Advocacy organizations and collective action
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Item HOW GOOD PEOPLE MAKE TOUGH CHOICES Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living(Perfectbound Choices, 1986-06-19) Rushworth M. KidderThe seeds of this book were sown when, one warm summer afternoon at her home in Cos Cob, Connecticut, in 1986, I had a quiet, long, and thoughtful conversation with Barbara Tuchman. A historian of what she called “the small facts, not the big Expla nation,” she had twice won the Pulitzer Prize—and earned high praise for such books as A Distant Mirror, which used the fourteenth century and its Black Plague as a “mirror” for the twentieth century’s con fusions and violence. As a columnist and staff writer for The Christian Science Monitor, I was interviewing her for a series of articles based on the ideas of twenty-two leading thinkers around the world. Ultimately published as An Agenda for the 21st Century (MIT Press, 1987), this series sought to discover the major, first-intensity, high-leverage issues that humanity would have to address in order to negotiate the coming century successfully. As we talked, I asked her how, if she were a twenty-first-century historian looking backward, she would characterize our century. “I would call it an Age of Disruption,” she said. She warned of the nuclear threat. She called attention to environmental problems. But her central concern, she said, lay in “the real disruption in public morality.” “There have always been times when people have acted immor ally,” she continued. But what was new, she felt, was “the extent of public immorality making itself so obvious to the average citizen.”Item Christianity Through the Centuries a History of the Christian Church(Zondervan, 1996-01-24) Earle E.CairnsAN EXAMINATION OF available church history texts reveals that most of them reflect a particular denominational or theological bias. This text was written from a conservative, nondenominational perspective. A Christian philosophy of history underlies the presentation. Because one can never understand the history of Christianity effectively without some conception of the political, economic, social, intellectual, and artistic movements in each era of history, the events of church history are related to their secular environment. The treatment of persons, places, dates, events, ideas, and trends or movements in their proper temporal and geographical setting helps one grasp the flow of church history. I have given attention to the impact of Christianity on its times and to the mark of the times on Christianity. I have attempted to link information, understanding, and interpretation in a relevant synthesis that has value in the present. I am grateful that after forty years of the use of this text by both teachers and students in the classroom and by the Christian public its continued demand has made an extensive revision desirable and feasible. Constructive suggestions from several people have been most helpful in improving the accuracy and clarity of this work.Item Christian Counseling. A Comprehensive Guide(Word Books Publisher, 1980-07-12) Gary R.CollinsThis manuscript was completed and sent to the publisher exactly ten years after the completion of my first book. It is interesting for me to look back over a decade of writing to ponder how my work has changed and hopefully improved through the production of more than two dozen books. Some of these works have been well received and sold many copies; others have had less influence, but each has forced me to face the dis cipline, the long, lonely hours, and the risk of expressing ideas in print, where all can see, criticize, and sometimes applaud. I once asked Paul Toumier which of his many books was the best. “That’s easy,” he said with a twinkle in his eye—“the next one.” I can appreciate Toumier’s sentiments. I am not interested in judging whether this book will be better or worse than the next one, but I do know that this volume has been the most difficult to write and the most time- consuming. It is also the lengthiest of all my books. I hope it will also be the most helpful to date. In the following pages I have tried to summarize much of what we know about counseling methodology and about the major problems which peo ple face today. This book has been prepared as a resource tool for pastors and other Christian counselors, as a study guide for lay helpers, and as a textbook for use in seminaries and colleges. Besides being written for these audiences, this is the reading book for a multi-media resource en titled The Christian Counselor's Library. The library contains twenty- eight audio cassettes, a Counselor’s Manual, and counselee worksheets (besides this book), and was produced by Educational Products Division of Word, Incorporated, 4800 W. Waco Drive, Waco, Texas 76710. In the past decade of writing, I have never before felt the support and encouragement of so many people. Joey Paul and his colleagues at Word, Incorporated, first invited me to do this project, gave constant encourage ment, and waited more or less patiently through several delays as the work was completed. My secretary Marlene Terbush and my graduate assistants Charles Romig and James Beesley helped in innumerable ways as did a team of typists which included Kathy Cropp, Marilyn Secor, Lenore Scherrer, Sharon Regan, Nancy Fister and Lora Beth Norton. In addition each of the people who produced tapes made a significant contribution. Their names are listed elsewhere. Dr. Kenneth Meyer, Pres ident of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, my colleagues in the psy chology department, and my students all showed incredible flexibility 7 8 Preface and encouragement, allowing me to juggle my schedule to complete this project in the midst of a busy school year.Item Biblical Eldership au Ugernt call to Restore Biblical Church Leadership(Lewis & Roth Publisher, 1995-04-13) Alexander StrauchI gratefully acknowledge the help of many dear Christian friends in writing this book. Special thanks is due to my editors, Stephen and Amanda Sorenson, and proofreaders, Barbara Peek and Maggie K. Crossett. Five special friends who have consistently encouraged me in this project through the years are Doyle Roth, Barney Visser, Craig Van Schooneveld, David J. MacLeod, and Paul B. Sapp. Above all, I thank my wife, Marilyn, whose personal sacrifice and support cannot be measured or duly praisedItem A THEOLOGY OF RECONSTRUCTION Nation-building and human right(CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1992-11-30) Charles Villa -VicencioOnly twenty years ago it was widely assumed that religion had lost its previous place in western culture and that this pattern would spread throughout the world. Since then religion has become a renewed force, recognised as an important factor in the modern world in all aspects of life, cultural, economic and political. This is true not only of the Third World, but in Europe East and West, and in North America. It is no longer a surprise to find a religious factor at work in areas of political tension. Religion and ideology form a mixture which can be of interest to the observer, but in practice dangerous and explosive. Our information about such matters comes for the most part from three types of sources. The first is the media which understand ably tend to concentrate on newsworthy events, without taking the time to deal with the underlying issues of which they are but symptoms. The second source comprises studies by social scientists who often adopt a functionalist and reductionist view of the faith and beliefs which motivate those directly involved in such situations. Finally, there are the statements and writings of those committed to the religious or ideological movements themselves. We seldom lack information, but there is a need often an urgent need - for sound objective analyses which can make use of the best contemporary approaches to both politics and religion. 'Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion' is designed to meet this need. The subject matter is global and this will be reflected in the choice both of topics and of authors. The initial volumes will be concerned primarily with movements involving the Christian religion, but as the series becomes established movements