Religious issues and debates Books

This book charts a new direction in humanities scholarship through serious engagement with the geopolitical concept of the Anthropocene. Drawing on religious stwhatudies, theology, social science, history and philosophy, and can be broadly termed the...

A 2014 Gallup Poll indicated that 26 percent of Americans believe that humans came into existence less than 10,000 years ago, with a much larger 37 percent believing the world was created in six 24-hour days. Those percentages represent around 83 million...

The ailments of the contemporary church are remarkably similar to those suffered by the fractious Corinthian church in the first century. This is the challenge presented in The Malady of the Christian Body, a two-volume commentary by Brian Brock and...

In a world marked by the effects of colonial displacements, slavery's auction block, and the modern observatory stance, can Christian theology adequately imagine racial reconciliation? What factors have created our society's racialized optic--a view by...

Christianity has lost control of its brand. That matters even for nonbelievers because Christian symbolism permeates Western culture. It shapes the source code for how we think about ourselves and what we expect from one another. If God is...

As a young Norwegian Lutheran teenager in rural Wisconsin, Brocker lay awake one night worrying whether he believed in Jesus enough to get to heaven. This getting-to-heaven anxiety reflected an excessive focus on individual salvation and a loss of...

Should society care about Christian morality? Are Christians out of touch with complex moral decision-making? Christian Morality: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Thinking about Contemporary Moral Issues provides readers with a framework for...

""Bless me Father, for I have sinned,"" says the penitent to open the dialogue in Catholic confessionals across the globe and throughout the ages. Along with the priest's words, ""For your penance . . ."" this encounter is an icon of Catholic life. But...

The love of money and the denial of living wages cast dark shadows on almost every aspect of life of this planet. Washington is full of millionaires who seem to have forgotten their duty to the American people. And corporate executives seek to increase...

Your Next Step in the American Political Arena Begins Here!Witnessing the U.S. political scene with intrigue and ambition? Have the aspiration to make a real difference but daunted by the complex electoral process? If so, "Pathway to the Podium: How to...

2016 will go down in history as a watershed political year and evangelicals--the largest identifiable voting bloc--were central to the many shocking attitudes and behaviors observed. D.A. Wonneberg, Ph.D. provides needed insight into how evangelicals...

For many centuries, science and religion have remained staunchly independent. Whenever issues have developed that simultaneously touched on both areas, debate often ensued-for example, when scientists first proposed that the earth revolved around the...

""Dell'Uso Moderato dell'Opinione Probabile"" ����� un saggio scritto da Alfonso Maria De Liguori nel 1851. In questo libro, l'autore esplora il concetto di ""opinione probabile"" e la sua applicazione nella vita quotidiana. L'opinione probabile �����...

""Defensa de los principios de 1789: El Concordato de 1801 (1884)"" es un libro escrito por Gustavo Lamarque que presenta una defensa de los principios de la Revoluci������n Francesa de 1789 y su influencia en el Concordato de 1801 entre Francia y la...

De Vrije Wil: Kritisch Onderzoek (1859) is een boek geschreven door Johannes Henricus Scholten. Het boek gaat over het concept van vrije wil en onderzoekt de vraag of mensen echt vrij zijn om hun eigen keuzes te maken. Scholten analyseert verschillende...

De Verhouding Der Ethiek Tot De Dogmatiek En De Practijk Der Godzaligheid is een boek geschreven door Phillipus Jacobus Hoedemaker en gepubliceerd in 1881. Het boek gaat over de relatie tussen ethiek, dogmatiek en praktijk van godzaligheid. Hoedemaker...

De Vel Imperativo Qvatenvs Ab Avt Particvla Differat est liber scriptus a Guilelmo Kohlmann anno MDCCCXCVIII editus. In hoc libro, auctor disserit de differentia inter adverbium ""vel"" et particulam ""aut"" in usu imperativi. Kohlmann argumentat quod...

In the 1920s and the 1930s, Turkey, Iran and Russia vehemently pursued state-secularizing reforms, but adopted different strategies in doing so. But why do states follow different secularizing strategies? The literature has already shattered the illusion...

When tragedy strikes a community, it is often unexpected with long-lasting effects on the people left in its wake. Too often, there aren't adequate systems in place to aid those affected in processing what has happened. This study uniquely combines...

