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Born into one of the wealthiest families in Philadelphia and raised
and educated in that vital center of eighteenth-century American
Quakerism, Anne Emlen Mifflin was a progressive force in early
America. This detailed and engaging biography, which features
Anne's collected writings and selected correspondence, revives her
legacy. Anne grew up directly across the street from the
Pennsylvania statehouse, where the Continental Congress was leading
the War of Independence. A Quaker minister whose busy pen, agile
mind, and untiring moral energy produced an extensive corpus of
writings, Anne was an ardent abolitionist and social reformer
decades before the establishment of women's anti-slavery societies.
And at a time when most Americans never ventured beyond their own
village, hamlet, or farm, Anne journeyed thousands of miles. She
traveled to settlements of Friends on the frontier and met with
Native Americans in the rough country of northwestern Pennsylvania,
New York, and Canada. Our Beloved Friend provides a unique window
onto the lives of Quakers during the pre-Revolutionary era, the
establishment of the New Republic, and the War of 1812.
WARNING! Don't read this book-if you are satisfied with the status
quo and don't like to be challenged! However, if you yearn to
expand your knowledge, to deepen your faith, and to strengthen your
ability to answer tough questions from skeptical friends and
family, keep turning these pages, absorbing the truths, and
pondering the questions at the end of each chapter. If you
understand and apply what you read, you are in for the thrill of
your life! Especially, remember to pray daily, "Lord, please fill
me with your Holy Spirit and put me in the right place at the right
time with the right words to honor you." You will be amazed how God
answers this prayer and uses you!
Bernard Brady has given us a rare, delightful, and
thought-provoking book - a volume that belongs on the desk or the
bed-stand of anyone in search of the rich and varied dimensions of
Christian love. Christians are taught that God is love and are
commanded to love, their neighbours and their enemies. These truths
are not controversial. What is controversial and, indeed, has been
controversial throughout the history of Christianity is the meaning
of this love. This book explores the tradition of Christian
reflection on the meaning, and experience of love, loving, and
being loved. Many books have been written about Christian love, but
no book has gathered together this kind of primary source material
and covered such a wide range of perspectives, allowing the reader
to engage directly with the thought and experience of some of the
greatest Christian minds on the topic of love. Bernard Brady covers
with remarkable clarity the breadth and depth of discussions on
Christian love from the Bible to contemporary experience to create
this-a survey of how Christians through the ages have understood
love. Beginning of course with the Bible, Brady examines the key
writings and thinkers on the nature of Christian love: St.
Augustine; mystics such as Bernard of Clairvaux, Hadewich, and
Julian of Norwich; the great tradition and literature of courtly
love, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Soren Kierkegaard, and others.
In addition, Brady devotes chapters to several 20th century figures
whose lives seemingly embodied Christian love: Mother Theresa,
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Pope John Paul II. Finally, Christian
Love addresses contemporary deliberations over the meaning of love
with an analysis of the modern writings of Martin D'Arcy, Reinhold
Niebuhr, Jules Toner, Gustavo Gutierrez, Gene Outka, Margaret
Farley, Edward Vacek, and Don Browning. In a synthesizing
concluding chapter, Brady offers his own insightful and
introspective understanding of the substance of Christian love,
suggesting that it is an affective affirmation of another, that it
is both responsive and unitive, and that it is steadfast and
enduring. As a beautiful contemplative companion to one's own
spiritual understanding, or as a thoughtful and meaningful gift,
Christian Love is in every sense a treasure to behold, read, and
share with those you love.
The opponents of legal recognition for same-sex marriage
frequently appeal to a "Judeo-Christian" tradition. But does it
make any sense to speak of that tradition as a single teaching on
marriage? Are there elements in Jewish and Christian traditions
that actually authorize religious and civil recognition of same-sex
couples? And are contemporary heterosexual marriages well supported
by those traditions?
As evidenced by the ten provocative essays assembled and edited
by Mark D. Jordan, the answers are not as simple as many would
believe. The scholars of Judaism and Christianity gathered here
explore the issue through a wide range of biblical, historical,
liturgical, and theological evidence. From David's love for
Jonathan through the singleness of Jesus and Paul to the all-male
heaven of John's Apocalypse, the collection addresses pertinent
passages in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament with scholarly
precision. It reconsiders whether there are biblical precedents for
blessing same-sex unions in Jewish and Christian liturgies.
The book concludes by analyzing typical religious arguments
against such unions and provides a comprehensive response to claims
that the Judeo-Christian tradition prohibits same-sex unions from
receiving religious recognition. The essays, most of which are in
print here for the first time, are by Saul M. Olyan, Mary Ann
Tolbert, Daniel Boyarin, Laurence Paul Hemming, Steven Greenberg,
Kathryn Tanner, Susan Frank Parsons, Eugene F. Rogers, Jr., and
Mark D. Jordan.
Updated and Expanded Edition of a Landmark Text on an Urgent Topic
Now updated and expanded, this landmark text reveals God's purposes
for his covenant people in these times--and how this revelation is
impacting the church. Unlike Ruth in the Old Testament, many of us
have turned our backs on the Jewish people, the relatives of the
Messiah, and we share the collective guilt for centuries of their
persecution. These pages remind us that now, more than ever, we
must confess, embrace, and intercede for the chosen people of God,
aligning our prayers with God's plan. Once again, Israel and her
people are center stage at a crucial moment in world history, and
this book shows why the church must effect reconciliation and why
our prayers are vital in this hour. If we will make the same
covenant pledge to Israel that Ruth made to Naomi, the church will
never be the same!
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Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the
most influential Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Together
they produced a dynamic body of ideas that has had a lasting impact
on the study of religion, philosophy, and literary criticism.
Drawing from Benjamin's and Scholem's ideas on messianism,
language, and divine justice, this book traces the intellectual
exchange through the early decades of the twentieth century -- from
Berlin, Bern, and Munich in the throws of war and revolution to
Scholem's departure for Palestine in 1923. It begins with a close
reading of Benjamin's early writings and a study of Scholem's
theological politics, followed by an examination of Benjamin's
proposals on language and the influence these ideas had on
Scholem's scholarship on Jewish mysticism. From there the book
turns to their ideas on divine justice -- from Benjamin's critique
of original sin and violence to Scholem's application of the
categories to the prophets and Bolshevism. "Metaphysics of the
Profane" is the first book to make this early period available to a
wider audience, revealing the intricate structure of this early
intellectual partnership on politics and theology.
Creating conversations of faith outside of the Evangelical norm. A
new culture is emergingone of spiritual openness, moral
flexibility, and social diversity. This diversity culture makes
evangelicals uncomfortable, not because they feel threatened, but
because they feel excluded. Writing from the perspective of a
conservative evangelical, author Matthew Raley tackles the social
tensions between evangelicals and the diversity culture. Drawing on
analysis of contemporary media, ancient sources, and Scripture, The
Diversity Culture examines cultural barriers and how they can be
broken, helping Christians understand this cosmopolitan group on
their own terms. This incisive and much-needed book gives believers
the understanding and tools they need to cross socioeconomic,
ethical, and ideological barriers and heal relationships in the
name of Christ.
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