Aspects of religion

Following Jesus to Burning Man: Recovering the Church's Vocation places the author, a Pentecostal/evangelical minister, in a thoroughly pagan context in the Nevada desert where he discovered the presence of God in a way that transformed his understanding of ministry in the twenty-first century context.

The central proposition of God's Prescription for Mental Health and Religion is that the highway to mental health of individuals and of society is God's prescription of selfless devotion and service to others.

Our nation is politically, ideologically, and socially polarized to the point of breaking; confusion dominates every layer of our culture.

Francis of Assisi as Artist of the Spiritual Life applies modern psychological understanding to a historical person.

Synergistic Collaborations is a valuable resource for Christian ministers and social workers seeking to extend outreach ministries and new ways to collaborate with community organizations as they serve hurting people.

In Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Moses de Leon, and Meister Eckhart-three of the greatest mystics of all time-meet in Venice for an imaginary night-long conversation that will inspire everyday individuals of the twenty-first century to find their own spirituality and realize that everyone can be a mystic.

These five essays deal with the influence of Judaic haggadah or lore, especially in the form of "e;creative historiography"e; or "e;imaginative dramatization,"e; on four enigmatic passages in the Gospels, and one in Acts.

This collection of short essays, sermons, lectures, reviews, analyses, and poems is offered as a means to provoke thought, inspire imagination, and encourage conversation about the future of the church.

Creative tension calls for a dialogical conversation in order to find mutual ground that can be beneficial for both partners.

Get to the End is written about the end times, i.

Keeping God at the Center is informative as well as instructional.

Jacob Neusner describes, analyzes, and interprets the transformation of one system of the Israelite social order by a connected but autonomous successor-system.

In this book, Christopher D.

This book has two objectives, one explicit and one implicit.

What does the Bible say about poverty and our responsibility toward the poor?

Plundering the Egyptians focuses on the study of the Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary from 1929 to 1998.

Theory of Social Involvement examines the dynamic interplay between church, state, and society.

Henry VIII and the Anabaptists describes a bloody chapter in the reign of the infamous Tudor king.

Do humans have a special capacity designed to foster experiences of God?

Women in the Biblical World: A Survey of Old and New Testament Perspectives is a volume featuring the most current research in biblical scholarship.

Spirituality Research Studies in Higher Education offers two uniquely designed sections that showcase a group of talented scholars from major research institutions.

The assault on traditional marriage that began in the late 1990s seemingly ended with the 2015 Obergefell v.

Philosophy and the advances in cosmology, neurology, molecular biology, and the social sciences have made the convincing and converging arguments for God's existence more probable than ever in history.

In his third book about the conversion to Judaism, Lawrence J.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, popular works of literature attracted-as they attract today-sequels, prequels, franchises, continuations, and parodies.

Writing Teresa: The Saint from Avila at the fin-de-siglo examines the Teresa de Jesus "e;boom"e; of roughly 1880-1930 and offers an in-depth study of five major Spanish participants in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century explosion of literary treatments of St.

Rhetorics of Religion in American Fiction considers the way in which contemporaryAmerican authors address the subject of belief in the post-9/11 Age of Terror.

This volume considers women's roles in the conflicts and negotiations of the early modern world.

In the late seventeenth century, Spain dominated the Caribbean and Central and South America, establishing colonies, mining gold and silver, and gathering riches from Asia for transportation back to Europe.

Narrative Faith engages with the dynamics of doubt and faith to consider how literary works with complex structures explore different moral visions.

Liberty in Jane Austen's Persuasion is a meditation on Persuasion as a text in which Jane Austen, writing in the Age of Revolution, enters the conversation of her epoch.

Easwarans best-selling translation of the ancient wisdom texts called the Upanishads is reliable, readable, and profound.

This is an introduction to the New Testament portrayals of Jesus of Nazareth.

One of the most pertinent questions facing students of Mormon Studies is gaining further understanding of the function the Bible played in the composition of Joseph Smith's primary compositions, the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants.

Theopoetics names the notion that the divine (theos) manifests itself as creative making (poiesis).

In line with the development of political theology and economic theology in contemporary European thought, Credit and Faith offers a critical account of the faith structures within economic life and institutions.

Courageous Conversations is designed to assist with the complexities of pastoral supervision in a variety of settings, such as local congregations, seminary programs of field education, clinical pastoral education, clinical training of spiritual directors and certified pastoral counselors, and more.

How do faith-based organizations influence the work of transnational peacebuilding, development, and human rights advocacy?

In 2008, the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life initiated an Apostolic Visitation to examine the quality of life of women religious in the United States.

Some scholars believe that Jesus' punitive instructions about possessions and material goods amount to little more than antiquated sayings.

This two-volume Journey of a Rabbi consists of essays describing ventures undertaken, events experienced, and ideas articulated that reflect the life work of a rabbi and Jewish educator.

The study of man today is divided in three ways that it should not be: between the humanities and the social sciences, between natural and metaphysical philosophy, and between faith and reason.

This book recounts the author's spiritual transformation resulting from his encounter with new languages and cultures.

Even as the number of unbelievers continues to rise, religion in America still gets unwarrantably good press.

Who were Catholicism's greatest orators?

Judaic Spiritual Psychotherapy is in the contemporary mode of utilizing the profound insights present in spiritual literature for psychotherapeutic use.

Man and God is the first of three major works by Xavier Zubiri (1898-1983) on the subject of theology.

Everything we learn comes to us through the senses.

The voices of second-generation Korean Americans echo throughout the pages of this book, which is a sensitive exploration of their struggles with minority, marginality, cultural ambiguity, and negative perceptions.

Reading Responsibly: A Guide to Biblical Interpretation focuses on two key areas: methods and ethics of interpretation.