Download or read book Endangered Virtues and the Coming Ideological War written by Michael Phillips and published by Fidelis Publishing. LLC. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years it is with grave concern we have watched the rapid changes taking place in America and throughout the world. As a people we are increasingly engaged in an ideological tug of war that will determine our future, and that of generations to come. The objective of Endangered Virtues and the Coming Ideological War is to inquire what kind of people serious Christians are called to be. Hopefully we can give intelligent and prayerful thought to our responses to changes coming to the world with startling forcefulness, but that have been met with equally astonishing complacency by a public seemingly asleep to their implications. These changes demand a response. Silence, neutrality, and docile compliance will not be an option much longer.
Download or read book The Invisible War written by Michael Phillips and published by Fidelis Publishing. LLC. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will the political and cultural landscape look like to Christians in 2050? Will progressivism have eliminated Christian values altogether? Will the Christian foundations of America stage a comeback? Will Christians be anticipating the end times? Will the tribulation have come? Beginning with the emergence of the New Left out of the tumultuous 1960s, the first two installments of Tribulation Cult stretch over three generations, climaxing with the election of 2048. Center stage are four college friends who follow divergent life paths— two Christians who become ministers, their liberal counterparts who rise to the summit of world politics.The journeys of the four focus many interconnected themes in the lives of men and women who must decide where they stand as the nation increasingly splits along liberal and conservative lines, and what role the church is meant to play in that divide. Will true Christians be viewed as a cult, ostracized from mainstream society, culture, and politics?These are only two of the questions the characters in Tribulation Cult are forced to grapple with in this deeply challenging spiritual drama written in the style of Phillips' best-selling contemporary page-turner Rift in Time.
Download or read book Birth of a Remnant written by Michael Phillips and published by Fidelis Publishing. LLC. This book was released on 2024-11-27 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will the political and cultural landscape look like to Christians in 2050? Will the spiritual foundations of America experience a rebirth? Or will progressivism have eliminated Christian values altogether? Will Christians be anticipating the end times? Will the tribulation have come? This second volume in the Tribulation Cult series finds growing numbers of Christians isolated in a cultural and political climate that embraces ever more radicalpolicies and lifestyles. The church of Christendom is caught in the crosshairs. Itsclergy, leaders, and congregationsmust decide whether to go along with the progressive changes being forced upon them, or stand against them. Those that choose the latter course, as a remnant of faithfulness to scriptural truth, find themselves not only ostracized by the world, but also cut off from many in the organized church. By standing strong for traditional biblical perspectives, theycome to be viewed as a subversive cult. As Christians are divided in their responses to the times, the future of Christianity in America becomes increasingly fragmented. Do scripturally-traditional Christians truly represent a dangerous cult? Should they becut off from mainstream society? Or have they perhaps discovered important ancient truths that are not as outmoded as the world of modernism believes? End times themes stage a major comeback within evangelicalism as the mid-century approaches. Two former college roommates stand at the vanguard of the titanic clash between opposing worldviews—evangelicalism's new best-selling prophetic author who promises to name the antichrist before the next election, and his former friend and leading presidential candidate whom pundits give odds the frontrunner in what they glibly term "the Antichrist sweepstakes." This deeply challenging spiritual drama is sure to jolt many of Christendom's sacred prophetic cows, as well as preconceptions about how Christianity and the world interact. At the same time the riveting page-turner—taken straight from today's headlines that might have been ripped from a Hollywood script—will keep readers on the edge of their seats, and will remind his loyal fans of Phillips' best-seller Rift in Time. Readers are kept guessing as events in the political world careen toward their appointed destiny.The pivotal election of 2048 climaxes with a shocking turn of events. The evangelical world is left reeling, while the political world hails a new era in Progressivism's globalist triumph.
