Journal articles: 'Korean churches. Preaching. Preaching'

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Park, Sangyil Sam. "Public theology and preaching in Korean Protestant churches." Review & Expositor 114, no. 3 (August 2017): 380–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0034637317720219.

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This article surveys the positive roles and challenges Korean Protestant churches have had in history from a perspective of public theology and its relation to preaching. It argues that preaching is inherently related to public theology as it shapes Christians’ actions to fulfill the message of the kingdom of God in public space.

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Park, Tae-hyeun. "Reformation 500 Anniversary and Reformation of Preaching in Korean Churches." Bible & Theology 85 (April 25, 2018): 71–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.17156/bt.85.03.

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이승진. "Recovering the Identity of Korean Presbyterian Churches with Reformed theology and Preaching." Korea Reformed Theology ll, no. 35 (August 2012): 173–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.34271/krts.2012..35.173.

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김운용. "Rethinking Theology of Preaching for the Preaching Ministry in the Second Century of Mission in the Korean Church." Korea Presbyterian Journal of Theology ll, no. 43 (December 2011): 229–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.15757/kpjt.2011..43.010.

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Kim, Keumyong. "The Crisis of the Korean Church and the Trinitarian Preaching." Theology and praxis 43 (February 28, 2015): 217–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.14387/jkspth.2015.43.217.

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Pak, Ung Kyu. "To Preach and To Awaken:The Significance of Rev. Han Heum Oak’s Preaching Ministry in the Korean Church." Bible & Theology 77 (April 25, 2016): 59–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.17156/bt.77.03.

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Mitchell, Henry H. "African-American Preaching." Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 51, no. 4 (October 1997): 371–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002096439605100404.

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The powerful preaching of the African-American pulpit has great value for the wider church. The cross-cultural enrichment of today's preaching will contribute to the survival and revival of America's many faltering mainline churches.

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CHOI, Jinbong. "A Critical Reflection and Challenge of the Korean Church’s Hermeneutical Pre-understandings for Preaching the Gospel : On the Basis of the Buddhist and Confucian Faith Tradition of Scripture." KOREA PRESBYTERIAN JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY 50, no. 5 (December 31, 2018): 171–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.15757/kpjt.2018.50.5.007.

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Simon, Simon. "Peranan Gereja dalam Menghambat Laju Pertumbuhan Pemakai Narkoba." Jurnal Ilmiah Religiosity Entity Humanity (JIREH) 1, no. 2 (December 23, 2019): 172–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.37364/jireh.v1i2.15.

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Indonesia is a country that is fertile ground for drug trafficking carried out by domestic dealers and drug dealers internationally. The rise of drugs today causes victims to die every day. President Jokowi came to state that Indonesia was on the verge of a "drug emergency", because every day 50 people died. If in just one year it could reach 18,000 people die each year. Seeing these facts, of course the government appealed through the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) that this should not be left unnoticed because it would have an increasingly bad impact. This research aims to give an idea to the churches that the spread of drugs and the number of users is alarming in the midst of this nation. The method that the author uses in writing this article uses a qualitative method with a literature study approach. The role that can be demonstrated by the church in drug prevention by preaching the dangers of drugs in the pulpits, partnering with BNN institutions as the frontline in eradicating drugs, conducting visits to rehabilitation sites and optimizing the role of families as supervisors. Indonesia merupakan salah satu negara yang menjadi lahan subur dalam peredaran narkoba yang dilakukan oleh para bandar dalam negeri maupun bandar narkoba secara internasional. Maraknya narkoba di masa kini menyebabkan adanya korban yang meninggal setiap hari. Presiden Jokowi pun sampai menyatakan bahwa Indonesia telah berada pada ambang “darurat narkoba,” dikarenakan setiap harinya meninggal 50 orang. Bila dalam setahun saja dapat mencapai 18. 000 orang meninggal setiap tahunnya. Melihat fakta-fakta ini, tentunya pemerintah menghimbau melalui Badan Narkotika Nasional (BNN) mengemukan hal ini tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu saja karena akan semakin berdampak buruk. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memberikan gambaran kepada gereja-gereja bahwa penyebaran narkoba serta jumlah pemakainya sudah mengkuatirkan di tengah bangsa ini. Adapun metode yang penulis gunakan dalam penulisan artikel ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan studi literatur. Peranan yang dapat ditunjukkan oleh gereja dalam pencegahan narkoba dengan mengkhotbahkan bahaya narkoba di mimbar-mimbar, bermitra dengan lembaga BNN sebagai garda terdepan pemberantas naskoba, mengadakan kunjungan ketempat rehabilitasi dan mengoptimalkan peran keluarga sebagai pengawas.

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Stackhouse, Ian. "Negative Preaching and the Modern Mind: a Crisis in Evangelical Preaching." Evangelical Quarterly 73, no. 3 (April 16, 2001): 247–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/27725472-07303004.

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A number of publications have appeared in recent years attacking preaching as a mode of gospel communication. Most notable among these is David Norrington’s provocative title, To Preach or not to Preach, in which he highlights the inadequacy of traditional proclamation. The view put forward in this article goes in the opposite direction, challenging the present antipathy to preaching. These critics, it is argued, have gone too far, and have misunderstood what is being upheld in preaching, namely the sacrament of the Word. The churches’ time would be better spent, he contends, recovering this high view of preaching, and the language that pertains to the preached gospel, rather than always submitting to the criteria of relevancy and accessibility.

