The Bible In The Public Square

Author : Mark A. Chancey
Publisher : Society of Biblical Literature
ISBN 13 : 9781589839823
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bible in the Public Square written by Mark A. Chancey and published by Society of Biblical Literature. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore perceptions and interpretations of scripture in American politics, identity, popular culture, and public education Essays from the perspectives of American history, the history of ideas, film studies, visual studies, cultural studies, education, and church-state studies provide essential research for those interested in the intersection of the Bible and American culture. The contributors are Yaakov Ariel, Jacques Berlinerblau, Mark A. Chancey, Rubén Dupertuis, John Fea, Shalom Goldman, Charles C. Haynes, Carol Meyers, Eric M. Meyers, David Morgan, Adele Reinhartz, and David W. Stowe. Features: Ten essays and an introduction present research from professors of biblical studies, Judaism, English, and history Articles relevant to scholars, students, and the general public Analysis of the tensions in American society regarding the Bible and its role in public life.

Author : Charles R. Peterson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532652674
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book With Bible in One Hand and Newspaper in the Other written by Charles R. Peterson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famous theologian Karl Barth is known for his admonition that Christians should evaluate major news events in the light of the Bible rather than vice versa. This book reviews attempts at implementing Barth's principle in more than a hundred responses to newspaper editorial opinions over a decades-spanning period. In this exercise, five major theological themes frame the moral engagement of ten newsworthy subject categories. The analysis demonstrates how a biblically-based moral framing can define a center-left politically partisan stance as a guide or challenge to civil public dialogue. A weakness of this venue is that space limitations of newspaper editorial pages allow little potential for achieving what Barth probably had in mind for an effective Christian witness. A different venue is therefore needed. Numerous barriers inhibit such dialogue within Christian congregations, including the stagnating polarization in US politics that has a parallel in most religious traditions. One can hope that the major role for a biblical witness to American culture has not become limited to that partial calling of the Old Testament prophets: warning of the negative historical judgments that risk coming to any society that fails to adequately attempt living out a reverential fear of God.

Author : J. Budziszewski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evangelicals in the Public Square written by J. Budziszewski and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, J. Budziszewski examines evangelical political thought over the past fifty years through four key figures--Carl F. H. Henry, Abraham Kuyper, Francis Schaeffer, and John Howard Yoder--to argue that, in addition to Scripture, the evangelical political movement should be informed by the tradition of natural law. David L. Weeks (Azusa Pacific University) responds on Henry, William Edgar (Westminster Seminary) responds to the Schaeffer section, John Bolt (Calvin Seminary) comments on Kuyper, and Ashley Woodiwiss (Wheaton College) offers remarks on the Yoder portion. Jean Bethke Elshtain (University of Chicago) provides the afterword, summarizing the dialogue and offering her own observations. In addition, the book includes an introduction by Michael Cromartie of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Author : Robert D. Cornwall
Publisher : Energion Publications
ISBN 13 : 1938434420
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith in the Public Square written by Robert D. Cornwall and published by Energion Publications. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a newspaper editor gives his primary editorial slot on Sundays to a pastor? In the case of Bob Cornwall, a pastor in Troy, Michigan, the result is a series of relevant, interesting, and challenging essays that go well beyond the local scene while still managing to be relevant to Americans in their local situation. Now extensively revised and organized as to theme, these essays form a coherent statement of progressive Christianity at work in the public square. At the same time they are seasoned with a look at how the public square influences the spiritual life of a Christian living in mid-America. The 52 essays in this collection go well beyond one place and time. You will find yourself, your community, your state, your nation, and your world in each. Can a person of faith be involved in the public square with integrity? Is public policy made better by this action? Can faith remain whole and genuine following the encounter? Read these essays to discover the answers, and perhaps find a new optimism for the future as you do. Anyone can benefit, but pastors and church leaders will find help in demonstrating their faith in the public square.

