The Afternoon of Christianity
Tom獺s Hal穩k provides a poignant reflection on Christianity's crisis of faith while offering a vision of the self-reflection, love, and growth necessary for the church to overcome and build a deeper and more mature faith.In a world transformed by secularization and globalization, torn by stark political and social distrust, and ravaged by war and pandemic, Christians are facing a crisis of faith. In The Afternoon of Christianity, Tom獺s Hal穩k reflects on past and present challenges confronting Christian faith, drawing together strands from the Bible, historic Christian theology, philosophy, psychology, and classic literature. In the process, he reveals the current crisis as a crossroads: one road leads toward division and irrelevance, while the other provides the opportunity to develop a deeper, more credible, and mature form of church, theology, and spirituality--an afternoon epoch of Christianity.The fruitfulness of the reform and the future vibrancy of the Church depends on a reconnection with the deep spiritual and existential dimension of faith. Hal穩k argues that Christianity must transcend itself, giving up isolation and self-centeredness in favor of loving dialogue with people of different cultures, languages, and religions. The search for God in all things frees Christian life from self-absorption and leads toward universal fraternity, one of Pope Francis's key themes. This renewal of faith can help the human family move beyond a clash of civilizations to a culture of communication, sharing, and respect for diversity.
God and Technology
This Element brings work from the philosophy of technology into conversation with media, religion, culture studies, and work in digital religion studies to explore examples of how popular media and emerging technologies are increasingly framed and understood through a distinct range of spiritual myths, metaphors, images, and representations of God. Working with three case studies about how internet memes, popular films, and media coverage of public philosophy link ideas about God and technology, this Element draws attention to common conceptions that describe a perceived relationship between religion and technology today. It synthesizes these discussions and categories and presents them in four distinct models, showing a range of ways in which the relationship between God and technology is commonly depicted. The Element seeks to create a platform for scholarly study and critical discourse on technology's religious and spiritual representation in digital and emerging media cultures and contexts through this work.
Christianity and Agroecology
This Element draws on the transdisciplinary field of agroecology to clarify and deepen Catholic social teaching's natural law ethic. In response to the ecological crisis, social teaching has begun to appeal to ecology and the exemplarity of natural ecosystems to foster care of creation. Some have criticized this natural law ethic, along with its invocations of balance and harmony, as overly idealized, advocating instead for an alternative view in which ecological dynamism and ambiguity preclude appeals to ecology for guidance. While sympathizing with these criticisms, this Element offers a different way forward, contending that social teaching's natural law ethic should be revised rather than abandoned. Agroecology displays an approach to tilling and keeping the earth that accommodates dynamism and ambiguity, while also discerning ecological principles and processes that are mimicked agriculturally. In short, this Element argues that engaging agroecology can help social teaching clarify, concretize, and deepen its understanding of natural law.
Christianity and Agroecology
This Element draws on the transdisciplinary field of agroecology to clarify and deepen Catholic social teaching's natural law ethic. In response to the ecological crisis, social teaching has begun to appeal to ecology and the exemplarity of natural ecosystems to foster care of creation. Some have criticized this natural law ethic, along with its invocations of balance and harmony, as overly idealized, advocating instead for an alternative view in which ecological dynamism and ambiguity preclude appeals to ecology for guidance. While sympathizing with these criticisms, this Element offers a different way forward, contending that social teaching's natural law ethic should be revised rather than abandoned. Agroecology displays an approach to tilling and keeping the earth that accommodates dynamism and ambiguity, while also discerning ecological principles and processes that are mimicked agriculturally. In short, this Element argues that engaging agroecology can help social teaching clarify, concretize, and deepen its understanding of natural law.
Building on the Rock
What does it mean to truly follow Jesus?In the famous Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7), Jesus delivers His most celebrated and transformative message - a blueprint for life in His kingdom. From the Beatitudes to the Golden Rule, from loving our enemies to building on the rock, these words are not mere ideals; they are an urgent call to action.In Building on the Rock, pastor, teacher and author Robert Griffith will take you on a compelling, chapter-by-chapter journey through this profound sermon. With broad biblical insight and practical application, he explores how Jesus speaks directly to our modern lives - addressing our worries, our relationships, our priorities, and our deepest need for grace.Whether you are new to faith or a lifelong follower of Jesus, this book will challenge you deeply to move from hearing to doing, from admiration to obedience, from sand to the rock.Discover how the greatest sermon ever preached can transform your life today. The question is not just, "Will you hear His words?"but "Will you live them?"
