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by Thomas Hobbes
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
LEVIATHAN or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil-commonly referred to as Leviathan-is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668). Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan. The work concerns the structure of...
Character in Crisis
Does religion, morality and Christian character affect leadership?
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
To our Founding Fathers, character meant everything to the success of the nation and its leadership. Where did they get that idea? And what does it mean if we have strayed from that ideal today?
In this booklet: • 'New Israel' • Religion and Morality • Early American Life • America Today • Disrespect for Leaders • Deceived Ministers • Character Does Affect Leadership
by Adam Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
More and more young adults have opted out of Christianity and the church. The reason? Christians.
When young adults talk about the problems they have with Christianity and the church, they often name certain attitudes and behaviors they believe are practiced too often by Christians: judging...
Alone Before God
The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2002
Focusing on cemetery burials in late-eighteenth-century Mexico, Alone Before God provides a window onto the contested origins of modernity in Mexico. By investigating the religious and political debates surrounding the initiative to transfer the burials of prominent citizens from urban to suburban...
Let's Not Forget God
Freedom of Faith, Culture, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Born out of a speech celebrating the 1,700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan, in which emperors Constantine I and Licinius granted Christians legal rights, this book by Cardinal Angelo Scola gives attention to the crisis of religious freedom in the twenty-first century. Let’s Not Forget God outlines...
Acting for Others
Trinitarian Communion and Christological Agency
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This book explores why the metaphor of the church as a family is insufficient. In this, Arendt's concept of action and her criticism of privatizing the public political space by viewing it as a family are engaged through Bonhoeffer's ecclesiology and political theology and Staniloae's triadology and...
Walking the Bridgeless Canyon
Repairing the Breach Between the Church and the LGBT Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In 2001, Kathy Baldock, a straight conservative evangelical Christian, met Netto Montoya, a lesbian Native American, on a local hiking trail near her home in the Sierra Nevada. Their developing friendship challenged Baldock’s cultural and religious beliefs about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender...
Impossible People
Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2016
ECPA 2017 Christian Book Award Finalist The church in the West is at a critical moment. While the gospel is exploding throughout the global south, Western civilization faces militant assaults from aggressive secularism and radical Islam. Will the church resist the seductive shaping power of advanced...
A Nation of Religions
The Politics of Pluralism in Multireligious America
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
The United States has long been described as a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of religions in which Muslims and Methodists, Buddhists and Baptists live and work side by side. This book explores that nation of religions, focusing on how four recently arrived religious communities--Muslims,...
by Jules Casseus
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
THE JANUARY 12, 2010 EVENT that happened in our midst triggered a series of crises—emotional, mental, psychological, politic and social—that require the survivors to go through a period of mental and spiritual rehabilitation before meaningful participation in the reconstruction of Haiti can occur....
The New Sectarianism
The Arab Uprisings and the Rebirth of the Shi'a-Sunni Divide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Shi'a-Sunni conflict is one of the most significant outcomes arising from the Arab rebellions. Yet, there is little understanding of who is driving this tension and the underlying causes. By delving deeply into the historical factors leading up to the present-day conflict, The New Sectarianism...
Catholicism and Citizenship
Political Cultures of the Church in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
The beginning of the twenty-first century has provided abundant evidence of the necessity to reexamine the relationship between Catholicism and the modern, global world. This book tries to proceed on this path with a focus on the meaning, legacy, and reception in today’s world of the ecclesiology...
Reconsidering Religion, Law, and Democracy
New Challenges for Society and Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
How are Western, mostly secular, societies handling religion in its increasingly pluralistic and complex forms? What different forms of interactions between and negotiations of religion and religious beliefs can we see in contemporary society? What are the primary contenders in these interactions...
The Missing Martyrs
Why Are There So Few Muslim Terrorists?
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world-many of whom supposedly hate the West and ardently desire martyrdom-why don't we see terrorist attacks every day? Where are the missing martyrs? These questions may seem counterintuitive, in light of the death and...