House church (or "home church") is used to describe an independent assembly of Christians who gather in a home. Sometimes this occurs because the group is small, and a home is the most appropriate place to gather, as in the early church, or the beginning phase of the British New Church Movement. Sometimes it is because the group is a member of an underground Christian movement, which is otherwise banned from meeting, as in China. More recently some modern writers have determined that the home is the "right" place to meet, and have based the operation of their communities around multiple small home meetings. Their justification for avoiding public meetings in dedicated buildings are many, and include: it is a more effective way of...

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Christian ethics ought to take seriously the notion of the unconscious desire as developed in the work of both Jacques Lacan and Denis Vasse. Since motivation remains central to this theological ethics, the psychoanalytical understanding of desire will change the way of conceiving motivation in general. This desire is not a mere biological appetition; it is not simply the appetitive power of De Anima; it is not the pure rational will of Kant; it is not even the Hegelian desire for absolute knowledge. Human desire is the desire of/for the Other, which becomes unconscious through the effect of speech on the body. The embodiment of the subject of desire sheds new light on the body, a key notion for any kind of ethics. Desire, speech and...

ISBN: 978-3-8364-9326-0
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There is a trememdous amount of Christian writings that defines a successful pastor as one who has increased numerical growth each year. The purpose of this book is to encourage the small church pastor that obedience to the Great Commissionm, which includes reaching, discipling, and teaching, is God's measuring standard for success. The evidence of success will be discipleship-making according to the opportunites that God has given each pastor. The book emphasizes that God equally provides all pastors the same spiritual tools necessary for maturing His church. A case study of Grace Church illustrates how it matured over the last forty-five years. How to Mature a Small Church is a helpful book for all pastors seeking to mature their...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Howard Finster was a Baptist Reverend and artist from Summerville, Georgia. He claimed to be inspired by God to spread the gospel through the environment of Paradise Garden and over 46,000 pieces of art. His creations overlap folk art, outsider art, naive art, and visionary art. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hugh Norman Ross (born July 24, 1945) is a Canadian- born Old Earth creationist and Christian apologist. An astronomer and astrophysicist, he has established his own ministry called Reasons To Believe that promotes forms of Old Earth creationism known as progressive creationism and day-age creationism. Ross accepts the scientific evidence of the age of the earth and the age of the universe, and he rejects evolution and abiogenesis as explanations for the history and origin of life. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hugh of Amiens (died 1164), monk of Cluny, prior of Limoges, prior of Lewes, abbot of Reading and archbishop of Rouen, was a 12th-century French Benedictine prelate. Hugh was a staunch supporter of King Stephen, and passed much time in England during the civil wars. Early in 1137 Stephen went to Normandy, and when he had failed to capture Matilda's illegitimate half-brother, Robert, Earl of Gloucester, Hugh was one of his sureties that he would do Robert no further injury. It was by his intervention that the dispute between the king and the bishops regarding the custody of castles was settled at the council of Oxford in 1139, which Henry of Blois had summoned. Hugh also reconciled the Earl of...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hugh Goodacre was an English Protestant clergyman, briefly Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland. He was vicar of Shalfleet, Isle of Wight, and chaplain to John Ponet, Bishop of Winchester. According to John Strype he was at first chaplain to Princess Elizabeth, who about 1548 or 1549 procured him a license to preach from Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, the Lord Protector, recommending him in a letter to William Cecil. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hugh Blair FRSE was a Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician, considered one of the first great theorists of written discourse. As a minister of the Church of Scotland, and occupant of the Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the University of Edinburgh, Blair's teachings had a great impact in both the spiritual and the secular realms. Best known for Sermons, a five volume endorsement of practical Christian morality, and Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, a prescriptive guide on composition, Blair was a valuable part of the Scottish Enlightenment. Данное издание не...

