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The Deconstruction of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
This book is a profound and eagerly anticipated investigation into what is left of a monotheistic religious spirit—notably, a minimalist faith that is neither confessional nor credulous. Articulating this faith as works and as an objectless hope, Nancy deconstructs Christianity in search of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
Christianity in Asia explores the history, development, and current state of Christianity across the world’s largest and most populous continent.
Offers detailed coverage of the growth of Christianity within South Asia; among the thousands of islands comprising Southeast Asia; and across countries...
Rethinking Philosophy in Light of the Bible
From Kant to Schopenhauer
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Rethinking Philosophy in Light of the Bible analyzes the ideas that are central to the philosophy of Kant, Hegel, and Kierkegaard in order to show that they are biblical in origin, both ontologically and historically. Brayton Polka argues that Schopenhauer has an altogether false conception of the...
A Letter to My Congregation
An evangelical pastor's path to embracing people who are gay, lesbian and transgender into the company of Jesus.
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
"This is a breakthrough work coming from the heart of evangelical Christianity and offered into the heart of evangelical Christianity," writes David P. Gushee, the prolific Christian author and Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University. In describing this book,...
An Unpredictable Gospel
American Evangelicals and World Christianity, 1812-1920
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
The astonishing growth of Christianity in the global South over the course of the twentieth century has sparked an equally rapid growth in studies of ''World Christianity,'' which have dismantled the notion that Christianity is a Western religion. What, then, are we to make of the waves of Western...
The Two Faces of Christianity
A Psychological Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Applying Eric Fromm's concept of the differences between Humanistic and Authoritarian religions, The Two Faces of Christianity proposes that Christianity consists of two distinctly different religions which co-exist under the same verbal label. The ethical teachings of that inspired Jewish religious...
Christianity and the Future
Book One of the End Times Series
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
THE END TIMES SERIES
A set of two books designed to warn and prepare Christians for the dangerous days ahead.
BOOK 1: Christianity and the Future
The churches of Christianity have become divided. As dark forces push the world toward the End Times, only Christian unity can bring people to Christ....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
This brief introduction to Christianity is designed to help readers understand this important religious tradition. With both nuance and balance, this text provides broad coverage of various forms of Christianity with an arresting layout with rich colors. It offers both historical overviews and modern...
Scattering the Proud
Christianity Beyond 2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
In this radically original and optimistic reflection on the future of Christianity in the Western world, Sean OConaill starts from the conviction that the life, ministry, and death of Jesus of Nazareth were a deliberate reversal of the human heroic journey to adulation and influence, which has caused...
What Is Christianity
An Introduction to the Christian Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Gail Ramshaw frames this new introduction to Christianity around the basic questions that students ask. Investigating Christianity as a lived experience, she opens each chapter with a voice from the field of religious studies and then presents answers to each chapter’s question by surveying the...
by Brandon Toropov
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
The book is called Beyond Mere Christianity for two reasons. First, in response to C.S. Lewis' influential 1952 work, Mere Christianity, which stands as a masterpiece of Christian apologetics. The second reason, perhaps less obvious, is that a case can be made, based on current, responsible Gospel...
Fleece My Sheep?
The Unprecedented Tragedy of the Church in Bed with a Sinful World
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Miracles, signs, wonders, healings, financial breakthroughs, ecstatic spiritual experiences are most of the teachings propagated from very many pulpits today. Are these truly the rewards of Christianity to which members are expressly entitled?
Charismatic preachers are competing for space on...
The Saint in the Banyan Tree
Christianity and Caste Society in India
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The Saint in the Banyan Tree is a nuanced and historically persuasive exploration of Christianity’s remarkable trajectory as a social and cultural force in southern India. Starting in the seventeenth century, when the religion was integrated into Tamil institutions of caste and popular religiosity,...
by Daniel O. Ogweno
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
One of the most crippling problems challenging the validity of most people’s Christianity is the imbalanced way they understand God’s Word and do the things of God. The result is that sceptics make excuses and take advantage of the contradictory doctrines and theologies in order to ridicule Christianity;...