Bread Crumbs
A Christian Devotional, offers correction and encouragement. From January 1,2019-June 1,2019.
Master Nicholas of Dresden
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Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order
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Czechoslovak Heresy and Schism
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Seeing Through Religion
Seeing Through Religion is a cutting-edge textbook designed to help students in their study and research of the world's religious traditions. Providing the tools to learn this valuable subject theoretically, McGovern argues that religion isn't a thing out there in the world; it's the glasses on your face through which you see the world, shaped by Western history and, in particular, Christianity. By exploring the major religious traditions and comparing stereotypes about them to reality, this textbook establishes how the lens of "religion" systematically distorts our perception of the world. Topics covered include: What is Religion? Colonialism and the Two Faces of Orientalism Islam: Does Fear Imply Difference? Buddhism: A Philosophy or a Religion? Hinduism: A Polytheistic or a Monotheistic Religion? Chinese Religion: What Is It, and Where Can We Find It? Indian Religions: How Can One Religion "Include" Another? Tibetan Buddhism: Is It Still Buddhism? Judaism: A Religion or an Ethnicity? Indigenous Traditions: What Gets Counted as a Religion? Secularism: Can We Put Religion in a Box? How is the way we think about religion influenced by the theology of Martin Luther? How does the Christian paradigm of religion distort our perception of Christianity itself? This textbook not only provides a survey of important religious traditions but also guides the reader on how to study religion in a methodologically sophisticated way. This innovative volume is essential reading for those who want a contemporary and engaging approach to the study of world religions.
Political Theology Reimagined
Political theology has emerged as an enormously energetic, creative way of exploring the complex relationships between religion, politics, and culture around the world. Political Theology Reimagined centers decolonial, Black, queer, feminist, and Marxist modes of critical practice to offer a cutting-edge vision of the field that foregrounds a political theology animated by both a fascination with and a suspicion of the secular. Among other things, contributors explore how religious ideas, practices, and imaginations are inflected by anti-Blackness, patriarchy, and colonial histories; theorize anew the status of secularization narratives; probe the universality and translatability of conceptual abstractions; and experiment with the powers of genealogy and speculation. In short, they grapple with religion and critique in all their complexity, opening new itineraries in political theology by transforming its fundamental theoretical coordinates. Traversing diverse sites, from South Asia to the Middle East to Indigenous North America, and working across diverse scales, from the national to the planetary to the cosmic, this volume models the future of political theology by pairing rigorous critique with a commitment to collective liberation. Contributors. Prathama Banerjee, Agata Bielik-Robson, Kirill Chepurin, Alex Dubilet, James Edward Ford III, Lucia Hulsether, Basit Kareem Iqbal, Ada S. Jaarsma, Siobhan Kelly, David Kline, Adam Kotsko, Dana Lloyd, Vincent W. Lloyd, Beatrice Marovich, Aseel Najib, Milad Odabaei, Inese Radzins, George Shulman, Martin Shuster, Rafael Vizca穩no
Lord Send Me
Are you ready to answer the divine call and step into your God-ordained assignment?In a world filled with distractions, compromise, and spiritual apathy, Lord, Send Me is a clarion call to every believer who desires to walk in obedience, power, and purpose. This book challenges the reader to move beyond comfort zones, fear, and excuses, and to embrace the urgency of God's mission with boldness and surrender.Through biblical insight, prophetic revelation, and passionate exhortation, Pastor Claudine Benjamin explores what it truly means to be sent by God. This is more than a book-it's a spiritual commissioning. Whether you're a new believer or a seasoned leader, this message will stir your heart, ignite your faith, and reawaken your commitment to the Great Commission.You were born for more. You were chosen for this hour. The world is waiting-will you say, "Yes, Lord, send me"?
