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| Introduction for the Teacher | |
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| Note to Students | |
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| Biblical and Historical Background for Christianity | |
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| God as Revealed in the Bible | |
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| Revelation and Religious Experience | |
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| The Bible | |
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| Spirituality Immanence and Transcendence: The Paradox of God | |
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| God as Creator | |
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| God as Provident | |
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| Controversy Creating the Creator: Inspiration at Work | |
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| The Story of Abraham | |
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| The Story of Moses | |
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| The People of the Covenant | |
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| Concept Contracts with God: Covenant Theology | |
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| People King David | |
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| The People in Exile | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Focal Points for Discussion | |
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| The Context for and Life of Jesus | |
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| Jewish Interpretation of the Exile | |
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| Hellenization and the Jews | |
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| Jewish Hopes for a Kingdom of God | |
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| Concept Living on the Edge of Time: Apocalypticism | |
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| The Jews Divided | |
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| The Sadducees | |
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| The Pharisees | |
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| People The Prophets and Messiahs of the First Century | |
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| The Essenes | |
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| The Zealots | |
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| Ordinary Jews | |
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| Summary of the Context | |
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| The Life of Jesus | |
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| The Account of Jesus in the New Testament | |
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| The Gospels | |
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| Controversy What Books are Authentic? The Formation of the New Testament | |
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| The Epistles | |
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| The Book of Revelation | |
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| Jesus and Jewish Expectation | |
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| Spirituality Experiencing God: From Moses to Philo | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Focal Points for Discussion | |
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| The Emergence of the Christian Church | |
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| The Experience of the Apostles | |
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| Internal Conflicts in the Early Church | |
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| Universality of the Gospel | |
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| Authority and Doctrine | |
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| People Women in the Early Church | |
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| Law and Freedom in the Spirit | |
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| External Conflicts of the Early Community | |
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| The Jewish Context and Religious Identity | |
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| Controversy Salvation Through Knowledge: Gnosticism | |
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| The Greek Context and Philosophical Identity | |
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| Concept The Divinity of Jesus | |
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| The Roman Context and Political Identity | |
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| Spirituality Experience of the Holy Spirit: Inspiration and Renewal | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Focal Points for Discussion | |
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| Historical Roots of Christian Diversity: From Constantine to Modern Times | |
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| Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholicism: From the Fourth to the Fourteenth Centuries | |
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| Points of Correspondence | |
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| Tradition as a Religious Authority | |
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| Models of Sanctity | |
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| Concept Monasticism and the Resistance to Culture | |
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| The Power of Rome as an Idea: Two Christian Models | |
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| Constantinople as the New Rome: The Greek Orthodox System | |
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| The West as Roman Catholic: The Rise of the Papacy | |
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| The East-West Schism and Contemporary Relations | |
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| Controversy How Can Christ be Both Divine and Human? | |
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| Liturgy and Doctrine in the Two Churches | |
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| Icons and Divinization: The Orthodox Perspective | |
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| Survival and Salvation: The Roman Perspective | |
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| Spirituality Contemplating the Hidden God | |
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| Medieval Christianity in the West | |
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| People Thomas Aquinas | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Focal Points for Discussion | |
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| Aspects of the Reformation | |
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| The Historical Situation | |
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| Spirituality Imitation of Christ | |
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| Religious Reform Before Luther | |
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| Reforms of Wycliffe and Hus | |
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| Conciliarism | |
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| Humanism and the Renaissance | |
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| People Erasmus: Faithful Humanist | |
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| The Protestant Reformation | |
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| The Lutheran Reformation | |
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| The Reformed Tradition | |
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| Concept Making Saints Out of Sinners: Justification | |
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| The Tudor Reformation | |
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| The Radical Reformation | |
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| The Catholic Reformation | |
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| Controversy Soldiers of the Catholic Reformation: The Jesuits | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Focal Points for Discussion | |
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| The Reformation Continues: Christianity in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries | |
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| Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Christianity: Increasing Diversity | |
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| Roman Catholicism | |
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| Lutheranism | |
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| Radical Reformation | |
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| The Reformed Tradition in the Context of the Puritan Reformation | |
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| Summary of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Christianity | |
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| The Eighteenth Century: Resettlement and Reformation | |
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| The Scientific Revolution | |
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| The Enlightenment and the Beginnings of Deism | |
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| Controversy Science and Religion: The Trial of Galileo | |
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| Pietism and the Emergence of New Christian Churches | |
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| Spirituality Searching for Sanctification | |
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| The American Context | |
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| People The Genius of the Great Awakening: Jonathan Edwards | |
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| The Great Awakening | |
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| Concept Deism and the American Revolution | |
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| Deism in America | |
