A Thematic History of the Tractarians and Their Times
Well over a century and a half after its high point, the Oxford Movement continues to stand out as a powerful example of religion in action. Led by four young Oxford dons—John Henry Newman, John Keble, Richard Hurrell Froude, and Edward Pusey.
This new book is a philosophical critique of modernism in Christian thought. It discusses the unrealistic and mechanistic excesses of modernism and seeks to define and defend a postmodern Christian intellectual paradigm. In a wide-ranging discussion of post modern Christian philosophy Dr Danaher investigates the romantic poets of the 18th and 19th ......
Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State offers an in-depth examination of the origins, controversial uses, and competing interpretations of this powerful metaphor in law and public policy.
Is there a God, or a spiritual reality beyond nature? This work takes a look at this question, focusing on what we have learned about our world rather than on traditional metaphysical disputes. Criticising Muslim and New Age perspectives, and Jewish and Christian arguments, it argues that a naturalism leads to a better explanation of our world.
Based on more than twenty-five years of research, this social history traces the growth of the religious right in America from its humble grassroots beginnings in the early 1970s to its status as a powerful cultural and political force.
Mary Ellen Ashcroft paints a portrait of the Saturday after the crucifixion and before the resurrection of Jesus. Mary Magdalene and the other women followers of Jesus have gathered together to comfort one another in this time of unspeakable loss and sadness. As each woman shares her story, it becomes clear that her experience as a follower of ......
Prophetic Reason, Civil Society, and Christian Imagination
Critical theory explained and espousedSimpson ably introduces critical social theory, the German-born intellectual movement that has spawned sharp criticisms of modernity, its use of reason, and our highly technological, bureaucratic culture. Part 1 recounts the emergence of critical social theory within the Frankfurt School of Social Research and ......
In this study of early Christian traditions, C. Clifton Black explores the figure and function of Mark, the apostolic associate to whom Christians traditionally have attributed authorship of the New Testament's anonymous Second Gospel and whose very existence has been a controversial issue among scholars. Black contends that in their justifiable ......
John Chrysostom, called the ""golden-mouthed"" for his eloquent preaching, continues in this second volume of the sixty-seven Genesis homilies to provide instruction for the moral reformation of the Christians of Antioch. He continues in Homily 18 with Genesis 3 and finishes in Homily 45 with Genesis 20. They seem to have been delivered perhaps as ......
