Spiritual Theology
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Spiritual Theology: A Systematic Study of the Christian Life List Price: $24.00 Sale Price: $12.00  |
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A 1999 Academy of Parish Clergy Top Ten Book! Theology is "the doctrine of living unto God," wrote the Puritan theologian William Ames. Unfortunately, post-Enlightenment theology has tended to divorce "doctrine" from "living unto God... |
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Spiritual Theology List Price: $16.95 Sale Price: $9.00 |
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Often spirituality today is isolated from church teaching and doctrine, as in Joseph Campbell’s treatment of myth and the many forms of New Age theologies, but doctrine apart from the life of prayer is abstract and sterile... |
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Spiritual Theology (Stagbooks) List Price: $55.00 Sale Price: $42.98 |
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Almost all scholars look to Acts 6:1 - 8:3 as providing the bedrock of early Christian tradition. The incident between the Hebrews and the Hellenists are understood to reflect real historical and theological problems in the early Jerusalem community, demonstrating the Hellenist role as a historical bridge between Jesus and Paul... |
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The Gods Aren't Angry List Price: $19.99 Sale Price: $10.66 |
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Where did the first caveman or cave-woman get the idea that somebody, somewhere existed who needed to be worshipped, appeased, and followed? And how did the idea evolve that if you didn't say, do, or offer the right things this being would be upset, agitated, or even angry with you? Where did religion come from? |
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Future Grace: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God List Price: $29.99 Sale Price: $26.99 |
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In Future Grace, author John Piper helps readers discover the key to overcoming sin and living a life that honors God. Many men and women attempt to walk upright out of gratitude for what Christ did in the past, but Piper encourages believers to look ahead to the grace God provides for us on a day-by-day, moment-by-moment basis—putting faith into action by laying hold of God’s promises for the challenges we face... |
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The Blazing Center DVD: The Soul-Satisfying Supremacy of God in All Things List Price: $29.99 Sale Price: $18.37 |
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What Do You Revolve Around? All the planets of your life - from your labor and leisure to your thinking and feeling - are held in orbit by the greatness, gravity, and blazing brightness of Jesus Christ at the center of your life... |
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The Role of Prayer in Spiritual Awakening List Price: $45.00 Sale Price: $19.99 |
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In his captivating teaching style, Dr. Orr illustrates how the spiritual revivals of the past are the result of concerted and united prayer. In one example, he explains that as the result of the revival during the early 1900s, 240 department stores in Portland, Oregon closed dailly from 11 am until 2 pm for prayer... |
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Spiritual Perspectives Sale Price: $10.00 |
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VHS Tape in Clam Shell Case. Approx. 60minutes. |
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The Reverend Roberta Hestenes - First Woman to Chair World Vision-Largest Christian Relief Organization (Searching for God in America Series) List Price: $45.00 |
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Reverend Hestenes is the first female Presbyterian President of the Baptist Affiliated Eastern College and the first woman to chair World Vision, the largest Christian Relief Organization in the world... |
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Photographic Prints of Latin Bible, France, Europe from Robert Harding Sale Price: $15.99 |
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10x8 Print, Latin Bible, France, Europe. Latin Bible, France, Europe. Chosen by Robert Harding. High quality RA4 prints. Printed on Kodak Endura and Edge papers. Size refers to paper used. This item is shipped from our American lab. |
Theological Rigidity
Catholicism has it's Holy Father and Protestanism has it's inerrant Bible. I subscribe to neither because I see both having been adopted out of theological rigidity and not out of a spiritual experience with God. In fact, there's way too much in the American church scene that's horizonal in orientation vs that which should be vertically oriented. Let me even take it one step further.
The historical practice in Catholicism has been that parishioners are to relate horizonally (to the church) and let the priests, cardinals, and Holy Father do the vertical work. While it's not a policy or tradition in Protestant circles there are sure a whole lot of lazy non-Catholic believers who'd rather have the priests, pastors, and ministers figure it all out and bring back the instructions to them.
It's been that way since Moses did the heavy lifting on the mountain while the people partee-hartee in the valley.
So, when Pope Pius XII (1950) declares that the Virgin Mary didn't die (since she was born sinless and therefore not subject to the original sin issue), but was taken up bodily into heaven, no one questions the statement. Well, some have questioned a lot of things. Ask Hans Kung. Questioning things that should not be questioned (anything that disagrees with the Pope) gets you thrown out of any teaching office- if not the church!
But let me ask anyway. 
1-What made Mary sinless? Can I get some Bible references?
2-Who said she didn't die- other than the Pope? Can I get an intellectual witness?
3-Where did her body float off to into space and didn't she get cold at about 10,000 feet- freeze at 25,000 feet? And isn 't this a dumb question anyway?
We're just simply undoing a lot of things that Jesus did, opposing what He proposed and following what He never mentioned.
I'm just one of those people that believes "knowing God", being spiritual, and having an intimate relationship with the Creator can't come out of externally imposed doctrinal or theological rigidity- be it Catholic or Protestant. As Bruce Bewar wrote, "Churches that insist on theological rigidity are seemingly devoted to truth; but in fact such a posture reflects not a genuine concern with truth but a desire for control, order, discipline, and a false show of unanimity."
Bingo!
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