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"A little over half a century ago, there came about a remarkable change in the Catholic Church's attitude to the Jewish people. Once an accursed nation, responsible for the death of the Redeemer, Jews became the blessed elder brother of Christianity. Nostra Aetate traces the process of this revolutionary change in detail, through its primary Catholic and Jewish sources"--

Tam Yee Lak, Eric. ; "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2002-2003, design report." ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Chapter 00 --- Contents ; Chapter 01 --- Introduction ; Chapter 011 --- Political Considerations ; Chapter 012 --- Perception & Expression ; Chapter 013 --- Experiencing Christianity ; Chapter 014 --- Tectonic Analysis ; Chapter 02 --- Precedent Studies ; Chapter 021 --- Readings- Early Christian Architecture ; Chapter 022 --- Christian Architecture for Hong Kong Today ; Chapter 023 --- Readings- Contemporary Christian Architecture ; Chapter 024 --- Subject of Thesis ; Chapter 025 --- Interview with a Local Pastor ; Chapter 03 --- Site issues ; Chapter 031 --- Site Searching ; Chapter 032 --- Site Selection ; Chapter 033 --- Site Analysis ; Chapter 04 --- Design Process ; Chapter 041 --- Studies of Program ; Chapter 042 --- Development of Design ; Chapter 043 --- Final Drawings ; Chapter 05 --- Detail Studies ; Chapter 051 --- Light Intensity ; Chapter 052 --- Colour of Reflection ; Chapter 053 --- Materials ; Chapter 054 --- Chapel Construction

AbstractBackgroundA limited number of studies have explored religion's role in the intimate lives of adults with intellectual disabilities. This paper illustrates how religion, both of disabled people and those around them (e.g., family members, support workers), can shape the attitudes and experiences of disabled people toward sexuality.MethodThis paper draws on in‐depth interviews with adults with intellectual disabilities and support workers from two exploratory projects in Canada.ResultsParticipants with intellectual disabilities talked about how religion provided a network that served to counter their social isolation and a pool of potential intimate partners, as well as some guidance for maintaining relationships. Support workers discussed the influence of organisational values in their practices related to sexuality.ConclusionsReligion shapes disabled sexualities in various ways, sometimes supporting or constraining sexual expression. This paper invites disability scholars to consider religion when researching the intimate lives of disabled people.

FOR MANY PEOPLE, CHRISTIAN ECUMENISM REMAINS A MYSTERY. ECUMENISM OFFICIALLY BEGAN WITH THE 1910 WORLD MISSIONARY CONFERENCE IN EDINBURG BY OPENING A DIALOGUE BETWEEN PROTESTANT AND ORTHODOX CHURCHES ON QUESTIONS OF THEOLOGY AND PRACTICE. ORGINALLY ECUMENISM SERVED AS A "CIVILIZING MISSION" TO UNITE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND FULFILL THEIR RELIGIOUS DUTIES WITHIN WESTERN COLONIALISM. THIS WORLDWIDE RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT HAS PROVIDED BOTH PROMISE AND CONFLICT FOR ITS CONSTITUENT DENOMINATIONS AND PERIPHERAL NON-CHRISTIAN CULTURES. ECEMENISTS HAVE DRAWN BOTH PRAISE AND CONDEMNATION FOR THEIR SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, AND RELIGIOUS WORK.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The Unity and Trinity of God: Christian Doctrinal Development in Response to the Challenge of Islam-An Historical Perspective -- 2. Abu Ra'ita al-Takrıtı and God's Divine Pedagogy -- 3. Apology or Its Evasion?: Some Ninth-Century Arabic Christian Texts on Discerning the True Religion -- 4. Christian Theology in Conversation with Judaism and Islam: How Theologians of the Period Engaged with Non-Christian Sources and Traditions -- 5. The Missing Peace of Evangelical Missiology: Peacemaking and Respectful Witness -- 6. In Search of New Approaches to Inter- and Intra-Religious Christian and Muslim Debates -- Back Cover.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The Unity and Trinity of God: Christian Doctrinal Development in Response to the Challenge of Islam-An Historical Perspective -- 2. Abu Ra'ita al-Takrıtı and God's Divine Pedagogy -- 3. Apology or Its Evasion?: Some Ninth-Century Arabic Christian Texts on Discerning the True Religion -- 4. Christian Theology in Conversation with Judaism and Islam: How Theologians of the Period Engaged with Non-Christian Sources and Traditions -- 5. The Missing Peace of Evangelical Missiology: Peacemaking and Respectful Witness -- 6. In Search of New Approaches to Inter- and Intra-Religious Christian and Muslim Debates -- Back Cover.

"Although Christians form a significant proportion of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel, very little research has, until now, been undertaken to examine their complicated position within Israel. This book demonstrates the limits of analyses which characterise state-minority relations in Israel in terms of a so-called Jewish-Muslim conflict, and of studies which portray Palestinian Christians as part of a wider exclusively religious-based transnational Christian community. This book locates its analysis of Palestinian Christians within a broader understanding of Israel as a Jewish ethnocratic state. It describes the main characteristics of the Palestinian Christian community in Israel and examines a number of problematic assumptions which have been made about them and their relationship to the state. Finally, it examines a number of intra-communal conflicts which have taken place in recent years between Christians and Muslims, and between Christians and Druze, and probes the role which the state and various state attitudes have played in influencing or determining those conflicts and, as a result, the general status of Palestinian Christians in Israel today"--Page 4 of cover