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Corrodies in the English Monasteries (Hardcover): Howard Morris Stuckert Corrodies in the English Monasteries (Hardcover)
Howard Morris Stuckert
R720 R630 Discovery Miles 6 300 Save R90 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Firestorm - Preventing and Overcoming Church Conflicts (Paperback): Ron Susek, D Kennedy Firestorm - Preventing and Overcoming Church Conflicts (Paperback)
Ron Susek, D Kennedy
R596 R544 Discovery Miles 5 440 Save R52 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Will your church be part of the thirty-three percent unable to spot the kindling of conflict before it flares up and results in the dismissal of a pastor? Firestorm describes the six successive phases of conflict and explains the causes of that conflict, strategies to cope with controversy, and what can be done in the firestorm's aftermath to restore faith and hope.

Theology of Migration in the Abrahamic Religions (Hardcover, New): E. Padilla, P Phan Theology of Migration in the Abrahamic Religions (Hardcover, New)
E. Padilla, P Phan
R1,961 Discovery Miles 19 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Theology of Migration in the Abrahamic Religions is the second volume of the series Theology and Migration in World Christianity: Contextual Perspectives. It presents the theologies of migration proposed by Judaism, various Christian churches and denominations, and Islam. Sandwiched between theological considerations on migration as homecoming to God and as a plural journeying into divine self-disclosure, the nine essays on Jewish, Christian and Islamic theologies of migration, each drawing on its own tradition, discuss God's nature and ways of acting in the world, human responses to this migrant God, and the ethical, spiritual and aesthetic challenges posed by the contemporary 'Age of Migration.' Migration turns out to be not just a transitory phenomenon to be investigated by the social sciences but a fundamental human and religious way of living in God's world.

Religion and the Bush Presidency (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): MR Ozell, G. Whitney Religion and the Bush Presidency (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
MR Ozell, G. Whitney
R1,532 Discovery Miles 15 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

George W. Bush has invited more analysis and controversy over the impact of religion on his presidency than perhaps any chief executive of the modern era. Opinion on Bush's religiosity is intensely divisive, with conservative evangelicals seeing him as a man of deep faith and principles and at the same time many progressives seeing the president as almost dangerously fanatical. This volume is a scholarly review and analysis of the role of religion in the Bush presidency. It is divided into two sections of essays by leading scholars: The first examines the impact of various religious voting groups to the 2004 presidential campaign. The second reviews and assesses the impact of religion on the policies of the George W. Bush presidency.

The Monks of Mount Athos - A Western Monks Extraordinary Spiritual Journey on Eastern Holy Ground (Hardcover): M. Basil... The Monks of Mount Athos - A Western Monks Extraordinary Spiritual Journey on Eastern Holy Ground (Hardcover)
M. Basil Pennington; Foreword by Archimandrite Dionysios
R920 R803 Discovery Miles 8 030 Save R117 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Powerful Leaders? - When Church Leadership Goes Wrong And How to Prevent It (Paperback): Marcus Honeysett Powerful Leaders? - When Church Leadership Goes Wrong And How to Prevent It (Paperback)
Marcus Honeysett
R301 R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Save R29 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

As understanding and awareness of abuse has grown, many revelations of church leaders abusing their power have come to light. How did the church get here? Is there a way we can address both individual and institutional failings to counter the misuse of power and, more importantly, prevent it in first place? Powerful Leaders? exposes and explores how leaders are tempted away from a biblical model of leadership into illegitimate - and in the worst cases abusive - use of authority and power. Director of Living Leadership, a charity that focuses on healthy leadership and church culture, Marcus Honeysett traces how leaders move along a spectrum of healthy to unhealthy uses of power and position and offers practical wisdom for countering and preventing harmful leadership. Drawing on his years of experience in the local church and working with leaders and congregations, Honeysett unpacks how to spot danger signs of abuse in the church and provides advice on what to do if you see or are under unhealthy leadership. He also explores why people don't blow the whistle and encourages critical self-examination in existing leaders to ensure they maintain a healthy use of power - and offers guidance to help leaders improve their skills and move back towards healthy, biblically-based leadership. For anyone concerned about improving safeguarding in the church, Powerful Leaders? will prove a valuable resource. It challenges and equips both those in leadership and those in a position to hold leaders accountable, and will empower them to take the necessary steps forward to create healthier church cultures in which everyone can thrive.

