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Red Letter Revolution
What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
For all the Christians facing conflict between JesusÆ words and their own lives**,** for all the non-Christians who feel they rarely see JesusÆ commands reflected in the choices of his followers, Red Letter Revolution is a blueprint for a new kind of Christianity, one consciously centered on the...
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...
The Divine Commodity
Discovering a Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
The challenge facing Christianity today is not a lack of motivation or resources, but a failure of imagination.A growing number of people are disturbed by the values exhibited by the contemporary church. Worship has become entertainment, the church has become a shopping mall, and God has become a...
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...
by Allan Menzies
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
The study of comparative religion is destined to exercise a profound influence on every branch of Christian theology. We are coming to see that many of the cherished doctrines of our own religion are not peculiar to Christianity, but have their parallels in other faiths. This must in time lead us...
The Life and Ministry of Prophet Garrick Sokari Braide
Elijah the Second of Niger Delta, Nigeria (c. 1882-1918)
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
This study investigates the life and activities of Garrick Sokari Idikatima Braide, an African prophet, missionary and revivalist, in the evangelization of the Niger Delta area of Nigeria from 1890 to 1920. The book focuses on Braide’s revival movement and its impact on the mainstream churches and...
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...
by Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Who's Who in Christianity is an invaluable reference guide to the leading men and women who have influenced the course of Christian history, including the founding fathers, saints, popes, monarchs, philanthropists, theologians, missionaries and heretics.
The book encompasses both Eastern and Western...
Gracious Christianity
Living the Love We Profess
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
What does our culture think of when the word Christian is mentioned? Unfortunately, stereotypes and misconceptions abound, and those who follow Christ are sometimes considered mean-spirited, narrow-minded, and uncharitable.
Douglas Jacobsen and Rodney Sawatsky provide a blueprint for recovering...
Beyond Reformation?
An Essay on William Langland’s Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The essay form that Aers has chosen for his book contributes to the effectiveness of the argument he develops in tandem with the structure of Langland’s poem: he sustains and tests his argument in a series of steps or “passus,” a Langlandian mode of proceeding. His essay unfolds an argument...
Praying and Believing in Early Christianity
The Interplay between Christian Worship and Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
What was the impact of liturgy on the development of orthodox doctrine in the early Christian church? With renowned liturgical historian Maxwell E. Johnson as a guide, readers of Praying and Believing in Early Christianity will discover the important and sometimes surprising ways that worship helped...