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  Touched By Grace

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  Ann Showalter invites readers along on a roller coaster ride called AIDS. Showalter began her fide the Saturday afternoon her husband Ray said, “I have AIDS.” After the first shock, Ray’s revelation became a breath of fresh air for the couple. This is their story. Seven weeks after diagnosis, Ray was discharged to go home to die. People from their congregation, even though aware of the diagnosis, embraced Ray and Ann by assisting with his care around the clock until his death. Ann’s grief was pervasive and complicated by the circumstances surrounding Ray’s death. She wrote her prayers because her mind was too distracted for verbal prayer. Her journal became a trusted friend in which she vented her anger, and wrestled through inner conflicts. She facilitated a bereavement support group of gay men whose loved ones had died. Together these varied activities moved her toward her own healing.

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  Transforming The Powers

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  Applies suggestive analysis to economics, politics, and government, war and peace, personal ethics and ecological and social justice.

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  Bonhoeffer Legacy : Post Holocaust Perspectives

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  Sequel to The Bonhoffer Phenomenon
  Analyzes the historical record and Bonhoeffer’s maturing theology and shows how Bonhoeffer’s self-critical theology relates to the later advent of post-Holocaust theologies, with their sharply posed challenges to traditional Christian supersessionism.

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  Resurrection Of Jesus

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  Two of today’s most important and popular New Testament scholars, John Dominic Crossan and N. T. Wright, here air their very different understandings of the historical reality and theological meaning of Jesus’ Resurrection. The book highlights points of agreement and disagreement between them and explores the many attendant issues.
  This book brings two leading lights in Jesus studies together for a long-overdue conversation with one another and with significant scholars from other disciplines.

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  Christians And A Land Called Holy

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  A clear account of the Israile-Palestinian situation and a compelling plea for Christian involvement in the area.
  Reveals the strong forces at work in the conflict and lays out the driving biblical notions of election and covenanat, the historical causes of the bitter and divisive clashes of the last 50 years, the complex demographic and political issues today, and how, finally, Christians must engage the future of justice and peace.

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  Christian Beliefs

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  A basic guide to twenty Christian beliefs that is solid, yet readable, and not intimidating for new believers and Christians in general. Includes chapter review questions.

  About the Author
  Elliot Grudem holds a degree from Reformed Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Kacey, live in New Orleans with their daughter.

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  Slaves In The New Testament

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  In this exciting new analysis of slaves and slavery in the New Testament, Harrill breaks new ground with his extensive use of Greco-Roman evidence, discussion of hermeneutics, and treatment of the use of the New Testament in antebellum U.S. slavery debates. He examines in detail Philemon, 1 Corinthians, Romans, Luke-Acts, and the household codes.

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  Womans Place : House Churches In Earliest Christianity

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  Acknowledgments

  1.Introduction
  2.Dutiful And Less Than Dutiful Wives Giving Birth: Labor, Nursing, And Care Of Infants In House-Church Communities
  3.Growing Up In House-Church Communities
  4.Female Slaves: Twice Vulnerable
  5.Ephesians 5 And The Politics Of Marriage
  6.Women Leaders Of Households And Christian Assemblies
  7.Women Leaders In Family Funerary Banquets By Janet H. Tulloch
  8.Women Patrons In The Life Of House Churches
  9.Women As Agents Of Expansion
  10.Conclusion: Discovering A Woman’s Place

  Abbreviations
  Notes
  Bibliography
  Index Of Ancient Sources
  Index Of Modern Authors
  Index Of Subjects

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  This focused look at women in the household context discusses the importance of issues of space and visibility in shaping the lives of early Christian women. Several aspects of women’s everyday existence are investigated, including the lives of wives, widows, women with children, female slaves, women as patrons, household leaders, and teachers. In addition, several key themes emerge: hospitality, dining practices, and the extent of female segregation.

