The formative power of a congregation serves as a primary catalyst for human development. A congregation also forms a person's life. Congregations are often well-versed in matters of Christian formation and spiritual maturation. But what about how human beings develop as people? Insights from human development, also known as developmental ......
The formative power of a congregation serves as a primary catalyst for human development. A congregation also forms a person's life. Congregations are often well-versed in matters of Christian formation and spiritual maturation. But what about how human beings develop as people? Insights from human development, also known as developmental ......
The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America, Second Edition
Outlining a "theatrics of state terror," Mark Lewis Taylor documents the instruments - mass incarceration, militarized police tactics, surveillance, torture, etc. - through which Lockdown America enforces global neoliberal economic and political imperialism. Taylor proposes - the way of the cross - that unmasks the powers of state control.
The Augsburg Confession is the single most-important confession of faith among Lutherans today. However, it is often taught either from a historical perspective or from a dogmatic one.
The author explores the literature of the first three centuries of the church in terms of group identity and formation as surrogate kinship. Why did this become the organizing model in the earliest churches? How did historical developments intervene to shift the paradigm? How do ancient Mediterranean kinship structures correlate with church ......
How Neuroscience Supports Teaching That's Remembered
Despite the introduction of new technologies for classrooms, many seminary courses still utilize primarily auditory methods to convey content. This title presents an overview of how learning occurs in our brain, what the different types of memory are, and how memory is created serves as a framework for suggesting pedagogical tools.
Shepherds of the Empire engages timeless questions of identity and faith through the time-bound work of 4 key thinkers from the Wilhelmine period and their eventual failure to carve a middle way for the German parish clergy.
An Experiment in Systematic-Historical Ecclesiology
Re-Visioning the Church, the outcome of nearly two decades of research, applies a social scientific and historical outlook to the emergence, development, and ongoing mission and ministry of the church.
This book examines the ecclesiology and theology of the Locally Ordained Minister (OLM), priests and deacons, particularly in the Anglican Communion, who are ordained and licensed for ministry in a particular area. Noel Cox argues that the introduction of OLM raises difficult ecclesiological questions in the church.
