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A book about the Catholic Church in Ireland, An Irish Cardinal is a
definitive discourse that casts some understanding on Ireland's
tragic history. Catholics and Protestants are discussed in an
attempt to unravel the truth about religion and politics in
Ireland.
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America in God's World
(Hardcover)
Kenneth L Vaux; Edited by Melanie Baffles; Foreword by Rosemary Radford Ruether
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Sociologist Jeffrey Guhin spent a year and a half embedded in four
high schools in the New York City area - two of them Sunni Muslim
and two Evangelical Christian. At first pass, these communities do
not seem to have much in common. But under closer inspection Guhin
finds several common threads: each school community holds to a
conservative approach to gender and sexuality, a hostility towards
the theory of evolution, and a deep suspicion of secularism. All
possess a double-sided image of America, on the one hand as a place
where their children can excel and prosper, and on the other hand
as a land of temptations that could lead their children astray. He
shows how these school communities use boundaries of politics,
gender, and sexuality to distinguish themselves from the secular
world, both in school and online. Guhin develops his study of
boundaries in the book's first half to show how the school
communities teach their children who they are not; the book's
second half shows how the communities use "external authorities" to
teach their children who they are. These "external authorities" -
such as Science, Scripture, and Prayer - are experienced by
community members as real powers with the ability to issue commands
and coerce action. By offloading agency to these external
authorities, leaders in these schools are able to maintain a
commitment to religious freedom while simultaneously reproducing
their moral commitments in their students. Drawing on extensive
classroom observation, community participation, and 143 formal
interviews with students, teachers, and staff, this book makes an
original contribution to sociology, religious studies, and
education.
Moral Re-Armament's followers hailed it as the most important
spiritual movement of the twentieth century. It claimed supporters
from Mohandas Gandhi to Mae West, who praised its contributions to
global understanding and personal happiness. Critics saw MRA as
naive and possibly dangerous, cozy with fascism or a front for
corporate power. Fundamentalists called it a cult. With its mixture
of American evangelicalism, popular psychology, and show business,
it attracted men and women on six continents. This book traces
Moral Re-Armament's reinventions over fifty years, from its Ivy
League beginnings to its spiritual heirs, Up With People and
Alcoholics Anonymous.
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A Great Grievance
(Hardcover)
Laurence A. B. Whitley; Foreword by W Ian P Hazlett
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2015 Book Award for Excellence in Missiology, American Society of
Missiology Named an Outstanding Mission Book of 2015, International
Bulletin of Mission Research In 1900 many assumed the twentieth
century would be a Christian century because Western "Christian
empires" ruled most of the world. What happened instead is that
Christianity in the West declined dramatically, the empires
collapsed, and Christianity's center moved to Africa, Asia, Latin
America, and the Pacific. How did this happen so quickly? Respected
scholar and teacher Scott Sunquist surveys the most recent century
of Christian history, highlighting epochal changes in global
Christianity. He also suggests lessons we can learn from this
remarkable global Christian reversal. Ideal for an introduction to
Christianity or a church history course, this book includes a
foreword by Mark Noll.
WARNING: Peter warned that multitudes could be lead to their own
destruction by misinterpreting some of Paul's letters. Speaking of
Paul... "his letters contain some things that are hard to
understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort (untrained
in the knowledge of the Torah) as they do the other Scriptures, to
their own destruction. Therefore, dear friends, since you have been
forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by
the error of the lawless... those who do not walk in the way of the
Torah-Law]" (2 Peter 3:16, 17; commentary added). Why is Peter
warning us of Paul's letters? Peter understood Paul's style of
teaching, which was from an intellectual and philosophical Greek
mindset. Peter knew that unschooled people and those unlearned in
the ways of Torah would misunderstand them and would be misled by
teachers who manipulate the letters to elevate and profit from
them, ultimately leading many to their own destruction. ITZHAK BEN
AARON LEVY was born and raised in Israel and comes to us from the
priestly tribe of Levy. Rabbi Levy uses history and the Bible in
the making of this book; his teachings fall in the middle between
Judaism and Christianity, bridging the divide. Levy has chosen
Paul's letters since they have been a pivotal point of controversy
when compared to the other writers of the New Testament. Knowing
that Paul was schooled in the Hebrew language, Levy has used Paul's
translated letters from Greek to Hebrew in order to help the reader
better understand Paul's Hebrew thinking. By doing this, Levy
delivers the true intent of Paul's letters while removing the
controversial shadow that was cast on Paul for 2,000 years,
allowing the real Paul to come forth. "Thought provoking...
enlightening... once I started reading, I couldn't put it down."
-MSK "This book sheds much clarity on Paul the person." - B. Jensen
"A truly enlightened deliverance of Paul." R. Welsh
How Baptism and the Eucharist Shaped Early Christian Understandings
of Jesus Long before the Gospel writers put pen to papyrus, the
earliest Christians participated in the powerful rituals of baptism
and the Lord's Supper, which fundamentally shaped their
understanding of God, Christ, and the world in which they lived. In
this volume, a respected biblical scholar and teacher explores how
cultural anthropology and ritual studies elucidate ancient texts.
Charles Bobertz offers a liturgical reading of the Gospel of Mark,
arguing that the Gospel is a narrative interpretation of early
Christian ritual. This fresh, responsible, and creative proposal
will benefit scholars, professors, and students. Its ecclesial and
pastoral ramifications will also be of interest to church leaders
and pastors.
Christians regularly ask God to "forgive us our debts, as we
forgive our debtors," but tend to focus on the first half and
ignore the second. Something is missing if Christians think of
mission only in terms of proclamation or social justice and
discipleship only in terms of personal growth and renewal-leaving
the relational implications of the gospel almost to chance. It is
vital both to spiritual life and mission to think of the church as
both invitation and witness to a particularly merciful social
dynamic in the world. As a work of constructive practical theology
and a critical commentary on the ecclesiology of Karl Barth's
unfinished Church Dogmatics, A Shared Mercy explains the place and
meaning of interpersonal forgiveness and embeds it within an
account of Christ's ongoing ministry of reconciliation. A
theologian well-practiced in church ministry, Jon Coutts aims to
understand what it means to forgive and reconcile in the context of
the Christ-confessing community. In the process he appropriates an
area of Barth's theology that has yet to be fully explored for its
practical ramifications and that promises to be of interest to both
seasoned scholars and newcomers to Barth alike. The result is a
re-envisioning of the church in terms of a mercy that is crucially
and definitively shared. Featuring new monographs with cutting-edge
research, New Explorations in Theology provides a platform for
constructive, creative work in the areas of systematic, historical,
philosophical, biblical, and practical theology.
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