Church State category: 1367 books
Christianity in the Modern World
Changes and Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
What is the state of Christianity today, and what might it look like in the future? In the West, the story for a long time has revolved around decline and the loss of monopoly status, but how are these shifts changing the practice of Christianity or individual belief? Similarly, the rapid growth of...
The Gospel and the Citizen
Essay on the Christian and the Church in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Should the church get involved in politics or influence their voting members? What is the church mandate on this issue? How should Christians project themselves? Many Christians are wondering how to respond to the confusion generated by the variety of candidates for public office and the differing...
Believe the Believable
Faith in the Face of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Dr. Virgil Brady claims one of the major reasons for indifference in the church stems from being asked to believe the unbelievable. People leave the church. Members become inactive or indifferent. A growing number of the population simply does not experience the church as a viable channel for expressing...
Sharia or Shura
Contending Approaches to Muslim Politics in Nigeria and Senegal
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This book explores the differences in Muslim attitudes and approaches to the public square in sub-Saharan Africa via a comparative-historical analysis of Muslim politics in Northern Nigeria and Senegal since independence in 1960. While Northern Nigeria has been mired in intermittent religious conflicts...
Polarization in the US Catholic Church
Naming the Wounds, Beginning to Heal
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
It is no secret: the body of Christ in the United States is broken. While universality—and unity amid diversity—is a fundamental characteristic of Roman Catholicism, all-too-familiar issues related to gender, sexuality, race, and authority have rent the church. Healthy debates, characteristic...
Crying in the Ears of Jerusalem
The World Against the Word of God
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
The state of Israeli-Palestinian relations has led to political and religious chaos. In Crying in the Ears of Jerusalem, author Dan Eze demonstrates the shame surrounding this conflict, a conflict made from both falsely adopted principles and tortured politics. The path to restoring peace and bringing...
by Raihan Ismail
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
The Saudi "ulama" are known for their strong opposition to Shi'a theology, Shi'a communities in Saudi Arabia, and external Shi'a influences such as Iran and Hezbollah. Their potent hostility, combined with the influence of the 'ulama' within the Saudi state and the Muslim world, has led some commentators...
Church, nation and race
Catholics and antisemitism in Germany and England, 1918–45
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Church, nation and race compares the worldviews and factors that promoted or, indeed, opposed antisemitism amongst Catholics in Germany and England after the First World War. As a prequel to books on Hitler, fascism and genocide, the book turns towards ideas and attitudes that preceded and shaped...
The Virgin Mary Conspiracy
The True Father of Christ and the Tomb of the Virgin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
A convincing and cogent argument refuting the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Church dogma and revealing the true father of Jesus
• Provides historical and archaeological evidence of a tomb of the Virgin Mary
• Introduces the theory that Jesus's father was Antipater, son of Herod
What...
Resident Aliens
Life in the Christian Colony (Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Only when the Church enacts its scandalous Jesus-centered tradition, will it truly be the Body of Christ and transform the world. Twenty-five years after its first publishing, Resident Aliens remains a prophetic vision of how the Church can regain its vitality, battle its malaise, reclaim its capacity...
Elephants in the Church
Courageously Confronting Today's Tough and Controversial Issues
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Where Are the Truth-Tellers?
Our world is facing serious problems that pose genuine threats to our safety, our economy, our health, and our very survival. Sadly, partisanship and allegiances to special interests are preventing our nation from taking the needed action on such matters.
And where...
by John David Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
The modern church has become a Godless social club for the unsaved of the world. This short essay looks at some of the changes from the writers perspective. The work is short, but to the point.
Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century
The Classic That Woke Up the Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The 100th Anniversary Edition of the Classic That Changed the American Church Forever
Published at the beginning of the twentieth century, Christianity and the Social Crisis is the epoch-making book that dramatically expanded the church’s vision of how it could transform the world. The...
Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina
The Life of the Reverend Alexander Garden, 1685-1756
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
When Alexander Garden, a Scottish minister of the Church of England, arrived in South Carolina in 1720, he found a colony smoldering from the devastation of the Yamasee War and still suffering from economic upheaval, political factionalism, and rampant disease. It was also a colony turning enthusiastically...