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Refiners Fire : A Religious Engagement With Violence
$23.00Add to cart1. Eyes On The Prize: Womanist Reflections
2. Take No Prisoners: Women Engaged In Biblical Violence
3. Lay My Burden Down: Spirituality Transcends Antebellum Violence
4. Sojourner’s Sisters: 1960s Women Freedom Fighters Right Civil Wrongs
5. Ballads, Not Bullets: The Nonviolent Protest Ministry Of Martin Luther King Jr.
6. Soul Sisters: Girls In Gangs And Sororities
7. Build Up, Break Down: Language As Empowerment And Annihilation
8. Daughters Of Zelophehad: A Constructive Analysis Of Violence
9. Death As Worship: Celebrating Dying As Part Of LifeAdditional Info
What does religion have to do with fomenting or transcending violence? In this fascinating work, Kirk-Duggan documents and analyzes religion’s involvement in violence, in the Bible, slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and the youth scene of today. -
Life Abundant : Rethinking Theology And Economy For A Planet In Peril
$29.00Add to cart1. A Brief Credo
2. Theology Matters
3. The Matter Of Theology
4. The Contemporary Economic Model And Worldview
5. The Ecological Economic Model And Worldview
6. God And The World
7. Christ And Salvation
8. Life In The SpiritAdditional Info
In this splendidly crafted work, McFague argues for theology as an ethical imperative for all thinking Christians: Responsible discipleship today entails disciplined religious reflection. Moreover, theology matters: Without serious reflection on their worldview, ultimate commitments, and lifestyle, North American Christians cannot hope to contribute to ensuring the “good life” for people or the planet. To live differently we must think differently.McFague has therefore written this primer in theology. It helps Christians assess their own religious story in light of the larger Christian tradition and the felt needs of the planet. At once an apology for an ecologically driven theology and a model for how theology itself might be expressed, her work is expressly crafted to bring people into the practice of religious reflection as a form of responsible Christian practice in the world. McFague shows the reader how articulating one’s personal religious story and credo can lead directly into contextual analysis, unfolding of theological concepts, and forms of Christian practice.
In lucid prose she offers creative discussions of revelation, the reigning economic worldview (and its ecological alternative), and how a planetary theology might approach classical areas of God and the world, Christ and salvation, and life in the Spirit. Enticing readers into serious self-assessment and creative commitment, McFague’s new work encourages and models a theological practice that “gives glory to God by loving the world.”
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Science And Christianity
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Can you be a faithful Christian and a believer in contemporary scientific theory? Six scholars address this controversial question, offering four different views on the uneasy relationship between science and faith. Their discussion of creationism, science and Christian theology, the “God hypothesis,” and the partnership between science and Christianity will help you shape an informed opinion.
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Sacred Energies : When The Worlds Religions Sit Down To Talk About The Futu
$16.00Add to cart1. The Wake-Up Call
2. The Religion Of The Marketplace
3. Pledging Allegiance To The Corporations
4. This Thing Called Religion
5. The Poetry Of Africa
6. Buddhism: Lessons On Downsizing Wants
7. Hinduism’s Rivers Of Wisdom
8. Ancient Chinese Secrets
9. The Unveiling Of Islam
10. Judaism: Workshop For A New Humanity
11. Protestantism And The Recovery Of Lost Fragrance
12. Catholic Liberation TheologyAdditional Info
Although our age witnesses vast problems, it has also occasioned unprecedented encounters among world religions. This short volume seeks to capture the energy and dynamism of world religious traditions_a central force in human history and society_for illuminating and addressing major global issues: population growth, environmental destruction, freedom, the rights of women and minorities, the place of economics and work, issues of sexuality and the body. Based on consultations of leading scholars and religious leaders from a variety of traditions, it highlights the special insights and lessons each has to offer today.Eminent ethicist Daniel Maguire here conveys the deep humanism and commitment that animate these potentially world-changing traditions.
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Paideia Of God
$10.00Add to cartYou can teach your students the Trivium, but if that is all you teach them, then you’re both in trouble. As these essays point out, education must remember the lessons of old without ignoring the demands of now.
