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Holy Communion in the Piety of the Reformed Church

Author : Hughes Oliphant Old
Publisher :
Release Date : 2013
ISBN 13 : 9781938139277
Pages : 919 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (938 downloads)

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Download Holy Communion in the Piety of the Reformed Church PDF Format Full Free by Hughes Oliphant Old and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 919 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All across the United States, Protestant churches have forgotten their sacramental roots. The Lord's Supper has often been reduced to an empty memorial if it is even celebrated at all, and the contemporary Protestant church suffers greatly from this lapse. In Holy Communion in the Piety of the Reformed Church, Hughes Oliphant Old uncovers the central importance of Holy Communion in the Reformed tradition. Beginning with Calvin and moving into modern times, Old pinpoints and explains the most pivotal developments in Reformed eucharistic theology-- from the true nature of the communion elements to preparatory services and seasons. Along the way, he shows that our doctrine of the Lord's Supper is not merely an intellectual exercise; it has the profound influence on the church's life and operations-- on her piety. This volume is both a scholarly exploration of Reformed tradition and a pastoral call to the contemporary church to rediscover the most potent truths and edifying practices of our Christian forefathers. In our day of debilitating liturgical innovations, Holy Communion proves yet again that God's truth on any subject is timeless and evergreen. Before we can display Christ fully in our day, we must recover a full commitment to biblical worship-- in the Word preached as well as the Word made visible in the Lord's Supper."--Dust jacket.

Holy Communion in the Piety of the Reformed Church

Author : Hughes Oliphant Old
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2020-04-13
ISBN 13 : 1532695543
Pages : 936 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (695 downloads)

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More than Luther:

Author : Karla Apperloo-Boersma
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Release Date : 2019-03-11
ISBN 13 : 3647570966
Pages : 349 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (57 downloads)

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Download More than Luther: PDF Format Full Free by Karla Apperloo-Boersma and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the plenary papers and a selection of shortpapers from the Seventh Annual RefoRC conference, which was held May 10–12th 2017 in Wittenberg. The contributions concentrate on the effects of Luther ́s new theology and draw the lines from Luther ́s contemporaries into the early seventeenth century. Developments in art, catholic responses and Calvinistic reception are only some of the topics. The volume reflects the interdisciplinarity and interconfessionality that characterizes present research on the 16th century reformations and underlines the fact that this research has not come to a conclusion in 2017. The papers in this conference volume point to lacunae and will certainly stimulate further research. Contributors: Wim François, Antonio Gerace, Siegrid Westphal, Edit Szegedi, Maria Lucia Weigel, Graeme Chatfield, Jane Schatkin Hettrick, Marta Quatrale, Aurelio A. García, Jeannette Kreijkes, Csilla Gábor, Gábor Ittzés, Balázs Dávid Magyar, Tomoji Odori, Gregory Soderberg, Herman A. Speelman, Izabela Winiarska-Górska, Erik A. de Boer, Donald Sinnema, Dolf te Velde.

As Often As You Eat This Bread

Author : Gregory David Soderberg
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Release Date : 2022-11-14
ISBN 13 : 3647560707
Pages : 281 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (56 downloads)

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Download As Often As You Eat This Bread PDF Format Full Free by Gregory David Soderberg and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why can't Christians agree about communion? Why is it that in some churches all worship services culminate in a holy meal whereas other churches celebrate this "holy supper" only once in a while? Theologian Gregory Soderberg has researched this question, excavating patterns of communion frequency within one of the bigger Christian families: the Reformed tradition. Despite being the sacrament of unity, the eucharist has often been a cause of strife in Christian churches. In his study, Gregory David Soderberg is the first to focus in depth on communion frequency in the Reformed tradition. He concludes that, although the 16th century Reformers desired more frequent communion, this was balanced by their desire to create mature Christian communities. So, preachers and church leaders stressed the priority of moral conduct and the importance of understanding what the eucharist meant for Protestants. The study analyses sources from the very beginnings of this tradition in 16th century Zürich and Geneva, and it follows its trajectories through England and Scotland all the way down to 19th century USA. Ultimately, it is hoped that understanding the polemics of the past will help churches today to celebrate the sacrament of unity more meaningfully.

