Church State category: 1367 books
by Dr. C. Brandt Smith, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Between Two Rivers
Do you ever wonder what life is really like for Iraqis living in Baghdad? Wonder no longer. “Between Two Rivers” released in May 2008 by Brandt Smith Publishing dispels the myths and brings readers face to face with the reality of life and death in a besieged city.
“Between...
by Jim Wallis
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
The headlines are almost unfathomable: More than one thousand Bangladesh garment-industry workers killed when their building collapsed. Over one hundred workers killed in a poultry-factory fire in China. Harsh conditions and a rash of suicides at a Taiwanese company producing cell phones. These tragedies...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
For four decades, from 1951 to 1990, The Reformed Journal set the standard for top-notch, venturesome theological reflection on a broad range of issues. With a lively mix of editorial comment, articles, and reviews, it addressed topics as diverse as the civil rights movement, feminism, the Vietnam...
by Frederick Meekins
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
An examination of a case made by a clergyman as to why a memorial cross should be abolished.
Demanding Liberty
An Untold Story of American Religious Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Historian Brandon O'Brien unveils an untold story of religious liberty in America. Between theocracy and secularism, Baptist pastor Isaac Backus contended for a third way—religious liberty and freedom of conscience for all Americans, regardless of belief. Backus's ideas impacted his era, giving...
Serving God and Country
United States Military Chaplains in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
**In World War II, over 12,000 Protestant ministers, Catholic priests, and Jewish rabbis left the safety of home to join the Chaplain Corps, following the armed forces into battle across Europe, Asia, North Africa, and the high seas.
They were officers who displayed uncommon courage and sacrifice....
America's Four Gods
What We Say about God--and What That Says about Us
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Despite all the hype surrounding the "New Atheism," the United States remains one of the most religious nations on Earth. In fact, 95% of Americans believe in God--a level of agreement rarely seen in American life. The greatest divisions in America are not between atheists and believers,...
Pope Francis as a Global Actor
Where Politics and Theology Meet
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Pope Francis confuses many observers because his papacy does not fit neatly into any pre-established classificatory schemes. To gain a deeper appreciation of Francis’s complicated papacy, this volume proposes that an interdisciplinary approach, fusing concepts derived from moral theology and the...
God in the Trenches
A History of How God Defends Freedom When America Is at War
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Is God on America's side? Is it possible a providential hand intervened at critical junctures during America's wars? Is freedom important to the Almighty? Larkin Spivey, a decorated Marine Corps officer and respected military professor, believes so.In God in the Trenches, Spivey shows...
Popular Religion in Modern China
The New Role of Nuo
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Since the early 1980s, China's rapid economic growth and social transformation have greatly altered the role of popular religion in the country. This book makes a new contribution to the research on the phenomenon by examining the role which popular religion has played in modern Chinese politics....
The Religious Problem with Religious Freedom
Why Foreign Policy Needs Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Rival understandings of the meaning and practice of the religious and the secular lead to rival public perspectives about religion and religious freedom in North America. This book explores how debates over the American Office of Religious Freedom and its International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA,...
Power, Politics and the Fragmentation of Evangelicalism
From the Scopes Trial to the Obama Administration
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
Kenneth J. Collins tells the narrative history of the political and cultural fortunes of American evangelicalism from the late nineteenth century through the contemporary era. He traces the establishment of the evangelical enterprise in American culture and its influences on the political and social...
They Say We Are Infidels
On the run with persecuted Christians in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
The rise of ISIS and the murderous trail they have carved across the Middle East have brought the fate of thousands of Iraqi and Syrian Christians to the forefront of the news. This book, drawing on eye-witness accounts, brings that suffering into clear focus. Beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq,...
The Control Factor
Our Struggle to See the True Threat
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
For those who believe America is worth defending, The Control Factor explores the psychological maneuvers, fantasies, and entanglements we engage in to avoid clearly seeing the Islamic threat that confronts us. The prerequisite for developing necessary strategies to ensure our survival is taking responsibility for our perceptions and actions.