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The Future of Christian Realism

International Conflict, Political Decay, and the Crisis of Democracy

by Dallas Gingles, Joshua Mauldin, Rebekah L. Miles, Nigel Biggar, John P. Burgess, William P. George, Luping Huang, Elisabeth R. Kincaid0, Nathan McLellan1, Douglas F. Ottati2, Frederick Simmons3, Yoshibumi Takahashi4, Todd Whitmore5, Robin W. Lovin6, Gary Dorrien7, Kevin Carnahan8, Eric Gregory9, Simeon O. Ilesanmi0, Gerald McKenny1, Peter J. Paris2, William Schweiker3 ...

Series series Faith and Politics: Political Theology in a New Key
In the world’s most developed democracies, anxiety about the future of democracy is palpable. The tension between moral aspiration and moral despair has reached a point of crisis. Christian realism arose during a similar time of crisis, when Reinhold Niebuhr used the insights of the Christian tradition to interpret the clash between democracy and totalitarianism.Beginning with Robin Lovin’s ... Read more

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In the world’s most developed democracies, anxiety about the future of democracy is palpable. The tension between moral aspiration and moral despair has reached a point of crisis. Christian realism arose during a similar time of crisis, when Reinhold Niebuhr used the insights of the Christian tradition to interpret the clash between democracy and totalitarianism.Beginning with Robin Lovin’s
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The History of the Riverside Church in the City of New York

by Peter J. Paris, John W. Cook, James Hudnut-Beumler, Lawrence Mamiya ...

Series series Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
It was from the pulpit of the Riverside Church that Martin Luther King, Jr., first publicly voiced his opposition to the Vietnam War, that Nelson Mandela addressed U.S. church leaders after his release from prison, and that speakers as diverse as Cesar Chavez, Jesse Jackson, Desmond Tutu, Fidel Castro, and Reinhold Niebuhr lectured church and nation about issues of the day. The greatest of ... Read more

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It was from the pulpit of the Riverside Church that Martin Luther King, Jr., first publicly voiced his opposition to the Vietnam War, that Nelson Mandela addressed U.S. church leaders after his release from prison, and that speakers as diverse as Cesar Chavez, Jesse Jackson, Desmond Tutu, Fidel Castro, and Reinhold Niebuhr lectured church and nation about issues of the day. The greatest of
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Religion and Poverty

Pan-African Perspectives

by Peter J. Paris, Jacob Olupona, Katie Geneva Cannon, Barbara Bailey, Takatso A. Mofokeng ...

A Ghanaian scholar of religion argues that poverty is a particularly complex subject in traditional African cultures, where holistic worldviews unite life’s material and spiritual dimensions. A South African ethicist examines informal economies in Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya, and South Africa, looking at their ideological roots, social organization, and vulnerability to global capital. African American ... Read more

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A Ghanaian scholar of religion argues that poverty is a particularly complex subject in traditional African cultures, where holistic worldviews unite life’s material and spiritual dimensions. A South African ethicist examines informal economies in Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya, and South Africa, looking at their ideological roots, social organization, and vulnerability to global capital. African American
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African American Theological Ethics

A Reader

by Peter J. Paris, Julius Crump ...

This volume in the Library of Theological Ethics series draws on writings from the early nineteenth through the late twentieth centuries to explore the intersection of black experience and Christian faith throughout the history of the United States. The first sections follow the many dimensions of the African American struggle with racism in this country: struggles against theories of white ... Read more

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This volume in the Library of Theological Ethics series draws on writings from the early nineteenth through the late twentieth centuries to explore the intersection of black experience and Christian faith throughout the history of the United States. The first sections follow the many dimensions of the African American struggle with racism in this country: struggles against theories of white
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Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education

Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-first Century

by Liz Barber, Harriet J. Bessette, Tasha Bleistein, Lace Marie Brogden, Valerie B. Brown-Schild, Julie Causton-Theoharis, Lorenzo Cherubini, Ethel Chikapa, Anne Chodakowski, Charles R. Coble, Soria E. Colomer, James Cope, Joseph Corriero, Jacqueline Darvin, Kieran Egan, Andrew Ferdinandi, Doug Fisher, Mary Ellen Freeley, Thomas Hamilton, Victoria Hasko, Lisa B. Hibler, Yi-Ping Huang, Patricia A. Jennings, Beauty Kafuna, Lucy Kapenuka, Laura R. Kates, Tod Kenney, Dawn Kirby, Corey S. Mackenzie, Ian Matheson, Mairi McAra, Morva McDonald, Sheryl L. McGlamery, Catherine McTamaney, Brian Mosleley, Liveness Mwanza, Ausman Ngwali, Jana Noel, Amy Palmeri, Nita A. Paris, Susan K. Parry, Paul Pedota, BethA Peery, Patricia A. Poulin, Traci Redish, Lynn Romeo, Tao Rui, Twyla Salm, Mirriam Sherriff, Saundra L. Shillingstad, Elizabeth A. Skinner, Geoffrey B. Soloway, Cherry O. Steffen, Sharon Walpole, ThomasDeVere Wolsey, James D. Worsley, Miguel Zavala, Ken Zeichner, Chifundo Ziyaya, Peter Smagorinsky, Thomas R. Guskey, Diane Lapp, George Theoharis, Mark Warner ...

