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God in Muslim and Christian thought / Pim Valkenberg -- The Paraclete and the integrity of Scripture / Sandra Toenies Keating -- Christians, prophethood, and Muhammad / Mark Beaumont -- Muslims, prophethood, and Jesus / Tariq Ramadan -- The Qur'an as God's revelation in Christian-Muslim relations / Ayşe İçöz -- Jesus as God's revelation in Christian-Muslim relations / John Azumah -- Sin and redemption in Christianity and Islam / Cosmas Ebo Sarbah -- The formation of Christian and Muslim communities / Lucinda Allen Mosher -- Religious pluralism and dialogue / Douglas Pratt.

Doing Justice introduces people of faith to congregation-based community organizing rooted in the day-to-day struggles and hopes of urban ministry. Drawing from the author's decades of experience in community organizing ministry and skillfully illustrated with examples, Dennis A. Jacobsen weaves theological and biblical warrants for community organizing into concrete strategies for achieving justice in the public arena and discusses fundamental organizing principles like power, self-interest, and agitation. The second, updated edition includes a new preface, forewords, and new sidebars by Gran

Can a theological case be made from Scripture that Israel still has a claim to the Promised Land? Christian Zionism is often seen as the offspring of premillennial dispensationalism. But the historical roots of Christian Zionism came long before the rise of the Plymouth Brethren and John Nelson Darby. In fact, the authors of The New Christian Zionism contend that the biblical and theological connections between covenant and land are nearly as close in the New Testament as in the Old. Written with academic rigor by experts in the field, this book proposes that Zionism can be defended historically, theologically, politically and morally. While this does not sanctify every policy and practice of the current Israeli government, the authors include recommendations for how twenty-first-century Christian theology should rethink its understanding of both ancient and contemporary Israel, the Bible and Christian theology more broadly. This provocative volume proposes a place for Christian Zionism in an integrated biblical vision

Why should you read this book? -- Philosophers and sages : Hokhmah and Sophia -- Philosophy within the limits of religion alone? : faith and reason -- Jesus and philosophy -- What is real? : metaphysics -- What do I know? : epistemology -- What should I value? : ethics and aesthetics -- Who and what am I? : philosophy of mind -- Understanding nature : philosophy of science -- Transforming the soul : philosophy and spiritual formation

Balanced Brain in the BibleSummary; Chapter 4: Church and Post-Ecotheology; Re-discovered Chinese Ecotheories; Vanity of Ecotheologies; Biblical Verses of Ecology and Post-Ecology; Church and Post-Ecotheology; Summary; Chapter 5: Capitalism and Post-Ecotheology; Vanity of Rightist and Leftist Ecological Solutions; Vanity of Sustainable Ecotheology; Capitalism and Post-Ecotheology; Summary; Chapter 6: Democracy and Post-Ecotheology; Vanity of Green/Red Authoritarianism; Vanity of Deliberative Democracy; Vanity of Global Ecological Institutions; Vanity of the Kingdom of God on Earth

The Impassioned Life argues that theology's task today is to rethink the nature of the emotions and their relation to human reason. Such rethinking is necessary because the Christian tradition feels ambivalently about the emotions. Armed with a commitment to body-soul dualism, many writers have equated the image of God with rationality and wondered whether emotion is an essential feature of human nature; however, the tradition has also affirmed the value of emotions such as love and compassion and has sometimes asserted the value of so-called negative emotions such as anger. The question, then, is whether the tradition's pastoral insight into the importance of moderation and control of the emotions requires us to think dualistically about soul (identified with reason) and body (the seat of emotions). To answer this question, The Impassioned Life explores the vital resources of the Christian theological tradition and also of contemporary scientific and psychological research in order to achieve a more adequate theological understanding of the emotions and reason. At heart, it offers a holistic, integrated vision of the Christian life lived passionately in its full range of human feeling as life in the Spirit

Preliminary Material /Johannes A. van der Ven and Hans-Georg Ziebertz -- Introduction /Johannes A. van der Ven and Hans-Georg Ziebertz -- Between Sanctity and Depravity: Human Dignity and Human Rights in Classical Lutheran Perspective /John Witte -- Rights, Resistance, and Revolution in the Western Tradition: Early Protestant Foundations /John Witte -- Human Rights in the History of the Roman Catholic Church /Rik Torfs -- (In)compatibility of Religion and Human Rights: The Case of Islam /Ruud Peters -- Religion, Personality and Human Rights: An Empirical Study among Adolescents in England and Wales Distinguishing between Religious Identity and Textual Authority among Christians and Muslims /Leslie J. Francis and Mandy Robbins -- Religion and Attitudes towards Euthanasia and Abortion An Empirical Study among Young Christians and Muslims in Germany /Hans-Georg Ziebertz and Marion Reindl -- Attitudes towards Human Rights and Religiosity: A Case of Turkish Adolescents /Üzeyir Ok and Selim Eren -- Towards a Legitimate Role of Religion in the Domain of Socioeconomic Rights: An Empirical Study among Adolescents in North West European countries /Johannes A. van der Ven -- Public Significance of Religion with regard to Socioeconomic Rights in the Multireligious Context of Tamil Nadu, India /Francis-Vincent Anthony -- Religion and Attitudes towards Socioeconomic Human Rights An Empirical Study of Young Adults in Norway /Pål Ketil Botvar -- List of Contributors /Johannes A. van der Ven and Hans-Georg Ziebertz -- Index /Johannes A. van der Ven and Hans-Georg Ziebertz.

The discovery of power -- The gift of power: in the beginning it was not so. Power is a gift -- Idolatry -- Injustice -- Icons -- The grip of power: it will not be so among you. The hiddenness of power -- Force, coercion and violence -- The lure of privilege -- Institutions and creative power: from generation to generation. The gift of institutions -- Principalities, powers and broken institutions -- Becoming trustees -- The end of power: we had to celebrate. Disciplined power -- The Sabbath leader -- The end of power

Common life in our society is in decline--our communities are disintegrating, our public discourse is hateful, and economic inequalities are widening. In this book, Jake Meador reclaims a vision of common life for our fractured times: a vision that doesn't depend on the destinies of our economies or our political institutions, but on our citizenship in a heavenly city. Only through that vision can we truly work together for the common good

Earth : what can a planet do? / Clayton Crockett -- Satellite skies; or, the gospel and acts of the vampirisms of transcendence / Ward Blanton -- A theory of insurrection: beyond the way of the mortals / Jeffrey W. Robbins -- The gospel of the word made flesh: insurrection from within the heart of divinity / Noëlle Vahanian