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The author's focus and intention for this book was provoked by several stimuli. One is that more than 50 percent of the world's population is under twenty-five years of age, and for the most part not formed by the church. Secondly, in the coffee shop where he hangs out, when his conversation partners learn of his long career as a pastor, they inevitably ask about the church: «What in the world is the church? What is its purpose?» And thirdly, it is provoked by the lament of a very gifted journalist and editor who rejected his strict Christian upbringing and has been in his adult years an avowed agnostic–but who recently, while visiting a monastery in Spain and hearing the monks chant their evening prayers, sensed a longing for what he had forsaken. These three stimuli have inspired this attempt at an alternative narrative to the essence of the church, an attempt to give a definition to an inquirer from square one. This book may not resonate with those who are content with religious Christianity and its familiar institutions. Its timely message is this: the church has got to be a thrilling and purposeful dimension of the good news of Jesus Christ.

Полный вариант заголовка: «Hymns for the use of the New Church signified by the New Jerusalem in the Revelation, Ch. xxi. 1,2 / сomp. by order of the General conf. of the New Church in Great Britain».

Полный вариант заголовка: «The Intellectual repository for the New church for the years 1818 and 1819. Vol. 4».

Полный вариант заголовка: «A sermon preached in the Abby Church of Bath, before the Right Reverend Father in GOD, Thomas, Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells : at his visitation held there July 30, 1689 / by John Norris».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Concerning the Earth in our solar system which are called planets and concerning the Earths in the starry heavens together with an account of their inhabitants and also of the spirits and angels there from what hath been seen and heard : Originally published in 1758 / Translated from the Latin of Emanuel Swedenborg».

Полный вариант заголовка: «The intellectual repository for the New Church : Vol. 3 : for the years 1916 and 1817».