Sexual abuse scandals, declining attendance, a meltdown in the number of priests and nuns, the closing of many parishes and parochial schools--all have shaken American Catholicism.
Success, as it is currently defined, usually depends on winning--beating the competition--which often places incredible pressures on business professionals.
The Gospel Coalition Book Awards Honorable MentionBiblical Foundations Book Awards Runner Up and FinalistWhen it comes to the Christian life, what exactly can we expect with regard to personal transformation?
Dieses Buch behandelt das Phänomen der Tiergestaltigkeit von Gottheiten in Text und Bild (Theriomorphismus), das sich in den Kulturen des Alten Orients fi ndet (Ägypten, Mesopotamien, Ugarit, Altes Israel).
A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American SouthIn 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children.
This comprehensive investigation into the involvement of ordinary Christians in Church activities and in anti-clerical dissent, explores a phenomenon stretching from Britain and Germany to the Americas and beyond.
Release Your Stress and Refresh Your Spirit When you feel overwhelmed by life's pressures, you can pause, restore calm, and choose joy by finding new ways to break free from anxiety.
2020 Catholic Press Association honorable mention award for future church Recent decades have seen a steady trend in Roman Catholic teaching toward a commitment to active nonviolence that could qualify the church as a ';peace church.
First published in 1930, A History of the Modern Church is a scholarly and readable account of the church from the beginning of the Reformation to modern times.
In this brilliant culmination of his seminal Powers Trilogy, now reissued in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Walter Wink explores the problem of evil today and how it relates to the New Testament concept of principalities and powers.
Focusing on how someone in need can best be helped, the author identifies the skills and honesty of the person who wants to help as key to how effective this can be.
Provides a detailed exegetically based study of Biblical theology, showing the canonical basis for later historical, systematic, and dogmatic theologies.
In Memory Eternal, Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed over the next 200 years.
Explores the epistles reception history and their effects in sermons, music, art, literature, and politics over time 1, 2 Peter and Jude Through the Centuries considers three small epistles which are often overlooked in controversial discussions of theology, culture, art, music, politics, and literature.
A totally burned-out young preacher reignites his faith and gathers wisdom for life while spending successive Mondays with an eighty-three-year-old pastor.
Premier liturgical theologian Gordon Lathrop argues that far too often liturgy, preaching, and liturgical theology are informed by nave and outdated exegesis.
The debate over women's roles in the Southern Baptist Convention's conservative ascendance is often seen as secondary to theological and biblical concerns.
This book critically interrogates emerging interconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS.
Esta guía de la Biblia está cuidadosamente diseñada para ayudar al lector a descubrir el contenido, entender las verdades y aplicar el mensaje de la Biblia.
The life and times of this iconic and enduring biblical bookThe Book of Job raises stark questions about the nature and meaning of innocent suffering and the relationship of the human to the divine, yet it is also one of the Bible's most obscure and paradoxical books, one that defies interpretation even today.
