Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christian Living - Social Issues

-If a mother can kill her own children, then what can be next?- Mother Teresa once asked.

What indeed?

Once the value of human life has been depreciated, as in Roe v. Wade and the Baby Doe Case, no one is safe. Once -quality of life- is substituted for the absolute value of human life itself, we all are endangered. Already respected scientists are calling for a time period following birth (a week or so) to decide if newborns have -sufficient quality of life- to be allowed to live. Already committees of -medical professionals- would like to decide whether the -quality...

Have Christians compromised their stand on truth and morality until there is almost nothing they will speak out against? Has the evangelical church itself sold out to the world?

A provocative and challenging book--but one that is tempered by Dr. Schaeffer's deep commitment to Christ and love for the church.

• The author sketches out a fascinating project using examples from US and UK institutions, whereby theology becomes a transformative force within universities.
• Imagines what a Christian university, in which all disciplines have been theologized, would look like.
• Feeds into discussions about the religious identity of denominationally-linked colleges and universities.
• Forms part of a wider attempt to imagine a vital public role for theology that enables it to serve both the...

With an equal emphasis on every word in the title--and with a distinctly American perspective--Himes and his distinguished associate editors and contributors, have assembled the most thorough and authoritative assessment of modern Roman Catholic social teaching to date, likely to remain the touchstone volume for decades. This culmination of many years of effort by twenty stellar scholars has produced a reference work for anyone interested in understanding or studying the key documents that comprise the central corpus of Catholic social teaching.

In addition to interrogations of the...