The Provocative Church

Reducere. Is the Church too negative about sex? Beginning with this provocative question, Fr. Lawrence Farley explores the history of the Church's attitude t...

Description: A visionary book for the emergent church. The church must be like water--flexible, fluid, changeable. This book is a vision for how th...

Reducere. In this provocative book, author, consultant, and church leadership developer Reggie McNeal debunks these and other old assumptions and provides an...

Reducere. What does it mean to be an Anglican? And Evangelical? Can these two identities be held together with integrity? Where the church seems to be fragme...

Reducere. The provocative title of these essays plays on a traditional Catholic slogan: 'no salvation outside the church'. But as Jon Sobrino notes, salvatio...

Reducere. In this bold and provocative invitation, Martyn Percy imagines what the post-pandemic Church might look like and sets out what it needs to learn. I...

Reducere. The author picks up the story of Lyra Belaqua where it left off in The Subtle Knife. In the most provocative installment yet, Lyra finds herself at...

Reducere. The questions in Seeing the World with Catholic Eyes are meant to elicit provocative answers. The book begins with an exploration of his early life...

Reducere. NEW 2015 UPDATE]. Written by a genuine "Insider, " this is the true story of one of the most frightening "invasions" in the history of the church -...

Reducere. We are in the midst of a paradigm shift in the church. Not since the Reformation five centuries ago have so many Christians come together to ask wh...

The Pauline epistles are filled with beautiful and provocative metaphors for the church: it is a bride, a body, a flock, a temple. Each of these me...

Complete with a provocative new chapter for this revised edition of his popular autobiography, Lesslie Newbigin describes the breadth and depth of ...

Reducere. How do communities consent to difference? How do they recognize and create the space and time necessary for the differences and disabilities of tho...

Reducere. In this honest, timely and provocative book, Jarel Robinson-Brown argues that there is deeper work to be done if the body of Christ is going to ful...

Reducere. HERE ARE THE ORIGINAL TEACHINGS OF THE CHRIST BANNED FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS, NOW MADE AVAILABLE FOR DISSEMINATION TO THE PUBLIC FOR THE FIRST TIME....

Reducere. "The title Are You a Christian or a Disciple? boldly addresses a question that has ultimate implications for every Christ Follower, and which God s...

"Bold and provocative... Regenesis tells of recent advances that may soon yield endless supplies of renewable energy, increased longevity and the r...

Reducere. Pointing to the many contradictions between the Bible and the practice of the church, Jacques Ellul asserts in this provocative and stimulating boo...

Reducere. Originally a pamphlet published in 1853, The Two Babylons is Hislop's most famous work. In this book he argues that the Roman Catholic Church is no...

Reducere. For Pagans and Christians alike, Jesus Through Pagan Eyes offers a provocative portrait ofJesus--as a compassionate, life-affirming, nature-inspire...

Reducere. The Grand Inquisitor's Manual by nationally bestselling author Jonathan Kirsch is a provocative popular history of the Inquisition, the 12th centur...

Reducere. DescriptionThis provocative account of the persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s tells the stories of eight pivotal p...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alexander HislopOriginally a pamphlet published in 1853, The Two Babylons is Hislop's most famous work. In this book he arg...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: R. Paul StevensThroughout history the church has been composed of two types of people-those who "do" ministry and those to ...

Reducere. "One thing in this world is different from all other. It has a personality and a force. It is recognized and (when recognized) most violently loved...

Reducere. In this provocative work, which could not be timelier, Garry Wills, one of our country's most noted writers and historians, offers a powerful state...

Reducere. In the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Fuller Seminary theologian William Pannell decried the then-popular sentiment among white evangelicals t...

DescriptionSecond Edition Goodbye Jesus is the step-by-step account of a former minister's journey into and out of faith-the story of a long pendul...

DescriptionMany people find themselves asking, "Is this it?" "We all read about the life Jesus describes and are painfully aware that our lives don...

Reducere. In this provocative new book, respected Canadian journalist David Cayley compiles and reflects upon the thoughts of Ivan Illich, one of the 20th ce...

Reducere. There Are No Strong People asks: Is it possible to be hugely blessed by God - and still make a mess of your life? What is it we really all crave? D...

Reducere. "Noone raises provocative questions about Christianity more kindly than PhilipGulley. " --Diana Butler Bass, author of Christianity for the Rest of...

Reducere. Questions reveal a lot about the person who asks them. The Gospels record many questions asked by Jesus during his three years of ministry on earth...

Reducere. The book of Daniel is concerned with religious persecution. Daniel's message in this apocalyptic text, however, assures that God will deliver those...

