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Book Synopsis The Ecumenical Movement by : Michael Kinnamon
Download or read book The Ecumenical Movement written by Michael Kinnamon and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1996-12-31 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included in this collection of documents from the twentieth-century ecumenical movement are passages from texts produced by assemblies, conferences, and studies of the World Council of Churches and similar bodies, covering three areas of historical concern within modern ecumenism: faith and order, life and work, and mission and evangelism.
Book Synopsis Calvin's Economic and Social Thought by : André Biéler
Download or read book Calvin's Economic and Social Thought written by André Biéler and published by World Council of Churches. This book was released on 2006 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the economic and social thought of the 16th-century reformer John Calvin as a turning point in western history that transformed European understanding of wealth and poverty, and civil government and the responsibility of citizens. This book examines his practical theology within the context of his proclamation of the Christian gospel.
Author :Catholic Church. Pontificium Consilium de Iustitia et Pace Publisher :Veritas Co. Ltd. ISBN 13 :1853908398 Total Pages :13 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (539 download)
Book Synopsis Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church by : Catholic Church. Pontificium Consilium de Iustitia et Pace
Download or read book Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church written by Catholic Church. Pontificium Consilium de Iustitia et Pace and published by Veritas Co. Ltd.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Ecumenical Movement, Volume 2 by : Harold C. Fey
Download or read book A History of the Ecumenical Movement, Volume 2 written by Harold C. Fey and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 (1948-1968) first appeared in 1970. It covers the history of the World Council of Churches from its first assembly at Amsterdam to its fourth assembly at Uppsala, Sweden; analyzes the development of regional ecumenical organizations; and recounts the impact of the Second Vatican Council on the ecumenical witness of the Roman Catholic Church.
Book Synopsis Introducing Catholic Social Thought by : J. Milburn Thompson
Download or read book Introducing Catholic Social Thought written by J. Milburn Thompson and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces Catholic social teaching of the twenty-first century, and includes encyclicals of Benedict XVI.
Book Synopsis The Encyclopedia of Christianity by : Erwin Fahlbusch
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Christianity written by Erwin Fahlbusch and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Encyclopedia of Christianity is the first of a five-volume English translation of the third revised edition of Evangelisches Kirchenlexikon. Its German articles have been tailored to suit an English readership, and articles of special interest to English readers have been added. The encyclopedia describes Christianity through its 2000-year history within a global context, taking into account other religions and philosophies. A special feature is the statistical information dispersed throughout the articles on the continents and over 170 countries. Social and cultural coverage is given to such issues as racism, genocide, and armaments, while historical content shows the development of biblical and apostolic traditions."--"Outstanding reference sources 2000", American Libraries, May 2000. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.
Book Synopsis Economy of Life by : Rogate R. Mshana
Download or read book Economy of Life written by Rogate R. Mshana and published by World Council of Churches. This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a harvest of the ecumenical work done to advance economic, social and ecological justice since the 9th assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Porto Alegre till the 10th WCC assembly in Busan. It outlines the milestones in the journey leading up to the Bogor statement on "Economy of life, justice and peace for all," also included in this volume.
Book Synopsis Nazism, Liberalism, and Christianity by : Kenneth C. Barnes
Download or read book Nazism, Liberalism, and Christianity written by Kenneth C. Barnes and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Depression devastated the economies of both Germany and Great Britain. Yet the middle classes in the two countries responded in vastly different ways. German Protestants, perceiving a choice among a Bolshevik-style revolution, the chaos and decadence of Weimar liberalism, and Nazi authoritarianism, voted Hitler into power and then acquiesced in the resulting dictatorship. In Britain, Labour and Tory politicians moved gingerly together to form a National Government that muddled through the Depression with piecemeal reform. In this troubling book about troubled times, Kenneth Barnes looks into the question of how theologians and church leaders contributed to a cultural matrix that predisposed Protestants in these two countries to very different political alternatives. Holding fast to the liberal social gospel, British churchmen diagnosed the problems of the 1920s and the Depression ao solvable and called for genuine reforms, many of which foreshadowed the coming welfare state. German leaders, in contrast, were terrified by the socioeconomic and political problems of the Weimar era and offered no social message or solution. Despairingly, they referred the problems to secular politicians and after 1933 beat the drum for obedience to the Nazi state. Based on extensive research in European archives, especially the rich papers of the interwar ecumenical movement housed at the World Council of Churches in Geneva, this book examines key intellectual figures such as Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Archbishop William Temple, as well as many lesser known church officials and theologians. Barnes brings to life the intellectual struggles and dilemmas of the interwar period to help explain why good people could, for moral and religious reasons, choose opposing courses of political action.
Book Synopsis An Introduction to Catholic Social Thought by : Michael P. Hornsby-Smith
Download or read book An Introduction to Catholic Social Thought written by Michael P. Hornsby-Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-09 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Hornsby-Smith offers an overview of Catholic social thought particularly in recent decades. While drawing on official teaching such as papal encyclicals and the pastoral letters of bishops' conferences, he takes seriously the need for dialogue with secular thought. The 2006 book is organized in four stages. Part I outlines the variety of domestic and international injustices and seeks to offer a social analysis of the causes of these injustices. Part II offers a theological reflection on the characteristics of the kingdom of God which Christians are urged to seek. Part III reviews Catholic social thought in six main areas: human rights, the family and bioethical issues, economic life, social exclusion, authentic development, and war and peace. Part IV completes the cycle with a consideration of appropriate social action responses to the injustices which the author has identified and analysed.
