Bøker av Stuart Murray

Reformer. Revolutionary. Anabaptist. ​ After witnessing the failure of the peasants' movement in sixteenth-century Germany, Melchior Rinck was motivated by a passion to see both church and society reformed. His name appears in sixteenth-century lists of significant early Anabaptist leaders, but he has not received much scholarly attention. In this first full-length study of Rinck's life, relationships, ministry, debates, theological emphases, impact, and legacy, Stuart Murray paints a portrait of an underappreciated Anabaptist pioneer who did not fit neatly into any of the major branches of the movement but developed his own approach. Rinck was vehemently opposed to infant baptism because of the damage this practice did to church and society, more nuanced than many other Anabaptists in his views on church and state, and convinced that love was the supreme divine characteristic and the highest calling of humanity. The Legacy of Melchior Rinck contains previously untranslated writings and the first complete collection of extant works by and about Rinck, offering readers a comprehensive but readable introduction to Rinck's pioneering role in the unusually tolerant territory of Hesse and an opportunity to consider his legacy.

Stuart Murray lays some theological foundations for church planting and invites church planters to think seriously about missiology and ecclesiology. 292 pages.

As Christians are now members of a minority religious community in a plural society, this book addresses how this diminished status is to be understood in a global and historical context, within the purposes of God.Stuart Murray accepts the fact that Christians are now members of a minority religious community in a plural society, but suggests that this changed status raises questions. How is this diminished status to be understood in a global and historical context and within the purposes of God? What institutional changes are required if the Christian community is to operate with much more limited resources? What psychological and emotional adjustments are needed in communities that have a corporate memory of majority status, privilege and influence but now experience life as a minority? What hopes and expectations should be encouraged, and what strategies should be adopted?In a unique, positive and biblical way, A Vast Minority explores the challenges and opportunities we face today.