Religious issues and debates

Preachers are often caught in a double bind--they would like to be more witty and creative, but they aren't sure whether these capacities fit with the serious business of preaching the gospel.

The Pentecostal Hypothesis is the capacity to resist conventional wisdom in social actions.

The United States is one of history's great Christian nations, but our unique history, success, and global impact have seduced us into believing we are something more--God's New Israel, the new order of the ages, the last best hope of mankind, a redeemer nation.

Christian proclamation, says Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is the living Christ walking among the people.

The book is organized into three divisions, and as the title implies, there is a brief letter in the form of a New Testament epistle to the contemporary church, a portion of which begins each chapter.

What vision for our political life does Christian faith affirm and how might its principles be applied to specific political issues?

"e;Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.

What do Joseph, Joab, Jeremiah, and the Beatitudes have to do with a Christian young person in American foreign policy?

In the distant future an enemy of Mankind is destroying space colonies, causing human expansion among the stars to come to a halt.

A pioneering work on controversial issues within the Muslim worldIslamic Ethics of Life considers three of the most contentious ethical issues of our time-abortion, war, and euthanasia-from the Muslim perspective.

This book brings together a variety of perspectives on how religion can be related to violence and war--both in a destructive and constructive way.

This book and the essays contained within are dedicated to Dr.

At some time or another, every preacher has entered the pulpit wondering "e;What shall I preach?

To Will & To Do presents one of the most significant theological contributions of the dynamic twentieth-century thinker Jacques Ellul.

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The Lord's Supper (or Eucharist) has often been a subject of intense debate in the church.

Originally published in German in an edition edited by Dietrich Braun, Karl Barth's Ethics is at last available in English.

Working within two popular genres, gardening books and biblical meditations, God Gardened East offers a meditation on the first twenty-five chapters of Genesis, emphasizing the tropes of cultivation, wandering, and "e;the east.

This collection of essays examines how God's justice and mercy intersect in the lives of individuals and their communities, with a view to the establishment of personal and social well-being in the world.

What is the relationship between the Hebrew Bible and modern science?

The main aim of this book is to contribute to the relationship between science and religion.

The earth is the Lord's, says Psalm 24.

Preaching is a challenging, privileged, and awesome responsibility.

One of the biggest challenges for relations between religions is the view of the religious Other.

This book offers a reflection on the development of the commitment of a group of Catholic Sisters to the poor and to social justice, from teaching poor children in a convent basement to being involved in public theology at the United Nations.

The election of Donald Trump as the forty-fifth president of the United States was a watershed moment in American history.

The hope of this book is that it awakens desire to know more intimately the God who breaks through our compartmentalization and naming.

Follow the author's odyssey of the mind in his endless search for God and meaning in life, as well as his plea for moral action in the uncertainty, discord, and chaos of a world that appears callous and cruel and is prone to political exploitation of vulnerable people, cultures, and countries of our shared planet.

What is to be the church's response to the immigrant?

A fresh wind of God's Spirit is blowing on the earth today, and as in times past, God is inviting us to raise our sails and move forward with the power and direction that reflects our commitment to God's will.

In the early 1970s, living in inner-city St.

Memento mori--remember death--this is how the medieval monks exhort us.

A young dancer's last hope--a bone marrow transplant--has failed.

How do pious Shia Muslim women nurture and sustain their religious lives?

African American scholar Anthony Bradley understands the growing interest in the intersections of theology and economics emerging in light of Christianity's commitment to loving the poor.

Reconciliation is at the heart of the Christian faith.

Many Pentecostal groups have forgotten their legacy of war resistance and doctrinal history opposing killing.

In 1934, Anglican priest H.

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What is the role of the church in ministering to the sick?

Bury the Dead is a collection of personal encounters with death: stories of Alzheimer's, AIDS, cancer, hospice, suicide, murder, systemic violence, genocide, and war.

Your God is too small--way too small!

Recent scholarship in a number of disciplines has explored the relationship between ontology and ethics.

What the hell happened on the way to making the world a better place?

In 1974, the International Congress on World Evangelization met in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Intersex is an umbrella term for many different conditions that cause ambiguous sexual biology.

How is the Christian mandate to love your neighbor as yourself to be applied in business, economics, and politics?

Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India combines historical data with years of ethnographic fieldwork to investigate women's participation in the culture of Sufi shrines in India and the manner in which this participation both complicates and sustains traditional conceptions of Islamic womanhood.

Against Empire analyzes the relationship between Christian theology and radical democracy by exploring how black prophetic thought, feminist theology, Latin American liberation theology, and peaceable theology offer plural forms of ekklesial resistance to empire: the black church (Cornel West), the ekklesia of wo/men (Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza), the church of the poor (Ignacio Ellacuria, Jon Sobrino), and the peaceable church (Stanley Hauerwas).