Religious issues and debates Books

A new movement in American Christianity calls itself ""Matthew 25 Christians."" It follows a long train of new religious movements founded in a rediscovered biblical text that migrates to a new context and sets the church on a new course. Good news to...

This book explores the political-theological implications of sacramental desire in Fyodor Dostoevsky`s The Brothers Karamazov with Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra in critical dialogue with Henri de Lubac. Suderman demonstrates how the work...

On what basis should we accept or reject political or social philosophies that insist human nature, human wisdom and human cooperation have the potential to resolve our issues and problems if we buy into the morality espoused by liberal politics and...

Estados Unidos está en un camino impactante hacia el totalitarismo; El socialismo es sólo una meta. Un número creciente de conservadores y liberales han advertido públicamente de las numerosas y cada vez más visibles señales. Los creyentes...

What can you do when you see bridges between people breaking down all around you? What should you do?Dr. Ron Higdon has served many congregations and taught seminars over many years, helping people to learn to reach out to one another, learn to work...

This insightful book exposes the lies, coercion, and fear tactics used by Christian churches to get people to tithe. To say that the curse of the tithing law even exists today is a lie. This teaching conflicts with the truth stated in Galatians 3:13. The...

Classical Ethics is a thorough and well-balanced compendium of Western and non-Western ethical systems in a multicultural historical framework.Zeuschner focuses on the key concepts and presumptions of 13 major philosophers from around the world. He...

Rather than embracing the conflict around gay relationships as an opportunity for the church to talk honestly about human sexuality, Christians continue to hurt one another with the same tired arguments that divide us along predictable political battle...

Healing the Racial Divide retrieves the insights of Dr. Arthur Falls (1901-2000) for composing a renewed theology of Catholic racial justice. Falls was a black Catholic medical doctor who dedicated his life to healing rifts created by white supremacy and...

What is the relationship between faith, especially Christian faith, and a lifestyle that respects animals as our neighbors and kin? Why should faith entail a commitment to vegetarianism? Are animals meant to be heirs of the kingdom of God as well as...

In Ethics and the Autonomy of Philosophy, Bernard Walker sets out with two objectives. First, Walker argues that ethics is autonomous as a discipline. Oftentimes ethics books, from a Christian perspective, lean toward grounding ethics in theology or in...

The thesis examines the Catholic social teaching, as it is expressed in papal encyclicals, in wide context of contemporary political doctrines and major events of 20th century. The author proposes a method of following political messages of the Catholic...

A Childlike Dream is a collection of new parables based on biblical principles and relevant for people of all ages.  The book is about a cricket who tries to help a grouchy grasshopper but loses himself in the process. 

In Baseball Hits and Bible Bits, pastor and former Minor League pitcher Frank D. Minton shares unforgettable stories and anecdotes about two of his great loves in lifebaseball and the Bible.When Minton was eleven years old, God called him to preach; that...

Faith in Unions is a personal account, representing a critique of Whiteness and Black marginality in the Faith Workers Trade Union. In short, it is a Black theology critique of the way Muslim and Hindu faith workers have been treated in the British...

The author is profusely grateful to God for dear life. The greatest appreciation is in the revelation of Jesus Christ as the Son Of God, the revelation of the Father and the Holy Spirit. The author registers great wonder at the essence of Divinity that...

We can make Jesus look very small if we are not careful. Your Jesus Is Too Small explores how a trivialized Jesus contributes to a collapsed Christian moral character. The 2016 election exposed the truth that for many Christians character does not count,...

In this remarkable book, Alexander Zephyr reveals the true identities of the nations that will participate in the genocidal conspiracy against Israel described by the Prophet Asaph in Psalm 83. Through extensive research, Zephyr offers biblical scholars...

"God made the universe simplistic; man made the understanding of the universe complicated." The modern world has so many theories-so many voices expounding on how the universe began, how it works, and how it may end-it's no wonder there is mass confusion...

This book you have in front of you is like nothing that you have ever experienced, or ever will, when it comes to the topic of evolution vs. creation. The learned theologians and the intellectual archeologists and evolutionists couldn't figure it out! ...

In 1749 Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, surprised leading Enlightenment thinkers who had enthusiastically upheld the positive benefits of humanity's technological advance. Voltaire, who celebrated the ends of civilization,...

Ideas for this book were transferred by the Himalayan Teacher Djwhal Khul. Here we talk about issues of thermodynamics. And first of all we will explain what in our view is a physical concept of temperature.In physics the concept of "temperature refers...

Laura never imagined she would talk to spirits--and didn't want to for many years. When she sensed spirits she sent them away. That all changed in 2007 when a spirit came into a client's therapy session and ended up helping the client...

This book explores religion-regime relations in contemporary Zimbabwe to identify patterns of co-operation and resistance across diverse religious institutions.

This classic work of theology explores the relationship between Christianity and politics. With its focus on the idea of a 'Christian commonwealth,' this book argues that the principles of Christianity should guide the operations of the state. From...

This book explores the topic of death and how to prepare for it.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States...

Dieses Buch bietet eine eingehende Analyse der Ethik des Schweizer Reformators Huldreich Zwingli. Der Autor, Paul von Kügelgen, bietet einen kritischen Blick auf die Überzeugungen und Überlegungen von Zwingli und zeigt, wie sie die moderne Ethik...

This book is a guide to attaining true happiness and salvation by following the teachings of the ancient philosophers and early Christian fathers. It provides step-by-step instructions on how to live a virtuous life and prepare oneself for the afterlife...

On September 11, 2001, Americans witnessed horrific carnage inspired by religious extremism. We saw religious fundamentalists will stop at nothing to reign terror on those they regard as their enemies.  In our response, we began to focus on the...

In the face of continuing animosity between religions, this compilation of the common ethical and spiritual beliefs of eight of the world's major religions emphasizes the universality of our values. Excerpts from the sacred texts of Christianity, Islam,...