The Church in the Early Middle Ages. G.R. Evans. I.B. Tauris. [pounds sterling]19.50. xxiv + 202 pages. ISBN 978-1-84511-150-2. The Church in the Modern Age. Jeremy Morris.I.B. Tauris. [pounds sterling]19.50. xxxi + 224 pages. ISBN 978-1-84511-317-9. The Cambridge History of Christianity. Volume 2: Constantine to c. 600. Augustine Casiday and...
What importance have the Baptist World Alliance BWA and Baptist World Congresses assigned to human rights since the Alliance's first meeting in 1905? (1) And what have Baptists on a global scale said about human rights through the BWA and its Congresses? This article will identify basic trends and...
By Lamin Sanneh. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2008. Pp. xxii, 384. 60 [pounds sterling]/ $99; paperback 11.99 [pounds sterling] / $19.95. John Carman's review of Lamin Sanneh's Disciples of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity introduces both this volume and the significant series of...
Increasingly within the international development community and among religious organizations, it is argued that religious agencies offer something unique to development programs, especially to those designed to alleviate poverty. Generally, this comparative advantage is seen as forms of social capital. In fact, virtually all the world's...
SYDNEY AFP — Australians are becoming more Asian and less Christian according to the results of the latest Census released Wednesday. The population, predicted to hit 21 million by the end of the week, is also older and richer than it was on average a decade ago. While...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa AP -- Conservative Christians are planning a world evangelism summit modeled on the 1974 Lausanne Congress that at the time was considered the widest-ranging meeting of Christians ever held. The Third International Congress on World Evangelization is scheduled for Oct. 16-25 in Cape Town....
African Christianity: An African Story. Edited by Ogbu Kalu. (Department of Church History, University of Pretoria, 631 pp.) Kalu and an accomplished team of collaborators bring off in this book what has never been accomplished before--a thorough, carefully researched, interpretively rich history of Christianity in Africa written by Africans. The...
Encyclopedia of Christianity. Edited by John Bowden. Oxford University Press, 1,408pp., $125.00. TEN YEARS in the making, the new Encyclopedia of Christianity, edited by John Bowden, is a major scholarly achievement. This single volume contains 33 gateway entries to pivotal subjects; 300 major articles by distinguished authorities; 166 strategically...
* From its beginnings in 1992, Evangelicals and Catholics Together ECT has been very deliberately an unofficial project composed of a continuing working group of participants who speak from and to their several ecclesial communities. There is an acknowledged difference between Catholic and evangelical participation, in...
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Honourable Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. The International Atomic Energy Agency and I are humbled, proud, delighted and above all strengthened in our resolve by this most worthy of honours. My...
* The Christmas wars have come and gone. Until next December--or, more accurately, the start-up of the shopping season in late October. The wars received more attention than usual this time, with numerous localities dubbing Christmas trees as "holiday" trees or "winter" trees, which elicited widespread...
Hilda Neatby (1904-76), long-time professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan, came into her own during the 1950s. A member of the Massey Commission, which reported in 1951, and author of So Little for the Mind (1953), a critique of progressive education, she acquired a high profile based on...
* Bishop Hugh Latimer was preaching in Westminster Abbey before King Henry VIII. In the pulpit Latimer soliloquized, "Latimer! Latimer! Latimer! Be careful what you say. The King of England is here." Then he continued, "Latimer! Latimer! Latimer! Be careful what you say. The King of...
BY THE ASSOCIATION OF THEOLOGIANS Madrid, Sept. 11, 2005 1. Peace is one of the most precious and sought after possessions of humanity, but, at the same time, it is one of the most fragile and threatened. Following the traces of the human history, we would look for a...
* It was axiomatic for the early Fathers of the Church that "Scripture interprets Scripture." It was further understood that Christ is the Logos who speaks and is spoken of in all the words logoi of Scripture. This was a theme addressed by our Robert Louis ...
John Duncan was born in 1796 in Old Aberdeen, Scotland, to parents who were members of the Associate Presbytery, or Secession Church. When John was nine years old, he entered Aberdeen Grammar School, where from the outset he showed great interest in languages and metaphysics, the ...
WHAT IS LIBERAL MORALITY Morality means principles defining right and wrong conduct. Liberal morality is a form of modern morality. During the Axial Period there occurred a profound change in the nature of morality. In traditional or "folk-religious" ethics, to use Gustav Mensching's (1973:84) term, values "are related to...
Fundamentalist Christian Crusade At Air Force Academy Sparks Official Military InvestigationWhen Albuquerque attorney and businessman Mikey Weinstein stopped in to see his son Curtis at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs in late July of 2004, he could tell something was wrong. Normally upbeat and exuberant, the 20-year-old...
Introduction SINCE MAURICE COWLING'S CLASSIC BUT SADLY NEGLECTED STUDY 40 years ago, only Joseph Hamburger (1976, 1991, 1995, 1999) has identified the "anti-Christian theme" in the Essay on Liberty or has considered the significance for our understanding of Mill's thought as a whole of his "profound commitment to the...
* Asked to summarize his conservative philosophy, former editor Jim Nuechterlein would respond, "Change is bad." In fact, his philosophy is considerably more interesting than that, but you have to begin somewhere. As it happens, there are a number of changes in our shop and I...