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Jeon, Changhee. "Ageing Society and Korean Preaching." Theology and Praxis 44 (May 30, 2015): 91–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.14387/jkspth.2015.44.91.

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Ross, Kenneth R. "Preaching in Mainstream Christian Churches in Malawi1." Journal of Religion in Africa 25, no. 1 (1995): 3–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006600x00230.

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Nadkarni, Nalini M. "When Preaching to the Choir Isn't Preaching to the Choir: Churches, Trees, and Environmental Perspectives." Environmental Practice 4, no. 4 (December 2002): 188–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1466046602990083.

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Nell, I. "’n Postliberale venster op die preek." Verbum et Ecclesia 20, no. 1 (August 6, 1999): 150–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v20i1.1172.

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A Postliberal view on the sermon Over the same period that homiletics has enjoyed a resurgence, mainline Protestant churches have been in decline. The multiplication of preaching theories and resources has taken place alongside a growing concern about the life and future of the church. Despite all the theories and resources many local pastors know something is lacking in their preaching. They've tried inductive preaching, story preaching, dialogue sermons, and homiletical plots. While these new methods have been exciting for the moment, many preachers sense something is still missing. It will be argued that it is partly due to the absence of thorough theological reflection.

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Kim, Unyong. "Book Review: Korean Preaching: An Interpretation." Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 52, no. 2 (April 1998): 222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002096430005200227.

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Placher, William C. "Preaching the Gospel in Academy and Society." Theology Today 49, no. 1 (April 1992): 5–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/004057369204900102.

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“Many academics turn from church or synagogue sometime in early adolescence, and their image of religion remains what they learned in fourth grade Sunday School. It is as if one assumed that the curriculum of a college mathematics department culminated in long division, or that biological research consisted exclusively in gathering the leaves from different species of trees and pressing them flat under three volumes of the World Book Encyclopedia. If those no longer involved with churches want to update their views of religion, they sometimes turn their television dials to the cable evangelists and find most of their prejudices confirmed.”

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Ross, Kenneth R. "Preaching in Mainstream Christian Churches in Malawi: A Survey and Analysis." Journal of Religion in Africa 25, no. 1 (February 1995): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1581136.

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Wolański, Filip. "Preaching the communication strategy of the Catholic Church in the age of the House of Wetting in Poland. Ways of shaping social religious concepts." Open Political Science 2, no. 1 (December 31, 2019): 108–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/openps-2019-0011.

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AbstractIn the first half of the 18th century, the position of the Catholic Church in the Commonwealth was strengthen and it dominated other Christian denominations. The network of the parishes was expanded, and the accessibility to churches improved. New forms of saints cult as well as other forms of piousness had developed. The preaching played an important role in this process. The preaching in the Commonwealth was not just a Sunday sermon, but above all sermons related to homiletics of the late Baroque, connected with religious ceremonies eg. funerals. The preacher was to work through emotions, the achievements of Baroque rhetoric used, although in the Commonwealth, own solutions were developed to enable effective communication with the recipient representing the Old Polish culture. The size of this impact was significant, as evidenced by numerous prints dating back to that period, but also manuscripts with recorded places of preaching, or impressions from preaching preserved in memoirs or correspondence. It should be emphasized that the sermons not only carved the system of moral values or the piety of the society, but also influenced the ideas of everyday life, the roles of individual and groups in society, as well as the relation to authority

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Sharov, Konstantin S. "Content and stylistic peculiarities of non-canonical Orthodox Internet Sermon in modern Russia." NSU Vestnik. Series: Linguistics and Intercultural Communication 17, no. 3 (2019): 83–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7935-2019-17-3-83-96.

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The paper is concerned with a study of the changing content and style of non-canonical Christian religious preaching in the digital age. Special attention is paid to the analysis of modern rhetoric Christian preachers practice in their Internet channels, forums and blogs. It is shown that the content of the Internet sermon is largely determined by the Internet users themselves and the topics of their appeals. The fundamental characteristics of the content of the Internet sermon are: 1) focus on the individual, their private goals and objectives, not just on theological problems; 2) rethinking the phenomenon of the neighbour; 3) a shift from the Hesychast tradition of preaching the importance of inner spiritual concentration to the preaching of religious interactivity. The observed stylistic features of the digital preaching can be summarised as follows: 1) moving away from simple answers to the rhetoric of new questions addressed to the audience; 2) empathy, co-participation with a person in his/her life conflicts and experiences; 3) desire to share religious information, not to impose it; 4) resorting to various rhetorical techniques to reach different audiences; 5) a tendency to use slang, sometimes even irrespective of the audience’s language preferences and expectations. It should be pointed out that the Orthodox Internet sermon in the Russian Internet space has a dual and contradictory nature. On the one hand, this phenomenon can be regarded as positive for the Orthodox preaching in general, since it is a means of spreading Christian ideas in the social groups that do not constitute a core of parishioners of Orthodox churches, for example, schoolchildren, students, representatives of technical professions, etc. On the other hand, the effectiveness of such preaching is still unclear. Lack of reliable statistics as well as the results of the survey related to the Orthodox Internet preaching gives us no opportunity to judge about effectiveness or ineffectiveness of the phenomenon at this stage of its development.

