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The Christian Right is arguably the most significant social
movement in the United States today. In recent years, these
religious conservatives have loudly protested a public education
system they believe no longer represents their interests or
values.
Educators often dismiss critiques based on religious values as
irrational or flimsy, failing to appreciate the coherence of these
criticisms from the Christian Right's own perspective. While the
Christian Right has become ever more sophisticated in its lobbying
and powerful in its influence, educators and parents find
themselves lacking the background knowledge necessary to respond
effectively to its efforts.
Standing on the Premises of God speaks directly to this dilemma,
explaining current incarnations of the Christian Right, its
leadership, its intellectual and theological foundations, and its
tactics, so that those interested in the debates over education
will be better prepared to engage them constructively.
Taking the novel approach of framing the Christian Right as a
revitalization movement, Detwiler shows how it seeks to effect
cultural transformation in order to bring public education-and our
society more generally-in line with its worldview. His theoretical
model provides insights into why education is so pivotal to the
Christian Right and also assesses the religious viability of the
Christian Right as a social movement.
The church finds itself in a period of great diversification and
multiple expressions. In the midst of great change, we have become
confused about what really makes for healthy and authentic pastoral
leadership. What are the basic and common characteristics necessary
for pastors to be effective? How can lay people understand the
pastoral call more fully and partner better with pastors for the
health of their church? Here Mannoia and Walkemeyer examine the
foundations of pastoral effectiveness and bring together nine
experienced pastoral leaders to discuss the basic characteristics
that exist in effective pastors. Regardless of context or
personality, ineffectiveness in pastors and subsequent ill health
in churches is often not the result of a lack of calling, but
instead is the result of misappropriated efforts to find success.
Let's help those who are called to be good stewards of their call.
And let's help churches have a chance to be healthy under the
leadership of effective pastors!
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Visitation
(Paperback)
Arthur A. Just, Scott A. Kinnaman
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R1,373
Discovery Miles 13 730
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This small convenient book puts needed resources into your glove
compartment, pocket, or briefcase.
This book examines the impact of white racialization in homiletics.
The first section, Racial Hegemony, interrogates the white,
colonial bias of Euro-American homiletical practice, pedagogy, and
theory with particular attention to the intersection of preaching
and racialization. The second section, Resistance and
Possibilities, contributes diverse critical homiletical approaches
emerging in conversation with racially-minoritized scholarship and
racially subjugated knowledge and practice. By reading this book,
preachers and professors of preaching will encounter alternative,
non-dominant homiletical pathways toward a more just future for the
church and the world.
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The Problem with The Dot
(Hardcover)
Bruce D Long; Foreword by Makoto Fujimura; Preface by Wesley Vander Lugt
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R757
R661
Discovery Miles 6 610
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Today's culture marginalizes old age, often portraying it as
burdensome and hopeless. Here is a book that presents examples of
women who have found joy in the passing of time as they age with
grace-finding fulfillment in their enjoyment of God.
Hear the call to overcome today's conservative rhetoric of hate and
bring virtue back to Christian living... While right-wing
conservatives dare to call themselves Christians as they tear down
equality and justice, commit horrible acts of violence, and fan the
flames of fascism in America, Carter Heyward issues a call to
action for Christians to truly hear God's message of peace and
love. This book attempts to show ways in which, through our highly
privatized theologies and personal spiritualities, we American
Christians have played a major role in building and securing
structures of injustice in American life. Rising tides of white
supremacy, threats to women's reproductive freedoms and to basic
human rights for gender and sexual minorities, the widening divide
between rich and poor, and increasing natural disasters and the
extinction of Earth's species all point to a world crying out for
God's wisdom. To move forward as followers of Jesus, we must first
call out these ingrained cultural attitudes for what they are-the
seven deadly sins of white Christian nationalism. We must commit
ourselves to building a more perfect union in small personal ways
and in large public acknowledgment of what the culture of white
Christian nationalism is doing to our country and world.
So often, it seems, liturgical themes and Christological emphases
get set aside when special topics such as "Earth Sunday" arise in
congregational worship. This book will suggest that the
Christologically constructed liturgical year provides a meaningful
framework for ecologically oriented worship. This book will
maintain the Christocentric emphasis of these liturgical seasons,
but will provide an ecological perspective on these seasons, on
Christian worship, and indeed on Christ.
2011 Winner of the Book Awards Contest in the Discipline of
Theology Presented by Alpha Sigma Nu The apostle Paul wrote that
"All of you are one in Christ Jesus." Given Paul's vision of God's
kingdom defined by the breakdown of all distinctions and
relationships of domination-no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free,
male or female-how do we make sense of ethnic particularity within
the church's theological formulations? Racism and God-Talk explores
the biblical and religious dimensions of North American racism
while highlighting examples of resistance within the Christian
religious tradition. Social historians have seldom analyzed the
problematic of race from a primarily theological perspective. This
volume undertakes a critical examination of explicitly theological
and confessional perspectives for understanding and transforming
North American racism. Rosario Rodriguez offers insights from
Latino/a theology for broader scholarly and social discussions
concerning racism, borders, and immigration. The first to analyze
race and racism from a Latino/a theological perspective, the volume
makes use of a broadened conceptualization of "mestizaje," or
mutual cultural exchange, to challenge the church to recognize the
effects of racial and ethnic particularity in all theological
construction.
This is the first volume of a unique collection of essays in memory
of David A Kerr, offering insights into current trends in Local
Theology and Missions."Global Christianity in Local Context" is the
first volume of 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.In Volume 1, scholars and Church leaders offer
insights into current trends in Local Theology and Missions from
the contexts of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe.
Although news of Christians being killed overseas hits major media outlets from time to time, the news quickly fades away while our fellow believers continue to suffer. Johnnie Moore, as he has done before, wants to awaken the church and American politicians to the daily horrors happening to Christians, focusing this time on Africa.
While the world has been fixated on jihadist threats in the Middle East, terrorists from Nigeria to Kenya have had free reign to massacre on a scale far beyond that of the terrorists in Iraq and Syria. Whole villages have been razed, mothers and children have been grotesquely killed, and an unabashed effort at ethnic cleansing has been embarked upon with unrelenting resolve. Their intention is to rid Africa of its Christians, either by forced conversion to Islam or by destruction and murder.
Susan R. Holman examines the theme of poverty in the fourth-century sermons of Basil of Caesarea, Gregory Nazianzen, and Gregory Nysson. These sermons are especially important for what they tell us about the history of poverty relief and the role of fourth century Christian theology in constructing the body of the redemptive, involuntary poor. Some of the topics explored include the contextualization of the poor in scholarship, the poor in late antiquity, and starvation and famine dynamics. In exploring this relationship between cultural context and theological language, this volume offers a broad and fresh overview of these little-studied texts.
We live in a world of oppositional relationships and increasing
in-group/out-group divisions. Christian sociologist Matthew Vos
explains how the problem of the stranger lies at the root of many
problems humanity faces, such as racism, sexism, and nationalism.
He applies classic sociological theory on "the stranger" to matters
of faith and social justice, showing that an identity in Christ
frees us to love strangers as neighbors and friends. The book also
includes two guest chapters, one on intersex persons and the church
and one on stranger-making in the "correctional" system.
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