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by John Ankerberg, Sandra Tanner, Lynn Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
What are the differences between the practices of Mormonism and the Bible? Is the Jesus of the Mormon Church the Jesus of the Bible? In Mormonism Jesus is a man who became one of many gods. Biblical Christianity teaches Jesus was always God, and that there is only one God. Why is it most Mormons do...
by John Ankerberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
El Cristianismo es único por dos cosas: por las evidencias en las cuales se apoya y por las doctrinas que enseña. Así también, Jesucristo es único, y la religión que se fundamenta en Él. La Fe Cristiana no fue una fabricación de hombre. No fue una invención de los discípulos, ni del apóstol...
Intolerance
Political Animals and Their Prey
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Aristotle accurately characterized humans as political animals. Whether through birth or from choice, people naturally cluster into groups for protection, advancement, and the pursuit of well-being. But Aristotle’s description does not hint at the powerful binary tension within this human tendency....
Catholic and Mormon
A Theological Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
What could Roman Catholicism and Mormonism possibly have to learn from each other? On the surface, they seem to diverge on nearly every point, from their liturgical forms to their understanding of history. With its ancient roots, Catholicism is a continuous tradition, committed to the conservation...
One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism: Defending The Gospel Against Polytheism
Jewels of the Christian Faith Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
One of the worlds foremost authorities on the Oneness Pentecostal Faith and the Apostolic Doctrine. Rev. Dr. Steve Joel Moffett, Sr. has been involved in professional ministry for over 33 years. He has served as a Pastor, Teacher and Evangelist. He is a powerful communicator and is in high demand...
by Bryan P. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
This Reader presents a diverse and ecumenical cross-section of ecclesiological statements from across the twenty centuries of the church's existence. It builds on the foundations of early Christian writings, illustrates significant medieval, reformation, and modern developments, and provides a representative...
The Precisianist Strain
Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In an examination of transatlantic Puritanism from 1570 to 1638, Theodore Dwight Bozeman analyzes the quest for purity through sanctification. The word "Puritan," he says, accurately depicts a major and often obsessive trait of the English late Reformation: a hunger for discipline. The Precisianist...
Empires of God
Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Religion and empire were inseparable forces in the early modern Atlantic world. Religious passions and conflicts drove much of the expansionist energy of post-Reformation Europe, providing both a rationale and a practical mode of organizing the dispersal and resettlement of hundreds of thousands of...
Unsettling Sikh and Muslim Conflict
Mistaken Identities, Forced Conversions, and Postcolonial Formations
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
This book provides a critical investigation into Sikh and Muslim conflict in the postcolonial setting. Being Sikh in a diasporic context creates challenges that require complex negotiations between other ethnic minorities as well as the national majority. Unsettling Sikh and Muslim Conflict: Mistaken...
by Paulin Batairwa Kubuya
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Chinese practices related to ancestors have long been the subject of conflicting interpretations. These practices are rooted in the lived experience of practitioners, and therefore need to be considered as embodied expressions of the quest for existential meaning. For practitioners, the achievement...
by Jennifer Snow
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version of Christian idealism against scientific racism, missionaries developed a complex theology of race that prefigured modern ideologies of multiculturalism and reached its final, belated culmination in the liberal Protestant support of the civil rights movements in the 1960s
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
This book explores centuries of power relations and imperial and civilizing rhetorics, overarching themes highlighted in these infrequently heard accounts by eastern travelers to the West. Considered in depth are evolutions in mental frameworks and practices that led to the emergence of anticolonial consciousness and strategies of protest.
Interreligious Dialogue and the Partition of India
Hindus and Muslims in Dialogue about Violence and Forced Migration
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
In a time of schism, violence and forced migration, how can God be understood? With his latest book, Catholic Benedictine hermit Mario Aguilar explores the religious identities of Hindus and Muslims in the aftermath of the 1947 partition of India. Looking at the experiences of the victims who were...
Gandhi and Bin Laden
Religion at the Extremes
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
No two figures could seem further removed than Mohandas K. Gandhi and Osama bin Laden. Gandhi advocated an inclusive religious perspective, and believed that the highest ideals in religion led to the path of absolute nonviolence. In contrast, Bin Laden has concocted a militant and exclusive interpretation...