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Christian Pluralism in the United States

The Indian Immigrant Experience

By: Raymond Brady Williams

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Christian Pluralism in the United States

The Indian Immigrant Experience

By: Raymond Brady Williams

Recent immigrant Christians from India are changing the face of American Christianity. They are establishing churches with Orthodox, Protestant and Catholic rites. This book is a comprehensive study of these Christians, their churches and their adaptation. Professor Williams describes migration patterns since 1965, and how the role of Indian Christian nurses in creating immigration opportunities for their families affects gender relations, transition of generations, interpretations of migration, Indian Christian family values, and types of leadership. Contemporary mobility and rapid communication create new transnational religious groups, and Williams reveals some of the reverse effects on churches and institutions in India. He notes some successes and failures of mediating institutions in the United States in responding to new forms of Christianity brought by immigrants.

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322

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Cambridge University Press

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0521570166

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9780521570169

Becoming Christian

The Conversion of Roman Cappadocia

By: Raymond Van Dam

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Becoming Christian

The Conversion of Roman Cappadocia

By: Raymond Van Dam

In a richly textured investigation of the transformation of Cappadocia during the fourth century, Becoming Christian: The Conversion of Roman Cappadocia examines the local impact of Christianity on traditional Greek and Roman society. The Cappadocians Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Eunomius of Cyzicus were influential participants in intense arguments over doctrinal orthodoxy and heresy. In his discussion of these prominent churchmen Raymond Van Dam explores the new options that theological controversies now made available for enhancing personal prestige and acquiring wider reputations throughout the Greek East. Ancient Christianity was more than theology, liturgical practices, moral strictures, or ascetic lifestyles. The coming of Christianity offered families and communities in Cappadocia and Pontus a history built on biblical and ecclesiastical traditions, a history that justified distinctive lifestyles, legitimated the prominence of bishops and clerics, and replaced older myths. Christianity presented a common language of biblical stories and legends about martyrs that allowed educated bishops to communicate with ordinary believers. It provided convincing autobiographies through which people could make sense of the vicissitudes of their lives. The transformation of Roman Cappadocia was a paradigm of the disruptive consequences that accompanied conversion to Christianity in the ancient world. Through vivid accounts of Cappadocians as preachers, theologians, and historians, Becoming Christian highlights the social and cultural repercussions of the formation of new orthodoxies in theology, history, language, and personal identity.

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265

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812207378

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9780812207378

Christian Faith Unveiled in the Epistle of James

By: Raymond J. Zeman

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Christian Faith Unveiled in the Epistle of James

By: Raymond J. Zeman

A study of the book of James will unveil some of the most practical Christian faith topics found in the New Testament. Truths are revealed in James concerning faith in action: overcoming adversities, personal spiritual growth, sensitivity in personal relationships, serving those around us, using wisdom to control ones tongue, and using wealth in Gods service. The book was written by James, identified as the brother of Jesus Christ in Mark 6:3, to the twelve tribes of Israel which were scattered throughout the Roman Empire. Because these early believers did not have the support of established Christian churches, James wrote to them as a concerned leader and servant of God to encourage them in their faith during difficult times as they waited for the next coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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115

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Xlibris Corporation

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1503537420

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9781503537422

Baptism in the New Testament

By: George Raymond Beasley-Murray

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Baptism in the New Testament

By: George Raymond Beasley-Murray

Analyzes passages found in the New Testament that support the Christian practice of baptism.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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080281493X

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9780802814937

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Christian Pluralism in the United States

Christian Pluralism in the United States

Becoming Christian

Becoming Christian

Christian Faith Unveiled in the Epistle of James

Christian Faith Unveiled in the Epistle of James

Baptism in the New Testament

Baptism in the New Testament

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