Adventism for a new generation
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Oregon :
Better Living Publishers,
1994.
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| Edición: | 3ed. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: Introduction
- 1. Adventism in a crazy and mixed up world
- The challenge of Valuegenesis
- Lack of warmth
- Lack of acceptance
- Standards overemphasized
- Unquestioning loyalty
- Irrelevance to felt needs
- Lack of grace orientation
- Conclusion
- 2. Toward an "Adventist Perestroika"
- Embracing a radical, risky faith
- Redefining our priorities
- Embracing Christ's acceptance
- Letting the Spirit give life
- Embracing the Kingdom of God
- Empowering our youth
- Embracing our world
- 3. Spiritual megatrends and twenty-first century Adventism
- From Christian to post-Christian America
- From self-serving to people-serving religion
- From left brain to right brain religion
- Authoritarian hierarchies to grassroots participation
- From patriarchal/ethnocentric to egalitarian religion
- From behavior-centered to grace-center religion
- From institutionalism to spiritual revivalism
- Part II: Rediscovering our Adventist roots
- 4. The essence of healthy religion
- Christianity without Christ
- Jesus
- the essence of healthy religion
- Doctrine and the essence of healthy religion
- Personal piety and the essence of healthy religion
- Service and the essence of healthy religion
- Is Jesus the essence of Adventism?
- 5. Replanting our Adventist roots
- Adventism
- sect, institution or both
- The Jewish roots of Adventism
- Adventism and New Testament Christianity
- The Protestant heritage of Adventism
- Our Puritan connection
- Adventists and shouting Methodists
- The Millerite heritage of Adventism
- The meaning of 1844 for Adventists today
- Significant dates in Adventist history
- Part III: Adventism & the pillar doctrines of Christianity
- 6. Who is God and who am I? Identity in Christ
- Pictures of God
- Getting the big picture
- Spiritual schizophrenics
- Who are you?
- Your identity in Christ
- The carpenter's construction crew
- 7. Hermeneutics or himeneutics: A God who writes
- The authority of scripture through Jesus Christ
- Seeking God's will in Babylon
- Jesus
- the Word of God
- Sola Scriptura and Ellen White
- Adventists and inspiration
- Taste and see
- 8. The Adventist atheist? Questions about God
- The mystery we call God
- God in a box
- The practical meaning of Trinity
- Father: God's transcendence
- Son: Revealer of divinity
- Holy Spirit: Beyond space and time
- 9. "The earth is the Lord's ..." and other clichés embracing the creatorship of God
- Creation versus evolution
- Creatorship versus creaturehood
- Fundamentalism versus modernism
- Darwinian theory versus scripture
- Jesus and creation
- Science, religion and faith
- 10. Conscientious objectors to the Great Controversy! Adventism and the God of spiritual warfare
- The original source of evil
- Evil, human free choice, and God's will
- Adventists and the Great Controversy
- Human evil and suffering
- AN enemy has done this
- All things, Paul and Pollyanna
- Jesus and suffering
- 11. Do Adventists live disgracefully? At peace with a God who saves
- The doctrine of salvation
- God's everlasting covenant
- The kingdom of God and grace
- Jesus the Second Adam
- Traits of the saved married to Christ
- Celebrating the process of salvation
- 12. Dying rituals or relevant symbols of hope? Adventist ordinances and the God of everyday life
- The symbols of Jesus
- Entrusted to the church
- Baptized into CHRIST
- The daily supper
- Rediscovering the ordinance of service
- Part IV: Redefining the pillar doctrine of Adventism
- 13. Cutting the leash of legalism! Adventism and the goodness of God
- Thank goodness for legalism?
- The pillars of Adventism
- Adventism and the Law
- The Old Testament Law
- Extremes in lawkeeping
- The condemnation of the law
- Jesus the cure for legalism
- The fulfillment of the Law
- The purpose of the Law
- 14. Holy heresy! Worshipping the radical Lord of the Sabbath
- Getting radical with Jesus
- Symbol of creation and salvation
- The Old Testament Sabbath
- Sabbath in the New Testament
- From Sabbath to Sunday
- Sabbath as a symbol
- Principles of Sabbath observance
- 15. Are we Seventh-day ghostbusters? A God of the whole human being
- Expanding our "holistic" views
- Wholism versus dualism
- The immortality of God
- Human mortality
- The first and second death
- Is the end of the world a barbecue?
- 16. Does God have AIDS? The Sanctuary doctrine and a God who suffers
- Experiential theology
- What is the Sanctuary doctrine?