Protestant Worship

Author : James F. White
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date : 1989-01-01
ISBN 13 : 9780664250379
Pages : 260 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (664 downloads)

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In the Breaking of the Bread

Author : Leander S. Harding
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2010-11-15
ISBN 13 : 1608998223
Pages : 104 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (998 downloads)

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Download In the Breaking of the Bread PDF Format Full Free by Leander S. Harding and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for people who are new to a form of Christian worship that is centered on the weekly celebration of the Holy Communion. It will be a help to people moving from a non-liturgical church to a more liturgical church and to those contemporary Christians who are seeking an ancient-future form of Christian worship. Those who are familiar with Eucharistic worship will encounter new treasures that have been hiding in plain sight. The book follows carefully the service of Holy Communion as it is celebrated in a local congregation, describing what is done and why. The service chosen is from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. Christians of other traditions will find close parallels to the way this central act of worship is celebrated in their own tradition.

The Foundation of Communion with God

Author : Ryan M. McGraw
Publisher : Reformation Heritage Books
Release Date : 2014-10-20
ISBN 13 : 160178340X
Pages : 136 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (783 downloads)

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Download The Foundation of Communion with God PDF Format Full Free by Ryan M. McGraw and published by Reformation Heritage Books. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Foundation of Communion with God introduces readers to the Trinitarian piety of John Owen (1616–1683). Ryan McGraw’s introduction to Owen sketches the major events of this important theologian’s life and shows how his circumstances shaped his thought on the themes of the Trinity and public worship. The second part of the book presents forty-one brief selections from Owen’s writings that trace his thoughts on knowing God as triune, on Scripture and worship, on heavenly-mindedness, and on covenant and the church. Appendixes provide readers with a chronological list of Owen’s writings and a guide to them for those who wish to delve deeper into this great theologian’s thoughts. Table of Contents: Section One: Knowing God as Triune Section Two: Heavenly-Mindedness and Apostasy Section Three: Covenant and Church Series Description Seeking, then, both to honor the past and yet not idolize it, we are issuing these books in the series Profiles in Reformed Spirituality . The design is to introduce the spirituality and piety of the Reformed Profiles in Reformed Spirituality tradition by presenting descriptions of the lives of notable Christians with select passages from their works. This combination of biographical sketches and collected portions from primary sources gives a taste of the subjects’ contributions to our spiritual heritage and some direction as to how the reader can find further edification through their works. It is the hope of the publishers that this series will provide riches for those areas where we are poor and light of day where we are stumbling in the deepening twilight.

The Touch of the Sacred

Author : F. Gerrit Immink
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-03
ISBN 13 : 1467440477
Pages : 280 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (44 downloads)

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Download The Touch of the Sacred PDF Format Full Free by F. Gerrit Immink and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All over the world Christian communities meet on Sunday morning for worship. But what really happens during a worship service? How do worshipers participate in the service? What does it mean to sing, pray, and celebrate the Lord's Supper together? What do worshipers do when they listen to a sermon? In The Touch of the Sacred Gerrit Immink offers thoughtful theological reflection on the religious practice of worship services in the Protestant tradition. He develops a theology of worship with a clear focus on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ as he explores the meaning of worship, the mystery of Christ, the sacraments, prayer, and preaching. Ultimately, he says, something dynamic happens when a church congregation speaks and acts: it is touched by the sacred, by a very encounter with the living God.

Worship

Author : Evelyn Underhill
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2002-02-04
ISBN 13 : 1579108806
Pages : 372 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (18 downloads)

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Download Worship PDF Format Full Free by Evelyn Underhill and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2002-02-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of how Christian worship, viewed in its deepest sense, is a response of the human to the Eternal. There is first an examination of the basic characteristics, in ritual, symbol, sacrifice, and sacrament. The nature and significance of the Eucharist are thoroughly treated. In the second part of the book there is a detailed discussion of selected traditions of worship, including Reformed, Anglican, Catholic, Eastern, and Western churches. Recognized as both a historical study and a spiritual classic of our time, Worship has had a long series of editions since it was first published in 1936.