Book Synopsis Catholic Social Teaching, 1891-Present by : Charles E. Curran
Download or read book Catholic Social Teaching, 1891-Present written by Charles E. Curran and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles E. Curran offers the first comprehensive analysis and criticism of the development of modern Catholic social teaching from the perspective of theology, ethics, and church history. Curran studies the methodology and content of the documents of Catholic social teaching, generally understood as comprising twelve papal letters beginning with Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum novarum, two documents from Vatican II, and two pastoral letters of the U.S. bishops. He contends that the fundamental basis for this body of teaching comes from an anthropological perspective that recognizes both the inherent dignity and the social nature of the human person—thus do the church's teachings on political and economic matters chart a middle course between the two extremes of individualism and collectivism. The documents themselves tend to downplay any discontinuities with previous documents, but Curran's systematic analysis reveals the significant historical developments that have occurred over the course of more than a century. Although greatly appreciative of the many strengths of this teaching, Curran also points out the weaknesses and continuing tensions in Catholic social teaching today. Intended for scholars and students of Catholic social ethics, as well as those involved in Catholic social ministry, this volume will also appeal to non-Catholic readers interested in an understanding and evaluation of Catholic social teaching.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Catholic Social Teaching by : Martin Schlag
Download or read book Handbook of Catholic Social Teaching written by Martin Schlag and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Catholic Social Teaching employs a question and answer format, to better accentuate the response of the Church's message to the questions Catholics have about their social role and what the Church intends to teach about it. Written in consultation with the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, the Handbook should take its place alongside the Catechism of the Social Doctrine of the Church on the shelf of informed Catholics as works that can inform what we believe and do in the public sphere.
Book Synopsis The Theological Vision of Reinhold Niebuhr's "The Irony of American History" by : Scott R. Erwin
Download or read book The Theological Vision of Reinhold Niebuhr's "The Irony of American History" written by Scott R. Erwin and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinhold Niebuhr remains at the center of a national conversation about America's role in the world, and commentators with divergent political and religious positions draw upon his 1951 work, The Irony of American History, in support of their views. In this study Scott R. Erwin argues that an appreciation of Niebuhr's theological vision is necessary for understanding the full measure of Irony. An appreciation of Niebuhr's theology is important because the majority of individuals reading Irony today fail to acknowledge the central role that his Christian beliefs played in its formulation. Niebuhr described his theological vision as being "in the battle and above it," and, in more extensive terms, explained it to be a "combination of moral resoluteness about the immediate issues with a religious awareness of another dimension of meaning and judgment." It was this perspective that led Niebuhr, in Irony, to assert that America must both take "morally hazardous action" in combating the aggression of the Soviet Union and engage in critical self-evaluation to prevent the country from assuming the most odious traits of its Cold War foe. Niebuhr developed this theological vision over the course of the 1930s and 1940s through engagement with Christian doctrine, as most readily seen in his academic works such as The Nature and Destiny of Man, and engagement with current history, as seen in his many journalistic writings during this period. By focusing primarily on Niebuhr's writings between 1931 and 1951, Erwin traces the development of his Christian interpretation of human nature and history, establishes how it informed his theological vision, and reveals how that theological vision underlay his writings on current affairs. Such excavation is necessary given the fact that Niebuhr became less explicit about the theological nature of his later writings. Indeed, rather than clearly advance his theological vision in Irony, Niebuhr chose to communicate it implicitly through the historical figure of Abraham Lincoln. In multiple writings over the course of his career, Niebuhr referred to the sixteenth president as both America's greatest statesman and theologian and ultimately portrayed him as the personification of his own religious beliefs. Erwin demonstrates that the study of both Niebuhr's theological vision and his application of this vision throughout his life is instructive as the contemporary generation engages with global problems.
Book Synopsis Christian Economic Ethics by : Daniel K. Finn
Download or read book Christian Economic Ethics written by Daniel K. Finn and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the history of Christian views of economic life mean for economic life in the twenty-first century? Here Daniel Finn reviews the insights provided by a large number of texts, from the Bible and the early church, to the Middle Ages and the Protestant Reformation, to treatments of the subject in the last century. Relying on both social science and theology, Finn then turns to the implications of this history for economic life today. Throughout, the book invites the reader to engage the sources and to develop an answer to the volume's basic question.
Book Synopsis The Social Gospel Today by : Christopher Hodge Evans
Download or read book The Social Gospel Today written by Christopher Hodge Evans and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors explore how the theological tradition of the Social Gospel, born within the social and cultural dislocations of late 19th-century America, relates to the dislocations of the current American scene. The contributors argue that America's only indigenous theological tradition remains powerfully relevant to mainline churches and to the scholars who work out of these institutions.
Book Synopsis Modern American Religion, Volume 3 by : Martin E. Marty
Download or read book Modern American Religion, Volume 3 written by Martin E. Marty and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1: The Irony of it all, 1893-1919; Vol. 2: The Noise of conflict, 1919-1941.
Book Synopsis Building the Kingdom of God on Earth by : Martin Erdmann
Download or read book Building the Kingdom of God on Earth written by Martin Erdmann and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his book, 'Building the Kingdom of God on Earth', Dr. Erdmann deals primarily with John Foster Dulles' participation in the ecumenical movement from 1919 to 1945. Dulles' role in shaping the religious, economic, and political policies of the Federal Council of Churches in its support of world order and peace, especially in his function as chairman of the Commission on a Just and Durable Peace, was crowned with success in the founding of the United Nations Organisation in 1945. His personal friends Philip Kerr (Lord Lothian) and Lionel Curtis, the principal leaders of the Round Table Group, come into the pictures at various times. By and large they pursued the same objectives as those of Dulles. The book shows the detailed influence of the Round Table Group and its affiliated organisations - such as the Royal Institute of International Affairs (London) and the Council for Foreign Relations (New York City) - on the ecumenical movement, using it successfully for their purpose of creating an international community of nations.
