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A comprehensive source that demonstrates how 21st century
Christianity can interrelate with current educational trends and
aspirations The Wiley Handbook of Christianity and Education
provides a resource for students and scholars interested in the
most important issues, trends, and developments in the relationship
between Christianity and education. It offers a historical
understanding of these two intertwined subjects with a view to
creating a context for the myriad issues that characterize--and
challenge--the relationship between Christianity and education
today. Presented in three parts, the book starts with
thought-provoking essays covering major issues in Christian
education such as the movement away from God in American education;
the Christian paradigm based on love and character vs. academic
industrial models of American education; why religion is good for
society, offenders, and prisons; the resurgence of vocational
exploration and its integrative potential for higher education; and
more. It then looks at Christianity and education around the
globe--faith-based schooling in a pluralistic democracy; religious
expectations in the Latino home; church-based and
community-centered higher education; etc. The third part examines
how humanity is determining the relationship between Christianity
and education with chapters covering the use of Christian paradigm
of living and learning; enrollment, student demographic, and
capacity trends in Christian schools after the introduction of
private schools; empirical studies on the perceptions of
intellectual diversity at elite universities in the US; and more.
Provides the breadth and depth of knowledge necessary to gain a
sophisticated and nuanced understanding of the complex relationship
between Christianity and education and its place in contemporary
society A long overdue assessment of the subject, one that takes
into account the enormous changes in Christian education Presents a
global consideration of the subject Examines Christian education
across elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels The Wiley
Handbook of Christianity and Education will be of great interest to
Christian educators in the academic world, the teaching profession,
the ministry, and the college and graduate level student body.
In the face of climate change and other environmental trends, it is
easy to be pessimistic about the future. Philosophers, film-makers,
environmentalists, politicians and even senior scientists
increasingly resort to apocalyptic rhetoric to warn us that a
so-called 'perfect storm' of factors is coming together in a way
that threatens the future of life on earth. Do these dire
predictions amount to nothing more than ideological scaremongering,
perhaps hyped up for political or personal ends? Or are there good
reasons for thinking that we may indeed be facing a crisis
unprecedented in its scale and in the severity of its effects?
Jonathan Moo and Robert White encourage us to assess the evidence
for ourselves. Their own conclusion is that there is in fact plenty
of cause for concern.
Sick of porn? Time to detox. A huge percentage of men need a porn
detox, a moral and psychological reset. Do you? If so, whether you
know it or not, pornography has corrupted your thinking, weakened
your conscience, warped your sense of right and wrong, and twisted
your understanding and expectations of sexuality. You need a reset
by the One who created sex. In this book, I hope to help you
reorient your understanding of sex, both in the big picture and in
the act itself, according to God's plan for this great gift. I want
to help you detox from all the junk you've seen, all the lies
you've believed. This is not an easy process. It is rarely a quick
process. It involves a letting go of old realities and an embrace
of a new normal. To be willing to go through it you need to see how
bad your current situation really is, and how the path you are on
leads no place good. You need to see that the path of porn leads
only to more isolation, guilt, alienation, and pain. Whether single
or married, such a reset to normal is the only thing that can ever
equip you to become a pure, loving, attentive, sacrificial husband.
But you already know you need to change. Few Christian men indulge
in porn without realizing they need to quit. Every Christian guy
who looks at porn wants to stop, but many of us want to stop just a
little bit less than we want to keep going. The problem isn't
knowledge. It's desire and ability. So sin prevails. Here's a
promise. You'll never stop until you begin to see the monstrous
nature of the sin you're committing. You'll never stop until the
sin is more horrifying to you than the commission of the sin is
enjoyable. You'll need to hate that sin before you can find freedom
from it. That means you need more grace. You need to cry out to be
changed and to see the monstrous nature of this sin. And then you
need to behave in faith that God will meet you with grace as you
act to cut off the porn and begin the reset. -Tim Challies
Can we know anything about God apart from the Bible? Many
Protestant Christians are suspicious of natural theology, which
claims that we can learn about God through revelation outside the
Bible. How can we know anything about God apart from Scripture? In
Nature's Case for God, distinguished theologian John Frame argues
that Christians are not forbidden from seeking to learn about God
from his creation. In fact, the Bible itself shows this to be
possible. In nine short and lucid chapters that include questions
for discussion, Frame shows us what we can learn about God and how
we relate to him from the world outside the Bible. If the heavens
really do declare the glory of God, as the psalmist claims, it
makes a huge difference for how we understand God and how we
introduce him to those who don't yet know Christ.
