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Item Traditional & Encounters A Global Parcepective on the Past(McGraw Hill, 2021-01-21) Jerry H. BentleyHow do the themes of traditions and encounters continue to help make sense of the entire human past in the twenty-first century? As Jerry Bentley and Herb Zeigler noted in their original Pref- ace to this book, world history is about both diversity and con- nections. They began this text with a simple goal: to help our students understand the unique histories of the world’s rich va- riety of peoples, while at the same time allowing them to see the long histories of connections and interactions that have shaped all human communities for millennia. To do this, the authors wrote a story around the dual themes of traditions and encoun- ters to highlight the many different religions and customs em- braced by the world’s peoples while also exploring the encounters with other cultures that brought about inevitable change.Item TRANSFORMING Practice :PASTORAL THEOLOGY IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY(MOWBRAY, 1996-06-26) Elaine L. GrahamWe live in an age of uncertainty. Contemporary Western society has been characterized as one in which there is no longer a consensus of values. The assumptions and criteria by which Western science, politics and philosophy have been guided for the past two hundred years, associated with the ideals of progress, humanism and reason have been discredited by critical voices which emphasize fragmentation, pluralism and scepticism. Some have diagnosed this as typical of the postmodern condition, which may be seen as destabilizing many of the nostrums of the Enlight- enment by challenging prevailing concepts of truth, human nature, knowledge, power, selfhood and language that have informed Western thought for two hundred years.Item Trinity and Revelation: A CONSTRUCTIVE CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY FOR THE PLURALISTIC WORLD(Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2014-04-24) Veli-Matti KärkkäinenJust a few days before his death, Paul Tillich is reported to have confessed that if he had the opportunity to rewrite his three-volume Systematic Theology, he would do so engaging widely world religions. This was due to his brief exposure at the end of his life to the forms of Japanese Buddhism as well as the influence from his famed Romanian religious studies colleague Mircea Eliade. 1While Karl Barth made occasional, scattered references to religions, he also dismissed any revelatory and theological role of religions. Even worse, he made the avoidance of dialogue with the natural sciences a theological theme — and thus could write a massive volume on creation without references to scientific understanding!Item Uncommon decency: Christian civility in an uncivil world(InterVarsity Press, 1992-02-22) RICHARD J. MOUWThis book could not have been written without the help and inspiration that I have received from many people. Two deserve special mention. Rodney Clapp at InterVarsity Press has been an uncommonly skilled editor. And my wife, Phyllis Gilbert Mouw, has been an uncommonly sensitive partner on an un¬ commonly decent journey.Item UNVEILING DEPRESSION IN WOMEN A Practical Guide to Understanding and Overcoming Depression(Fleming H. Revell, 2002-02-20) Archibald Hart, Ph.D.; Catherine Hart Weber, Ph.D.Chances are, you’ve been touched by depression in some way. It’s an epidemic, after all, especially among women and children. In fact, every fourth woman around you has the potential for becoming seriously depressed; if you’re that woman, you only have a one in three chance of get- ting the help you really need. Too many women will suf- fer alone unnecessarily, hoping somehow they'll snap out of it.Item WALKING WITH THE POOR Principles and Practices of Transformational Development(Orbis Books, 2011-11-11) Bryant L. MyersThis book is a masterpiece of integration and application in thinking about Christian ministry. The author draws widely on the best Christian and scientific sources on introducing changes in human societies and forms solid conclusions based on what we have learned from experience in development ministries around the world. He develops a solid, scripturally based framework, or theoretical structure that challenges the spiritual/natural dualism which pervades our Western worldview and that offers a consistent biblical worldview in its place. He shows how the vision of Christian ministry can be implemented in transformational development that is truly transformational in the full sense of the world, and development in that the transformations are lasting and profound.Item Western Civilization: A Brief History(WADSWORTH CENGAGE Learning:, 2014-07-19) JACKSON J. SPIELVOGELDURING A VISIT to Great Britain, where he studied as a young man, Mohandas Gandhi, the leader of the effort to liberate India from British colonial rule, was asked what he thought of Western civilization. “I think it would be a good idea,” he replied. Gandhi’s response was as correct as it was clever. Western civilization has led to great prob- lems as well as great accomplishments, but it remains a good idea. And any complete understanding of today’s world must take into account the meaning of Western civ- ilization and the role Western civilization has played in history. Despite modern progress, we still greatly reflect our religious traditions, our political systems and theories, our economic and social structures, and our cultural herit- age. I have written this brief history of Western civiliza- tion to assist a new generation of students in learning more about the past that has shaped them and the world in which they live.Item What Is Not Sacred? African Spirituality(Orbis Books, 2013-03-13) LAURENTI MAGESAT his book addresses the worldview or spirituality of the peoples of Africa south of the Sahara desert, sometimes called black Africa. It is, therefore, important to note from the start that in this work the designation “Africa” is generally used as shorthand for this part of the vast continent, whose peoples are racially black and spiritually guided by a perception of life that is fundamentally neither specifically “Christian” nor exclusively “Muslim.” Thus, Africa, as used in these pages, with only very few occasional references, generally excludes the populations of the northern region of the continent, which is predominantly racially Arab and religiously Muslim. The qualifier “predominantly” in this context, I must insist, is important and crucial for a proper appreciation of the validity of my general geographical option for consideration: in both the south and the north of the continent, people of either race and faith can certainly be found, but in very unequal numbers and influence, specifically in terms of (spiritual) worldview.Item Who Needs Theology: An Invitation to the Study of God(Inter Varsity Press, 1996-06-26) Stanley J. Grenz; Roger E. OlsonMany Christians today not only are uninformed about basic theology but even seem hostile to it. What has brought about this appalling lack of interest and frequently open hostility to theology among Christian laypeople, students and even pastors? We are confident that this condition does not result from any in- herent flaw in theology itself or in the intellectual or spiritual lives of ordinary Christians. Rather, it results from popular and pervasive misunderstandings of theology.Item Worship Old and New(Zondervan, 1994-04-14) Robert E. WebberIn the preface to the first edition of Worship Old and New, | wrote: “the pri- mary value of the book is as a classroom text in seminary and college courses on worship. However, it should also be of interest to pastors, Christian education directors, worship committees, and laypersons who wish to be more informed on the subject.” In this second edition of Worship Old and New, I have resisted the temp- tation to write a simplistic and popular introduction to worship. Instead, I have maintained the scholarly flavor of the book and continue to see it as an acade- mic introduction to the vast field of worship studies. Since Worship Old and New was published eleven years ago, an enormous quantity of books covering every aspect of worship has emerged. Additionally, the fires of worship renewal have spread in every direction. I have interacted with this renewed interest in worship in this revised edition. While a good portion of the original text has been maintained, the entire work has undergone significant re- vision. The material has been reorganized into four major divisions: The Biblical Foundations of Worship, A Biblical Theology of Worship, A Brief History of Worship, and The Practice of Worship.