In the ancient world, paideia was an all-encompassing education and involved nothing less than the enculturation of the future citizen. Scripture requires Christian fathers to raise their children in “the nurture and admonition (paideia) of the Lord.” However, the boundaries of paideia are much wider than the boundaries of what we understand as education. Wilson elaborates on this, as well as canvassing educational hot topics such as vouchers, uniforms, and college choices.
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20 Hot Potatoes Christians Are Afraid To Touch
$18.99Add to cartAIDS, women preachers, public schools, psychological counseling, homosexuality, and working mothersthese are some of the hot issues that many Christians avoid discussing. With insight and clarity, Tony Campolo confronts today’s toughest social and moral questions while raising a few of his own.
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Feminist Theory And Christian Theology
$32.00Add to cartThis long-awaited text clearly and comprehensively charts the enormously important area of feminist theory and brings it into fruitful conversation with Christian theology. Jones examines such topics as women’s nature, sanctification and justification, oppression, sin, community, and church. In doing so, she maps various feminist responses to and positions on the issues elucidated, providing a helpful introduction for students.
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1950 : Crossroads Of American Religious Life
$45.00Add to cart1. Journey To The Heart Of A Century
2. Heir Of The 1930s And 1940s: Depression, World’s Fair, And War
3. Things Old And New: Intellectual Life In 1950
4. Lies, Spies, And The Junior Senator From Wisconsin
5. The Protestant Establishment
6. The Church Of The Triple Crown
7. The Week The World Might Have Ended
8. African American Religion Before The Beginning
9. Evangelicals On The Rise
10. Judaism In Midpassage
11. Getting Ready For The 1950s And 1960sAdditional Info
The year 1950 saw the height of the postwar religious boom in America and also the depths of the Cold War. It was a year when religious enthusiasm and postwar affluence coexisted with anxiety about global communism and an ever-present nuclear threat. McCarthyism, the advent of the hydrogen bomb, and the onset of the Korean War provoked ardent and diverse responses from religious leaders and occasioned lively debate in flourishing religious journalism.Ellwood’s 1950 is a cultural time capsule, recovering the impetus for many of today’s trends, remembering endings and beginnings, and documenting many other developments in American religious life fifty years ago. It highlights the parallels and divergences between religious culture then and now.
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Christian Perspectives On Politics (Revised)
$50.00Add to cartThe best one-volume treatment of politics in the field of Christian ethics. Wogaman clearly and fairly analyzes and criticizes all participants in the debate, carefully constructs his own approach, and deftly addresses the perennial political issues which continue to be of primary importance as we begin the new millennium.
This book takes the reader from massive issues, like the demise of Marxism and the political rise of the Religious Right, down to that “still small voice,” the profound longing of the human spirit. The author’s keen, well-reasoned grasp of both religion and politics is a welcome and compelling perspective for our times.
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Revolution And Renewal
$36.00Add to cartRevolution And Renewal tells of churches that infused new life into urban communities. It is the story of brave men and women who refused to walk away from an apparently hopeless situation. Their inspiring example of faith-based social action presents a blueprint for reclaiming the future of our cities.
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Homosexuality Science And The Plain Sense Of Scripture A Print On Demand Ti
$35.99Add to cartHomosexuality is one of the most hotly debated issues in the church today. This book arises directly out of the current discussion of what the Bible says about the morality of homosexual acts and relationships. Taking up the question from both sides of the debate, twelve biblical scholars, psychologists, and theologians debate the meaning of the scriptural passages on homosexuality–from Genesis, Leviticus, Romans, and 1 Corinthians–in light of contemporary scientific and exegetical evidence.
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Prophets A Liberation Critical Reading
$23.00Add to cartThis is the third volume of a four-volume set of readings of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament from the perspective of liberation Theology and feminist criticism. Dempsey provides both overviews and discussions of specific passages. This approach allow her to provide critique as well as plumb the depths of the texts’ potential for liberation.