This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break the traditional mold of teacher education.Section I presents unique preservice teacher preparation ... Read more

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This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break the traditional mold of teacher education.Section I presents unique preservice teacher preparation
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A Black Theology of Liberation

50th Anniversary Edition

by James H. Cone ...

Narrated by Amir Abdullah ...

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6 hours 59 min

With the publication of his two early works, Black Theology & Black Power (1969) and A Black Theology of Liberation (1970), James Cone emerged as one of the most creative and provocative theological voices in North America. His books offered a searing indictment of white theology and society and introduced a radical presentation of the Christian message of our time. Combining the visions of ... Read more

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With the publication of his two early works, Black Theology & Black Power (1969) and A Black Theology of Liberation (1970), James Cone emerged as one of the most creative and provocative theological voices in North America. His books offered a searing indictment of white theology and society and introduced a radical presentation of the Christian message of our time. Combining the visions of
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All the President's Men

by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein ...

50th Anniversary Edition—now with a new foreword on what Watergate means today.“The work that brought down a presidency...perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history” (Time)—from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Final Days.The most devastating political detective story of the century: two Washington Post reporters, whose brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigat. ... Read more

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50th Anniversary Edition—now with a new foreword on what Watergate means today.“The work that brought down a presidency...perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history” (Time)—from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Final Days.The most devastating political detective story of the century: two Washington Post reporters, whose brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigat.
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King Leopold's Ghost

A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

by Adam Hochschild ...

The 25th Anniversary Edition, with a foreword by Barbara Kingsolver"An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." — Christian Science Monitor“As Hochschild’s brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times . . . This book must be read and reread.” — Los Angeles Times Book ReviewA National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * A New Y... ... Read more

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The 25th Anniversary Edition, with a foreword by Barbara Kingsolver"An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." — Christian Science Monitor“As Hochschild’s brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times . . . This book must be read and reread.” — Los Angeles Times Book ReviewA National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * A New Y...
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Crazy River

Exploration and Folly in East Africa

by Richard Grant ...

From the acclaimed author of Dispatches From Pluto and Deepest South of All comes a rollicking travelogue from East Africa.NO ONE TRAVELS QUITE LIKE RICHARD GRANT and, really, no one should. In his last book, the adventure classic God’s Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexico’s lawless Sierra Madre. Now, Grant has plunged with his trademark recklessness, wit, and curiosity into East ... Read more

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From the acclaimed author of Dispatches From Pluto and Deepest South of All comes a rollicking travelogue from East Africa.NO ONE TRAVELS QUITE LIKE RICHARD GRANT and, really, no one should. In his last book, the adventure classic God’s Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexico’s lawless Sierra Madre. Now, Grant has plunged with his trademark recklessness, wit, and curiosity into East
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97 Orchard

An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement

by Jane Ziegelman ...

A "highly entertaining" culinary and social history of five immigrant families living in a turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York City tenement house ( New York Times )."A unique and aromatic narrative of New York's immigrant culture: with bread in the oven, steam rising from pots, and the family gathering round." —Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World</... ... Read more

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A "highly entertaining" culinary and social history of five immigrant families living in a turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York City tenement house ( New York Times )."A unique and aromatic narrative of New York's immigrant culture: with bread in the oven, steam rising from pots, and the family gathering round." —Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World</...
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School of Obedience

by Andrew Murray ...

Series series Unabridged Start Publishing LLC
The School of Obedience reveals what the Bible teaches about obeying God. Discover the living connection between Christ's obedience and our obedience. Learn the secret of obedience to God. Pastor Andrew Murray gives practical instructions on how to use the morning watch to strengthen your connection to God's will as you listen to his Word under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Discover how to ... Read more

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The School of Obedience reveals what the Bible teaches about obeying God. Discover the living connection between Christ's obedience and our obedience. Learn the secret of obedience to God. Pastor Andrew Murray gives practical instructions on how to use the morning watch to strengthen your connection to God's will as you listen to his Word under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Discover how to
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Shepherds & Butchers

by Chris Marnewick ...

Leon Labuschagne’s livelihood depends on death. At nineteen, he is a warder on Death Row: a shepherd who cares for the condemned – and a butcher who escorts them to the gallows. After a gruelling two-week stint in which thirty-two men were hanged, Leon loses control, with tragic results. And now he’s the one facing the death penalty. Only the most precarious line of legal argument stands between ... Read more

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Leon Labuschagne’s livelihood depends on death. At nineteen, he is a warder on Death Row: a shepherd who cares for the condemned – and a butcher who escorts them to the gallows. After a gruelling two-week stint in which thirty-two men were hanged, Leon loses control, with tragic results. And now he’s the one facing the death penalty. Only the most precarious line of legal argument stands between
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