No More Excuses (Hardcover): Tony Evans No More Excuses (Hardcover)
Tony Evans
R547 R507 Discovery Miles 5 070 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Colonialism and the Bible - Contemporary Reflections from the Global South (Paperback): Tat-siong Benny Liew, Fernando F Segovia Colonialism and the Bible - Contemporary Reflections from the Global South (Paperback)
Tat-siong Benny Liew, Fernando F Segovia; Contributions by Michel Elias Andraos, Nancy Elizabeth Bedford, Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi, …
R1,199 Discovery Miles 11 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume addresses the problematic relationship between colonialism and the Bible. It does so from the perspective of the Global South, calling upon voices from Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The contributors address the present state of the problematic relationship in their respective geopolitical and geographical contexts. In so doing, they provide sharp analyses of the past, the present, and the future: historical contexts and trajectories, contemporary legacies and junctures, and future projects and strategies. Taken together, the essays provide a rich and expansive comparative framework across the globe.

Creative Daoism (Hardcover): Monica Esposito Creative Daoism (Hardcover)
Monica Esposito
R1,319 Discovery Miles 13 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Just as Christianity has its Vatican in Rome, modern Daoism boasts of a unique center of religious authority and administration: the Temple of the White Clouds (Baiyun guan) in Beijing, seat of the general headquarters of the Chinese Daoist Association. This temple complex in Beijing, called by Dr Esposito "modern Daoism's Vatican," houses the grave of the mythical founder of Daoism's Quanzhen tradition and celebrates the patriarchs of its Longmen ("Dragon Gate") branch as his legitimate heirs. Monica Esposito describes in this book how Daoist masters and historiographers in China, much like their Catholic counterparts in Europe, invented a glorious patriarchal lineage as well as a system of ordination designed to perpetuate orthodox transmission and central control. They also created a kind of New Testament: a new canonical collection of scriptures entitled "The Gist of the Daoist Canon" (Daozang jiyao). It contains hundreds of texts including the Daoist classic The Secret of the Golden Flower which achieved fame through the commentary by Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. A classic study on the invention of religious traditions, the four parts of Creative Daoism describe in detail the construction of the Daoist Vatican's lineage of patriarchs, system of ordination, canon of sacred scriptures, and doctrine of universal salvation.

The Guide to Buddhist Counseling (Hardcover): Kin Cheung Lee The Guide to Buddhist Counseling (Hardcover)
Kin Cheung Lee
R4,027 Discovery Miles 40 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

* Provides the only practical resource available to teach Buddhism as a complete counselling model. * The book will benefit western students by offering a non-western approach to counselling, raising their multicultural sensitivity to different assumptions about mental health. * Includes contemplative exercises, practise exercises, a list of Buddhist and psychological techniques for the Buddhist counselling model, plus additional reading suggestions.

Eros and the Pearl - The Yezidi Cosmogonic Myth at the Crossroads of Mystical Traditions (Hardcover, New edition): Artur... Eros and the Pearl - The Yezidi Cosmogonic Myth at the Crossroads of Mystical Traditions (Hardcover, New edition)
Artur Rodziewicz
R1,855 Discovery Miles 18 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Eros and the Pearl is the first monograph devoted to the Yezidi cosmogonic myth. It is based on the author’s field research among the Yezidi people in Iraq, Turkey, Georgia, and Armenia. The author focuses on the analysis of the cosmogonic motif of Pearl and Love and, referring to various source materials, traces the presence of analogous threads in other religious traditions, esp. Yarsanism, Mandaeism, Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, as well as the Greek philosophical concepts of Eros and the primordial One that influenced Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Early Christianity, and Sufism. Demonstrating the complexity of the Yezidi tradition, the author also points to Harranian ‘Sabians’ as those who may have contributed to its beliefs at the beginning of the formation of the Yezidi religion.