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Real Family Values
$16.99Add to cartThis rerelease of the popular original edition continues to speak to parents in a society where “family values” no longer seem to exist. If anything, today’s community standards threaten the family. Airwaves and movie theaters are drenched with obscenities; perversion is glorified; divorce is cheap and easy; “safe sex” is promoted instead of abstinence; parental authority is undermined; sex roles are confused. In Real Family Values, parents will learn how to sort through today’s moral confusion, remove it from their homes, and change the world by zeroing in on the part they love most: their families.
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Community Of The Future
$22.00Add to cartThis third volume from the acclaimed Drucker Foundation Future Series focuses on the basis of society itself–the community. Featuring the examples of successful communities from New York City to Hawaii, The Community of the Future presents insights from Peter F. Drucker, Stephen R. Covey, Arun Gandhi, Elie Wiesel, James L. Barksdale, and many others. Their powerful essays explore what our communities will look like tomorrow–how we will live, work, communicate, educate our children, and govern ourselves.
This collection shows readers:
* How to recognize and anticipate the trends that transform society
* The impact of new communications technology, including global and virtual communications
* How to create organizational communities and communities in the workplace
* How to envision and shape communities that will build values and embrace humanityFrom businesses, to communities of faith, to schools, to cyberspace–the gamut of human communities is explored by the world’s foremost thinkers.
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I Gave Dating A Chance
$14.99Add to cartIn recent years, “dating” has become a dirty word in many Christian circles. So dirty, in fact, that young believers are now encouraged simply not to date. This position has provoked an open debate among teens, their parents and youth workers, and single adults. For a great number of them, many questions remain unanswered.
-“Lord, what do I do with this desire to date?”
-“Can dating be an option for young adults who love the Lord and long to please Him?”Is not dating really the only acceptable option in God’s eyes? The answer, assures author and youth pastor Jeramy Clark, is a resounding “No!”
The time has come for a sound, biblical, and practical approach that balances out the extreme perspectives: dating without responsibility versus a complete withdrawal from the dating process. Learn how you can confidently pursue healthy dating relationships that are characterized by holiness and integrity–and ultimately bring glory and honor to God–in I Gave Dating a Chance.
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Eros Defiled : The Christian And Sexual Sin
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With tough-minded compassion, seasoned wisdom, and an awareness of sin’s destructiveness, White offers forgiveness and a way out for Christians struggling with premarital and extramarital sex, homosexuality, and masturbation. He concludes with a telling chapter on how your church can help strugglers in a context of love and forgiveness.
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Redeeming Creation : The Biblical Basis For Environmental Stewardship
$28.99Add to cartThis sensitive and eloquent study by four Christian biologists addresses the ecological crises we face at the turn of the millennium: population explosion, rain forests stripped bare, destruction of animal habitats, the death of entire species, depletion of the ozone layer, global warming. In the light of Scripture and the presence of God, we can face these crises with hope. More than an investigation of the environmental crisis, this book brings Scripture into fruitful dialogue with current scientific findings and commitments. What emerges is a clarion call to a biblically informed individual and corporate response to our creation.
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Temptations Men Face
$32.99Add to cart1. SET FREE
2. THE TEMPTATION TO BE MACHO
3. THE TEMPTATION OF SEXUAL LUST
4. THE TEMPTATION TO HAVE AN AFFAIR
5. THE TEMPTATION TO WIELD POWER
6. THE TEMPTATION TO LOVE MONEY
7. THE TEMPTATION TO BE PERFECT
8. DELIVERANCE
9. HOW CAN I HELP MY MAN? A CHAPTER FOR WOMENAdditional Info
IVP Print On Demand TitleLike a rushing current in a dark river, temptations flood all around us. Every believer has felt the undertow. And some, even some prominent Christian leaders, have not been able to keep their heads above water.
How can a man stand against these forces? How do men experience common temptations and what can be done about them? Tom Eisenman gives a man’s perspective on these and other tough issues. In straightforward language he honestly discusses the difficulties he and others have had in avoiding common stumbling blocks in the Christian walk. More than that, in a personal and practical way he shows how deliverance is possible even from besetting sins.
He doesn’t stop there. In a chapter for women, he tells how they can keep from contributing to their husband’s problem and suggests what to do when a man resists help. Finally, he offers general strategies for all of us on how to oppose temptation and find freedom from the evil that binds us.
