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Book Twelve Theological Dilemmas

Download or read book Twelve Theological Dilemmas written by Gregory C. Higgins and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, impartial presentation of timeless theological questions that Christians have found puzzling, accompanied by equally differing and valid explanations for them. +

Book Pressure Points

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  • Author : J. D. Payne
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9781418550745
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Pressure Points written by J. D. Payne and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each generation of believers faces numerous challenges to the mission of the church. In Pressure Points J. D. helps us see how we can prevent these global issues from pushing the church off its biblical moorings, so we can absorb the pressures while responding in a way that remains faithful to the church's calling and mission.

Book Theological Turning Points

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  • Author : Donald K. McKim
  • Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
  • Release : 1988-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780804207027
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Theological Turning Points written by Donald K. McKim and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Donald McKim traces the historical and systematic development of eight major Christian doctrines from early centuries to the present. Clearly written and amply documented, this introductory handbook features primary sources and extensive endnotes. It covers: the Trinity, Christology, Ecclesiology, Anthropology, Soteriology, Authority, the Sacraments, and Eschatology, concentrating on the decisive points in the development of the Church's theology. This book is well structured for use as a basic text.

Book Invitation to Christian Ethics

Download or read book Invitation to Christian Ethics written by Ken Magnuson and published by Kregel Academic. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introduction to Christian ethics addressing today's most challenging moral issues Invitation to Christian Ethics is an indispensable guide for helping pastors, counselors, and everyday Christians navigate today's difficult moral questions. Readers will benefit from Ken Magnuson's survey of ethics from a biblical perspective as well as contemporary theories of moral reasoning. This survey is followed by twelve chapters devoted to some of the thorniest issues Christians encounter today, such as: Sexuality, including homosexuality, sexual identity, and gender Marriage and divorce Infertility and assisted reproductive technologies Abortion Physician-assisted suicide Race relations Creation care Capital punishment Just war, pacifism, and the use of lethal force Magnuson provides biblical insight into each topic and presents key moral considerations. He also answers specific, practical questions that arise and concludes with a summary of his recommended approach to each issue. Readers will learn how to grapple with difficult moral questions and will receive guidance for some of life's most challenging ethical conundrums. "Ethics will continue to be a line in the sand that separates Christians. In this volume, Magnuson gives us a biblically-based, logically-sound, historically-rooted, and future-aware guide that the church so desperately needs in the face of sexual revolution, moral relativism, and advancing technology." --Brian Arnold, President of Phoenix Seminary

Book Christianity 101

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gregory C. Higgins
  • Publisher : Paulist Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780809142088
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book Christianity 101 written by Gregory C. Higgins and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity 101 is an introductory text for college level courses in Christian theology. The text provides a history of Christian thought in each of the key areas of Christian theology and discusses the major debates and thinkers in the tradition.

Book Dilemmas

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  • Author : Gilbert Ryle
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2015-10-15
  • ISBN : 1107113628
  • Pages : 121 pages

Download or read book Dilemmas written by Gilbert Ryle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows that the conflicts that arise from everyday ways of thinking are not dilemmas as they appear to be.

Book The Tapestry of Christian Theology

Download or read book The Tapestry of Christian Theology written by Gregory C. Higgins and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and supremely readable textbook recounts the thought of nine influential twentieth-century theologians in the light of biblical narrative to better understand the Christian life. By drawing upon the achievement of major thinkers--Rosemary Ruether, Gustavo Gutierrez, Reinhold Niebuhr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Karl Rahner, Jurgen Moltmann, Hans Kung, Yves Congar, and Wolfhart Pannenberg--and rooting it within the rich fabric of its biblical context--Creation, Exodus, Conquest, Exile, the Incarnation, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, Pentecost and the End of Time--The Tapestry of Christian Theology traverses a landscape both historical and spiritual, one that traces and encourages a new understanding of both perspectives, and illumines a greater insight into our own lives. Here is a rigorous and wide ranging textbook for college theology courses, also suitable for the general reader.

Book Perspectives on the Formation of the Book of the Twelve

Download or read book Perspectives on the Formation of the Book of the Twelve written by Rainer Albertz and published by ISSN. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formation of the Book of the Twelve is one of the most vigorously debated subjects in Old Testament studies today. This volume assembles twenty-four essays by the world's leading experts, providing an overview of the present state of scholarship in the field. The book's contributors focus on questions of method, history, as well as redactional and textual history.

Book Where Do You Stand

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  • Author : Gregory C. Higgins
  • Publisher : Paulist Press
  • Release : 2014-05-14
  • ISBN : 9781616436018
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Where Do You Stand written by Gregory C. Higgins and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight Moral Issues Confronting Today's Christians, Gregory C. Higgins. Examines the particulars behind eight crucial moral issues of the day and challenges the reader to take a personal stand on them.

