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Church, Capitalism, and Democracy in Post-Ecological Societies
A Chinese Christian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Most ecotheologies build their arguments on the Bible's creation-story and resurrection-narrative in the hope to save the ecology through spiritual meditation, reforming capitalism, and/or deliberative democracy. However, based on a Chinese Christian social scientist's perspective, this book argues...
Breaking and Entering
Unexpected Sermons for an Unfinished World
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
When Elizabeth Goodman first arrived at the tiny congregation that would become her home as a pastor--a congregation of about seven people in a town of just under a thousand--the longest-standing member told her that though the congregation was small, her preaching need not be. In this collection...
by John Raymaker, Godefroid Alekiabo Mombula
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Bernard Lonergan is a world-renowned philosopher, methodologist, and theologian. The complexity of his work has tended to limit his accessibility to average readers. Bringing Bernard Lonergan Down to Earth seeks to remedy this limitation by showing how Lonergan did address problems of community life....
Singing with Jesus
The Lord’s Psalm
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
We shouldn't be too surprised if Jesus, the Son of David, was also a song writer. The Lord's Prayer is a psalm, and reading the prayer as a psalm opens up its meaning. To read the Lord's Prayer as a psalm, you have to be able to read a psalm as a psalm. So this book is first of all an adventure in...
Husband, Wife, Father, Child, Master, Slave
Peter through Roman Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
When the New Testament speaks of slaves and masters, is it affirming an institution that we find reprehensible? Biblical scholars across the theological and political spectrum generally conclude that the answer is "yes." And in the same passages the Bible seems to affirm male dominance in...
The Certainty of Uncertainty
The Way of Inescapable Doubt and Its Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
The world is full of people who are very certain--in politics, in religion, in all manner of things. In addition, political, religious, and social organizations are marketing certainty as a cure all to all life's problems. But is such certainty possible? Or even good? The Certainty of Uncertainty...
Ready to Lead
Harnessing the Energy in You and around You
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
What makes the difference between those who aspire to lead and those who actually do it? What does anyone need to know about themselves and others, in order to be ready to lead? How might society benefit from persons who give time and energy to learn the skills of leadership readiness? This book offers...
by Hubert Prolongeau
Language: French
Release Date: February 9, 2005
Language: French
Release Date: February 9, 2005
Ils s’étaient côtoyés en classe, mais ne s’aimaient pas. Se méprisaient même. Ils se retrouvent vingt ans plus tard lors d’un dîner officiel. Qu’échanger sinon des banalités ? Pourtant, l’un, A., ressent le besoin de se confier à l’autre qui fut le témoin de sa jeunesse. Au cœur...
by Marie-Claire Célérier
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1984
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1984
Chef de clinique assistant, neuro-psychiatre et psychanalyste, l'auteur dénonce l'univers de l'hôpital. Premier constat : la médecine qu'on y pratique est une médecine dure. On soigne les corps sans s'occuper des âmes : Gisèle, qu'on traite pour une hépatite alcoolique, sans se soucier des...
by Monique Gehler
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Il est des villes d'Afrique où une personne sur quatre est porteuse du virus du sida. Injustice de la latitude, les Africains n'ont pas accès aux traitements chers et sophistiqués dont bénéficient les pays développés. La maladie se déploie, soufflant la peur, isolant les malades, touchant...
Bruno, mon fils
Une mère et les médecins
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1975
Une mère voit son fils de cinq ans mourir de leucémie dans un hôpital de province. Elle partage sa chambre d'hôpital, privilège qu'elle a obtenu non sans peine. Ce pourrait être simplement un récit poignant, c'est un acte d'accusation contre le système hospitalier, contre l'inhumanité qui...
Joseph Smith’s Tritheism
The Prophet’s Theology in Historical Context, Critiqued from a Nicene Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
I have always declared God to be a distinct personage, Jesus Christ a separate and distinct personage from God the Father, and that the Holy Ghost was a distinct personage and a Spirit: and these three constitute three distinct personages and three Gods. --Joseph Smith Few figures in North American...
The Passion of the Servant
A Journey to the Cross
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
The New Testament opens with four Gospel accounts that introduce the reader to Jesus Christ. From the very beginning, the redemptive drama moves toward the cross. The final week of Jesus's life, Passion Week, takes up nearly 40 percent of the entire narrative. The canonical Gospels provide four different...
by Guillemette Faure
Language: French
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: April 11, 2018
On a tous des vieux tee-shirts au fond de nos placards, au cas où il faudrait refaire les peintures. On a aussi des tas d’échantillons de produits de
beauté, des boîtes de boutons dépareillés qu’on ne recoudra jamais et évidemment un tiroir d’anciens chargeurs pour des appareils qui ne
fonctionnent...