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Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus remains the largest the most controversial religious order of men in Catholicism. Since the 1960s, however, Jesuits in the US have lost more than half of their members, and they have experinced a massive upheaval in what they believe and how they work and live. In this book Peter McDonough and Eugene Bianchi draw on interviews and statements gathered from more than 400 Jesuits and former Jesuits to provide an intimate look at the turmoil a...

Werkbiographie eines der fuhrenden, jugendbewegten, antifaschistischen Katholiken und Publizisten der Weimarer Republik. Katholisch-republikanischer Antifaschismus ab 1925. Eine linke, katholische Faschismustheorie, die wahrend der Weimarer Republik erarbeitet wurde. Theologische Vorlaufer, des 2. Vatikanischen Konzils und der von diesem Konzil angestrebten Offnung der Kirche zur Welt."

This is a new series that will make the 'must read' classics available to a new generation of Christians. Brought together in one handy volume - the dramatic stories of two spiritual heroes of the eighteenth century. As the nation teeters on the brink of giving up the Christian faith, John Wesley struggles to bring others to a faith that he himself does not know in his heart. Then, amazingly, he is changed, and the gospel of grace breaks through. Amazing grace. And it's the same grace that turns...

The metrical sermon was an important theological and evangelical instrument among Christians of the Syriac-speaking tradition in the Late Antique period. Ephraem the Syrian (+ 373), the greatest of the writers of Syriac and the formative voice of that tradition, uses this medium to address many matters fundamental to his vision of christianity and of immediate concern to the Christians of his time and place. These six sermons contain interesting meditations on the nature of revelation in Scriptu...

This collection of 17 essays, sermons and addresses by Lesslie Newbigin, one of the premier missiologists of the 20th century puts forth his developing view of the agenda for Christian mission from 1960 to 1992. These papers record the dynamics of Newbigin's ideas about mission as he confronted new issues in the church and society. Newbigin's sermon at Riverside Church in New York City in 1960 opens discussion on the themes of unity in mission, changes in the missionary enterprise and developmen...

Apocalyptic millennialism is one of the most powerful strands in evangelical Christianity. It is not a single belief, but across many powerful evangelical groups there is general adhesion to faith in the physical return of Jesus in the Second Coming, the affirmation of a Rapture heavenward of "saved" believers, a millennium of peace under the rule of Jesus and his saints and, eventually, a final judgement and entry into deep eternity. In Discovering the End of Time (2016) Donald Harman Akenson...

What did it mean to be a Christian in the Roman Empire? In one of the inaugural titles of Oxford's new Essentials in Biblical Studies series, Harry O. Maier considers the multilayered social contexts that shaped the authors and audiences of the New Testament. Beginning with the cosmos and the gods, Maier presents concentric realms of influence on the new religious movement of Christ-followers. The next is that of the empire itself and the sway the cult of the emperor held over believers of a sin...

From its inception what came to be known as the Oxford Movement was always intended to be more than just an abstruse dialogue about the theoretical nature of Anglicanism. Instead, it was meant to spread its ideas not only through college common rooms, but also bishop's palaces, and above all the parsonages of the Church of England. The Oxford Movement in Practice presents an analysis of Tractarianism in the generation after Newman's conversion to Roman Catholicism. While much scholarly work has...

Examines the religious right through the eyes of the movement's leaders, including Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Jim and Tammy Bakker.

The world stands before a landmark date: October 31, 2017, the quincentennial of the Protestant Reformation. Countries, social movements, churches, universities, seminaries, and other institutions shaped by Protestantism face a daunting question: how should the Reformation be commemorated 500 years after the fact? Protestantism has been credited for restoring essential Christian truth, blamed for disastrous church divisions, and invoked as the cause of modern liberalism, capitalism, democracy, i...

These essays on late antiquity traverse a territory in which Christian and pagan imagery and practices compete, coexist, and intermingle. The iconography of the most significant late antique ceramic, African Red Slip Ware, is an important and relatively unexploited vehicle for documenting the diversity and interpenetration of late antique cultures. Literary texts and art in other media, particularly mosaics, provide imagery that complement and enhance the messages of the ceramics. Popular entert...