In 1993, a dialogue took place. Humanists gathered in Utah, to exchange ideas with Mormons on the topics of feminism, freedom of conscience, academic freedom in Mormon universities, and clashes between "dissent intellectuals" and Mormon church authorities. This book contains twelve essays, all but one presented at the Utah conference.
Contains three debates - "Rome of Reason", "Controversy on Christianity", and "The Limits of Toleration" - between the great American freethinker Robert G Ingersoll (1833-1899) and leading Christian churchmen and statesmen of his own day, including Cardinal Edward Manning and William Gladstone.
"This amazing book takes into account all of the leading premises of the modern concept of biocultural evolution and builds a bridge to religious theory. Its value lies in its ability to pose the major questions and sketch proposals for dealing with them. To my knowledge it is the first work to make such an attempt." --Solomon H. Katz University ......
Long needed, Thomas Schubeck's is the first comprehensive assessment of the ethical import of this generation's most influential theological movement. Based on in-depth interviews with key liberation theologians, as well as comprehensive research, Schubeck offers a critical yet sympathetic evaluation of liberation theology's normative content ......
Western society today lives from community fragments and moral fragments alone, and these fragments are being destroyed more quickly than they are being replenished. Larry Rasmussen assesses the long-term reasons for this situation and then proposes the forms and tasks that churches can undertake to help mend and improve civil society. This ......
Examines Jesus as an idea of salvation, and not as an individual, gradually constituted and modified over a considerable timespan. This study shows that we know next to nothing about the actual existence of Jesus, all efforts to recover the history of this individual ending in failure.
Breaking through the quagmire of confusion and obfuscation that often surrounds talk of God, La Croix distinguishes and prioritises the essential questions and relevant side issues that must be confronted if clarity is ever to be achieved in this area. Useful for professionals and laypersons alike, this work features his essays.
Micks takes readers through the Nicene Creed step by step, asking questions that acquaint us with its fourth-century background and help us to discover the creed's theological, corporate, and personal relevance today. Especially useful for adult inquirers' classes.
The biological revolution, with its attendant technological powers to alter nature and human nature, demands fundamental and cautionary reflection on questions of the highest ethical importance. This book explores nine topics ranging from birth and adolescence to aging and death.
