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Yoder, John Howard |
Binding and loosing, baptism, eucharist, multiplicity of gifts, and open meeting. Yoder uncovers the original meaning of the five practices and shows why the recovery of these practices is so important for the social, economic, and political witness of the church today. 90 pages. |
Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Topical Studies |
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Taylor, Dean |
What should a Christian do with Jesus' words "love your enemies"? Is it all right for a Christian to go to war? Doesn't a Christian have an obligation to defend his country? |
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Lewis, C. S. |
Here Lewis describes the four basic kinds of human love--affection, friendship, erotic love and the love of God. There are risks that accompany the rewards of love, the author cautions, but he recommends taking them, since hell is the only place outside heaven where we can be safe from the… |
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Kuruvilla, Finny |
Many people today say, "I'm spiritual, but not religious." Such language veils a hunger for God but a distaste for the church. Even in the church, Christians are asking, "Is this what church is supposed to be?" Many Christians sense deep down that there is supposed to be something… |
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Coblentz, John |
Wounds and injustice, whether deeply painful or only annoying, stir in humans a dark urge to retaliate. Jesus Christ was an exception. And Jesus called His disciples to follow Him on a higher way. His teachings are simple, arresting, and challenging. The Teacher intended that they be taken seriously ... and… |
Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Topical Studies |
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Yoder, John Howard |
John Howard Yoder's classic book first published in 1971, includes a treatment of Jewish pacifism, bibliographies, an index, and three new appendixes: Speaking Truth to Power, Quaker Political Witness; The Spectrum of Nonpacifist Postures; and Nonviolent National Defense Alternatives. Yoder points out assumptions, strengths, and shortcomings of each pacifist position… |
Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Topical Studies |
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Stephen Russell |
Second edition, updated and revised with study questions. We live in a world wracked with violence and hatred. Does that mean that every act of violence must be met with an equal or greater counterblow? Stephen Russell asserts that the biblical message calls for forgiveness and reconciliation in place of… |
Anabaptist History & Thought ⋅ Books ⋅ Christian Living ⋅ Ethics ⋅ Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Topical Studies |
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Haines, Leland M. |
When man fell into sin in the Garden of Eden, God had a plan ready to redeem him. Because of His love for man, God sent Jesus Christ, His Son, to give His life on the cross to make grace available for all who would receive it. The grace of… |
Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Topical Studies |
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Guy F. Hershberger |
Guy Hershberger made a significant contribution to the development of peace theology in the (Old) Mennonite Church. Perhaps the greatest service of this book is to explain clearly the centuries-old doctrine of nonresistance as understood by Mennonites in the mid-1900s. Although nonresistance was held as a doctrine since the… |
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Hellerman, Joseph H. |
Spiritual formation occurs primarily in the context of community. But as the modern cultural norm of what social scientists call "radical American individualism" extends itself, many Christians grow lax in their relational accountability to the church. Faith threatens to become an "I" not "us," a "my God" not "our God"… |
Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Topical Studies |
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