Free Download Nkem Emerald Osuigwe, "Christian Churches and Nigeria's Political Economy of Oil and Conflict: Baptist and Pentecostal Perspectives"
English | ISBN: 1443861235 | 2014 | 270 pages | PDF | 1082 KB
The received account on African evangelical Christianity regarding social witness in a section of Western scholarship is that it is anti-development and a-political. Such an account heavily draws from an instrumentalist and functionalist assessment of such Christianity without recourse to its emic perspective. Using the case-study method, this book presents an ethnographic examination of this functionalist reading by investigating, describing and analysing evangelical Christian theological and socio-political consciousness within the context of oil and conflict in Nigeria's Niger Delta region. Adopting approaches from practical theology, congregational studies, and anthropology of religion, the author challenges such a reading using data gathered from three congregations in the region. His discourse revolves around answers to the following four critical questions: What are the underlying theological issues and beliefs of Nigerian evangelical Christians within the context of oil and conflict? What is their prevalent praxis within the context of Nigeria's political economy of oil and conflict? How accurate is the received account that African evangelical and 'fundamentalist' Christianity lacks social responsibility and is a-political and anti-development? What would a contextual political theology for Nigeria's political economy of oil look like? The theological issues are varied and the prevalent praxis nuanced, which then serves as a veritable critique of the claim that African evangelical Christianity lacks social responsibility due to its preoccupation with soul-winning. Whereas such Christianity places much emphasis on the winning of souls as an expression of its spirituality, it is neither oblivious nor indifferent to its socio-political milieu. Rather it sees such spirituality as a form of political praxis. Some of the trajectories of the spirituality include a theology of conversion, a theology of prayer, and an ethics of crude oil, with Total Freedom as the nomenclature for the specific theological perspective offered for Nigeria's political economy of oil. While locating this theological perspective within the taxonomy of Liberation Theology, the affinity and dissonance between the two are identified.

Free Download Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies By David Bentley Hart
2009 | 253 Pages | ISBN: 0300111908 | PDF | 2 MB
In this provocative book one of the most brilliant scholars of religion today dismantles distorted religious "histories" offered up by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and other contemporary critics of religion and advocates of atheism. David Bentley Hart provides a bold correction of the New Atheists's misrepresentations of the Christian past, countering their polemics with a brilliant account of Christianity and its message of human charity as the most revolutionary movement in all of Western history.Hart outlines how Christianity transformed the ancient world in ways we may have forgotten: bringing liberation from fatalism, conferring great dignity on human beings, subverting the cruelest aspects of pagan society, and elevating charity above all virtues. He then argues that what we term the "Age of Reason" was in fact the beginning of the eclipse of reason's authority as a cultural value. Hart closes the book in the present, delineating the ominous consequences of the decline of Christendom in a culture that is built upon its moral and spiritual values.

Free Download David Ngong, "A New History of African Christian Thought: From Cape to Cairo"
English | ISBN: 0415857562 | 2016 | 226 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1169 KB + 8 MB
David Tonghou Ngong offers a comprehensive view of African Christian thought that includes North Africa in antiquity as well as Sub-Saharan Africa from the period of colonial missionary activity to the present. Challenging conventional colonial divisions of Africa, A New History of African Christian Thought demonstrates that important continuities exist across the continent. Chapters written by specialists in African Christian thought reflect the issues―both ancient and modern―in which Christian Africa has impacted the shape of Christian belief from the beginning of the movement up to the present day.

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Free Download M. David Litwa, "The Evil Creator: Origins of an Early Christian Idea"
English | ISBN: 0197566421 | 2021 | 224 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1480 KB + 15 MB
This book examines the origins of the evil creator idea chiefly in light of early Christian biblical interpretations. It is divided into two parts. In Part I, the focus is on the interpretations of Exodus and John. Firstly, ancient Egyptian assimilation of the Jewish god to the evil deity Seth-Typhon is studied to understand its reapplication by Phibionite and Sethian Christians to the Judeo-catholic creator. Secondly, the Christian reception of John 8:44 (understood to refer to the devil's father) is shown to implicate the Judeo-catholic creator in murdering Christ. Part II focuses on Marcionite Christian biblical interpretations. It begins with Marcionite interpretations of the creator's character in the Christian "Old Testament," analyzes 2 Corinthians 4:4 (in which "the god of this world" blinds people from Christ's glory), examines Christ's so-called destruction of the Law (Eph 2:15) and the Lawgiver, and shows how Christ finally succumbs to the "curse of the Law" inflicted by the creator (Gal 3:13). A concluding chapter shows how still today readers of the Christian Bible have concluded that the creator manifests an evil character.

Free Download Michael Schut, "Simpler Living, Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1889108626, 0819223697 | EPUB | pages: 295 | 1.6 mb
Simpler Living, Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective is a rich collection of voices that bring clarity to the confusion between our society's ideal of the material "good life" with the "abundant life, " modeled after the person of Jesus, the things he taught, and the way he lived. It invites us to re-examine and rearrange our lives, to sweep away the "clutter" that keeps us from contact with the world, with God, with our own souls. It provides further images of the abundant life and suggests ways of moving toward it personally and culturally. It shares practical suggestions that cover topics such as personal consumer choices and service projects to reinvigorating community life and traditional celebrations.

Free Download Jane Everingham Nelson, "Shakespeare and religio mentis A Study of Christian Hermetism in Four Plays "
English | ISBN: 9004516328 | 2022 | 328 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This landmark interdisciplinary study shines the light of religious Hermetism on Love's Labour's Lost, King Lear, Othello and The Tempest and reveals the 'religion of the mind' found in the Corpus Hermeticum to be a source of Shakespeare's understanding of human psychology.

Free Download Sittser, "Resilient Faith: How the Early Christian "Third Way" Changed the World"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1587434083, 1587434547 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 5.2 mb
In our Western, post-Christendom society, much of Christianity's cultural power, privilege, and influence has eroded. But all is not lost, says bestselling author Gerald Sittser. Although the church is concerned and sobered by this cultural shift, it is also curious and teachable.

Free Download Jr. Estep, James Riley, "Practicing Christian Education: An Introduction for Ministry"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 080103096X | EPUB | pages: 192 | 7.0 mb
This accessible introduction to the broad scope of Christian education focuses on its practice in the local church. Two leading experts argue that Christian education encompasses all of the intentional practices of the local church, including worship, mission, sacraments, and teaching. They explore Christian education not only as a field of study but as a vital congregational ministry, showing how congregations can engage in discipleship and formation for spiritual growth. The book features exercises and other pedagogical devices and includes reflection questions and suggestions for further reading.