What Is a Nazarene: Understanding Our Place in the Religious Community, Revised and Updated

by Wes Tracy, Stan Ingersol

Overview

Around the turn of the 19th century, the Holiness Movement blossomed in America. Wesleyan-Holiness denominations sprang up all over the country. In 1907-8, five of these joined together to form the Church of the Nazarene. The dream that drew the founders together was a believers’ church in the Wesleyan tradition. It is the same dream that guides the Church of the Nazarene today. But how does that translate into a world where denominational lines don’t seem to matter as much as they used to? How is a Nazarene different from a Presbyterian, Baptist, or Pentecostal brother or sister in Christ? What is a Nazarene? answers those questions in concise, easy-to-understand terms, as it examines the similarities and differences between the Church of the Nazarene and other mainline Christian denominations. With refreshing insight and candor, what is a Nazarene? will acquaint you with the heritage that birthed a vision that made a dream come true.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780834129627
Publisher:	Nazarene Publishing House
Publication date:	03/01/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	1 MB

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Spiritual Home 5

Part 1 Who are the Nazarenes?

1 They Shared a Dream: The Launching of the Nazarene Movement 12

2 What Nazarenes Believe and Practice 20

Part 2 Our Closest Kin: The Methodist and Holiness Churches

3 Early Wesleyan Foundations 36

4 American Methodists 50

5 Our Sister Denominations: The Holiness Churches 60

Part 3 The Liturgical Churches

6 The Eastern Orthodox Churches 74

7 The Roman Catholic Church 88

Part 4 Classical Protestant Churches

8 The First Protestants: Lutherans Rearrange the Christian World 104

9 Calvin's Kin: Presbyterians and Reformed Churches 114

10 Catholic and Reformed: The Anglican Paradox 126

Part 5 The Tradition of the Believers Church

11 The Peace Churches: Anabaptists, Brethren, and Quakers 140

12 The Baptists: A Priesthood of Believers 154

13 Unity and Simplicity: The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) 170

Part 6 The Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches

14 The Pentecostals and Charismatics 180

15 Nazarenes in Dialogue with the Pentecostals and Charismatics 194

Appendix: Nazarene Articles of Faith, The Church (including Agreed Statement of Belief and The Covenant of Christian Character) 205

Notes 213