This book explores the factors that can lead a religious professional either to become depressed or to interact with others in inappropriate ways. ... Damaged professionals damage others. When damaged clergy are linked to damaged systems, the results can be catastrophic. The portrait of these harmed professionals and those they harm is a dark and ......
Christian theology needs to be reconstructed in light of recent and momentous intellectual changes, social revolutions, and steep pedagogical challenges. That is the conviction of many of North America's leading theologians whose close collaboration over several years bring us this exciting volume. Reconstructing Christian Theology introduces ......
Leading scholars on Christian origins and early Judaism assess critical questions about Jesus as they impinge on Jewish-Christian dialogue. These essays have their origin in the 1993 program of the Center for Jewish-Christian Learning at the University of Saint Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Eminent black social ethicist Peter Paris focuses on African "spirituality"--the religious and moral values pervading traditional African religious worldviews. Paris's careful scholarship and his eye for value in varying cultural milieus combine to model comparative cultural analysis and to clarify cultural foundations of black ethical life.
Was there a Christ who was born of a virgin; worked miracles among the masses; and, was tried, crucified, and later resurrected to ascend to heaven? This reveals that while there may be some historical evidence for the existence of a man named Jesus, the supernatural 'Christ' of Christian dogma could not have existed.
With critical awareness of the diversity of the New Testament witnesses, Marxsen carefully weighs the ethical and theological claims of these texts and assesses the ethics reflected in Jesus, the earliest Christian communities, Paul, and other aspects of New Testament social awareness.
Counseling Men opens the way for men to discuss and discover their fears and losses in conversation with clergy, pastoral counselors, and lay caregivers.
Not much has survived its condemnation by the imperial Church in 448, but here is a new edition of the fragments of Porphyry of Tyre's (ca. 232 - ca. 305) attack on the beliefs and doctrines of Christianity, the divinity of Christ, the integrity of the apostles, and the reality of the resurrection.
