Category: Christianity

By Rob Bell, Don Golden

ISBN-10: 0310295300

ISBN-13: 9780310295303

There's a church no longer too faraway from us that lately extra a $25 million addition to their development. Our neighborhood newspaper ran a front-page tale just lately a couple of examine revealing that one in 5 humans in our urban lives in poverty. it is a ebook approximately these numbers. Jesus desires to store Christians is a ebook approximately religion and worry, wealth and conflict, poverty, strength, defense, terror, Bibles, bombs, and place of origin lack of confidence. It's approximately empty empires and the fact that everybody's a clergyman. It's approximately oppression, career, and what occurs whilst Christians help, animate and perform the very issues Jesus got here to set humans unfastened from. It's approximately what it skill to be part of the church of Jesus in a global the place a few humans fly planes into structures whereas others decide up groceries in Hummers.

By Cynthia Burack

ISBN-10: 1438449887

ISBN-13: 9781438449883

A staple of the tradition wars, the fight among Christian conservatives and progressives over sexuality and reproductive rights maintains. concentrating on ex-gay ministries geared to assisting same-sex attracted humans withstand their sexuality and postabortion ministries devoted to prime girls who've had an abortion to repent that call, Cynthia Burack argues that either are influenced and characterised by means of a pressure of compassion that's specific to Christian conservatism instead of a bias and hatred towards sexual minorities and sexually lively girls. This compassion reproduces the sexual ideology of the Christian correct and absolves Christian conservatives from accountability for stigma and different kinds of injury to postabortive and same-sex attracted humans. utilizing the democratic concept of Hannah Arendt, the preferred fiction of Ayn Rand, and the psychoanalytic considered Melanie Klein, Burack reviews the social and political results of Christian conservative compassion.

By William J. Bulman, Robert G. Ingram

ISBN-10: 0190267070

ISBN-13: 9780190267070

ISBN-10: 0190267089

ISBN-13: 9780190267087

We now have lengthy been taught that the Enlightenment used to be an try to loose the realm from the clutches of Christian civilization and make it secure for philosophy. The lesson has been good discovered. In modern day tradition wars, either liberals and their conservative enemies, inside and out the academy, relaxation their claims concerning the current at the idea that the Enlightenment used to be a secularist stream of philosophically pushed emancipation. Historians have had doubts concerning the accuracy of this portrait for a while, yet they've got by no means controlled to provide a workable substitute to it-for themselves, for students attracted to concerns of church and country, or for the general public at large.

In this booklet, William J. Bulman and Robert G. Ingram assemble fresh scholarship from extraordinary specialists in background, theology, and literature to clarify that God not just survived the Enlightenment yet thrived inside of it in addition. The Enlightenment was once now not an intensive holiday from the earlier within which Europeans jettisoned their highbrow and institutional inheritance. It was once, to ensure, a second of serious swap, yet one during which the attribute convictions and traditions of the Renaissance and Reformation have been perpetuated to the purpose of transformation, within the wake of the Wars of faith and through the early levels of globalization. The Enlightenment's basic imperatives weren't freedom and irreligion yet peace and prosperity. accordingly, Enlightenment can be Christian, communitarian, or authoritarian as simply because it may be atheistic, individualistic, or libertarian.

Honing in at the highbrow main issue of the overdue 17th and early eighteenth centuries whereas relocating from Spinoza to Kant and from India to Peru, God within the Enlightenment takes a prism to the age of lights.

By Riccardo di San Vittore

By Peter Horsfield

ISBN-10: 1118447379

ISBN-13: 9781118447376

From Jesus to the Internet examines Christianity as a mediated phenomenon, paying specific cognizance to how a number of different types of media have motivated and built the Christian culture over the centuries. it's the first systematic survey of this subject and the writer offers these learning or attracted to the intersection of faith and media with a full of life and interesting chronological narrative. With insights into a few of Christianity�s so much hotly debated modern concerns, this publication offers a much-needed old foundation for this interdisciplinary box.

