Christian Denominations Sects

By P. L. Gaus

By John D. Roth

In Practices: Mennonite Worship and Witness, John D. Roth examines the traditions of Anabaptist-Mennonite worship. those practices, he argues, are a part of a vital solidarity that transforms and renews the folk of God and calls them to lives of integrity which are embodied with discipleship and venture. Roth displays on how targeted Mennonite practices corresponding to baptism, communion, foot washing, and customary nutrients expand past the church as a witness to the area. Practices is Roth's 3rd booklet on Mennonite existence within the twenty first century, following ideals: Mennonite religion and perform (2005), and tales: How Mennonites got here to Be (2007).

By Robert S. Wicks, Fred R. Foister

"Junius and Joseph examines Joseph Smith's approximately forgotten [1844] presidential bid, the occasions best as much as his assassination on June 27, 1844, and the tangled aftermath of the tragic incident. It . . . establishes that Joseph Smith's homicide, instead of being the lethal consequence of a spontaneous mob rebellion, was once in truth a delicately deliberate military-style execution. it truly is now attainable to spot a number of the key participants engaged in making plans his assassination in addition to those that took half within the attack on Carthage penal complex. And moment, this learn provides incontrovertible facts that the hassle to take away the Mormon chief from energy and effect prolonged well past Hancock County [Illinois] (and incorporated famous Whig politicians in addition to the Democratic governor of the state), thereby remodeling his dying from an impulsive act by means of neighborhood vigilantes right into a political assassination sanctioned through probably the most strong males in Illinois. The situations surrounding Joseph Smith's demise additionally serve to focus on the customarily unrecognized fact complete figuring out of early Mormon historical past will be received simply while thought of within the context of occasions happening in American society as a whole." starting with this provocative thesis, Wicks and Foister interact in a radical reexamination of Joseph Smith's 1844 presidential candidacy, its political context and implications, and its possible connection to his homicide. whereas their paintings asserts debatable conclusions approximately what and who have been in the back of that homicide, its import extends additional because it presents unheard of, distinctive pics of political Mormonism, politics in 1844 Illinois and the Midwest, the internet of connections and personalities that associated the 2, and the occasions of June 27.

By Birger A. Pearson, James E. Goehring

By John L. Brooke

Mormon non secular trust has lengthy been a secret to outsiders, both brushed off as anomalous to the yank non secular culture or extolled because the such a lot actual production of the yankee mind's eye. The Refiner's fireplace provides a brand new and entire knowing of the roots of Mormon faith, whose theology grants the trustworthy that they're going to turn into "gods" in the course of the recovery of historical mysteries and regain the divine powers of Adam misplaced within the fall from Paradise. Professor Brooke contends that the origins of Mormonism lie within the fusion of radical faith with occult principles, and organizes his ebook round the difficulties of demonstrating the survival of those rules into the 19th century and explaining how they have been manifested in Mormon doctrine. within the concluding bankruptcy, the writer presents an summary of the way Mormonism because the 1850s steadily moved towards conventional Protestant Christianity. in addition to faith, the booklet explores magic, witchcraft, alchemy, Freemasonry, counterfeiting, and state-formation. John L. Brooke is professor of background at Tufts collage and the acclaimed writer of the guts of the Commonwealth: Society and Political tradition in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1713-1861 (CUP, 1989), which has gained, between different prizes, the association of yank Historians' Merle Curti Award for highbrow background and the nationwide ancient Society ebook Prize for American heritage.

By Ivan Friesen

Ivan Friesen explores how the translation of the publication of Isaiah is conducted and lived out this day in religion groups the place the Bible is the bedrock of religion and existence. Such an interpretation combines the worries of pastoral care with the misery and uncertainty of prophetic action.

The remark teams the sixty-six chapters of Isaiah into six detailed yet non-stop components. every one half might be explored as one may well discover the room of a home. The furniture (themes) in each one room are varied, however the decor (structure) of the home combines to lend to the publication an total harmony of goal. The structure of the booklet as an entire has designated beneficial properties that come with phrases of judgment in addition to phrases of promise saying a brand new day dawning. during this new day dawning, there are robust parts of a messianic hope.

By Daphne Hampson

Catholic and Lutheran idea are in a different way based, embodying divergent conceptions of self and God. Roman/Lutheran ecumenism, culminating within the 1999 "Joint Declaration," makes an attempt to reconcile incompatible structures in keeping with various philosophical presuppositions. Drawing on a wealth of fabric, the writer considers those structural questions inside of a ancient context. Kierkegaard is proven, in a fancy version, to carry jointly strengths which traditionally were exemplified through the 2 traditions. this is often a massive paintings in systematic theology which considers questions relatively basic to Western faith. it's going to curiosity theologians of all backgrounds and church historians.

By C. Leroy Anderson

A small crew of spiritual separatists isolating from a bigger team of non secular separatists

By Hugh Nibley

Renowned pupil Hugh Nibley offers a desirable paintings written in certain but comparable sections. In Temple Nibley discusses the that means of the temple, the heritage and beginning of ordinances and sacred vestments, and the temple's necessity within the Lord's paintings today.

In Cosmos Nibley explores man's position within the cosmos, or the expanse of Heavenly Father's state, and the way the temple suits into this divine realm of lifestyles. he additionally writes in regards to the significance and importance of language and writing in a bankruptcy entitled "Genesis of the Written Word."

By Christopher Veniamin

The Orthodox knowing of Salvation brings jointly a few of Dr. Veniamin's talks and articles, hitherto to be had in particularly little-known theological journals and periodicals, which pertain to the elemental query of the aim of human lifestyles, to Salvation, as understood within the age-old and unbroken culture of the Orthodox Christian religion - the religion of the Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs and Saints of our Lord, God and Saviour, Jesus Christ. it is a scholarly paintings, which goals to begin the reader into the elemental theological presuppositions of Patristic theology. The juxtaposition of works brought to diversified audiences is planned, inasmuch because it is designed to illustrate that a similar ideas are appropriate to the sermon and theological treatise alike, that during the Orthodox Christian culture there is not any separation among ethics and doctrine, yet really that Christian dwelling and theology are one indivisible fact, simply because Christ, the degree of all issues human and divine, created and uncreated, is One. Divided into components, Praxis and Theoria, this e-book covers quite a lot of issues, in keeping with key Scriptural passages and the writings of a few of the best masters of the Christian religious existence, all of that are held jointly via standards that are born no longer of hypothesis yet of the head to head come upon with the dwelling God.