By Frederick K.C. Price

Religion, Foolishness, or Presumption?

By Timothy Michael Short

Meet Tim. A homeschooler from rural Virginia, Tim desires of attending Jerry Falwell's Liberty college and changing into a pastor of his own Church. Indoctrinated in fundamentalist Baptist theology from toddlerhood, Tim is uniquely proficient to achieve his pastoral education. After a few shut encounters with homosexual activists, Jerry Falwell, napalm explosives, the FBI, ATF, Police, nudist missionaries, alcoholic alums, sword wielding Muslim roommates and dying threats from a Kenyan Muslim...Tim received relatively the freedom adventure. Tim, the preacher boy, took these issues in stride but if he used to be challenged to learn The God fable via Richard Dawkins his existence and religion could by no means be a similar.

By Fenggang Yang

Christianity has develop into the main practiced faith one of the chinese language in the USA, yet little or no reliable examine exists on chinese language Christians and their church buildings. This booklet is the 1st to discover the topic from the interior, revealing how chinese language Christians build and reconstruct their identity—as Christians, americans, and Chinese—in neighborhood congregations amid the unconventional pluralism of the past due 20th century.

Today there are multiple thousand chinese language church buildings within the usa, so much of them Protestant evangelical congregations, bringing jointly diasporic chinese language from assorted origins—Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, and Southeast Asian international locations. Fenggang Yang reveals that regardless of the numerous tensions and conflicts that exist inside of those congregations, most people locate how one can creatively combine their evangelical Christian ideals with conventional chinese language (most Confucian) values. The church turns into a spot the place they could selectively assimilate into American society whereas concurrently retaining chinese language values and culture.

Yang brings to this learn specified adventure as either player and observer. Born in mainland China, he's a sociologist who switched over to Christianity after coming to the USA. the guts of this publication is an ethnographic learn of a consultant chinese language church, situated in Washington, D. C., the place he turned a member. during the booklet, Yang attracts upon interviews with contributors of this congregation whereas making comparisons with different church buildings during the usa. Chinese Christians in the USA is a massive addition to the literature at the event of "new" immigrant communities.

Described by way of Pope Pius XII because the most vital theologian because Thomas Aquinas, the Swiss pastor and theologian, Karl Barth, is still an incredible effect on scholars, students and preachers today.

Barth's theology stumbled on its expression ordinarily via his heavily reasoned fourteen-part magnum opus, Die Kirchliche Dogmatik. Having taken over 30 years to write down, the Church Dogmatics is thought of as essentially the most vital theological works of all time, and represents the head of Barth's fulfillment as a theologian.

By Sharon Daugherty

Webster defines deceived as "when an individual believes what's now not fact to be truth...to be mislead."

How a Christian acknowledges and responds to Satan’s strategies can make certain their everlasting future. we can't shut our eyes to the darkness and imagine we can't need to face it, confront it and produce the sunshine of the Gospel into it.

While we're receptive to the fantastic workings of the Holy Spirit, we also needs to pay attention and be watchful during this hour. There are traps of offense, seduction, apathy, lustful points of interest and distractions towards different issues pulling in any respect Christians. If we will conquer to the tip, we needs to shield our hearts from deception.

By Mark A. Noll

A readable, far-reaching historical past of a multi-denominational, multi-regional, and multi-ethnic spiritual workforce, Protestants in America explores the actual and ideological roots of the denomination as much as the current day, and strains the origins of yankee Protestants the entire as far back as the 1st English colony at Jamestown. The ebook covers their involvement in severe matters from temperance to the civil rights flow, the institution of Protestant firms just like the American Bible Society and the Salvation military, and the numerous enlargement in their ethnic base because the first African-American Protestant church buildings have been inbuilt the 1770s. Mark Noll follows their direct effect on American history--from the yankee Revolution to global warfare I and beyond--and peppers his account with profiles of prime Protestants, from Jonathan Edwards and Phillis Wheatley to Billy Graham and Martin Luther King, Jr.

•    the main vast Christian dream dictionary out there (with Scripture support).
•    an incredible dictionary of names and places.
•   A severe bankruptcy on counterfeit interpretations by way of the occult.
•   a hundred and one interpreted desires delivering credible evidence.
•   a desirable metaphor dictionary.

The main profound attribute of Western Europe within the heart a long time was once its cultural and non secular harmony, a solidarity secured by way of a typical alignment with the Pope in Rome, and a standard language - Latin - for worship and scholarship. The Reformation shattered that cohesion, and the results are nonetheless with us this present day. In All issues Made New, Diarmaid MacCulloch, writer of the New York Times bestseller Christianity: the 1st 3 Thousand Years, examines not just the Reformation's influence throughout Europe, but additionally the Catholic Counter-Reformation and the detailed evolution of faith in England, revealing how some of the most turbulent, bloody, and transformational occasions in Western historical past has formed smooth society.

The Reformation could have introduced a social revolution, MacCulloch argues, however it used to be no longer as a result of social and financial forces, or perhaps through a mundane concept like nationalism; it sprang from an enormous concept approximately loss of life, salvation, and the afterlife. this concept - that salvation was once fullyyt in God's palms and there has been not anything people may well do to change his selection - ended the Catholic Church's monopoly in Europe and changed the trajectory of the complete way forward for the West.

By turns passionate, humorous, meditative, and subversive, All issues Made New takes readers onto attention-grabbing new flooring, exploring the unique conflicts of the Reformation and slicing via prejudices that proceed to distort renowned conceptions of a non secular divide nonetheless with us after 5 centuries. This huge paintings, from essentially the most exceptional students of Christianity writing at the present time, explores the ways that historians have informed the story of the Reformation, why their interpretations have replaced so dramatically over the years, and finally, how the contested legacy of this revolution maintains to affect the area today.

By Asaph Ben-Tov

The textual monuments of Greco-Roman antiquity, as is celebrated, have been a staple of Europe s trained sessions because the Renaissance. That the Reformation ushered in a brand new knowing of human destiny and heritage is both a regular of recent scholarship. the current research probes attitudes in the direction of Greek antiquity by way of of a gaggle of Lutheran humanists. targeting Philipp Melanchthon, a number of of his colleagues and scholars, and a broader Melanchthonian milieu, a Lutheran knowing of Pagan and Christian Greek antiquity is traced in its 16th century context, positing it in the framework of Protestant common background, pedagogical matters, and the newly made acquaintance with Byzantine texts and post-Byzantine Greeks demonstrating the necessity to historicize Antiquity itself in Renaissance reports and beyond."