Free Now, Create your account in our book library, so you can find out the latest books ~ bestsellers and get them for free, more than 1 million copies of the book. This short book is a reflection on life as an intentional Christian community, written by Bonhoeffer during his time as a head of the Illegal Seminary of the Confessing Church in Finkenwalde (Eastern Prussia). The book has become a spiritual classic in which many Christians of a wide variety of backgrounds and contexts have found meaning and encouragement. This introductory group study gives you an overview of the five biblical purposes that God intends for your life. Creating a Life Together is the only resource available that provides step-by-step practical information distilled from numerous firsthand sources on how to establish an intentional community. It deals in depth with structural, interpersonal and leadership issues, decision-making methods, vision statements, and the development of a legal structure, as well as profiling well-established model communities. This exhaustive guide includes excellent sample documents among its wealth of resources. Diana Leafe Christian is the editor of Communities magazine and has contributed to Body & Soul, Yoga Journal, and Shaman’s Drum, among others. She is a popular public speaker and workshop leader on forming intentional communities, and has been interviewed about the subject on NPR. She is a member of an intentional community in North Carolina. Well written and highly accessible, this book interweaves a thorough review of developments in Christian community from the first century to the present with powerful new discoveries in scriptural, theological, and historical research that has uncovered deep communal strands in the foundational literature and notions of Christianity. The result is a profound call for the renewal of Christian community and churches as crucial models and inspirations for the new search for wholeness in America. On the nature of Christian community and a theological interpretation of the Psalms. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most influential Christian martyrs in history, bequeathed to humanity a legacy of theological creativity and spirituality that continues to intrigue people from a variety of backgrounds. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, a sixteen volume series, offers a fresh, critical translation of Bonhoeffer's writings, with introductions, annotations, and interpretations. The stimulus for the writing of Life Together was the closing of the preacher's seminary at Finkenwalde. The treatise contains Bonhoeffer's thoughts about the nature of Christian community based on the common life that he and his seminarians experienced at the seminary and in the "Brother's House" there. Bonhoeffer completed the writing of Life Together in 1938. Prayerbook of the Bible is a classic of Christian spirituality. In this theological interpretation of the Psalms, Bonhoeffer describes the moods of an individual's relationship with God and also the turns of love and heartbreak, of joy and sorrow, that are themselves the Christian community's path to God. In these wide-ranging studies, Stephen Barton shows that Christian theology and the Christian scriptures have a vital contribution to make to contemporary wisdom about our common life. The subjects he addresses are relevant to the concerns of many people today. What he has to say about the family, sexuality, community and biblical interpretation is both informative and creative. Running through the book is the issue of the appropriate use of the Bible: how the sacred text may speak in ways which are life-giving. Stephen Barton claims that questions about the interpretation of the Bible have to be set in the larger context of what it means to be the church. A central argument i that the Bible is the kind of text the truth of whose witness is discovered above all in the lives of individuals and communities seeking to share by grace in the life of the Trinity. How do young people between the ages of 13 and 24 put life together? What do they value in life? What parts does religion and spirituality play? Based on interviews and surveys over four years, this book provides a detailed and well-founded picture of Australian young people. The book examines the influences of families, schools and churches on the lives of young people and describes how they can best help young people to enjoy positive and responsible relationships with themselves, close others, the wider society, the natural environment and with God. It suggests ways of pointing young people to the spiritual dimension of life, respecting their frameworks for seeing the world, but also doing justice to the counter-cultural nature of the Christian faith.Life Together
Genre: Religion
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Release: 2015-01-31
File Book: 112
ISBN-10: 9780334049760
Language Options: en Beginning Life Together
Genre: Religion
Author: Brett Eastman
Release: 2002
File Book: 112
ISBN-10: 0310246725
Language Options: en Creating A Life Together
Genre: Family & Relationships
Author: Diana Leafe Christian
Release: 2003-01-01
File Book: 272
ISBN-10: 9781550923162
Language Options: en Life Together
Re Imagining Life Together In America
Genre: Social Science
Author: Catherine T. Nerney
Release: 2002
File Book: 272
ISBN-10: 1580511147
Language Options: en Life Together And Prayerbook Of The Bible
Genre: Religion
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Release: 2004-12-08
File Book: 218
ISBN-10: 1451410387
Language Options: en Life Together
Genre: Religion
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Release: 1995-12
File Book: 218
ISBN-10: 0800683056
Language Options: en Life Together
Genre: Religion
Author: Stephen Barton
Release: 2005-01-01
File Book: 272
ISBN-10: 9780567384102
Language Options: en Get Your Life Together
Putting Life Together
Genre: Adolescence
Author: Hughes P.
Release: 2007
File Book: 215
ISBN-10: 9781875138074
Language Options: en