I have been thinking much about "liberal" Christianity in recent weeks. The term "liberal" is an odd description. In some contexts "liberal" can be
I have been thinking much about "liberal" Christianity in recent weeks. The term "liberal" is an odd description. In some contexts "liberal" can be
Title: Teaching That Transforms: Worship as the Heart of Christian Education By: Debra Dean Murphy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 255 Vendor: Wipf & Stock Publication Date: 2007 Weight: 11 ounces ISBN: 1556350996 ISBN-13: 9781556350993 Stock No: WW350993
Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)Weight: .55 PoundsSuggested Age: 22 Years and UpSub-Genre: Religion, Politics & StateGenre: Religion + BeliefsNumber of Pages: 161Publisher: IVP AcademicFormat: PaperbackAuthor: Scott H MooreLanguage: EnglishStreet Date: March 5, 2009TCIN: 89985790UPC: 9780830828937Item Number (DPCI): 247-13-7972Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
Scott H. Moore offers a bracing critique of the limits of liberal democracy that calls for and points the way toward a more faithful engagement of Christians with public life--a participation that takes seriously the reality of the Christian church and both the private and public moral teachings of its Scriptures.
The Christian sermon--once the chief symbol of authority in Western culture--often appears in the postmodern imagination as synonymous with irrelevancy, biased judgment, and a rejection of absolute truth. While Christian preachers mourn the cultural disintegration of their hallowed practice, Lance B. Pape believes this modern turn enables the preacher to rediscover the sermon. Proclaiming the gospel, he contends, lies not in the cultural acceptance of the message but in God's free act of self-communication. Using Karl Barth's theology of the Word, Hans Frei's hermeneutical method, and, chiefly, Paul Ricoeur's theory of narrative as threefold mimesis, Pape develops a homiletic that recaptures the scandalous intent of the gospel. The Scandal of Having Something to Say then casts the post-liberal preacher as a \"surrogate reader\" of the biblical text on behalf of the congregation and opens new avenues for practice through the analysis and critique of two sermons.
Title: Teaching That Transforms: Worship as the Heart of Christian Education By: Debra Dean Murphy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 255 Vendor: Wipf & Stock Publication Date: 2007 Weight: 11 ounces ISBN: 1556350996 ISBN-13: 9781556350993 Stock No: WW350993
Dimensions (Overall): 9.42 Inches (H) x 6.37 Inches (W) x .72 Inches (D)Weight: .96 PoundsSuggested Age: 22 Years and UpNumber of Pages: 176Genre: Religion + BeliefsSub-Genre: Christian TheologyPublisher: Baylor University PressTheme: GeneralFormat: HardcoverAuthor: Lance B PapeLanguage: EnglishStreet Date: January 15, 2013TCIN: 88982498UPC: 9781602585287Item Number (DPCI): 247-57-6828Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
What you believe about politics matters. The decades since the Cold War, with new alignments of post-9/11 global politics and the chaos of the late 2010s, are swirling with alternative visions of political life, ranging from ethnic nationalism to individualistic liberalism. Political ideologies are not merely a matter of governmental efficacy, but are intrinsically and inescapably religious: each carries certain assumptions about the nature of reality, individuals and society, as well as a particular vision for the common good. These fundamental beliefs transcend the political sphere, and the astute Christian observer can discern the ways--sometimes subtle, sometimes not--in which ideologies are rooted in idolatrous worldviews. In this freshly updated, comprehensive study, political scientist David Koyzis surveys the key political ideologies of our era, including liberalism, conservatism, nationalism, democracy, and socialism. Koyzis gives each philosophy careful analysis and fair critique, unpacking the worldview issues inherent to each and pointing out essential strengths and weaknesses, as well as revealing the "narrative structure" of each--the stories they tell to make sense of public life and the direction of history. Koyzis concludes by proposing alternative models that flow out of Christianity's historic engagement with the public square, retrieving approaches for both individuals and the global, institutional church that hold promise for the complex political realities of the twenty-first century. Writing with broad international perspective and keen analytical insight, Koyzis is a sane and sensible guide for Christians working in the public square, culture watchers, political pundits, and all students of modern political thought.
Emanuel Levinas and the Limits to Ethics highlights how radically different Jewish ethics is from Christian ethics, and the profound affinities that subsist between Jewish ethics and philosophical and political liberalism. The philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas has captured the imagination of a global constituency who take his absolutizing of ethical demands and his assigning primacy to ethics over all other branches of inquiry in his mapping of Western philosophy to be indicative of a major re-ordering of both personal and cultural identity. It is this re-ordering, they believe, that would restore greater wholeness and value to human life. In this book, Aryeh Botwinick takes issue with both the theoretical analysis that Levinas engages in, and the practical ethical import that he draws from it. Arguing that what Levinas has to say about both skepticism and negative theology can be used to re-route his argument away from the avowed aims of his thought, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Jewish Studies, Ethics and Philosophy.
