Church State category: 1367 books
Religious Crisis and Civic Transformation
How Conflicts over Gender and Sexuality Changed the West German Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
This book offers a fresh interpretation of the connection between the West German Catholic Church and post-1950s political debates on women’s reproductive rights and the protection of life in West Germany. According to Tichenor, Catholic women in West Germany, influenced by the culture of consumption,...
by Liam Gearon, Joseph Prud'homme
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
This book explores recent calls to increase instruction of the Bible in American public schools. The work develops a distinctive philosophical and trans-Atlantic assessment of these proposals by critiquing European approaches to religious education and by reviewing the role of religion in contemporary...
by Peter J. Paris, John W. Cook, James Hudnut-Beumler
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
It was from the pulpit of the Riverside Church that Martin Luther King, Jr., first publicly voiced his opposition to the Vietnam War, that Nelson Mandela addressed U.S. church leaders after his release from prison, and that speakers as diverse as Cesar Chavez, Jesse Jackson, Desmond Tutu, Fidel Castro,...
Reformers and Babylon
English Apocalyptic Visions from the Reformation to the Eve of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Starting in the 1530s with John Bale, English reformers found in the apocalyptic mysteries of the Book of Revelation a framework for reinterpreting the history of Christianity and explaining the break from the Roman Catholic Church. Identifying the papacy with antichrist and the Roman Catholic Church...
Dying to Religion and Empire
Giving up Our Religious Rites and Legal Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Can Christianity exist without religious rites or legal rights?
Are baptism and communion required for the church to exist?
What about the freedom of religion and the right to assemble?
Building on what he has written in other volumes of the “Close Your Church for Good” series,...
Where Is the Power?
Moving Beyond What the Church Has Lost
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Bishop Howard A. Robinson, Jr. cuts to the heart of the matter, as to what has been lost in the present day church. The present day church has lost its power to sin. We are witnessing the evidence of sin all around us as never before: sin in the church, sin in our community and sin in our homes. Bishop...
We Love Our City
How a Church in the Community Became the Community’S Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The subtitle of the book is an actual quote from one of our City Council members. I was asked to make a presentation to the City Council one evening on all the projects we as a church, had partnered with the city on to provide social services to our community. One of the reasons for the report was...
The Myth of a Christian Nation
How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
The church was established to serve the world with Christ-like love, not to rule the world. It is called to look like a corporate Jesus, dying on the cross for those who crucified him, not a religious version of Caesar. It is called to manifest the kingdom of the cross in contrast to the kingdom of...
Jihad and Death
The Global Appeal of Islamic State
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
How has Islamic State been able to muster support far beyond its initial constituency in the Arab world and attract tens of thousands of foreign volunteers, including converts to Islam, and seemingly countless supporters online? In this compelling intervention into the debate about Islamic State's...
Herman Dooyeweerd
Christian Philosopher of State and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
The twentieth-century Dutch philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd (1894–1977) left behind an impressive canon of philosophical works and has continued to influence a scholarly community in Europe and North America, which has extended, critiqued, and applied his thought in many academic fields. Jonathan...
Sensational Movies
Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture and society in turmoil. This book captures the dynamic process of popular filmmaking in Ghana as a new medium for the imagination...
Jewish Legal Theories
Writings on State, Religion, and Morality
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Contemporary arguments about Jewish law uniquely reflect both the story of Jewish modernity and a crucial premise of modern conceptions of law generally: the claim of autonomy for the intellectual subject and practical sphere of the law. Jewish Legal Theories collects representative modern Jewish...
Making Sense of the Secular
Critical Perspectives from Europe to Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia. The book evaluates secularism as it exists today – its formations and discontents within contemporary discourses of power, terror, religion and cosmopolitanism –...
Unmasking Islamic State
Revealing Their Motivation, Theology and End Time Predictions
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
The modern world struggles to make sense of the savage violence and terror perpetrated by Islamic State. In this timely publication Dr Patrick Sookhdeo analyses its ideology, theology, eschatology and strategy and scrutinizes key IS publications explaining the motivating beliefs of the leadership. He...