Author: Louis Michael Seidman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195099805
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Remnants of Belief
Author: Louis Michael Seidman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195099805
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195099805
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Remnant Christianity in a Post-Christian World
Author: W. Paul Jones
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725294869
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The contemporary Christian church is in critical decline, both in membership and finances. All attempts at reversal are failing, primarily because of the consuming socioeconomic-secular dynamic in which society is immersed in its self-destructive course. Consequently, Christian imagery is losing its conceivability and credibility, and past motivations that once encouraged belief have lost their appeal. Without these as points of contact, the demise of the institutional church will be relentless, despite all efforts to halt it. Yet, as at other crisis points in history, the divine promise has been to raise a “faithful remnant” with sufficient promise to outlast whatever the societal demise. After carefully analyzing the ingredients of our societal crisis, the author develops the contours of a “Remnant Church” to be set in place now within the present institutional churches. This necessitates distilling a vital spirituality and discerning the heart of a preservable tradition, sufficient to claim both personal and communal commitment. Thereby prepared for the long haul, the Remnant Church can emerge as a prophetic alternative.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725294869
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The contemporary Christian church is in critical decline, both in membership and finances. All attempts at reversal are failing, primarily because of the consuming socioeconomic-secular dynamic in which society is immersed in its self-destructive course. Consequently, Christian imagery is losing its conceivability and credibility, and past motivations that once encouraged belief have lost their appeal. Without these as points of contact, the demise of the institutional church will be relentless, despite all efforts to halt it. Yet, as at other crisis points in history, the divine promise has been to raise a “faithful remnant” with sufficient promise to outlast whatever the societal demise. After carefully analyzing the ingredients of our societal crisis, the author develops the contours of a “Remnant Church” to be set in place now within the present institutional churches. This necessitates distilling a vital spirituality and discerning the heart of a preservable tradition, sufficient to claim both personal and communal commitment. Thereby prepared for the long haul, the Remnant Church can emerge as a prophetic alternative.
Suicide of the West
Author: Jonah Goldberg
Publisher: Crown Forum
ISBN: 110190495X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent argument that America and other democracies are in peril because they have lost the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and prosperity. Now updated with a new preface! “Epic and debate-shifting.”—David Brooks, New York Times Only once in the last 250,000 years have humans stumbled upon a way to lift ourselves out of the endless cycle of poverty, hunger, and war that defines most of history. If democracy, individualism, and the free market were humankind’s destiny, they should have appeared and taken hold a bit earlier in the evolutionary record. The emergence of freedom and prosperity was nothing short of a miracle. As Americans we are doubly blessed, because the radical ideas that made the miracle possible were written not just into the Constitution but in our hearts, laying the groundwork for our uniquely prosperous society. Those ideas are: • Our rights come from God, not from the government. • The government belongs to us; we do not belong to it. • The individual is sovereign. We are all captains of our own souls, not bound by the circumstances of our birth. • The fruits of our labors belong to us. In the last few decades, these political virtues have been turned into vices. As we are increasingly taught to view our traditions as a system of oppression, exploitation, and privilege, the principles of liberty and the rule of law are under attack from left and right. For the West to survive, we must renew our sense of gratitude for what our civilization has given us and rediscover the ideals and habits of the heart that led us out of the bloody muck of the past—or back to the muck we will go.
Publisher: Crown Forum
ISBN: 110190495X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent argument that America and other democracies are in peril because they have lost the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and prosperity. Now updated with a new preface! “Epic and debate-shifting.”—David Brooks, New York Times Only once in the last 250,000 years have humans stumbled upon a way to lift ourselves out of the endless cycle of poverty, hunger, and war that defines most of history. If democracy, individualism, and the free market were humankind’s destiny, they should have appeared and taken hold a bit earlier in the evolutionary record. The emergence of freedom and prosperity was nothing short of a miracle. As Americans we are doubly blessed, because the radical ideas that made the miracle possible were written not just into the Constitution but in our hearts, laying the groundwork for our uniquely prosperous society. Those ideas are: • Our rights come from God, not from the government. • The government belongs to us; we do not belong to it. • The individual is sovereign. We are all captains of our own souls, not bound by the circumstances of our birth. • The fruits of our labors belong to us. In the last few decades, these political virtues have been turned into vices. As we are increasingly taught to view our traditions as a system of oppression, exploitation, and privilege, the principles of liberty and the rule of law are under attack from left and right. For the West to survive, we must renew our sense of gratitude for what our civilization has given us and rediscover the ideals and habits of the heart that led us out of the bloody muck of the past—or back to the muck we will go.
Remnants
Author: Marisa Gary
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578012502
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
We all hurt. We've all lost. Every one of us struggles. God is always there for us, waiting for us to come to him. He wants the personal relationship - not the rituals. Every time God destroyed Israel, he left a remnant. It was the remnant that repented and came back to God. It was the remnant that praised Him for his power and His glory and His grace. So often, we don't reach out until we're broken, as the remnants were broken. However, once we are broken, we come to God, and He is there, waiting for those He calls His with arms wide open. If you are a follower of Christ, I pray that this book gives you hope and encourangement, through the hard times. If you are not yet a follower, I pray that this book will help in breaking your heart so that He can mend it.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578012502
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
We all hurt. We've all lost. Every one of us struggles. God is always there for us, waiting for us to come to him. He wants the personal relationship - not the rituals. Every time God destroyed Israel, he left a remnant. It was the remnant that repented and came back to God. It was the remnant that praised Him for his power and His glory and His grace. So often, we don't reach out until we're broken, as the remnants were broken. However, once we are broken, we come to God, and He is there, waiting for those He calls His with arms wide open. If you are a follower of Christ, I pray that this book gives you hope and encourangement, through the hard times. If you are not yet a follower, I pray that this book will help in breaking your heart so that He can mend it.
