By Stan Ingersol
ISBN-10: 1498269745
ISBN-13: 9781498269742
ISBN-10: 1625647891
ISBN-13: 9781625647894
Church historian Stan Ingersol examines concerns that experience characterised the Nazarene lifestyle in the course of that denomination's first century, displaying how the trajectory formed by way of the church's founders has been altered via time by means of the transferring tides of Fundamentalism, mainstream Evangelicalism, international enlargement, and the tradition of affluence. He contends that present disagreements over polity, holiness, and worship are mostly echoes and projections of tensions which were found in the denomination on account that its very starting. because the reader will realize, the typical denominator operating via those chapters is the chance of rediscovering a correct and helpful past.
Stan Ingersol has been the Church of the Nazarene's denominational archivist given that 1985. the writer of Nazarene Roots (2009) and various journal and magazine articles, he's additionally co-author of Here We Stand: Wherae Nazarenes slot in the spiritual Marketplace (1998) and Our Watchword and music: The Centennial historical past of the Church of the Nazarene (2009). He served as a Nazarene consultant to the area Methodist Council from 2001 to 2011 and lives in Overland Park, KS.
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