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Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies

Author : David P. Gushee
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467466212
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies written by David P. Gushee and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American democracy is in danger. How do we protect it from authoritarian reactionary Christianity? On January 6, 2021, hundreds of Americans stormed the Capitol to prevent the certification of their political opponent’s election. At the forefront were Christians claiming to act in the name of Jesus Christ and his supposed representative on earth, Donald Trump. How can this have happened? David P. Gushee tackles the question in this timely work of Christian political ethics. Gushee calls us to preserve democratic norms, including constitutional government, the rule of law, and equal rights for all, even as many Christians take a reactionary and antidemocratic stance. Surveying global politics and modern history, he analyzes how Christians have discarded their commitment to democracy and bought into authoritarianism. He urges us to fight back by reviving our hard-won traditions of congregational democracy, dissident Black Christian politics, and covenantal theology. Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies makes a robust case for a renewed commitment to democracy on the part of Christians—not by succumbing to secular liberalism, but by drawing on our own best traditions. Any concerned Christian will leave its pages with eyes wide open to the dangers of our current form of political engagement. Readers will gain insight into what democracy is truly meant to be and why Christians once supported it wholeheartedly—and should do so again.

Changing Our Mind

Author : David P. Gushee
Publisher : Read the Spirit Books
ISBN 13 : 1942011857
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Changing Our Mind written by David P. Gushee and published by Read the Spirit Books. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Every generation has its hot-button issue,” writes David P. Gushee, “For us, it’s the LGBT issue.” In Changing Our Mind, Gushee takes the reader along his personal and theological journey as he changes his mind about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender inclusion in the Church. With 19 books to his name, Gushee is no stranger to the public arena. He is the author of the “Evangelical Declaration Against Torture” and drafted the “Evangelical Climate Initiative. “For decades now, David Gushee has earned the reputation as America's leading evangelical ethicist. In this book, he admits that he has been wrong on the LGBT issue.” writes Brian D. McLaren, author and theologian. In the definitive third edition of this book, David Gushee issues a scholarly response to his critics. Brian D. McLaren says it best: “Not only is David Gushee's work deep, thoughtful and brilliant; and not only is David philosophically and theologically careful and astute; he is also refreshingly clear and understandable by ‘common people’ who know neither philosophical nor theological mumbo jumbo.”

Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear

Author : Matthew Kaemingk
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467449520
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Book Synopsis Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear by : Matthew Kaemingk

Download or read book Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear written by Matthew Kaemingk and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alternative, uniquely Christian response to the growing global challenges of deep religious difference In the last fifty years, millions of Muslims have migrated to Europe and North America. Their arrival has ignited a series of fierce public debates on both sides of the Atlantic about religious freedom and tolerance, terrorism and security, gender and race, and much more. How can Christians best respond to this situation? In this book theologian and ethicist Matthew Kaemingk offers a thought-provoking Christian perspective on the growing debates over Muslim presence in the West. Rejecting both fearful nationalism and romantic multiculturalism, Kaemingk makes the case for a third way—a Christian pluralism that is committed to both the historic Christian faith and the public rights, dignity, and freedom of Islam.

Still Christian

Author : David P. Gushee
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN 13 : 1611648270
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Still Christian written by David P. Gushee and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for folks whose commitment to Jesus has put them at odds with American evangelicalism. —Shane Claiborne So many Americans today love their faith but have found their church doesn't love them back. They then leave, seeking community elsewhere. Of all those personal stories, few have ever been told by someone so far inside the powerful places of white evangelical Christianity. In this provocative tell-all, David Gushee opens the door to the frictions and schisms of evangelicalism, tells his own story of leaving, and shows that you, too, can find a Christianity that is worth following. Gushee’s experiences begin with becoming a born-again Southern Baptist in 1978 and end with being kicked out of evangelicalism in 2014 for his principled stance on full LGBTQ inclusion. But his religious pilgrimage proves even broader than that, as he leads his doctoral studies at Union Seminary in New York, his dismay when the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary expelled female professors and fellow colleagues, to his days as every evangelical’s least-favorite liberal, and more. In telling his story, Gushee speaks to those who have been disillusioned by American Christianity. As he describes his own struggles to find the right path at different stages of his journey, he highlights the turning points and decisions that we all face. When do we compromise, and when do we stand our ground? Is holding to moral conviction worth sacrificing friendship, jobs, and security? As he takes us through his sometimes-amusing, sometimes-heartbreaking, and always-stirring journey, Gushee shows us that we can retain our faith in Christ even when Christians disappoint us.

