Anxious times call for steady leadership. When tensions emerge in a congregation, its leaders cannot be as anxious as the people they serve. To remain effective, congregational leaders must control their own uneasiness. With this book, internationally respected consultant Peter Steinke goes deeper into the requirements of effective congregational ......
Focuses on the importance of reason in understanding life's realities. This book shows that the popular evangelical notion of 'a personal relationship with Jesus Christ' is utterly without any scriptural basis.
The feast of Corpus Christi, one of the most solemn feasts of the Latin Church, can be traced to the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 and its resolution of disputes over the nature of the Eucharist. The feast was first celebrated in Liège in 1246, thanks largely to the efforts of a religious woman, Juliana of Mont Cornillon, who not only ......
In this beautiful meditation,Panikkar charts the paradoxes andpossibilities of our experience of God. Drawing on a wide range of sources,from the Bible and Western mysticsto the Vedas and the Bhagavad Gita,he probes human language andsilence, adoration and alienation, tofind the root of all our experiencein God and its special character ......
Drawing on biblical texts and the author's own memories of childhood in rural Minnesota, and the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Vassar Miller, William Carlos Williams, and others to explore our perception of place, this book deals with our attachment to places, from small and familiar corners of our childhood homes to faraway and imaginary lands.
Offers an assessment of the state of Christianity. This work addresses four issues: the God concept that must move beyond obsolete notions of a personal God; a sophisticated approach to the Bible; emphasis on Jesus' social ethic; and, the persistence of obsolete myth in Christianity.
Offering coverage of Christian traditions, this book is supported by a Web site that includes chapter summaries, questions for discussion and Web links that bring the stories of women to life in portraits, artifacts, and other primary materials. It combines history and primary readings and augments with helpful pedagogical tools.
Fair-minded and sympathetic to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian concerns, Lutz and Smith provide a clear account of the Israeli-Palestinian situation and a compelling plea for Christian involvement in the area. Carefully sorting out the tangled historical and religious roots of the problems, they reveal the strong forces at work in the conflict and ......
A collection of papers that represent the independent thinking of internationally known scholars from a variety of disciplines concerning the relationship between religion and violence. This work refers to the theories of 'just war' and 'jihad', technical terms that arise in connection with the theology of medieval Christianity and early Islam.