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The world-wide aspects of Christianity -- The world-wide effects of Christianity -- Christian theism, as the basis of a universal religion -- The universal book -- The universal man and Saviour -- The historic character of Christianity as confirming its claims to world-wide authority -- The World's first parliament of religions. ; Mode of access: Internet.

A new conversation /Earl D. Bland and Brad D. Strawn --Tradition-based integration /Ron Wright, Paul Jones, and Brad D. Strawn --Contemporary Freudian psychoanalysis /Brad D. Strawn --Ecumenical spirituality, Catholic theology and object relations theory : a threefold cord holding sacred space /Theresa Tisdale --Self psychology and Christian experience /Earl D. Bland --Intersubjective systems theory /Mitchell W. Hicks --Relational psychoanalysis /Lowell W. Hoffman --Attachment-based psychoanalytic therapy and Christianity : being in relation /Todd W. Hall and Lauren E. Maltby --Psychoanalytic couples therapy : an introduction and integration /Earl D. Bland --Brief dynamic psychotherapy /Michael W. Mangis --Christianity and psychoanalysis : final thoughts /Brad D. Strawn and Earl D. Bland.

To the Victorians, the Chinese were invariably "inscrutable." The meaning and provenance of this impression—and, most importantly, its workings in nineteenth-century Protestant missionary encounters with Chinese religion—are at the center of Eric Reinders's Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies, an enlightening look at how missionaries' religious identity, experience, and physical foreignness produced certain representations of China between 1807 and 1937. Reinders first introduces the imaginative world of Victorian missionaries and outlines their application of mind-body dualism to the dualism of self and other. He then explores Western views of the Chinese language, especially ritual language, and Chinese ritual, particularly the kow-tow. His work offers surprising and valuable insight into the visceral nature of the Victorian response to the Chinese—and, more generally, into the nineteenth-century Western representation of China

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: American Babylon? -- Part I: Elective affinities: Christianity and democracy in Western history -- 1 Is democracy Christian? -- Prologue: "elective affinities" -- Christian ethics and democratic politics -- The four layers of Western democracy -- Republican democracy -- Representative democracy -- Liberal democracy -- The fourth layer: social democracy -- Conclusion: democracy and religion -- Note -- References -- 2 Is Christianity democratic? -- Ancient Israel: covenants and kings

The book makes a decisive contribution to debates about the clash between Islam and the West, arguing that the major threat to religious freedoms comes from secularism, and that Islam and Christianity both have the resources to develop a vibrant and pluralist "public square" informed by intellectual debate. By engaging with the core questions and suggesting a pathway through the various answers that have been proposed in recent years, this is an ideal introduction to the field, and one which will help stimulate ideas and discussions

Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- The first word : to be human is to be free / Desmond M. Tutu -- Introduction / John Witte, Jr. -- The Judaic foundations of rights / David Novak -- Ius in Roman law / Charles Donahue -- Human rights and early Christianity / David Aune -- Human rights in the canon law / R.H. Helmholz -- The modern Catholic church and human rights : the impact of the second Vatican Council / J. Bryan Hehir -- Rights and liberties in early modern Protestantism : the example of Calvinism / John Witte, Jr. -- Modern Protestant developments in human rights / Nicholas P. Wolterstorff -- The issue of human rights in Byzantium and the Orthodox Christian tradition / John A. McGuckin -- The human rights system / T. Jeremy Gunn -- The image of God : rights, reason, and order / Jeremy Waldron -- Religion and equality / Kent Greenawalt -- Proselytism and human rights / Silvio Ferrari -- Religious liberty, church autonomy, and the structure of freedom / Richard W. Garnett -- Christianity and the rights of children : an integrative view / Don Browning -- Christianity and the rights of women / M. Christian Green -- Christianity, human rights, and a theology that touches the ground / Robert A. Seiple -- A right to clean water / John Copeland Nagle -- The final word : can Christianity contribute to a global civil religion? / Robert N. Bellah

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of key issues in contemporary global migration and considers the theological implications for Christianity, in general, and for Christian faith and practice in various parts of the world, in particular. Migrant Christians, who make up the majority of believers on the move and in diaspora, play an increasingly vital role in world Christianity today. Drawing on cases from across the globe, Gemma Tulud Cruz considers how Christians are faced with immense gifts and tremendous challenges brought by the ever-increasing presence of migrants in their midst and the conditions that characterize contemporary global migration. Migrant Christians themselves face multiple challenges, which have been made more stark by the coronavirus pandemic. The volume will be relevant to scholars of religion and of migration who are interested in a closer examination of what happens to Christians and Christianity, (faith) communities, and nation-states in the age of migration.

Part VII.Christian bioethics. --Shaping human life at the molecular level /James C. Peterson --An inclusive framework for stem cell research /John F. Kilner --The problem of transhumanism in the light of philosophy and theology /Philippe Gagnon --Ecology and the environment /Lisa H. Sideris --Part VIII.Metaphysical implications. --Free will and rational choice /E.J. Lowe --Science, religion, and infinity /Graham Oppy --God and abstract objects /William Lane Craig --Laws of nature /Lydia Jaeger --Part IV.The mind. --Christianity, neuroscience, and dualism /J.P. Moreland --The emergence of persons /William Hasker --Christianity and the extended-mind thesis /Lynne Rudder Baker --In whose image?Artificial intelligence and the Imago Dei /Noreen Herzfeld --How science lost its soul, and religion handed it back /Julian Baggini --Part X.Theology. --The Trinity and scientific reality /John Polkinghorne --God and miracle in an age of science /Alan G. Padgett --Eschatology in science and theology /Robert John Russell --The quest for transcendence in theology and cosmology /Alexei V. Nesteruk --Part XI.Significant figures of the twentieth century in science and Christianity. --Pierre Teilhard de Chardin /James F. Salmon --Thomas F. Torrance /Tapio Luoma --Arthur Peacocke /Taede A. Smedes --Ian G. Barbour /Nathan J. Hallanger --Wolfhart Pannenberg /Hans Schwarz --John Polkinghorne /Christopher C. Knight.

Why did 81 percentof white evangelicals vote for Donald Trump in 2016? And what does this tell us about the relationship between Christianity and democracy in the United States? American Babylon places our present political moment against a deep historical backdrop. In Part I the author traces the development of democratic institutions from Ancient Greece through to the American Revolution and of Christian political theology from Augustine to Falwell. Part II charts the decline of democratic governance within American churches; explains the capture of evangelical Christianity by the Republican Party; and denounces the fateful embrace between white Christian nationalists and right-wing populists that culminated in Trump's victory. An accessible and timely book, American Babylon is essential reading for those concerned with the vexed relationship of religion and politics in the United States, including students and scholars in the fields of divinity, history, political science, religious studies, and sociology.

Current debates on Nazism and religion are focused around the notion that the Nazis sought to promote a kind of Christian faith called "positive Christianity". This article challenges such perspectives. It establishes that "positive Christianity" had an existing meaning in German society before the Nazi Party was formed — dogmatic Christian faith — and demonstrates that this was the same interpretation of religious faith that Hitler appeared to advocate in Mein Kampf. By contrast to recent revisionist accounts, the paper argues that "positive Christianity" had such a wide variety of interpretations that it cannot be considered as a cohesive construct.