Reviews for Christianizing Death: The Creation of a Ritual Process in Early Medieval Europe

The average rating for Christianizing Death: The Creation of a Ritual Process in Early Medieval Europe based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-06-05 00:00:00 Brent M Rothchild Incredible book by a Spirit-empowered man that taught me to understand the purpose of missions. Many important truths regarding missions, such as this fact: "Worship is the goal and fuel of missions." Perhaps my biggest takeaway from this book was actually some of its more periphereal ideas. Such as the idea that God is not seeking to be glorified by saving "as many people as possible" (speaking quantitatively) but "as many peoples as possible." This actually comes much later in the book, after Piper has laid much foundation for the goal and fuel of missions (worship), but it struck me as something I haven't heard people speak of. By "peoples," Piper is pointing out that the Scriptures in their entirety point toward a missions that has its scope in reaching as many "people groups" as possible. "...in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed." (Genesis 22:18) And more specifically, Genesis 12:3 - "in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." The amazing truth that Piper unfolds is that God has more in mind, not simply geopolitical unities, but people groups, and more especially "families" (the Hebrew of which clearly refers to clan-like tribe subcultures). How specific is the mission! To bring before the throne of God in worship people out of every family of the earth! Very encouraging to me to consider this: "In what families (or subcultures or "clans"), near and far, is there no Gospel witness? Are there subcultures in my own state that don't have a Gospel witness?" May the Lord send us and empower us for the work of bringing people to worship His great Name! Amen.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-06-05 00:00:00 Shawn Oconnor Warning! Contains powerful emotional and scriptural truth. If you want your view of missions to remain unaltered, do not read this book.