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Letters to an Atheist
Wrestling with Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
In Letters to an Atheist, Peter Kreeft corresponds with a fictional young atheist to wrestle with the primary reasons for not believing in God. With characteristic warmth and clarity, Kreeft’s letters explore the arguments for God as well as dismantling the arguments against. From explaining the...
Opening the Field of Practical Theology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Opening the Field of Practical Theology introduces students to practical theology through an examination of fifteen different approaches—ranging from feminist to liberationist, Roman Catholic to evangelical, Asian American to Latino/a.
After an introduction to the field of practical theology...
by Matthew Floding, Barbara J. Blodgett, Charlene Jin Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Field education is an opportunity for students to develop ministry skills, practice ministerial reflection, discern their call, experience professional collegiality, and undergo personal transformation. Field education offers them a place to practice ministry and a space to reflect on it, to integrate...
by Jim Simons
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
An immaculate blanket of snowfall, the blessing of an unexpected gift, the miracle of a Heavenly Child—surprises are ingrained into the very nature of the Christmas tradition. Yet, when the overwhelming spirit of the holiday season collides with the chance conflicts of everyday life, it becomes...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
The Church in Colonial Latin America is a collection of essays that include classic articles and pieces based on more modern research. Containing essays that explore the Catholic Church's active social and political influence, this volume provides the background necessary for students to grasp the...
The Encyclicals of John Paul II
An Introduction and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Pope John Paul II was the second longest serving pope in history and the longest serving pope of the last century. His presence was influential not only to Catholics, but also throughout the world. The Encyclicals of John Paul II is the first book to focus in depth on the pope’s fourteen encyclicals,...
The Seven Deadly Sins
Society and Evil
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1989
When Stanford M. Lyman authored The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil in 1978 it was hailed by Alasdair MacIntyre as "a book of absorbing interest and importance…[that] places us all in his debt." By Nelson Hart as "a masterful and thought-provoking book…[that] is the only scholarly...
Jackie Robinson
An Integrated Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Jackie Robinson’s story is not only a compelling drama of heroism, but also as a template of the African American freedom struggle. A towering athletic talent, Robinson’s greater impact was on preparing the way for the civil rights reform wave following WWII. But Robinson’s story has always...
The Search for Beauty in Islam
A Conference of the Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2005
Khaled Abou El Fadl is a classically-trained Islamic jurist, an American lawyer and law professor, and one of the most important Islamic thinkers today. In this updated and expanded edition of The Search for Beauty in Islam, Abou El Fadl offers eye-opening and enlightening insights into the contemporary...
Chinese Migrations
The Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas over Four Millennia
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
The current waves of migration sweeping the Chinese world may seem like new phenomena, the outcome of modernization and industrialization. However, this concise and readable book convincingly shows that contemporary movements are just the most recent stage in a long history of migration, both within...
Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933–1946
A Source Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Combining rich documentation selected from the five-volume series on Jewish Responses to Persecution, this text combines a carefully curated selection of primary sources together with basic background information to illuminate key aspects of Jewish life during the Holocaust. Many available for the...
Resurrected?
An Atheist and Theist Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
The Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth is the central tenet of the Christian faith. St. Paul put it succinctly: if Christ did not rise from the dead, our faith is in vain. This remarkable dialogue between the leading Christian scholar of the Resurrection and the world's best-known philosophical atheist...
Meet Me in Venice
A Chinese Immigrant's Journey from the Far East to the Faraway West
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
When Ye Pei dreamed of Venice as a girl, she imagined a magical floating city of canals and gondola rides. And she imagined her mother, successful in her new life and eager to embrace the daughter she had never forgotten. But when Ye Pei arrives in Italy, she learns her mother works on a farm far...
Four Testaments
Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita: Sacred Scriptures of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Four Testaments brings together four foundational texts from world religions—the Tao Te Ching, Dhammapada, Analects of Confucius, and Bhagavad Gita—inviting readers to experience them in full, to explore possible points of connection and divergence, and to better understand people who practice...