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  Divine Image : Envisioning The Invisible God

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  1.The Image Of God As A Theological Problem
  2.The Ambiguity Of Images
  3.The Image Of God In Christ
  4.The Image Of God In Human Beings: Developing Protocols Of Discernment
  5.Discernment As Communal Discipline: The Protocols Of Service
  6.Discernment As Personal Discipline: The Protocols Of Chastity
  7.Discernment In Ecclesial Formation: The Sacraments As Protocols
  8.Seeing The Divine Image

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  Theologian Ian McFarland claims that Christians have mainly misappropriated the “image of God” language for 2000 years and thereby missed a rich resource for our knowledge of God.

  Rather than referring to some germinal divine element in humans, such as reason, McFarland claims that the image of God in us tells us something about God and how we know God. It tells us that God, though not identical with us, communicates Godself to us in creative love, in a way that offers precious clues about God’s transcendence, immanence, triune life, self-disclosure, incarnation, and intentions for human life. McFarland’s careful and exacting work builds from this kernel a powerful Christian vision of God’s life and our own destiny in Christ.

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  C S Lewis A Short Introduction

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  SKU (ISBN): 9780826484703ISBN10: 0826484700Binding: Trade PaperPublished: May 2005Publisher: STL/FaithWorks Print On Demand Product

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  Flannery OConnor And The Christ Haunted South

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  This is an excellent and lucid study of O’Connor’s theological and cultural convictions, with a study of the grotesque in her work as well as an elegant exploration of O’Connor as an engimatic Southern writer.

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  Culture Of Conservative Christian Litigation

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  Preface

  The Culture Of Conservative Christian Litigation

  A Place At The Table

  Working For Equal Access

  Wise As A Serpent And Innocent As A Lamb

  Good Lawyers, Good Christians

  Appendix: Table Of Cases

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  Over the past decade, conservative Christian public law firms have been some of the most active and aggressive litigators in the nation. Their efforts have impacted important policy areas including religion in the Public Square, school prayer, gay rights, ‘family values’ and abortion policy. But the Fundamentalist Christian/Evangelical social movement is not monolithic. In this probing and judicious work, Hacker explores and clarifies the influence of ideology on the goals and behavior of three leading conservative Christian law firms and how they differ in agendas and approach. He provides rich interview narratives that shed light on interest group behavior and how it is influenced by internal group characteristics.

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  Habit : A History Of The Clothing Of The Catholic Nuns

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  Curiosity about nuns and their distinctive clothing is almost as old as Catholicism itself. The habit intrigues the religious and the nonreligious alike, from medieval maidens to contemporary schoolboys, to feminists and other social critics. The first book to explore the symbolism of this attire, The Habit presents a visual gallery of the diverse forms of religious clothing and explains the principles and traditions that inspired them. More than just an eye-opening study of the symbolic significance of starched wimples, dark dresses, and flowing veils, The Habit is an incisive, engaging portrait of the roles nuns have and do play in the Catholic Church and in ministering to the needs of society.

  From the clothing seen in an eleventh-century monastery to the garb worn by nuns on picket lines during the 1960s, habits have always been designed to convey a specific image or ideal. The habits of the Benedictines and the Dominicans, for example, were specifically created to distinguish women who consecrated their lives to God; other habits reflected the sisters’ desire to blend in among the people they served. The brown Carmelite habit was rarely seen outside the monastery wall, while the Flying Nun turned the white winged cornette of the Daughters of Charity into a universally recognized icon. And when many religious abandoned habits in the 1960s and ’70s, it stirred a debate that continues today.

  Drawing on archival research and personal interviews with nuns all over the United States, Elizabeth Kuhns examines some of the gender and identity issues behind the controversy and brings to light the paradoxes the habit represents. For some, it epitomizes oppression and obsolescence; for others, it embodies the ultimate beauty and dignity of the vocation.

  Complete with extraordinary photographs, including images of the nineteenth century nuns’ silk bonnets to the simple gray dresses of the Sisters of Social Service, this evocative narrative explores the timeless symbolism of the habit and traces its evolution as a visual reflection of the changes in society.

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  Quoting God

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  Quoting God charts the many ways in which media reports religion news, how media uses the quoted word to describe lived faith, and how media itself influences-and is influenced by-religion in the public square. The volume intentionally brings together the work of academics, who study religion as a crucial factor in the construction of identity, and the work of professional journalists, who regularly report on religion in an age of instant and competitive news. This book clearly demonstrates that the relationship between media culture and spiritual culture is foundational and multi-directional; that the relationship between news values and religion in political life is influential; and that the relationship among modernity, belief, and journalism is pivotal.

