Download or read book Voluntary Associations written by James Luther Adams and published by James Currey. This book was released on 1986 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Examined Faith written by Jonathan Adams and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1991-07-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Luther Adams has been a major force in American social ethics and liberal theology for more than half a century, from his work with anti-Nazi preachers in Germany in the late 1930s through his teaching at the University of Chicago and the Harvard Divinity School. Here is his latest collection of inimitable essays.
Download or read book Voluntary Associations in the Graeco Roman World written by John S. Kloppenborg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon a series of detailed case studies of associations such as early synagogues and churches, philosophical schools and pagan mystery cults, this collection addresses the question of what can legitimately be termed a 'voluntary association'. Employing modern sociological concepts, the essays show how the various associations were constituted, the extent of their membership, why people joined them and what they contributed to the social fabric of urban life. For many, those groups were the most significant feature of social life beyond family and work. All of them provided an outlet of religious as well as social commitments. Also included are studies of the way in which early Jewish and Christian groups adopted and adapted the models of private association available to them and how this affected their social status and role. Finally, the situation of women is discussed, as some of the voluntary associations offered them a more significant recognition than they received in society at large.
Download or read book Voluntary Associations written by James Luther Adams and published by Richmond : John Knox Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical and intellectual sketch, by M.L. Stackhouse.--Voluntary a. - The nature of voluntary associations, by K. Hertz.--Associational thought in early Calvinism, by F.S. Carney.--The religious background of the idea of a loyal opposition, by G.H. Williams.--The meaning of "church" in Anabaptism and Roman Catholicism: past and present, by M. Novak.--Hobbe's theory of associations in the seventeenth-century milieu, by D.B. Robertson.--The voluntary principle in religion and religious freedom in America, by R.T. Handy.--The political theory of voluntary association in early nineteenth-century German liberal thought, by G.G. Iggers.--Rauschenbusch's view of the church as a dynamic voluntary association, by D.E. Smucker.--A note on creative freedom and the state in the social philosophy of Nicolas Berdyaev, by D.E. Sturm.
Download or read book A Marginal Scribe written by Dennis C. Duling and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Marginal Scribe collects eight studies written over a period of two decades, all of which use social-scientific criticism to interpret the Gospel of Matthew. It prefaces them, first, with a new chapter on the struggle between historians and social scientists since the Enlightenment and its parallel in New Testament studies, which culminated in the emergence of social-scientific criticism; and, second, with a new chapter on recent social-scientific interpretation of the Gospel of Matthew. The eight, more specialized studies cover a variety of themes and use a variety of models but concentrate and are held together by those that illumine social ranking and marginality. The book closes with a chapter that ties together these studies.
Download or read book Moral Discernment in the Christian Life written by James M. Gustafson and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James M. Gustafson has been a leading and formative figure in the field of Christian ethics over the past fifty years. His many contributions to theological ethics have helped to define and shape ethical thinking by Christians who reflect on great moral issues. Gustafson's work must be dealt with by all students in this discipline, and his perceptive insights have given clarity and guidance to the process of moral discernment. The essays collected here are ones that have had a significant impact on discussions and debates over recent decades. The Library of Theological Ethics series focuses on what it means to think theologically and ethically. It presents a selection of important and otherwise unavailable texts in easily accessible form. Volumes in this series will enable sustained dialogue with predecessors though reflection on classic works in the field.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1969 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chicago School of Theology The later Chicago school 1919 1988 written by Creighton Peden and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these volumes lengthy selections are presented by each contributor in the Chicago School. The material is presented so that an individual or class may explore the development of this School, as well as the changing issues facing philosophy and religious thought in the 20th century.
Download or read book Public Theology for a Global Society written by Deidre King Hainsworth and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these essays honoring ethicist Max Stackhouse, leading Christian scholars consider the historical roots and ongoing resources of public theology as a vital element in the church s engagement with global issues. / Public Theology for a Global Society explores the concept of public theology and the challenge of relating theological claims to a larger social and political context. The range of essays included here allows readers to understand public theology as both theological practice and public speech, and to consider the potential and limits of public theology in ecumenical and international networks. / The essays begin by introducing the reader to the development of public theology as an area of study and to the historical interrelationship of religious, legal, and professional categories. The later essays engage the reader with emerging problems in public theology, as religious communities encounter shifting publics that are being transformed by globalization and sweeping political and technological changes. / The breadth and scholarship of Public Theology for a Global Society make this volume a fitting tribute to Stackhouse a central figure in Christian ethics and pioneer in the church s study of globalization.
Download or read book Religious Diversity and Social Change written by Kevin J. Christiano and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floods of immigration and rapid industrialization and urbanization in America at the turn of the century set in motion the transformation of many long-established institutions. This book examines specific ways in which cultural changes affected the structure of the religious establishment. Statistical models are applied to United States Census data from 1890 and 1906 on city and church populations, revealing connections between the growth of cities, the increase in literacy, and the formation of ethnic subcommunities that led to a new level of religious diversity. The author analyses evidence of growing competition among churches and of a level of individual commitment to congregations, demonstrating that the patterns of religious community established at the turn of the century provided the basis for the current denominational system. The author further analyses the relationship of religious diversity to urban secularization, as well as its role as a catalyst to sectarian conflict. In offering a quantitative assessment of issues central to the history of American religion, this book is a significant contribution to the study of religion in America.
Download or read book On Being Human Religiously written by James Luther Adams and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on 1986 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adams speaks passionately and lucidly on religion's ties to everyday life.
Download or read book The Philadelphia Baptist Tradition of Church and Church Authority 1707 1814 written by Francis W. Sacks and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study proposes that the Philadelphia Baptists recognized the divinely established authority of church councils over participating local churches in time of crisis, practiced a true delegation of authority and power, and that this had ecclesiological significance for Baptist belief and practice.
Download or read book Religion Pluralism and Public Life written by Luis E. Lugo and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Kuyper's Christian vision of society, communicated in the famous Stone Lectures one hundred years ago, remains influential worldwide. In this volume an international cast of scholars reflects on Kuyper's social and political thought and its meaning for contemporary public life. These penetrating essays explore from an interdisciplinary perspective how a Christian worldview can help address the most pressing issues of twenty-first-century civilization -- religious pluralism, civil society, and globalization.
Download or read book The United States Canada and the New International Economic Order written by United Nations Institute for Training and Research and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1979 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The People of God written by Ross Thomas Bender and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Mennonite interpretation of the Free Church tradition.
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