A major study of John Wesley's political ethics and an attempt to reformulate a Wesleyan orientation to political thinking by drawing the political implications of Wesley's "order of salvatio
You want to lose weight. Sometimes you even manage to shed those pounds. But you always gain them back--and maybe a few extra. Diets treat the symptom and not the problem. Diane Hampton will revolutio
Chances are, no church is immune to the drug demographics in America. Pointing out that addiction is a pervasive problem in North American society, Lynn Dann provides pastors and other pastoral caregi
Theologians are increasingly looking to cultural analysis and criticism, rather than philosophy, as a dialogue partner for cross-disciplinary studies. This book explores the importance of this shift b
The sheer extent of crossover - medics as religious men, religious men as medics, medical language at the service of preaching and moral-theological language deployed in medical writings - is the driv
Economic Thinking for the Theologically Minded provides an introduction to what has been called 'the economic way of thinking,' which explains some of the critical concepts and foundational assumption
Paul Merkley draws on the published literature of the World Council of Churches, the Middle East Council of Churches, the Roman Catholic Church, and other Christian organizations that have an interest
The threat of technological nihilism in a sea of moral turmoil emboldens Matthews to challenge much Heideggerian thought, especially regarding positive determinations issuing from the use of ontologic
Do Christianity and modern liberal democracy share a common moral vision, or are they opposed and even hostile to each other? In Christian Faith and Modern Democracy, Robert Kraynak challenges the com
Discrimination against gays and lesbians extends from the highest echelons of the Catholic Church to the pews. For James Alison, a gay Catholic theologian, the key to moving beyond resentment is a rad
Providing new hope for those that feel that it is impossible to be both homosexual and Christian, this self-affirming guidebook explores the ways in which gays and lesbians can appropriate and retell
Thomas (Islamic studies, Lancaster U.) presents eight papers, drawn from 1998's Third Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on Arab Christianity and Islam, which look at the lives and adaptations of Christian
The damage human beings are doing to the atmosphere, the seas, the rivers, the land, and the life- forms of the planet is extreme and deadly. It constitutes a crisis that demands al of humanity's wisd
A 2002 Christianity Today Book of the Year!The world is filled with religions. That is not a new observation. But the way we think about religious diversity, argues Harold Netland, is new. In this boo
Dirks, a former ordained minister in the United Methodist Church, explores the meanings of the early Christian writings and the Qu'ran in an effort to show both Muslims and Christians that their relig
How can Christians respectfully enter ecumenical dialogue while remaining true to their belief in the supremacy of Jesus Christ? Joseph Pandiappallil draws upon the transcendental Christology of Karl
Commencing with a chronology of the Swiss theologian's Kirchliche Dogmatik ( Church Dogmatics ), 1931-48, this study argues against the common view that Barth was indifferent to the Jews' plight by