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Kang, Jie. "The Rise of Calvinist Christianity in Urbanising China." Religions 10, no. 8 (August 15, 2019): 481. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10080481.

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Over the past decade, Reformed Christianity, broadly based on the theology of Calvinism, has spread widely in China, especially by appealing to Chinese ‘intellectuals’ who constitute most of the house church leaders in urban areas. It draws its moral guidance from a so-called rational or intellectual focus on biblical theology, reinforced by theological training in special seminaries. It consequently rejects the ‘heresy’ of the older Pentecostal Christianity, with its emphasis on charisma, miracles, and theology based on emotional ‘feeling’. This Reformed theology and its further elaboration have been introduced into China in two main ways. The first is through overseas Chinese, especially via theological seminaries in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia. For instance, preachings of the famous Reformed pastor Stephen Tong (唐崇荣) have been widely disseminated online and among Chinese Christians. Second, Korean missionaries have established theological seminaries mainly in cities in northern China. This has resulted in more and more Chinese church leaders becoming advocates of Calvinism and converting their churches to Reformed status. This paper asks why Calvinism attracts Chinese Christians, what Calvinism means for the so-called house churches of a Christian community in a northern Chinese city, and what kinds of change the importation of Reformed theology has brought to Chinese house churches. Various significant accounts have addressed this development in China generally. My analysis complements these accounts by focusing on a small number of interconnected house churches in one city, and uses this case study to highlight interpersonal and organizational issues arising from the Calvinist approach.

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Wepener, Cas, and Hendrik J. C. Pieterse. "Angry Preaching: A Grounded Theory Analysis from South Africa." International Journal of Public Theology 12, no. 3-4 (November 5, 2018): 401–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15697320-12341549.

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Abstract Expressions of anger can be observed all over South Africa and by individuals and groups from different social, economic and racial backgrounds. In this article the argument is advanced that such expressions of anger can be expressions of love and signs of hope showing that people still care. Therefore, anger should not be avoided, but instead be embraced and channelled for positive ends. This article furthermore develops an argument in favour of the celebration of angry liturgies and the preaching of angry sermons as an integral part of the on-going road towards reconciliation and healing after apartheid in general and in particular it reflects on sermons preached in Afrikaans Reformed churches in South Africa on the theme of anger between 2010 and 2015. By means of content analysis, and specifically Grounded Theory, the collected sermons were analysed and a homiletical theory for praxis regarding angry preaching developed. In conclusion the theory for praxis is presented as homiletical route markers for angry preaching as one way of liturgically embracing and meaningfully channelling anger.

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Yang, Sunggu. "The Pilgrim’s Voice: A Prelude to Korean American Prophetic Preaching." Liturgy 35, no. 3 (July 2, 2020): 25–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0458063x.2020.1796438.

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Barker, Eileen. "The Unification Church." Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review 9, no. 1 (2018): 91–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/asrr201841842.

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The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (HSA-UWC), founded in Seoul in 1954 by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012), has been more popularly known as the Unification Church (UC) or ‘the Moonies.’ Following revelations that he reports having received as a young man, Moon devoted his life to preaching and eventually publically proclaiming himself to be the Messiah, or Lord of the Second Advent, come to fulfil the mission of restoring God’s Kingdom of Heaven on earth. His early struggles in Korea clearly had a considerable influence on the trajectory of his life and the development of the UC into a world-wide movement that reached into a wide variety of areas, such as anti-communist politics, the media, the arts, the sciences and vast businesses. Following Moon’s death, the movement has split into three separate factions, the largest of which is run by his widow, and the other two by, respectively, his oldest living and youngest sons.

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Sukamto, Amos, Nina Herlina, Kunto Sofianto, and Yusak Soleiman. "Impacts of the Religious Policies Enacted from 1965 to 1980 on Christianity in Indonesia." Mission Studies 36, no. 2 (July 10, 2019): 191–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341649.

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Abstract Between 1965 and 1980, the Indonesian government issued three religious policies. These had both positive and negative impacts on Christianity in Indonesia. As a positive impact, the Indonesian Council of Churches (DGI) and the Supreme Council of Indonesian Bishops (MAWI) were motivated to work together in lobbying the government. The policies also boosted the growth of local leadership in Catholic churches. However, the policies also brought a negative impact in that it became difficult for churches to obtain an IMB (Building Permit). In mid-eighties, Christianity could still perform religious services in churches without any disturbances, but after the 1990s, churches with no Building Permit were banned by some radical Islamic organizations. Preaching the gospel was considered violation of the law and a Christian could be sent to prison for performing this activity.

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Baker, Mark D. "Is This the Gospel? An Evaluation of the Legalism Present in Churches in a Tegucigalpa Barrio." Missiology: An International Review 25, no. 4 (October 1997): 405–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182969702500402.

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This article is based on an ethnographic study of evangelical churches in a Honduran barrio. It reveals the legalism present and analyzes how this legalism affects the people themselves, how it affects their relations with others, and how it affects their concept of God. The article demonstrates that churches officially state a doctrine of grace, but live out a theology of works righteousness. This situation calls us to ask what went wrong and to evaluate our own preaching and teaching. The final section begins to explore what we can learn from this study and how we can address the problems described.

