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Charles Abel was one of the most acclaimed missionaries in the South Pacific. His Kwato Mission, founded in 1891, became virtually a state within a state in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea, and its influence remained long after it began to decline. Descendants of Mission families helped to form the independent nation of PNG in the 1960s.

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Many Americans are deeply religious in their personal lives, yet the nation's public life is largely empty of religious content and often even hostile to religion. This contradiction between secular public and religious private life is the focus of this book.

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Inspired by Philip Hefner's The Human Factor (1993), Simon R. Watson engages Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871), William Paley's Natural Theology (1802), and the twenty-first century Wisdom Christologies of Denis Edwards and Elizabeth Johnson to argue for a liberative theology of nature grounded in a compassionate Christ and an existential fall.

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An analysis of Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt at a time of revolution and upheaval.

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This volume examines how the manifestation and development of diverse expressions of Christianities in the city offer potentialities and innovative models for the liberation struggles and gospel incarnation within various social, historical, economic, cultural/ethnic, sexual, and gender realities.

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In Part I of Christianity and History, the author asks whether the committed Christian should be more conscious than the uncommitted of some meaning in history. In answering this he offers a critique of Arnold Toynbee and makes some penetrating observations on the teaching of history. Part II is concerned with the author's special field-the Protest

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"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonization, and powerful ideological currents, many of them hostile to Christianity"--Amazon.com.

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Christianity not Mysterious was written in response to John Locke's The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695). This book brought the controversies surrounding deism, atheism, and other forms of dissenting theological inquiry out into the open.

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Contributors discuss the merits and disadvantages of Buddhist and Christian approaches to prayer and meditation. They go on to examine and see what can be learned from each religion's approach to prayer and see if this can be mixed without compromising religious identity.

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The introductory survey includes discussions of the comparative study of religious social action, the role that religious organizations play in modern societies, contemporary studies of other societies, and churches and social action throughout history.

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Addresses the perspectives of religion and the state in the ancient world, as well as in the biblical world of Judaism and Christianity, and in other religious traditions than Christianity. This book contains topics integrally related to church and state, such as civil disobedience, civil religion, liberation theology, patriotism, and nationalism.

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Addresses the perspectives of religion and the state in the ancient world, in the biblical world of Judaism and Christianity, and in other religious traditions. This book contains major topics integrally related to church and state, such as civil disobedience, civil religion, liberation theology, patriotism, and nationalism.

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An examination of religious affiliation in contemporary America. These essays explore the dynamics of congregational affiliation, the motivations which impel people to join a congregation, and the practices within churches and synagogues which attract or repel membership.

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