Provides skills and tools for evangelical outreach. This book contains chapters which include stories, questions for reflection, and practical parish strategies. It is useful for college and seminary classrooms.
Special pricing available - see below In a series of engaging essays and responses, the bookexplores how evangelism has functioned withinLutheranism historically and articulates a Lutherantheological perspective on evangelism within the broaderdevelopments in mission theology over the past severaldecades. It further helps to show how evangelism ......
Marian Apparitions, Catholic Evangelizing, and Mexican American Activism
In 1998, a Mexican American woman named Estela Ruiz began seeing visions of the Virgin Mary in south Phoenix. Based on ten years of participant observation and in-depth interviews, this book traces the spiritual transformation of Ruiz, the development of the community that has sprung up around her, and the international expansion of their message.
Global Vision and Action for the Twenty-First-Century Black Church
This volume's contributors--dynamic and progressive African-American church leaders--advocate the prophetic powers of black theology, preaching, and evangelism in support of community and economic development, ministerial and lay leadership, and enhancement of church life.
Christian Churches and the Global AIDS CrisisMore than twenty years into the global AIDS pandemic, the efforts of Christian congregations and denominations have been less than minimal. This book is aimed to awaken Christian compassion in the coming years to this fathomless tragedy. The worst health crisis in the world in 700 years, global ......
Evangelical Christian Women offers a look at conservative women who challenge gender norms within their religious traditions, the fallout they experience as part of the ensuing conflict, and the significance of the conflict over gender for the development and character of culture.
Social movements inspired by powerful ideologies continue to define global and national politics, but existing social movement theories either ignore or discredit this influence. By focusing on the temperance movement and the politics of abortion, Soper compares and contrasts the political/evangelical structures of the the U.S. and Great Britian.
This volume explores the manner in which Western missionary Christianity has been shaped through contact with indigenous peoples. The conversion of the local population ususally resulted in a religion and culture that was a mixture of orthodox Christianity and indigenous customs.