After Evangelicalism

Author : David P. Gushee
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1646980042
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book After Evangelicalism written by David P. Gushee and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the Top 10 Books of the Year in 2020 by the Academy of Parish Clergy "Drawing on his own spiritual journey, David Gushee provides an incisive critique of American evangelicalism [and] offers a succinct yet deeply informed guide for post-evangelicals seeking to pursue Christ-honoring lives." —Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Calvin University Millions are getting lost in the evangelical maze: inerrancy, indifference to the environment, deterministic Calvinism, purity culture, racism, LGBTQ discrimination, male dominance, and Christian nationalism. They are now conscientious objectors, deconstructionists, perhaps even "none and done." As one of America's leading academics speaking to the issues of religion today, David Gushee offers a clear assessment and a new way forward for disillusioned post-evangelicals. Gushee starts by analyzing what went wrong with U.S. white evangelicalism in areas such as evangelical history and identity, biblicism, uncredible theologies, and the fundamentalist understandings of race, politics, and sexuality. Along the way, he proposes new ways of Christian believing and of listening to God and Jesus today. He helps post-evangelicals know how to belong and behave, going from where they are to a living relationship with Christ and an intellectually cogent and morally robust post-evangelical faith. He shows that they can have a principled way of understanding Scripture, a community of Christ's people, a healthy politics, and can repent and learn to listen to people on the margins. With a foreword from Brian McLaren, who says, “David Gushee is right: there is indeed life after evangelicalism,” this book offers an essential handbook for those looking for answers and affirmation of their journey into a future that is post-evangelical but still centered on Jesus. If you, too, are struggling, After Evangelicalism shows that it is possible to cut loose from evangelical Christianity and, more than that, it is necessary.

God and Guns in America

Author : Michael W. Austin
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467457981
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book God and Guns in America written by Michael W. Austin and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if Christians did more than offer thoughts and prayers in response to gun violence? Ethicist Michael Austin argues—from a biblical but nonpacifist perspective—that we can impose firearms restrictions to make our society safer and less fearful while still respecting the rights of gun owners. God and Guns in America is a thoughtful, measured, and articulate treatment of a polarizing topic that is too often treated with more heat than light.

Changing Our Mind, Second Edition

Author : David P. Gushee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939880932
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Changing Our Mind, Second Edition written by David P. Gushee and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every generation has its hot-button issue," writes David P. Gushee, "For us, it's the LGBT issue." In Changing Our Mind, Gushee takes the reader along his personal and theological journey as he changes his mind about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender inclusion in the Church. "For decades now, David Gushee has earned the reputation as America's leading evangelical ethicist. In this book, he admits that he has been wrong on the LGBT issue." writes Brian D. McLaren, author and theologian.

Redeeming Capitalism

Author : Kenneth J. Barnes
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467450391
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Redeeming Capitalism written by Kenneth J. Barnes and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On reclaiming the moral roots of capitalism for a virtuous future For good or ill, the capitalism we have is the capitalism we have chosen, says Kenneth Barnes. Capitalism works, and the challenge before us is not to change its structure but to address the moral vacuum at the core of its current practice. In Redeeming Capitalism Barnes explores the history and workings of this sometimes-brutal economic system. He investigates the effects of postmodernism and unpacks biblical-theological teachings on work and wealth. Proposing virtuous choices as a way out of such pitfalls as the recent global financial crisis, Barnes envisions a more just and flourishing capitalism for the good of all.

The Inner Enemies of Democracy

Author : Tzvetan Todorov
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745685781
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Inner Enemies of Democracy written by Tzvetan Todorov and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political history of the twentieth century can be viewed as the history of democracy’s struggle against its external enemies: fascism and communism. This struggle ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet regime. Some people think that democracy now faces new enemies: Islamic fundamentalism, religious extremism and international terrorism and that this is the struggle that will define our times. Todorov disagrees: the biggest threat to democracy today is democracy itself. Its enemies are within: what the ancient Greeks called 'hubris'. Todorov argues that certain democratic values have been distorted and pushed to an extreme that serves the interests of dominant states and powerful individuals. In the name of ‘democracy’ and ‘human rights’, the United States and some European countries have embarked on a crusade to enlighten some foreign populations through the use of force. Yet this mission to ‘help’ others has led to Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, to large-scale destruction and loss of life and to a moral crisis of growing proportions. The defence of freedom, if unlimited, can lead to the tyranny of individuals. Drawing on recent history as well as his own experience of growing up in a totalitarian regime, Todorov returns to examples borrowed from the Western canon: from a dispute between Augustine and Pelagius to the fierce debates among Enlightenment thinkers to explore the origin of these perversions of democracy. He argues compellingly that the real democratic ideal is to be found in the delicate, ever-changing balance between competing principles, popular sovereignty, freedom and progress. When one of these elements breaks free and turns into an over-riding principle, it becomes dangerous: populism, ultra-liberalism and messianism, the inner enemies of democracy.

