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The Once and Future Church
Reinventing the Congregation for a New Mission Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1991
Mead takes a broad look at past and present changes in the church, and postulates a future to which those changes are calling us. Denominations, once structured to deliver resources to far-off lands of foreign mission, now encounter the mission field in the layperson's workplace and the community...
Electing Our Bishops
How the Catholic Church Should Choose Its Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2007
How does one become a bishop in the Catholic Church? Electing our Bishops: How the Catholic Church Should Choose Its Leaders explains how history, politics, and religious tradition converge to produce the episcopacy. The book gives an historical overview from the earliest times when bishops were elected...
Generations of Faith
A Congregational Atlas
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
In 1991 a pair of Ivy League-educated Californians, William Strauss and Neil Howe, published a landmark book, Generations: The History of America's Future from 1584 to 2069. In Generations and subsequent books, they develop a theory that generational cycles repeat through American history at about...
The Abyss
Bridging the Divide between Israel and the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Eli Avidar looks into the abyss that divides Israel from its Arab neighbors, in order to understand the inherent flaws, prevailing misunderstandings, and tragic mistakes that characterize the relations and bloodletting, and how, if at all possible, to bridge the differences. In doing so, he offers...
by Richard Buel Jr., Jeffers Lennox
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
The drafting and ratification of the federal constitution between 1787 and 1788 capped almost 30 years of revolutionary turmoil and warfare. The supporters of the new constitution, known at the time as Federalists, looked to the new national government to secure the achievements of the Revolution....
The Blessings of Liberty
A Concise History of the Constitution of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This concise, accessible text provides students with a history of American constitutional development in the context of political, economic, and social change. Constitutional historian Michael Benedict stresses the role that the American people have played over time in defining the powers of government...
The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt
Dramaturgical Leaves: Essays about Musical Works for the Stage and Queries about the Stage, Its Composers, and Performers Part 1
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
In Dramaturgical Leaves: Essays about Musical Works for the Stage and Queries about the Stage, Its Composers and Performers, the third volume in Janita R. Hall-Swadley’s The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt, Liszt heralds his admiration for early nineteenth-century opera and musical stage works....
Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309–1417
Popes, Institutions, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
With the arrival of Clement V in 1309, seven popes ruled the Western Church from Avignon until 1378. Joëlle Rollo-Koster traces the compelling story of the transplanted papacy in Avignon, the city the popes transformed into their capital. Through an engaging blend of political and social history,...
Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
Understanding World Religions
A Road Map for Justice and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Understanding World Religions introduces students to major worldviews—including Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Native American, and Marxist—through the lens of justice and peace. The second edition has been updated and revised throughout.
After an introduction to key themes...
After the Doors Were Locked
A History of Youth Corrections in California and the Origins of Twenty-First Century Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The California youth corrections system is undergoing the most sweeping transformation in its 154-year history. The extraordinary nature of this change is revealed by the striking decline in the state’s youth incarceration rate. In 1996, with 10,000 youth confined in 11 state-run correctional facilities,...
Choosing the Kingdom
Missional Preaching for the Household of God
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Today the Christian faith is moving through one of the greatest sea changes in its two thousand year history, and we can no longer assume we know exactly what kind of animal preaching is or ought to be. Choosing the Kingdom is both a work of theology and a how-to guide for preachers who want to rethink...
by Paul Galbreath
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
In Leading through the Water, Paul Galbreath demonstrates one way of linking baptismal practice to daily life as congregations provide an alternative witness to the cultural voices around us. At the same time, it expands the vision of baptism from a single occasion to a distinctive way of life within...
More Than Money
Portraits of Transformative Stewardship
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
More than Money is a wondrous journey to 11 congregations across the United States that have been transformed by living out stewardship that is more than fundraising. Important factors emerge from the lively descriptions and records of dialogue between McNamara and the pastors and lay leaders he visited:...