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More Lasting Unions: Christianity, the Family and Society
ISBN: 9780802847072 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A powerful reassertion of the social and spiritual significance of marriage and the family. Many recent social theorists maintain that marriage and the nuclear family are not particularly important to the fabric of our culture. In this powerful refutation, grounded in both Christian teaching and social-science data, Stephen G. Post asserts that the bonds of marriage and family are fundamental to our social and spiritual well-being. Unique in the field for its wide treatment of relevant issues, More Lasting Unions also takes up these important topics: the special needs of children and of aging...
A powerful reassertion of the social and spiritual significance of marriage and the family. Many recent social theorists maintain that marriage and th...
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Confessing Jesus Christ: Preaching in a Postmodern World
ISBN: 9780802849830 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With its relentless insistence that there is no reality beyond that which we construct, postmodern thought questions the presuppositions of many disciplines, including homiletics. Offering a lively description of the postmodern worldview and its implications for Christian faith, Confessing Jesus Christ by David Lose teaches preachers how to rise to the challenges posed by our postmodern world. With its relentless insistence that there is no reality beyond that which we construct, postmodern thought questions the presuppositions of many di... |
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The Fate of Communion: The Agony of Anglicanism and the Future of a Global Church
ISBN: 9780802863270 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Current debates over a host of issues, particularly those relating to homosexuality, have left the 70-million-member Anglican Communion straining to understand what it means to be a communion -- and even wondering whether life as a communion is possible.
In this timely book two priest-scholars, Ephraim Radner and Philip Turner, examine the future of the concept of "communion" as a viable church structure, tracing its historical development as a self-conscious Anglican third way between Protestant congregationalism and Catholic centralism. In examining this essential issue, Radner and... Current debates over a host of issues, particularly those relating to homosexuality, have left the 70-million-member Anglican Communion straining to u...
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Intersections Peace
ISBN: 9780806601359 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Intersections are those crossroads in life where life experiences can draw us together and draw us closer to God. The Intersections Small Group series helps church members integrate faith into their daily lives as they discover Bible-based answers to questions about common life experiences. The books are interactive, easy-to-use, and focus on important issues shared by all members.
Intersections are those crossroads in life where life experiences can draw us together and draw us closer to God. The Intersections Small Group series...
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Interracialism and Christian Community in the Postwar South: The Story of Koinonia Farm
ISBN: 9780813920023 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now available in paperback, Tracy K'Meyer's book is a thoughtful and engaging portrait of Koinonia Farm, an interracial Christian cooperative founded in 1942 by two white Baptist ministers in southwest Georgia. The farm was begun as an expression of radical southern Protestantism, and its interracial nature made it a beacon to early civil rights activists, who rallied to its defense and helped it survive attacks from the Ku Klux Klan and others. Based on over fifty interviews with current and former Koinonia members, K'Meyer's book provides a history of the farm during its period of... Now available in paperback, Tracy K'Meyer's book is a thoughtful and engaging portrait of Koinonia Farm, an interracial Christian cooperative found... |
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Hunger for the Word: Lectionary Reflections on Food and Justice-Year A
ISBN: 9780814629208 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hunger for the Word provides weekly reflections on the lectionary readings for Year A from the standpoint of a concern for hunger and justice. Drawing on the insights and stories of pastors, professors, and other theologically grounded people who are active in anti-hunger advocacy through Bread for the Word, Hunger for the Word explores the scriptural witness with an openness to seeing how God's Word can nourish us in the struggle to feed the hungry.
Hunger for the Word provides weekly reflections on the lectionary readings for Year A from the standpoint of a concern for hunger and justice. Drawing...
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Hunger for the Word: Lectionary Reflections on Food and Justice-Year B
ISBN: 9780814630082 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hunger for the Word provides weekly reflections on the lectionary readings for Year B from the standpoint of a concern for hunger and justice. Drawing on the insights and stories of pastors, professors, and other theologically grounded people who are active in anti-hunger advocacy through Bread for the World, Hunger for the Word explores the scriptural witness with an openness to seeing how God's Word can nourish us in the struggle to feed the hungry.
Hunger for the Word provides weekly reflections on the lectionary readings for Year B from the standpoint of a concern for hunger and justice. Drawing...
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Hunger for the Word: Lectionary Reflections on Food and Justice-Year C
ISBN: 9780814630099 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We have all experienced hunger, whether it's a need for spiritual guidance or physical nutrition. Our hunger for God's Word can benefit those needing material sustenance. God's Word calls us to nourish the hungry and poor, just as it nourishes our faith and sustains us in our struggle for justice.
We have all experienced hunger, whether it's a need for spiritual guidance or physical nutrition. Our hunger for God's Word can benefit those needing ...
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Public Worship and Public Work: Character and Commitment in Local Congregational Life
ISBN: 9780814661932 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Description: In a time of increasing cultural pluralism and vast religious restructuring in the United States, Christian social ethics must take account of how values and commitments shape Christian communities. In Public Worship and Public Work Christian Scharen examines theological claims about the relationship of worship and ethics by means of ethnographic study of the life, worship, and work of three vibrant congregations. Public Worship and Public Work moves beyond two caricatures of the relationship between worship and social ethics. Rather than resolute portrayals of the Church as a...
Description: In a time of increasing cultural pluralism and vast religious restructuring in the United States, Christian social ethics must take accou...
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Protest and Progress: New York's First Black Episcopal Church Fights Racism
ISBN: 9780815334729 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As both a preeminent scholar of Balck Angelican and Episcopalians and devout parishoner, the late James Hewitt writes an illuminus hsitory of one of the most famous black congregrations in America. From its humble beginnings, St. Philip's originated from classes conducted by Elais Neau and other Angelic clerks for the society for the propagations of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. From these cateisem classes emerged a higly educated, African-American group comprised of free and enslaved blacks. W.E.B Dubuois hailed it as the foundation for the Talented Tenth in his classic book Souls of...
As both a preeminent scholar of Balck Angelican and Episcopalians and devout parishoner, the late James Hewitt writes an illuminus hsitory of one of t...
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Catholics and American Culture: Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day, and the Notre Dame Football Team
ISBN: 9780824519551 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While in the early years of the century Catholics in America were for the most part distrusted outsiders with respect to the dominant culture, by the 1960s the mainstream of American Catholicism was in many ways "the culture's loudest and most uncritical cheerleader." Mark Massa explores the rich irony in this postwar transition, by examining key figures in American culture in the last century.
While in the early years of the century Catholics in America were for the most part distrusted outsiders with respect to the dominant culture, by the ...
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View from the Altar: Reflections on the Rapidly Changing Catholic Priesthood
ISBN: 9780824521417 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "View from the Altar" opens a window into the lives of dedicated men of the Church who have repeatedly had to relearn their most cherished traditions, rituals, and roles.
Moving beyond the idealistic accounts of flawless priests, and the cynical rehearsal of grievances about the Church, Bleichner uses vignettes from actual experience to give us a account of the recent history, and likely future, of real men who dedicate their lives and spirits to the service of the Church.
"View from the Altar" opens a window into the lives of dedicated men of the Church who have repeatedly had to relearn their most cherished traditions,...
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The Woman Behind the Collar: The Pioneering Journey of an Episcopal Priest
ISBN: 9780824522650 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joy Wallis discusses with humor and compassion what it is like to be a leader in women's rights and the rights of the poor, as well as her work with her husband, prominment religious leader and Sojourners figure Jim Wallis.
Joy Wallis discusses with humor and compassion what it is like to be a leader in women's rights and the rights of the poor, as well as her work with h...
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Basic Questions on Suicide and Euthanasia
ISBN: 9780825430725 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Each booklet in the Bio Basics Series gives information describing the controversy of the issue and the implications for Christians and the church. The series addresses each concern with answers that will honor God and protect a humanity created in His image. Written from an evangelical Christian perspective, these resources should be read by both Christians and non-Christians as they address contemporary issues often discussed in the media.
Each booklet in the Bio Basics Series gives information describing the controversy of the issue and the implications for Christians and the church. Th...
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Christian Morality
ISBN: 9780829417227 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The "Catholic Basics" series offers an in-depth yet accessible understanding of the fundamentals of the Catholic faith for adults, both those active in pastoral ministry and those preparing for ministry. The series helps readers explore the Catholic tradition and apply what they have learned to their lives and ministry situations.
Each book in the series presents a Catholic understanding of its topic as found in Scripture and in the teachings of the Church. Chapters conclude with study questions that may be used for small group review or for individual reflection. Suggestions for further... The "Catholic Basics" series offers an in-depth yet accessible understanding of the fundamentals of the Catholic faith for adults, both those active i...
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Homosexuality: The Use of Scientific Research in the Church's Moral Debate
ISBN: 9780830815678 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stanton Jones and Mark Yarhouse help us face these issues squarely and honestly. In four central chapters they examine how scientific research has been used within church debates -- in particular within Methodist, Presbyterian and Episcopal contexts. They then survey the most recent and best scientific research and sort out what it actually shows. Next they help us to interpret the research's relevance to the moral debate within the church. In a concluding chapter they make a strong case for a traditional Christian sexual ethic.
Church groups considering these complex issues will find... Stanton Jones and Mark Yarhouse help us face these issues squarely and honestly. In four central chapters they examine how scientific research has bee...
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Still Bored in a Culture of Entertainment: Rediscovering Passion & Wonder
ISBN: 9780830823086 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though we have hundreds of entertainment options today--video games, the Internet, CD and MP3 players, home entertainment centers, sporting events, megamalls, movie theaters, and even robotic toys--Western culture is battling an insidious disease. It's an epidemic of boredom. Intrigued by this "deadness of soul," Richard Winter uses the latest historical, physiological and psychological research to probe the nature, causes and effects of boredom. He explores
Though we have hundreds of entertainment options today--video games, the Internet, CD and MP3 players, home entertainment centers, sporting events, me...
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Mapping Postmodernism: A Survey of Christian Options
ISBN: 9780830827336 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
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Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire
ISBN: 9780830827381 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing together biblical scholarship with a passion for authentic lives that embody the gospel, this groundbreaking interpretation of Colossians from Brian J. Walsh and Sylvia C. Keesmaat provides us with tools to subvert the empire of our own context in a way that acknowledges the transforming power of Jesus Christ.
Drawing together biblical scholarship with a passion for authentic lives that embody the gospel, this groundbreaking interpretation of Colossians from...
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Beyond Racial Gridlock – Embracing Mutual Responsibility
ISBN: 9780830833764 / Angielski / Miękka / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sociologist George Yancey critiques four models of race (colorblindness, Anglo-conformity, multiculturalism and white responsibility), and introduces a new model (mutual responsibility). He offers hope that people of all races can walk together on a shared path toward racial reconciliation--not as adversaries but as collaborators and partners.
Sociologist George Yancey critiques four models of race (colorblindness, Anglo-conformity, multiculturalism and white responsibility), and introduces ...
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