Religious issues and debates

In this wide-ranging collection of essays Ronald E.

"e;Those who serve as truth-tellers in the church, like those who listen to the truth-telling in the church, are a mix of yearning and fearfulness, of receptiveness and collusion.

Too often the biblical passages governing sexual morality are interpreted in simplistic, proof texting ways that take no account of the cultural gap between ancient Israel and the modern world.

Seek the Peace of the City provides a robust engagement with the theological foundations and practices of Christian social and political criticism.

In Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary, theologian Stanley Hauerwas and political theorist Romand Coles reflect about possibilities and practices of radical democracy and radical ecclesia that take form in the textures of relational care for the radical ordinary.

People too often enter into conflict with an eye on how to resolve, manage, or transform it, thereby losing sight of the people involved and the end desired.

Evangelicals often give little thought to the morality of contraception, but when they do, serious studies of the subject are scarce if not non-existent.

Pastor and former police officer Philip De Courcy calls on Christians to take refuge in God (Psalm 46:1), drawing on lessons he learned in law enforcement to affirm that true security is not the absense of danger, but the presence of God.

America is at a crisis point, and its future depends on you.

Its happening this second.

Greggs book is the closet thing Ive encountered in a long time to a one-volume users manual for operating Western Civilization.

This is Ronald Stone's fifth book on his mentor and friend Reinhold Niebuhr.

Listened to by huge congregations in Britain, and perhaps the most recognizable British Methodist voice in the mid-twentieth century, W.

"e;Walter Brueggemann is the master of finding fresh and compelling dimensions of meaning in texts so familiar they barely scratch the surface of our consciousness.

Leading scholars use the lenses of history, sociology, political science, psychology, philosophy, religion, and literature to examine, disentangle, and remove the disguises of the many forms of antisemitism and anti-Zionism that have inhabited or targeted the English-speaking world in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The Pale God examines the relationship between secularism and religious tradition.

Persecution, Polemic, and Dialogue follows the interaction between Jews and Christians through the ages in all its richness, complexity, and diversity.

Antisemitism on the Campus: Past & Present, edited by Eunice G.

In Ever Increasing Faith, Smith Wigglesworth leads you to a greater understanding of what faith is and how one can nurture it.

IT WAS through Saint Germain's assistance that I was privileged to have the experiences recorded in this series of books, and that permission has been granted for them to be put in a form which can be given to the public.

Here is the book that converted C.

Robert Bellarmine was one of the most original and influential political theorists of his time.

Questions of secularity and modernity have become globalized, but most studies still focus on the West.

This volume explores theoretical discourses in which religion is used to legitimize political violence.

The enigmatic relation between religion and science still presents a challenge to European societies and to ideas about what it means to be 'modern.

Moral Conversion in Scripture, Self, and Society offers a broad - historical, theological, and philosophical - reflection on the phenomenon of moral conversion.

Questions of secularity and modernity have become globalized, but most studies still focus on the West.

This volume explores theoretical discourses in which religion is used to legitimize political violence.

This book is the summation of many decades of work by Peter L.

The book defends that there is both teleological order (design) and chance in non-living and in living systems of nature including man.

Global Secularisms addresses the state of and prospects for secularism globally.

The book defends that there is both teleological order (design) and chance in non-living and in living systems of nature including man.

The enigmatic relation between religion and science still presents a challenge to European societies and to ideas about what it means to be 'modern.

Global Secularisms addresses the state of and prospects for secularism globally.

This book is the summation of many decades of work by Peter L.

This book explores the religious identity of the indigenous Gujjars living in Rajaji National Park (RNP), Uttarakhand, India.

An impassioned call for Christian churches to return to the values of service, love, and grace-and reject the twenty-first century gospel of material prosperity.

An account of the spiritual direction of our country from the time the Puritans landed in the new world up to today.

"e;Anyone who is losing hope for America must read The Seed of a Nation.

Should parents receive vouchers to send their children to religious schools?

En este libro el Arzobispo Jose Gomez ofrece algunas ideas practicas, personales y llenas de entusiasmo al debate nacional sobre inmigracion, senalando el camino a la recuperacion de los grandes ideales de Estados Unidos de America.

Archbishop Jose Gomez has written a personal, passionate and practical contribution to the national debate about immigration - pointing the way toward a recovery of America's highest ideals.

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This book explains the increasing incidences and normalisation of Islamophobia, by analysing the role of signifiers of free speech, censorship, and fatwa during the Satanic Verses affair in problematising the figure of the Muslim.

Despite our best efforts to create welcoming and affirming congregations, the reality is that church can still be a harmful place to LGBTQIA youth.

In the early 2000's, Mark Achtemeier embarked on a personal journey with the Bible that led him from being a conservative, evangelical opponent of gay rights to an outspoken activist for gay marriage and a fully inclusive church.