Swami Vivekanand - A Biography (Paperback): Asha Prasad Swami Vivekanand - A Biography (Paperback)
Asha Prasad
R560 Discovery Miles 5 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Knights of St.John in Jerusalem and Cyprus (Paperback, 1967 ed.): J. Riley-Smith Knights of St.John in Jerusalem and Cyprus (Paperback, 1967 ed.)
J. Riley-Smith
R1,606 Discovery Miles 16 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Written by a brilliant scholar, this book is the first volume of a major work, which makes full use of the very rich documentary material still surviving and relates it to the evidence of the chronicles. Oriental sources are not disregarded: use is made of Arabic material and the latest archaeological discoveries in the Near East. The author has concentrated upon the Order as an institution in the crusader states and as a powerful international religious corporation. He considers its growth to power, its participation in the polititcs of the Latin settlement in the East, its organisation, its position as an exempt Order of the Church, its properties and its methods of administration as a landlord in feudal states. For the first time, the Order of St John is treated in a way that is neither hostile nor romantically partisan: and the author's conclusions differ from those of other historians. In his description of the Hospitallers' policies, the place they occupied in the government of Latin Syria, their privileges and the way they lived, he shows how it was thay they - individuals as well as the corporate body - played such a significant part in the history of the Christian East in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. This book is important to all those interested in the Knights of St John, the international Orders of mediaeval Christendom or the extra-ordinary states established by western Europeans on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean.

A Monastic Introduction to Sacred Scripture (Hardcover): Thomas Merton A Monastic Introduction to Sacred Scripture (Hardcover)
Thomas Merton; Edited by Patrick F. O'Connell; Foreword by Bonnie Bowman Thurston
R1,220 R1,021 Discovery Miles 10 210 Save R199 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Guide to Buddhist Counseling (Paperback): Kin Cheung Lee The Guide to Buddhist Counseling (Paperback)
Kin Cheung Lee
R1,134 Discovery Miles 11 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

* Provides the only practical resource available to teach Buddhism as a complete counselling model. * The book will benefit western students by offering a non-western approach to counselling, raising their multicultural sensitivity to different assumptions about mental health. * Includes contemplative exercises, practise exercises, a list of Buddhist and psychological techniques for the Buddhist counselling model, plus additional reading suggestions.

A Deeper Walk (Paperback): Marcus Warner A Deeper Walk (Paperback)
Marcus Warner
R270 R248 Discovery Miles 2 480 Save R22 (8%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days
The Leader's SEEcret - Asking the Right Questions and Embracing God's Answers (Paperback): Skip Garmo The Leader's SEEcret - Asking the Right Questions and Embracing God's Answers (Paperback)
Skip Garmo
R314 Discovery Miles 3 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Are you a current or emerging Christian leader who yearns to make a significant long-term difference?
Do you sometimes wonder how to distinguish what is imperative from what is important?
Are you a board member who wants your church or parachurch leadership team to become more intentional and on-target about doing the right things the right way?
"The Leader's SEEcret" is a parable that explores and applies God's Word to today's world of leadership diversions. It delves underneath the surface issues of a leader's or manager's knowledge and skills.
"The Leader's SEEcret" will help you discover, understand, and apply ten core features of one ancient principle. You will understand how to infuse the situations you face as a leader or manager with that timeless reality. And you will learn how you can inspire your staff to do so, too.
Along the way, "The Leader's SEEcret" shows the failure and regret a leader causes when his or her current leadership priorities conflict with lifetime purposes.
This story comes in a concise, get-to-the-point writing style, making it very helpful for individual or group study.
One warning: The principle undergirding LeaderSlip is simple---but not necessarily easy. If you take the challenge, you will become a more effective leader and---perhaps even more crucial---you will protect yourself from eventual failure.