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  Centering Prayer And Inner Awakening

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  Practitioners of Centering Prayer are known for the great enthusiasm they bring to the practice of this ancient discipline. Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening is a complete guidebook for all who wish to know the practice of Centering Prayer. Cynthia Bourgeault goes further than offering an introduction, however. She examines how the practice is related to the classic tradition of Christian contemplation, looks at the distinct nuances of its method, and explores its revolutionary potential to transform Christian life. The book encourages dialogue between Centering Prayer enthusiasts and those classic institutions of Christian nurture-churches, seminaries, and schools of theology-that have yet to accept real ownership of the practice and its potential.

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  God Of Dirt

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  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for American Primitive, Mary Oliver has published numerous books of poetry and essays. Her poems are quoted in everything from Web sites to hymn books. Earthlight, a “Magazine of Spiritual Ecology,” has declared her an “earth saint.”
  In this engaging study, Thomas W. Mann shows Oliver to have keen eyes and ears for reading the book of nature. Readers will discover that the correspondence between Oliver’s poetry and traditional religious language provides a fresh perspective from which to enjoy her work. At the same time, Oliver’s reading from the Other Book of God invites us into nature’s “temple” where we may come into the presence of the holy and from which we may leave rejuvenated and blessed. God of Dirt is an important study of a contemporary poet whose work is as likely to be read by a preacher in a pulpit as by an activist at an environmental rally, and will help us experience a new vision of the beauty of our world.

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  3 Secular Reasons Why America Should Be Under God

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  “All men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”-Declaration of Independence, 1776. Do you like having rights the government cannot take away? Do you like being equal? Do you like a country with few laws? Then you want America under God! “The Rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God” – John F. Kennedy, 1961, Inaugural Address “We believe that all men are created equal, because they are created in the image of God” – Harry S. Truman, 1949, Inaugural Address “Our constution was made only for a moral and religious people, it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”-John Adams, 1798.

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  After The Passion Is Gone

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  Introduction
  J. Shawn Landres And Michael Berenbaum
  Part One: The Context Of The Passion

  Introduction To Part One

  Almost A Culture War: The Making Of The Passion Controversy
  Mark Silk (Trinity College)
  Passionate Blogging: Interfaith Controversy And The Internet
  William J. Cork (Catholic Diocese Of Galveston-Houston)
  Living In The World, But Not Of The World: Understanding Evangelical Support For The Passion Of The Christ
  Leslie Smith (UCSB)
  The Passion Paradox: Signposts On The Road Toward Mormon Protestantization
  Eric Samuelsen (BYU)
  Is It Finished? The Passion Of The Christ And The Fault Lines In American Christianity
  Julie Ingersoll (University Of North Florida)
  Part Two: The Passion In Context

  Introduction To Part Two

  The Journey Of The Passion Play From Medieval Piety To Contemporary Spirituality
  Karen Jo Torjesen (Claremont Graduate University)
  The Gibson Code?
  Lorenzo Albacete (St. Joseph Seminary, Yonkers)
  “But Is It Art?”: A Prelude To Criticism Of Mel Gibson’s The Passion Of The Christ
  Robert A. Faggen (Claremont McKenna College)
  Antisemitism Without Erasure: Sacred Texts And Their Contemporary Interpretations
  Gary L. Gilbert (Claremont McKenna College)
  Theologizing The Death Of Jesus, Gibson’s The Passion, And Christian Identity
  Jeffrey S. Siker (Loyola Marymount University)
  Manly Pain And Motherly Love: Mel Gibson’s Big Picture
  David Morgan (Valparaiso University)
  Imago Christi: Aesthetic And Theological Issues In Jesus Films By Pasolini, Scorsese, And Gibson
  Lloyd Baugh, SJ (Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome)
  Part Three: Jews And Christians: Reframing The Dialogue