The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe

Author : Catherine Richardson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-09-13
ISBN 13 : 1317042859
Pages : 486 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (42 downloads)

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Download The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe PDF Format Full Free by Catherine Richardson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe marks the arrival of early modern material culture studies as a vibrant, fully-established field of multi-disciplinary research. The volume provides a rounded, accessible collection of work on the nature and significance of materiality in early modern Europe – a term that embraces a vast range of objects as well as addressing a wide variety of human interactions with their physical environments. This stimulating view of materiality is distinctive in asking questions about the whole material world as a context for lived experience, and the book considers material interactions at all social levels. There are 27 chapters by leading experts as well as 13 feature object studies to highlight specific items that have survived from this period (defined broadly as c.1500–c.1800). These contributions explore the things people acquired, owned, treasured, displayed and discarded, the spaces in which people used and thought about things, the social relationships which cluster around goods – between producers, vendors and consumers of various kinds – and the way knowledge travels around those circuits of connection. The content also engages with wider issues such as the relationship between public and private life, the changing connections between the sacred and the profane, or the effects of gender and social status upon lived experience. Constructed as an accessible, wide-ranging guide to research practice, the book describes and represents the methods which have been developed within various disciplines for analysing pre-modern material culture. It comprises four sections which open up the approaches of various disciplines to non-specialists: ‘Definitions, disciplines, new directions’, ‘Contexts and categories’, ‘Object studies’ and ‘Material culture in action’. This volume addresses the need for sustained, coherent comment on the state, breadth and potential of this lively new field, including the work of historians, art historians, museum curators, archaeologists, social scientists and literary scholars. It consolidates and communicates recent developments and considers how we might take forward a multi-disciplinary research agenda for the study of material culture in periods before the mass production of goods.

Harbor for the Poor

Author : Eric Costanzo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2013-03-20
ISBN 13 : 1620324962
Pages : 196 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (324 downloads)

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Download Harbor for the Poor PDF Format Full Free by Eric Costanzo and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban poverty in the developed world is an ever-present problem, and Christian approaches to poverty throughout history have much to teach us. The practice of almsgiving, which is the consistent practice of giving and sharing resources to meet the needs of the poor, is a sadly neglected part of this Christian heritage. This book explores the Christian lifestyle of almsgiving through the study of John Chrysostom. The sermons and writings of John Chrysostom (c.347-407 CE), pastor in Antioch and archbishop of Constantinople, contain perhaps the greatest concentration of teaching on almsgiving in all of Christian literature. John's teaching on almsgiving was both biblical and practical, and his ministry helped strengthen care for the poor throughout the Roman Empire of late antiquity. John preached his sermons to congregations filled with people who lived very comfortable lives. From his perspective, the churches of Antioch and Constantinople had grown complacent regarding poverty, when in fact God had called them to become a harbor for the poor.

Worship Seeking Understanding

Author : John D. Witvliet
Publisher : Baker Books
Release Date : 2003-07-01
ISBN 13 : 1441207007
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (27 downloads)

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Download Worship Seeking Understanding PDF Format Full Free by John D. Witvliet and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What exactly is worship? How can we account for its power? In Worship Seeking Understanding, noted worship expert John Witvliet mines the riches of the Bible, theology, history, music, and pastoral research to provide windows into the practice of Christian worship. With this work, Witvliet attempts to build bridges between theory and practice, among various worship-related disciplines, and across denominational lines. If worship renewal is to occur, each bridge must be formed. His hope is that this work will not only articulate questions about worship but also enrich the practice of worship in congregations today. Witvliet's broad scope and insightful advice will be welcomed by pastors, worship leaders, church leaders, and students.

Melanchthon and Calvin on Confession and Communion

Author : Herman Speelman
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Release Date : 2016-01-18
ISBN 13 : 3647550418
Pages : 363 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (55 downloads)

