Religion: general Books

The First Urban Churches 7 includes essays focused on the development of early Christianity from the mid-first century through the sixth century CE in the ancient Macedonian city of Thessalonica. An international group of contributors trace the emergence...

A leading scholar of religion applies a new method of interfaith understanding to Buddhist-Christian comparative theology providing rich new insights for students and scholars alike. In his ground-breaking Gifford Lectures, published as Religious...

The bestselling Orbis classic, with a new foreword by Sister Helen Prejean. Nolan's portrait of Jesus introduces us to the man as he was before he became enshrined in doctrine, dogma, and ritual, a man deeply involved with the real problems of his...

Offers a unique and inspiring way to think about religions and even one's own religion in light of the religious plurality that exists today. Looks at various religious/spiritual topics (Who is God? Who am I? How might I find and serve God? etc.) and...

All Oppression Shall Cease is an educational and rigorously researched era-by-era history of the Church's teaching and actions on slaveholding. Written for a general audience, All Oppression Shall Cease meets the urgent need in Catholic institutions for...

Howard Thurman (1988-1981) was one of the leading religious thinkers of 20th century America, a mentor to the leaders of the civil rights movement, and a mystic who pioneered influential innovations in liturgy, worship, and spirituality in the quest for...

Argues that the problem of impending ecological devastation cannot be solved without a repudiation of the whiteness, and white theology that created it. This means naming and rejecting white epistemological hubris, which objectifies the land and...

An overview of Pope Francis's contribution to Catholic social teaching, drawing especially on his teaching in Fratelli Tutti.

An answer to our most difficult social problems is underway, and it begins locally. In How to Remake the World Neighborhood by Neighborhood, Mack McCarter, founder of Community Renewal International (CRI), tells how CRI built a movement to heal racial...

An analysis of anti-Asian racism, told from a Catholic perspective and including relevant CST documents and current examples of anti-Asian racism, compared and contrasted with anti-Black racism. Three damaging anti-Asian stereotypes are examined from the...

The Spirit of Jesus Unleashed on the Church is the third book in a series concerning the restoration of Jesus' people in a world where the marginalized classes longed for reconciliation to God. After Jesus' ascension the early Christians fulfilled Luke's...

Luther's oft-recounted life made a profound impact on his contemporaries. Some revered him; some hated him. This volume provides a brief narrative of the unfolding events that took place from his birth to a young entrepreneurial family through his...

「但我斷不以別的誇口，只誇我們主耶穌基督的十字架。」（加6：14）那麼，保羅是什麼意思呢？他宣稱，除了耶穌基督被釘在十字架上，赦免了他的罪並拯救了他的靈魂之外，他別無信靠，這就是他的意思。要是有人願意到別處去尋找拯救，就隨他們去吧;要是有人真這麼定意去信靠別的東西以求得赦免和平安，也就隨他們去吧。但是就保羅自己而言，這位使徒定意不立足於任何別的東西之上，他不依靠於任何別的東西，他的盼望也不本於任何別的事物，他的自信也不建立在任何其他事物之上，他斷不以別的誇口，只誇我們的主耶穌基督的十字架。讀者啊，請讓我來...

The modern restorative justice movement, perhaps one of the most important social movements of our time, was born in a Christian home to Christian parents, specifically to Christian peace workers striving to put their faith into action in the public...

Process and Dipolar Reality takes up Whitehead's challenge to philosophy to regain its proper status, namely, an adventure in speculative thought elaborating a categoreal scheme aiming to be the coherent, conceptual framework within which every possible...

Combined here in one volume are two books, The Crisis of Religious Symbolism and Symbolism and Reality. Although published seven years apart, these two works are integral to one another. Symbolism and Reality represents a kind of sabbath rest--its...

Not many theologians have had as great an impact on the study of peace and violence as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was labeled an Enemy of the State and eventually executed in April 1945. In this book, Trey Palmisano examines the theological connection...

2013 Reprint of 1921 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher. His major philosophical essay...

Kashmir's Thin Red Lines is a compilation of works of Dr Syed Shujaat Bukhari who dedicated his life for furthering the field of journalism in Kashmir. The book covers selected works of Dr Shujaat related to different political developments in Jammu and...