Book Back to the Future of the Roman Catholic Church

Download or read book Back to the Future of the Roman Catholic Church written by Carmen J. Calvanese and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the notion that the Roman Catholic Church risks imploding from within as a result of its inflexibility towards movements in favor of reasonable change and modernization. Attendance at Sunday Mass has dramatically decreased; the loss of the youth in these churches is a case in point. At the same time, the lack of vocations to the priesthood and religious life is at crisis proportions as is further evidenced by the closing of parishes and the curtailing of religious services including the rising phenomenon of "priest-less Parishes." Young men today--even if they aspire to the priesthood--experience both unrest and rejection at the continued demand of the Church's leadership that priests commit themselves to the lifelong discipline of celibacy. Back to the Future of the Roman Catholic Church addresses the root causes of the various developments that have provoked discontent with Church policies and defections from parish life on the part of those who appear to have lost faith in their hierarchical leaders at the highest levels of Church governance. Finally, this book probes the ways in which the Church can emerge from its crises to become, once again, faithful to its origins as founded by Jesus Christ.

Book Ministry Issues for the Church of England

Download or read book Ministry Issues for the Church of England written by Gordon Kuhrt and published by Church House Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey of unprecedented scope is designed to help the reader map their way through the thinking that has shaped present-day Anglican ministry. It contains a history of strategic developments and key reports and decisions, identifying the vital issues faced by the Church of England and offering informed suggestions for reform.

Book Confronting Christianity

Download or read book Confronting Christianity written by Rebecca McLaughlin and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many people suggest that Christianity is declining, research indicates that it continues to be the world's most popular worldview. But even so, the Christian faith includes many controversial beliefs that non-Christians find hard to accept. This book explores 12 issues that might cause someone to dismiss orthodox Christianity—issues such as the existence of suffering, the Bible's teaching on gender and sexuality, the reality of heaven and hell, the authority of the Bible, and more. Showing how the best research from sociology, science, and psychology doesn't disagree with but actually aligns with claims found in the Bible, these chapters help skeptics understand why these issues are signposts, rather than roadblocks, to faith in Christ.

Book Showing the Spirit

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  • Author : D. A. Carson
  • Publisher : Baker Books
  • Release : 2019-01-01
  • ISBN : 1493420410
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Showing the Spirit written by D. A. Carson and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eschewing extremes, Bible scholar D. A. Carson explores the controversial subject of the role of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer and in the life of the church. Unpacking 1 Corinthians 12-14, as well as touching on relevant passages in Acts, Carson faithfully follows the evidence of the text and offers an honest look at the strengths and weaknesses of both charismatic and non-charismatic viewpoints.

Book God and The Twelve Problems of Evil

Download or read book God and The Twelve Problems of Evil written by Thomas Ronald Vaughan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of essays asks the enduring, age-old question, “If God is loving and good, why is there so much evil?” It answers boldly, “Because God creates, sustains, and ‘allows’ evil in the world.” This fact is the greatest and most impenetrable mystery of the Christian faith. Twelve categories of evil are thereafter described and analyzed. The case is made that God is actively involved in the manifestations of evil, mysteriously and paradoxically suffers with her beloved children, but is “in control” of it all. Whatever harms, causes suffering, or destroys persons, animals, or the precious earth will be eliminated forever, but only in God's good time. Until then, believers must overcome evil with good, maintaining faith in the God whose thoughts and ways are not ours.

Book 12 Compelling Truths

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  • Author : Dewayne Bryant
  • Publisher : 21st Century Christian
  • Release : 2010-12-01
  • ISBN : 9780890984772
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book 12 Compelling Truths written by Dewayne Bryant and published by 21st Century Christian. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Bryant] really hits his stride on the historical defense of faith and the Bible on which it is based. Anyone who has sat through the interminable interviews of Elaine Pagels and Bart Ehrman on cable TV should read this book.--Trevor Major, director of the Central Ohio Bible Institute.

Book Christian Foundations

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  • Author : Kathleen R. Fischer
  • Publisher : Paulist Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 0809135957
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Christian Foundations written by Kathleen R. Fischer and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I found myself praying from Christian Foundations in new ways. Of course, like most academics, I had heard it all before. But I haven't- not this way, at least. It was truly an experience of talking to God while thinking about God- not a bad way to do theology...Needless to say, I will use it with my undergraduates.' -Dr. Thomas Groome, Boston College

Book    This Is My Doctrine     The Development of Mormon Theology

Download or read book This Is My Doctrine The Development of Mormon Theology written by Charles R. Harrell and published by Greg Kofford Books. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principal doctrines defining Mormonism today often bear little resemblance to those it started out with in the early 1830s. This book shows that these doctrines did not originate in a vacuum but were rather prompted and informed by the religious culture from which Mormonism arose. Early Mormons, like their early Christian and even earlier Israelite predecessors, brought with them their own varied culturally conditioned theological presuppositions (a process of convergence) and only later acquired a more distinctive theological outlook (a process of differentiation). In this first-of-its-kind comprehensive treatment of the development of Mormon theology, Charles Harrell traces the history of Latter-day Saint doctrines from the times of the Old Testament to the present. He describes how Mormonism has carried on the tradition of the biblical authors, early Christians, and later Protestants in reinterpreting scripture to accommodate new theological ideas while attempting to uphold the integrity and authority of the scriptures. In the process, he probes three questions: How did Mormon doctrines develop? What are the scriptural underpinnings of these doctrines? And what do critical scholars make of these same scriptures? In this enlightening study, Harrell systematically peels back the doctrinal accretions of time to provide a fresh new look at Mormon theology. “This Is My Doctrine” will provide those already versed in Mormonism’s theological tradition with a new and richer perspective of Mormon theology. Those unacquainted with Mormonism will gain an appreciation for how Mormon theology fits into the larger Jewish and Christian theological traditions.