical Reformation -- Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century rationalism and evangelicalism -- Rationalism and revival in the eighteenth century -- Nineteenth-century philosophical and Christian ethics -- Nineteenth-century slavery and feminist controversies -- Christian ethics in the twentieth century -- The social gospel movement -- The social encyclicals -- Formative Christian moral thinkers -- The Vatican II watershed -- Liberation theology -- Ecumenical social ethics -- Christian ethics toward the third millennium -- Conflicting tendencies -- Can Christian ethics find a creative center? \r\n \tAbstract\tWogaman treats major thinkers, movements, and issues from the early church to the present.\n\nPublished in: Louisville, Ky.\n\nPhysical description: xi, 340 pages ; 23 cm","bookEdition":"1st ed.","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Church history in plain language \/ Bruce L. Shelley ; [foreword by Scott A. Wenig].","author":"Shelley, Bruce L.","isbn":"9781418530051","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Thomas Nelson"},"datePublished":"2008","inLanguage":"English","description":"The age of Jesus and the apostles, 6 BC -- AD 70 -- 1. Away with the King : the Jesus movement -- 2. Wineskins : old and new : the gospel to the Gentiles -- The age of catholic Christianity, 70 -- 312 -- 3. Only worthless people : Catholic Christianity -- 4. If the Tiber floods : the persecution of Christians -- 5. Arguing about the event : the rise of orthodoxy -- 6. The rule of books : the formation of the Bible -- 7. The school for sinners : the power of bishops -- 8. Apostles to intellectuals : the Alexandrians -- The age of the Christian Roman empire, 312 -- 590 -- 9. Laying her sceptre down : the conversion of the empire -- 10. Splitting important hairs : the doctrine of the Trinity -- 11. Emmanuel! : Christ in the creeds -- 12. Exiles from life : the beginnings of monasticism -- 13. The sage of the ages : Augustine -- 14. Peter as 'pontifex maximus' : the beginnings of the papacy -- 15. Somewhere between heaven and earth : Eastern Orthodoxy -- 16. Bending the necks of victors : mission to the barbarians -- The Christian Middle Ages, 590 -- 1517 -- 17. God's consul : Gregory the Great -- 18. The search for unity : Charlemagne and Christendom -- 19. Lifted in a mystic manner : the papacy and the crusader -- 20. The nectar of learning : scholasticism -- 21. A song to Lady Poverty : the apostolic life-style -- 22. Sleeping men and the law of necessity : the decline of the papacy -- 23. Judgment in the process of time : Wyclif and Hus -- The age of Reformation, 1517 -- 1648 -- 24. A wild boar in the vineyard : Martin Luther and Protestantism -- 25. Radical discipleship : The Anabaptists -- 26. Thrust into the game : John Calvin -- 27. The curse upon the crown : the Church of England -- 28. 'Another man' at Manresa : the Catholic Reformation -- 29. Opening the rock : America and Asia -- 30. The rule of the saints : Puritanism -- 31. Unwilling to die for an old idea : denominations -- The age of reason and revival, 1648 -- 1789 -- 32. Aiming at the foundations : the cult of reason -- 33. The heart and its reasons : Pascal and the Pietists -- 34. A brand from the burning : Wesley and Methodism -- 35. A new order of the ages : the Great Awakening -- The age of progress, 1789 -- 1914 -- 36. The restoration of fortresses : Catholicism in the age of progress -- 37. A new social frontier : nineteenth-century England -- 38. To earth's remotest people : Protestant missions -- 39. The destiny of a nation : a Christian America -- 40. A bridge for intelligent moderns : Protestant liberalism -- 41. Nothing to lose but chains : the social crisis -- The age of ideologies, 1914- -- 42. Graffiti on a wall of shame : twentieth-century ideologies -- 43. Rootless immigrants in a sick society : American Evangelicals -- 44. New creeds for breakfast : the ecumenical movement -- 45. The medicine of mercy : Roman Catholicism : Vatican II -- 46. Time for a reverse flow : Christianity in the Third World -- 47. Politics is a noble calling : Christianity in America's me generation -- 48. The global village : Christianity on the world scene -- 49. Winds from afar : Christianity at the birth of the third millenn\n\nPublished in: Nashville, Tenn.\n\nPhysical description: 532P","bookEdition":"3RD EDITN","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"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":6,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Fresh vision for the Muslim world : an incarnational alternative \/ Mike Kuhn.","author":"Kuhn, Michael F.","isbn":"9780830856558","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"IVP Academic"},"datePublished":"2009","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents: \tPart I: A visionary paradigm. Casting a new kind of vision -- Part II: A historical perspective. A history of complicity: Who, me? -- Give back my Holy Land! -- Two world wars and a new reality -- Part III: A theological dimension. Your truth or mine? -- Jesus' kingdom in the Muslim world today -- The Israel of God -- What's next or what's now? -- Perspective makes all the difference -- Part IV: A reality check. Reformation a la Islam -- \"Thou shalt not be terrorized\" -- Part V: Steps to incarnation. God on mission, human beings on mission -- Living the kingdom, extracting the empire.