A Letter to My Anxious Christian Friends

Author : David P. Gushee
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611646944
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book A Letter to My Anxious Christian Friends written by David P. Gushee and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last few years have seen dizzying social change in the United States. Many of these changes—such as the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage—seem to challenge or overturn long-standing Christian teachings, while disputes over issues such as immigration, racism, and the abuse of police authority create uncertainty and confusion about what a faithful Christian response looks like. Small wonder, then, that the dominant mood among many Christians is anxiety about what it means to be a follower of Jesus in the world today. In a clear and readable style, leading Christian ethicist David P. Gushee explores the many social and political changes that are causing Christian anxiety, offering ways to understand and act on these issues that are grounded in the reign of God rather than in human fear. What do we see when we look at a given political issue, argument, or candidate? What do we wish to see? And what might Christian faith contribute to seeing, interpreting, and acting rightly in this particular moment? Gushee helps average Christians think through and make sense of their fears and anxieties about rapid social change in American society, showing how our faith is calling us not to fear and worry but to hope.

A New Gospel for Women

Author : Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190205644
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book A New Gospel for Women written by Kristin Kobes Du Mez and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work of history, biography, and historical theology, A New Gospel for Women tells the remarkable story of Katharine Bushnell (1855-1946), an internationally-known social reformer and author of God's Word to Women, a startling reinterpretation of the Christian Scriptures that even today stands as one of the most innovative and comprehensive feminist theologies ever written.

Preparing for Christian Ministry

Author : David P. Gushee
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441231684
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Preparing for Christian Ministry written by David P. Gushee and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encouragement for students to reflect on the nature and task of ministry in the 21st century and to seek education to equip them for ministry.

The Sacredness of Human Life

Author : David P. Gushee
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802844200
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Sacredness of Human Life written by David P. Gushee and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive examination of the sacredness of human life, encompassing biblical roots, theological elaborations, historical cases, and contemporary ethical perspectives. Gushee argues that viewing human life as sacred is one of the most precious legacies of biblical faith-- albeit one that the church has too often failed to uphold.

Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?

Author : John Fea
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611640881
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? written by John Fea and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fea offers an even-handed primer on whether America was founded to be a Christian nation, as many evangelicals assert, or a secular state, as others contend. He approaches the title's question from a historical perspective, helping readers see past the emotional rhetoric of today to the recorded facts of our past. Readers on both sides of the issues will appreciate that this book occupies a middle ground, noting the good points and the less-nuanced arguments of both sides and leading us always back to the primary sources that our shared American history comprises.

Summoned from the Margin

Author : Lamin Sanneh
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802867421
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Summoned from the Margin written by Lamin Sanneh and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summoned from the Margin tells the story of Lamin Sanneh's fascinating journey from his upbringing in an impoverished village in West Africa to education in the United States and Europe to a distinguished career teaching at the Universities of Yale, Harvard, Aberdeen, and Ghana. He grew up in a polygamous household in The Gambia and attended a government-run Muslim boarding school. A chance encounter with Helen Keller's autobiography taught him that education and faith are the key to overcoming physical and personal hardship and inspired his journey. Burning theological questions about God's nature and human suffering eventually led Sanneh to convert from Islam to Christianity and to pursue a career in academia. Here he recounts the unusually varied life experiences that have made him who he is today. Watch the trailer:

Not Sure

Author : John D. Suk
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802866506
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Not Sure written by John D. Suk and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2002, while touring North America with his wife in an RV, John Suk -- lifelong Christian, longtime pastor, and noted leader in the Christian Reformed Church -- experienced a crippling crisis of faith. He emerged from that dark time with a strange new gift -- doubt. In Not Sure Suk takes readers on an eyes-wide-open, deeply personal voyage through the past and present of Christian belief, reexamining Christian faith -- in his own life and in fifteen centuries of Christian history -- through a skeptic's eyes. He exposes major pitfalls of modern Christian movements and questions what he considers to be faulty paradigms: the "personal relationship with Jesus," the "health-and-wealth gospel," and traditional ethnicity-based belief systems. In the end he is left clinging to what is for him a truer, wiser kind of faith in Jesus Christ -- faith that struggles and lives with doubt.

In This World of Wonders

Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467452726
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book In This World of Wonders written by Nicholas Wolterstorff and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-renowned Christian philosopher. Beloved professor. Author of the classic Lament for a Son. Nicholas Wolterstorff is all of these and more. His memoir, In This World of Wonders, opens a remarkable new window into the life and thought of this remarkable man. Written not as a complete life story but as a series of vignettes, Wolterstorff’s memoir moves from his humble beginnings in a tiny Minnesota village to his education at Calvin College and Harvard University, to his career of teaching philosophy and writing books, to the experiences that prompted some of his writing—particularly his witnessing South African apartheid and Palestinian oppression firsthand. In This World of Wonders is the story of a thoughtful and grateful Christian whose life has been shaped by many loves—love of philosophy, love of family, love of art and architecture, love of nature and gardening, and more. It’s a lovely, wonderful story.