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Davey, Michael. "The General Synod of the Church of Ireland." Ecclesiastical Law Journal 8, no. 36 (January 2005): 94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956618x00006074.

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This year's General Synod was held, for the first time ever, in Ireland's ecclesiastical capital, Armagh, at the recently constructed City Hotel and Conference Centre, which provided an excellent forum. The occasion was graced by the presence of the leaders of the other three main Churches in the province and by the preaching of the Archbishop of Canterbury at the Synod Eucharist in the recently renovated and refurbished Cathedral.

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Saunders, Robert. "God and the Great Reform Act: Preaching against Reform, 1831–32." Journal of British Studies 53, no. 2 (April 2014): 378–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2014.5.

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AbstractThe struggle for the “Great” Reform Act was one of the most serious crises of the nineteenth century, stirring controversy not only in Parliament and the political unions but in churches and chapels across the country. For many of its supporters, reform was a holy cause; for its opponents, it was a “Satanic” measure. This article seeks to reestablish reform as a religious controversy, paying special attention to the religious press and to the hundreds of sermons preached by the Anglican clergy. Anglicans mobilized an array of scriptural authorities against the reform bill, contributing directly to the rising temperature of debate. This was a “Constitution in Church and State,” and the church possessed both an authority and an audience that few institutions could match. Restoring it to the center of debate helps us to understand what was at stake in the reform bill and why it aroused such bitter passions.

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Bovon, François. "The Words of Life in the Acts of the Apostle Andrew." Harvard Theological Review 87, no. 2 (April 1994): 139–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017816000032752.

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Christianity always expressed the necessity of the proclamation of the gospel. During the second century, however, the different groups and churches were not able to agree on the nature of this proclamation. For some, the apostolic witness was constituted by a memory of fundamental salvific events, namely, the birth, death, and resurrection of Christ. For others, particularly the author of the Acts of Andrew, preaching the gospel meant communicating divine wisdom and proclaiming life-giving words.

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KRAVCHENKO, Nina, Elena KARPENKO, Anna MATIIENKO-SILNYTSKA, and Olga VASYLIEVA. "Category of Sacredness in the Discourse of the English Sermon (Theolinguistic Approach)." WISDOM 18, no. 2 (June 25, 2021): 18–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v18i2.480.

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The present paper deals with the investigation of the category of sacredness of the English religious preaching discourse, considered from the standpoint of theolinguistics. It has been proved that being a secondary form of sacred texts the text of the sermon demonstrates frequent use of sacral vocabulary of different groups: narrow conceptual and terminological vocabulary, which has religious sense and meanings, borrowings from sacred texts (the so-called biblicalisms), and vocabulary of everyday communication, which in the context of preaching becomes religious, and is included in the semantic field of religion on this basis. Different perception of the nature and ways to realize the sermon in the Anglican and Neo-Protestant churches is manifested in the peculiarities of the attitude towards the sacrality of the Word. The process of desacralization of the sermon, recorded in the Neo-Protestant sermons, occurs due to the contrasting use of sacred vocabulary in a stylistically reduced context, on the one hand, and the use of profane vocabulary to nominate sacred phenomena, on the other.

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Kaunda, Chammah. "The Day of Prayer and Its Potential for Engendering Public Ecclesiology Ecumenism in Zambia." Religions 9, no. 12 (November 29, 2018): 393. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel9120393.

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This article argues that while the National Day of Prayer in Zambia has its inception in political context, it has obligated the institutional churches to break out of their religiously fixed spaces, forcing them to suspend their official doctrinal positions for that specific day, and embrace each other in enacting what could be classified as “public ecclesiology ecumenism”. The article defines public ecclesiology ecumenism as the manifestation of institutionally-defined churches in public spaces to celebrate a common liturgical life in Christ through prayer, songs, preaching, and promotion of unified prophetic witness in the public. However, being a political initiative makes the Day of Prayer a potentially dangerous neo-colonial space for advancing a dominant political ideology which perpetuates corruption and exploitation of the masses. Thus, one of the core tasks of the churches is to liberate, reclaim, and reconstitute the Day of Prayer into a prophetic site of struggle against political corruption and poor governance by seeking to produce alternative public and political cultures.

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Schreiter, Robert J. "Jesus Christ and Mission: The Cruciality of Christology." Missiology: An International Review 18, no. 4 (October 1990): 429–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182969001800403.

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Questions today about the relationship between the salvation given in Jesus Christ and the salvific value of non-Christian religions looms larger than ever before. The author suggests in this article that, even though the Christian churches are divided in their responses to this challenge, there may be some areas where they can work together to meet this issue in the twenty-first century. He proposes three areas for such common exploration: what measure of salvation might be found in non-Christian religions; the meaning of the Trinity for understanding non-Christian religions; and the importance of preaching the whole Christ.

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Ngoya, Ashura Jackson. "The Historical Role of African Churches in the Healing Systems in Mbeya Region from the 1980s to the Present." Journal of Religion in Africa 49, no. 2 (March 11, 2021): 162–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340164.