The Parish of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart was established by Dennis Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia, on April 17, 1919, among the beautiful rolling hills in the farming community of Hilltown in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

The quest to live much longer has moved from legend to the laboratory. Recent breakthroughs in genetics and pharmacology have put humanity on the precipice of slowing down human aging to extend the healthy life span. The promise of longer, healthier life...

In this second volume, David H. Bradley picks up the story of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Zion in 1873. From there he follows A. M. E. Zion's growth through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement, showing the denomination's...

The work is a history of Jewish beliefs regarding the concept of the soul, the idea of resurrection, and the nature of the afterlife. The work describes these beliefs, accounts for the origin of these beliefs, discusses the ways in which these beliefs...

Classical Christian theologies came to expression at a time when the universe seemed relatively fixed and unchanging. The otherworldly spiritual instincts of many religions reflected a static, vertical, and hierarchical understanding of the natural world...

""My theological work was always only a superstructure placed upon the experiences and sufferings of my life . . ."" --Helmut ThielickeThielicke's story is one of extraordinary circumstances. Especially as a young man, living through Germany's darkest...

Echoes of Contempt is an engaging and vivid account of the tragic history of the church's relationship with Jewish communities over two millennia. Beginning with the Jerusalem house church, the book traces that history through medieval pogroms and the...

""These essays have been brought together with a number of purposes in mind, within the context of a basic concern to explore something of the depth and vitality of the Jewish scriptures and of the Jewish and Christian religious traditions that have...

Why did Jesus die on the cross? Does the atonement have any spiritual significance? This book is a bold and imaginative endeavor to make atonement theology rational, in a fresh way, in our interreligious world.Seeking connections between Christian and...

This book provides a specific proposal for churches divided by centuries-long disputes and disagreements to move toward a vision of the unity of the church. It seeks to offer a way for divided churches to move beyond the present quagmire that challenges...

For over forty years Stanley Hauerwas has been writing theology that matters. In this new collection of essays, lectures, and sermons, Hauerwas continues his life's work of exploring the theological web, discovering and recovering the connections...

What does it mean, as a person of faith, to maintain and even strengthen one's physical body? What does it mean to "glorify God in your body" (1 Corinthians 6:20) in a time when bodily perfection is popularly defined by advertising firms, while food...

First published in 1956, Rev. David S. Bradley Sr. wrote what was at the time and remains today the most thorough, scholarly history of the beginnings and growth of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Beginning with the birth of A. M. E. Zion...

Today, we live in a world where we are less exposed to violence than at any other time in history. However, we also know that violence can come knocking on our door at any moment. Preparing for this possibility means more than physical safety; it means...

Are all governments--east and west, Muslim and secular, authoritarian and constitutional, Republican and Democratic--fundamentally the same, all of them under the extraordinary, growing power of ""technique"" and bureaucracy? Is all politics, then, just...

At the beginning of the Common Era, Jewish renewal movements, including Jesus' ministry, had similar views: embracing moderate ascetic behavior. Over the next three centuries, however, they moved in opposite directions. Christianity came to firmly...

At a moment in which interest in political theology is rising, acceptance of a public role for religion is declining, and cynicism regarding both political and religious institutions is overflowing, this book investigates the possibilities and...

We live in the wealthiest and most heavily defended world in history, so why do we feel so insecure? In a secular world, what does Christian theology have to say about this problem? Security after Christendom combines practical examples, social...

Jews and most Christians know about only 150 "Psalms of David"; they were collected in the Davidic Psalter of the (Masoretic) Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Since about 200 BCE, the Greek translation of the Davidic Psalter contained 151 Psalms of David...

Political philosophy is nothing other than looking at things political under the aspect of eternity. This book invites us to look philosophically at political things in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, demonstrating that Tolkien's potent mythology can be...

Peter Chaadaev (1794-1856) is rightfully considered to be one of the forerunners of modern Russian philosophy. There is a famous scene from his life that may help us to understand both his own thought as well as the whole subsequent tradition of Russian...

Constantine's conversion to Christianity marks one of the most significant turning points in the epic of Western civilization. It is also one of history's most controversial and hotly-debated episodes. Why did Constantine join a persecuted sect? When did...

""Without doubt the most competent analysis of Schaeffer's work to date. Morris is a first-rank philosopher and an ardent evangelical: his critique is a needful but friendly one, and he puts his finger on key issues.""--Arthur F. Holmes, Wheaton...