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Parents In Pain
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244 Pages In 13 Chapters Divided Into 3 Parts
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IVP Print On Demand TitleWhen your kids are in trouble, you’re in trouble.
A police car rolls up in front of your house-with your son in it.
A voice on the phone says your daughter is all right but won’t tell you where she is-and then hangs up.
A wallet disappears from your dresser and you’re sure who took it-at least somewhat sure.How do we deal with the guilt, frustration, anger and inadequacy that inevitably grip us when our children are in trouble?
John White offers comfort to parents of children with severe problems-alcoholism, homosexuality, even suicide. With practical suggestions, he helps parents deal with their feelings and decide what to do in tough situations.
A book of comfort and counsel to parents in pain.
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Chris Chrisman Goes To College
$24.99Add to cartChris Chrisman, a young Christian, goes to college only to have his world turned upside down. On campus he finds the challenges to his faith-both intellectual and personal-almost more than he can bear. Then he meets Bill Seipel and Bob Wong. Together, the three young men, two of them Christians and the other self-styled atheist forge a common bond in the quest for truth. In the process they confront some of the dominant ideologies of the secular university.
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Gospel According To Peanuts
$21.00Add to cart1. The Church And The Arts
2. “The Whole Trouble”: Original Sin
3. The Wages Of Sin Is “Aaaughh!”
4. Good Grief?
5. The Hound Of Heaven
6. Concluding Unscientific PostscriptAdditional Info
In this unique, engaging book Robert Short examines the insights to be found in the comic strip “Peanuts” and makes an expanded comment on these wonderfully imaginative parables of our times.Highlighting his remarks with selected cartoons, Short looks at the antics of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, et al. from a Christian perspective, revealing a surprisingly prophetic meaning behind their otherwise hilarious activities.
While these lovable cartoon characters have enjoyed an almost unparalleled popularity–becoming pop culture icons of the highest order and entering the global consciousness practically as family members–Short’s book also has found a place in the hearts of many readers, with sales now totaling more than ten million copies.
Whether coming to the book for the first time or taking a second look, a delightful experience awaits in this modern-day guide to the Christian faith, fully illustrated with Peanuts.
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Unaborted Socrates
$20.99Add to cartA rejuvenated Socrates appears in modern Athens and with three worthy opponents–a doctor, a philosopher, and a psychologist–investigates the arguments surrounding abortion. Logic joins humor as Socrates challenges the standard rhetoric and passion of the contemporary debate.
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Meaning Of The Millennium
$24.99Add to cartProf Clouse has brought together four proponents of the four major millennial views:each view has had both a long history and a host of Christian adherents through the years. George Ladd presents historic premillennialism. Hoyt writes on dispenstional premillennialism.
Boettner retired theologian discusses the postmillennial view. And finally Hoekema describes the amillennial position. After each essay the other three writers respond from their own perspective. This book is a debate among key Christian scholars on the meaning of the millennium.
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Understanding Your Muslim Neighbor
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“The tree of fear grows in the land of ignorance.”
-Muhammad Arif ZakaullahWe often fear what we do not understand. And there is much about Islam that Western Christians do not understand. The resulting fear can breed mistrust and suspicion and create chasms between us.
As disciples of Jesus, we believe we are called to be peacemakers. So how do we build bridges of compassion and respect to cross these chasms of belief and practice?
Understanding Your Muslim Neighbor explores the rise of Islam as a major world religion, what Muslims believe, and how those beliefs are at times similar to Christianity and at other times different. Robert McCroskey also gives tips for showing hospitality to your Muslim neighbors, along with concrete examples of what to say-and what not to say-when in conversations of faith with your Muslim friends.
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Truth Is Stranger Than It Used To Be
$26.99Add to cartIn this book the authors survey postmodern culture and philosophy, offering lucid explanations of such difficult theories as deconstruction. They are sympathetic to the postmodern critique, yet believe that a gospel stripped of its modernist trappings speaks a radical world of hope and transformation to our chaotic culture. This book is for those who wonder what postmodernism is and how biblical Christians might best respond.
