Religious issues and debates Books

In print for more than two decades, On Moral Medicine remains the definitive anthology for Christian theological reflection on medical ethics. This third edition updates and expands the earlier awardwinning volumes, providing classrooms and individuals...

Does what we are capable of doing define us as human beings? If this basic anthropological assumption is true, where can that leave those with intellectual disabilities, unable to accomplish the things that we propose give us our very humanity? Hans...

Cultural differences increasingly impact our everyday lives. Virtually none of us today interact exclusively with people who look, talk, and behave like we do. David Smith here offers an excellent guide to living and learning in our culturally...

Religion, Language and Power shows that the language of 'religion' is far from neutral, and that the packaging and naming of what English speakers call 'religious' groups or identities is imbued with the play of power. Religious Studies has all too...

The study of pilgrimage often centres itself around miracles and spontaneous populist activities. While some of these activities and stories may play an important role in the emergence of potential pilgrimage sites and in helping create wider interest in...

This book discusses the evolution of state governance of Islam and the nature and forms of local Muslims' rediscovery of their 'Muslimness' across post-communist Eurasia.

EditorialThe Subjunctive Power of GodJOHN D. CAPUTO 12The Inter-Action of Power and Authority:The Force of the Symbol and the Strengthening of RealityJOÃO J. VILA-CHÃ 22Power As Service: A Critical Reading of Power from the New TestamentIVONI...

EditorialStephen Platten 03ArticlesMarriage in Living in Love and Faith 10Robin GillA Lesbian Living in Love and Faith 20Jennie HoganNow You See Us, Now You Don't: 30A Trans Perspective on LLFRachel MannDivorce or New Birth?: 40Living in Love and Faith...

or Elizabeth Moltmann-Wendel, friendship is an underestimated treasure which needs to be rediscovered. Friendship, she argues, is an alternative to traditional family ties which respects friends as different from ourselves. Friendship with one's body and...

This first extended study of Don Cupitt's writings discusses them from his earliest articles up to and including The Long-Legged Fly, published in 1987. Such a survey is badly needed, the author argues, because so many of the attacks on Don Cupitt are...

Arguing from Scripture and history, Dr. Boyd makes a compelling case that whenever the church gets too close to any political or national ideology, it is disastrous for the church and harmful to society. Dr. Boyd contends that the American Evangelical...

This book by a distinguished Roman Catholic marital counsellor and senior consultant at the Central Middlesex Hospital, and the former Anglican Bishop of Birmingham, who was also Chairman of the Church of England's Board for Social Responsibility, arose...

Travis Pickell explores the paradoxes of choice in modern dying and the ways Christian theology can aid in navigating the relationship between moral agency and dignity at the end of life.Burdened Agency addresses the problem of death and dying through...

For nearly three decades political observers have sought to understand the complex relationship between Hillary Clinton's faith and her politics. Now, in this first spiritual biography of the former first lady, acclaimed historian Paul Kengor sets out to...

With a sharp wit, and an abundance of sarcasm and cynicism, it is as though the author was looking under every rug and opening all the closet doors exposing the dirty little secrets and the skeletons that have America marching toward the exit doors of...

Truth before Logic explores the provocative implications of the claim that ""you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."" Chesterton counters the sterile, truncated worldview of scientism with an appeal to a deep...

Can science rule out God?To properly understand the history of the universe and humanity, one can turn to any of the three religions discussed herein, but gaining insights into the theories of scientists like Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, and Stephen...

Un ensayo analitico del poder, la vulnerabilidad y el sufrimiento en la vida y el ministerio de los lideres a mitad de carrera ofrece un correctivo necesario y un recordatorio para un replanteamiento del poder. La pugna en la dinamica del poder, a menos...

The revised edition of The Rise and Fall of Satan: A Socio-Cultural and Psycho-Spiritual Analysis of the Most Invisible and Enigmatic Figure in Human History is an insightful text that views Satan from a diverse range of perspectives in a way that's...

This book presents suffering for the Lord as an inevitable thing. It posits suffering as one of the great promises of the Lord Jesus Christ to all who are determined to serve Him faithfully, as He deserves to be served.Prof Z.T. Fomum demonstrates,...

