An Introduction to Ministry: A Primer for Renewed Life and Leadership in Mainline Protestant Congregations

An Introduction to Ministry is a comprehensive and ecumenical introduction to the craft of ministry for ministers, pastors, and priests that make up the mainline denominations in the United States. Ecumenically-focused, It offers a grounded account of ministry, covering areas such as vocation, congregational leadership, and cultivation of skills for an effective ministry. <ul>
<li>Covers the key components of the M.Div. curriculum, offering a map and guide to the central skills and issues in training</li> <li>Explores the areas of vocation, skills for ministry, and issues around congregational leadership</li> <li>Each topic ends with an annotated bibliography providing an indispensable gateway to further study</li> <li>Helps students understand both the distinctive approach of their denomination and the relationship of that approach to other mainline denominations</li> <li>Advocates and defends a generous understanding of the Christian tradition in its openness and commitment to broad conversation</li> </ul>

Religion & Spirituality

Markham, Ian S.

Warder, Oran E.

Christian Books & Bibles

Wiley/Blackwell

An Introduction to Ministry is a comprehensive and ecumenical introduction to the craft of ministry for ministers, pastors, and priests that make up the mainline denominations in the United States. Ecumenically-focused, It offers a grounded account of ministry, covering areas such as vocation, congregational leadership, and cultivation of skills for an effective ministry. 
<ul>
<li>Covers the key components of the M.Div. curriculum, offering a map and guide to the central skills and issues in training</li> <li>Explores the areas of vocation, skills for ministry, and issues around congregational leadership</li> <li>Each topic ends with an annotated bibliography providing an indispensable gateway to further study</li> <li>Helps students understand both the distinctive approach of their denomination and the relationship of that approach to other mainline denominations</li> <li>Advocates and defends a generous understanding of the Christian tradition in its openness and commitment to broad conversation</li> </ul>

This is the first substantial study in Christian Ethics to explore the problem of religion, plurality, and ethics. Why, asks the author, do different religions find it so hard to coexist together? In answering this question, the book ranges widely: culture, ethical method, the Christendom Group of T.S. Eliot, immigration, Rushdie and Islam, Bellah and "civil religion," Neuhaus and "public philosophy," MacIntyre and Milbank, the nature of truth and morality, and the political implications of postmodernism are all discussed.

Plurality and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics, Series Number 4)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Cambridge University Press

Encountering Religion: An Introduction to the Religions of the World

This comprehensive, user-friendly text introduces students to the principal world faiths. This text is cross-referenced to and can be used in conjunction with Markham's World Religions Reader, Second Edition as a complete teaching package for comparative religion courses.

Religious Studies

This ground-breaking book challenges readers to rethink the dividebetween liberal and orthodox approaches which characterisesChristianity today.Provides an alternative to the liberal / orthodox divide incontemporary Christianity.Defends Christianity’s engagement with non-Christiantraditions.Includes important discussion of theological method.Illustrated with case studies involving human rights,interfaith tolerance, economics, and ethics.

A Theology of Engagement (Challenges in Contemporary Theology)

This ground-breaking book challenges readers to rethink the divide between liberal and orthodox approaches which characterises Christianity today. 
<ul> <li>Provides an alternative to the liberal / orthodox divide in contemporary Christianity. 
</li> <li>Defends Christianity’s engagement with non-Christian traditions. 
</li> <li>Includes important discussion of theological method. 
</li> <li>Illustrated with case studies involving human rights, interfaith tolerance, economics, and ethics.</li> </ul>

A Theology of Engagement

Engaging with Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

Too often interfaith dialogue is generic and unfocused. Often it involves 'liberals' from each tradition coming together to criticize the 'conservatives' in their own traditions. This book provides a model for interfaith dialogue that challenges very directly the 'dialogue industry'. This book involves a Christian theologian in deep conversation with a Muslim theologian. Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1877-1960) was born at the end of the Ottoman Empire and lived through the emergence of an aggressive secular state. He had to think through, in remarkably creative ways, the challenge of faith within a secular environment, the relationship of faith and politics, and the implications and challenge of diversity and difference. His entire project is captured in his magnum opus 'The Risale-i Nur'. In the first eight chapters of this book, we engage closely with the thought of Nursi and tease out insights that Christians can learn from and accommodate. Having established the method, the second section of the book examines the precise implications for the interfaith movement. The problem with the interfaith movement is that it is an act of western cultural imperialism - they are taking the individualist assumptions of modern America and imposing them on the conversation. The problems with John Hick's and Leonard Swidler's approach are exposed. Moving out from Islam, the book then demonstrates how the model of interfaith changes when Christians are in conversation with Hinduism in India. A new set of Dialogue Ten Commandments are suggested. The book concludes with an appeal for a commitment to include and reach the 'conservatives' in the major religious traditions.