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Millennial Maze
$30.99Add to cartIn THE MILLENIAL MAZE, Stanley J. Grenz provides historical and biblical, as well as theological, perspective on the four positions held by evangelicals–postmillennialism, dispensational premillenialism, historic premillennialism and amillenialism. Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of each position, he seeks to cut a new path through the maze that reaffirms the valid insights of each and sounds a fresh note of hope in an age of shattered illusions.
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Blessed Are The Poor
$35.99Add to cartLaurie Green considers a number of key biblical texts as well as recent research on poverty in the UK and asks what the Church’s ministry among the poor would need to look like in order to be true to the gospel. The book ends with practical outcomes for pavement-level ministry.
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Witness : Gay And Lesbian Clergy Report From The Front
$24.00Add to cartBased on interviews with more than a hundred gay and lesbian clergy, Dann Hazel constructs a mosiac depicting the ministry of gays and lesbians across the denominational spectrum.
Hazel’s subjects describe the personal challenges faced by gay and lesbian clergy, their efforts to do constructive work in theology in order to build faith communities where gay men and lesbians can flourish spiritually, and the growth of congregations led by gays and lesbians in various denominations.
The book concludes with predictions about the future shape of mainline churches, many of which are currently riven by the issue of gay and lesbian ministry.
These first-person accounts of despair, triumph, wrenching debates within both congregations and entire church polities, and the geneses of new churches make for powerful reading.
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Power Money And Sex
$19.99Add to cartFor years his name has been synonymous with the things many people find wrong with today’s athletes: inflated ego, insatiable greed, and extravagant lifestyle. Now this 2-sport superstar writes about his rise from humble beginnings, behind-the-scenes sports stories, and the newfound faith in God that has transformed his life.
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Longing For Running Water
$29.00Add to cartThis short reflection documents Gebara’s dawning awarness, as a lifelong city dweller, of how interwined are the tarnished enviroment around her and the poverty taht afflicts her nrighbors. From these experiances she creates a gritty urban ecofeminism and in this book articulates a whole worldview. Here she proposes “a new relationship with the earth and with the entire cosmos.”
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Homosexuality And Christian Faith
$19.00Add to cartAdvisory: Some of the views put forth in this book challenge the traditionally accepted teachings on the issue of homosexuality and the Christian faith. Ideal for individual or group use, this unique resource presents short pieces from some of the nations’s most preeminent church leaders women and men, Protestant and Catholic, mainline and evangelical who address fundamental moral imperatives about homosexuality. Through personal testimony, factual clarification, and moral suasion, they invite the reader to open his or her heart to the Spirit, to Gospel values, and to full acceptance of gay and lesbian persons in the “family of God.”
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Spiritual Mentoring : A Guide For Seeking And Giving Direction
$20.99Add to cartAs we seek God together we come to know him more deeply. Spiritual-mentoring relationships bring together a mature Christian and a younger Christian who desire to grow in Christ. In their friendship, each learns to follow Christ more closely. Spiritual mentoring is an age-old practice that Keith Anderson and Randy Reese introduce in a way that fits life today. Each chapter of their book draws on the work of a different classical spiritual writer. Augustine, St. John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila and others offer timeless spritual insights from centuries past.
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Perfect 10 : Blessings Of Following Gods Commandments In A Postmodern World
$12.99Add to cart1. God’s Law In A Postmodern Society
2. The First Commandment, Part 1
3. The First Commandment, Part 2
4. The Second Commandment
5. The Third Commandment
6. The Fourth Commandment
7. The Fifth Commandment
8. The Sixth Commandment
9. The Seventh Commandment
10. The Eighth Commandment
11. The Ninth Commandment
12. The Tenth Commandment
13. Culture Shift256 Pages
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1. God’s Law In A Postmodern Society
2. The First Commandment, Part 1
3. The First Commandment, Part 2
4. The Second Commandment
5. The Third Commandment
6. The Fourth Commandment
7. The Fifth Commandment
8. The Sixth Commandment
9. The Seventh Commandment
10. The Eighth Commandment
11. The Ninth Commandment
12. The Tenth Commandment
13. Culture Shift256 Pages
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Parables Of Jesus
$22.00Add to cartThey’re some of the world’s best-known stories—the parables of Jesus. Each chapter of this accessible book examines an individual story, identifies its theme, explains biblical language and customs, and interprets its meaning for you today. Originally published as And Jesus Said, it cross-references Barclay’s popular Daily Study Bible. Excellent for individual or group study.
