Prayer as a Political Problem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prayer as a Political Problem write by Jean Danielou. This book was released on 2021-03-18. Prayer as a Political Problem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Civilization and Christianity depend heavily upon one another. There is no true civilization which is not religious; nor can there be a healthy religion among a populace which is not supported by civilization. Today, too many Christians see no inconsistency in the juxtaposition of a private religion and an irreligious society, nor do they perceive how ruinous this is for both society and religion. But how are society and religion to be joined without either making religion a tool of the secular power, or the secular power a tool of religion?
Prayer as a Political Problem
Prayer as a Political Problem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prayer as a Political Problem write by Jean Daniélou. This book was released on 1967. Prayer as a Political Problem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Prayer
Prayer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prayer write by Jean Daniélou. This book was released on 1996. Prayer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Catholic scholar Jean Danielou considers the centrality of prayer for the Christian layperson, developing the insight that the active, missionary dimension of the Christian life is in fact the "self-unfolding" of contemplation.
The Myth of a Christian Nation
The Myth of a Christian Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Myth of a Christian Nation write by Gregory A. Boyd. This book was released on 2009-05-18. The Myth of a Christian Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The church was established to serve the world with Christ-like love, not to rule the world. It is called to look like a corporate Jesus, dying on the cross for those who crucified him, not a religious version of Caesar. It is called to manifest the kingdom of the cross in contrast to the kingdom of the sword. Whenever the church has succeeded in gaining what most American evangelicals are now trying to get – political power – it has been disastrous both for the church and the culture. Whenever the church picks up the sword, it lays down the cross. The present activity of the religious right is destroying the heart and soul of the evangelical church and destroying its unique witness to the world. The church is to have a political voice, but we are to have it the way Jesus had it: by manifesting an alternative to the political, “power over,” way of doing life. We are to transform the world by being willing to suffer for others – exercising “power under,” not by getting our way in society – exercising “power over.”
Where the Light Fell
Where the Light Fell - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Where the Light Fell write by Philip Yancey. This book was released on 2023-03-14. Where the Light Fell available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this searing meditation on the bonds of family and the allure of extremist faith, one of today’s most celebrated Christian writers recounts his unexpected journey from a strict fundamentalist upbringing to a life of compassion and grace—a revelatory memoir that “invites comparison to Hillbilly Elegy” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). “Searing, heartrending . . . This stunning tale reminds us that the only way to keep living is to ask God for the impossible: love, forgiveness, and hope.”—Kate Bowler, New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason Raised by an impoverished widow who earned room and board as a Bible teacher in 1950s Atlanta, Philip Yancey and his brother, Marshall, found ways to venture out beyond the confines of their eight-foot-wide trailer. But when Yancey was in college, he uncovered a shocking secret about his father’s death—a secret that began to illuminate the motivations that drove his mother to extreme, often hostile religious convictions and a belief that her sons had been ordained for a divine cause. Searching for answers, Yancey dives into his family origins, taking us on an evocative journey from the backwoods of the Bible Belt to the bustling streets of Philadelphia; from trailer parks to church sanctuaries; from family oddballs to fire-and-brimstone preachers and childhood awakenings through nature, music, and literature. In time, the weight of religious and family pressure sent both sons on opposite paths—one toward healing from the impact of what he calls a “toxic faith,” the other into a self-destructive spiral. Where the Light Fell is a gripping family narrative set against a turbulent time in post–World War II America, shaped by the collision of Southern fundamentalism with the mounting pressures of the civil rights movement and Sixties-era forces of social change. In piecing together his fragmented personal history and his search for redemption, Yancey gives testament to the enduring power of our hunger for truth and the possibility of faith rooted in grace instead of fear. “I truly believe this is the one book I was put on earth to write,” says Yancey. “So many of the strands from my childhood—racial hostility, political division, culture wars—have resurfaced in modern form. Looking back points me forward.”
