Author : DC Talk
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 16,2 MB
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441260048
There are more Christian martyrs today than there were in ad 100--in the days of the Roman Empire. Now in the twenty-first century, according to the Center for the Study of Global Christianity, more than 150,000 Christians are martyred around the world every year. "Remember the Lord's people who are in jail and be concerned for them. Don't forget those who are suffering, but imagine that you are there with them." Hebrews 13:3 cev Their stories must be told.
Author : Citizens For Global Solutions
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 38,39 MB
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 1440108501
As a matter of law and ethics, it should be clear and unequivocal that torture is an unacceptable act that can never be justified. Unfortunately, the Bush administration has used the war on terror as an opportunity to label the Geneva Conventions "quaint" and engage in a damaging course of action which justifies torture as a necessary instrument of war. In this book, religious leaders who represent a broad range of faith traditions seek to make the moral case against torture. Our hope is that by amplifying the voices of the faithful, we can show that there is a consensus against torture in this country.
Author : William T. Cavanaugh
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 1998-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780631211990
In this engrossing analysis, Cavanaugh contends that the Eucharist is the Church's response to the use of torture as a social discipline.
Author : Joel F. Harrington
Publisher : Random House
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 24,24 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1448129370
Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist. Following in his father’s footsteps, Frantz entered the executioner’s trade as an Apprentice. 394 executions and forty-five years later, he retired to focus his attentions on running the large medical practice that he had always viewed as his true vocation. Through examination of Frantz’s exceptional and often overlooked record, Joel F. Harrington delves deep into a world of human cruelty, tragedy and injustice. At the same time, he poses a fascinating question: could a man who routinely practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionate – even progressive? The Faithful Executioner is the biography of an ordinary man struggling to overcome an unjust family curse; it is also a remarkable panorama of a Europe poised on the cusp of modernity, a world with startling parallels to our own.
Author : Samuel DAVIES (President of Princeton College, New Jersey.)
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Page : 150 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 1754
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Author : Haralan Popoff
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 19,79 MB
Release : 1970-01
Category : Convicts
ISBN : 9780310312628
Haralan Popov was the pastor of one of the largest churches in Bulgaria. The Communist government imprisoned him for 15 years.
Author : Antonio Gallonio
Publisher : Olympia Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1626575096
The legendary treatise on how so many died at the hands of Roman and Pagan aggressors. In good Catholic fashion, the work is heavy on the descriptions, showing who and how and where they died, with attention paid to each and every sin, in graphic detail... with loads of illustrations.
Author : David E. Fitch
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 21,90 MB
Release : 2011-02-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1621892379
In The End of Evangelicalism? David Fitch examines the political presence of evangelicalism as a church in North America. Amidst the negative image of evangelicalism in the national media and its purported decline as a church, Fitch asks how evangelicalism's belief and practice has formed it as a political presence in North America. Why are evangelicals perceived as arrogant, exclusivist, duplicitous, and dispassionate by the wider culture? Diagnosing its political cultural presence via the ideological theory of Slavoj Zizek, Fitch argues that evangelicalism appears to have lost the core of its politic: Jesus Christ. In so doing its politic has become "empty." Its witness has been rendered moot. The way back to a vibrant political presence is through the corporate participation in the triune God's ongoing work in the world as founded in the incarnation. Herein lies the way towards an evangelical missional political theology. Fitch ends his study by examining the possibilities for a new faithfulness in the current day emerging and missional church movements springing forth from evangelicalism in North America.
Author : Kenneth W. M. Wozniak
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
Release : 2024-07-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1666755508
What does faithfulness mean for modern Christians who find themselves immersed in a social and moral context two millennia removed from that of Jesus? As a notion endorsed by Christians universally, irrespective of church tradition, geographic location, economic and political milieu, or spiritual experience, faithfulness is essential to mature Christian living. Yet many in the modern church have lost—or perhaps forgotten—the true nature of faithfulness, and thus have wandered from that which God envisages for believers. Rediscovering what faithfulness entails, however, is altogether possible. Theological ethicist Kenneth W. M. Wozniak takes the reader on a journey of encounter, looking to the earliest Christians and their understanding of fidelity to the way of Jesus as a model for believers today, and as the means by which the essence of faithfulness—rooted not in adherence to a performance standard but rather in personal cultivation of the divine character—the Jesus way not only can be discovered, but also embraced and enjoyed by the one who aspires to align with the very being of God.
Author : Helmut Hartmann
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,97 MB
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1532658109
An individual's life story can provide insights into the character of a particular nation, the events of a specific time period, and the hopes and challenges faced by human beings as they strive to live a life that is consistent with the ideals that they espouse. This memoir of Helmut Hartmann's first seventy years of life serves such a multifaceted purpose. Hartmann was born shortly before Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists gained power in Germany. His memories of his childhood include impressions of a society in turmoil and of the persistent suffering experienced by segments of German society, particularly the Jewish community. In his adult years, Hartmann served as a pastor of the Evangelical Church in the German Democratic Republic. His account of his diverse pastoral ministry; his travels, both within and outside the Soviet Bloc countries; his engagement with the Communist political leaders; and his diligent quest for justice highlights the religious, political, economic, and social challenges faced by East German citizens while they were ruled by a political regime that was ardently anti-religious and eagerly exercised its dictatorial authority. Hartmann's memoir invites readers to consider what it means to be a follower of Christ and how their faith might inform their responses to the societal, political, and economic challenges of their particular time and place.