  Introduction To Part Three

  Theological Bulimia: Christianity And Its Dejudaization
  Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College)
  A March Of Passion, Or, How I Came To Terms With A Film I Wasn’t Supposed To Like
  Stephen R. Haynes (Rhodes College)
  The Exposed Fault Line
  Richard L. Rubenstein (University Of Bridgeport)
  Crucifying Jesus: Antisemitism And The Passion Story
  Stephen T. Davis (Claremont McKenna College)
  Five Introspective Challenges
  David M. Elcott (American Jewish Committee)
  No Crucifixion = No Holocaust: Post-Holocaust Reflections On The Passion Of The Christ
  John K. Roth (Claremont McKenna College)
  The Passionate Encounter: The Ethics Of Affirming Your Faith In A Multi-Religious World
  Elliot N. Dorff (University Of Judaism)
  Reframing Difference: Evangelicals, Scripture, An

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  Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ topped box office charts and changed the American religious conversation. The controversies it raised remain unsettled. In After The Passion Is Gone: American Religious Consequences, leading scholars of religion and theology ask what Gibson’s film and the resulting controversy reveal about Christians, Jews, and the possibilities of interreligious dialogue in the United States. Landres and Berenbaum’s collection moves beyond questions of whether or not the film was faithful to the gospels, too violent, or antisemitic and explores why the debate focused on these issues but not others. The public discussion of The Passion shed light on a wide range of American attitudes–evangelical Protestant, mainline Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Jewish–about media and faith, politics and history, Jesus and Judaism, fundamentalism and victimhood. After The Passion Is Gone takes a unique view of vital points in Christian-Jewish relations and contemporary American religion

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  Augustine And Politics

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  Dedicatory Preface
  Thomas F. Martin O.S.A.
  Introduction
  John Doody, Kevin L. Hughes, And Kim Paffenroth
  Human Nature And Virtue In Relation To Politics

  United Inwardly By Love: Augustine’s Social Ontology
  Phillip Cary
  Truthfulness As The Bond Of Society
  Robert P. Kennedy
  Friendship As Personal, Social, And Theological Virtue In Augustine
  Kim Paffenroth
  Freedom Beyond Our Choosing: Augustine On The Will And Its Objects
  David C. Schindler
  Augustine’s Theory And Critique Of Politics

  Between The Two Cities: Political Action In Augustine Of Hippo
  Robert Dodaro O.S.A.
  Democracy And Its Demons
  Michael Hanby
  Local Politics: The Political Place Of The Household In Augustine’s City Of God
  Kevin L. Hughes
  Augustine And The Politics Of Monasticism
  Thomas F. Martin O.S.A.
  The Glory And Tragedy Of Politics
  Thomas W. Smith
  Augustinian Influence And Perspectives

  Toward A Contemporary Augustinian Understanding Of Politics
  Todd Breyfogle
  Sexual Purity, “the Faithful,” And Religious Reform In Eleventh-Century Italy: Donatism Revisited
  Louis I. Hamilton
  The Enchanted City Of Man: The State And The Market In Augustinian Perspective
  Eugene McCarraher
  Machiavelli’s City Of God: Civic Humanism And Augustinian Terror
  Paul Wright

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  The study of Augustine’s political teachings has suffered from a history of misreadings, both ancient and modern. It is only in recent years that the traditional lines of “Augustinian pessimism” have been opened to question. Scholars have begun to explore the broader lines of Augustine’s political thought in his letters and sermons, and thus have been able to place his classic text, The City of God, in its proper context. The essays in this volume take stock of these recent developments and revisit old assumptions about the significance of Augustine of Hippo for political thought. They do so from many different perspectives, examining the anthropological and theological underpinnings of Augustine’s thought, his critique of politics, his development of his own political thought, and some of the later manifestations or uses of his thought in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and today. This new vision is at once more bracing, more hopeful, and more diverse than earlier readings could have allowed.

