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Connecting Jesus to Social Justice argues a doctrinally traditional, orthodox basis for Christian participation in the public sphere on behalf of social justice. The book addresses a situation internal to churches in the U.S. from a Catholic perspective yet not without analogies in other churches and Christian movements. This book is a contributive, as well as distributive, idea of social justice from Catholic social teaching. The chapters take into account discussion on the public sphere and propose a theologically-principled, ecumenical and interreligious public for social justice

"This book offers a postfoundationalist comparative method, emerging from the Indian-Christian minority perspective, to affirm religious diversity and parity among religions. It upholds the particularity and universality of faith assertions across religions in dialogue by defining each religion's attempt at their revealed truth as a parallel quest"--

This book offers a postfoundationalist comparative method, emerging from the Indian-Christian minority perspective, to affirm religious diversity and parity among religions. It upholds the particularity and universality of faith assertions across religions in dialogue by defining each religion's attempt at their revealed truth as a parallel quest.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword by Hans Kolstad -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One Are Demons Real?-Personal Experiences -- Chapter Two How are Demons Created? Earth Radiation -- Chapter Three How to Stop or Prevent the Demonic Effects of Earth Radiation -- Chapter Four How Do We Free or Defend Ourselves from Demons? -- Addendum -- Spiritual beings and drugs -- Poltergeists -- Conclusion -- Afterword by Phil Rogers -- Acknowledgements.

This book analyses Christian presentations of Christ for Muslims in the most creative periods of Christian-Muslim dialogue, the first half of the ninth century and the second half of the twentieth century. In these two periods, Christians made serious attempts to present their faith in Christ in terms that take into account Muslim perceptions of him, with a view toward bridging the gap between Muslim and Christian convictions

Reflections on God, Christ and cosmos in the writings of Paul and the Pauline School show that these authors were familiar with important notions from Graeco-Roman cosmology and theology. George van Kooten comes to the conclusion that they might even have adopted a way of thinking in which Judaism and Graeco-Roman cosmology were forged into a new synthesis, and Christ was viewed as a cosmic god. In this development, Paul and the authors of the Pauline School took up various positions which were all represented in contemporary discussions about God and cosmos in the philosophical schools. Against this background this study also sheds new light on the specific relationship between Colossians and Ephesians.

Introduction : the centrality of rights -- Jesus Christ and the hope of rights -- Rights, cultures, and transcendence : ambiguity and tension -- Human rights, history and Christology -- The hermeneutics of rights in the history of interpretation -- Christology in human rights focus : towards a humane christology -- Christology in relation to global human rights strategy -- Rights reconsidered : building a postfoundational pathway -- Christology for human rights -- Making rights stick.

An Evaluation Of Hick's Philosophy Of Religious PluralismEpistemological Methodology; Nonpropositional Epistemology; Transcendental Agnosticism; Doctrinal Reductionism; Conclusion; 3 Hick's Theology of Religious Pluralism; Introduction; Hick's Deconstruction of Traditional Christology; The Jesus of History and the Origins of Christology; Two-Natures Christologies; Historical Side-Effects of the Incarnation Dogma; The Doctrine of the Atonement; Hick's Reconstructino of a new Christology; Conclusion; 4 An Evaluation of Hick's Historical Arguments ; Historical Methodology.

A. Theology and HIV -- B. Christology, mission and HIV -- C. Theological formation and HIV