Metodistkirker

Church renewal always happens from the margins, never from the center. Church renewal burns with fiery passion among the LatinX pueblos and barrios, and this energy in Latin America can be harnessed to reform doctrine, worship, and the core purpose of Methodists. Emil Brunner said that "the church exists by mission as fire exists by burning." At times, this fire has burned brightly and served as a light to the nations. Sometimes it has been mishandled and caused harm, and still at other times, it seems to dwindle to a few embers. The flame of church renewal burns brightly among many poor and marginalized followers of Christ. The Holy Spirit, like the wind, blows where it will, but some places are windier than others. Social peripheries are particularly windy places. This book tests whether renewal of doctrine, worship, and mission can happen by looking to the experience of Methodists in LatinX and Latin American ecclesial contexts. In true Wesleyan spirit, this renewal does not confine itself to Methodism, but the people called metodistas share in the movement's fundamental calling to reform the church universal in its mission to the world.

The controversial and doctrinal works emerging from John Wesley's debates with Moravians, with Roman Catholics, and regrading worship practices are essential for understanding Wesleyan soteriology and ecclesiology. Works of John Wesley, Volume 14 Doctrine and Controversial Treaties III is part of a series dedicated to providing a complete and accurate published collection of the Works of John Wesley. The various items included in the series constitute crucial primary texts for study of Wesley's life, his ministry, and his thoughtful impact on the broader Methodist movement in Great Britain and America

What I purpose in the following papers is, to give a plain and distinct account of the steps by which I was led, during a course of many years, to embrace the doctrine of Christian perfection. This I owe to the serious part of mankind, those who desire to know all "the truth as it is in Jesus." And these only are concerned in questions of this kind. To these I would nakedly declare the thing as it is, endeavouring all along to show, from one period to another, both what I thought, and why I thought so.John Wesley was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist, who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Methodist movement that continues to this day.This Premium Edition comes with a beautiful layout which makes reading comfortable.

9783847111825LangtextDie Studie zeigt, wie die europäische Kirchenkultur aus der Reformationszeit mit territorial und flächendeckend organisierten Staatskirchen in Amerika durch eine völlig andere Kirchenkultur auf der Basis der Religionsfreiheit ergänzt wurde. Zuerst begegneten sich diese beiden Typen durch die Auswandererscharen in Amerika. Später erlebten Kirchen aus den USA in Europa Zurückweisungen. Das Aufeinandertreffen dieser Kirchenkulturen führte dort wie hier zu Konflikten. Am Ende wird jedoch ein Paradigmenwechsel sichtbar. Die europäischen Kirchen wurden über Jahrhunderte durch ihren flächendeckenden Alleinanspruch zu "Betreuungskirchen". Die methodistische Tradition, um die es in dieser Studie geht, ist geschichtlich durch ihre ursprüngliche Praxis, ihre Theologie und ihre Ordnung als "Missionskirche" organisiert. Karl Heinz Voigt schildert konkret das Aufeinandertreffen und zeigt darin die speziell europäische Erfahrung.9783847111825AutorenporträtKarl Heinz Voigt ist Pastor der Evangelisch-methodistischen Kirche. Er hat als Ökumene-Beauftragter Jahrzehnte in ökumenischen Gremien mitgewirkt. 2007 erhielt er in den USA für seine historischen Forschungen den Distinguished Service Award.