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Abstract This paper presents a historical analysis of health care services through African churches in Mbeya Region, Tanzania from the 1980s to the present. In particular, it examines the influence of African churches in healing diseases spiritually. It analyses the changes in health care services in Mbeya Region, and the dominance of African churches in health services. It also shows how health care services are provided, and the successes and challenges related to health care services in African churches. Methodologically, the paper is based on a careful analysis of oral interviews, archival documents and secondary data. It argues that African churches emerged in Mbeya in the 1920s in response to the historical churches that operated in the region from the 1890s. The paper notes that diseases have been a significant factor throughout African history. Controlling disease was an important aspect of change in different historical periods. Unfortunately, historians have rarely paid attention to the involvement of African churches in health care services. This paper covers the strategies used by African churches in health care services, such as preaching on healing methods from the Bible. Through healing services, leaders of African churches are able to transform their own lives, but not all individuals are healed. This paper makes a contribution to the historiography of Africa by identifying the role of African churches in healing systems.

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Gonzalez, Oscar. "Preaching Conservation to Andean Pentecostal Communities: A Case of Engaging Key Stakeholders of Religious Communities in Peruvian Tropical Forests." Case Studies in the Environment 2, no. 1 (2018): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/cse.2017.000802.

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In Latin America, Pentecostal churches have an important presence in local Andean communities. I explored the opinions that rural people of the Pentecostal faith in the Peruvian Andes have on nature and conservation and tested the Evangelical principle of Creation Care as an effective method to approach them and get them interested in conservation issues. I attended special meetings of rural Pentecostal churches in Huanuco, Peru, in 2012 and 2013; the congregations allowed me to share the importance of nature conservation, and Creation Care facilitated this communication. I discuss the details of one of the events where I participated as an invited speaker to talk about nature conservation. For those who wish to foster a dialogue with Pentecostals and Evangelical residents of the Andes on the rationale for environmental stewardship, I recommend becoming familiar with the principle of Creation Care and looking for its application in specific environmental problems of the region.

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Whelan, Ruth. "The Paradoxes of Preaching in Print: Seeing and Believing in the Sermons of Jacques Abbadie." Irish Journal of French Studies 16, no. 1 (December 1, 2016): 87–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.7173/164913316820201535.

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The boom in printed sermons in French in the latter half of the seventeenth-century is usually attributed, on the one hand, to the popularity of pulpit eloquence and, on the other, to the piety of both preacher and faithful. However, this study of the rhetorical organisation, imagery, and printing history of the sermons of Jacques Abbadie points to a more ambiguous explanation for the boom. Although the French Reformed Churches counselled their pastors against the pursuit of eloquence in their preaching, Abbadie made a display of it, and engaged in theoretical reflection to justify his practice. According to him, pulpit eloquence promotes receptivity in the faithful; but, with hindsight, it is clear that it also promotes the preacher. Publishing eloquent sermons publicised the hermeneutical and oratorical gifts of the preacher; the epistle dedicatory advertised his social connections; thus the printed sermon was also a strategy for advancing the career of the preacher.

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Randall, Ian. "Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the Pastors’ College and the Downgrade Controversy." Studies in Church History 43 (2007): 366–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s042420840000334x.

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–92) began his pastoral ministry in a village Baptist chapel in Cambridgeshire but became a national voice in Victorian England through his ministry in London. The huge crowds his preaching attracted necessitated the building of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, at the Elephant and Castle, which accommodated over 5,000 people. ‘By common consent’, says David Bebbington, Spurgeon was ‘the greatest English-speaking preacher of the century’. Spurgeon, like other nineteenth-century ecclesiastical figures, was involved in theological controversies, including the ‘Downgrade Controversy’, in which, in typically robust style, he attacked theological liberalism. In August 1887, he trumpeted: ‘The Atonement is scouted, the inspiration of Scripture derided, the Holy Spirit degraded into an influence, the punishment of sin turned into a fiction, and the resurrection into a myth …’ The Downgrade controversy has not attracted nearly as much attention as debates provoked in the nineteenth century by Essays and Reviews (1860) and Lux Mundi (1889), perhaps because the latter affected Anglicanism rather than the Free Churches. But since as many people were attending Free Churches as Anglican churches, the issues raised in the Downgrade, as the most serious nineteenth-century Free Church dispute, are of considerable significance.

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Laputko, Anna. "BETWEEN SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS – DIGNITY AS THE HIGHEST VALUE OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT." Educational Discourse: collection of scientific papers, no. 28(11) (December 30, 2020): 99–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.33930/ed.2019.5007.28(11)-9.

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It is analyzed that the secular assertion of human dignity, rights and freedoms in its practical plane in certain periods of human history has been and is a great challenge for Christian churches. It is studied that the Christian understanding of human dignity, balancing on the border of its theoretical proclamation and its practical implementation, served to promote the ideas of humanism, its ability to resist destructive, degrading manifestations of social life forms, in the dialectic of social and religious forms of life. It is shown that the dignity of the individual is inseparable from the understanding of his rights and freedoms, and therefore, the struggle for dignity and human rights is an integral part of the preaching of the truths of Christianity.

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Đorđević, Zorana, and Dragan Novković. "Archaeoacoustic Research of Ljubostinja and Naupara Medieval Monastic Churches." Open Archaeology 5, no. 1 (July 30, 2019): 274–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opar-2019-0018.