By Alexandre Christoyannopoulos

Publish 12 months note: First released in 2010
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Christian anarchism has been round for a minimum of so long as secular anarchism. Leo Tolstoy is its most famed proponent, yet there are lots of others, resembling Jacques Ellul, Vernard Eller, Dave Andrews or the folks linked to the Catholic employee circulate. they give a compelling critique of the kingdom, the church and the economic system in response to the recent testomony.

By Hans Küng

ISBN-10: 030782652X

ISBN-13: 9780307826527

Does God exist? The query implies one other: who's God? This booklet is intended to offer an solution to either questions and to provide purposes for this resolution. Does God exist? convinced or no? Many are at a loss among trust and unbelief; they are not sure, skeptical. they're uncertain approximately their trust, yet they also are uncertain approximately their doubting. There are nonetheless others who're pleased with their doubting. but there is still a eager for walk in the park. simple task? no matter if Christians or Jews, believers in God or atheists, the dialogue at the present time runs correct throughout previous denominations and new ideologies—but the eager for walk in the park is unquenched. Does God exist? we're placing all our playing cards at the desk right here. the reply should be "Yes, God exists," As people within the 20th century, we definitely can kind of think in God—even extra so within the Christian God—and maybe even extra simply this day than a number of many years or centuries in the past. For, after such a lot of crises, it truly is awesome how a lot has been clarified and what number problems in regard to trust in God have melted into the mild that no darkness has triumph over.

By Thomas Nelson

ISBN-10: 1401677185

ISBN-13: 9781401677183

Make the Bible correct on your lifestyles! How can a e-book that used to be written hundreds of thousands of years in the past aid youth with the demanding situations they face each day? Ignite is an interactive Bible that may introduce modern day adolescents to the notice of God in a clean and precise manner with positive factors that introduce components of the scriptures which are usually neglected or neglected. Ignite will deepen either realizing and devotion.

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ISBN-10: 0801031265

ISBN-13: 9780801031267

This significant paintings attracts on present archaeological and textual study to track the unfold of Christianity within the first millennium. William Tabbernee, an the world over well known student of the background of Christianity, has assembled a crew of specialist historians to survey the various sorts of early Christianity because it unfold throughout centuries, cultures, and continents.
Organized based on geographical parts of the past due old global, this publication examines what a variety of areas appeared like earlier than and after the creation of Christianity. How and whilst used to be Christianity (or a brand new shape or expression of it) brought into the area? How have been Christian lifestyles and suggestion formed via the particularities of the neighborhood atmosphere? and the way did Christianity in flip impression or reshape the neighborhood tradition? The book's cautious recognition to neighborhood realities provides intensity and concreteness to students' realizing of early Christianity, whereas its huge sweep introduces them to first-millennium precursors of today's variegated, globalized faith. quite a few photos, sidebars, and maps are integrated.

By Celia Straus

ISBN-10: 0307757692

ISBN-13: 9780307757692

Suggestion for ladies at the Threshold of Change

"Before i am going to sleep every one night
Before I flip off each light
Let me placed away my fears
Let me brush away the tears"

The heartfelt prayers during this luminous quantity have been initially written for the relief and proposal of a twelve-year-old lady named Julia. the writer of those prayers is Julia's mom, who wrote them simply because she used to be that she and her daughter now not talked up to they used to. So each one evening, she left a verse on Julia's pillow. Julia shared them along with her more youthful sister and together with her neighbors, and the prayers moved outward in ever-widening circles.

Now every body can get pleasure from and meditate upon those easy supplications, whose phrases, emotions, and viewpoint are these of a woman turning out to be into womanhood. approximately 100 and fifty prayers motivate ladies to seem inward for the power to heal hurts, calm fears, and reconcile with friends and family. They current the values of self-reliance and self belief, celebrating the present of existence and the original excitement and demanding situations of being a lady. every one prayer is a loving act of religion, and jointly they supply a secure and personal area during which a woman can easily be and develop.