Christian Science category: 744 books
Hostile Environment
Understanding and Responding to Anti-Christian Bias
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
"The only good Christian is a dead Christian." In our heated cultural environment, comments like this are increasingly common. Sometimes Christians are too quick to claim that they are being persecuted. But Christians aren't just being paranoid or alarmist. Anti-Christian hostility is real....
by Andrew Boll
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
J. R. R. Tolkien’s literary masterpiece, The Hobbit, has been read and enjoyed by millions of people for nearly eight decades. Within the pages of this beautiful story, we find some of the finest virtues – and some of the darkest depths – of human nature. Therein lie the amazing opportunities...
by Matthew Kaemingk
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
An alternative, uniquely Christian response to the growing global challenges of deep religious difference
In the last fifty years, millions of Muslims have migrated to Europe and North America. Their arrival has ignited a series of fierce public debates on both sides of the Atlantic about religious...
Living Together in a World Falling Apart
The classic "Handbook on Christian Community," with Updated Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
When Living Together in a World Falling Apart was first published in 1974, tensions in society—an unpopular war, racial divisions, fearful economics, the seeming futility of “success,” and widespread alienation—were not addressed in most churches. Racism still thrived, worship meant three...
by Frank J. Tipler
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
A highly respected physicist demonstrates that the essential beliefs of Christianity are wholly consistent with the laws of physics.
Frank Tipler takes an exciting new approach to the age-old dispute about the relationship between science and religion in The Physics of Christianity. In reviewing...
Christ and Modernity
Christian Self-Understanding in a Technological Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
In this re–examination of the roots of the relationship between religion and science, David Hawkin focuses on the concept of autonomy as he explores the question: Is there continuity and compatibility between the autonomy that underlies Christian faith and the role of individual freedom in the technological...
Negotiating Work, Family, and Identity among Long-Haul Christian Truck Drivers
What Would Jesus Haul?
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
This book draws upon ethnographic and qualitative research in the United States to demonstrate the means through which long-haul truck drivers navigate work and family tensions in ways that resonate across categories of race, class, gender and religion. It examines how Christianity and constructions...
I Don't Sexually Abuse Black Females
Black Christian Brothers Affirm Mandate to Sexually Protect Our Cultural Sisters
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
I don’t sexually abuse Black females is the spiritual affirmation that anchors this entire discussion. It empowers Brothers to prevent and rectify the sexual abuse experienced by Black Sisters—a not infrequent immoral, illegal practice in our community, and in society. The season has come for...
Talking Taboo
American Christian Women Get Frank About Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
American Christian Women under 40 are being theologically trained in unprecedented numbers, accessing leadership in their communities through both orthodox and unorthodox avenues, and balancing the roles of professional, wife, mother, girlfriend, and friend. With all of the perceived progress, why...
The Bible & the Ballot
Reflections on Christian Political Engagement in Malaysia Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
How do we relate Christianity to political engagement in Malaysia today? This is the question that we, as part of the community of believers, are trying to answer in this book. It is our conviction that “if Jesus Christ is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all”. We proclaim the lordship of Jesus...
Black Women’s Christian Activism
Seeking Social Justice in a Northern Suburb
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
2017 Wilbur Non-Fiction Award Recipient
Winner of the 2018 Author's Award in scholarly non0fiction, presented by the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance
In Black Women’s Christian Activism, Betty Livingston Adams examines the oft overlooked role of non-elite black women in the growth...
Faith Evolving
A Patchwork Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
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How is religious faith affected by our life’s experiences? NZ’s Trish McBride started with a traditional Christian faith. Over time this has evolved into a belief in a God who is free of denominational church boundaries. One poem and prose step at a time, Trish weaves...
by Bryony Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
So the Vicar of Dibley, Father Ted and the Baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells walk into a pub… More TV Vicar? gets under the dog-collar of some of the best loved ‘Christian’ characters on British TV – the good, the bad and the quirky. Among well-known characters including the Vicar of Dibley,...
Echoes of Truth
Christianity in The Lord of the Rings - Illustrated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Echoes of Truth: Christianity in The Lord of the Rings - Illustrated Edition
In addition to being a professor, master of language and myth, and a loving husband and father, J.R.R. Tolkien was a devout Christian. He saw the Gospel of Christianity as myth come true within human history and all...