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by Victor W Watton
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
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Finding Faith after Certainty
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
God is not an idea. Christian faith is not a set of propositions you either believe or reject. According to a proper Trinitarian understanding, God is essentially relationship, a relationship of sheer, active, ecstatic, self-giving love. If we truly are encountered by this magnificent love of the...
Christian Moderns
Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2007
Across much of the postcolonial world, Christianity has often become inseparable from ideas and practices linking the concept of modernity to that of human emancipation. To explore these links, Webb Keane undertakes a rich ethnographic study of the century-long encounter, from the colonial Dutch East...
Calling in Today's World
Voices from Eight Faith Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Comparative religious insights into the meaning of vocation in today's world
The concept of "vocation" or "calling" is a distinctively Christian concern, grounded in the long-held belief that we find our meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in God. But what about religions...
Spirits of Protestantism
Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Spirits of Protestantism reveals how liberal Protestants went from being early-twentieth-century medical missionaries seeking to convert others through science and scripture, to becoming vocal critics of missionary arrogance who experimented with non-western healing modes such as Yoga and Reiki. Drawing...
by Dr Neil J. Ormerod, Dr Shane Clifton
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Various social, political, economic and cultural commentators are presently arguing that human history is reaching a decisive stage in its development, a stage marked by increased interconnection between peoples, the compression of space and time, a sharing of ideas at unprecedented levels, global...
by Rudolf Steiner, Christopher Bamford
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
n this major collection, Rudolf Steiner affirms the reality of esoteric Christianity and unveils many of its secret teachings. His lectures are on the significance of the Mystery of Golgotha and of the Blood that flowed on the Cross; the relationship of Christ and Lucifer (or Love and Knowledge); the...
Buddhist and Christian?
An Exploration of Dual Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
The last century witnessed a gradual but profound transformation of the West's religious landscape. In today's context of diversity, people are often influenced by, and sometimes even claim to belong to, more than one religious tradition. Buddhism and Christianity is a particularly prevalent and fascinating...
Annie Besant: Contra Christianity
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
There is no doubt that the majority of people in most parts of the world—save in those in which Buddhism is supreme—believe in the existence of a God. The kind of God may vary indefinitely, but there is generally “some God or other”. Now a growing minority in every civilised country finds...
Icons in the Western Church
Toward a More Sacramental Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Within the Eastern tradition of Christianity, the eikon, or religious image, has long held a place of honor. In the greater part of Western Christianity, however, discomfort with images in worship, both statues and panel icons, has been a relatively common current, particularly since the Reformation....
The Gospel of Brian McLaren
A New Kind of Christianity for a Multi-Faith World
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
In The Gospel of Brian McLaren, Jeremy Bouma explains and engages the latest teachings of the grandfather of the Emergent Church movement, Brian McLaren.
As a former Emergent Church insider who left the movement after rediscovering the historic Christian faith, Bouma has dedicated his pastoral...
by Gerald Friedlander.
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Elibron Classics. Digitized replica of 1911 edition by George Routledge and Sons, Limited, London. This book is intended, in the first place, as a contribution to comparative theology. An attempt is made to set forth the relation of Christianity to Judaism, not only by way of contrast but also by...
A Shotgun Wedding
The Conflict Between Science and Religion Resolved
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
There is a long history of conflict between religion and science in the discussion of the creation of the earth and everything in it. In A Shotgun Wedding, author Philip S. Radcliffe examines this conflict and debunks the fallacy that there is not room for God in science.
A Shotgun Wedding...
Apostolicity
The Ecumenical Question in World Christian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
What constitutes the unity of the church over time and across cultures? Can our account of the church's apostolic faith embrace the cultural diversity of world Christianity? The ecumenical movement that began in the twentieth century posed the problem of the church's apostolicity in profound new ways....