Union : or, A treatise of the consanguinity and affinity between Christ and His church /

Shaw & Shoemaker : 26587.

The Christian ecclesia; a course of lectures on the early history and early conceptions of the ecclesia and four sermons.

Mode of access: Internet.

Lectures on important doctrines of the true Christian religion.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Christian Science Journal

Official Organ of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts

Paulinism; a contribution to the history of primitive Christian theology. /

v. 1. Exposition of Paul's doctrine.--v. 2. The history of Paulinism in the primitive church.

Organ repertoire : a book of pipe organ music for church and concert /

(cont.): Cradle song : berceuse / Walter Spinney -- Andantino from Fantasia in C minor / W.A. Mozart -- Marche de fête / Edgar A. Barrell -- Minster march : from Lohengrin / R. Wagner -- Sunrise : op. 7, no. 1 / Sigfrid Karg-Elert -- Song without words = Chant sans paroles : op. 2, no. 3 / P. Tschaikowsky -- Prayer on motives from R. Wagner's Lohengrin : op. 54 / B. Sulze -- Festal march : op. 67, no. 8 / E.R. Kroeger -- Christmas march / G. Merkel -- Duke Street : postlude II / Geo. E. Whiting -- Canzonetta from the Raymond overture / A. Thomas -- Anniversary march : introducing Auld lang syne : op. 10 / J. Lawrence Ebb -- Two cradle songs = Zwei Wiegenliedchen / Herbert Botting -- Minuet from the overture to Berenice / G.F. Handel -- Funeral march = Marche funèbre : op. 35 / Franz Chopin -- March in B♭ / Wm. Faulkes -- The Son of God goes forth to war : postlude VI / Geo. E. Whiting -- Nocturne des anges : op. 18, no. 1 / George F. Vincent -- Hosanna! / Paul Wachs -- Roumanian bridal march / Herbert W. Wareing.

The churches and persistent pockets of poverty in the U.S.A. A report on the problem of poverty issued by the Division of Christian Life and Work and the Division of Home Missions, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. and based on a consultation held in January, 1962.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Church quarterly review.

Originally published in London, by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge [etc.] 1875-1968.

Dissent, in its relation to the Church of England : eight lectures, preached before the University of Oxford, in the year 1871, on the foundation of the late Rev. John Bampton ... / by George Herbert Curteis.

Mode of access: Internet.

Ancient church dedications in Scotland...

[v. 1] Scriptural dedications.--[v. 2] Non-scriptural dedications.

NEOTRIBALISMO E NOVOS MOVIMENTOS RELIGIOSOS: ESTUDO DE CASO DA PRÁXIS DA IGREJA BOLA DE NEVE CHURCH

A presente pesquisa Neotribalismo e Novos Movimentos Religiosos:Estudo de Caso das Práxis da Igreja Bola de Neve Church é uma investigação in loco que se propõe analisar, descrever e interpretar o contexto de uma práxis religiosa emergente, com uma abordagem teórico-científica deste movimento religioso. A partir da década de 80 do século XX houve uma nova configuração social permitindo criar grupos de identificação própria, principalmente no contexto urbano. Um destes grupos que vieram a surgir foram as chamadas tribos urbanas. Esta nova configuração neo-tribalista permitiu o desenvolvimento de expressões de religiosidade própria, chamado de Novos Movimentos Religiosos, dentre os quais, destaca-se a Igreja Bola de Neve Church. O tema desta pesquisa científica tem despertado grande interesse pelos cientistas sociais e da religião, apresentando-se, também, como um novo desafio aos pastoralistas por analisar os efeitos que este fenômeno religioso implica na sociedade contemporânea. Por isso, além de compreender os fundamentos teórico-científicos da construção do modelo social neotribalista e dos Novos Movimentos Religiosos, a pesquisa propõe-se a investigar o surgimento, descrevê-lo e interpretar suas práticas religiosas sob a chave hermenêutica da teoria da práxis religiosa, a fim de compreender como a Igreja Bola de Neve Church é interpretada pelas religiões de tradição cristã.(AU)

