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This book is about Black women's search for relationships and
encounters that support healing from intimate and cultural
violence. Narratives provide an ethnographic snapshot of this
violence, while raising concerns over whether or not existing
paradigms for pastoral care and counseling are congruent with how
many Black women approach healing.
Preaching the Story explores why communication is more effective
when sermons are no longer lectures but stories. It explains how to
deliver your entire sermon in story form. A practical book for
pastors and ministerial students.
We cannot escape ethical questions. What Christians need is
guidance to think well. In 50 Ethical Questions, J. Alan Branch
addresses pointed questions regarding ethics, sexuality, marriage
and divorce, bioethics, and Christian living. Readers will find
biblical and reasonable guidance on their questions, including:
What are the differences between individual and systemic racism?
I've been invited to a same--sex wedding. Should I attend? Should
Christians use vaccines from cell lines derived from aborted
babies? I'm a Christian in an abusive marriage. What should I do?
Is it morally permissible for a Christian to conceal--carry a
firearm? With Branch's help, you can navigate ethical challenges
with care and conviction.
A textbook of Luther's political writings presented with careful
attention to historical context, peer reveiwed by top scholars in
the fields of political science and Reformation studies.
How do survivors of sexual and domestic violence relate to
religion and to a higher power? What are the social and religious
contexts that sustain and encourage eating disorders in women? How
do these issues intersect?
The relationship between Christian religious discourse, incest,
and eating disorders reveals an important, and so far unexamined,
psychosocial phenomenon. Drawing from interviews with incest
survivors whose sexual and religious backgrounds are intimately
connected with their problematic relationship with food, Jennifer
Manlowe here illuminates the connections between female body,
weight, and appetite preoccupations.
Manlowe offers social and psychological insights into the most
common forms of female suffering--incest and body hatred. The
volume is intended as a resource for professionals, advocates,
friends of survivors, and most importantly, the survivor of incest
herself as she attempts to understand the links of meaning in her
mind between her incest experience and her subsequent eating
disorder.
The battle lines have been drawn. Many Christians have fallen into
the trap of proclaiming "Peace Peace " when there is no peace.
Hiding their eyes from the pressing issues of the day, they believe
that resistance to the prevailing culture is useless. At the same
time, other Christians have been too quick to declare war,
mistaking battlefield casualties as enemies rather than victims. In
How to Win the Culture War Peter Kreeft issues a rousing call to
arms. Christians must understand the true nature of the culture
war--a war between the culture of life and the culture of death.
Kreeft identifies the real enemies facing the church today and maps
out key battlefields. He then issues a strategy for engagement and
equips Christians with the weapons needed for a successful
campaign. Above all, Kreeft assures us that the war can be won--in
fact, it will be won. For those who hope in Christ, victory is
assured, because good triumphs over evil and life conquers death.
Love never gives up. Neither must we.
This book continues a series of volumes containing the papers read
at an annual conference held in turn by Tel Aviv and Bochum in the
course of a co-operation between the Lester and Sally Entin Faculty
of Humanities, Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, the
Department of Bible of Tel Aviv University and the Faculty of
Protestant Theology in the University of the Ruhr, Bochum, since
1985. As a collection the book focuses on the important role
religious views have played in critical moments during Jewish and
Christian history. It argues for the significance that the role
religious beliefs play in political and economic decision-making
and the formation of worldviews; as well as demonstrating common
convictions held by both Jewish and Christians that can be used as
a foundation to find similar answers to actual problems. Focusing
on the conference held in March 2005 at Tel Aviv, the book contains
a collected biography of the literature quoted as well as a list of
standard abbreviations.
The first comprehensive history of New College, celebrating the
story of theology at Edinburgh over the past 150 years. Raises
important questions about the future relationship between church
and university.
The author argues that identity politics eliminates Ethiopians'
in-between spaces and identities and defines in-between spaces as
political, social, religious, and geographical spaces that enable
Ethiopians to co-exist with equity, solidarity, and justice. The
elimination of in-between spaces and in-between identities creates
either-or class, religious, ethnic, and gender categories.
Therefore, the author proposes an in-between theology that invites
Ethiopians to a new hybrid way of being to resist fragmented and
hegemonic identities. The author claims that postcolonial discourse
and praxis of in-between pastoral care disrupts and interrogates
hegemonic definitions of culture, home, subjectivity, and identity.
On the other hand, in-between pastoral care uses embodiment,
belonging, subjectivity, and hybridity as features of care and
praxis to create intercultural and intersubjective identities that
can co-construct and co-create in-between spaces. In the in-between
spaces, Ethiopians can relate with the Other with intercultural
competencies to live their difference, similarity, hybridity, and
complexity.
The largest group in American religious life may be the
disillusioned--people who have been involved in the church, respect
Jesus, but question what Christianity has become. In "If the Church
Were Christian" Philip Gulley provides a profound picture of what
the church could look like if it refocused on the priorities of
Jesus.
Biblical Perspectives on Leadership and Organizations links
biblically-based principles to the study of organizational
practices by examining topics including motives, meaningful work,
and spiritual leadership from a biblical perspective integrated
with findings from contemporary research.
This is volume 2 of a unique collection, offering a veritable Who's
Who of renowned Christian and Muslim scholars that have shaped the
course of Christian-Muslim dialogue."Global Christianity in Local
Context and Muslim Encounter" is a unique collection of essays in
honour of David A. Kerr, well-known for his contributions in the
areas of Christian-Muslim dialogue, Ecumenical Studies and
Missions. With contributions from recognized experts in these
fields, the book provides a platform for examining contemporary
Christian-Muslim relations and critical issues facing twenty-first
century Christianity.Volume 2 is a veritable Who's Who of renowned
Christian and Muslim scholars that have shaped the course of
Christian-Muslim dialogue over the last half century. Their
contributions in this volume address contemporary and pivotal
issues facing Christians and Muslims today, such as Islamophobia,
Islamism, Religious Freedom, Inter-religious Challenges and
Urbanism, Mission and Economic Globalisation, Suffering and Social
Responsibility, and others.
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