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Grand Theft Jesus

Robert S. McElvaine
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Author : Robert S. McElvaine
Publisher : Broadway Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Christianity and culture
ISBN : 9780307395801

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"We're mad as Heaven, and we're not going to take it anymore!" declares historian Robert McElvaine in this passionate and often hilarious rallying cry for sincere Jesus followers. He lets us know that the extreme right wing won't be allowed to speak for all Christians any longer. This polemic blends outrage and humor to expose the televangelists and the leaders of megachurches as the people Jesus warned us about. The religion McElvaine calls ChristianityLite promises, "Be saved without sacrifice or good works!" Run by a crew of politicians, megachurch preachers, televangelists, hypocrites, and snake-oil salesmen, it has hijacked true Christianity and distorted it into something Jesus wouldn't recognize, a religion that advocates war and intolerance, values money above charity, preaches hatred instead of brotherhood, and promises "true" believers the keys to the gates of the kingdom of God--and to the bank.--From publisher description.

Contemporary Criminal Law

Matthew Lippman
Contemporary Criminal Law Book PDF

Author : Matthew Lippman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781412981293

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This is a comprehensive, introductory criminal law textbook that expands upon traditional concepts and cases by coverage of the most contemporary topics and issues. Contemporary material, including terrorism, computer crimes, and hate crimes, serves to illuminate the ever-evolving relationship between criminal law, society and the criminal justice system's role in balancing competing interests. The case method is used throughout the book as an effective and creative learning tool.Features include:" vignettes, core concepts, 'Cases and Concepts', 'You Decides, excerpts from state statutes, 'legal equations' and Crime in the News boxes" fully developed end-of-chapter pedagogy includes review questions, legal terminology and 'Criminal Law on the Web' resources" instructor resources (including PowerPoint slides, a computerized testbank and classroom activities) and a Student Study Site accompany this text

Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment

Jonathan C. P. Birch
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Author : Jonathan C. P. Birch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137512765

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This book explores the religious concerns of Enlightenment thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson. Using an innovative method, the study illuminates the intellectual history of the age through interpretations of Jesus between c.1650 and c.1826. The book demonstrates the persistence of theology in modern philosophy and the projects of social reform and amelioration associated with the Enlightenment. At the core of many of these projects was a robust moral-theological realism, sometimes manifest in a natural law ethic, but always associated with Jesus and a commitment to the sovereign goodness of God. This ethical orientation in Enlightenment discourse is found in a range of different metaphysical and political identities (dualist and monist; progressive and radical) which intersect with earlier ‘heretical’ tendencies in Christian thought (Arianism, Pelagianism, and Marcionism). This intellectual matrix helped to produce the discourses of irenic toleration which are a legacy of the Enlightenment at its best.

Jesus the Fool

Michael Frost
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Author : Michael Frost
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441232809

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"One who is strengthened by God professes himself to be an utter fool by human standards, because he despises the wisdom men strive for."--Thomas Aquinas "Go and do likewise. . . ."--Luke 10:37 Missiologist Michael Frost is looking for the real Jesus--the man who didn't care what people thought, worked on the Sabbath, touched the unclean, ate with sinners, and generally contradicted what was acceptable to the leadership of his day. He's searching for the Jesus who embodies all the characteristics of the ancient tradition of the holy foolish paradigm as described and commended by Paul, the church fathers, and the medieval saints. And he finds him. . . . Saintly fools prefer life out in the open in the secular world, intentionally make themselves conspicuous, and consistently defy rules set by society. Frost directs our minds and hearts to the greater story of Jesus. He reminds us that following the Savior is rarely safe--and that Christ will continue to redraw our blueprint of what's right and what's righteous; and will persist in calling us to take the alternative, dangerous, ridiculous road walked by wise fools down through the centuries of the church. A much-needed and longed-for challenge to emergent, contemporary, and traditional gatherings and churches alike.

