Religious issues and debates

The addresses which make up this volume were written by Professor Drummond between the years 1876 and 1881, and are now published in the hope that they may continue his work.

No class of works is received with more suspicion, I had almost said derision, than those which deal with Science and Religion.

Here is the book that converted C.

My first thought of writing out this little book of brief selections sprang from the desire to assist a dear friend to enjoy the Author's helpful books.

In saving men it is very often a life for a life; you have to give your life to the men whom you are trying to better.

Isis Unveiled is a master key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology.

The Antichrist is an in-depth study of who and what the Antichist is or will be.

We have been accustomed to be told that the greatest thing in the religious world is Faith.

Two very startling things arrest us in John's vision of the future.

In The Changed Life, Henry Drummond instructs us on how we may change our lives to be more like Christ.

In 1643 when the Long Parliament of England called the Westminster Assembly to produce the Westminster Confession, it also asked for a directory of "e;catechising"e;.

God has spoken to us in the Scriptures in divers portions and in divers manners; but the voice is ever the same, it is always the Word of the same God.

Collected here are fourteen essays by Rudolf Steiner covering subjects such as Waldorf Education, The Reordering of Society, The Human Soul, Karma, and Knowledge.

It must be recognized that a knowledge of the spiritual world, not merely a knowledge gained by treading the path, but also a knowledge acquired through grasping the truths of spiritual science with the unprejudiced, healthy human intellect, leads also to a higher moral status in life, to a knowledge of sensory existence that is in accord with the truth, to certainty in life, and to inward health of the soul.

In Heretics, Gilbert K.

A wonderful introduction to the beliefs of the New Church and an overview of its theological foundations.

The continuing crisis in Syria has raised questions over the common perception of Middle Eastern affairs as an offshoot of global power politics.

What might Jesus say to you today about your political decisions?

Many people think of the Sabbath as a requirement, even a burden, and one that is difficult to accomplish.

What can you do when you see bridges between people breaking down all around you?

What happens when a theologian takes issue with his own church?

There's a stereotype of a young, zealous Christian who feels called to the ministry as a pastor, goes to seminary, and then loses his faith as he studies the writings of all those intellectuals and theologians.

Should your faith and your spirituality be a matter of simply private concern, or should they connect to social action?

Does process theology have something to say about political and social issues and our response to them?

How do our spiritual beliefs and practices link to our ethics and our care for the natural world around us?

The world today is filled with angry voices, voices that often call for isolation and even violence against those who differ from us by race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, or lifestyle.

What could possibly be wrong with social justice?

"e;What does it mean to render to Caesar what is his and render to God what is His?

Do the things we believe about God as creator make any difference in the way we act in the world?

A Jehovah's Witness' Painful but Liberating Realization that She Must Give Up Her Faith';An inherently compelling and candidly revealing memoir .

Carly Gelsinger is an awkward and lonely thirteen-year-old when she stumbles into Pine Canyon Assemblies of God, the cracked stucco church on the outskirts of her remote small town.

The true story of a German-Jewish love that overcame the burdens of the past.

This book focuses on redemptive historical hermeneutics and homiletics within New Testament theology.

The adherents of Islam and Christianity comprise half of the world's population, or 3.

A Companion to St.

What does the evangelical church in Palestine think about the land, the end times, the Holocaust, peace in the Middle East, loving enemies, Christian Zionism, the State of Israel, and the possibilities of a Palestinian state?

This book encourages an openness to accept and experience the truth, whatever its source.

In this volume, Richard Hiers challenges the popular assumption that the Bible has a low view of women and that biblical law either ignores women or requires them to be subject and subservient to men.

Although preachers often question their effectiveness, no task of the church is more important than proclamation.

Forty years ago the one thing that could be said about sermons was they were biblical.

The Total Enemy explores the most radicalized forms of enmity, trying to unravel some of its historical and contemporary expressions.

The problem of the barbarous excess of human suffering is becoming the main question of global Christianity.

Goicoechea presents his third volume in a series on agape.

What "e;runs in the family"e;?

Never before in American history have we seen the number of African Americans teaching at Christian Colleges as we see today.

Karl Barth famously argued that all theology is sermon preparation.

Preachers mount the pulpit steps terribly burdened by the conviction that they are somehow responsible for the growth and spiritual well-being of their congregants.

If prophets are called to unveil and expose the illegitimacy of those principalities masquerading as "e;the right"e; and purportedly using their powers for "e;the good,"e; then Will D.

For decades, post-independence Africa has been marked by conflicts, violence, and civil wars leading to a displacement of civilian populations and numerous humanitarian crises.

In response to the confluence of moral uncertainty with the increase of human power to alter nature, and through critical integration of the philosophical naturalism of Hans Jonas and the critical religious naturalism of James M.