Tag: Bennett, Clinton
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Problems and Possibilities of Church Growth: Towards a Unification Critique
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 8, 2007 – Pages 25-40 Since the beginning of the Church Growth movement in the mid-1950s, many successful practitioners have significantly grown their churches. Church Growth was pioneered by Donald McGavran (1897-1990), whose Bridges of God (1955) is considered to have launched the movement. McGavran is credited with coining the…
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Beyond Religious Discord: The Divine Principle in Inter-Religious Perspective
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 7, 2006 – Pages 9-22 The purpose of this paper is to discuss and analyze the Divine Principle (1998), that is, the thought of Sun Myung Moon, from an inter-religious perspective. It focuses on the Divine Principle’s theology of religions and on how the Divine Principle and Unification thought responds…