The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus

David Burns
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Author : David Burns
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199929504

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This unconventional cultural history explores the lifecycle of the radical historical Jesus, a construct created by the freethinkers, feminists, socialists and anarchists who used the findings of biblical criticism to mount a serious challenge to the authority of elite liberal divines during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

On the Mystery

Catherine Keller
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Author : Catherine Keller
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451404999

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With immediate impact and deep creativity, Catherine Kelleroffers this brief and unconventional introduction to theologicalthinking, especially as recast by process thought. Keller takes uptheology itself as a quest for religious authenticity. Through a marvelous combination of brilliant writing, story,reflection, and unabashed questioning of old shibboleths, Kellerredeems theology from its dry and predictable categories to revealwhat has always been at the heart of the theological enterprise:a personal search for intellectually honest and credible ways ofmaking sense of the loving mystery that encompasses even ourconfounding times.

After the Election

Ron Scott Sanders
After the Election Book PDF

Author : Ron Scott Sanders
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532601217

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The role of Evangelical Christianity in American public life is controversial. The mythology of America as a "Christian nation" and the promissory note of secularism have proved inadequate to cope with the increasing pluralism, the resilience of spirituality, and the wariness toward formal religion that mark our post-secular age. Christianity and democracy have a complex history together, but is there a future where these two great traditions draw the best out of one another? What does that future look like in a heterogeneous society? Sanders argues that democracy is stronger when it allows all of its religious citizens to participate fully in the public sphere, and Christianity is richer when it demonstrates the wisdom of God from the ground up, rather than legislating it from the top down. In this reality, the Evangelical church must return to Christianity's prophetic roots and see itself as a "community in exile," where participation in the political is important, but not ultimate--where the substantive work of the church happens "after the election."

Jesus

Gerard S. Sloyan
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Author : Gerard S. Sloyan
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814659918

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Rich in familiarity with Jesus Jewish world, Gerard Sloyan helps us discover a Jesus thoroughly situated in his own time and place. This impressive, clearly written work challenges readers to see both the historical Jesus who preached the in-breaking of Gods reign and the post-resurrection Jesus whom Christians named Lord and Savior.

Jesus and Gin

Barry Hankins
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Author : Barry Hankins
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0230110029

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Jesus and Gin is a rollicking tour of the roaring twenties and the barn- burning preachers who led the temperance movement—the anti-abortion crusade of the Jazz Age. Along the way, we meet a host of colorful characters: a Baptist minister who commits adultery in the White House; media star preachers caught in massive scandals; a presidential election hinging on a religious issue; and fundamentalists and liberals slugging it out in the culture war of the day. The religious roar of that decade was a prologue to the last three decades. With the religious right in disarray today after its long ascendancy, Jesus and Gin is a timely look at a parallel age when preachers held sway and politicians answered to the pulpit.

Kierkegaard for the Church

Ronald F. Marshall
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Author : Ronald F. Marshall
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620323977

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Kierkegaard for the Church by Ronald F. Marshall Pdf

Most of what is written on Kierkegaard today is for the college classroom and academic conferences. The guiding question of this book is that if Kierkegaard's words about Christianity are true, how do they change the way we learn and practice the Christian faith today? This book is an answer to that question. It does not enter into an extended critical discussion over the truth of Kierkegaard's ideas. Instead it just believes what Kierkegaard said and runs with it. It does that by showing how his ideas change our understanding of Christian identity, suffering and illness, worship and preaching, the Bible, baptism, prayer, marriage and divorce, criticism, and the Christian minister. Interspersed are many quotations from Martin Luther, whose thought significantly shaped Kierkegaard's. At the end of the book is a hefty collection of sermons to show how all of this can be preached in the church. What Kierkegaard for the Church adds to our understanding of Kierkegaard is the place of the church in his thought. Because of his criticisms of the Danish state church and his stress on the need for the single individual to appropriate Christian teachings, it could be imagined that he rejected the church. But that would be to throw the baby out with the bath. The fact is that Kierkegaard remained a loyal son of the church even while he attacked it. And he did this only so he could strengthen what he loved.

