The Chicago Declaration
Author : Ronald J. Sider
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1498280609
Author : Ronald J. Sider
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1498280609
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Page : 2 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Church and social problems
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Author : Danielle Allen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0871408139
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians “A tour de force. . . . No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.”—Gordon Wood, New York Review of Books Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship reveals our nation’s founding text to be an animating force that not only changed the world more than two-hundred years ago, but also still can. Challenging conventional wisdom, she boldly makes the case that the Declaration is a document as much about political equality as about individual liberty. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Our Declaration is an “uncommonly elegant, incisive, and often poetic primer on America’s cardinal text” (David M. Kennedy).
Author : David R. Swartz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 2012-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0812207688
In 1973, nearly a decade before the height of the Moral Majority, a group of progressive activists assembled in a Chicago YMCA to strategize about how to move the nation in a more evangelical direction through political action. When they emerged, the Washington Post predicted that the new evangelical left could "shake both political and religious life in America." The following decades proved the Post both right and wrong—evangelical participation in the political sphere was intensifying, but in the end it was the religious right, not the left, that built a viable movement and mobilized electorally. How did the evangelical right gain a moral monopoly and why were evangelical progressives, who had shown such promise, left behind? In Moral Minority, the first comprehensive history of the evangelical left, David R. Swartz sets out to answer these questions, charting the rise, decline, and political legacy of this forgotten movement. Though vibrant in the late nineteenth century, progressive evangelicals were in eclipse following religious controversies of the early twentieth century, only to reemerge in the 1960s and 1970s. They stood for antiwar, civil rights, and anticonsumer principles, even as they stressed doctrinal and sexual fidelity. Politically progressive and theologically conservative, the evangelical left was also remarkably diverse, encompassing groups such as Sojourners, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Evangelicals for Social Action, and the Association for Public Justice. Swartz chronicles the efforts of evangelical progressives who expanded the concept of morality from the personal to the social and showed the way—organizationally and through political activism—to what would become the much larger and more influential evangelical right. By the 1980s, although they had witnessed the election of Jimmy Carter, the nation's first born-again president, progressive evangelicals found themselves in the political wilderness, riven by identity politics and alienated by a skeptical Democratic Party and a hostile religious right. In the twenty-first century, evangelicals of nearly all political and denominational persuasions view social engagement as a fundamental responsibility of the faithful. This most dramatic of transformations is an important legacy of the evangelical left.
Author : Molly Worthen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0190630515
In Apostles of Reason, Molly Worthen offers a sweeping history of modern American evangelicalism, arguing that the faith has been shaped not by shared beliefs but by battles over the relationship between faith and reason.
Author : Brantley W. Gasaway
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1469617722
Progressive Evangelicals and the Pursuit of Social Justice
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Page : 4 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 1918*
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Author : ELCA
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 2016-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506416168
"The document ... is a declaration of the consensus achieved by Lutherans and Catholics on the topics of church, ministry, and eucharist as the result of ecumenical dialogue between the two communions since 1965. It is a consensus 'on the way, ' because dialogue has not yet resolved all the church-dividing differences on these topics."--Preface.
Author : Norman L. Geisler
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802429162
An updated version of the popular original, it satisfies the exacting demands placed on any good Bible introduction: Excellent scholarship and clear writing.
Author : Norman L. Geisler
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 22,32 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441235914
According to the authors, the doctrine of inerrancy has been standard, accepted teaching for more than 1,000 years. In 1978, the famous "Chicago Statement" on inerrancy was adopted by the Evangelical Theological Society, and for decades it has been the accepted conservative evangelical doctrine of the Scriptures. However, in recent years, some prominent evangelical authors have challenged this statement in their writings. Now eminent apologist and bestselling author Norman L. Geisler, who was one of the original drafters of the "Chicago Statement," and his coauthor, William C. Roach, present a defense of the traditional understanding of inerrancy for a new generation of Christians who are being assaulted with challenges to the nature of God, truth, and language. Pastors, students, and armchair theologians will appreciate this clear, reasoned response to the current crisis.