Includes a state-by-state survey of direct or indirect aid for parochial and other non-public schools. This work also discusses the controversy in American education on church and state.
Church Mergers offers churches of all sizes and denominations practical advice on how to merge successfully. The authors draw on decades of experience to illustrate why successful mergers are always missional mergers and how these mergers happen. The book features the stories of four churches and outlines the steps of the missional merger process.
Church Mergers offers churches of all sizes and denominations practical advice on how to merge successfully. The authors draw on decades of experience to illustrate why successful mergers are always missional mergers and how these mergers happen. The book features the stories of four churches and outlines the steps of the missional merger process.
The Church in the Latin Fathers analyzes the development of Latin ecclesiology over the course of the first five centuries of Christianity. James K. Lee explores how the church is one and holy, visible, and invisible, according to Latin theologians such as Tertullian, Cyprian, Augustine, and Leo the Great.
Just as the emergence of print and literacy created conditions for vast religious change at the time of the Reformation, the emergence of a digital culture shaped by computers and the internet has led to radically different assumptions about religious identity, how people connect and maintain transformative relationships.
In this book, Hani Hanna argues that Karl Barth and Matta al-Miskin redefine the reality of God and humanity christologically in similar ways. By providing an in-depth analysis of their christologies, Hanna finds that Barth and Matta's christological view of reality has implications for interfaith and intercultural dialogues today.
An arresting collection of first-hand accounts from Christians who hear voices, be they comforting, critical or conversational. The author's background in theology and psychiatry allows him to evaluate and interpret these stories to help the reader engage with the theological issues raised and find meaning from them.
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 ......
What role do religious narratives play in the elevated rates of suicide attempt among LGBTQ people? Taking a narrative approach to first-person accounts, this book addresses the potential violence of theological narratives upon queer souls and contributes to constructive methods of intervention toward the livability of life for queer people.
