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Genre | : Religion |
Author | : Janet Forsythe Fishburn |
Publisher | : |
Release | : 1991 |
File | : 216 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : IND:30000026077077 |
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Genre | : Religion |
Author | : Janet Forsythe Fishburn |
Publisher | : |
Release | : 1991 |
File | : 216 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : IND:30000026077077 |
When Heaven and Earth Collide is an investigation into what went wrong in the American South in regard to race and religion—and how things can be and are being made right. Why, in a land filled with Christian churches, was there such racial oppression and division? Why didn’t white evangelicals do more to bring racial reconciliation to the South during the 19th and 20th centuries? These questions are asked and answered through an exploration of history, politics, economics, philosophy, and social and theological studies that uncovers the hidden impetus behind racism and demonstrates how we can still make many of the same errors today—just perhaps in different ways. The investigation finally leads us in hopeful directions involving how to live out the better way of Jesus with an eye on heaven in a world still burdened and broken under the sins of the past.
Genre | : History |
Author | : Alan Cross |
Publisher | : NewSouth Books |
Release | : 2014-02-05 |
File | : 320 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9781603063500 |
Rodney Clapp articulates a challenge to both sides of the critical debate on the future of the family. Named one of the Best Books of 1995 by the London Bible College Bookshop.
Genre | : Religion |
Author | : Rodney R. Clapp |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Release | : 1993-09-28 |
File | : 210 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 0830816550 |
Liberal/conservative and modern/postmodern concepts define contemporary theological debate. Yet what if these categories are grounded in a set of assumptions about what it means to be the church in the world, presuming we must live as though God's existence does not matter? What if our theological discussion distracts us from the fact that the church is no longer able to shape the desires and habits of Christians? Hauerwas wrestles with these and similar questions constructing a theological politics necessary for the church to be the church in the world. In so doing, he challenges liberal notions of justice and freedom.
Genre | : Religion |
Author | : Stanley Hauerwas |
Publisher | : Abingdon Press |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
File | : 222 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9781426722011 |
This book explores the unprecedented challenge of involuntary singleness for women, and the implications of disregarding this challenge for the Christian (and particularly, baptistic) communities of faith. It argues that these communities not only fail involuntarily single women, but also in so doing, suffer a serious detriment to their own communal health and Christian witness. Taking the challenge of involuntary singleness as a test case, this book explores the method of convictional theology and argues for a holistic framework that can draw together the personal, communal, and visionary spheres of human existence. Although primarily a work of theological ethics, it also draws from a number of different disciplines, including cultural studies and sociology as well as intersections of science and theology.
Genre | : Religion |
Author | : Lina Androviene |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Release | : 2014-05-29 |
File | : 301 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9781625641083 |
Most of what is written on Kierkegaard today is for the college classroom and academic conferences. The guiding question of this book is that if Kierkegaard's words about Christianity are true, how do they change the way we learn and practice the Christian faith today? This book is an answer to that question. It does not enter into an extended critical discussion over the truth of Kierkegaard's ideas. Instead it just believes what Kierkegaard said and runs with it. It does that by showing how his ideas change our understanding of Christian identity, suffering and illness, worship and preaching, the Bible, baptism, prayer, marriage and divorce, criticism, and the Christian minister. Interspersed are many quotations from Martin Luther, whose thought significantly shaped Kierkegaard's. At the end of the book is a hefty collection of sermons to show how all of this can be preached in the church. What Kierkegaard for the Church adds to our understanding of Kierkegaard is the place of the church in his thought. Because of his criticisms of the Danish state church and his stress on the need for the single individual to appropriate Christian teachings, it could be imagined that he rejected the church. But that would be to throw the baby out with the bath. The fact is that Kierkegaard remained a loyal son of the church even while he attacked it. And he did this only so he could strengthen what he loved.
Genre | : Religion |
Author | : Ronald F. Marshall |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Release | : 2013-08-30 |
File | : 755 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9781621898641 |
An introduction to religion draws from Christianity, Judaism, Islam, neopaganism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and the Autralian Aboriginal tradition
Genre | : Religion |
Author | : William Scott Green |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
File | : 300 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 0664256880 |
The 1950s religious boom was organized around the male-breadwinner lifestyle in the burgeoning postwar suburbs. But since the 1950s, family life has been fundamentally reconfigured in the United States. How do religion and family fit together today? This book examines how religious congregations in America have responded to changes in family structure, and how families participate in local religious life. Based on a study of congregations and community residents in upstate New York, sociologist Penny Edgell argues that while some religious groups may be nostalgic for the Ozzie and Harriet days, others are changing, knowing that fewer and fewer families fit this traditional pattern. In order to keep members with nontraditional family arrangements within the congregation, these innovators have sought to emphasize individual freedom and personal spirituality and actively to welcome single adults and those from nontraditional families. Edgell shows that mothers and fathers seek involvement in congregations for different reasons. Men tend to think of congregations as social support structures, and to get involved as a means of participating in the lives of their children. Women, by contrast, are more often motivated by the quest for religious experience, and can adapt more readily to pluralist ideas about family structure. This, Edgell concludes, may explain the attraction of men to more conservative congregations, and women to nontraditional religious groups.
Genre | : Social Science |
Author | : Penny Edgell |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Release | : 2013-12-03 |
File | : 232 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9781400850761 |
Discipleship is costly. Are we willing to critique and even challenge much we've been taught for the sake of the kingdom? For this is the radical nature of the discipleship to which Jesus calls us. He did not allow the outside culture to hold him captive; instead he established the kingdom of God and turned the world on its head. Jesus was untamed, and he calls his church to be the same. In this provocative and compelling book, internationally known missiologists Alan and Debra Hirsch overthrow culturized understandings of theology and culture, and cast a vision for a distinctly mission-shaped way of living the Christian life. Written for any Christian serious about issue of discipleship, Untamed covers such topics as church, humans as bearers of the image of God, family life, culture, and sexuality. Through it all they seek to answer the question, how are we to think and live day to day as followers of Jesus? Each chapter ends with suggested practices to help readers begin to live out the book's principles as well as questions for group discussion.
Genre | : Religion |
Author | : Alan Hirsch |
Publisher | : Baker Books |
Release | : 2010-02-01 |
File | : 272 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9781441207517 |
"A definite shift in the Catholic Church's understanding of marriage took place at Vatican Council II. Rather than perceiving marriage as a contract whose primary purpose was the procreation of children, the council spoke of marriage as an intimate partnership of life and love. Then, recapturing an earlier tradition, it went on to describe the family as a domestic church." "In this book seven theologians who have lectured and written extensively on marriage probe the rich theology of marriage and family that emerged from Vatican II and explore some of the implications that flow from this theology." "Part One reflects on the sacramentality of marriage and on the family as a church of the home. Part Two examines the pastoral implications this has for marital and family ministry and spirituality."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Genre | : Religion |
Author | : Michael G. Lawler |
Publisher | : Liturgical Press |
Release | : 1996 |
File | : 220 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 081465021X |