Engaging with Bediuzzaman Said Nursi: A Model of Interfaith Dialogue

Routledge

• Modeled on Michael Pollan’s best-selling Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual • Written by a prominent church figure Ian Markham, Dean and President of Virginia Theological Seminary, introduces both the Christian faith and The Episcopal Church to the seeker and Episcopal laity in this indispensable manual. Each page in Faith Rules is Episcopal wisdom set in concise, straightforward language for anyone in the 21st century.

Faith Rules: An Episcopal Manual

Gottlich, Samantha R. E.

Morehouse Publishing

The great themes of faith are also the great themes of literature and the arts. As we come to terms with God, hope, faith, tragedy, guilt, fear, and love, so the poets, writers, musicians, and artists pick up the same themes, and their understanding can enrich and deepen our own. Words That Listen brings these two worlds together. For each gospel, Markham and Hawkins offer four connecting resource suggestionse.g., a poem, extract from a novel, a film/television/sporting illustration, and/or a humorous storyto illuminate, make connections, and spark new ways of looking at familiar stories. The suggestions for each Sunday include a brief summary and explanation of the extracts. A two-volume set. Volume 1 covers Advent to Ascension, Volume 2 Pentecost to end of Church Year.

Words That Listen: A Literary Companion to the Lection

Hawkins, James Barney, IV

Church Pub Inc

The comprehensive and engaging introduction to contemporary Christianity, revised and updated The second edition of Understanding Christian Doctrine presents a completely updated and revised edition that builds on the most popular features of the first edition to offer a lively overview to the central beliefs of Christianity. Ian S Markham, a noted authority of Christianity, discusses the great thinkers of the Christian tradition and puts them in conversation with contemporary progressive theologies in a book that goes from Augustine, Aquinas, and Luther to Liberationist, Feminist, and Queer theologies. Designed to be a basic primer, the text is written in a manner that assumes the reader has no prior knowledge of theology or Christian doctrine. The book is designed to present the basic options in all the key areas of Christianity as well as information on how to make complex theological decisions. The author tackles all the key questions from creation to eschatology. Furthermore, Markham makes his own distinctive contribution: he argues that theodicy (traditionally seen as a major difficulty with belief) is actually a theme that links many aspects of Christian doctrine. The revised second edition includes a wealth of new information, including: <ul>
<li>A lively and comprehensive introduction to Christianity that assumes no prior knowledge of the faith</li> <li>An overview to the great thinkers of Christian tradition that puts them in conversation with progressive liberationist theologies</li> <li>Suggestions that help even the most skeptical to learn to understand and possibly embrace theological assertions</li> <li>Breakout boxes that explain the significance of the text’s various philosophical ideas and positions</li> </ul>
The text is ideal for anyone interested in learning about the foundations of Christianity as well as new ideas about the faith. Christianity is presented in a manner that embraces the richness of the tradition and affirms the central claims of the historical creeds, while engaging with liberationist challenges to the tradition.

Understanding Christian Doctrine

wiley

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An Introduction to Ministry: A Primer for Renewed Life and Leadership in Mainline Protestant Congregations

An Introduction to Ministry: A Primer for Renewed Life and Leadership in Mainline Protestant Congregations

Plurality and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics, Series Number 4)

Encountering Religion: An Introduction to the Religions of the World

A Theology of Engagement (Challenges in Contemporary Theology)

A Theology of Engagement

Engaging with Bediuzzaman Said Nursi: A Model of Interfaith Dialogue

Faith Rules: An Episcopal Manual

Words That Listen: A Literary Companion to the Lection

Understanding Christian Doctrine