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by Dennis Ngien
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
A sequel to A Faith Worth Believing, Living and Commendation, Giving Wings to the Soul is the compilation of Dr. Ngien's sermons or speeches, devotional and theological reflections. The materials continue to provide Bible-based, thought-provoking theological, spiritual, and pastoral insights to issues...
Faith-Based Education That Constructs
A Creative Dialogue between Contructivism and Faith-Based Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Constructivism is everywhere. It is a hot issue at this time in the field of philosophy, education, technology, and religion. However, can constructivism be an alternative approach in faith-based education? While some conclude that Jesus knew learning was an active knowledge-creating process, and...
Multiculturalism
A Shalom Motif for the Christian Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Multiculturalism: A Shalom Motif for the Christian Community is an attempt to engage the Christian community on the ongoing discussion of cultural diversity and its implications for the church and the entire Christian community of the twenty-first century. Written for Christian schools and churches,...
Healing Church Strife in the New Testament and Today
Beyond Matthew 18:15-17
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
When churches experience troubling conflicts, they are likely to be offered Matthew 18:15-17 as the only solution. This book opens our eyes to the rich variety of conflict solutions that are described throughout the New Testament. Healing Church Strife explores options for our time, and the reader receives practical suggestions that are biblically based.
Journey Into an Interfaith World
Jews, Christians, and Muslims in a World Come of Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In this comprehensive volume, Dr. Kenneth L. Vaux explores the shared theological ground of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-the common God, the common good, the common word, and the common work. Based on the premise that the three Abrahamic faiths are given by God for some purpose in God's universal...
Ethics and the Wars of Insurgency
Somalia to Syria
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Ethics of Wars of Insurgency is my fifth study on the ethics of war and peace. It spans a twenty-year period of perplexing war and peace history focusing on the theological and ethical aspects of American foreign policy analysis from Somalia to Rwanda to Bosnia, concluding with present activities...
While I Have Being
Winterreise (Winter Journey)
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
This diary is a fine-grained, often daily, theological reflection on the author's final ponderings on his ordeal with a serious illness, a concluding sabbatical, a last year of teaching, a culminating lecture, presiding at Eucharist, and summarial notes about what God is doing in the world. Amid all...
Second Sermons
Intimations of the Eternal
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
While serving as Interim Pastor in the 1993-1994 church year, Kenneth Vaux announced a year-long sermon series entitled "Intimations of the Sacred." Building on the concepts of William Wordsworth that the simple items of nature--leaves, songs, snowflakes, and gestures of kindness--hint to us the mysteries...
by Kenneth L. Vaux
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Kenneth Vaux advocates an Abrahamic theology as a dynamic and ethical axis for science and technology and argues for its continuing salience for a vital and humane science. He demonstrates a historical correlation between an Abrahamic theological tradition (monotheism and venturism) and the rise of...
Ministry on the Edge
Reflections of an Interfaith Pioneer, Civil Rights Advocate, and the First Bioethicist
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Ministry on the Edge tells the story of Dr. Kenneth Vaux's long-standing career as theologian and minister--the first bio-ethicist, a civil rights advocate, and interfaith pioneer. Through a collection of essays, articles, and sermons, Vaux traces his prophetic assessment of important ethical issues...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
The Ministry of Vincent Van Gogh in Religion and Art surveys the historical venues where Van Gogh's life and work unfolded--Aldersgate, England, Amsterdam, Au Borinage, Antwerp, Asnieres-sur-Seine, Arles, Auvers-sur-Oise--culminating in an assessment of his legacy. Arguing that he is a painter-evangelist,...
For Such a Time as This
Evanston Killings, Election, Ethics Consult
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
This third volume of Ken Vaux's memoirs covers the calendar year of 2012 which focused on (1) teaching in the Evanston church as this body struggled to be both evangelical in theology and oriented to social justice in the community. We searched together for having what it takes to be a University...
A Greek Reader for Chase and Phillips
Selections from Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
This companion reader to Chase and Phillips, A New Introduction to Greek, (Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1961) is a compilation of slightly edited "real Greek" from Plato, Xenophon, Plutarch, Diogenes Laertius, and the Septuagint. The reader has a preface introducing...
Come Follow Me
Reflections on the Markan Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
The message of Jesus Christ is timeless, and has never been more relevant than in our own day. Jesus' life, ministry, and teachings have inspired billions of people throughout the ages to follow him. The Gospel of Mark was the first gospel written, and presents the story of Jesus in a way that is...