Until the end of the eighteenth century, almost everyone believed that the empirical world of science could produce evidence for a wise and loving God. By the twenty-first century this comforting cert
Explores a wide range of mystical experiences as viewed from scientific and paranormal perspectives, closely examining such phenomena as weeping icons, prophecies, and miraculous healings throughout h
Twenty-seven scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators and lobbyists, novelists, activists, policymakers and politicians contribute 23 essays exploring the mos
The real story behind ?ex-gay? ministries and reparative therapy! Nationally known activist Wayne Besen spent four years examining the phenomenon of ?ex-gay? ministries and reparative therapies?interv
Have science and Christianity been locked in mortal combat for the past 2000 years? Or has their relationship been one of peaceful coexistence, encouragement, and support? Both opinions have been vig
There are those who go to gay bars and salsa clubs with rosaries in their pockets, and who make camp chapels of their living rooms. Others enter churches with love letters hidden in their bags, becaus
Many believers worry that science conflicts with Christian faith. C. John Collins believes that Christians should study the natural world and that God's truth will stand against any challenge. Collin
Bane (public policy and management, Harvard U.) and Mead (politics, New York U.) are well known social scientists who have worked for years on issues of poverty and welfare, but many of their readers
Early in the nineteenth century Ernst Troeltsch, the great German liberal thinker, published the influential essay "The Place of Christianity Among the World Religions." The question of the relation o
"Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just"--Blaise Pascal.Problems plague the world around us. Many in our churches an
What should the church look like today?What should be the focus of its message?How should I present that message?We live in as pivotal and defining an age as the Great Depression or the Sixties--a pe
Foreword by George R. HunsbergerHow does one authentically hear and live out the gospel in North America? This new book attempts to answer this question in a way that reveals much about the natur
A leading philosopher and theologian, Jean-Louis Chretien uses poetry and painting to explore a theme that runs through all of his work: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response
The voice of a renowned professor of philosophy in Poland, who is also a Roman Catholic priest, is introduced to the United States in this collection of his provocative essays on the interplay of sc
In this book Kathleen Biddick investigates the fate of the enduring timelines fabricated by early Christians to distinguish themselves from their Jewish neighbors. Ranging widely across the history of
McDougall (Toronto School of Theology) finds the ecological crisis at the dawn of the 21st century to be at its deepest level a crisis of meaning that brings into question the dominant anthropocentric
For many Christians, "homosexuality" is an issue. It is often considered a matter of "us" versus "them," or worse, for gay men and women, a question of their behavior, not something intrinsic to their
Divinity, religious studies, history, and other scholars present 17 contributions addressing the literary, archaeological, epigraphic, and theoretical issues relating to the familial roles of women, m
"Would removing the celibacy requirement really eliminate priest pedophilia?" ?Won't tough corrective measures such as a ?zero tolerance policy? only exacerbate the priest shortage?? These questions r
