Subject: Religion
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The Study Catechism: Confirmation Version
This is a somewhat briefer and simpler version of The Study Catechism, suitable for use with confirmation classes composed of early adults.
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The Study Catechism: Full Version
This book is intended for adults and older adolescents. It is suitable for study by new members of the church, college groups, adults in study groups, and church officers, in a variety of settings. Following the traditional format, the catechism strives to balance theological depth and accessibility.
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Dreams, Where Have You Gone?
In Dreams Where Have You Gone? Clues for Unity and Hope, author William G. McAtee tells the story of the Union Presbytery Movement through interviews, records of oral accounts, and first-hand experience. McAtee shows how the Union Presbytery Movement came into being in 1969 and illustrates the events leading up to this. He explores the…
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Psalter For Christian Worship
The singing of psalms in meter – once so vital to Presbyterian worship – has all but disppeared from our tradition. In this psalter, church organist Michael Morgan has reclaimed the pslams for congregational worship with new texts set to familiar hymn tunes. This collection, for worship leaders, musicians and congregations, will inspire both corporate…
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The Once And Future Church
Mead takes a broad look at past and present changes in the church, and postulates a future to which those changes are calling us. Denominations, once structured to deliver resources to far-off lands of foreign mission, now encounter the mission field in the layperson’s workplace and the community surrounding the local congregation. Thus, the church…
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Transforming Congregations For The Future
In this third volume of the Once and Future Church series and sequel to his book The Once and Future Church, Loren Mead picks up where he left off. If God is calling the church to reshape itself, where do we begin? On what basis should we build? The declining numbers of denominational membership and recent…
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Introduction To The Reformed Tradition
From the Preface: ‘This study of the Reformed tradition is motivated by gratitude for a heritage that has nurtured and shaped the writer’s own life and by the conviction that the tradition provides resources, clues, and inspiration for life in the last quarter of the twentieth century… The Reformed tradition has been one of the…
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Our Presbyterian Belief
Everything you always wanted to know about Presbyterians. In one compact volume Felix Gear provides the history, theology, and the philosophy of Presbyterians in the reformed tradition complete with thought-provoking questions and readily understandable answers. This impressive outline examines fundamental doctrines and the basic beliefs of the reformed tradition.
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Presbyterians
This highly popular account of the chief events and doctrines of the Presbyterian Church continues to have great appeal to everyone – laypersons, youth, and ministers, students of religion, history, and sociology – in fact, anyone who is interested in the development of a major body of Christians. Clearly written, [it] gives new understanding and appreciation of…
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An Evangelism Primer
Here are fresh, enlightening, practical, and logical strategies for ‘doing’ evangelism in the local church. Johnson’s ‘Organismic Evangelism’ is a new approach that is based on the utilization of the entire ‘organism’ of the church. Johnson shows how to use these human resources to capture the spirit of Christian love, encouragement, and acceptance. More than…
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Congregation: Stories And Structures
In a unique, full-scale study of congregational life, Hopewell shows that it is narrative-the oral tradition-that knits a congregation together. Reviews: ‘This book fills an important gap in the literature of practical theology. Practical theology needs to know how to describe situations, especially the empirical situation of the church. We will depend on Hopewell’s method…