\n\nPublished in: Downers Grove, Illinois\n\nPhysical description: xii, 273 pages ; 22 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":7,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"His kingdom come : an integrated approach to discipling the nations and fulfilling the great commission \/ edited by Jim Stier, Richlyn Poor, and Lisa Orvis.","author":"Stier, J.; Poor, R.; Orvis, L.","isbn":"9781576584354","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"YWAM Pub."},"datePublished":"2008","inLanguage":"English","description":"Introduction -- Finding your place in the great commission \/ Jim Stier -- What the Bible says -- The Old Testament template for discipling nations \/ Landa Cope -- The New Testament basis for the discipling of nations \/ David Joel Hamilton -- Case study : second thoughts on galactic domination \/ Don Grattus -- History of discipling nations -- From Rome to Reformation \/ Todd M. Johnson -- Calvin and Geneva : nation-building missionary \/ Thomas A. Bloomer -- Revolutionaries and anti-revolutionaries \/ Jeff Fountain -- Youth with amission and the great reversal \/ Debra Buenting -- Case study: Fiji, a dramatic return to life \/ Loren Cunningham -- Philosophy of ministry -- The church and the kingdom \/ Dean Sherman -- A conversation on calling \/ John T. Henry -- Discipling the nations : one disciple at a time \/ Danny Lehmann -- Incarnational evangelism \/ C. Lynn Green -- Developmentoring \/ Kent Truewell -- The importance of people movements in discipling nations \/ Steve Cochrane -- From vision to reality : project planning \/ Howard V. Malmstadt -- Case study : principles and practices in Albania \/ Fraser Haug -- Case study : when less is more \/ Brulia Ribeiro -- Strategy -- Loving God and your neighbor \/ G. Stephen Goode -- Healing the wounds of the world \/ John Dawson -- Family and culture \/ Diane and Jeff Littleton -- Transforming a divorce culture to a marriage culture \/ Larry Ballard -- Bible and government \/ Ana Roncal Villanueva -- Discipling the nations through the sphere of business \/ Susanna Shenk -- Discipling the nations through journalism \/ Alison K. Muesing -- Media that transforms nations \/ Calvin and Carol Conkey -- Strategy coordination \/ Karine K -- University campus ministries \/ SungGun Hong -- How lovely \/ Jose Joseph and Sarah Jose.\n\nPublished in: Seattle, WA\n\nPhysical description: 484 pages ; 24 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":8,"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":9,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Ministry to Muslim women : longing to call them sisters \/ Fran Love and Jeleta Eckheart, editors.","author":"Eckheart, Jeleta.; Love, Fran.","isbn":"0878083383","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"William Carey Library"},"datePublished":"2000","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents: \tGod's passion released through us \/ Fran Love -- Current issues affecting Muslim women \/ C.M. Amal -- Muslim women in crisis \/ Debi Bartlotti -- Muslim women and the occult : seeing Jesus set the captives free \/ Julia Colgate -- Islamic reformation and fundamentalism's impact on Muslim women \/ Diana Colby -- Understanding the spiritual hunger of Muslim women \/ Lea Ruth -- Why Muslim women come to Christ \/ Miriam Adeney -- The sword of Christ : Muslim women make a costly commitment \/ B. Linda Smith -- What helps Muslim women grow in Christ \/ Iliam -- Discipleship of Muslim background believers through chronological Bible storying \/ A.H. -- Evangelism to and through family networks \/ Kay Waters -- Building community in a Muslim background believer church : a case study among Uighur women \/ Anne Jansen -- Developing women leaders in Muslim background believer churches \/ Fran Love -- The relationship between the missionary and the agency that sends her : from the perspective of the agency \/ Mary Ann Cate -- The relationship between the missionary and the agency that sends her : from the perspective of field missionaries \/ Group discussion -- Why am I here? \/ Elizabeth Learner -- How can I thrive here? \/ Karol Downey -- Who is with me here? \/ Cookie Liverman.\r\n\r\nAbstract: \tThis book is a compilation of real-life experiences by women actively involved in reaching Muslim women for Christ. These articles approach the question of the gospel and Islam from a female perspective. - Publisher. \r\nOther Notes: \tIncludes bibliographical references (pages 261-264) and index.\n\nPublished in: Pasadena, Calif.\n\nPhysical description: xi, 268 pages ; 23 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":10,"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"}}}]}