Download or read book Usable Theory written by Dietrich Rueschemeyer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-03 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The project of twentieth-century sociology and political science--to create predictive scientific theory--resulted in few full-scale theories that can be taken off the shelf and successfully applied to empirical puzzles. Yet focused "theory frames" that formulate problems and point to relevant causal factors and conditions have produced vibrant, insightful, and analytically oriented empirical research. While theory frames alone cannot offer explanation or prediction, they guide empirical theory formation and give direction to inferences from empirical evidence. They are also responsible for much of the progress in the social sciences. In Usable Theory, distinguished sociologist Dietrich Rueschemeyer shows graduate students and researchers how to construct theory frames and use them to develop valid empirical hypotheses in the course of empirical social and political research. Combining new ideas as well as analytic tools derived from classic and recent theoretical traditions, the book enlarges the rationalist model of action by focusing on knowledge, norms, preferences, and emotions, and it discusses larger social formations that shape elementary forms of action. Throughout, Usable Theory seeks to mobilize the implicit theoretical social knowledge used in everyday life. Offers tools for theory building in social and political research Complements the rationalist model of action with discussions of knowledge, norms, preferences, and emotions Relates theoretical ideas to problems of methodology Situates elementary forms of action in relation to larger formations Combines new ideas with themes from classic and more recent theories
Download or read book Nature and Ideology written by Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume explore the broad range of ideas about nature reflected in twentieth-century concepts of natural gardens and their ideological implications. They also investigate garden designers' use of earlier ideas of natural gardens and their relationship to the rich model that nature offers.
Download or read book Comparative Law in Eastern and Central Europe written by Aleksander W. Bauknecht and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative law is a research methodology which has been increasingly fashionable in recent decades, as comparisons between common law and civil law have dominated the law studies landscape. There are many methods of comparative law in use, including comparison of legal rules, comparison of cases, and comparison of legal theories. Each of these methods has strong proponents and opponents. Dogmatic comparisons of rules are criticized for not giving the whole picture of law in action, but praised for being the first and the only truly legal step in comparative research. Case-based comparisons are praised for enabling us to compare the true understanding of rules by courts, yet the critics of this method point out that only the higher courts’ decisions are subject to comparison, and most cases do not reach this stage. Finally, comparisons of legal theories are praised for enabling us to know the spirit of the laws, yet opponents would argue that many countries sharing the same theory would draw opposite conclusions from it. This book is a result of the attempted (and successful) introduction of comparative law into the region of Eastern and Central Europe. The subject has induced interest beyond expectations. This volume opens with a chapter on the unification of law, both from the perspective of institutional unification by such supra-state organizations, spontaneous and institutionalized unifications between two or more legal systems, and the methods of choosing the right rules in the unification process. Chapters two and three follow the classical division of private and public law, as proposed by the brilliant Roman lawyer Ulpian. Overall, the chapters in this book offer an interesting and engaging commentary on the current topics discussed by academics in Eastern and Central Europe.
Download or read book Coercing Virtue written by Robert H. Bork and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judge Robert H. Bork will deliver the Barbara Frum Historical Lecture at the University of Toronto in March 2002. This annual lecture “on a subject of contemporary history in historical perspective” was established in memory of Barbara Frum and will be broadcast on the CBC Radio program Ideas. In Coercing Virtue, former US solicitor general Robert H. Bork examines judicial activism and the practice of many courts as they consider and decide matters that are not committed to their authority. In his opinion, this practice infringes on the legitimate domains of the executive and legislative branches of government and constitutes a judicialization of politics and morals. Should courts be used as a vehicle of social change even if the majority view weighs against the court’s ruling? And if we allow courts to make law, especially in a country like Canada where our Supreme Court judges aren’t even elected, then what does this mean for democratic government? “The nations of the West have long been afraid of catching the “American disease” — the seizure by judges of authority properly belonging to the people and their elected representatives. Those nations are learning, perhaps too late, that this imperialism is not an American disease; it is a judicial disease, one that knows no boundaries.” — Robert H. Bork, from Coercing Virtue
Download or read book The Sword the Garden and the King written by Michael Phillips and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Christian fantasy novel for children of all ages, a young boy embarks on a perilous adventure to save the creatures of a magical forest. When fourteen-year-old Matthew Robinson enters the Forest of Pellanor, he and his brother and sister have no idea what’s in store for them. All of Pellanor has been waiting for them to rescue its creatures from a danger that threatens the forest families and the life they have known. But to defeat the evil deceiver Argon, Matthew must first master his courage—and his faith. Noted devotional author Michael Phillips delivers a delightfully engaging Christian allegory in the tradition of George MacDonald and C.S. Lewis.
