Religious issues and debates

Although commonly regarded as a prejudice against Roman Catholics and their religion, anti-popery is both more complex and far more historically significant than this common conception would suggest.

An international community of Reformed churches emerged during the sixteenth century.

Witchcraft has proven an important, if difficult, historical subject to investigate and interpret over the last four decades or so.

Within the next decade, China could be home to more Christians than any country in the world.

On March 27, 1933, representatives from across the American religious spectrum came to Madison Square Garden, united in a shared purpose to speak out against the rise of fascism in Germany and Adolph Hitler's seizure of power.

Rebecca Todd Peters argues for an ethic of solidarity as a new model for how people of faith in the first world can live with integrity in the midst of global injustice and shape a more just future.

The place and significance of Martin Luther in the long history of Christian anti-Jewish polemic has been and continues to be a contested issue.

Luther's transformational idea of justification by faith alone was often misunderstood and misrepresented in the early years of the Reformation.

For thirty years, Mark as Story has introduced readers to the rhetorical and narrative skill that makes Mark so arresting and compelling a story.

Preservation and Protest proposes a novel taxonomy of four paradigms of nonhuman theological ethics by exploring the intersection of tensions between value terms and teleological terms.

Deviant Calvinism seeks to show that the Reformed tradition is much broader and more variegated than is often thought.

The study of comparative religious ethics is at a critical juncture, given the growing awareness of non-Christian ethical beliefs and practices and their bearing on social change.

No question has been as persistently nettling as the proper relationship of Christians and the Christian church to political power, and the results have often been calamitous.

The issue of Christian Zionism is one that is fiercely debated within theology, the church, politics, and society.

Cynthia Crysdale and Neil Ormerod here present a robust theology of God in light of supposed tensions between Christian belief and evolutionary science.

At the heart of the biblical myth of chosenness is the idea that God has blessed a people to be a blessing to others.

This survey text for religious ethics and theological ethics courses explores how ethical concepts defined as liberationist, which initially was a Latin American Catholic phenomenon, is presently manifest around the globe and within the United States across different racial, ethnic, and gender groups.

Sexual health is an essential part of maintaining professional relationships in ministry.

Volume 4 of The Annotated Luther series presents an array of Luthers writings related to pastoral work.

Sallie McFague offers a lucid and powerful guide to theological thinking about God and the world, individual and community, humanity and nature, reality and metaphor, the sacramental and the prophetic, and the critical issue of climate change for today’s world.

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One of the most persistent, if vexing, issues is the state of affairs in the ancient land of Palestine.

Before Nature caps a set of themes first brought to the fore in Santmires previous work, most notably the classic The Travail of Nature.

The modern and contemporary legacy of Luther's theology is a vital topic of continuing investigation, assessment, and construction.

This book argues that Christian nonviolence is both formed by and forms ecclesial life, creating an inextricable relationship between church commitment and resistance to war.

The increasingly pressing and depressing situation of Planet Earth poses urgent ethical questions for Christians.

No one can read far in the Old Testament without encountering numerous acts of violence that are sanctioned in the text and attributed to both God and humans.

This survey text for Christian ethics courses traces the sources and traditions which define the history and development of contemporary ethical principles and laws.

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We the People explores John Howard Yoders account of peoplehood and develops an appreciative revision that considers the politics of Jesus in relation to the people of Israel.

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For the living, death has a moral dimension.

The Doctrine of the Trinity is an exercise in wonder.

Martin Luther’s Basic Theological Writings has become the gold standard for use in seminary and college environments.

Did our modern understanding of just war originate with Augustine?

One of the perennial questions in political theology is how the concept of truth is defined and how such is grounded theologically.

Engaging Bonhoeffer documents the extraordinary impact of Dietrich Bonhoeffers life and writing on later thought.

This thoroughly annotated document collection gives students and researchers an authoritative source for understanding the evolving political and legal relationship between church and state from colonial times to the present day.

One of the hallmarks of Luther’s theology was its concern for daily life.

The question of God and cosmology is far from abstract.

The Impassioned Life argues that theologys task today is to rethink the nature of emotions and their relation to human reason.

In Uzbekistan, Central Asia's most populous country, Islam has been an ever-present factor in the lives of its people and a contentious force for political officials trying to build a secular and authoritarian government.

Immigration is a key concern in British society; however, the ethical implications of the issue are often overlooked.

In 2008 a media firestorm erupted when snippets of Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr.

Freedom of Religion protected in America for two hundred years by the Bill of Rights has become more a source of divisiveness than the binding force it used to be in American life.

Engaging with current philosophers and thinkers, this book questions the roots to our human condition.

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Abortion in Mexico: A History concisely examines the long history of abortion from the early postcontact period through the present day in Mexico by studying the law, criminal and ecclesiastical trials, medical texts, newspapers, and other popular publications.

Sacred Unions is a book about true love.

Pastor of a bilingual, multicultural church for more than a decade, Gary Commins knows that "e;diversity"e; is a spiritual exercise that can be as charged with anxiety as it is laced with hope.