Death of the Church
Title | Death of the Church PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Regele |
Publisher | Zondervan |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0310200067 |
Our culture is changing at a dizzying rate. But the church seems to be left behind, caught in subcultural backwaters that have little or no impact on mainstream society. Based on the quantitative research of his group, Percept, Regele analyzes the forces in our culture and discusses how the church can fulfill its mission in the face of them.
Death by Church
Title | Death by Church PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Erre |
Publisher | Harvest House Publishers |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2009-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0736924965 |
Examining how materialism and consumerism have made their way into the church, a teaching pastor and author of Jesus of Suburbia reveals how Christians can more effectively demonstrate Christ's presence and how the church can cooperate with Jesus in the world in which they live. Original.
Death of the Church Victorious
Title | Death of the Church Victorious PDF eBook |
Author | Ovid Need |
Publisher | Sovereign Grace Publishers, |
Total Pages | 522 |
Release | 2002-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 158960301X |
The Church of the Dead
Title | The Church of the Dead PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Scheper Hughes |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Total Pages | 263 |
Release | 2023-07-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 147982593X |
Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith alive Many scholars have come to think of the European Christian mission to the Americas as an inevitable success. But in its early period it was very much on the brink of failure. In 1576, Indigenous Mexican communities suffered a catastrophic epidemic that took almost two million lives and simultaneously left the colonial church in ruins. In the crisis and its immediate aftermath, Spanish missionaries and surviving pueblos de indios held radically different visions for the future of Christianity in the Americas. The Church of the Dead offers a counter-history of American Christian origins. It centers the power of Indigenous Mexicans, showing how their Catholic faith remained intact even in the face of the faltering religious fervor of Spanish missionaries. While the Europeans grappled with their failure to stem the tide of death, succumbing to despair, Indigenous survivors worked to reconstruct the church. They reasserted ancestral territories as sovereign, with Indigenous Catholic states rivaling the jurisdiction of the diocese and the power of friars and bishops. Christianity in the Americas today is thus not the creation of missionaries, but rather of Indigenous Catholic survivors of the colonial mortandad, the founding condition of American Christianity. Weaving together archival study, visual culture, church history, theology, and the history of medicine, Jennifer Scheper Hughes provides us with a fascinating reexamination of North American religious history that is at once groundbreaking and lyrical.
Autopsy of a Deceased Church
Title | Autopsy of a Deceased Church PDF eBook |
Author | Thom S. Rainer |
Publisher | B&H Publishing Group |
Total Pages | 112 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 143368392X |
Presents twelve lessons on keeping a church alive, discussing the consistent themes the author found in dying churches.
Autopsy of a Dead Church
Title | Autopsy of a Dead Church PDF eBook |
Author | Lou Mancari |
Publisher | Xulon Press |
Total Pages | 186 |
Release | 2006-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1600340253 |
Autopsy means to "look for yourself within" or "to see with your own eyes." We will open the spiritual body with the scalpel of God's two-edged sword, the Word of God. As we begin the autopsy of the dead church we immediately find that DNA evidence links every person in the church with an infamous and ancient crime scene--the Garden of Eden. As we continue the autopsy of this dead church we find the fingerprints of a noted murderer and thief all over the body. Like all of us, Satan has certain traits that identify his prints. The dead church has had major brain damage. In some cases there is an enchanting or forceful preacher that has performed a spiritual lobotomy hindering any deep or independent biblical thinking of the people of the church.
Death in a Church of Life
Title | Death in a Church of Life PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Klaits |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 368 |
Release | 2010-02-08 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0520945840 |
This deeply insightful ethnography explores the healing power of caring and intimacy in a small, closely bonded Apostolic congregation during Botswana’s HIV/AIDS pandemic. Death in a Church of Life paints a vivid picture of how members of the Baitshepi Church make strenuous efforts to sustain loving relationships amid widespread illness and death. Over the course of long-term fieldwork, Frederick Klaits discovered Baitshepi’s distinctly maternal ethos and the "spiritual" kinship embodied in the church’s nurturing fellowship practice. Klaits shows that for Baitshepi members, Christian faith is a form of moral passion that counters practices of divination and witchcraft with redemptive hymn singing, prayer, and the use of therapeutic substances. An online audio annex makes available examples of the church members’ preaching and song.