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AbstractThe overall experience of religious practice is significantly affected by the acoustical properties of temples. Divine service is the most important act in the Orthodox Church, which equally demands intelligibility of speech for preaching and as well as adequate acoustics for Byzantine chanting as a form of a song-prayer. In order to better understand and contribute to unlocking the role of sound in these historical sacral spaces, this paper explores the acoustics of two well-preserved Orthodox churches, from Ljubostinja and Naupara monastery, built in the last building period of medieval Serbia (1371–1459). These represent two types of the Morava architectural style – triconch combined with a developed and compressed inscribed cross, respectively. Using EASERA software, we measured the impulse response for two sound source positions – in the altar and in the southern chanting apse, as the main points from which the Orthodox service is carried out. Thus obtained acoustic parameters (RT, EDT, C50 and STI) were further analysed, pointing out the differences in experiencing sound between naos and narthex, as well as how the position of the sound source influenced the experience of sound. Finally, we compared the results with previous archaeoacoustic research of the churches from the same building period.

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D'Angelo, Mary Rose. "Re-membering Jesus: Women, Prophecy, and Resistance in the Memory of the Early Churches." Horizons 19, no. 2 (1992): 199–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0360966900026220.

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AbstractIn the search for a feminist christology, Rosemary R. Ruether has proposed the vision of Jesus as prophet and the tradition of spirit christologies as sources. This essay proposes combining prophetic and spirit christologies, re-membering Jesus as a prophet within a prophetic movement, as a sharer in the spirit with its women and men prophets. It asks the reader to make two major shifts in envisaging Jesus' career: first, to shift the locus of the spirit from the person of Jesus to the reign-of-God movement within which he acted; second, to see the preaching of God's reign as alternative not to the teaching of the “scribes and Pharisees” but to the imperial rule. These two shifts can help us to revise the question, “Can a male savior save women?” asking instead whether, in the spirit, [we who are] women can liberate ourselves from but also with our memories of Jesus.

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CALVERT, SAMANTHA JANE. "A Taste of Eden: Modern Christianity and Vegetarianism." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 58, no. 3 (July 2007): 461–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022046906008906.

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This article considers how the roots of modern vegetarianism, one of the fastest growing cultural trends in the UK and USA since the 1960s, can be found in Protestant sectarianism. Christian vegetarianism is shown to have developed in three main periods: the first during the first half of the nineteenth century and culminating in 1847 with the founding of the Vegetarian Society; the second starting in the 1890s; and the third in the 1960s. The article demonstrates that the main themes to be found in the arguments for Christian vegetarianism are humanitarianism, purity and reincarnation. It examines why these movements experienced only limited success in preaching a Christian vegetarian message and considers whether this work continues today in the work of groups of vegetarian Christians within the mainstream Churches.

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Gros, Jeffrey. "It Seems Good to the Holy Spirit and to Us: The Ecclesial Vocation of the Pentecostal Scholar." Pneuma 34, no. 2 (2012): 167–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157007412x639870.

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Abstract The members of the Society for Pentecostal Studies have made significant contributions to ecumenical reconciliation, to the promotion of the intellectual life in the Pentecostal and Charismatic communities, and to service to the classical Pentecostal churches in their development from a movement into mature churches in the community of Christians. For this leadership we are grateful. The Pentecostal scholar in whatever church has a calling to be of service to the whole people of God and to the churches in their task of preaching, handing on the faith and nurturing the faithful. This Society has been a place where this ecclesial vocation has been and can be nurtured. There are many intellectual challenges before the Pentecostal community as it moves into its second century as a renewal movement among Christians worldwide. This presidential address suggests three of these challenges: (1) a renewed understanding of the two thousand years of Christian history and the role of renewal movements within it, including the last century of Pentecostal service; (2) an understanding of the sacramental character of Pentecostal worship, using the example of healing as a ritual where Pentecostals have unique gifts to offer other Christians and a long heritage of sacramental thinking from which to learn; and (3) the doctrine of the church and its call to visible unity, as the institutions that serve the Pentecostal churches mature into their second century and begin to become more theologically grounded, self-reflective, and ecumenical.

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Haddad, Beverley. "Church Uniforms as an Indigenous Form of Anglicanism: A South African Case Study." Journal of Anglican Studies 14, no. 2 (February 9, 2016): 156–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1740355315000224.

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AbstractAfrican women members of the Mothers’ Union in South Africa have forged a neo-indigenous expression of Christianity best expressed in the characteristics of the manyano movement (women’s prayer groups) which include extempore prayer and preaching, extensive fundraising, and the wearing of a church uniform. These women had to resist the restrictions placed upon them by women missionaries and church leadership from England, which included the abolishment of the church uniform during the 1950s. The article traces their struggle of resistance during this period and shows how they fought to wear a uniform and so identified themselves with the movement of women’s prayer unions existing in other churches. It also addresses the significance of the uniform as identified by elderly women from Vulindlela, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and suggests some of the existing ambiguities of the church uniform in the current church context.

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Lamont, Mark. "Lip-synch Gospel: Christian Music and the Ethnopoetics of Identity in Kenya." Africa 80, no. 3 (August 2010): 473–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/afr.2010.0306.