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Download Melanchthon and Calvin on Confession and Communion PDF Format Full Free by Herman Speelman and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melanchthon and Calvin were late medieval people, stemming from a world of order and unity, and at the same time they fully lived in the early modern world, in which everything was changing. In this new world they committedly, enthusiastically, and restlessly sought to introduce some order, in theory as well as practice. The sixteenth-century church was governed by multiple coercive constructions and systems. Did the two Reformers really succeed in disconnecting themselves from them, and to what extent did they connect to, for example, the existing forms of eucharistic piety?The established church had come under serious criticism, and people were massively turning their backs on the less than attractive ecclesiastical practices—something connecting that era to ours. In these highly turbulent and suspenseful 1520s, when it was not yet clear whether the ten-year-old evangelical movement in Germany was still viable, Melanchthon tried to introduce at least some order into the chaos by means of a confession accompanied by a church order. As it turned out, the new doctrine on 'Christian freedom' and 'justification by faith alone' was easily interpreted in a one-sided manner. Through a careful analysis of the sources, Herman A. Speelman examines Melanchthon's church visitations in 1527 and Calvin's five attempts to shape the modernisation of ecclesiastical life. In addition to the gospel, also penance and the preaching of the law received a place in the Protestant liturgy and spirituality.Melanchthon's and Calvin's contributions were not only to have an enormous impact on the theological evolutions in the evangelical movement in Europe, but they also proved to be of eminent importance for the way in which the new doctrine was given meaning in practice. Their instructions continue to be highly influential in large parts of Europe today.

A Perfect Babel of Confusion

Author : Randall Herbert Balmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2002
ISBN 13 : 0195152654
Pages : 273 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (152 downloads)

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Download A Perfect Babel of Confusion PDF Format Full Free by Randall Herbert Balmer and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the interaction of the Dutch and the English in colonial New York and New Jersey, this study charts the decline of European culture in North America. Balmer argues that the combination of political intrigue, English cultural imperialism, and internal socio-economic tensions eventually drove the Dutch away from their hereditary customs, language, and culture. He shows how this process, which played itself out most visibly and poignantly in the Dutch Reformed Church between 1664 and the American Revolution, illustrates the difficulty of maintaining non-English cultures and institutions in an increasingly English world. A Perfect Babel of Confusion redresses some of the historiographical neglect of the Middle Colonies and, in the process, sheds new light on Dutch colonial culture.

The Foundation of Communion with God

Author : John Owen
Publisher : Profiles in Reformed Spiritual
Release Date : 2014
ISBN 13 : 9781601783394
Pages : 0 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (61 downloads)

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Download The Foundation of Communion with God PDF Format Full Free by John Owen and published by Profiles in Reformed Spiritual. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Foundation of Communion with God" introduces readers to the trinitarian piety of John Owen (1616 1683). Ryan McGraw's introduction to Owen sketches the major events of this important theologian's life and shows how his circumstances shaped his thought on the themes of the Trinity and public worship. The second part of the book presents forty-one brief selections from Owen's writings that trace his thoughts on knowing God as triune, Scripture and worship, heavenly-mindedness, and covenant and church. Appendixes provide readers with a chronological list of Owen's writings and a guide to them for those who wish to delve deeper into Owen's writings. Series Description Seeking, then, both to honor the past and yet not idolize it, we are issuing these books in the series Profiles in Reformed Spirituality. The design is to introduce the spirituality and piety of the Reformed Profiles in Reformed Spirituality tradition by presenting descriptions of the lives of notable Christians with select passages from their works. This combination of biographical sketches and collected portions from primary sources gives a taste of the subjects' contributions to our spiritual heritage and some direction as to how the reader can find further edification through their works. It is the hope of the publishers that this series will provide riches for those areas where we are poor and light of day where we are stumbling in the deepening twilight. Editor Ryan M. McGraw is pastor of First Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Sunnyvale, California; research associate, university of the Free State; adjunct professor of systematic theology, Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa

Author : Elias Kifon Bongmba
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2015-12-22
ISBN 13 : 1134505841
Pages : 596 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (55 downloads)

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Download Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa PDF Format Full Free by Elias Kifon Bongmba and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of the Christian tradition across the African continent and throughout a long historical span. The volume offers historical and thematic essays tracing the introduction of Christianity in Africa, as well as its growth, developments, and effects, including the lived experience of African Christians. Individual chapters address the themes of Christianity and gender, the development of African-initiated churches, the growth of Pentecostalism, and the influence of Christianity on issues of sexuality, music, and public health. This comprehensive volume will serve as a valuable overview and reference work for students and researchers worldwide.

Being Protestant in Reformation Britain

Author : Alec Ryrie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-04-25
ISBN 13 : 0199565724
Pages : 515 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (565 downloads)

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