REMNANTS OF FAITH
Author: Markie Spring
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450019889
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Having inspiration and assistance from parents and other family members, using the values taught by family and local church to build faith, making use of opportunities when Available, being consistent in every situation – whether difficult or favorable, reaping the benefits of faith and perseverance.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450019889
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Having inspiration and assistance from parents and other family members, using the values taught by family and local church to build faith, making use of opportunities when Available, being consistent in every situation – whether difficult or favorable, reaping the benefits of faith and perseverance.
Remnants of Partition
Author: Aanchal Malhotra
Publisher: Hurst & Company
ISBN: 178738120X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Seventy years on, the Partition of India fades from memory. Can it be restored?
Publisher: Hurst & Company
ISBN: 178738120X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Seventy years on, the Partition of India fades from memory. Can it be restored?
The Remnants of War
Author: John Mueller
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801459575
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
"War... is merely an idea, an institution, like dueling or slavery, that has been grafted onto human existence. It is not a trick of fate, a thunderbolt from hell, a natural calamity, or a desperate plot contrivance dreamed up by some sadistic puppeteer on high. And it seems to me that the institution is in pronounced decline, abandoned as attitudes toward it have changed, roughly following the pattern by which the ancient and formidable institution of slavery became discredited and then mostly obsolete."—from the Introduction War is one of the great themes of human history and now, John Mueller believes, it is clearly declining. Developed nations have generally abandoned it as a way for conducting their relations with other countries, and most current warfare (though not all) is opportunistic predation waged by packs—often remarkably small ones—of criminals and bullies. Thus, argues Mueller, war has been substantially reduced to its remnants—or dregs—and thugs are the residual combatants. Mueller is sensitive to the policy implications of this view. When developed states commit disciplined troops to peacekeeping, the result is usually a rapid cessation of murderous disorder. The Remnants of War thus reinvigorates our sense of the moral responsibility bound up in peacekeeping. In Mueller's view, capable domestic policing and military forces can also be effective in reestablishing civic order, and the building of competent governments is key to eliminating most of what remains of warfare.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801459575
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
"War... is merely an idea, an institution, like dueling or slavery, that has been grafted onto human existence. It is not a trick of fate, a thunderbolt from hell, a natural calamity, or a desperate plot contrivance dreamed up by some sadistic puppeteer on high. And it seems to me that the institution is in pronounced decline, abandoned as attitudes toward it have changed, roughly following the pattern by which the ancient and formidable institution of slavery became discredited and then mostly obsolete."—from the Introduction War is one of the great themes of human history and now, John Mueller believes, it is clearly declining. Developed nations have generally abandoned it as a way for conducting their relations with other countries, and most current warfare (though not all) is opportunistic predation waged by packs—often remarkably small ones—of criminals and bullies. Thus, argues Mueller, war has been substantially reduced to its remnants—or dregs—and thugs are the residual combatants. Mueller is sensitive to the policy implications of this view. When developed states commit disciplined troops to peacekeeping, the result is usually a rapid cessation of murderous disorder. The Remnants of War thus reinvigorates our sense of the moral responsibility bound up in peacekeeping. In Mueller's view, capable domestic policing and military forces can also be effective in reestablishing civic order, and the building of competent governments is key to eliminating most of what remains of warfare.
The Remnant
Author: Tim LaHaye
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1414334990
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
While a million people converge on the ancient city of Petra in preparation for the "Glorious Appearing," the Global Community begins to bomb the city, while believers elsewhere in the world face martyrdom at the hands of the Antichrist.
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1414334990
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
While a million people converge on the ancient city of Petra in preparation for the "Glorious Appearing," the Global Community begins to bomb the city, while believers elsewhere in the world face martyrdom at the hands of the Antichrist.
Return of the Remnant
Author: Michael Schiffman
Publisher: Lederer Messianic Publications
ISBN: 9781880226537
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Messianic Judaism is a modern movement with an ancient past. Its resurgence today may hold the key to world redemption. Dr. Michael Schiffman documents the roots of the modern Messianic Jewish movement and explains how Messianic Jews are uniquely positioned by God in their relationship to both the church and the Jewish community to be a bridge of understanding in our day.
Publisher: Lederer Messianic Publications
ISBN: 9781880226537
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Messianic Judaism is a modern movement with an ancient past. Its resurgence today may hold the key to world redemption. Dr. Michael Schiffman documents the roots of the modern Messianic Jewish movement and explains how Messianic Jews are uniquely positioned by God in their relationship to both the church and the Jewish community to be a bridge of understanding in our day.
Lay Belief in Norse Society, 1000-1350
Author: Arnved Nedkvitne
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Focuses on the complex and diversified nature of lay belief in medieval Norse society. This work suggests that laypeople had a firm belief in life after death - with all central rituals and beliefs seen as a means to this end.
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Focuses on the complex and diversified nature of lay belief in medieval Norse society. This work suggests that laypeople had a firm belief in life after death - with all central rituals and beliefs seen as a means to this end.