Title: Tragedy, Tradition, Transformism By: D. Stephen Long Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 220 Vendor: Wipf & Stock Publication Date: 2007 Dimensions: 9.00 X 7.30 X 0.50 (inches) Weight: 8 ounces ISBN: 1556355475 ISBN-13: 9781556355479 Stock No: WW355479
What you believe about politics matters. The decades since the Cold War, with new alignments of post-9/11 global politics and the chaos of the late 2010s, are swirling with alternative visions of political life, ranging from ethnic nationalism to individualistic liberalism. Political ideologies are not merely a matter of governmental efficacy, but are intrinsically and inescapably religious: each carries certain assumptions about the nature of reality, individuals and society, as well as a particular vision for the common good. These fundamental beliefs transcend the political sphere, and the astute Christian observer can discern the ways--sometimes subtle, sometimes not--in which ideologies are rooted in idolatrous worldviews. In this freshly updated, comprehensive study, political scientist David Koyzis surveys the key political ideologies of our era, including liberalism, conservatism, nationalism, democracy, and socialism. Koyzis gives each philosophy careful analysis and fair critique, unpacking the worldview issues inherent to each and pointing out essential strengths and weaknesses, as well as revealing the "narrative structure" of each--the stories they tell to make sense of public life and the direction of history. Koyzis concludes by proposing alternative models that flow out of Christianity's historic engagement with the public square, retrieving approaches for both individuals and the global, institutional church that hold promise for the complex political realities of the twenty-first century. Writing with broad international perspective and keen analytical insight, Koyzis is a sane and sensible guide for Christians working in the public square, culture watchers, political pundits, and all students of modern political thought.
This is the first of a three-part series of essays composed during a three-year spirited discussion between Glenn Miller of Christian Thinktank and James Still. Together, the three essays reveal more than anything that there still exists an enormous gulf between the conservative and liberal views of the New Testament.
Mark Latham, the former head of Australia's progressive Labour Party, has turned against the cultural left, delivering a blistering critique that is electrifying Australia's cultural conservatives.
Ok. When I asked what education book I should read next, the overwhelming response was The Liberal Arts Tradition, and you all did not steer me wrong.
An invaluable insight into the Catholic France of 1866 by Louis Veuillot - which is still very relevant today in terms of the Liberal Illusion.
This present study is the first in English of the theology of the German Lutheran theologian Georg Wobbermin (1869-1943), who has been called a \"\"captain of the liberal rearguard.\"\" Widely read and discussed in his own lifetime, Wobbermin's theology fell into obscurity as dialectical theology rose to prominence in the years following the First World War. Faith at the Intersection of History and Experience presents the major themes of Wobbermin's theology, particularly his analysis of the relationship between faith and history and his development of a religio-psychological theological method that places faith at the intersection of history and experience. Wobbermin's critiques of recent and contemporary approaches to the problem of faith and history and his attention to theological method reveal a sustained effort to continue what he called the \"\"Luther-Kant-Schleiermacher line\"\" of Protestant theology. The consistent emphasis in Wobbermin's theology is on the systematic interrelation of objectivity and subjectivity, an approach he considered to be a faithful continuation of the Reformation, but one that invited conflict with the dialectical theologians, chiefly Karl Barth. Wobbermin's debates with Barth on issues of method reveal a vibrant and sophisticated liberal theology co-existing with the dialectical theology that is conventionally assumed to have eclipsed it over a decade earlier. Building on work that has been done primarily in German, this study of one of the \"\"forgotten theologians\"\" of the early twentieth century appears as more German, British, and American theologians and historians are returning to this period of theology with renewed interest and fresh questions, and it addresses an often neglected period of modern Protestant thought in histories currently available in English.
Title: Robust Liberalism: H. Richard Niebuhr and the Ethics of American Public Life By: Timothy A. Beach-Verhey Format: Hardcover Number of Pages: 320 Vendor: Baylor University Press Publication Date: 2011 Dimensions: 9.00 X 6.00 (inches) Weight: 2 pounds ISBN: 1602582521 ISBN-13: 9781602582521 Stock No: WW582521
Keller, the most influential Christian apologist and evangelical leader of his generation, died Friday at age 72.