Economic Injustice and the Rhetoric of the American Dream

Luke Winslow
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Author : Luke Winslow
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498544153

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Our economic arrangements require a persuasive story that can explain who is rich, who is poor, and why. This story shapes our attitudes toward what is just and unjust; this story dispenses power to some and withholds it from others; and the deeply political and paradoxical nature of this story presents a valuable site of rhetorical inquiry. Economic Injustice and the Rhetoric of the American Dream fills an important scholarly gap by connecting the need to make sense of economic arrangements with the rhetoric of the American Dream. Luke Winslow examines how the rhetoric of the American Dream has emerged as a dominant cultural touchstone in oscillation with a widespread shift to individualistic explanations for economic arrangements, the arrival of neoliberalism, growing levels on inequality, and dismal rates of economic mobility. By developing the tools of rhetorical and ideological criticism this book explores the American Dream in relation to religious, economic, educational, and political institutions ranging from Prosperity Theology to the candidacy and election of Donald Trump. Recommended for scholars in Communication, Economics, Political Science, and Religious Studies.

Pioneer of Salvation

Jerry Frey
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Author : Jerry Frey
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780595343683

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God's Eye View

Tommy Tenney
God s Eye View Book PDF

Author : Tommy Tenney
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781418530211

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In God's Eye View, Tommy Tenney explores how worship lifts us up to see the trouble we face from God's perspective instead of being trapped in an earthly, time-bound viewpoint. The higher we go, the smaller our problems seem. Tenney also teaches the Principle of Magnification: The closer you get to something, the bigger it appears. In other words, worship not only "shrinks" our problems; it also magnifies God in our lives and to others. Worship doesn't really change our problems; it just minimizes their influence over us as we focus on God. He doesn't promise to remove all of our circumstances, but God does assure us that in His presence and from His perspective--we can see things as they really are and not how they appear to be. In the book of Revelation John was instructed to "behold the Lion," but from an earthly perspective John saw only the Lamb. The heavenly perspective reveals that the Lamb is the Lion, the babe of Bethlehem is the "ancient of days," and the dragon is really a weakened lizard. God's eye view is higher than man's. Higher than a bird's eye view, higher than a man's eye view is God's eye view.

#OrganicJesus

Scott Douglas
OrganicJesus Book PDF

Author : Scott Douglas
Publisher :
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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If Generation Next is supposed to question everything and trust no one, where does faith fit in? Consumers demand that their food be pesticide—free, their cosmetics and shampoo be paraben-free, and that everything possible―from clothes to toilet paper—be made without additives or chemicals. But there's nothing that has more additives to the original product than Christianity. How do we get back to the 100% organic version of Jesus? In his personal search for the organic Jesus, Scott Douglas goes on a funny, thought—provoking romp through the foundations of belief. Christianity, he says, has become a simulacrum―a bloated, overprocessed image that lacks the true substance of the real thing. His search for the original took him far and wide through historical Christ figures, urban legends, odd facts about the faith, freakishly flawed Christians, and the Internet. Using relatable, contemporary anecdotes, and unlikely wisdom concealed within humor, Douglas reveals a way back to the authentic essence of following Christ. By including "wiki" breaks, social media callouts, quizzes, charts, and more, #OrganicJesus is ideal for readers raised on social media who can't step out of their house without tweeting about it or eat lunch without posting on Instagram. Douglas is careful to be as non—biased as possible, writing not for any particular agenda―political or otherwise―but instead encouraging readers to seek their own path for spiritual renewal. The result is a candid look at modern Christianity that will challenge savvy young Christians to put as much effort into discovering sustainable religion as they do in their pursuit of an organic marketplace.

The Theology of Dallas Willard

Gary Black Jr.
The Theology of Dallas Willard Book PDF

Author : Gary Black Jr.
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621898207

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The Theology of Dallas Willard by Gary Black Jr. Pdf

Evangelical Christianity in the United States is currently in a dramatic state of change. Yet amidst this sometimes tumultuous religious environment a rather unique blend of both ancient and contemporary Christian theology has found its way into the hearts and minds of emerging generations of Christians. The Theology of Dallas Willard both describes and conveys the essence of this increasingly popular and perhaps mediating view of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Blending both a prophetic critique with pastoral encouragement, Willard's unique understanding of the reality present within a life lived as a disciple of Jesus in the kingdom of God is attracting both new and traditional Christians to reconsider their faith.