Reducere. Have Christians compromised their stand on truth and morality until there is almost nothing they will speak out against? Has the evangelical church...

Reducere. Can real change happen in the human soul? Is it possible to have truly healthy relationships? Is psychology something that can help us see reality ...

Reducere. DescriptionWith A Cajun Journey, C. Marshall Turner has masterfully woven a tale of love, life, and heartbreak set in the depths of Louisiana Cajun...

Reducere. Bellwether Prize winner Hillary Jordan's provocative new novel, When She Woke, tells the story of a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an Ame...

Reducere. After 13 years and 50 Issues, OTO Grand Lodge of Australia is making its member-only OZ magazine available to the public in this 'best of' compilat...

Walter Moberly is a top Old Testament theologian known for his creative, accessible, and provocative writing. His Old Testament Theology has been w...

Following his well-received Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition, Craig Carter presents the biblical and theological foundations of trin...

Reducere. The Rev. John Wesley (1703-1791), the founder of the Methodist Church, was an enthusiastic preacher for the Lord, a prolific writer, and a prestigi...

Reducere. DescriptionWhy worship? In this superb new collection of essays, lay people, clergy, poets, theologians, musicians, novelists, and scholars offer p...

Reducere. A country bitterly divided between two political parties. Populist mobs rising in support of a reactionary rabble-rouser. Foreign interference in t...

Reducere. Deepens and refreshes our view of early Christianity while casting a disturbing light on the evolution of the attitudes passed down to us. How did ...

Reducere. In the 1980's, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie wrote a meditation on clothing as an expression of history, social status and indiv...

DescriptionA major new account of the most intensely creative years of Luther's careerThe Making of Martin Luther takes a provocative look at the i...

Reducere. DescriptionA "beast" and a "dinosaur" to some, an "extremist" to the mainstream Church and media, and a hero to loving and loyal admirers, Bishop R...

Set in the 1960s in an Oxford college, when being gay was still an offence punishable by imprisonment, 'Sandel' tells the story of a love affair be...

Reducere. This personal and provocative look at poverty in America is shaped around the author's own engaging stories, song lyrics, and poems, including the ...

Reducere. DescriptionA provocative, must-read investigation that both appreciates the importance of--and punctures the hype around--big-time contemporary Ame...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe crafts a provocative story set in the Depression-era Deep South about a woman determined to get the l...

Reducere. What if racial reconciliation doesn't look like what you expected? The high-profile killings of young black men and women by white police officers,...

Within a changing social and political context, the role of the church in public life and the response of Christians to social issues has taken on ...

Reducere. A fresh account of the life of Martin Luther The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the ...

Reducere. As nationalism, patriarchy, and alt-right fear-mongering threaten our troubled nation, the pulpit has again become a subversive space of sacred res...

Reducere. "Saints are made by good conversions." In this challenging and provocative book, Gordon T. Smith contends that a chief cause of spiritual immaturit...

Reducere. This book seeks to explain the ways in which Anglicans have sought to practise theology in their various contexts. It is a clear, insightful, and r...

Reducere. A "provocative and seductive debut" of desire and doubleness that follows the life of a young Palestinian American woman caught between cultural, r...

Reducere. "Searing and sensationally funny... As raw in its language and raucous in spirit as it is smart and provocative." The New York Times"Funny, smutty ...

Reducere. It's the end of the world as we know it...Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are. And liberals...

From one of the leading historians of Christianity comes this sweeping reassessment of religious freedom, from the church fathers to John Locke "Ro...

Reducere. Biserica ta face ucenici... care fac ucenici... care la randul lor fac ucenici?Numarul membrilor din biserica ta scade?E timpul sa-ti reexaminezi m...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Roman law you were what you wore. This legal principle became highly significant because, beginning in the first century A.D., a "new...

Reducere. In this provocative new book from prophetic preacher and pastor Susan Williams Smith, the author tackles the truths that the church in the United S...

Reducere. In 1968 Miguel "Mickey" Melendez was a college student, developing pride in his Cuban and Puerto Rican cultural identity and becoming increasingly ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the tradition of Gone Girl and Behind Closed Doors comes a gripping, twisted, furiously clever read that demands your attention, and ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe promise of Eternal life has been a clarion call to the Saints for centuries, rousing them to action and heroic virtue. They knew tha...

Reducere. The penetrating and provocative question "What would Jesus do?" in all of life's complex situations, is the central theme of this book. It is the s...

Reducere. DescriptionGod boldly proclaims throughout the book of Acts, "There is no ethnic home team when it comes to Christianity." But the minority experie...