This new work by Dr. David Tee guides the church away from secular science's methods, practices, and thinking. It is designed to bring the church's scientific position back in line with God and His ways. The author does this by exploring different...

Secularism emerged in 17th-century Europe as an essential element of whatbecame the modern state. The separation of church and state that it entailedpaved the way for the democratic republics we take for granted today.Tolerance, as understood in the...

Aberglaube, seltener Aberglauben, bezeichnet abwertend einen "als irrig angesehener Glauben an die Wirksamkeit übernatürlicher Kräfte in bestimmten Menschen und Dingen" (z. B. Hexerei oder Talismane), unter anderem auch eine Vorstellung vom Wirken...

Über die Religion ist eines der bedeutendsten Werke des Theologen Friedrich Daniel Schleiermacher. Es wurde 1799 veröffentlicht und legte den Grundstein für seinen Ruf als 'Kirchenvater des 19. Jahrhunderts'. Schleiermacher erklärt darin seine Sicht...

The colonial church was critical in training the founding generation on biblical principles for governing justly. When England governed unjustly over a long period of time with no intention of changing course, the leaders of the Continental Congress...

How should a person who believes the Bible and loves Jesus respond when their romantic desires go against what they've been taught? Tried to be Straight: Options for Gay Christians is written to the people who need solutions, because the all-too-frequent...

A Jewish atheist, son of Holocaust survivors, was on a quest to find peace and security for his family in the time of the nuclear threat during the Cold War between Russia and America. With his inner peace threatened, his atheism didn't...

In the Middle Ages half of those who chose the religious life were women, yet historians have overlooked entire generations of educated, feisty, capable and enterprising nuns, condemning them to the dusty silence of the archives. What, though, were their...

In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with 'spiritual vision'. However, it ended dramatically when two men believed to be sorcerers and responsible for much of the...

This book -- "Alcohol and the Bible/Sobering Questions" -- answers the following important questions about social and recreational consumption of Alcohol.  Is Alcohol an Intoxicating Drug?  Is Alcoholism a Disease?  Is Moderate...

What motivates practice of the liturgy and sacramental rites of the church? Does the worship of God begin and end within each ritual enactment, or does the truth and value of sacramental celebration reside in the broader context of Christian life in...

The Ever Changing Sky: Meditations on the Psalms, a book of lay meditations on the Psalms composed in fits and starts over a thirteen-year period, is for anyone struggling with the challenges of leading an authentic life in what poet John Keats termed an...

In a fallen world, politics will be a brutal, at times violent, sport. Grandstanding, demonizing, misleading, and lying are the native language of political debate. Violence is historically how political conflicts are ultimately resolved. This fact...

Fifty years after Stonewall, the experiences of LGBTQ+ Christians are--rightfully--beginning to be received with interest by their churches. Queering Wesley, Queering the Church presents a prototype for thinking about Wesleyan holiness as an expansive...

This book came because I wanted to be a notary public. I met the lady in charge. She asked me to raise my right hand and swear to uphold the Constitution. My answer was, "I do not know what it says." Her answer was what caused me to study more and then...

"In an era when the American church is actively pursuing political power, 'Christian Faith and Religious Freedom' provides a timely and important analysis of the biblical and Christological basis of religious freedom. Dr. Norskov Olsen has achieved a...

During the exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land, God told the Israelites that the city in which He would place his name should be their center of worship or the economic capital. But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your...

Truth equals fact.Scientists can easily prove that dinosaurs lived millions of years ago, but they struggle to explain what caused their extinction. Nothing seems to make sense. The truths in this book will change the thinking of intelligent people and...

Today the atmosphere cracks with excitement and the anticipation of dynamic challenges as we transition from one government to another. We must take drastic actions to recovery because we cannot afford to elect leaders that are political Svengali who...

Scientists know history and scientific facts. Religious people know history and spiritual experiences. Both are right. Many scientists reject God and in their failure to be able to explain evolution from its beginning, have theorized many unproven...

Dr. Raymond Saintil, le fondateur de la mission de l'Eglise Baptiste Haïtienne de Béthanie, fondée en 1993. 18 ans dans l'enseignement au niveau du secondaire, de la troisième au baccalauréat. Professeur de langues vivantes et mortes. Par exemple :...