The Rule of Law and the Rule of God examines the competing regimes of law and religion, using the concept of rule to illustrate the patterns of their interactions, and a multidisciplinary approach to demonstrate the global scope of their influence. It...

The book chronicles the evolution of the church's political power throughout Poland's unique history. Beginning in the tenth century, the study first details how Catholicism overcame early challenges in Poland, from converting the early polytheists to...

This volume addresses forced migration and mobility in the Muslim world. It explores the tensions between Muslim religious conceptions of space and place and new policies of "migration management" and secure borders. People from Muslim territories make up

In addition to showing how Sherman's march was decisive in leading to the collapse of slavery, this book demonstrates that the events of the Civil War lead directly to a greater scale and scope of independent activity on the part of Black churches. By...

Western and Muslim civilizations have demonstrated a vast capacity for productive engagement in the past and the present. But this long record of collaborative relationships has not prevented a contemporary escalation of the Western-Muslim 'clash of...

The Asian continent which is composed of tiger and emerging economies, is both a big producer and consumer of computer mediated communication. Research on cyberspace in the Asian context, however, began only after the 1990's when the digital revolution...

Many of America's political debates stem from media-constructed opposition between the religious right and secular left. However, the contentious dialogue between two seemingly-contrasting camps is based upon assumptions and stereotypes, rather than...

Intersex bodies, not easily classifiable as male or female, challenge the binary sex system operative in Western societies. They have often been pathologized, problematized, or altered via surgical intervention to make them less exceptional. Such bodies...

Can ethnography open new possibilities for theology in the often unlikely places where we live our faith? This book breaks new ground by using reflexive ethnographic methods to get academic theologians and everyday Christians talking to each other about...

This book uses the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures to prove that all the teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses concerning the Last Days and the good news of salvation are unscriptural. The author, an elder of Jehovah's Witnesses for 40...

The book describes the author's journey through life to understand who he is as a human being and, thus, his relationship to the universe in which he finds his expression. The expression requires comprehending what others have said about their...

Dieses Buch bietet eine eingehende Untersuchung der Lehre vom Tyrannenmord in der christlichen Theologie. Der Autor untersucht die verschiedenen christlichen Denker, die sich mit dieser Lehre beschäftigt haben, und analysiert ihre Argumente und...

Overman tackles the controversial topic of evolution from a Christian perspective. He deftly navigates the theological and philosophical issues surrounding the relationship between science and religion, ultimately arguing that the two are not...

This thought-provoking report offers a detailed examination of the relationship between Christianity and industrial problems. Drawing on extensive research and case studies, the Archbishops' fifth committee of inquiry provides valuable insights into the...

First published in 1904, this book remains a classic text on Christian ethics. Slater provides a detailed analysis of various moral dilemmas faced by Christians, including issues related to marriage, business, politics, and social justice. His thoughtful...

In this book, Arthur H Tabrum collects one hundred letters from eminent scientists on the subject of religion and science. The letters were previously unpublished and offer valuable insights into the beliefs of these prominent thinkers. A must-read for...

In this book, Isaac Amada Cornelison examines the complex relationship between religion and civil government in the United States. He argues that while America is a state without an established church, it is not without a religion. Cornelison explores...

In this book, Alexander M'Leod examines the causes and consequences of the present war through a biblical lens. He argues that the conflict is a result of man's sinful nature and departure from God's laws. M'Leod offers a unique perspective on the war...

"A Charge to Preach" is a continuation of Dr. Odom's "The Minister's Handbook". Readers will find that this book contains a wealth of invaluable information for those who profess the calling to preach on their lives. It lends itself as a...

HAS GOD SPOKEN?Provides specific Biblical statements that predate 31 recent major scientific discoveries.Archaeological research is used to prove Biblical prophecy predated by hundreds of years the historical calamities God brought to five ancient...

How has it come to pass that our generation views gender and sexuality as open to endless permutations of change? How have obscure academic books by Queer writers influenced popular culture? What sort of freedom are Queer writers really pursuing? How can...

John Fea offers a thoroughly researched, evenhanded primer on whether America was founded to be a Christian nation, as many evangelicals assert, or a secular state, as others contend. He approaches the title's question from a historical perspective,...