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Free Download John J. Collins, "Ancient Jewish and Christian Scriptures: New Developments in Canon Controversy"
English | ISBN: 0664265979 | 2020 | 300 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Ancient Jewish and Christian Scriptures examines the writings included in and excluded from the Jewish and Christian canons of Scripture and explores the social settings in which some of this literature was viewed as authoritative and some was viewed either as uninspired or as heretical. John J. Collins, Craig A. Evans, and Lee Martin McDonald examine how those noncanonical writings demonstrate the historical, literary, and religious aspects of the culture that gave rise to the writings. They also show how literature excluded from the Jewish and Christian canons of Scripture remains valuable today for understanding the questions and conflicts that early Jewish and Christian faith communities faced. Through this discussion, contemporary readers acquire a broader understanding of biblical Scripture and of Jewish and Christian faith inspired by Scripture.

Free Download Joseph A. Scimecca, "The Not So Outrageous Idea of a Christian Sociology "
English | ISBN: 1032360178 | 2023 | 164 pages | EPUB | 583 KB
This book provides a rationale for a Christian sociology, challenging the materialist epistemology of contemporary sociology, which provides only a limited understanding of social behavior. Developing a history of the origins of sociology that recognizes the centrality of Christianity to the discipline’s development, it considers the secularization thesis and questions surrounding positivism, scientism and postmodernism, as well as engaging with the work of a range of figures including Margaret Archer, Robert Bellah, Peter Berger, Hans Joas, Thomas Luckmann, David Martin, and Christian Smith. A critique of modern sociology, which argues that a Christian approach provides a better explanation than contemporary paradigms of the polarization occurring today in American society, The Not So Outrageous Idea of a Christian Sociology

Free Download Mark Williams, "Handbook of Japanese Christian Writers "
English | ISBN: 9048558212 | 2022 | 371 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Although a century and a half of Christian proselytizing has only led to the conversion of about one percent of the Japanese population, the proportion of writers who have either been baptized or significantly influenced in their work by Christian teachings is much higher. The seventeen authors examined in this volume have all employed themes and imagery in their writings influenced by Christian teachings. Those writing between the 1880s and the start of World War II were largely drawn to the Protestant emphasis on individual freedom, though many of them eventually rejected sectarian affiliation. Since 1945, on the other hand, Catholicism has produced a number of religiously committed authors, led by figures such as Endo Shusaku, the most popular and influential Christian writer in Japan to date. The authors discussed in these essays have contributed in a variety of ways to the indigenization of the imported religion.

Free Download Desire and Disunity: Christian Communities and Sexual Norms in the Late Antique West
by Ulriika Vihervalli
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1835530028 | 248 Pages | True PDF | 2.26 MB

Free Download Thomas Keating: The Making of a Modern Christian Mystic
by Cynthia Bourgeault
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1645471845 | 288 Pages | True ePUB | 2.07 MB

Free Download David P Gushee, "In the Fray: Contesting Christian Public Ethics, 1994-2013"
English | ISBN: 1498216749 | 2014 | 252 pages | EPUB | 539 KB
In the Fray collects David Gushee’s most significant essays over twenty years as a Christian intellectual. Most of the essays were written in situations of ethical conflict on the highly contested ground of Christian public ethics. Topics addressed include torture, climate change, marriage and divorce, the treatment of gays and lesbians in the church, war, genocide, nuclear weapons, race, global poverty, faith and politics, Israel/Palestine, and even whether Christian ethics is a real academic discipline. Quite visible in the collection is Gushee’s deep research interest in the Nazi era in Germany and how the churches fared in resisting Nazi intimidations and seductions and, finally, the Holocaust. All essays reflect the desire for a church that has learned the lessons of that period-a church with resistance to racism, militarism, nationalism, and other social-ideological toxins, and with the discernment and courage to resist these in favor of a courageous allegiance to the lordship of Christ at the time of testing. Considerable attention is directed to contesting some of the public ethics found in the author’s own US evangelical Christian community. Concluding reflections on Gushee’s ethical vision are offered in an illuminating essay by senior Christian ethicist Glen Harold Stassen.

Free Download Canon Law and Christian Societies Between Christianity and Islam: An Arabic Canon Collection from Al-Andalus and Its Transcultural Contexts
by Matthias Maser, Jesus Lorenzo Jimenez
English | 2024 | ISBN: 2503607268 | 436 Pages | PDF | 4.1 MB

Free Download G. Atkins, "T.S. Eliot: The Poet as Christian"
English | ISBN: 1137446889 | 2014 | 118 pages | EPUB | 418 KB
By comparing and contrasting the pre-conversion and the post-conversion poetics and poetic practices of T.S. Eliot, this book elucidates the responsibilities and opportunities for a poet who is also Christian. This book is the second in a trilogy which includes T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word.

Free Download Christian Financial Literacy – Personal Finance Basics by David Chester
Last updated 10/2024
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Integrating Faith and Finance: Key Principles for Christian Financial Health

Free Download Christian Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by D. Stephen Long
English | July 29th, 2010 | ISBN: 0199568863 | 135 pages | True EPUB | 3.60 MB
This Very Short Introduction to Christian ethics introduces the topic by examining its sources and historical basis. D. Stephen Long presents a discussion of the relationship between Christian ethics, modern, and postmodern ethics, and explores practical issues including sex, money, and power. Long recognises the inherent difficulties in bringing together ‘Christian’ and ‘ethics’ but argues that this is an important task for both the Christian faith and for ethics.