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  Augustine And Politics

  $233.33

  Dedicatory Preface
  Thomas F. Martin O.S.A.
  Introduction
  John Doody, Kevin L. Hughes, And Kim Paffenroth
  Human Nature And Virtue In Relation To Politics

  United Inwardly By Love: Augustine’s Social Ontology
  Phillip Cary
  Truthfulness As The Bond Of Society
  Robert P. Kennedy
  Friendship As Personal, Social, And Theological Virtue In Augustine
  Kim Paffenroth
  Freedom Beyond Our Choosing: Augustine On The Will And Its Objects
  David C. Schindler
  Augustine’s Theory And Critique Of Politics

  Between The Two Cities: Political Action In Augustine Of Hippo
  Robert Dodaro O.S.A.
  Democracy And Its Demons
  Michael Hanby
  Local Politics: The Political Place Of The Household In Augustine’s City Of God
  Kevin L. Hughes
  Augustine And The Politics Of Monasticism
  Thomas F. Martin O.S.A.
  The Glory And Tragedy Of Politics
  Thomas W. Smith
  Augustinian Influence And Perspectives

  Toward A Contemporary Augustinian Understanding Of Politics
  Todd Breyfogle
  Sexual Purity, “the Faithful,” And Religious Reform In Eleventh-Century Italy: Donatism Revisited
  Louis I. Hamilton
  The Enchanted City Of Man: The State And The Market In Augustinian Perspective
  Eugene McCarraher
  Machiavelli’s City Of God: Civic Humanism And Augustinian Terror
  Paul Wright

  Additional Info
  The study of Augustine’s political teachings has suffered from a history of misreadings, both ancient and modern. It is only in recent years that the traditional lines of “Augustinian pessimism” have been opened to question. Scholars have begun to explore the broader lines of Augustine’s political thought in his letters and sermons, and thus have been able to place his classic text, The City of God, in its proper context. The essays in this volume take stock of these recent developments and revisit old assumptions about the significance of Augustine of Hippo for political thought. They do so from many different perspectives, examining the anthropological and theological underpinnings of Augustine’s thought, his critique of politics, his development of his own political thought, and some of the later manifestations or uses of his thought in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and today. This new vision is at once more bracing, more hopeful, and more diverse than earlier readings could have allowed.

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  Tending The Holy

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  Interest in the practice of spiritual direction has grown in recent years. With the increased number of people seeking direction have come a number of new issues confronting spiritual directors. This volume of essays by seasoned spiritual directors from a variety of faith traditions, addresses issues of concern to directors today such as direction with: abused persons, the poor, church drop-outs, gays and lesbians. Other essays look at spiritual direction in new contexts, such as the congregational setting, the corporate arena, spiritual direction and generational issues, and direction at the turn of the century. The final section of the book addresses some specific circumstances: working with the addicted, with those who are dying, using art in spiritual direction, and direction and social justice. Contributors include: Joseph D. Driskill (Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA); Juan Reed (Chicago, IL); Rich Rossiter (Oak Park, IL); Sandra Lommason (Davis, CA); Howard Rice (Santa Rosa, CA); Tom Cashman (Federal Way, WA); Steven Charleston, Episcopal Divinity School; Barry Woodbridge (Rancho Cucamonga, CA); Margaret Guenther (Washington, D.C.); Betsy Caprio Hedburg (Culver City, CA) and Kenneth Leech, (London), Janet Ruffing, and Norvene Vest. Norvene Vest is a spiritual director, author, and workshop leader, well known especially for her books on Benedictine spirituality for the common life. She is an Episcopal laywoman, oblate of a Roman Catholic monastery, and graduate of a Protestant seminary. She lives with her husband, Douglas, in Altadena, California.

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  Touchdown Jesus : The Mixing Of Sacred And Secular In American History

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  This book is an intriguing narrative of the interplay between American religion and patterns of American culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. R. Laurence Moore considers the ways nationalism, the separation of church and state, democratic pluralism, and shifts in boundaries between secular and sacred practice have shaped American religion for the past two hundred years.

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  City And Sanctuary

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  This volume challenges some common assumptions about the culture of the early Byzantine Near East by examining the architecture and urban design of five cities in that period. The author assesses the various kinds of religious structure found in each city, including cult centres, temples dedicated to the Olympian gods and buildings set aside for mystery religions. He also shows how the effects of these sanctuaries on civic religious life were hugely important and influential, and shaped the way that citizens conceived of their city and of themselves. This book should be of interest to: scholars and students of the New Testament and of the Hellenistic period; scholars and students of Judaic studies; scholars and students of Classical studies; and non-specialists interested in the life and times of the ancient world.