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Книга представляет собой репринтное издание. Несмотря на то, что была проведена серьезная работа по восстановлению первоначального качества издания, на некоторых страницах могут обнаружиться небольшие "огрехи": помарки, кляксы и т.п. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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Humanae Vitae is an encyclical written by Pope Paul VI and promulgated on July 25, 1968. Subtitled "On the Regulation of Birth", it re-affirms the traditional teaching of the Roman Catholic Church regarding abortion, contraception, and other issues pertaining to human life. Mainly because of its prohibition of all forms of artificial contraception, the encyclical has been controversial. The document is sometimes described as prophetic by those who believe that its four predictions about the effects of contraception on society were accurate. Pope Paul VI did not issue any additional encyclicals in the remaining ten years of his pontificate. In 2008, Pope Benedict XVI called this topic so controversial, yet so crucial for humanity's...

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Книга представляет собой репринтное издание. Несмотря на то, что была проведена серьезная работа по восстановлению первоначального качества издания, на некоторых страницах могут обнаружиться небольшие "огрехи": помарки, кляксы и т.п. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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Throughout 20th century culture, various efforts to define the nature of progress directly contributed to competing visions of human nature. Theologians, scientists and artists struggled with one another, each group announcing different versions of the human subject based upon its definition of progress. Progress in all groups was a deeply ethical concept, one that crossed the disciplinary boundaries assumed to exist between the cultural domains. By advocating particular visions of human nature, each group offered an ethical vision for human action. This dynamic is visible in a comparative approach to liberation theology, robotics, and the contemporary art of Wolfgang Laib and the group Survival Research Laboratories. Just like the...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Humani generis is a papal encyclical that Pope Pius XII promulgated on 12 August 1950 "concerning some false opinions threatening to undermine the foundations of Catholic Doctrine". Theological opinions and doctrines known as Nouvelle Theologie or neo-modernism and their consequences on the Church were its primary subject. Pope Pius XII, who usually employs diplomatic and carefully measured language in his writings, is convinced of the serious nature of those opinions threatening to "undermine the foundation of Catholic doctrine," a most unusual tone for this pontiff. Philosophy and theology are the main topics of this encyclical. But it extends further into the realm of culture and science....

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hun and po are types of souls in Chinese philosophy and religion. Within this ancient soul dualism tradition, every living human has both a hun spiritual, ethereal, and yang soul that leaves the body after death and a po corporeal, substantive, and yin soul that remains with the corpse. There are controversies over the number of souls in a person, for instance, the sanhunqipo "three hun and seven po" in Daoism. The historian Yu Ying-shih describes hun and po as "two pivotal concepts that have been, and remain today, the key to understanding Chinese views of the human soul and the afterlife." Данное...