- Problems with our past Sanctuary theology
- Redefining Christ's intercession
- Christ's intercession and human intercession
- A High Priest who feels our pain
- A High Priest who is in control
- A High Priest who majors in compassion
- 17. Three angels of hope! A God who keeps promises
- Definitions related to eschatology
- Putting Christ back int he center of our eschatology
- The everlasting gospel
- Gospel-inspired worship of the Creator
- Eschatology and false religion
- The judgment as good news
- Adventism versus escapism
- Why Jesus waits
- Second thoughts about the Second Coming
- 18. Are we a non-prophet organization? Adventism and the God who speaks
- Adventist misconceptions about prophets
- What is a prophet?
- The prophetic spirit in the Old Testament
- The gift of prophecy in the New Testament
- Jesus the perfect prophet
- Testing the prophetic gift
- The prophetic ministry of Ellen White
- The prophetic community
- God's remnant
- 19. "Milgram's pilgrims" Adventism and the God of non-conformists
- Jesus the non-conformist
- Studies in conformity and religion
- Healthy and unhealthy religion
- Conformity and Adventist eschatology
- Implications for the future of Adventism
- Revelation 13 and the future of Adventism
- Adventism and the new pantheism
- Part V: Applying our theology in the church & in the world
- 20. The dangers of growing up in an Adventist home! Blessings and cursings of Adventist family life
- The changing American family
- The changing Adventist family
- Traits of a dysfunctional family
- Traits of a healthy family
- Valuegenesis: Home and school
- Church life and family life
- Biblical principles for today
- You can and should go home again
- 21. Damned through the church? The Adventist church and its future
- Does the church offer "spiritual life insurance"?
- Dysfunctional religion and the church
- From institutionalism to disintegration
- The healthy church
- The future of the church
- Is Adventism headed toward Congregationalism?
- No more pew potatoes
- Dying for a change
- 22. Jesus, Parkinson's law and the Adventist education
- The church and its education dilemma
- The impressive accomplishments of SDA education
- The challenges facing SDA education today
- Principles from the life of Jesus
- How we treat our Adventist students
- God-centered versus human-centered education
- Thinkers versus reflectors
- Christian identity versus existential despair
- 23. Adventism, mission and kingdom theology
- what can we learn from our Third World growth?
- What are you doing with your one and only life?
- The Willow Creek wonder
- Adventist evangelism and culture shock
- A church committed to mission
- Accomplishments of Adventist mission work
- A theology of mission
- Challenges facing SDA mission
- Lessons from the Third World
- Kingdom theology
- the third wave
- Empowering our young people through mission
- 24. The predicament of the prosperous: Adventists and their money
- North American Adventism and upward mobility
- Adventism and the spirit of capitalism
- Redefining stewardship
- Towards a theology of stewardship
- Will we continue to practice what we preach?
- Prophet versus profit: The challenge today!
- 25. The high stakes game of medicine, health and healing
- Healing: Form one extreme to the other
- The medicalization of Adventism
- Strengths of the Adventist heath message
- The high cost of health
- Towards a theology of wholistic health
- 26. Rediscovering our Adventist heritage
- The church and charismatic renewal
- The "Spirit" in early Adventism
- WHen the Spirit come with power
- Have we become the Babylon our pioneers left?
- Four holy ghostbusters
- naturalism
- eating from the tree of knowledge
- Hagiolatry
- worshiping the past at expense of present
- Denominationalism
- boothbuilding for God
- Charismania and charismaphobia
- People of the Word?
- Seven lost biblical truths
- 27. Kingdom life from womb to tomb
- and beyond the tomb
- Adventism and social ethics
- A hierarchy of human need
- The unborn and abortion
- What about our children?
- The geriatric generation
- Minorities and the poor
- In search of a biblical feminism
- 28. From the Adventist gay to Baby Fae! Other controversial issues facing the church
- Adventism, homosexuality and Aids
- Premarital sex, masturbation, pornography
- Rock music, amusements, art and dress standards
- Holy health reform
- Divorce and remarriage
- Nuclear war, politics and the poor
- Adventists and addiction
- Lawsuits and the Adventist Christian
- Is there a "Christian psychology"?
- Adventists and competitive sports
- Is celebration a dirty word?
- Animal rights and human rights
- 29. The heretical imperative
- Adventism, ecumenism and other churches
- Healing the schizophrenic bride of Jesus
- Jesus' last prayer
- God's chosen peoples
- Spiritual ecumenism
- The house of the Lord
- The death of denominationalism
- Healing God's church
- What God hath joined together
- 30. The final frontier: Meeting Jesus through meeting human needs
- No more plastic Jesus
- No more frozen chosen
- Change s a choice
- Back to the bottom line
- Toward a theology of service
- ADRA: The right stuff
- "Just say know."