Moments to remember: brilliantly brings together moments and images of searing insight from a vast range of times, settings and emotions
Feeling good strats on the inside. From his experience as a chaplain and counselor, Dr. Miller brings stories of people who have overcome problems and started new lives.
An “open self in an open society” is the ideal which Charles Morris sets forth. America’s foremost younger philosopher describes in popular terms how modern philosophy copes with some of the major problems of today. In these pages he explores the main roads to self-knowledge, and the correlation of the individual with society. Not one to rely on mere airy speculation, Dr. Morris polled mo…
This is a book on the relationship of believing and doing. It is written in the conviction that Christian ethics is not simply a lofty set of principles as to what we ought to do but is a way of deciding things based on the unique premises of the Christian faith and a way of doing things because of the unique sources of motivation for the Christian life.
TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Post-Conciliar perspectives by Joseph Papin -- 2.) God: a pragmatic reconstruction by Eugene Fontinell -- 3.) The role of the Bible in the theology of the future by Krister Stendahl -- 4.) The meaning of Revelation by Avery Dulles -- 5.) De-Judaization and Hellenization: the ambiguities of Christian identity by Jaroslav Pelikan -- 6.) Morality: underlying and unchanging p…
The Tutankhamen exhibition draws unprecedented crowds around the world; archaeology classes at the universities are subscribed to overflowing; Margaret Mead is a household name; and Roots becomes an instant bestseller. All this testifies to the overwhelming desire we all have to know about our pasts, about the civilizations that formed us, and about the cultures that our ancestors created. Un…
Just pretending offers parents and teachers an exciting journey through the imaginative world of young children. Inside you'll find techiniques to encourage and enhance a child's imaginative play at home and in pre-school settings, along with hundreds of anecdotes of children at play. You'll also discover how imaginative play helps children: develop social skills, express creativity, acquire k…
James W. Sire explains the basics of Christians theism, deism, naturalism, nihilism, existentialism, Eastern pantheistic monism, New Age philosophy and postmodernism. This new edition includes updates throughout. But most significantly, it reflects refinements in Sire's definition and thinking about the nature of worldviews themselves, which are taken up in greater detail in the companion volum…
Mengikuti perkembangan diskusi dan penelitian terbaru, semesta pemikiran, yang telah dipakai luas dalam beragam perkuliahan, memberikan penjabaran yang ringkas dan jelas tentang dasar-dasar berbagai wawasan dunia yang paling berpengaruh saat ini, mulai dari theisme Kristen, sampai pemikiran zaman baru dan postmodernisme. Setiap wawasan dunia diuji dengan tujuh pertanyaan paling mendasar: Apakah…
"Many in the church are insulated from in-depth interaction of any kind," say Jerry and Mary White in Friends and Friendship. "We wish we could say that Christians don't experience this frustration in friendship. But we can't." God has placed within you a need for intimate companionship. When this need is unfulfilled, you're lonely. However, because of Christ's love you can deal with lonelin…