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| Growing Denominationalism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Focal Points for Discussion | |
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| Christianity in the Modern World: Context and Creativity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | |
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| Christianity and Modernity | |
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| Secularization: The New Philosophy and Politics | |
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| Controversy Creationism: Christianity and Science | |
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| Challenges to Secularization | |
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| Spirituality God in a Scientific Age | |
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| Roman Catholicism and Modernity | |
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| People Unorthodox Humanitarian: Albert Schweitzer | |
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| Protestantism and Modernity | |
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| Pietism and American Evangelicalism | |
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| The Oxford Movement | |
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| The Biblical Movement | |
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| Christianity and Social Concern | |
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| Concept The Modern Economy: Christians and the Rights of Workers | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Focal Points for Discussion | |
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| Modern American Christianity | |
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| The Nineteenth Century: American Religious Diversity | |
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| American Evangelicalism | |
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| Liberal Protestantism | |
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| Communitarian Groups | |
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| Concept Political Christianity: The Double Legacy of Reinhold Niebuhr | |
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| Millennialist Groups | |
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| People Ellen Gould White: Prophet and Sabbatarian | |
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| New American Religions | |
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| Americanization and the Churches | |
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| Growth and Division Within Christian Churches | |
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| Spirituality Religion at Home and at Work: Jesus the Friend and Businessman | |
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| Summary of Nineteenth-Century Christianity | |
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| The Twentieth Century Previewed | |
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| Fundamentalism Versus Liberalism: The Battle of the Century | |
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| Controversy Politicized Preaching: The Stirring Vision of Aimee Semple Mcpherson | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Focal Points for Discussion | |
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| Worldwide Christianity: Missions, Ecumenism, and Globalization | |
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| Understanding the Missionary Impulse | |
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| A Jesuit in China | |
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| The New World | |
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| Protestant Missionaries in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Modern Missionaries and Liberation Theology | |
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| Concept Mission in Reverse | |
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| People Modern Missionaries in Danger: Four Women in el Salvador | |
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| Globalization and the Rise of World Christianity | |
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| The Ecumenical Movement | |
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| The Rise of Christianity in the Southern Hemisphere | |
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| Spirituality Our Lady of Guadalupe | |
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| Transnational Connections and New Conflicts | |
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| Controversy Word of Faith: Holy Spirit or Holy Fraud? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Focal Points for Discussion | |
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| Contemporary Christian Life | |
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| Christians and the World | |
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| Withdrawn Communities | |
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| Physical Withdrawal: Monastic Communities | |
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| Cultural Withdrawal: The Amish | |
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| Concept An Alternative to Vengeance: The Amish School Shooting | |
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| Psychological Withdrawal: Millennialist Christians | |
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| Spirituality The Fear and Reassurance of Judgment | |
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| Summary of Withdrawn Communities | |
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| Dominating Postures | |
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| Political Domination | |
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| People Jim Wallis: Left-Wing Evangelical Politics | |
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| Financial Domination | |
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| Summary of Dominating Postures | |
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| Controversy Gender Divisions and Promise Keepers | |
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| Questions Raised by the Postures of Withdrawal and Domination | |
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| In What Sense Is Christianity Political? | |
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| What Is the Church? | |
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| What Is the Christian Vision of Jesus? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Focal Points for Discussion | |
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| Christians and Their Culture | |
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| The Posture of Adaptation | |
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| Concept A Matter of Inclusion: Cesar Chavez and Mexican American Catholicism | |
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| The Posture of Nonconformity | |
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| Relationship of the Two Postures to Vital Issues | |
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| Controversy Iconoclastic Antiwar Protests | |
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| Problems of War and Peace | |
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| Problems of Poverty and Lifestyle | |
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| Problems of Racism | |
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| People Martin Luther King Jr.: Nonconformity and Social Change | |
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| Questions Raised by the Postures of Nonconformity and Adaptation | |
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| In What Sense Is Christianity Political? | |
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| What Is the Church? | |
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| Spirituality Redefining the Boundaries of Faith | |
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| How Should the Bible Be Interpreted? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Focal Points for Discussion | |
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| Contemporary Christianity | |
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| Liberal and Conservative Christianity | |
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| Liberal Christianity | |
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| Spirituality Prayer: Something Understood | |
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| Conservative Christianity | |
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| Contemporary Issues | |
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| Controversy Jesus in the Culture Wars | |
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| The Women's Movement and Questions of Ministry | |
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| Concept God-Talk: Language About God | |
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| Media Technology and the Nature of the Church | |
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| Homosexuality and the Authority of Scripture | |
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| People Eboo Patel: Deliberate Engagement with Difference | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Focal Points for Discussion | |
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| The Order of the Books in the Old Testament | |
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| Synopsis of the Books of the Old and New Testaments | |
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| Early Christian Writers | |
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| Ecumenical Councils | |
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| Creeds and Confessions | |
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| A Summary of Structural Arrangements | |
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| Ecumenism and the World Council of Churches | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |