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Equal Rites: The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture
By Forsberg Jr., Clyde R.. 2004
Both the Prophet Joseph Smith and his Book of Mormon have been characterized as ardently, indeed evangelically, antimasonic. Yet in…
this sweeping social, cultural, and religious history of nineteenth-century Mormonism and its milieu, Forsberg argues that masonry, like evangelical Christianity, was an essential component of Smith's vision.Intimate Violence: Attacks Upon Psychic Interiority
By Joseph Scalia. 2002
Offering a compassionate view of the interior life of the batterer, this book explains the inner mechanisms of the batterer's…
violent behavior, analyzes society's negative depictions of abuse as well as general ideas concerning victims, and proposes alternative views. Finally the book addresses treatment methodologies that will result in permanent change.Feasting on the Word: Advent Companion
By David L Bartlett, Barbara Brown Taylor, Kimberly Bracken Long. 2014
This new volume in the Feasting on the Word series provides an all-in-one pastor's companion for Advent, including worship materials…
as well as sermon preparation tools. A complete order of service is provided for each of the four Sundays in Advent, plus Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Hymn suggestions, sermon illustrations, and children's sermon suggestions make this an invaluable resource for the Advent season.Feasting on the Word® Worship Companion
By Kimberly Bracken Long. 2012
Based on the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL), Feasting on the Word Worship Companion: Liturgies for Year A, Volume 2 provides…
liturgical pieces used in preparing for worship. Written and compiled by an ecumenical team of 11 seasoned liturgy writers, this resource offers a multitude of poetic prayers and responsive readings for all parts of worship and is meant to complement existing denominational resources. In addition, the weekly entries include questions for reflection and household prayers for morning and evening that are drawn from the lectionary, allowing churches to include them in their bulletin for parishioners to use throughout the week. During times of the year when two different tracks of Old Testament texts are offered by the RCL, this resource offers an entire set of materials for each track. Also, a CD-ROM is included with each volume that enables planners to easily cut and paste relevant readings, prayers, and questions into worship bulletins. Liturgy writers include the following: Kimberly L. Clayton, Director of Contextual Education, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia; Presbyterian Church (U. S. A. ) David Gambrell, Associate for Worship in the Office of Theology and Worship, Presbyterian Church (U. S. A. ), Louisville, Kentucky; Presbyterian Church (U. S. A. ) Daniel M. Geslin, Pastor, Sixth Avenue United Church of Christ, Denver, Colorado; United Church of Christ Kimberly Bracken Long, Associate Professor of Worship, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia; Presbyterian Church (U. S. A. ) L. Edward Phillips, Associate Professor of Worship and Liturgical Theology, Candler School of Theology, Atlanta, Georgia; United Methodist Church Melinda Quivik, Liturgical Scholar, Houghton, Michigan; Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Carol L. Wade, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Lexington, Kentucky; Episcopal ChurchFeasting on the Word®
By Kimberly Bracken Long. 2013
This new volume in the Feasting on the Word series provides an all-in-one pastor's companion for Advent, including worship materials…
as well as sermon preparation tools. A complete order of service is provided for each of the four Sundays in Advent, plus Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Hymn suggestions, sermon illustrations, and children's sermon suggestions make this an invaluable resource for the Advent season.Sabbath as Resistance
By Walter Brueggemann. 2014
Discussions about the Sabbath often center around moralistic laws and arguments over whether a person should be able to play…
cards or purchase liquor on Sundays. In this volume, popular author Walter Brueggemann writes that the Sabbath is not simply about keeping rules but rather about becoming a whole person and restoring a whole society. Importantly, Brueggemann speaks to a 24/7 society of consumption, a society in which we live to achieve, accomplish, perform, and possess. We want more, own more, use more, eat more, and drink more. Keeping the Sabbath allows us to break this restless cycle and focus on what is truly important: God, other people, all life. Brueggemann offers a transformative vision of the wholeness God intends, giving world-weary Christians a glimpse of a more fulfilling and simpler life through Sabbath observance.The Westminster Dictionary of Theological Terms
By Donald K. Mckim. 2014
This second edition of the Westminster Dictionary of Theological Terms provides a comprehensive guide to nearly 7,000 theological terms, 1,000…
more terms than the first edition. McKim's succinct definitions cover a broad range of theological studies and related disciplines: contemporary theologies, biblical studies, church history, ethics, feminist theology, global theologies, hermeneutics, liberation theology, liturgy, ministry, philosophy, philosophy of religion, postcolonial theology, social sciences, spiritually, worship, and Protestant, Reformed, and Roman Catholic theologies. This new edition also includes cross-references that link readers to other related terms, commonly used scholarly abbreviations and abbreviations for canonical and deuterocanonical texts, an annotated bibliography, and a new introductory section that groups together terms and concepts, showing where they fit within particular theological categories. No other single volume provides the busy student, and the theologically experienced reader, with such easy access to so many theological definitions.Presbyterian Faith That Lives Today