Author : Mark A. Chancey
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589839838
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bible in the Public Square written by Mark A. Chancey and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore perceptions and interpretations of scripture in American politics, identity, popular culture, and public education Essays from the perspectives of American history, the history of ideas, film studies, visual studies, cultural studies, education, and church-state studies provide essential research for those interested in the intersection of the Bible and American culture. The contributors are Yaakov Ariel, Jacques Berlinerblau, Mark A. Chancey, Rubén Dupertuis, John Fea, Shalom Goldman, Charles C. Haynes, Carol Meyers, Eric M. Meyers, David Morgan, Adele Reinhartz, and David W. Stowe. Features: Ten essays and an introduction present research from professors of biblical studies, Judaism, English, and history Articles relevant to scholars, students, and the general public Analysis of the tensions in American society regarding the Bible and its role in public life.

Author : Hermann Mvula
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9996076385
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bible and the Public Square written by Hermann Mvula and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2024-02-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For too long Africa has presented a conundrum as its profound reception of the Bible is juxtaposed with a public life that often seems devoid of biblical values. In this highly original analysis Mzee Hermann Mvula boldly seeks to bridge this ugly chasm by showing what biblical teaching can mean for many different aspects of social and political life. —Kenneth R. Ross,Professor of Theology and Dean of Postgraduate Studies, Zomba Theological University

Author : Cynthia Briggs Kittredge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Bible in the Public Square written by Cynthia Briggs Kittredge and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Warwick Montgomery
Publisher : New Reformation Publications
ISBN 13 : 1945500166
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christians In The Public Square written by John Warwick Montgomery and published by New Reformation Publications. This book was released on 2018-01-27 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles examining the inter-relationship between "law" and "gospel"; what a Christian should and should not attempt to do in the public realm of politics; and bioethical issues. Included are essays by David Kilgour, one of Canada's longest serving Members of Parliament, providing the perspective of a practicing politician; and theologian C. E. B. Cranfield on the New Testament's teaching.

Author : Greg Forster
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830879099
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contested Public Square written by Greg Forster and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2010-02-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian thinking about involvement in human government was not born (or born again!) with the latest elections or with the founding of the Moral Majority in 1979. The history of Christian political thinking goes back to the first decades of the church's existence under persecution. Building on biblical foundations, that thinking has developed over time. This book introduces the history of Christian political thought traced out in Western culture--a culture experiencing the dissolution of a long-fought-for consensus around natural law theory. Understanding our current crisis, where there is little agreement and often opposing views about how to maintain both religious freedom and liberal democracy, requires exploring how we got where we are. Greg Forster tells that backstory with deft discernment and clear insight. He offers this retrospective not only to inform but also to point the way beyond the current impasse in the contested public square. Illuminated by sidebars on key moments in history, major figures and questions for further consideration, this book will significantly inform Christian scholars' and students' reading and interpretation of history.

Author : Dan Arthur Pryor
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1637645961
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scripture Letters in the Public Square written by Dan Arthur Pryor and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book The Biblical value of revealed religion and subsequent morality have no equal when properly used to instruct and guide all on Earth to our eternal life. Scripture Letters in the Public Square is a compilation of letters designed to religiously inform the public through the secular media of newspapers, where the general public can read about moral issues from Biblical and religious standpoints. Written from the Catholic perspective, some issues covered are abortion, religious freedom and homosexuality. Scripture Letters in the Public Square is a follow-up book to the author’s first book: Bible Letters to the Public Editor. About the Author Although not a public orator on the subjects, Dan Arthur Pryor has spent countless hours discussing and debating religion and morality with almost anyone he encounters when the moment seems right. Though all vary in their theology—or lack thereof—he finds all groups are interesting to engage with: children, brothers, sisters, cousins, friends, neighbors, strangers, fellow Catholics, Protestants, Jehovah Witness, agnostics, atheists, liberals, conservatives, and so on. The author has been pursuing these efforts since the age of 52.