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The indispensable guidebook to help the well-meaning guest when visiting other people's religious ceremonies-updated and revised. New edition!
We North Americans live in a remarkably diverse society, and it's increasingly common to be invited to a wedding, funeral or other religious service of a friend, relative or coworker whose faith is different from our own. These can be awkward situations....
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A Practical Guide for Embracing the Growing Religious Pluralism in America
"In the process of [interfaith] engagement, we discover ... a world in which our faith is richer, deeper, and more contextualized, and God's very Self is seen in more of its fullness."
-from the Introduction
This practical guide to the key methods and resources of the interfaith movement will help you effectively engage people of other faith traditions in order to increase...
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• Virginia Theological Seminary-based program
• Inspiring stories of interfaith conversation and partnership around the corner and around the world
• Episcopalians and Muslims telling their stories, so you can tell yours
Based on the strong, on-going work of the Center for Anglican Studies at Virginia Theological Seminary, Faithful Neighbors outlines an introduction to the rationale for interfaith work through both theological and practical...
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Tim Dowley's masterful one-volume survey of church history is now available in a new concise format designed with today's student in mind. Each section of Dowley's Introduction to the History of Christianity has been reviewed and content edited to create a more compact summary of Christian history. This new, shorter introduction retains the full-color format of the popular full edition, including the third edition's new images and maps.
Dowley has...
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A fully updated and revised edition of a classic text on Jewish prayer.
The power of prayer for spiritual renewal and personal transformation is at the core of all religious traditions. Because Hasidic literature contains no systematic manual of contemplative prayer, the texts included in this volume have been culled from many sources. From the teachings of the Hasidic Masters-the Ba'al Shem Tov, the Maggid Dov Baer of Meidzyrzec, and their immediate...
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This compendium of primary resources reflects the important but often overshadowed contribution of African American believers to the dynamic growth of the modern Pentecostal movement--the fastest-growing segment of global Christianity. The doctrinal statements, sermons, songs, testimonies, news articles, as well as scholarly treatises included here allow black leaders, scholars, and laypeople to speak in their own voices and use their own language...
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Messianic Jewish Theological Institute
"Teaching and Living a Vision of Jewish Life Renewed in Yeshua"
Messianic Jewish Theological Institute (MJTI) seeks to be:
- a prophetic sign of Israel's destiny by exemplifying and advancing Jewish life renewed in Yeshua;
- a Messianic Jewish school rooted in a contemporary Jewish experience of Yeshua and a Messianic interpretation of Judaism;
- a vision center for the Messianic Jewish community;
- a dialogue...
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This book is brought to open the eyes and minds of mainly the Israelites throughout this world, who are of the white race and are situated in the countries such as The whole of the British Isle, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, The whole of the British Commonwealth of Nations, The United States of America, Greenland, Iceland and wheresoever else they have moved to throughout this world. For we have gone...
9) Under the Oak Tree: The Church as Community of Conversation in a Conflicted and Pluralistic World
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Two trends in the early twenty-first-century intersect to give this volume immediate relevance: 1) The emerging postmodern ethos in North America is calling into question many things we have taken for granted, including the purposes of the church; and 2) our time is increasingly fractious as groups with distinct worldviews become polarized and often antagonistic.
Eleven noted contributors join a growing current that sees conversation as an image...
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FEATURING: Julie Canlis, Jonathan Hiskes, D. L. Mayfield, Brett David Potter , Shelia Rogers
PLUS:
Wanderlust: A Personal History
Hospitality and Domesticity: Where Can These Black Women Live?
The Transfigured Earth: Jubilee and the Transformation of Watersheds
Somewhere in Newfoundland
Until an End Is Made
--AND MORE . . .
11) When Hell Fails
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WHO NEEDS TO READ THIS BOOK PREACHERS - There is a wealth of thought provoking insight in understanding the subject title Hell, which has never be mentioned before nor being in print. We welcome you to this understanding, most especially because of the indebtedness you owe to the flock seeking the truth. TEACHERS - Those who are doctrinally incline will find this as a resource to advance the teaching to their students and learners. SEASONED BELIEVERS...
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The essential field guide for all things Lutheran. Confirmands – or anyone hiking the trails of life's adventures and challenges – will want to pack this handy illustrated field guide to Lutheran theology and culture. This enjoyable, easy-to-read, reliable, all-in-one collection helps you understand the essential information about our theology, culture and Lutheran way of life. Organized by Church Stuff, Everyday Stuff and Bible Stuff with how-to's...
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Conservatism, Republican politics, and traditional Christianity are thought by some to go together like baseball and apple pie. Yet, for a growing number of people, libertarian political thought provides an alternative to the traditional Christian right. That number includes the six young authors of this book who explore and expound the case that one can be both a Christian and a libertarian.
Called to Freedom explores the major points of tension...
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Drawing on their experiences as fathers, eleven men share what they have learned about parenting, living a Christian life, and the relationship between the two. As fathers to children ranging in age from the very young to adults, contributors reflect on some of their joys and successes as fathers but also on their questions, concerns, mistakes, sorrows, and hopes--for themselves and for their children. They invite all parents to reflect on and learn...
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"Does the face of God change? Years ago I would have said, 'No.' Countless hymns, passage of Scripture and confessions of faith assert or imply the changelessness of God. To take issue with traditions that are centuries, if not millennia old, seemed to be daunting and misguided...But when the great professions of confidence in God harden into philosophical propositions, one is bound to ask: What difference would it make to say that God has only one...
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Luther and his Bible centered theology came into existence during an approximate 30-year period of time (1517-1546). As leader in the reformation movement Luther not only worked against the Roman Catholic religion which had become synergistic and very legalistic, but he also stood firm against Reformed theology which was sprouting forth with a semi-synergistic theology. (The word synergism is derived out of two Greek words which mean, "working together"...
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The Innovative Guide to Spiritual Self-Discovery.
Your Spiritual Identity is an undeniable part of who you are whether you’ve thought much about it or not, and whether you consider yourself religious or not. Spirituality is not just about what you believe or don’t believe, its about how you believe how you approach the ultimate questions and mystery of life, and what you think those questions are.
Who Is My God? is a tool for discovering and exploring...
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The papers and responses in this volume were delivered, fittingly, on All Saints Day, 2013, as part of a day-long event to celebrate the career of Stanley Hauerwas, upon the occasion of his retirement from the faculty of Duke Divinity School. . . . [T]he central message of the day was encapsulated in the theme of the whole event: "The Difference Christ Makes." As the different speakers talked about Stanley's paradigm-changing impact on scholarship,...
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Too often, individuals who have been called to practice their gifts and talents in the field of business and professional life sense that to serve God they ought to be doing something more directly involved with the church. Many successful business leaders, upon coming to faith in Christ or upon renewing their interest in God's Word, struggle with whether or not they should enter vocational ministry. Certainly, God calls some from among the professions...
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Published in cooperation with Yale University and taking cues from theologians such as Miroslav Volf and recent reflections on joy as the crown of the good life, this ecumenical group of contributors insists that reclaiming joy for youth ministry is crucial in light of modern secularism, which has eviscerated the world of such things as mystery, wonder, grace, and transcendence. The modern world urges us to work and consume compulsively; to value...
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