By Donald K. Mckim. 2014
In this insightful book, Donald K. McKim explores the basic tenets of Presbyterian theology and doctrine, from their beginnings to…
their meaning for the church today. Throughout McKim emphasizes the how Presbyterian history can inform current and future challenges. Without prescribing solutions to contemporary challenges, McKim's six brief chapters provide the foundation for broadening and strengthening a Presbyterian faith the lives today. Each chapter ends with suggestions for further study.What Christians Can Learn from Other Religions
By J. Philip Wogaman. 2014
Examining other religions provides Christians the opportunity to more deeply understand their own beliefs. Learning about other religions is not…
the same as learning from other religions, which can have great value to Christians who wish to strengthen their faith. In this book's ten easy-to-read chapters, Wogaman shows readers what Christians can learn from different religions, such as Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and even from atheism. From these religions Christians can achieve insight into love, sin, ritual, the importance of myth to convey truth, the foundational roots of Christianity, the dark side of Christian history, and many other important ways to see and interpret the world and to understand God. The book concludes with a chapter on what other religions can learn from Christianity. Perfect for church study groups, each chapter ends with questions for discussion.Imagine What Is Possible
By Stephan Bauman. 2015
Imagine What Is Possible saying yes to changing the worldAcross the world, people are refusing to accept evil and injustice.…
Entrepreneurs, artists, mothers, musicians, students, teachers, techies, bloggers, advocates--they dare to believe they can meaningfully impact the world.Imagine what is possible...for you.Drawing on his experience on the front lines of suffering, Stephan Bauman, CEO of World Relief, shows how true change happens, where it starts, and why, with God, all things are possible.Lent for Everyone
By N. T. Wright. 2009
A Lent lectionary resource using Tom Wright's For Everyone Bible translation, this is the third in a three-volume series to…
cover the three years of the Revised Common Lectionary. For each day of Lent, there is a reading chosen from the Gospel designated for the year, plus a reflection by Tom Wright.Presbyterians and American Culture
By Bradley J. Longfield. 2013
This book provides a history of Presbyterians in American culture from the early eighteenth to the late twentieth century. Longfield…
assesses both the theological and cultural development of American Presbyterianism, with particular focus on the mainline tradition that is expressed most prominently in the Presbyterian Church (U. S. A. ). He explores how Presbyterian churches--and individuals rooted in those churches--influenced and were influenced by the values, attitudes, perspectives, beliefs, and ideals assumed by Americans in the course of American history. The book will serve as an important introduction to Presbyterian history that will interest historians, students, and church leaders alike.Dreams and visions in the early middle ages: the reception and use of patristic ideas, 400-900
By Jesse Keskiaho. 2015
Dreams and visions played important roles in the Christian cultures of the early middle ages. But not only did tradition…
and authoritative texts teach that some dreams were divine: some also pointed out that this was not always the case. Exploring a broad range of narrative sources and manuscripts, Jesse Keskiaho investigates how the teachings of Augustine of Hippo and Pope Gregory the Great on dreams and visions were read and used in different contexts. Keskiaho argues that the early medieval processes of reception in a sense created patristic opinion about dreams and visions, resulting in a set of authoritative ideas that could be used both to defend and to question reports of individual visionary experiences. This book is a major contribution to discussions about the intellectual place of dreams and visions in the early middle ages, and underlines the creative nature of early medieval engagement with authoritative texts.The Management of Hate: Nation, Affect, and the Governance of Right-Wing Extremism in Germany
By Nitzan Shoshan. 2016
Since German reunification in 1990, there has been widespread concern about marginalized young people who, faced with bleak prospects for…