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In recent years there has been an outpouring of Kenyan scholarship on the ways popular musicians engage with politics in the public sphere. With respect to the rise in the 1990s and 2000s of gospel music – whose politics are more pietistic than activist – this article challenges how to ‘understand’ the politics of gospel music taken from a small speech community, in this case the Meru. In observing street performances of a new style of preaching, ‘lip-synch’ gospel, I offer ethnographic readings of song lyrics to show that Meru's gospel singers can address moral debates not readily aired in mainline and Pentecostal-Charismatic churches. Critical of hypocrisy in the church and engaging with a wider politics of belonging and identity, Meru gospel singers weave localized ethnopoetics into their Christian music, with the effect that their politics effectively remain concealed within Meru and invisible to the national public sphere. While contesting the perceived corruption, sin and hypocrisy in everyday sociality, such Meru gospel singer groups cannot rightly be considered a local ‘counter-public’ because they still work their politics in the shadows of the churches.

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Jeon, Chang Hee. "Lyman Beecher's Challenge to Korean Revival Preaching - In Relation to the Revival and the Second Great Awakening -." Theology and praxis 37 (November 28, 2013): 241–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.14387/jkspth.2013.37.241.

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Dunn, James D. G. "The Gospel and the Gospels." Evangelical Quarterly 85, no. 4 (April 30, 2013): 291–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/27725472-08504001.

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The origins of the word ‘gospel’ lie with Paul, who derived it from the Isaianic proclamation of a messenger of good news (Isa. 52:7; 61:1–2) and its influence on Jesus. Paul uses the term to refer to the good news of Jesus’s death and resurrection, a message which brings salvation. Mark was influenced by Paul’s usage and makes the term describe the whole account of Jesus’s mission and preaching climaxing in Jesus’s death and resurrection. The other Gospels follow suit. This use is not contradictory to that of Paul, who undoubtedly taught much about Jesus’ life and teaching in his oral communication to the churches he founded. While a number of non-canonical writings claim the title ‘Gospel’, best known of which is the Gospel of Thomas, their presentation of Jesus’s message is too disparate to give confidence that their distinctive message originates with Jesus.

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Oladepo, Oladimeji, Joseph Esu Usendiah, and Ademola Johnson Ajuwon. "Christian Religious Leaders' Knowledge and State of Preparedness for AIDS Education in an Urban Area in Nigeria." International Quarterly of Community Health Education 18, no. 3 (October 1998): 373–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/5kxd-69nb-6ha7-qy6j.

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An exploratory survey assessed Christian religious leaders' knowledge, state of preparedness, and current level of involvement in AIDS education in Ibadan, Nigeria, with a view to providing baseline information upon which AIDS education programs can be developed for churches. A total of 306 Christian leaders, who were selected from half (78) of the churches in Ibadan through multi-stage sampling, were interviewed. In addition, the church records kept by the Christian leaders were reviewed to document AIDS educational activities carried out by the churches. Results showed that almost all (97.7%) of the Christian leaders have heard about AIDS, with the mass media being the primary source of information (78.3%). Despite a high level of awareness, only 6 percent of the Christian leaders correctly identified HIV as the causative agent of AIDS. Knowledge regarding unprotected sexual intercourse with multiple partners as a way by which the virus is transmitted was high (88.3%). Only 37.8% of the leaders had ever carried out any AIDS educational activity in their respective churches, while the majority (62.2%) had not. The preaching of sermons (38.9%), presentation of seminar papers at workshops (21.2%), and counseling (15.8%) were the main educational programs carried out by the Christian leaders. Of those who have heard about AIDS but had not educated their congregation, a lack of basic knowledge on the disease was cited as the principal barrier (27%) to action. However, a majority (79.4%) are favorably disposed toward playing a pro-active role in AIDS educational programs in Nigeria. The implications of these findings for AIDS control efforts are discussed.

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TOAL, CIARAN. "Preaching at the British Association for the Advancement of Science: sermons, secularization and the rhetoric of conflict in the 1870s." British Journal for the History of Science 45, no. 1 (July 27, 2011): 75–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087411000598.

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AbstractMuch attention has been given to the science–religion controversies attached to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, from the infamous 1860 Huxley–Wilberforce debate at Oxford to John Tyndall's 1874 ‘Belfast Address’. Despite this, almost no attention has been given to the vast homiletic literature preached during the British Association meetings throughout the nineteenth century. During an association meeting the surrounding churches and halls were packed with men of science, as local and visiting preachers sermonized on the relationship between science and religion. These sermons are revealing, particularly in the 1870s when the ‘conflict thesis’ gained momentum. In this context, this paper analyses the rhetoric of conflict in the sermons preached during the meetings of the association, exploring how science–religion conflict was framed and understood through time. Moreover, it is argued that attention to the geography of the Sunday activities of the British Association provides insight into the complex dynamic of nineteenth-century secularization.

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Kurniawan, Wahju, and Oral Oko. "Sikap Pemimpin Gereja Menghadapi Hambatan Pemberitaan Injil di Kabupaten Klungkung, Bali: Studi Deskriptif Kisah Para Rasul Pasal 1-8." KHARISMATA: Jurnal Teologi Pantekosta 4, no. 1 (August 6, 2021): 147–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.47167/kharis.v4i1.55.

