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Publisher
Image
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 137 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This book is Pope Francis's reflections on ten vital issues the world is facing today. Amongst other prayers, Pope Francis is asking in the name of God: for the media to reject fake news and renounce the language of hate; to put a stop to the madness of war; for the welcoming of migrants and refugees; for the eradication of the culture of abuse from within the Church"--
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Whether gunning down a warthog, raising the beams he'd hewn himself for a new church, or standing up for landless refugees and abused girls, Father John Kaiser was a figure larger than life. He was fierce in his commitments, devoted to the poor and displaced, and fearless-what some would call reckless-in the pursuit of justice. For this he was beloved by his parishioners, seen as a loose cannon by his superiors in the church, and despised by Kenya's...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 395 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From an esteemed scholar of American religion and sexuality, a sweeping account of the century of religious conflict that produced our culture wars Gay marriage, transgender rights, birth control--sex is at the heart of many of the most divisive political issues of our age. The origins of these conflicts, historian R. Marie Griffith argues, lie in sharp disagreements that emerged among American Christians a century ago. From the 1920s onward, a once-solid...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
440 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Born in 1930s Appalachia, Jerry Falwell would become, by the end of the twentieth century, the most prominent evangelical leader the nation had ever seen--indeed, for many, he was the face of Christianity in America. The child of agnostic parents, he made a name for himself as a pastor and later founded his own Christian university. And although he was initially ambivalent about getting involved in politics, Falwell and his controversial Moral Majority...
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
356 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Exploring intellectual authority within evangelicalism, the authors reveal how America's populist ideals, anti-intellectualism, and religious free market, along with the concept of anointing--being chosen by God to speak for him like the biblical prophets--established a conservative evangelical leadership isolated from the world of secular arts and sciences"--From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
208 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
It wasn't until Libby Phelps was an adult, a twenty-five year old, that she escaped the Westboro Baptist Church. She is the granddaughter of its founder, Fred Phelps, and when she left, the church and its values were all she'd known. She didn't tell her family she was leaving. It happened in just a few minutes; she ran into her house, grabbed a bag, and fled. No goodbyes. Based in Topeka, Kansas, the Westboro Baptist Church community is one the country's...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in a deeply evangelical family, Sarah McCammon was strictly taught to fear God, obey him, and not question the faith. McCammon was a rule-follower and--most of the time--a true believer. But through it all, she was increasingly plagued by fears and deep questions as the belief system she'd been carefully taught clashed with her expanding understanding of the outside world. After spending her early adult life striving to make sense of an...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pope Francis met with French reporter and sociologist Dominique Wolton for an unprecedented series of twelve fascinating and timely conversations, open dialogues revolving around the political, cultural, and religious issues dominating communication and conflict around the world, now published here, along with addresses or extracts of addresses given for various occasions during his papacy.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
432 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A history of religion's role in the American liberal tradition through the eyes of seven transformative thinkers. Today we associate liberal thought and politics with secularism. When we argue over whether the nation's founders meant to keep religion out of politics, the godless side is said to be liberal. But the role of religion in American politics has always been far more nuanced and complex than today's debates would suggest and closer to the...
Author
Publisher
Herald Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
White settlers saw land for the taking. They failed to consider the perspective of the people already here. In 'The Land Is Not Empty', author Sarah Augustine unpacks the harm of the Doctrine of Discovery - a set of laws rooted in the fifteenth century that gave Christian governments the moral and legal right to seize lands they "discovered" despite those lands already being populated by indigenous peoples. Legitimized by the church and justified...
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Many Americans have been taught a distorted, inaccurate account of our nation's founding, one that claims that the founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and that the country's founding political ideas developed without reference to Christianity. In this revelatory, rigorously argued new book, Mark David Hall thoroughly debunks that modern myth and shows instead that the founders' political ideas were profoundly...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale Momentum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xi, 220 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a divided country desperate for unity, two sons of South Carolina show how different races, life experiences, and pathways can lead to a deep friendship--even in a state that was rocked to its core by the 2015 Charleston church shooting.
Author
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
xi, 265 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"While it has long been determined that Abraham Lincoln's writings were influenced by the King James Bible. until now no full-length study has shown the precise ways in which the Gettysburg Address uses its specific language. Refuting the view that the address was crafted with traditional classical references, this revealing investigation provides a new way to think about the speech and the man who wrote it. A.E. Elmore offers chapter-andverse evidence...
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