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  Christianity On Trial

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  Vincent Carroll and David Shiflett do not shrink from confronting the tragedies that have been perpetrated in the name of Christianity. But they contend that the current fashionable emphasis on the dark side of the Christian record is an instance of willful historical illiteracy.

  In Christianity on Trial, Carroll and Shiflett dispassionately and systematically dissect the charges against Christianity-specifically that it has justified racism and misogyny, encouraged ignorance, and promoted the despoliation of the environment and even genocide. Then, in a narrative whose intellectual elegance and verve calls up comparisons to How the Irish Saved Civilization, they show how in fact the Christian tradition has not only injected morality into our political order, but softened brutal practices and confining superstitions, created the foundation for intellectual inquiry, and cultivated the charitable impulse.

  Christianity on Trial challenges readers of all beliefs-even those with a belief in disbelief itself-to question the anti-religious bigotry that thrives in our intellectual world and to reevaluate the role of Christianity not only as a source of consolation but of enlightenment and human liberation as well.

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  Feminist Ethic Of Risk (Revised)

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  Rich and suggestive, distinctive and influential, A Feminist Ethic of Risk proposes a new model for ethics and new life-orientation for social justice. Directly addressing American and European “middle-class despair” over issues and challenges seemingly too large to tackle.

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  What You Will See Inside

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  Visual and informative, What You Will See Inside a Catholic Church features full-page pictures and concise descriptions of what is happening, the objects used, the clergy and laypeople who have specific roles, and the spiritual intent of believers. Ideal for teachers, parents, librarians, clergy, and lay leaders who work with children ages 6 to 10.

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  How To Read Bible Stories

  $32.00

  SKU (ISBN): 9780334027782ISBN10: 0334027780Daniel Marguerat | Yvan BourquoinBinding: Trade PaperPublished: July 1999SCM ClassicsPublisher: SCM Press Print On Demand Product

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  Black Muslims In America A Print On Demand Title

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  Hailed as “one of the best technical case studies in the whole literature of the social sciences” upon its original publication in 1961, The Black Muslims in America in this third edition provides a new generation of readers with an enriched, up-to-date knowledge of the important but little- understood Black Muslim movement.

  This classic sociological study gives a concise, accessible introduction to Islam for Americans whose knowledge of religion is limited primarily to Judeo-Christianity. The book succinctly details the formation and development of the Black Muslim movement through its wide-ranging expressions in America today – a movement born as an organized form of religious and social protest against a society sharply divided by race.

  This edition includes a new foreword by Aminah B. McCloud, a new preface, and an extensive postscript by Lincoln in which he outlines the course of the Nation of Islam since the death of its formative leader, Elijah Muhammad, in 1975 – the sweeping changes wrought by Elijah’s son and successor, Wallace Deen Muhammad, the disintegration of the Nation into splinter groups, and the emergence of Louis Farrakhan as the legitimate head of the “new” Nation. A section highlighting the public career of Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad’s famous spokesperson turned cultural icon, is also included.

  In the wake of recent media events like the film Malcolm X and unsettling national events like the riot in Los Angeles, this timely update provides both fascinating reading and challenging reflection about an American religious group still shaping its destiny, and that of the nation.

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  Meaning And The End Of Religion

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  The Meaning and End of Religion is a classic in the study of religion. Smith integrates care in examining historical and philosophical particulars with a large scope in the range of data he considers. He makes us conscious of the way we have perceived religious life and invites us to look at it again in a new way.

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  History Of Christianity

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  Since publication of the first edition in 1918, A History of the Christian Church by Williston Walker has enjoyed outstanding success and recognition as a classic in the field. Written by an eminent theologian, it combines in its narrative a rare blend of clarity, unity, and balance. In light of significant advances in scholarship in recent years, extensive revisions have been made to this fourth edition. Three scholars from Union Theological Seminary in New York have incorporated new historical discoveries and provided fresh interpretations of various periods in church history from the first century to the twentieth. The result is a thoroughly updated history which preserves the tenor and structure of Walker’s original, unparalleled text.

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