General Christianity category: 9124 books
by Craig Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2011
Can women minister to men? This is a “hot topic” in Christianity but one that needs exploring because the subject
affects about half the people in
Christianity – all of the women!
Most people after reading the title of this booklet will fall into one of three groups. The first group is...
Queer Christianities
Lived Religion in Transgressive Forms
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Queerness and Christianity, often depicted as mutually exclusive, both challenge received notions of the good and the natural. Nowhere is this challenge more visible than in the identities, faiths, and communities that queer Christians have long been creating. As Christians they have staked a claim...
by Thomas Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
In one of the most brilliant of modern books its author calls attention to the common fallacy which assumes that "if you can find a principle which gives an adequate explanation of three different facts it is more likely to correspond with the truth than three different principles which give...
by David Rapp, Hanan Isachar
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The biblical city of Jerusalem played a significant role in the origination of Christianity. According to the scriptures, Jesus visited the Jewish temple there as a youth. Many years later, it was in Jerusalem where He ate the Last Supper with His disciples before being arrested...
Keep Christianity Weird
Embracing the Discipline of Being Different
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Jesus is different. Go and do likewise.
Many Christians have become comfortable letting the world mold them instead of being set apart by God. And many churches have traded in their biblical roots for complacent conventionality. But Jesus and the church are anything but conventional. The hallmark...
by John Shore
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
One year after his sudden and utterly out-of-the-blue conversion to Christianity (which he describes in the riveting afterword of this book), John Shore reportedly found himself overwhelmed by the desire to write something that Christians could give to non-Christians by way of proving that just because...
The Outsider Interviews
What Young People Think about Faith and How to Connect with Them
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Statistics tell us that Christianity has an image problem. But what are the stories behind the stats? This question led Jim Henderson, Todd Hunter, and Craig Spinks to host a national interview tour with young non-Christians and Christians in Kansas City, Phoenix, Denver, and Seattle. They wanted...
Our Global Families
Christians Embracing Common Identity in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
As Christians, we belong to not only a diverse global Christian family but also a diverse human family. Todd Johnson, a noted expert on global Christianity and world missions trends, and Cindy Wu show how divisions within these families work against our desire to bring about positive change in the...
We Don't Do God
The marginalization of public faith
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Secular assumptions are being introduced piecemeal into our way of life. From the Millennium Dome (what exactly was it celebrating?) to the restrictions on the wearing of crosses and abolition of nativity plays, Christianity is being marginalised. Christian social initiatives at local levels are now...
by B. F. Cocker
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
B. F. Cocker wrote this popular book that continues to be widely read today despite its age.
Adoration
The Deconstruction of Christianity II
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
This second volume in Nancy’s The Deconstruction of Christianity explores the stance or bearing that would be appropriate for us now, in the wake of the dis-enclosure of religion and the retreat of God: that of adoration.
Adoration is stretched out toward things, but without phenomenological...
Beyond Secularism and Jihad?
A Triangular Inquiry into the Mosque, the Manger, and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Peter D. Beaulieu examines the challenge posed by—and to—modernity and historic Islam as they encounter one another. He compares the Western separation of Church and state with the unitary Islamic State, and explores the proposed cultural and societal principles of the Second Vatican Council as...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This volume brings together a set of contributions, many appearing in English for the first time, together with a new introduction, covering the history of the Ethiopian Christian civilization in its formative period (300-1500 AD). Rooted in the late antique kingdom of Aksum (present day Northern...
by Gianni Vattimo, Richard Rorty
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2005
Though coming from different and distinct intellectual traditions, Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo are united in their criticism of the metaphysical tradition. The challenges they put forward extend beyond philosophy and entail a reconsideration of the foundations of belief in God and the religious...