Collected Popular Articles and Lectures - Softcover

Everett Ferguson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0989087220 ISBN 13: 9780989087223

Publisher: Yeomen Press, 2014

Synopsis

This book is the culmination of decades of study, Christian teaching, and evangelism by highly regarded scholar Dr. Everett Ferguson of Abilene, TX. Through the years Dr. Ferguson has spoken to different types of audiences in various settings throughout the world--from gatherings of professional societies in large lecture halls to classes at college lectureships to meetings of believers in small churches. His writings likewise include scholarly articles for the academy, instruction for church leaders, and popular articles for the ordinary church member. Everett has written several books but has kept his eye on the interests of general (Christian) readers. Articles based on scholarly research but more expressly intended for the educated layman as well as professional academics and local ministers are being reprinted by ACU Press--The Early Church and Today; volume one of two has been published (2012). In this collection of popular articles and lectures he has brought together works originally presented to general audiences. The articles naturally group themselves according to topics in which Everett has been interested for some time--Biblical texts, baptism and salvation, the Christian life, organization of the church, worship and assembly, Lord s supper, and contemporary issues. Some items indeed began as sermons and are included here as an indication that academics can preach and to show that critical scholarship can offer homiletic insights. Some prayers for different occasions are printed in this collection as a reminder that attention to prayers from the past can elevate and deepen our prayers. The meditations for the Lord s supper similarly draw on insights from older liturgies in order to enrich our experience of communion.

About this title

About the Author

EVERETT FERGUSON received the degrees of B.A. and M.A. from Abilene Christian University and S.T.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. At Harvard he was an Honorary John Harvard Fellow, a graduate assistant in History of Religions, and gave the Greek oration at the Divinity School commencement in 1956. Dr. Ferguson was Dean at Northeastern Christian Junior College and then a professor at Abilene Christian University, where he was for a time Director of Graduate Studies in Bible and is now Distinguished Scholar in Residence. His professional memberships include the North American Patristics Society, American Society of Church History, Association internationale d études patristiques, Society of Biblical Literature, Conference on Faith and History, Institute for Biblical Research, and Ecclesiastical History Society. Honors include a book dedicated to him, The Early Church in Its Context: Essays in Honor of Everett Ferguson (1998), and an academic colloquy in his honor on Eucharist and Ecclesiology. He has been presented plaques for Christian service by the Institute for Christian Studies, Pepperdine University, Harding University, Wheaton Center for Early Christian Studies, and the North American Patristics Society. Professor Ferguson s books include Early Christians Speak--2 volumes, Backgrounds of Early Christianity (now 3rd edition--translated into Korean and Chinese), The Church of Christ: A Biblical Ecclesiology for Today (translated into Korean and Russian), Women in the Church, Thinking-Living-Dying: Early Apologists Speak to the 21st Century, Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries, and A Cappella Music in the Public Worship of the Church (now fourth edition). He edited the Encyclopedia of Early Christianity (now 2nd edition), the nineteen-volume Living Word Commentary on the New Testament, and Christian Teaching: Studies in Honor of LeMoine G. Lewis. He also served terms as editor of Restoration Quarterly, The Second Century, and co-editor of Journal of Early Christian Studies. Cascade Books is reprinting his scholarly articles as The Early Church at Work and Worship in three volumes (2013--), and ACU Press is reprinting his semi-scholarly articles as The Early Church and Today in two volumes (2012--). Ferguson served as an elder of the Hillcrest Church of Christ in Abilene, Texas, for nearly twenty years. He and his wife Nancy (Lewis) have three children and six grandchildren.

Review

This book is a must for the Christian who desires to be obedient to Biblical truth, the elder or deacon who wishes to serve more effectively, the servant of Christ in the pew, and ministers of the gospel who love others and wish to edify the body of Christ. --RD Erickson

Edition details

• Publisher: Yeomen Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0989087220
• ISBN 13: 9780989087223
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: RD Erickson