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Millennium Myth : Hope For A Postmodern World
$29.00Add to cartFrom a classical historian comes a reasoned analysis of the millennium. Wright argues that to celebrate the forthcoming millennium with integrity does not mean preparing for the world’s end; instead, we must challenge our prevailing cultural story and symbols. He contends that millennium hype is a mask for “postmodernity,” and constructs a practical response.
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God For A Secular Society
$29.00Add to cartIn this masterful analysis of the religious and political dilemmas at the end of the modern age, world-renowned theologian Jurgen Moltmann assays the vaulting dreams and colossal failures of our time. He asks how we came to this point, and he argues strenuously for Christian discipleship and public theology that take sides. In both critical and creative ways he advances the specific relevance of Chrisian messianic hope to today’s thorniest political, economic, and ecological questions-including human rights, environmental rights, globalization, market capitalism, fundamentalisms, and Jewish-Christian relations-and the deeper values contested therein.
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How The News Makes Us Dumb
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This eye-opening book is for everyone dissatisfied with the state of the news media, but especially for those who think the news actually does inform them about the real world. Read it, and you may never again know the tyranny of reading the daily newspaper or tuning in to the nightly news.
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Pastoral Care Of Gays Lesbians And Their Families
$20.00Add to cartAdvisory: Some of the views put forth in this book challenge the traditionally accepted teachings on the issue of homosexuality and the Christian faith. Fills a gap in the Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling series, addresses the needs of both gays and lesbians and their families, and involves congregations in the pastoral ministry to gays, lesbians, and their families.
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Losing Our Virtue
$25.50Add to cartWells loudly throws down the gauntlet to the evangelical church in this perceptive analysis of our culture in crisis. Painting a vivid description of society’s moral and spiritual confusion, he explains how the church can regain its effectiveness and influence in our postmodern world. A challenging look at social reform vs. spiritual transformation.
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End Of Theology And The Task Of Thinking About God
$35.99Add to cartThis book seeks to address the contemporary crisis of theology, asking what future there can be in a sit uation of intellectual pluralism for an academic discipline that is rooted in the life and teaching of the Christian chu rch. ‘
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Welcoming But Not Affirming
$38.00Add to cartIn this carefully reasoned and thoroughly researched analysis, Grenz asks: Are same-sex relationships a viable, God-given way of giving expression to our sexuality? He reviews scientific research, the history of Christian teaching on homosexuality, the issue of biblical authority today, and the practical issues the church now faces, such as the blessing of same-sex unions, the ordination of homosexuals, and the church’s public stance on gay right issues. Ultimately he proposes that it is possible for Christian communities to welcome homosexuals without affirming same-sex unions.
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Liberating The Future
$18.00Add to cartIn this volume, liberation theologians succinctly map the liberation terrain for the new century. Writing from a variety of standpoints (the African American community, feminist stuggles, and social locations in Europe, North America, and Latin America) these thinkers reflect on the vastly changed context of and challenges to liberation.
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Basic Questions On Suicide And Euthanasia
$7.99Add to cart1. Foundational Considerations
2. Theological Issues
3. Legal Questions
4. Moral Concerns
5. Relational Matters
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Many in our society champion suicide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia as acceptable answers to intractable physical and emotional problems. There are alternatives to this contemporary “culture of death,” however, that uphold the sanctity of human life and seek to meet the problems of fear, pain, and despair with compassion and dignity. Some of the questions answered in this work include
-“How do active and passive euthanasia differ?”
-“Do I have a ‘right to die’?”
-“Is suicide the unpardonable sin?”
-“Why hasn’t Dr. Kevorkian been convicted of a crime?”
-“What should I do if I feel suicidal?”Advances in medical technology have blessed many with longer and healthier lives, but they have also provided us with interventions and procedures that call for serious ethical evaluation. The BioBasics Series is committed to an uncompromising respect for human life that will serve as a compass through a maze of challenging questions.