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Why do some endtime enthusiasts become violent while others do not? There are no simple clean-cut answers to the question. From the perspective of comparative religion the author presents some guidelines for understanding the complexity of rhetorical 'apocalyptic terror'. By focusing on the end she argues that hunger for urgent and dramatic societal change does not automatically imply violent behaviour. Leppakari uses case studies and theological analysis to tackle the problem of violence within the context of Jewish and Christian endtime activists working from within the city Jerusalem and argues that intense transmissions of apocalyptic representations are sources of inspiration which can motivate people to act, whether peacefully or...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hungry ghosts are not the same as ghosts in Chinese tradition. The traditional belief is that people become ghosts when they die, however, it was originally thought that ghosts did not have eternal life, but would slowly weaken and eventually die a second time. Hungry ghosts in traditional thought would only be an issue in exceptional cases, such as if a whole family were killed or when a family no longer venerated their ancestors. With the rise in popularity of Buddhism the idea that souls would live in space until reincarnation became popular. In the Taoist tradition it is believed that hungry ghosts can arise...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Die Hure Babylon ist eine der biblischen Allegorien fur die Gegner der Glaubigen im Allgemeinen und das romische Weltreich im Speziellen. Ihre wirkungsreichste Beschreibung findet sich im Neuen Testament in der Offenbarung des Johannes im Kapitel 17 und 18. In der Reformationszeit haben Martin Luther und John Knox die romisch-katholische Kirche als Hure Babylon bezeichnet, wie vor ihnen bereits Girolamo Savonarola und Friedrich II. anlasslich seines ausgedehnten Streits mit Papst Gregor IX. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Hussainia is a congregation hall for Shia ritual ceremonies, especially those associated with the Remembrance of Muharram. The name comes from Husayn Ibn Ali, the grandson of Muhammad and an Imam of the Shia. Hussain was killed by Yazid I in Karbala, Iraq, over 1,300 years ago. Shias still mourn the death of Hussain every year on the day of Ashura in Hussainias all over the world.A Hussainiya is different from a mosque in that it is made mainly for gatherings for Muharram in the mourning of Hussain ibn Ali, and may not necessarily hold prayer in jumaa'at or Friday Prayer unless there is a gathering at the same time, where they would make a jumaa'at the time of prayer. Данное...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Huston Cummings Smith (born May 31, 1919 in Suzhou, China) is a religious studies scholar in the United States. His book The World's Religions (originally titled The Religions of Man) remains a popular introduction to comparative religion.Smith was born in China to Methodist missionaries and spent his first 17 years there.He taught at the University of Denver from 1944–1947; then at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri for the next ten years. He was then appointed professor...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hybrids are mythological creatures combining body parts of more than one real species. They can be classified as partly human hybrids (such as mermaids or centaurs), and non-human hybrids combining two or more animal species (such as the griffin). Hybrids are often zoomorphic deities in origin who acquire an anthropomorphic aspect over time. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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In this research work an attempt has been made to show the dynamics of religion in practice and how adherents produce meaning from their double allegience to two differnt religions, Orthodox Christianity and Qallu religious practice. It shows the hybrid space created by societies to negotiate lived realities. In doing so, it attempts to show the power relations that affect the way the two religions are practiced. In a situation where adherents have to go to both institutions, their adherence to Qallu is secret while their being followers of orthodox christianity is publicly disclosed. The dichotomy with regard to practising the two religions exists is analysed. Данное издание не является оригинальным....

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hyper-dispensationalism, as opposed to traditional (or mainstream) Dispensationalism, views the start of the Christian church as beginning with the ministry of the Apostle Paul after the early part of the book of Acts. Hyperdispensationalists regard the failure of the post-Apostolic church to preserve the Pauline Distinctive as a cause of the Great Apostasy and as a mistake of the 19th century Restoration Movement. Hyperdispensationalists regard what they understand to be the recovery of true Pauline Christianity as the crowning achievement of events that began with the Protestant Reformation. Although variations exist in specifics, all hyper-dispensationalists view the four Gospels and many of...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hyper-Calvinism is a pejorative term used to mark Calvinistic ministers that deny the free offer of the gospel and duty-faith. The term "Hyper-Calvinism" is greatly used in the writings of Iain Murray, Curt Daniel, Peter Toon, R. T. Kendall, and others who seek to defend the free offer of the gospel as well as duty faith. The controversy over the free offer and duty-faith historically arose from within the Calvinist tradition among the early English Particular Baptists in the mid 18th century. It can be seen in the teachings of men like Joseph Hussey (d. 1726), John Skepp (d. 1721), Lewis Wayman (d. 1764), John Brine (d. 1765), William Gadsby (d. 1844) and John Gill (d. 1771). It became...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A hypnopompic state (or hypnopomp) is the state of consciousness leading out of sleep, a term coined by the spiritualist Frederick Myers. Its twin is the hypnagogic state at sleep onset; though often conflated, the two states are not identical. The hypnagogic state is rational waking cognition trying to make sense of non-linear images and associations; the hypnopompic state is emotional and credulous dreaming cognition trying to make sense of real world stolidity . They have a different phenomenological character. Depressed frontal lobe function in the first few minutes after waking – known as "sleep inertia" – causes slowed reaction time and impaired short-term memory. Sleepers often wake...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hypostatic union is a technical term in Christian theology employed in mainstream Christology to describe the union of two natures, humanity and divinity, in Jesus Christ. The First Council of Ephesus recognised this doctrine and affirmed its importance, stating that the humanity and divinity of Christ are made one according to nature and hypostasis in the Logos. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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