What Is a Nazarene?: Understanding Our Place in the Religious Community

Wesley D Tracy

ISBN 10: 0834115999 / ISBN 13: 9780834115996

Published by Beacon Hill Press, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Is a Nazarene?: Understanding Our Place in the Religious Community
• Publisher: Beacon Hill Press
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0834115999
• ISBN 13: 9780834115996
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

You probably meet them every day. At the grocery store. On the highway. In your neighborhood. They come in all colors, shapes, and sizes. But they are a global community, and they are held together by a bond of faith. They are Nazarenes. And they share a dream. Around the turn of the 19th century, the Holiness Movement blossomed in America. Wesleyan-Holiness denominations sprang up all over the country. In 1907-08, 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?, the abridged version of the book Here We Stand, 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. Paper.

About the Author

Dr. Wes Tracy has been a leader and teacher in Adult Education projects on four continents. He has served the Church as pastor, teacher, author, and editor. Tracy holds five degrees, including two master’s degrees and two academically earned doctorates. The former editor of eight Christian periodicals, he has published 1,500 articles and is the author or co-author of more than 20 books including The Upward Call, Here We Stand, and,Reflecting God. He and his wife, Bettye, live in Sun City West, Arizona. Stan Ingersol has served as the denominational archivist of the Church of the Nazarene since 1985. He is the co-author of several books, including Here We Stand: Where Nazarenes Fit in the Religious Marketplace, and a new denominational history, Our Watchword and Song: The Centennial History of the Church of the Nazarene.