Whose lives count as fully human? The answer matters for everyone,
disabled or not. The ancient Greek ideal linked physical wholeness
to moral wholeness - the virtuous citizen was "beautiful and good."
It's an ideal that has all too often turned deadly, casting those
who do not measure up as less than human. In the pre-Christian era,
infants with disabilities were left on the rocks; in modern times,
they have been targeted by eugenics. Much has changed, thanks to
the tenacious advocacy of the disability rights movement.
Yesteryear's hellish institutions have given way to customized
educational programs and assisted living centers. Public spaces
have been reconfigured to improve access. Therapies and medical
technology have advanced rapidly in sophistication and
effectiveness. Protections for people with disabilities have been
enshrined in many countries' antidiscrimination laws. But these
victories, impressive as they are, mask other realities that
collide awkwardly with society's avowals of equality. Why are
parents choosing to abort a baby likely to have a disability? Why
does Belgian law allow for euthanasia in cases of disability, even
absent a terminal diagnosis or physical pain? Why, when ventilators
were in short supply during the first Covid wave, did some states
list disability as a reason to deny care? On this theme: - Heonju
Lee tells how his son with Down syndrome saved another child's
life. - Molly McCully Brown and Victoria Reynolds Farmer recount
their personal experiences with disability. - Amy Julia Becker says
meritocracies fail because they value the wrong things. - Maureen
Swinger asks six mothers around the world about raising a child
with disabilities. - Joe Keiderling documents the unfinished
struggle for disability rights. - Isaac T. Soon wonders if Saint
Paul's "thorn in the flesh" was a disability. - Leah Libresco
Sargeant reviews What Can a Body Do? and Making Disability Modern.
- Sarah C. Williams says testing for fetal abnormalities is not a
neutral practice. Also in the issue: - Ross Douthat is brought low
by intractable Lyme disease. - Edwidge Danticat flees an active
shooter in a packed mall. - Eugene Vodolazkin finds comic relief at
funerals, including his own father's. - Kelsey Osgood discovers
that being an Orthodox Jew is strange, even in Brooklyn. -
Christian Wiman pens three new poems. - Susannah Black profiles
Flannery O'Conner. - Our writers review Eyal Press's Dirty Work,
Steve Coll's Directorate S, and Millennial Nuns by the Daughters of
Saint Paul. Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture
for people eager to apply their faith to the challenges we face.
Each issue includes in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book
reviews, and art.
How are Christians to live in a violent and wounded world? Rather
than contending for privilege by wielding power and authority, we
can witness prophetically from a position of weakness. The church
has much to learn from an often-overlooked community-those with
disabilities. In this fascinating book, theologian Stanley Hauerwas
collaborates with Jean Vanier, founder of the worldwide L'Arche
communities. For many years, Hauerwas has reflected on the lives of
people with disability, the political significance of community,
and how the experience of disability addresses the weaknesses and
failures of liberal society. And L'Arche provides a unique model of
inclusive community that is underpinned by a deep spirituality and
theology. Together, Vanier and Hauerwas carefully explore the
contours of a countercultural community that embodies a different
way of being and witnesses to a new order-one marked by radical
forms of gentleness, peacemaking, and faithfulness. The authors'
explorations shed light on what it means to be human and how we are
to live. The robust voice of Hauerwas and the gentle words of
Vanier offer a synergy of ideas that, if listened to carefully,
will lead the church to a fresh practicing of peace, love and
friendship. This invigorating conversation is for everyday
Christians who desire to live faithfully in a world that is violent
and broken. This expanded edition now includes a study guide for
individual reflection or group discussion.
