Author: Lamin SannehPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802821645
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
An analysis of the growth of global Christianity.
Disciples of All Nations
Author: Lamin O. SannehPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195189604
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Tracing the rise of Christianity to its key role in Europe's maritime and colonial expansion, this text sheds light on the ways in which societies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America have been drawn into the Christian orbit.
Summoned from the Margin
Author: Lamin SannehPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802867421
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Summoned from the Margin tells the story of Lamin Sanneh's fascinating journey from his upbringing in an impoverished village in West Africa to education in the United States and Europe to a distinguished career teaching at the Universities of Yale, Harvard, Aberdeen, and Ghana. He grew up in a polygamous household in The Gambia and attended a government-run Muslim boarding school. A chance encounter with Helen Keller's autobiography taught him that education and faith are the key to overcoming physical and personal hardship and inspired his journey. Burning theological questions about God's nature and human suffering eventually led Sanneh to convert from Islam to Christianity and to pursue a career in academia. Here he recounts the unusually varied life experiences that have made him who he is today. Watch the trailer:
Christianity
Author: Matt Stefon Assistant Editor, ReligionPublisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1615304932
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Describes the basic doctrines, history, and religious practices of Christianity, including Christian concepts of human nature, and profiles famous Christian figures throughout history.
Confronting Christianity
Author: Rebecca McLaughlinPublisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433564262
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Although many people suggest that Christianity is declining, research indicates that it continues to be the world's most popular worldview. But even so, the Christian faith includes many controversial beliefs that non-Christians find hard to accept. This book explores 12 issues that might cause someone to dismiss orthodox Christianity—issues such as the existence of suffering, the Bible's teaching on gender and sexuality, the reality of heaven and hell, the authority of the Bible, and more. Showing how the best research from sociology, science, and psychology doesn't disagree with but actually aligns with claims found in the Bible, these chapters help skeptics understand why these issues are signposts, rather than roadblocks, to faith in Christ.
Christ and Culture
Author: H. Richard NiebuhrPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061300039
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This 50th-anniversary edition, with a new foreword by the distinguished historian Martin E. Marty, who regards this book as one of the most vital books of our time, as well as an introduction by the author never before included in the book, and a new preface by James Gustafson, the premier Christian ethicist who is considered Niebuhr’s contemporary successor, poses the challenge of being true to Christ in a materialistic age to an entirely new generation of Christian readers.
The Uniqueness of the Christian Faith
Author: Dr Gerald Charles TilleyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781494475895
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Critics frequently link all religions together as essentially the same and equally valid (or invalid). To do so is irrational. Any honest comparison reveals significant contradictions between the various religions, and between the religions and the Christian faith. This proves they cannot all be true. This detailed presentation of evidence shows that the Christian faith is not merely one religion among many. Whether or not one believes the Christian faith is revealed by God; it is clearly distinct from all others. Christianity should be considered as in a separate category from the religions of the world. This uniqueness can be readily discovered by anyone who studies what the Christian faith actually teaches in comparison with the teachings of the world religions. The challenge is to discover these unique features rather than ignoring or denying them as is usually done. This book verifies thirteen areas in which the Christian faith is unique when compared with the religions of man. For example, one uniqueness is that of the biblical concept of sin. None of man's religions take this issue seriously enough, or have no final solution for it. The biblical teaching is that man's rebellion (sin), created such a impassible barrier between God and man, that nothing man can do removes it. Only God could remove the barrier which He has done in Christ. God has provided the only means of forgiveness and restoration to fellowship with Himself. This is what is meant by the statement that the grace of God has provided salvation or deliverance from the consequences of our sin. It is the only solution to man's dilemma.
To Whom Does Christianity Belong?
Author: Dyron B. DaughrityPublisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1451496583
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
To Whom Does Christianity Belong? is a question that is asked throughout the world today. In this exciting volume, an anchor to the Understanding World Christianity series, Dyron B. Daughrity helps readers map out the major changes that have taken place in recent years in the world’s largest religion. By comparing trends, analyzing global Christian movements, and tracing the impact of Pentecostalism, interreligious dialogue, global missions, sexuality, birth rates, women, secularization, and migratory trends, Daughrity sketches a picture of a changing religion and gives the tools needed to understand it.
Christianity and Religious Plurality
Author: Wilbert R. ShenkPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498282652
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Over the past two centuries the Christian faith has spread to all continents. Although more global than ever, Christians are religious minorities in most societies. Religious freedom is hardly universal. In the past fifty years, millions of people have been uprooted from their traditional homelands in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Some have emigrated to Western Europe and North America. The West has become the scene of cultural, linguistic, and religious variety on a scale unimagined in 1900. Today, the full range of faiths and religious practices from all continents are present in Europe and North America. Christians are challenged to come to terms with this changed situation. These developments have intensified religious plurality. Christians all over the world are being urged to understand and engage with this new situation. This volume highlights this new reality and specifies some sources for engagement, not least among them the Judeo-Christian scriptures--fundamental to all "Christianities"--that emerged out of religious plural contexts. On the basis of their faith in the Triune God disclosed in this text, all followers of Jesus Christ must interact with these opportunities in today's radically context-sensitive world.
The Globalization of Christianity
Author: Gordon L. HeathPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 149822699X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
While Christianity appears to be in decline in the West it is growing robustly in the global South. What does this mean for the Christianity that was once considered to be the religion of the West? The new contexts and trajectories require innovative responses and relevant theological reflection in the church. This volume addresses these changes through identifying and analyzing global shifts, highlighting practical innovations in the church that attempt to deal with new trajectories, and proposing theological positions intended to help face the issues and challenges of the twenty-first century. Contributors to this volume include Philip Jenkins (The Next Christendom, The New Faces of Christianity, God's Continent), Steven M. Studebaker, Gordon L. Heath, Bradley K. Broadhead, Christof Sauer, Lee Beach, Michael P. Knowles, Peter Althouse, Michael Wilkinson, John H. Issak, David K. Taurus, and Seongho Kang.