Franciscan Lectio - Reading the World Through the Living Word (Paperback): Dan Riley Ofm Franciscan Lectio - Reading the World Through the Living Word (Paperback)
Dan Riley Ofm; Contributions by Stephen Copeland
R549 R509 Discovery Miles 5 090 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Franciscan Lectio is for all those on a spiritual journey who long to see the world more beautifully and deeply and become more attentive and present. An ancient tradition dating back to the third century, lectio divina has long served as an avenue of contemplative prayer, but the practice has often been systematized, intellectualized, or only practiced by monastics. Few authors have attempted to universalize lectio using contemporary language or approach it from a Franciscan perspective. St. Paul says that the Word of God is alive and active in our hearing, and if the incarnation is true, then the Word can be experienced in all places. Lectio, therefore, is not only a spiritual practice for reading sacred texts but can be applied to any felt experience. Our experiences, too, are sacred: we need only to acknowledge their depth and beauty. In the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi, we can see the God of all creation who has always been "hidden in plain sight"-a presence that shows forth in every created thing. In Franciscan Lectio, Fr. Dan Riley comes alongside us in our own encounters with lectio and inspires our spiritual imagination through story, art, poetry, nature, Franciscan mysticism, and Scripture - helping us to see that all of life is unitive and sacred.

Patterns of Episcopal Power - Bishops in Tenth and Eleventh Century Western Europe (Hardcover): Ludger Koerntgen, Dominik... Patterns of Episcopal Power - Bishops in Tenth and Eleventh Century Western Europe (Hardcover)
Ludger Koerntgen, Dominik Wassenhoven
R4,972 Discovery Miles 49 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In medieval Europe, the death of a king could not only cause a dispute about the succession, but also a severe crisis. In times of a vacant throne particular responsibility fell to the bishops - whose general importance for the time around the first milennium has been revealed by recent scholarship - as royal counsellors and policy makers. This volume therefore concentrates on the bishops' room for manoeuvre and the patterns of episcopal power, focusing on the Eastern Frankish Reich and Anglo-Saxon England in a comparative approach which is not least based upon the research of a renowned medievalist, Timothy Reuter. His article about "A Europe of Bishops" ("Ein Europa der Bischofe") is presented in English translation for the first time."

Songs for the Cycle - Fresh Hymn Texts for Church Years A, B, & C (Paperback): Michael Hudson Songs for the Cycle - Fresh Hymn Texts for Church Years A, B, & C (Paperback)
Michael Hudson
R557 Discovery Miles 5 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

""What I particularly appreciated as I read through these texts is that each one is an engaging meditation that combines sound theology with poetic skill. I think they would be an enrichment to any worshiping community and certainly food for personal reflection and prayer."" The Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church Before Michael Hudson was ordained, he was a successful songwriter in the Contemporary Christian field with 75 hymns to his credit. As his journey led him to become a liberal Anglican, he turned his considerable skill at matching text and tune to writing hymn texts. He began a spiritual discipline of writing a text for each of the gospels of the three-year cycle of Scripture readings. The result is a collection of 153 beautiful, evocative, and very singable poetic hymn texts. Each text can be sung to at least one familiar hymn tune, making the material easily accessible to congregations. A hymn tune index and a thematic index provide additional planning possibilities. Based on the Episcopal lectionary in the Book of Common Prayer, hymn tunes are suggested for each text and are indexed metrically so that substitutions may be made when necessary. Songs may be reproduced for congregational use.

Religious Activism in the Global Economy - Promoting, Reforming, or Resisting Neoliberal Globalization? (Paperback): Sabine... Religious Activism in the Global Economy - Promoting, Reforming, or Resisting Neoliberal Globalization? (Paperback)
Sabine Dreher, Peter J. Smith
R1,350 Discovery Miles 13 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Protests of neoliberal globalization have proliferated in recent years, not least in response to the financial crisis, austerity and increasing inequality. But how do religious groups organize themselves in response to these issues? This book systematically studies the relationship of religious activism towards neoliberal globalization. It considers how religious organizations often play a central role in the resistance against global capitalism, endeavouring to offer alternatives and developments for reform. But it also examines the other side of the coin, showing how many religious groups help to diffuse neoliberal values, promote and reinforce practices of capitalism. Drawing on a unique set of case studies from around the world, the chapters examine a range of groups and their practices in order to provide a thorough examination of the relationship between religion and the global political economy.

