In this essay Barth articulates what it means to follow Jesus in faith. He emphaisizes that discipleship involves a detachment from authority of possessions, foregoing the pursuit of personal glory, challenging the fear and use of force, the dissolution of self-evident personal attachments and a "better-righteousness" which goes beyond actions.
This title addresses the hotly debated question of the role religion should play in politics in both the American and international contexts. It engages the fears that public religion threatens American democracy and could lead to a global clash of civilizations and new wars of religion.
Focusing on New Testament stories about the Apostle Peter, pastor Scott Walker asks: How does Peter's predicament apply to my life? What can I learn through Peter's experience that will make me a better Christian disciple? Walker explains that it is only through struggle and personal failure that we grow to be stronger followers of Jesus.
The Christian faith has implications for all of life. Yet, many Christians do not make the connection between the resources of their faith and the challenges they face in daily life and work. God's call to faithful living is often understood primarily in terms of being involved in church-sponsored ministries. In Listen! God Is Calling! author D. ......
An Introduction to the Christian Life, Second Edition
Theologian and ethicist Robert Benne addresses the Christian life in its religious and moral dimensions by writing about the vocation of the Christian in daily life. He discusses Christian identity, the call of God, moral development, and marriage and family life, among other topics.
And We Fly Away is the story of the final years and death of the author's wife. Ashford's own emergence from sorrow is marked by the conviction that death is not the end, but a marvelous beginning. Ashford tells his story in spare, poetic prose and includes a "mini-anthology" of helpful quotations from scripture and literature.
Including over 260 brief biographies, and 33 entries, as well as a glossary of terms that help to explain the theology of the Roman Catholic Church, this title introduces the faithful to the day's feast or to the saint whose memorial is being celebrated.
Among the evils addressed by Christian theology, says Stephen Ray, must be the evil perpetuated by its own well-meant theologies. His important project examines the downside of the category of social sin, especially in theologians' use of destructive stereotypes that have kept Christians from realizing and engaging the most pervasive social evils ......
Sixteen men attempt to lay out what it means to be an adult male Christian. The authors move beyond old stereotypes of manliness and Christian identity to chart new identities, roles, and attitudes. They include men who are deeply in the Christian church and men barely in the church, straight and gay men, white men and African Americans, ......
