Waarderende gemeenteopbouw. Hoopvol. Stimulerend. Gewoon doen!

De kern van kerk-zijn is vertrouwen.

De kerken staan voor de vraag: hoe verder? Dit boek geeft hierop een concreet antwoord. Het belangrijkste is: zet een andere bril op en krijg zo oog voor het goede en waardevolle. En: ga in vertrouwen! `Er gaat iemand met je mee. Dan volgt een beschrijving van de weg waarop deze waarden op een vanzelfsprekende manier realiteit worden. De weg van het vertrouwen.

Dit boek loopt uit in een schet...

This accessible guide to the Gospel and Letters of John introduces readers to key issues arising from historical, literary, and theological approaches to the Johannine literature, also discussing the methodological rationale underlying each of these approaches. After introducing the reader to the development of the narrative structure of the book, the message (theology) is discussed in detail, with the aim of introducing the reader to the interrelatedness of the multiple theological ideas in ...

How can we reconcile the ideal church described by theology with the broken church that we see in the world? In this book Joseph Small argues that the church's true identity is known somewhere in the tension between the two.

Small revisits familiar ecclesiological concepts--people of God, the body of Christ, the communion of the Holy Spirit--but rather than focusing on theological abstractions or worldly cynicism, he carefully evaluates the church in its scriptural, historical, theological, ...

This is an essential introductory to liturgy for both ordinands and trainee lay readers - indeed for anyone who finds themselves having to plan or lead public worship. Well-known worship writer and speaker Mark Earey has written this book both for lovers and loathers of liturgical worship - and for those who want to discover it for the first time. This updated and enlarged second edition now includes:* How liturgy works as ritual;* The use of liturgy in different traditions; * The shape of th...

Het ruikt heerlijk, het ziet er fantastisch uit, het smaakt geweldig en wordt professioneel geserveerd. Rara wat is het?

Inderdaad: een preek. Of althans: zo kan een preek zijn! Wat je er voor nodig hebt? Een aantal basisingrediënten, een goede bereiding en een mooie presentatie van het eindresultaat.

Dit basisbakboek voor preken vertelt je er alles over en reikt je allerlei inzichten, voorbeelden en tips aan.

Dit boek roept een wereld op aan geur en smaak, een wereld van creatieve verwonder...

With this influential book of essays, Jonathan Z. Smith has pointed the academic study of religion in a new theoretical direction, one neither theological nor willfully ideological. Making use of examples as apparently diverse and exotic as the Maori cults in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the events of Jonestown, Smith shows that religion must be construed as conventional, anthropological, historical, and as an exercise of imagination. In his analyses, religion emerges as the product of ...

Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations, Third Edition is the ideal textbook for those coming to the study of religion for the first time, as well as for those who wish to keep up-to-date with the latest perspectives in the field. This third edition contains new and upgraded pedagogic features, including chapter summaries, key terms and definitions, and questions for reflection and discussion. The first part of the book considers the history and modern practices of the m...

A new and expanded edition of a highly successful textbook on world religions with a comparative approach which explores how six major religions are lived and expressed through their customs, rituals and everyday practices. A new edition of this major textbook, exploring the world's great religions through their customs, rituals and everyday practices by focusing on the 'lived experience' This comparative study is enriched and broadened with the inclusion of a sixth religion, DaoismTakes a th...

Offering an introduction to the New Testament, the author presents an historical study of the origins of Christianity by analyzing the literature of the earliest Christian movements. Focusing mainly on the New Testament, he also considers non-Biblical Christian writings of the era.