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Missionary Motivations
Radical Pursuit of a Christlike Life among the Nations Beginning as an obscure sect in a backwater province of the Roman Empire, the Christian faith radiated out in all directions. What drove this expansion? Where some might think the motivations would be the Great Commission or expressions of concern for non-Christians, which are common today, the early church’s mission was profoundly Christocentric. The focus was exalting the reign of Christ and the pursuit of holiness. Just as the prophets had foretold, the Messianic king had come, and now, reigning at the Father’s right hand, he was drawing all nations to himself. Missionary Motivations is the story of early Christianity’s startlin...
Paris Bride
"In July 1905, in Paris, a young woman, a bride, becomes Marie Schad. In April 1984, in London, Marie Schad is declared to be no more--indeed, to never have been, and returns to France. Paris Bride pursues this no-woman in a wild attempt to glimpse her face in the modernist crowd. With increasing desperation the pages of Stephane Mallarmé, Oscar Wilde, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Louis Aragon, André and Walter Benjamin are all ransacked for traces of Marie. What is pieced precariously together is an experimental life--a properly modernist life, a life that, by its very obscurity, lives the obscure life of modernism itself.
Une autre manière d'être chrétien en France
Autant le baptisme apparaît prospère aux Etats-Unis, dont il constitue la principale confession protestante, autant il reste précaire en France. Il s'agit ici d'une analyse socio-historique de sa trajectoire d'implantation, ce qui permet d'étudier conjointement, grâce à l'histoire et à la sociologie, le baptisme mais aussi sa société d'accueil : la France, une et plurielle.
Ordinary Splendor
The Christian life is grounded in God's act of creation. How we pray How we relate to others How we worship How we rest In Ordinary Splendor: Living in God's Creation, Lydia Jaeger presents the doctrine of creation in all its practical necessity. She unfolds the majesty of God's creative work and explores how it shapes and informs everything—from our relationships and the way we pray to how we think about human dignity. Through her engagement with theologians, Greek mythology, philosophers, and other creation stories from the ancient Near East, Jaeger offers a rich reading of biblical creation passages that provides wisdom for our daily lives.
Interdenominational Faith Missions in Africa
It was not the European and American churches which evangelised Africa, but the mission societies. The missions from the Great Awakening such as the London Missionary Society and Church Missionary Society, or the Holy Ghost Fathers and the White Fathers, which started the process of Sub-Saharan Africa becoming a Christian continent are well known and documented. Less known, and less documented are the interdenominational faith missions which began in 1873 with the aim of visiting the still unreached areas of Africa: North Africa, the Sudan Belt and the Congo Basin. Missions such as the Africa Inland Mission or Sudan Interior Mission gave birth to some of the big churches like ECWA in Nigeria and Africa Inland Church in Kenya. It is the aim of this book to describe faith missions and their theology and to present an overview of the early development of faith missions insofar as they touched Africa.
Earthen Vessels
Contrary to popular impressions, the days of the missionary are far from over. North American churches send more missionaries than ever before, and 90 percent of them are evangelicals who are not affiliated with the mainline Protestant mission boards. The first major historical treatment of the distinctly evangelical wing of twentieth-century American missions, Earthen Vessels truly breaks new ground. Covering territory that missions histories have scarcely explored yet, the distinguished historians contributing to this volume portray the North American (including Canadian) evangelical missionary enterprise from the Student Volunteer Movement to the very recent past. The book traces the infl...
Understanding Haitian Voodoo
Part textbook, part life-story, part theological exposé, Understanding Haitian Voodoo comes from a much-respected Haitian gentleman who writes as a lawyer, judge, and evangelist who cares deeply about his people and their bondage in Voodoo. "Voodoo is not simply a myth, toward which we can remain indifferent. It is not just popular culture that we should teach and practice in schools through dances and songs. The gods of Voodoo are not simply idols or harmless gods. They are real beings, intelligent beings, they lust after worship and are full of cruelty." With testimonies from Voodoo priests, followers, witch doctors and more, Understanding Haitian Voodoo is a deep observation of Haitian V...
Du ghetto au réseau
Aujourd'hui, la France compte 350 000 protestants évangéliques, soit sept fois plus qu'après la Seconde Guerre mondiale.En intégrant les Eglises ethniques qui se sont multipliées depuis trente ans, leurs effectifs avoisinent les 400 000. Dans le monde, ce ne sont pas moins d'un demi-milliard de chrétiens qui se réclament de cette identité. Mais qui sont ces fidèles évangéliques ? Comment se caractérise leur foi ? Quel est leur profil social et religieux ? Comment s'y retrouver dans cet archipel complexe d'Eglises, d'organisations et de réseaux ? Autant de questions auxquelles cet ouvrage accessible répond dans une démarche historique, sociologique et démographique.Complété d'un glossaire, d'une chronologie, de cartes et d'un index, ce livre représente un outil indispensable pour comprendre ce phénomène religieux (cf. 4e de couv.).