Religious Activism in the Global Economy - Promoting, Reforming, or Resisting Neoliberal Globalization? (Hardcover): Sabine... Religious Activism in the Global Economy - Promoting, Reforming, or Resisting Neoliberal Globalization? (Hardcover)
Sabine Dreher, Peter J. Smith
R3,829 Discovery Miles 38 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Protests of neoliberal globalization have proliferated in recent years, not least in response to the financial crisis, austerity and increasing inequality. But how do religious groups organize themselves in response to these issues? This book systematically studies the relationship of religious activism towards neoliberal globalization. It considers how religious organizations often play a central role in the resistance against global capitalism, endeavouring to offer alternatives and developments for reform. But it also examines the other side of the coin, showing how many religious groups help to diffuse neoliberal values, promote and reinforce practices of capitalism. Drawing on a unique set of case studies from around the world, the chapters examine a range of groups and their practices in order to provide a thorough examination of the relationship between religion and the global political economy.

Justice in the City - An Argument from the Sources of Rabbinic Judaism (Paperback): Aryeh Cohen Justice in the City - An Argument from the Sources of Rabbinic Judaism (Paperback)
Aryeh Cohen
R669 R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Save R122 (18%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Justice in the City argues, based on the rabbinic textual tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, and utilizing French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas' framework of interpersonal ethics, that a just city should be a community of obligation. That is, in a community thus conceived, the privilege of citizenship is the assumption of the obligations of the city towards Others who are not always in view - workers, the poor, the homeless. These Others form a constitutive part of the city. The second part of the book is a close analysis of homelessness, labor, and restorative justice from within the theory that was developed. This title will be useful for scholars and students in Jewish studies, especially rabbinic literature and Jewish thought, but also for those interested in contemporary urban issues.

Professional Spiritual & Pastoral Care - A Practical Clergy and Chaplain's Handbook (Hardcover): Stephen B. Roberts Professional Spiritual & Pastoral Care - A Practical Clergy and Chaplain's Handbook (Hardcover)
Stephen B. Roberts
R1,413 R1,324 Discovery Miles 13 240 Save R89 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The first comprehensive resource for spiritual and pastoral caregivers a vital resource for clergy, seminarians, chaplains, pastoral counselors and caregivers of all faith traditions.

This essential resource integrates the classic foundations of pastoral care with the latest approaches to spiritual care. It is specifically intended for professionals who work or spend time with congregants in acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, rehabilitation centers and long-term care facilities.

Offering the latest theological perspectives and tools, along with basic theory and skills from the best pastoral and spiritual care texts, research and concepts, the contributors to this resource are experts in their fields, and include eight current or past presidents of the major chaplaincy organizations."

The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt - An Archaeological Reconstruction (Hardcover): Darlene L Brooks Hedstrom The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt - An Archaeological Reconstruction (Hardcover)
Darlene L Brooks Hedstrom
R4,018 Discovery Miles 40 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom offers a new history of the field of Egyptian monastic archaeology. It is the first study in English to trace how scholars identified a space or site as monastic within the Egyptian landscape and how such identifications impacted perceptions of monasticism. Brooks Hedstrom then provides an ecohistory of Egypt's tripartite landscape to offer a reorientation of the perception of the physical landscape. She analyzes late-antique documentary evidence, early monastic literature, and ecclesiastical history before turning to the extensive archaeological evidence of Christian monastic settlements. In doing so, she illustrates the stark differences between idealized monastic landscape and the actual monastic landscape that was urbanized through monastic constructions. Drawing upon critical theories in landscape studies, materiality and phenomenology, Brooks Hedstrom looks at domestic settlements of non-monastic and monastic settlements to posit what features makes monastic settlements unique, thus offering a new history of monasticism in Egypt.

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