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  • Godliness and Greed

    Shifting Christian Thought on Profit and Wealth

    by Skip Worden ...
    Traditional scholarship often points to the Calvinists and Max Weber's writing on the Protestant ethic as the catalysts to changing Christian attitudes concerning profit-seeking and wealth. Author Skip Worden argues that the seeds of this change occurred centuries earlier. From the beginning of the Commercial Revolution to the fifteenth-century Renaissance, he shows that the predominant Christian ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

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  • Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?

    Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World

    by Brian D. McLaren ...
    When four religious leaders walk across the road, it's not the beginning of a joke. It's the start of one of the most important conversations in today's world.Can you be a committed Christian without having to condemn or convert people of other faiths? Is it possible to affirm other religious traditions without watering down your own?In his most important book yet, widely acclaimed author and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Sin

    The Early History of an Idea

    by Paula Fredriksen ...
    Ancient Christians invoked sin to account for an astonishing range of things, from the death of God's son to the politics of the Roman Empire that worshipped him. In this book, award-winning historian of religion Paula Fredriksen tells the surprising story of early Christian concepts of sin, exploring the ways that sin came to shape ideas about God no less than about humanity.Long before ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Introducing Moral Theology

    True Happiness and the Virtues

    by William Mattison, III ...
    A masterful basic text on Catholic moral theologyWhether in the cafeteria, classroom, or dorm lounge, questions abound on college campuses. Not only do students grapple with existential issues but they also struggle with ethical ones such as "Why be moral?"In Introducing Moral Theology, William Mattison addresses this question as well as grapples with the impact that religious belief has on day-to ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Early Church on Killing

    A Comprehensive Sourcebook on War, Abortion, and Capital Punishment

    Edited by Ronald Sider ...
    What did the early church believe about killing? What was its view on abortion? How did it approach capital punishment and war? Noted theologian and bestselling author Ron Sider lets the testimony of the early church speak in the first of a three-volume series on biblical peacemaking.This book provides in English translation all extant data directly relevant to the witness of the early church ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Rethinking Christ and Culture

    A Post-Christendom Perspective

    by Craig A. Carter ...
    In 1951, theologian H. Richard Niebuhr published Christ and Culture, a hugely influential book that set the agenda for the church and cultural engagement for the next several decades. But Niebuhr's model was devised in and for a predominantly Christian cultural setting. How do we best understand the church and its writers in a world that is less and less Christian? Craig Carter critiques Niebuhr's ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Essays on the Christian Worldview and Others Political, Literary, and Philosophical

    by Andrew J. Schatkin ...
    This collection of essays and thoughts covers such areas as basic Christian thought, which includes traditional family morality and a great concern for alleviating poverty and promoting social justice, political thought comparing the need for a system which includes both socialist and capitalist elements, and the need for values in our society, which has come to emphasize money, power, and greed ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Theonomics

    Reconnecting Economics with Virtue and Integrity

    by Andrew Lightbown, Peter Sills, Richard Backhouse, Nick Bion, Frank Canosa, Keith Croxton, Nick Fane, Alan Hargrave0, Rosie Harper1, Alan Wilson2 ...
    At a time when economics, banking and commerce are never out of the headlines, Theonomics asks if theology is capable of informing, shaping and penetrating all aspects of life, and especially economic life. Theonomics argues for the recovery of the classic virtues of prudence, temperance, fortitude, justice and humility as animators of a lively and Godly economy.Six key principles are offered to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Romero's Legacy

    The Call to Peace and Justice

    by Pilar Hogan Closkey, Gustavo Gutierrez, Helen Prejean, Daniel G. Groody, Thomas J. Gumbleton, Diana L. Hayes, Robert T. McDermott ...
    Pilar Hogan Closkey and John Hogan have brought together the annual Archbishop Oscar Romero Lectures (2001-2007) to consider the life and death of Archbishop Romero and the daily struggles of the poor in our world, especially in the city of Camden, New Jersey-one of America's poorest cities. Romero's 'dangerous memory' provides the background, while urban poverty and the option for the poor are ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Sheed and Ward Anthology of Catholic Philosophy

    Edited by James C. Swindal, Harry J. Gensler, SJ ...
    Series series A Sheed & Ward Classic
    The Sheed & Ward Anthology of Catholic Philosophy is a thorough introduction to the evolution of Catholic philosophy from Biblical times to the present day. The first comprehensive collection of readings from Catholic philosophers, this volume aims to sharpen the understanding of Catholic philosophy by grouping together the best examples of this tradition, both well-known classics and lesser-known ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Heaven Can Wait

    Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture

    by Diana Walsh Pasulka ...
    After purgatory was officially defined by the Catholic Church in the thirteenth century, its location became a topic of heated debate and philosophical speculation: Was purgatory located on the earth, or within it? Were its fires real or figurative? Diana Walsh Pasulka offers a groundbreaking historical exploration of spatial and material concepts of purgatory, beginning with scholastic ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Biblical Ethics

    by David W. Jones ...
    Series series B&H Studies in Christian Ethics
    This book serves as an introduction to the field of biblical ethics, a subcategory of the discipline of moral theology. It differs from moral philosophy in that biblical ethics is distinctively Christian, and it is more specific than Christian ethics proper because it specifically focuses upon the application of the moral law -- as it is revealed in Scripture -- to daily living.Introduction to ... Read more

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