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In this volume Piderit and Morey discuss the problem of declining parishes and bring some solutions to light. The authors pinpoint four basic principles - narrative, norms, benefits, and practices - which have been used effectively by nuns to reach their parishioners for year...

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Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds examines how we can repair human and biotic relationships damaged by environmental injustice, climate change, animal exploitation, and ecological destruction by arguing for the merits of a reparative approach to environmental justice and critically assessing challenges that come with it.

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This book develops a rights-based theory of justice that maintains that genuine repentance creates a right to be forgiven. Examining the nature of rights and theological conceptions of forgiveness, the author shows why such a right is nonrepugnant and produces the most just state of affairs for victims and wrongdoers.

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Although a prominent concept in a variety of religions, the perceived role of repentance in modern society is vague and inconsistent. This book questions the legitimacy of repentance as a religious concept today, and explores the ways in which its origins might facilitate civic usage of the idea.

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Since the end of the Cold War attention has focused on Islam as a force of disruption within a New World Order. Elizabeth Poole looks at how Muslims are represented in the British news media. She examines claims that Muslims are demonized in the press and comes to some illuminating conclusions.

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This interdisciplinary study explores Marian imagery and representations in world literature and art throughout the centuries, demonstrating the widespread deep veneration of the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary in various countries and different Christian traditions.

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Providing a comparative view of religion and politics at the state level, these essays look at the issues facing states and how religious lobbies and organizations are addressing them. It examines the responses of different denominations and their rationales for involvement and also explores the diversity of interests present at the state level.

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Abortion may not always be a moral good, but neither is it always direct murder which carries the stain of sin and blame. Using a framework of reproductive justice and drawing on sources of the Catholic intellectual tradition, she argues that the Churchs moral absolutism on abortion denies womens moral agency and violates human dignity.

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Erudite exploration of Republicanism as a political ideology and as an oppositional force to the emperors in Rome during the first century AD.

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One Christian woman's story on how she survived domestic violence.

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A look at the ways that the Christian religion has maligned sex and some suggestions for Christians to think differently about sex.

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The special strengths of the Graham Center's Library, Museum, and Archives are documented here. Also included are 61 photographs of artifacts and documents from the Graham Center.

This guide includes three main chapters on the Library, Museum, and Archives of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College.

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A contribution to the study of the Church. It transcends old arguments about 'establishment', by showing that churches are compelled to develop a constructive relationship to the modern state, wherever possible, if they are to be effective in mission.

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A contribution to the study of the Church. It transcends old arguments about 'establishment', by showing that churches are compelled to develop a constructive relationship to the modern state, wherever possible, if they are to be effective in mission.

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This work addresses the growing challenge of contextuality within Christianity in the setting of the vibrant and dynamic Caribbean. The challenge results from the recognition that all religious practices are conditioned by the geographical, ethnic, socio-economic, and cultural...

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Resistance and Theological Ethics collects the edited and updated essays that emerged from the meeting of the Theological Educators for Presbyterian Social Witness in Geneva, Switzerland and southern France in 1999.

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