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This study aims to describe the obstacles in preaching the gospel and the attitudes of church leaders in Klungkung district-Bali in dealing with these obstacles. To achieve the objectives of the study, this research was conducted qualitatively, which intends to understand the phenomenon with respect to what is experienced by the research subject. Therefore, the method used is to search for relevant literature sources (library research) and interviews with research subjects. The data obtained is then collected for processing and then described, analyzed and interpreted in such away. After the research procedure was carried out, it was found that there were obstacles, both internal and external, in preaching the gospel in Klungkung, Bali. For internal barriers, there are seven kinds of obstacles, while external barriers there are ten kinds of obstacles. Leaders of Protestant Churches in Klungkung Regency, Bali 100% understand the attitude of Church leaders in the book of Acts chapters 1-8 in dealing with internal and external obstacles. AbstrakPenelitian bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan hambatan-hambatan dalam pemberitaan Injil dan sikap para pemimpin gereja di kabupaten Klungkung, Bali dalam menghadapi hambatan tersebut. Untuk mencapai tujuan penelitian tersebut maka penelitian ini dilakukan secara kualitatif, yang bermaksud untuk memahami fenomena berkenaan dengan apa yang dialami oleh subjek penelitian. Oleh karena itu, metode yang dipakai adalah menelusuri sumber literatur yang relevan (penelitian pustaka) serta wawancara dengan subjek penelitian. Data yang diperoleh kemudian dikumpulkan untuk diolah dan kemudian dideskripsikan, dianalisis diinterpretasi sedemikian rupa. Setelah prosedur penelitian tersebut dilak-sanakan maka ditemukan bahwa terdapat hambatan-hambatan, baik internal dan eksternal dalam pemberitaan Injil di Kabupaten Klungkung, Bali. Untuk hambatan internal terdapat tujuh macam hambatan, sedangkan hambatan eksternal ada sepuluh macam hambatan. Pemimpin gereja Protestan se-Kabupaten Klungkung, Bali 100% memahami tentang sikap pemimpin gereja di kitab Kisah Para Rasul pasal 1-8 dalam menghadapi hambatan-hambatan internal dan eksternal.

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Engelbrecht, B. J. "'n Nuwe ekumeniese geloofsbelydenis?" HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 43, no. 1/2 (June 29, 1987): 72–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v43i1/2.5727.

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A new ecumenical confession of faithRecently theologians, church leaders and even churches from all over the world expressed the desirability of a new confession of faith, preferably an ecumenical confession. The Reformed Church in America proposed a new confession with their Song of Hope. They still maintain large parts of their 16th century reformed confessions but the following motives played a role in their desire for a new confession:• The necessity to correct the existing, 'old' confessions in the light of modem scientific Bible-research, e g on the doctrine of predestination.• The need for additional confession-pronouncements on modern-day issues and experiences, unknown to the church in the 16th century.• The desirability of a new form (language) to communicate with modem man.• The sensitivity of the churches of today towards church-unity and the trends living in the oikouménè, e g their social awareness.We then proceed to treat the motives why a reformed Church überhaupt needs and forms a confession. In the light of these motives the question arises whether our Church really needs a new confession today; is the exposition of the existing confessions in theology, catechesis, preaching and modem church-hymns not enough to translate and communicate the existing confessions to modem man and to address modern-day issues?

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Espy, John M. "Paul's ‘Robust Conscience’ Re-Examined." New Testament Studies 31, no. 2 (April 1985): 161–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0028688500014624.

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For centuries most Protestant churches, true to the Reformers' understanding of man and the Law, have preached the Christian message by presenting first the Law, so that the hearer would come to recognize his or her sinfulness, and then the Gospel, that the hearer might be brought to hope, and eventually to faith, in Jesus Christ. As the New Testament begins with the stern exhortations of John the Baptist, so, it has been argued, the Christian proclamation should always and everywhere commence with God's command. But now, in seminaries and churches, some have seized upon new expositions of the Law and used them to oppose this preaching scheme as unworkable, since not all will have any sins against the Law to recognize; and even as wrong, on the grounds that this approach inevitably lapses into trying to make people ‘feel guilty’. The result is that many of the new generation of ministers are learning to preach only consolation, or, at most, the judgment upon certain social orders pronounced by popularized liberation theology. It is with this homilectical situation in mind that I offer the following remarks on Paul's understanding of man's relationship to the Law, and through the Law to sin.

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Sprunger, Keith L. "Puritan Church Architecture and Worship in a Dutch Context." Church History 66, no. 1 (March 1997): 36–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3169631.

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English Puritans have only a small reputation for aesthetic contributions to architecture. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, they worshiped God without making a show of buildings or beautiful ceremonies; consequently, there are few grand Puritan architectural monuments. Nonseparating Puritans, blending into the larger church, put their emphasis on the pure preaching and practice of biblical religion, not on outward appearances. And the Separatists, the strictest of the Puritans, gathered in disguised house-churches. Because of this artistic silence it is easy to downplay the importance of architectural concerns in the early history of Puritanism. Whenever historians mention “Puritan” architecture or “nonconformist” architecture, they are likely to describe it as simple, plain, functional, humble, austere, and practical. While true as far as it goes, this description is not the whole story. An examination of Puritan discussions about architecture in early seventeenth-century Netherlands reveals the interplay of theological and practical factors in creating the “proper” church architecture.

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