their future, have embraced increasingly violent forms of racist nationalism that glorify the country's Nazi past. The Management of Hate, Nitzan Shoshan's riveting account of the year and a half he spent with these young right-wing extremists in East Berlin, reveals how they contest contemporary notions of national identity and defy the clichés that others use to represent them.Shoshan situates them within what he calls the governance of affect, a broad body of discourses and practices aimed at orchestrating their attitudes toward cultural difference--from legal codes and penal norms to rehabilitative techniques and pedagogical strategies. Governance has conventionally been viewed as rational administration, while emotions have ordinarily been conceived of as individual states. Shoshan, however, convincingly questions both assumptions. Instead, he offers a fresh view of governance as pregnant with affect and of hate as publicly mediated and politically administered. Shoshan argues that the state's policies push these youths into a right-extremist corner instead of integrating them in ways that could curb their nationalist racism. His point is certain to resonate across European and non-European contexts where, amid robust xenophobic nationalisms, hate becomes precisely the object of public dispute.Powerful and compelling, The Management of Hate provides a rare and disturbing look inside Germany's right-wing extremist world, and shines critical light on a German nationhood haunted by its own historical contradictions.The Politics of Social Welfare in America
By Glenn David Mackin. 2013
The Politics of Social Welfare in America examines how politicians, theorists, and citizens discuss need, welfare, and disability with respect…
to theoretical and political projects. Glenn David Mackin argues that participants in these discussions often miss the way their perceptions of those in need shape their discourse. Professor Mackin also explores disability rights groups and welfare rights activism in the 1960s and 1970s to examine the ways that those designated as needy or incompetent often challenge these designations, thus making the issue of welfare an ongoing conflict over who counts as competent and generating new ways of understanding democracy and equality.Century of the Holy Spirit
By Vinson Synan. 2001
A definitive history of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement and an intriguing reference for persons outside the movement, The Century…
of the Holy Spirit details the miraculous story of Pentecostal/Charismatic growth--in the U.S. and around the world. This book features five chapters by the premier Pentecostal historian, Vinson Synan, with additional contributions by leading Pentecostal/Charismatic authorities--David Barrett, David Daniels, David Edwin Harrell Jr., Peter Hocken, Sue Hyatt, Gary McGee, and Ted Olsen.Features include: Explains and analyzes the role of all major streams, including women, African-Americans, and HispanicsThoroughly illustrated with photographs, charts, figures, maps, and vignettes4-color fold-out timeline/genealogy tree16 full-color pages, plus black-and-white photos throughoutIncludes bibliographies and indexesAbout Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First Century America
By Carol Sanger. 2017
New medical technologies, women’s willingness to talk online and off, and tighter judicial reins on state legislatures are shaking up…
the practice of abortion. As talk becomes more transparent, Carol Sanger writes, women’s decisions about whether to become mothers will be treated more like those of other adults making significant personal choices.Beyond Abortion: <i>Roe v. Wade</i> and the Battle for Privacy
By Mary Ziegler Ziegler. 2018
For most Americans today, Roe v. Wade concerns just one thing: the right to choose abortion. But the Supreme Court’s…
decision once meant much more. The justices ruled that the right to privacy encompassed the abortion decision. Grassroots activists and politicians used Roe—and popular interpretations of it—as raw material in answering much larger questions: Is there a right to privacy? For whom, and what is protected? As Mary Ziegler demonstrates, Roe’s privacy rationale attracted a wide range of citizens demanding social changes unrelated to abortion. Movements questioning hierarchies based on sexual orientation, profession, class, gender, race, and disability drew on Roe to argue for an autonomy that would give a voice to the vulnerable. So did advocates seeking expanded patient rights and liberalized euthanasia laws. Right-leaning groups also invoked Roe’s right to choose, but with a different agenda: to attack government involvement in consumer protection, social welfare, racial justice, and other aspects of American life. In the 1980s, seeking to unify a fragile coalition, the Republican Party popularized the idea that Roe was a symbol of judicial tyranny, discouraging anyone from relying on the decision to frame their demands. But Beyond Abortion illuminates the untapped potential of arguments that still resonate today. By recovering the diversity of responses to Roe, and the legal and cultural battles it energized, Ziegler challenges readers to come to terms with the uncomfortable fact that privacy belongs to no party or cause.Solution-focused Pastoral Conseling: An Effective Short-term Approach for Getting People Back on Track
By Charles Allen Kollar. 2011
With a clear understanding that time is of the essence for both you and those looking to you for help…
in their lives, Dr. Charles Allen Kollar shows that counseling need not be long-term to produce dramatic results. According to Dr. Kollar, in most cases the solution lies within the counselees themselves. Using the tested methods found in Solution-Focused Pastoral Counseling, pastors will be well equipped to help counselees discover and put these solutions in motion speedily and productively.A Faith Worth Believing
By Tom Stella. 2004
How can we have an authentic faith when we no longer have well-defined, codified beliefs? Where do we turn to…
better understand our relationship with God when the messages of the Church seem simplistic? This book is for all those who are asking the tough questions and are not satisfied with the answers they are receiving.