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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 | |