Download or read book Cold War Cultures written by Annette Vowinckel and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War was not only about the imperial ambitions of the super powers, their military strategies, and antagonistic ideologies. It was also about conflicting worldviews and their correlates in the daily life of the societies involved. The term "Cold War Culture" is often used in a broad sense to describe media influences, social practices, and symbolic representations as they shape, and are shaped by, international relations. Yet, it remains in question whether -- or to what extent -- the Cold War Culture model can be applied to European societies, both in the East and the West. While every European country had to adapt to the constraints imposed by the Cold War, individual development was affected by specific conditions as detailed in these chapters. This volume offers an important contribution to the international debate on this issue of the Cold War impact on everyday life by providing a better understanding of its history and legacy in Eastern and Western Europe.
Download or read book After Virtue written by Alasdair MacIntyre and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, MacIntyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of 'virtue' to the ethical life. More than thirty years after its original publication, After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.
Download or read book Emerson s Ghosts written by Randall Fuller and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2007-09-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the way influential 20th century critics have understood and deployed Emerson as part of their own larger projects aimed at reconceiving America
Download or read book The Unfinished War written by Bong Lee and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we heading for a new Korean War? Lee presents the history, the current situation, and US involvement, drawing on 25 years in the US and Asia with the Ford Foundation, the UN and the Asian Development Bank, using recently de-classified documents and personal accounts from North and South Koreans.
Download or read book Propaganda War Crimes Trials and International Law written by Predrag Dojcinovic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2012. Propaganda, War Crimes Trials and International Law addresses the emerging jurisprudence and international law concerning propaganda in war crimes investigations and trials. The role of propaganda in the perpetration of atrocities has emerged as a central theme in the war crimes trials in the past century. The Nuremburg trials initially, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda currently, have all substantially contributed to the development of international law in this respect. Investigating and exploring the areas between lawful and unlawful propaganda, they have dealt with specific mechanisms and consequences of the phenomenon within the perspective and framework of their international legal mandates. But the cultural codes and argots through which propaganda operates have vexed international courts struggling to assign responsibility to the instigators of mass crimes, as subtle, but potentially fatal, communications often remain undetected, misinterpreted or even dismissed as entirely irrelevant. With contributions from leading international scholars and legal practioners, Propaganda, War Crimes Trials and International Law pursues a comparative approach to this problem: providing an overview of the current state of the theory of propaganda in the social sciences; exploring this theory in the legal analysis of war crimes and related proceedings; and, finally, offering a study of the prosecution of propaganda-related crimes in international law, and the newly emerging jurisprudence of war crimes propaganda cases.
Download or read book All Connected Now written by Walter Truett Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going beyond the narrow economic focus common to most books about globalization, All Together Now describes four kinds of global change-economic, political, cultural, biological-all of which are now accelerating, driven by the increasing mobility of symbols, goods, people, and non-human life forms. Anderson describes how we are entering an age of o
Download or read book Controversial New Religions written by James R. Lewis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the new religious movements (NRMs) that have attracted the most scholarly attention over the past few years, this text includes groups such as the Branch Davidians, Heaven's Gate and Falun Gong, explaining their ethos and beliefs, as well as examining more controversial accusations.
Download or read book Foreign Policy in Global Information Space written by A. Chong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how foreign policy can adapt to the challenge of globalization. Two central questions are posed:how can foreign policy defend or project statist political communities using soft power within a global information space? Does soft power affect foreign policy by undermining statist community within the same global information space?
Download or read book Decisionmaking in a Glass House written by Brigitte Lebens Nacos and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No longer preoccupied with the East-West divide, contemporary foreign policymakers now have to confront regional conflicts, peace-enforcing and humanitarian missions, and a host of other global problems and issues in areas such as trade, health, and the environment. During the Cold War a widely-shared consensus on national interest and security in the United States and western Europe affected news reporting, public opinion, and foreign policy. But with the end of this Cold War frame of reference, foreign policy making has changed. As we enter the new century, the question is how and to what extent will the new realities of the post-Cold War world_as well as advances in communication technology_influence news reporting, public attitudes, and, most of all, foreign policy decisions on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. In this volume, American and European scholars examine change and continuity in these important aspects of the foreign policy process at the beginning of the 21st century.
