Author : Michael J. Kruger
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 29,57 MB
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830887512
Christianity in the twenty-first century is a global phenomenon. But in the second century, its future was not at all certain. Michael Kruger's introductory survey examines how Christianity took root in the second century, how it battled to stay true to the vision of the apostles, and how it developed in ways that would shape both the church and Western culture over the next two thousand years.
Author : Lloyd George Geering
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9780944344835
A carefully guided tour of four hundred years of modern religious history. Lloyd Geering has crafted illuminating cameo sketches of the impact of dozens of thinkers and movements on the evolution of the Christian faith following the Renaissance and Reformation.
Author : Michael W. Goheen
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 12,38 MB
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441201997
How can Christians live faithfully at the crossroads of the story of Scripture and postmodern culture? In Living at the Crossroads, authors Michael Goheen and Craig Bartholomew explore this question as they provide a general introduction to Christian worldview. Ideal for both students and lay readers, Living at the Crossroads lays out a brief summary of the biblical story and the most fundamental beliefs of Scripture. The book tells the story of Western culture from the classical period to postmodernity. The authors then provide an analysis of how Christians live in the tension that exists at the intersection of the biblical and cultural stories, exploring the important implications in key areas of life, such as education, scholarship, economics, politics, and church.
Author : Charles R. Swindoll
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 19,61 MB
Release : 1998-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579720902
Chuck Swindoll invites the reader to examine some of the crossroads in Jesus' own life and ministry with a view to equipping us to handle those life-changing decisions that come at the crossroads of every life.
Author : Albert Y. Hsu
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 1997-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830813537
Albert Y. Hsu provides a balanced, biblical understanding of Christian singleness that debunks the myth of the "gift of singleness" and honors singleness as a status equal to marriage. Includes an interview with John Stott.
Author : Lloyd Geering
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 2015-12-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 187724256X
Does the failure of the conventional idea of God spell the end of the Christian tradition? Or does it simply mean the end of conventional Christian doctrine? Christianity without God affirms the latter, treating Christian culture as a living and evolving stream. In this cogently argued book, Lloyd Geering brings the resources of his deep scholarship to look at what the world really needs from contemporary religion. His inspiration is the cultivation of the wisdom of Christianity, not a dependence on beliefs about a supernatural saviour.
Author : Martin Prozesky
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1532665385
Honest to Goodness proposes a new Christian presence that is free of dogmatism, exclusivism, and biblicism. It charts a way back to the spiritual and ethical revolution begun by Jesus of Nazareth, one that can make a vital difference to needless evils such as bigotry, environmental destruction, poverty, and violence. The book reveals the author's experience of living under, against, and after apartheid, insisting that a faith that does not confront this world's evils is no faith at all, but a dangerous betrayal of all that is good, beautiful, and true. Honest to Goodness unflinchingly identifies the grave moral shortcomings that are embedded in traditional Christian beliefs and practices, and proposes ways of transforming them into harmony with the divine goodness that the author discerns everywhere. Embracing a world of religious diversity, science, and creative philosophy, the book describes a new way of experiencing and expressing the divine. It defends faith by moving beyond both theism and atheism.
Author : Mary Ann Fatula
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814657652
"A Michael Glazier book." Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-123) and index.
Author : Lieven Boeve
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,43 MB
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567672212
Lieven Boeve examines the place of theology in the university, the church and society. He emphasizes that theology certainly belongs to all of these three domains as it belongs to the nature of theology to involve itself in all three spheres, especially at the crossroads where they overlap. Boeve discusses the recent document Theology Today from the International Theological Commission which circumscribes theology's place and task in the Catholic Church. Boeve discusses how the difficult relation between theology and philosophy is typical for a Church which has difficulty with the dialogue in today's world; as well as examines the relation between theology and religious studies. Going further, Boeve offers a reflection on Catholic identity today, focusing more specifically on education. He presents four models for considering the identity of Catholic schools in the light of the changed society and argues that dialogue in a context of plurality and difference can lead to new, fruitful ways to shape even the Catholic identity. Boeve concludes his discussion with a short assessment of Pope Benedict's papacy and emphasizes the need for the Catholic Church to convert itself before it can call the world to do the same.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9042028645
Christianity exists in relation to and interacts with its cultural environment in a number of ways. In this volume authors from a wide variety of backgrounds explore various facets of the relationship and interaction of Christianity with its cultural environment: politics, society, esthetics, religion and spirituality, and with itself. Divided into three main sections, Crossroad Discourses between Christianity and Culture looks at the interaction of Christianity with culture in the first section, with other religions and spiritualities in the second, and finally with itself in the third. The contributions engage in a critical examination of not only the culture in which Christianity finds itself but also in a critical examination of Christianity itself and its interaction with that culture. The editors hope that teachers, students, and readers in general will profit greatly from the critical articles contained in this book.
