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Close our eyes and most of us can recite the Lord's Prayer by heart. It is as familiar as childhood memories. In some church traditions, we say the prayer together nearly every week, as a community standing before God. We call on those so familiar words and the comfort and direction they offer. The...

Though more than four hundred years have elapsed since the Bishops' Bible was first published in 1568, its story has never been adequately told. No book-length evaluation has been published, and no adequate bibliography is available for guidance in studying this least known of the Tudor-period Bibles....

The face of African Christianity is becoming Pentecostal. African Pentecostalism is a diverse movement, but its collective interest in baptism in the Spirit and the result of Pentecost in daily living binds it together. Pentecostals read the Bible with the expectation that the Spirit who inspired...

Abraham Joshua Heschel was the towering religious figure of American Jewry in the twentieth century. In Interfaith Activism, Harold Kasimow, who is known for his work on Heschel and on interfaith dialogue between Jews and members of other faiths, presents a selection of his essays on Heschel's thought....

The study of Christianity in the non-Western world reveals a demographic shift in the center of Christianity from the Northern Hemisphere to the South. But the contradictory aspect of the massive African conversion to Christian faith is the grinding poverty level in Africa. This condition raises important...

The West and China in Africa: Civilization without Justice is an outcome of Dr. Alemayehu Mekonnen's personal intellectual struggle, life experience, and an attempt to understand Christ and his message within the cultural context of Africa. The intellectual struggle has to do with the paradoxical...

La flamme olympique vient de s'éteindre : triomphe sur le stade, triomphe de la jeunesse, de l'amour, sous le ciel hellène, dans un monde peuplé de dieux. Ce monde grec, où notre civilisation trouve ses plus nobles origines, nous ne le voyons guère, d'ordinaire, que dans la froideur des musées....

À neuf ans, un jeune Florentin aperçoit une fillette de son âge : elle s'appelle Béatrice, lui, Dante Alighieri. Jamais il ne l'oubliera, et elle sera à l'origine d'une des grandes œuvres de la littérature mondiale. Les péripéties ne manquent pas dans la vie de Dante : en cette fin du XIIIe...

Too many churches limp along with no clear sense of mission. In Mere Ecclesiology: Finding Your Place in the Church's Mission, Dr. Crofford clarifies the purpose of God's people through the metaphor of spiritual respiration. "Breathing in" (worship and discipleship) leads to "breathing...

Discussion of Hell is hotter than ever. Yet for all the attention the topic has drawn, few are the resources that provide an overview of the major points in dispute without bogging down in detail. The Dark Side of Destiny: Hell Re-examined is an excellent primer, yet goes beyond a mere description...

Thomas F. Torrance's theology included a thoroughgoing, albeit implicit, ethic of reconciliation. It focused on the personalizing and humanizing mediation of Christ in all realms of life--including not only a supposed private dimension of human life but also the social, historical, and political structures...

Dans ce troisième volume de La grande intrigue, on retrouve Louise Herdoin et Nicolas Rubien, les cousins amants, au QG de campagne d’un candidat à la présidence de la République, un dimanche d’avril 2002 de sinistre mémoire. Au cours de l’été 2005, Christophe Herdoin, le frère de Louise,...

Option paradis est le premier tome d’une grande saga familiale en cinq volumes : La grande intrigue. François Taillandier renouvelle le roman familial et sociologique : contrairement à ses célèbres prédécesseurs, d’Émile Zola à Roger Martin du Gard, l’auteur se promène librement d’un...

L?histoire de cinq familles racontée sur cinq générations, en cinq volumes. Tel est le projet ambitieux de La Grande Intrigue avec lequel François Taillandier renouvelle le roman familial et sociologique. Contrairement à ses célèbres prédécesseurs, d?Émile Zola à Roger Martin du Gard, l?auteur...