The Politics of Gender in African American Churches
This work argues that taking the New Testament and particularly Galatians 3:28 seriously should lead black churches to challenge sexism and racism not only in society at large but also in African American churches and denominational bodies.
This critical review of the Roman Catholic Church since the pivotal changes initiated in the 1960s by Vatican II paints a disturbing picture of decline and corruption. Dr. Paul L. Williams, a self-professed Tridentine or traditionalist Catholic, traces the various factors that have caused the Church to suffer cataclysmic losses in all aspects of ......
This book examines American Unitarianism and its struggle to define religious authority during its nascence in the nineteenth century. This story is situated in the context of Protestant history, revealing how American Unitarianism is representative of the broader Protestant dilemma of establishing the Bible as the primary religious authority.
Uncovers data on sudden shifts in religious and non-religious belief. This title focuses on some amazing people, with unique stories to tell those who join a religious group in spite of being raised in non-religious families, and those who, at great personal cost, choose to leave religion in spite of having a deeply religious background.
After a careful examination of the rise and fall of the Stewardship Model of creation, Daniel Horan identifies and engages scriptural, theological, and philosophical resources in the Christian tradition to construct a nonanthropocentric, postcolonial, and Franciscan theology of creation imagined in terms of planetarity.
Discusses the demonstrative evidence of evolution, the physical basis of life, naturalism and supernaturalism, agnosticism and Christianity, and the Christian tradition in relation to Judaic Christianity.
The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations
Religious institutions are among the most segregated organizations in American society. This work explores the beliefs, practices, and structures which allow integrated religious organizations to survive and thrive despite their difficulties.
The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations
Religious institutions are among the most segregated organizations in American society. This work explores the beliefs, practices, and structures which allow integrated religious organizations to survive and thrive despite their difficulties.
Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition
This volume demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade, enslaved and free Africans in the Americas used Catholicism and Christian-derived celebrations as spaces for autonomous cultural expression, social organization, and political empowerment. Their appropriation of Catholic-based celebrations calls into question the ......
The Mission to Change America through Transnational Adoption
"Adopting for God is the first historical study to focus on the role of adoption evangelists in the transnational adoption movement between the United States and East Asia. It shows how both evangelical and ecumenical Christians challenged Americans to redefine traditional familial values and rethink race matters"--
The Mission to Change America through Transnational Adoption
"Adopting for God is the first historical study to focus on the role of adoption evangelists in the transnational adoption movement between the United States and East Asia. It shows how both evangelical and ecumenical Christians challenged Americans to redefine traditional familial values and rethink race matters"--
Israel Kamudzandu explores the legacy of how the Shona found in the figure of Abraham himself a potent resource for cultural resistance, and makes intriguing comparisons with the ways the apostle Paul used the same figure in his interaction with the ancestry of Aeneas in imperial myths of the destiny of the Roman people. The result is a ......
Looks at women in the household context discussing the importance of issues of space and visibility in shaping the lives of early Christian women. This book investigates several aspects of women's everyday existence, including the lives of wives, widows, women with children, female slaves, women as patrons, household leaders, and teachers.
A Theology of Divine Vulnerability: The Silence that Gives Light uses three claims for confidence in the idea of God. The first is that God is responsible in some quite fundamental way for the existence of the universe--for the fact that there is anything at all. The second is that God's own existence, and essential goodness, are not vitiated by ......
The Federal Council of Churches and the Problem of Race
Examines the influence of the Federal Council of Churches' Department of Race Relations A Theology of Brotherhood explores how the national umbrella Christian organization, the Federal Council of Churches, acted as a crucial conduit and organizational force for the dissemination of "progressive" views on race in the first half of the twentieth ......
If God exists, why is there so much pain and suffering, and why isn't his existence more obvious? In A Theodicy for a Suffering World with a Hidden God, Philip Pegan develops a theodicy in answer to these questions. This theodicy is consistent with theological determinism--the belief that everything is determined by the will of God--and with the ......
The question of Christian-Muslim relations is one of enduring importance in the twenty-first century. In this project, the author provides a collection of primary theological sources devoted to the formational period of Christian-Muslim relations.
Martin Marty delves into the disparity between the ideals of the church and historical reality in order to provide a brilliant, instructive, and eminently fair statement of the history of Christianity from its founding to the present day.
