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The Augustinian Alternative
Religious Skepticism and the Search for a Liberal Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
This book's central claim is that a close reading of Augustine's epistemology can help political theologians develop affirmative accounts of political liberalism. This claim is set in a scholarly context that is profoundly hostile to constructive theological readings of liberal culture. As a corrective...
by Dana James
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
We can overcome Marxist ideas and make America great again by reconnecting with our faith and the godly principles of our Founding Fathers.Our founding fathers knew well the trouble wed find ourselves in if we did not combine faith with action.
John Hancock warned, I conjure you, by all that...
We Gather Together
The Religious Right and the Problem of Interfaith Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The story of the birth of the Religious Right is a familiar one. In the 1970s, mainly in response to Roe v. Wade, evangelicals and conservative Catholics put aside their longstanding historical prejudices and theological differences and joined forces to form a potent political movement that swept...
Race, Faith and Politics Today
Getting From Here to Eternity Series
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016
Race, Faith and Politics Today gives a born-again view on race, American culture, Donald Trump's presidential quest and other cutting-edge topics in compiling more than 125 nationally award-winning newspaper columns by Kyle Huckins, a white clergyman in a predominantly black denomination and veteran...
by Orlando Espín, Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández, M. Daniel Carroll R.
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Religion and Politics in America's Borderlands brings together leading academic specialists on immigration and the borderlands, as well as nationally recognized grassroots activists, who reflect on their varied experiences of living, working, and teaching on the US-Mexico border and in the borderlands....
The Complex Reality of Religious Peacebuilding
Conceptual Contributions and Critical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
This insightful book focuses on the multifaceted subject of sustainable religious peacebuilding. Katrien Hertog discusses the ways in which religious actors can utilize resources to prevent violent conflict from occurring, reduce conflict when it does happen, and rebuild bridges between sides in after...
Faces of Muhammad
Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western visions of Muhammad
In European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But these aren’t the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge from Western history. Commentators...
by Roland Maes
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Book VI. Is Ship Earth heading toward a 21th Century Darkness? of the series “The Achievements and the Days” examines the direction taken by our elites in the management of the world.
Chapter 21 exposes that the evolution pressure of external events on modern humans was replaced by a cultural...
Crown of Glory, Crown of Thorns
The Salvation Army in Wartime
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
A detailed account of Salvation Army work and attitudes in wartime, analysing the three main principles which governed Salvationist reactions during the period 1899-1945: 1) the spiritual priority of Christian evangelism and soul-saving; 2) the practical priority of compassionate good works; 3) the...
I Heart Francis
Letters to the Pope from an Unlikely Admirer
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Everyone is paying attention to Pope Francis, and that includes the most unlikely of admirers: a female Baptist pastor. Veteran minister and social justice advocate Donna Schaper has become a fan of the pope, covering him for Religion Dispatches, traveling to see him speak, and taking up many of his...
Not by Faith Alone
Religion, Law, and Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2002
Teens are often seen as challenging social mores. They are frequently perceived to engage in activities considered by adults to be immoral, including sexual behavior, delinquent activities, and low-level forms of violence. Yet the vast majority report surprisingly high levels of religiosity. Ninety-five...
Those Challenging Cracks of Secularism
In and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Lack of religious enthusiasm is a universal nemesis with long-ranging effects. In Those Challenging Cracks of Secularism, author Rev. Oliver O. Nwachukwu shows how secularism can further deepen dividing lines among people.
The negatives solicited by indifference to authentic religious values...
by Isaac Ezeh
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
ls There A DIVINE PURPOSE For the EXISTENCE of the NATIONS of the WORLD?
Do the disasters happening in different parts of the world indicate an unfolding of God 's end-time agenda for the nations?
In this prophetic book, Barrister Isaac Ezeh takes the reader on a journey into the mind of God.
Using...
Bribery and Corruption (2nd edition)
Biblical Reflections and Case Studies for the Marketplace in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The external pressures faced by Christians in the marketplace in Asia are the same as those faced by Christians worldwide. Few of us have sufficient inner spiritual strength and pastoral support to deal with the relentless power of sin as manifested in the corporate world. Increasingly, too, in a...