enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Stewardship (theology) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewardship_(theology)

    Stewardship is a theological belief that humans are responsible for the world, humanity, and the gifts and resources that have been entrusted to us.Believers in stewardship are usually people who believe in one God who created the universe and all that is within it, also believing that they must take care of creation and look after it.

  3. Steward (Methodism) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steward_(Methodism)

    Stewardship is a voluntary role. [3] Duties include greeting all those who attend church upon their arrival, assisting in the distribution of Holy Communion (in which they are known as communion stewards), counting the tithes and offerings given to the church, and ensuring that the local preacher is cared for when he or she arrives to preach at a church.

  4. Parable of the Unjust Steward - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Unjust_Steward

    David Flusser, in a book titled Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls, has taken the phrase "sons of light" to mean the Essenes; their closed economic system is contrasted with that of other people who were less strict. [13] A Confessional Lutheran apologist commented: Jesus' parable of the unjust manager is one of the most striking in all the Gospels.

  5. Stewardship - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewardship

    Stewardship is a practice committed to ethical value that embodies the responsible planning and management of resources. The concepts of stewardship can be applied to the environment and nature, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] economics, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] health, [ 6 ] places, [ 7 ] property, [ 8 ] information, [ 9 ] theology, [ 10 ] and cultural resources.

  6. Evangelical environmentalism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_environmentalism

    Evangelical environmentalism is an environmental movement in which some Evangelical Christian organizations have emphasized biblical mandates concerning humanity's role as steward and subsequent responsibility for the care taking of Creation.

  7. Sphere sovereignty - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_sovereignty

    As Christian democratic political parties were formed, they adopted the principle of sphere sovereignty, with both Protestants and Roman Catholics agreeing "that the principles of sphere sovereignty and subsidiarity boiled down to the same thing.", [4] although this was at odds with Dooyeweerd's development of sphere sovereignty, which he held ...

  8. Christian views on poverty and wealth - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_poverty...

    Christianity has a long tradition of voluntary poverty which is manifested in the form of asceticism, charity and almsgiving. [14] Kahan argues that Christianity is unique because it sparked the beginning of a phenomenon which he calls the "Great Renunciation" in which "millions of people would renounce sex and money in God's name." [6]

  9. Merit (Christianity) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merit_(Christianity)

    In Catholic theology, merit is a property of a good work which entitles the doer to receive a reward: it is a salutary act (i.e., "Human action that is performed under the influence of grace and that positively leads a person to a heavenly destiny") [4] to which God, in whose service the work is done, in consequence of his infallible promise may give a reward (prœmium, merces).