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¿Es acaso un mero accidente que Europa esté a la cabeza de la protección social en nuestro mundo globalizado? Aunque es un tema muy desconocido, es necesario subrayar que la Reforma Protestante del siglo XVI, y que nació en el mismo corazón del continente europeo, no solo fue un movimiento de carácter religioso, sino que tuvo además un marcado impacto sociopolítico. Es verdad que la impronta de la Reforma no fue la única que jugó,...
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Since Princeton College and Princeton Seminary were major radii of Realist influence, the conservative Presbyterianism headquartered there is an ideal choice for a case study in the American impact of Baconianism. Presbyterian thinkers, already committed to a synthesis of Protestant religion and Newtonian science, were afforded with additional means of elaborating a doxological version of natural science and of defending it against naturalism and...
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In this in-depth study of eight diverse mainline Protestant congregations, anthropologist Fredric Roberts finds that when local congregations are evaluated by spiritual and religious standards instead of corporate-or pop-culture-based values there remains much to celebrate. Roberts recommends that congregations work to discover their own uniqueness and to build upon the strength that already exist among its own members. “Be Not Afraid!” is a guide...
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In The Saint and His Savior, Spurgeon takes us through the whole process of the work of the Spirit in a believer's life, from his first experience of the Lord, through the often-tumultuous process of conversion, to the deepening knowledge of the presence of the Savior with his people.
Captivating and challenging, Spurgeon examines how sin affects our relationship to Christ, and how we can cultivate a friendship with our Savior.
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The most powerful agent God has released in the earth to manifest and establish His Kingdom is the Church. Jesus reveals his plan to establish the Church in Matthew 16 when he proclaims to his disciples, "on this rock I will build my church". In that very same conversation, Jesus tells his disciples he is giving them the keys to the Kingdom! The church is the Father's primary expression of the Kingdom of God on earth. But through the centuries, the...
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"Careless In The Care of God" is for anyone at the end of their rope. Autobiographical in nature, this book describes the realities of being a believer in the 21st century and how the goodness of God's grace is the only hope for the world.
Written from the real life perspective of an entrepreneurial father of four, the book casts away the pretense of behavioral Christianity and offers a glimpse into the world of a real life believer in Jesus.
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In this, work fourteen practical questions on how a person is convicted of since to close with Christ and continue in the Christian life.
I. Conviction of Sin
II. Evidence of an Interest in Christ
III. Concern of Christians in Public and National Sins
IV. Recovery from Spiritual Decay
V. The Ground of an Application to Christ
VI. How to Apply to Christ for Grace
VII. On Faith as to the Answer of Prayer
VIII. When is Sin Habitually Prevalent?
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Four-hundred-seventy years ago, the Anabaptist movement was launched with the inauguration of believer's baptism and the formation of the first congregation of the Swiss Brethren in Zurich, Switzerland. This standard introduction to the history of Anabaptism by noted church historian William R. Estep offers a vivid chronicle of the rise and spread of teachings and heritage of this important stream in Christianity.
This third edition of The Anabaptist...
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J. Gresham Machen, a prominent and controversial figure of his era, stood out in the ecclesiastical world of the 1920s and 1930s, where few religious leaders commanded as much attention as he did. As a scholar, Professor at Princeton and Westminster Seminaries, church leader, and a staunch advocate for biblical Christianity, Machen emerged as one of the most articulate defenders of the faith in the twentieth century.
The compilation "God Transcendent"...
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"As a writer, Brooks scatters stars with both his hands: he hath dust of gold; in his storehouse are all manner of precious stones.... One of these pithy extracts may assist our meditations for a whole day, and may open up some sweet passage of Scripture to our understandings; and perhaps some brief sentence may stick in the sinner's conscience, like an arrow from the bow of God."
-C. H. Spurgeon.
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Este libro ha sido concebido por sus autores como un recurso para generar una comprensión vívida y sentida del significado y desafíos de la Reforma Protestante como herencia histórica y teológica en América Latina, no sólo para la generación presente sino también para la iglesia del futuro. El propósito del libro es, por eso, provocar el conocimiento y la comprensión más amplia y popular posible de un proceso histórico para la vida de...
14) Christian Love
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In this Treatise of Christian Love, the Scottish Covenanting minister Hugh Binning movingly presents the need for Christians to show by their love for one another that they belong to Christ. Basing his remarks on John 13:35, By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another, he argues, 'This badge that Christ left to his disciples: if we cast this away on every disagreement, we disown our Master, and disclaim his...
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The Heart of Christ in Heaven towards Sinners on Earth was first published in 1651, and it soon became Thomas Goodwin's (1600-1680) most popular work. It is a Christ-centered work and a has both a pastoral tone with theological precision. He shows that Christ has a heart toward all that he has saved.
17) An Inquiry into the Original, Nature, Institution, Power, Order, and Communion of Evangelical Chu
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The first part of this elaborate work consists of a long preface, in which, the author first retorts upon the Nonconformists the charge of encouraging Popery from the schism and divisions they had fomented, from their opposition to episcopal polity, which was a main bulwark against Popery, and from certain curious facts, according to which the Jesuits, it would seem, had insinuated themselves among the early Puritans, in order to excite them against...
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The Excellencies of Christ is an extension of A. W. Pink's The Attributes of God where he explores the qualities of the person of Jesus Christ especially in relation to those who he has redeemed.
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I. The Fulness of Christ
II. The Radiance of Christ
III. The Condescension of Christ
IV. The Humanity of Christ
V. The Person of Christ
VI. The Subsistence of Christ
VII. The Servitude of Christ
VIII. The Despisement of Christ
IX. The Crucifixion...
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It deserves attention that this pamphlet, with its humble title, "A Discourse concerning Liturgies," etc., and printed anonymously in 1662, contains the judgment of our author, in regard to measures, which gave rise to most important events in the ecclesiastical history of England. It is an argument against the liturgy, the imposition of which obliged nearly two thousand clergy of the Church of England to resign their livings rather than sacrifice...
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Every day of the week in contemporary America (and especially on Sundays) people raise money for their religious enterprises--for clergy, educators, buildings, charity, youth-oriented work, and more. In a fascinating look into the economics of American Protestantism, James Hudnut-Beumler examines how churches have raised and spent money from colonial times to the present and considers what these practices say about both religion and American culture....
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