This volume surveys the teachings and witness of Anglicanism and the Episcopal Church concerning the Christian vision of a righteous social order, including the challenges of the new millennium.
What does religion have to do with fomenting or transcending violence? In this fascinating work, Kirk-Duggan documents and analyzes religion's involvement in violence -- for good and ill -- in the Bible, slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and the youth scene of today.
Catholic colleges and universities have achieved a prestigious place in American higher education, but at the risk of losing their religious identity. This book confronts challenges facing members of the college community, from presidents and trustees through the faculty and deans to professionals, in making a renewed commitment to that mission.
This is an important study of spirituality in a world of confused and conflicting definitions of the spiritual. Christian spirituality flows from an understanding of who God is and how God acts in creation. It is a personal and communal recognition of God in one's life and a life awareness and celebration of that presence of God. Anyone who ......
This collection of essays, written primarily by Episcopalian scholars, address the broad topic of human sexuality in the context of today's issues. The essays take the forms of narrative, argument, first-person accounts, and theological reasoning.
During these times of growing interest in spiritual life, in personal prayer, and in meditation, many people are asking questions about the inner life. The Inward Pilgrimage opens the way for readers to discover the riches of sixteen spiritual classics that have brought new life to Christians of all denominations. Now updated with a foreword and ......
Through the art of storytelling, this book shows readers ways to live out the ministry and calling of our baptismal promises. This book can be used by individuals who wish to reexamine their own baptismal promises, and the ministry that has emerged--or could emerge--through baptism. Foreword and study guide by John Westerhoff.
By exploring a practical, rather than propositional, understanding of religious belief, this book provides a fresh construct through which to view philosophy of religion. It focuses on the exercise of wisdom in making or maintaining a commitment to religious practices. It states that through practices, religious belief is formed.
Short pieces on issues about which many Christians are simply uncertain. Furlong writes on such traditional Christian concepts as heaven, hell, sacraments, seven deadly sins, and also reflects on difficult contemporary topics such as abortion and homosexuality.