Suffering
If God exists, does he care about his evolving, suffering world? Most answers are unsatisfactory. Morris's book is different: short but not superficial, strong in its science and philosophy, and realistic as a carer of a handicapped teenage grandson, still unable to walk and talk. Like Stephen Hawking and Einstein, John Morris also tries to explore the mind of God. Violence began with the Big Bang, long before legendary Adam's sin. Morris believes God is typically non-interventionist but constantly interactive, operating creatively within his own physical laws, that allow freedom to particles and people, resulting in innovations and mutations, not always beneficial. Compared with other religions, Christ's cross and resurrection give more historic hope in a God who suffers alongside us, to create good, responsible persons. Here is a 100-minute read, of interest to believers and atheists alike. Its brave conclusion gives reasonable grounds for thinking we live in a loving God's best possible world, despite unavoidable suffering and natural disasters.
Hunting the Nazarene
Are you ready for the Truth? Citing historical evidence, including a secret mathematical code in the Gospel of John, John Koerner makes a compelling case that in the mysterious forty days after Jesus rose from the dead he was hunted down, executed, and resurrected a second time. The product of years of research and analysis, Hunting the Nazarene follows the evidence that the Catholic Church covered up the second resurrection for centuries.
Nurturing Happiness
How does religious faith contribute to happiness? The usual answer is that religious belief relieves the anxieties of ordinary life and that religious belonging provides emotional support. But a growing body of literature suggests that happiness is more complicated than that. Happiness is not only a feeling. It is a practice that we engage in actively, that we attempt to manage, and that is in many ways managed for us -- by social norms and institutions.In Nurturing Happiness, Robert Wuthnow develops the concept of emotional practice and locates it in the sociological literature on practice theory. He describes how American faith leaders at pivotal moments in their history attempted to nurture -- and control -- their adherents' thoughts about happiness and their experiences of it. He shows how religious authorities used their discursive power to draw moral distinctions among kinds of happiness and their institutional power to manage where it took place and how it was expressed. And he demonstrates that religious authorities' efforts to nurture happiness, while not always effective, played a crucial role in faith communities' adaptation to changing social conditions.This book describes these adaptations in colonial-era arguments about heavenly joy and virtuous living, nineteenth-century revival meetings and festive events, Progressive-era advocacy for useful service, recent efforts to link play with transcendence and to associate joyful spirituality with personal discipline, and current responses to the fallout from illicit pursuits of happiness. Nurturing Happiness is required reading for anyone interested in understanding how religious faith relates to happiness.
Dialogue with the Qur'an
Within the two essays collected in this book the author challenges the most traditional approaches to the Qur'anic studies and builds a dialogic dimension between the Book and the Reader. The first essay (2014) recalls the hermeneutic approach of the Egyptian philosopher N.H. Abu Zayd and expands his arguments by means of a critical comparison with Gadamer and Ricoeur. The second essay (2016) is instead focused on the figure of Abraham within the Qur'an and advances an alternative theory on the relation existing between the Islamic and the Jewish-Christian tradition.
The Great Religions
In "The Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology," James F. Clarke explores the core principles and unique features of the world's major faiths, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Through a comparative lens, he highlights both the profound similarities and significant differences in doctrines, practices, and ethical teachings, aiming to foster understanding and dialogue among diverse religious traditions. Clarke emphasizes the universal quest for meaning, spiritual truth, and moral guidance that underpins each religion, making the book a compelling introduction to the richness and complexity of global spiritual landscapes. The Great Religions - An essay in comparative theology is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899.
Isidore of Seville on the Pagan Gods (Origines VIII. 11)
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Ideas of Religious Toleration at the Time of Joseph II. a Study of the Enlightenment Among Catholics in Austria
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Nikolaos Masarites
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Toleration and Diplomacy
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Rome and the City of God
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Shaftesbury and the Deist Manifesto
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The Complete Picatrix
The Picatrix is the most famous grimoire of astrological magic and one of the most important works of medieval and Renaissance magic. With all four books of the Latin Picatrix complete in one volume, translated & annotated by the noted scholars, magicians and astrologers John Michael Greer & Christopher Warnock, Picatrix takes its rightful place as an essential occult text. Picatrix is an encyclopedic work with over 300 pages of Hermetic magical philosophy, ritual, talismanic and natural magic. Greer & Warnock's complete translation is lucid and well annotated and was created by astrologers and magicians for astrologers and magicians. Greer & Warnock's translation was intended to make this incredible grimoire accessible to practitioners and has made an important contribution to the revival of traditional astrological magic.
