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New Feminist Christianity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

New Feminist Christianity

Powerful insights from ministers, theologians, activists, leaders, artists and liturgists who are shaping the future. "Christianity has been a source of the oppression of women, as well as a resource for unleashing women's full humanity. Feminist analysis and practice have recognized this. Feminist Christianity is reshaping religious institutions and religious life in more holistic, inclusive, and justice-focused ways." —from the Introduction Feminism has brought many changes to Christian religious practice. From inclusive language and imagery about the Divine to an increase in the number of women ministers, Christian worship will never be the same. Yet, even now, there is a lack of substa...

Freedom Riders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 706

Freedom Riders

They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the American South to challenge segregation in interstate transport. Their story is one of the most celebrated episodes of the civil rights movement, yet a full-length history has never been written until now. In these pages, acclaimed historian Raymond Arsenault provides a gripping account of six pivotal months that jolted the consciousness of America. The Freedom Riders were greeted with hostility, fear, and violence. They were jailed and beaten, their buses stoned and firebombed. In Alabama, police stood idly by as racist thugs battered them. Wh...

Christology from the Margins
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Christology from the Margins

Provides a comprehensive queer discussion of Christology, concluding with the view of Christ's person and work from a queer perspective. Suitable for undergraduate study.

Strangers in This Land
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Strangers in This Land

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-01-10
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  • Publisher: McFarland

This updated, revised version of the important 1988 first edition ("must reading for anyone seriously probing religious pluralism in our society"--Theology Today) examines the complex relationship between American ideals and increasing religious diversity. In the past two decades, American religion has become more pluralistic and the central dynamic of welcoming versus rejecting religious diversity is even more prominent and nuanced. Explored here are two competing visions of the American Dream as it relates to religion: America as a pluralistic society shaped by its diversity, and America as an assimilative society in which people of all backgrounds become "American."

Above All Earthly Pow'rs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

Above All Earthly Pow'rs

In this prophetic call to the evangelical church, Wells stresses that Christians need to confess Christ as the center in a society lacking a center, as the sovereign in a world seemingly ruled by chance, and as the one who can give meaning in a nihilistic culture.

Overcoming America / America Overcoming
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 275

Overcoming America / America Overcoming

In this new edition of Overcoming America / America Overcoming, Stephen Rowe shows how the COVID-19 pandemic in tandem with Trumpism have brought basic dynamics of the American situation to high relief, and hence provide opportunity to address them – before it is too late. The dynamics he identifies are those of moral disease and political paralysis as symptomatic of the fact that America herself has been overtaken by the modern values which she exported to the rest of the world. He points to a way out of the current and potentially fatal malaise and violence: join other societies which are also struggling to move beyond the modern and consciously reappropriate those elements of tradition ...

God, A Word for Girls and Boys
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 161

God, A Word for Girls and Boys

This is just what we need in our congregations and classrooms -- a truly inclusive collection of resources for children. . . . This creative collection offers some hope that the next generation will grow up convinced that God is a God for girls as well as boys and will act accordingly. -- Miriam Therese Winter, Professor of Liturgy, Worship, Spirituality, and Feminist Studies, Hartford Seminary, Hartford, CT [A] terrific collection of inclusive language resources [and] a powerful tool that needs to be in every minister's toolbox! Jann Aldredge-Clanton has made an excellent contribution to Christian worship and education. -- Cheryl Collins Patterson, Director of Early Childhood Ministries, My...

Nations Divided
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 383

Nations Divided

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-07-24
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  • Publisher: Springer

The anti-apartheid struggle remains one of the most fraught episodes in the history of modern Jewish identity. Just as many American Jews proudly fought for principles of justice and liberation in the Civil Rights Movement, so too did they give invaluable support to the movement for racial equality in South Africa. Today, however, the memory of apartheid bedevils the debate over Israel and Palestine, viewed by some as a cautionary tale for the Jewish state even as others decry the comparison as anti-Semitic. This pioneering history chronicles American Jewish involvement in the battle against racial injustice in South Africa, and more broadly the long historical encounter between American Jew...

Vital Signs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Vital Signs

Three noted historical theologians and a team of researchers study the reasons for the decline of the mainline denominations and then use that research to guide pastors, leaders and church members in finding new ways to grow both spiritually and in numbers.

The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 995

The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-12-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The nature and story of the Christian church is immensely important to theology students and scholars alike. Written by an international team of distinguished scholars, this comprehensive book introduces students to the fundamental historical, systematic, moral and ecclesiological aspects of the study of the church, as well as serving as a resource for scholars engaging in ecclesiological debates on a wide variety of issues. It divides into six parts: the church in its historical context the different denominational traditions global perspectives methods and debates in ecclesiology key concepts and themes ecclesiology and other disciplines: social sciences, philosophy, literature and film. Authoritative, accessible and easily navigable, this book is indispensable for everyone interested in the nature and history of the Christian Church.