A Peculiar People

A Peculiar People
Author: Rodney R. Clapp
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1996-11-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830819904

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Rodney Clapp asks and answers the question, How can the church provide a significant alternative to the culture in which it is embedded?

The Idea of a Christian Society

The Idea of a Christian Society
Author: T. S. Eliot
Publisher: HMH
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0544358570

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One of the twentieth century’s great thinkers and writers explores what it means to incorporate Christian values into our worldly lives. Originally delivered in 1939 at Corpus Christi College, these three lectures by the renowned poet and playwright T. S. Eliot address the direction of religious thought toward criticism of political and economic systems. With sincerity and intellectual rigor, the Nobel Prize winner asks whether—and how—it is possible for Christianity to coexist with Western democracy and capitalism.

Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society

Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society
Author: R. R. Reno
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2016-08-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1621575659

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America’s two greatest strengths—her liberal democratic culture and her free-market economy—have made her a global superpower. But left unchecked, these two strengths can become great cultural weaknesses, sowing selfishness, recklessness, and apathy. In Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society, theologian R. R. Reno argues that America needs a renewal of Christian ideals—ideals that encourage self-sacrifice, responsibility, and solidarity. Drawing on T.S. Eliot’s 1940 essay “The Idea of a Christian Society,” Reno shows how Christianity encourages “an abiding ambition for higher things” and a “moral vision” that can strengthen communities and transform America into a truly great nation.

Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe

Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe
Author: James A. Brundage
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 714
Release: 2009-02-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0226077896

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This monumental study of medieval law and sexual conduct explores the origin and develpment of the Christian church's sex law and the systems of belief upon which that law rested. Focusing on the Church's own legal system of canon law, James A. Brundage offers a comprehensive history of legal doctrines–covering the millennium from A.D. 500 to 1500–concerning a wide variety of sexual behavior, including marital sex, adultery, homosexuality, concubinage, prostitution, masturbation, and incest. His survey makes strikingly clear how the system of sexual control in a world we have half-forgotten has shaped the world in which we live today. The regulation of marriage and divorce as we know it today, together with the outlawing of bigamy and polygamy and the imposition of criminal sanctions on such activities as sodomy, fellatio, cunnilingus, and bestiality, are all based in large measure upon ideas and beliefs about sexual morality that became law in Christian Europe in the Middle Ages. "Brundage's book is consistently learned, enormously useful, and frequently entertaining. It is the best we have on the relationships between theological norms, legal principles, and sexual practice."—Peter Iver Kaufman, Church History

Christian Community in History Volume 1

Christian Community in History Volume 1
Author: Roger Haight
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2004-09-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0826416306

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Drawing upon the methodology developed in his Dynamics of Theology (1990) and exemplified in Jesus Symbol of God (1999), Roger Haight, in this magisterial work, achieves what he calls an historical ecclesiology, or ecclesiology from below. In contrast to traditional ecclesiology from above, which is abstract, idealist, and ahistorical, ecclesiology from below is concrete, realist, and historically conscious. In this first of two volumes, Haight charts the history of the church's self-understandings from the origins of the church in the Jesus movement to the late Middle Ages. In volume 2 Haight develops a comparative ecclesiology based on the history and diverse theologies of the worldwide Christian movement from the Reformation to the present. While the ultimate focus of the work falls on the structure of the church and its theological self-understanding, it tries to be faithful to the historical, social, and political reality of the church in each period.

The Christian Society

The Christian Society
Author: Stephen Neill
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2022-01-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 071889605X

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In The Christian Society, one of the great Christian commentators of the twentieth century describes how the Church came to be a society. The past relationship between the missionary church and the pagan cultures it replaced is discussed alongside more recent delicate ecumenical relationships and the ongoing conflict between the church and atheism. Stephen Neill's perceptiveness as a historian is shown in his masterful summary of the church's story from the days of Jesus to his own time. Meanwhile, his experience as a missionary and ecumenist comes to the fore as he demonstrates how the unity of the church is integral to its place in modern society, and its power to create a society. Throughout, his approach is empirical, and he considers 'all who have claimed the Christian name, without making preliminary judgements as to their orthodoxy or their standing within the general body of Christian people.' The result is a comprehensive depiction of Christianity as a social phenomenon that is as relevant today as when it was written.

The Christian Society

The Christian Society
Author: George Davis Herron
Publisher:
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1894
Genre: Christian sociology
ISBN:

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Christianity and Culture

Christianity and Culture
Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1960
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780156177351

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Two long essays: "The Idea of a Christian Society" on the direction of religious thought toward criticism of political and economic systems; and "Notes towards the Definition of Culture" on culture, its meaning, and the dangers threatening the legacy of the Western world.

Return to Order

Return to Order
Author: John Horvat
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Economics
ISBN: 9780988214804

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Join the conversation about America’s RETURN TO ORDER America is at a crossroads. Historically, we are a nation of fair, hard working achievers. But since the mid 1960’s our country has experienced a gradual demise. Economically, we’re bogged down in multi-trillion dollar deficits, economic crises and financial crashes. Politically, we’re stuck in polarization and social strife that makes it hard to get anything done. Morally, we’ve hit rock bottom with the breakdown of our moral codes. Fueled by distrust and egoism we are at a point in our history where we lack faith in government, leaders, institutions, corporations, even fellow citizens. There’s a growing sense of alarm, confusion and frustration at seeing our beloved nation, the greatest temporal power ever, spin out of control. That’s why we have started a serious conversation about a RETURN TO ORDER. We need to study and discuss the deepest root causes of our crisis. We need to make changes that will improve our lives and save our nation. Please join the conversation.