Religion Und Politik (Beitrage Zur Rationalen Theologie, #22) (Beitraege Zur Rationalen Theologie, #22)
Religion und Politik bilden seit jeher ein spannungsvolles Geflecht wechselseitiger Begrundungs- und Abgrenzungsprozesse. Die in diesem Band versammelten Autoren beleuchten historische und aktuelle Konstellationen dieser Prozesse durch die Verschrankung von systematischen und historischen Perspektiven. So reicht die Spannweite der Beitrage von der Fruhzeit des Christentums uber die Reformation bis hin zu Schelling, Schleiermacher, Troeltsch und Barth, wahrend gleichzeitig aktuelle Debatten u.a....
In this prophetic and inspiring call to justice, peace, and economic democracy, Alan Geyer proposes strategies for mainline churches and ecumenical institutions to counter the assault of damaging conservative ideologies. With passion and trademark clarity, he urges all people of goodwill to renew their commitment to the poor and the disadvantaged.
Narratives of Jihadi-Salafi operations are often filled with praise for what are considered exemplary acts of self-renunciation in the vein of early Islamic tradition. While many studies sift through the biographies of these so-called martyrs for evidence of social, psychological, political, or economic strain in an effort to rationalize what are often labeled "suicide bombings," Nathan French argues that, through their legal arguments, Jihadi-Salafis craft a theodicy that is meant to address th...
Mere Environmentalism (Values and Capitalism, COMMON SEN) (Common Sense Concepts)
by Steven Hayward and Jay W. Richards
This balanced and comprehensive study of Christian conservative thinking focuses on the 1980s, when the New Christian Right appeared suddenly as an influential force on the American political scene, only to fade from the spotlight toward the end of the decade. In Redeeming America, Michael Lienesch identifies a cyclical redemptive pattern in the New Christian Right's approach to politics, and he argues that the movement is certain to emerge again. Lienesch explores in detail the writings...
A vivid portrait of the Scottish religious leader and the South Carolina colony he helped shape 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 toward plantation agriculture, made possible by African slave labor. In Sanctifying Slavery and...
God in the Tumult of the Global Square
by Mark Juergensmeyer, Dinah Griego, and John Soboslai
How is religion changing in the twenty-first century? In the global era, religion has leapt onto the world stage, often in contradictory ways. Some religious activists are antagonistic and engage in protests, violent acts, and political challenges. Others are positive and help to shape an emerging transnational civil society. In addition, a new global religion may be in the making, providing a moral and spiritual basis for a worldwide community of concern about environmental issues, human rights...
Christianity has been marginalised, no longer considered a serious option for the high ground of contemporary debate. This book seeks to reclaim that high ground by showing the inadequacy of secularism. What is the standing of religious experience? Can love and marriage be adequately explained in secular terms? What values are needed in a technological society? Where can an adequate environmental ethic be found? In facing these vital questions the Christian religion makes an essential contributi...
Die Vorstellung vom Reich Gottes ist in der Theologie des 19. Jahrhunderts eine allseits prasente, in der Forschungsliteratur gleichwohl nur marginal beachtete. Die vorliegende Untersuchung widmet sich diesem Leitmotiv der Theologie des 19. Jahrhunderts wie auch seinen gesellschaftlichen und sozialpolitischen Verflechtungen. Zu diesem Zweck wird das Oeuvre dreier Theologen exemplarisch herangezogen, namlich dasjenige Isaak August Dorners (1809-1884), Johann Tobias Becks (1804-1878) sowie Franz...
Tragic Soul-Life: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Moral Crisis Facing American Democracy (Imagining the Americas)
by Terrence L Johnson
This book studies values and attitudes in the Gulf region. In light of global power shifts, the threatening collapse of internal security in the West, and uncertainty about the current leadership vacuum in world society, this book explores a future leading role of the Gulf countries in such institutions as the G-20 and the OECD. Based on rigorous analysis of macro-level data and opinion surveys with relevance for the Gulf region, it analyzes the global macro-factors shaping the Gulf's future at...
Transnational Catholicism in Post-Communist Europe
by Timothy A Byrnes
Through the use of three case studies-Poland, Croatia, and the Slovak Republic-Timothy Byrnes argues that the Catholic Church remains deeply involved in the central politics of this vital region over both governmental structure and public policy; deeply implicated (for better or worse) in the ethnic divisions that characterize the post-communist era; and profoundly part of the social fabric of virtually every state in East Central Europe.
Prompted by the 2017 commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, this book examines the legacy of Martin Luther in the life, work, and reception of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the most widely read modern Lutheran theologian. Framing the commemoration of the Reformation in conversation with Bonhoeffer's legacy places much more than Bonhoeffer's connection to Luther at stake. Given the fraught relationship of the Lutheran Bonhoeffer with the German Protestant Church under Nation...
The Bread of the Strong (Catholic Practice in North America)
by Jack Lee Downey
Contributing to the ongoing excavation of the spiritual lifeworld of Dorothy Day—“the most significant, interesting, and influential person in the history of American Catholicism”—The Bread of the Strong offers compelling new insight into the history of the Catholic Worker movement, including the cross-pollination between American and Quebecois Catholicism and discourse about Christian antimodernism and radicalism. The considerable perseverance in the heroic Christian maximalism that became the...
The Struggle for Religious Freedom in America (Perspectives on History (Discovery))
Is government forbidden to assist all religions equally, as the Supreme Court has held? Or does the First Amendment merely ban exclusive aid to one religion, as critics of the Court assert? After years of debate the controversy still rages on, with both positions now more solidified but neither side victorious. The First Freedoms studies the Church-State context of colonial and revolutionary America to provide a bold new reading of the historical meaning of the religion clauses of the First Amen...
Salvation and Suicide (Religion in North America) (A Midland Book, #690)
by David Chidester
Discusses Jim Jones' techniques, describes the world view of his followers, and offers a religious perspective on the mass suicide incident.
