Awesome families the promise of healing relationships in the International Churches of Christ

Denounced by some as a dangerous cult and lauded by others as a miraculous faith community, the International Churches of Christ was a conservative evangelical Christian movement that grew rapidly in the 1980s and 1990s. Among its followers, promises to heal family relationships were central to the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Jenkins, Kathleen E., author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick Rutgers University Press 2005
New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London : [2005]
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423735406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: “It’s Like Free Counseling All the Time”
  • 1. Sacred Counsel: “Ambassadors for God”
  • 2. An Unsinkable Raft in a Foreboding Divorce Culture
  • 3. Collective Performances of Healing
  • 4. In with the Old and the New
  • 5. Awesome Kids
  • 6. Brothers and Sisters for the Kingdom of God
  • 7. A Kingdom That Promised Too Much
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index