Scottish minister and social reformer Thomas Chalmers (1780 1847)
is famous as the leader of the group of 470 ministers who left the
Church of Scotland in 1843 to found the Free Church of Scotland,
and as the author (in 1834) of the first Bridgewater Treatise (also
reissued in this collection). Along with his theological interests,
Chalmers was deeply concerned with educational reform in schools
and universities. In 1827 he published this paper on university
endowments, asserting that it was the state's responsibility to
support religious and educational institutions, because churches,
schools, and universities maintained the nation's Christian
principles and character. Chalmers argued that only endowed
national establishments were capable of ensuring the religious and
moral well-being of the individual. In addition to his appeal for
university endowments, he also advocated (unusually for his time)
the extension of full civil rights to dissenters and Catholics.
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While the spiritual atmosphere grows more toxic and the world
becomes more anti-God, Christians are engaging less and less with
their faith in Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit. We do not
have to fear the future. But we must not be surprised by it or be
unprepared to face it. In this insightful book, David Sliker helps
readers understand and prepare for a future filled with glory and
victory for the church, unfolding in the context of unprecedented
rage, rebellion, and resistance by the world around us. Full of
practical application, this book connects readers to the current
storm that is upon us, contextualizing today's news, current
events, and cultural narratives through the lens of biblical
prophecy and the return of Jesus. The greatest days of the church
lie ahead. We can stand strong, persevere, and overcome in these
days!
What does it mean to be an English Christian? Many Christians are
aware of the need to adapt the presentation of the gospel to
different cultures ('inculturation') in their overseas mission
activity, but how can the gospel best be presented to those at
home? What happens when the principles of inculturation are applied
to English culture? This book encourages people to think more
deeply about the relationship between faith and culture, and to see
how the good news can most effectively be brought to the English.
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HIV & AIDS together constitute one of the most serious
challenges to human life in our time. The consequences are often
grave for individuals, families, whole communities and nations. How
can Christians respond to this worldwide problem? This book is
designed to equip church leaders and their communities with the
means to save, protect and prolong lives, and, above all, enable
people to live positively in the face of the HIV & AIDS
epidemic. The authors forcefully argue this involvement to be seen,
not as an additional activity to ministry, but as a calling that
enriches ministry's essential meaning and value. Byamugisha's
straightforward explanation of HIV & AIDS and suggestions for
Christian responses are complemented by case studies from around
the globe.
The complex and constantly evolving world of bioethics poses
important questions for today's Christians. Since issues such as
assisted dying and stem-cell research continue to hit headlines, it
is important for Christians to be able to apply their values to the
moral dilemmas emerging from modern science. Yet it can be
difficult for Christians to know where they stand, as there are no
easy answers. New Challenges for Christians will help readers to
keep abreast of recent developments in medical and scientific
research, and challenge them to think about and develop their own
views. Part of the material was originally written for the Church
Times, and this book has been fully updated. It will equip readers
to navigate highly disputed territory and form opinions responsibly
and with clarity and conviction.
Every politician needs inspiration and ideals in this cynical age.
Frank Field's Anglican faith provides his inspiration, and a
foundation for a set of ideals known as English Idealism, put
forward by T. H. Green. These ideals built on Christianity to form
a widely shared public ideology. As a leading politician and
churchman, Frank Field illustrates his understanding of English
Idealism through the life and work of five people who have inspired
his political career. He looks at two Archbishops of Canterbury -
the Temples, father and son - who helped to build up this public
theology; George Bell who, as Bishop of Chichester during World War
II, had the courage to be a lone voice campaigning against the
policy of obliteration bombing of German cities; William Beveridge
- this country's key reformer of welfare; Eleanor Rathbone, one of
the greatest MPs, who campaigned to build an inclusive citizenship.
Logos Bookstores' Best Book in Christianity and Culture How do we
live with our deepest differences? In a world torn by religious
conflict, the threats to human dignity are terrifyingly real. Some
societies face harsh government repression and brutal sectarian
violence, while others are divided by bitter conflicts over
religion's place in public life. Is there any hope for living
together peacefully? Os Guinness argues that the way forward for
the world lies in promoting freedom of religion and belief for
people of all faiths and none. He sets out a vision of a civil and
cosmopolitan global public square, and how it can be established by
championing the freedom of the soul-the inviolable freedom of
thought, conscience and religion. In particular he calls for
leadership that has the courage to act on behalf of the common
good. Far from utopian, this constructive vision charts a course
for the future of the world. Soul freedom is not only a shining
ideal but a dire necessity and an eminently practical solution to
the predicaments of our time. We can indeed maximize freedom and
justice and learn to negotiate deep differences in public life. For
a world desperate for hope at a critical juncture of human history,
here is a way forward, for the good of all.
Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828-1892) gave the Cambridge Hulsean
lectures in November and December of 1871. First published
posthumously in 1893, with minor revisions, these lectures are
built around a sustained meditation on John 14: 5-6. They represent
Hort's defence of the continuing relevance of Christianity in an
increasingly science-focused world where religion was no longer the
sole arbitrator of 'truth'. These lectures are a direct response to
the development of Historical Criticism and the aftermath of the
publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859). Hort
argues that confidence in the 'truth' of Christianity can only lead
to a championship of science and other non-theological methods of
inquiry for ultimately 'all knowledge ministers to the knowledge of
the highest'. Hort's lectures are a key work of Anglican theology
addressing the issue, still pressing over a century later, of
religion's relationship with science.
Letter to a Priest encapsulates the sharp wit and questioning
nature of Simone Weil. Regarded by Susan Sontag as 'one of the most
uncompromising and troubling witnesses to the modern travail of the
spirit', Weil grips the moral imagination as few others before or
since. She was only thirty four when she died in 1943, yet despite
her short life she left behind an incredible body of literature.
Letter to a Priest, addressed to Father Joseph-Marie Perrin, a
Catholic priest who Weil met in Marseilles, is one of her most
powerful pieces. Written at a time when those who knew her
considered her to be 'like a soul in torment whose thinking had all
the signs of a deep inner conflict', it contains thirty five
powerful expressions of opinion on matters concerning Catholic
faith, dogma and institutions. Vehement and controversial, yet
eloquent and moving, it is essential reading for anyone who has
questions about faith and belief.
At some point in the nineteenth century God died, the world grew
secular, and Christianity became oppositional, irrational, odd,
even queer -- or so the story goes. To explore this narrative, John
Schad offers a suitably odd or unreasonable' history of what Michel
Foucault once called Christian unreason'. This proves, in part, to
be an unlikely, or uncanny history of Christian involvement in such
radical movements and developments as Anarchism, Surrealism, the
Absurd, deconstruction, and even quantum physics. It also proves to
be a dark and guilty history of Christian involvement in such
terrible things and events as slavery, forced conversion, Fenian
bombs, the Great War, the Holocaust, and even Hiroshima. The book
begins with Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach' and its withdrawing sea
of faith' as time and again Schad finds the figure of the Christian
to be beached, a fish out of water -- a queer fish, in fact. This,
then, is a book that is all at sea -- beginning with Charles
Darwin's voyage to the extreme point of Christendom' that was South
America, and ending with James Joyce and Jacques Derrida in the
same boat', the same ruined, but sea-going, boat that is the
twentieth-century Western Church. In between: Karl Marx is to be
found in 1848 watching the waves of revolution' withdraw in Berlin;
Sigmund Freud stands incredulous by the shore of Loch Ness; Oscar
Wilde is laughed at in the rain at Clapham Junction; and Charles
Dickens visits a church for the drowned, a church for ship-wrecked
corpses. Revisiting Dover Beach' is often an appalling event, an
event of death; often it is comic or even absurd. Sometimes it is
both at once. With chapters devoted to Darwin, Marx, Freud,
Dickens, Wilde, Joyce, and Derrida, Queer Fish has plenty for
students not only of literature and philosophy but also theology
and Jewish studies.
Addressing a topic of growing and vital concern, this book asks us
to reconsider how we think about the natural world and our place in
it. Steven Bouma-Prediger brings ecotheology into conversation with
the emerging field of environmental virtue ethics, exploring the
character traits and virtues required for Christians to be
responsible keepers of the earth and to flourish in the challenging
decades to come. He shows how virtue ethics can enrich Christian
environmentalism, helping readers think and act in ways that
rightly value creation.
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