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Ambition
Essays by members of The Chrysostom Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
What role should ambition play in our lives? Our culture generally buys the American Dream that yes, we can fulfill all our aspirations. But to seek personal power and fame in the competitive world of Western culture has a dark side. Ambition can be subtle and enticing, leading to great unhappiness....
A Catholic Reading Guide to Conditional Immortality
The Third Alternative to Hell and Universalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Like many other people, the long tradition about hell has been a source of serious confusion and distress for me. Over the past six years or so I was relieved to discover two other alternatives that are also part of the Christian tradition, though less prominent--universalism and the subject of the...
by Robert Wild
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
This reading guide to some of the philosophical and theological literature on universalism offers practical help in providing informed material on a topic that is often treated in a superficial and unenlightened manner. The reader may be surprised to learn that universalism was the predominant belief...
Christ at the Checkpoint
Theology in the Service of Justice and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
What does the evangelical church in Palestine think about the land, the end times, the Holocaust, peace in the Middle East, loving enemies, Christian Zionism, the State of Israel, and the possibilities of a Palestinian state? For the first time ever, Palestinian evangelicals along with evangelicals...
Pentecostals and Nonviolence
Reclaiming a Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Pentecostals and Nonviolence explores how a distinctly Pentecostal-charismatic peace witness might be reinvigorated and sustained in the twenty-first century. To do so, the book examines the nature of the early Pentecostal commitment to nonviolence, and investigates the possibilities that might emerge...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Contrary to what many philosophers believe, Calvinism neither makes the problem of evil worse nor is it obviously refuted by the presence of evil and suffering in our world. Or so most of the authors in this book claim. While Calvinism has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years amongst theologians and...
A Glimpse of the Kingdom in Academia
Academic Formation as Radical Discipleship
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
University is a major way that our society prepares professionals and leaders in education, health, government, business, arts, church--all components of our communal lives. Although the beginnings of the first universities were Christian, academia has become more and more adrift from these foundations....
Being Church
Reflections on How to Live as the People of God
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
What modern church doesn't call itself a community? Yet for how many is it real? How many churches form disciples intimately connected enough to call themselves Christ's body? How many form disciples who know the relational arts that create a robust unity? How many form disciples practiced in the...
Philip's Daughters
Women in Pentecostal-Charismatic Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
This volume brings together twelve scholars from a variety of scholarly fields including biblical studies, history, theology, sociology, anthropology, and missiology in a multi-disciplinary exploration of themes related to women's leadership within the three branches of the renewal movement: Holiness,...
Of Martyrs, Monks, and Mystics
A Yearly Meditational Reader of Ancient Spiritual Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Everywhere there are voices calling for a new Reformation, marked by a return to the older sources of Christian wisdom, and for drinking anew the inspiration of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, the church fathers, those from the monastic tradition and the medieval Christian mystics. This anthology...
Awakening Desire
Encountering the Divine Feminine in the Masculine Christian Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
The hope of this book is that it awakens desire to know more intimately the God who breaks through our compartmentalization and naming. While most in the West have heard God's name as almost exclusively masculine, a child growing up in Israel would have experienced the Spirit of God, and Lady Wisdom,...
Black Fire Reader
A Documentary Resource on African American Pentecostalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
This compendium of primary resources reflects the important but often overshadowed contribution of African American believers to the dynamic growth of the modern Pentecostal movement--the fastest-growing segment of global Christianity. The doctrinal statements, sermons, songs, testimonies, news articles,...
The Dictionary of Pan-African Pentecostalism, Volume One
North America
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
This volume is the first in a series of volumes surveying the important names, movements, and institutions that have been significant in forging black renewal movements in various contexts worldwide. In this volume the entries cover the more than 150 identifiable Holiness, Pentecostal, Charismatic,...
Preaching Master Class
Lessons from Will Willimon’s Five-Minute Preaching Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2010
Preachers around the globe have come to rely on Will Willimon for insight and advice on the craft of preaching. For over a decade, Willimon has published his reflections in the Five-Minute Preaching Workshop, a quarterly column he writes as editor of Pulpit Resource. Here the best selections from...