Eastern Orthodox Christian fasting in northeastern Pennsylvania

The purpose of this research was to examine the fasting practices of Eastern Orthodox Christians (EOCs) in northeastern Pennsylvania. Fasting, according to Eastern Orthodox Church doctrine, is primarily abstinence from meat, dairy products, fish and certain other foods during Easter Lent and other periods, for approximately 180 days annually. Goals were to discern what EOCs consider their fasting rules to be, their actual fasting practices, what factors influence this practice and the relationship of fasting to nutrition. Methodology included 29 months of ethnographic fieldwork at local parishes, content analysis of local written materials and semi-structured interviews of 58 core church members. A pile sort was conducted whereby subjects classified various foods according to fasting or non-fasting status and then sorted the fasting foods into a hierarchy of avoidance. Data were analyzed using ANTHROPAC and NVivo software. Results included identification of a cognitive hierarchy of avoidance, with meat the most important to avoid, followed by dairy and alcoholic beverages. An important finding was the differences in subjects' knowledge of Church doctrine and a wide variation in their actual fasting practices. Contrary to Church doctrine, fish was not usually perceived as a food to abstain from. A historic Byzantine Catholic presence in the area (with a different fasting doctrine), family members who did not fast, and health concerns were some factors that affected fasting practices. A conclusion is that while meat, dairy and alcoholic beverages were usually categorized as foods to avoid during fasts, it is not possible to generalize with regard to actual practices or the impact of fasting on nutrition, due to individual variation. It was demonstrated that qualitative data could provide information that can be crucial to know prior to conducting quantitative nutrition research or counseling. Findings of this study suggest that one cannot assume subjects who belong to a given religion that has prescribed food avoidance practices are following them homogeneously and/or according to official doctrine. ^

The Didache and Traditioned Innovation: Shaping Christian Community in the First Century and the Twenty-First Century

Church leaders, both lay and clergy, shape Christian community. Among their central tasks are: building communal identity, nurturing Christian practices, and developing faithful structures. When it comes to understanding the approach of the earliest Christian communities to these tasks, the Didache might well be the most important text most twenty-first century church leaders have never read. The Didache innovated on tradition, shaping the second generation of Christians to meet the crises and challenges of a changing world.

Most likely composed in the second half of the first century, the Didache served as a training manual for gentile converts to Christianity, preparing them for life in Christian community. This brief document, roughly one third the length of Mark’s gospel, developed within early Jewish-Christian communities. It soon found wide usage throughout the Mediterranean region, and its influence endured throughout the patristic and into the medieval period.

The Didache outlines emerging Christian practices that were rooted in both Jewish tradition and early Jesus material, yet were reaching forward in innovative ways. The Didache adopts historical teachings and practices and then adapts them for an evolving context. In this respect, the writers of the Didache, as well as the community shaped by its message, exemplify the pattern of thinking described by Greg Jones as “traditioned innovation.”

The Didache invites reflection on the shape and content of Christian community and Christian leadership in the twenty-first century. As churches and church leaders engage a rapidly changing world, the Didache is an unlikely and yet important conversation partner from two millennia ago. A quick read through its pages – a task accomplished in less than half an hour – brings the reader face to face with a brand of Christianity both very familiar and strikingly dissimilar to modern Christianity. Such dissonance challenges current assumptions about the church and creates a space in which to re-imagine our situation in light of this ancient Christian tradition. The Didache provides a window through which we might re-examine current conceptualizations of Christian life, liturgy, and leadership.

This thesis begins with an exploration of the form and function of the Didache and an examination of a number of important background issues for the informed study of the Didache. The central chapters of this thesis exegete and explore select passages in each of the three primary sections of the Didache – the Two Ways (Didache 1-6), the liturgical section (Didache 7-10), and the church order (Didache 11-15). In each instance, the composers of the Didache reach back into a cherished and life-giving aspect of the community’s heritage and shape it anew into a fresh and faithful approach to living the Christian life in a drastically different context.

The thesis concludes with three suggestions of how the Didache may provide a resource for the way the Church in the present thinks about training disciples, shaping community, and developing leadership structures. These conversation starters offer beginning points for a richer, fuller discussion of traditioned innovation in our current church context. The Didache provides a source of wisdom from our spiritual forebears that modern Christian leaders would do well not to ignore. With a look through the first century window of the Didache, twenty-first century Christians can discover fresh insights for shaping Christian community in the present.