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Should scientists challenge religious beliefs in modern society This book gives voice to those scientist and theologians whose experience holds direct relevance in the confrontational science and religion debate.

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Should scientists challenge religious beliefs in modern society This collection of essays gives voice to social scientists, natural scientists and theologians whose experience holds direct relevance on these major issues, and encourages a more forgiving dialogue between these two forces in modern society.

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This book examines the educated elite in 1 Corinthians through the development, and application, of an ancient education model. The research reads Pauls text within the social world of early Christianity and uses social-scientific criticism in reconstructing a model that is appropriate for first-century Corinth.

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Papers from a conference held in Limerick in 2008.

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Papers from a conference held in Limerick in 2008.

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The Eliot Tracts collects for the first time a series of 11 documents published in London between 1643 and 1671 that describe missionary work by the British among the Indians in New England.

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Deals with the Brahmanical cosmology from which Buddhism emerged, the stories and myths surrounding the Buddha's birth, his path to enlightenment, and the eventual spread of his teachings. This work helps readers understand concepts such as the natural law of cause and effect (karma), the birth/life/death/rebirth cycle (samsara), and more.

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This volume covers Chinese technology policy, key emerging technologies, international engagement, and central-local relations.

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Explores the emergence of Christianity in Rome during the first four centuries of the Roman Empire.

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Focusing on the Early Church during the 50 years that followed the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ, The Emerging Ekklesia is a chapter-by-chapter reflection on the New Testament from Acts 1 through the book of Jude. Meant to be read as a companion to the actual Biblical text, it's filled with the author's personal insights, developed over a period of 60 years.

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The Emerging Religion of Science is a broad and erudite examination of the individual's place in the modern world. The author explores ways to face today's problems within the context of good and evil, freedom and restraint, probability and certainty, the real and the illusory, and the concept of self.

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Focusing on clothing, bodily deportment, sex roles, sexual practices, and political rhetoric as forms of "fashion," this work bounds across two thousand years of history, showing how the evolution of fashion from an upper-class privilege into a vehicle of popular expression closely follows the rise of democratic values.

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An introduction to the key empiricists of the 17th and 18th centuries. It focuses on the canonical figures of the empiricist movement, Locke, Berkeley and Hume, and also explores the contributions made by other key figures such as Bacon, Hobbes, Boyle and Newton.

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An introduction to the key empiricists of the 17th and 18th centuries. It focuses on the canonical figures of the empiricist movement, Locke, Berkeley and Hume, and also explores the contributions made by other key figures such as Bacon, Hobbes, Boyle and Newton.

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At a time when Americans are searching for spiritual and moral renewal, millions of parishioners are abandoning the churches that once embodied the very values they seek. "The Empty Church" offers the first cogent explanation of why his has occurred--and tells what can be done about it.

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It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted - that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. This title challenges that view. It seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is possible to experience wonder, but how such experience is crucial to motivating ethical behavior.

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The Encounter, from best-selling author, counselor, and speaker Stephen Arterburn, artfully reveals the power of your story, the fierce need for acceptance, and the true hope of healing. Discover in its pages the radical joys of forgiveness both toward others as well as from the ultimate healer and forgiver: Jesus Christ.

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The complementary systems of Nyaya and Vaisesika constitute one of the oldest and most important traditions within Indian philosophy. This volume offers a systematic and detailed exposition of the two schools from their beginning to the time of Gangesa (A.D. 150-1350). An extensive interpretive essay introduces summaries of most of the known works

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