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Gott im liberalen Christentum: Vom gnädigen Gott der Reformation zum Posttheismus des 21. Jahrhunderts

Dieses Buch bietet in einer durchweg verständlichen Weise einen Gang durch 500 Jahre Theologiegeschichte, von 1520 bis 2020, mit einem besonderen Schwerpunkt auf der Wandlung der Gottesvorstellungen, die anhand der einflussreichsten Philosophen und Theologen exemplifiziert werden. Dabei werden nicht nur die historischen Kontexte der jeweiligen Protagonisten beleuchtet, sondern auch deren Biographien. Ihre theologischen Vorstellungen werden u.a. auch anhand von aussagefähigen Originalzitaten veranschaulicht. Es werden auch das Verhältnis zu anderen Religionen u. das Verhältnis zu den Naturwissenschaften beleuchtet. Das Buch endet mit einem Ausblick auf die zukünftige Theologie.Der AutorKurt Bangert war Forschungsleiter und Research Advisor am World Vision Institut für Forschung und Innovation in Friedrichsdorf. Der Theologe ist Autor zahlreicher Artikel und Bücher sowie Schriftleiter der theologischen Zeitschrift Freies Christentum.

Gott in Serie: Theologische Rezeption populärer Narrationen (pop.religion: lebensstil – kultur – theologie)

Der Sammelband beschäftigt sich mit Serien als festem Bestandteil gegenwärtiger Popkultur, die Erzählmuster bekannter Hollywoodformate ablösen. In den Großerzählungen der Serienlandschaft werden religiöse Themen explizit und implizit verhandelt und zum handlungstragenden Element.

Gott will uns nur von ganzem Herzen lächeln sehen

Was will Gott von uns? Diese Frage ist eine der Unbekannten, die ich während meiner therapeutischen Sitzungen am meisten gehört habe. Seit mehr als 20 Jahren bin ich auf der Suche nach einer Antwort, die nicht nur meinen Patienten hilft, sondern mir auch hilft, die spirituelle Krise zu verstehen, die die Welt erlebt. Spiritualität? Während meiner Ausbildung zum Gestaltpsychotherapeuten habe ich menschliche Entwicklung, Theologie und Philosophie studiert. Die orientalische Vision von Männern und Frauen half mir, meine Augen zu öffnen, damit ich viele der Unbekannten, mit denen ich jahrelang lebte, verstehen konnte. Heute kann ich Ihnen von einer Gestalt-Spiritualität als Amalgam erzählen, die einem bewussteren Leben mit einer Vision der Einheit und nicht des Ego mehr Bedeutung verleiht. Was können Sie von diesem Buch erwarten? Verbinde dich wieder mit deiner Spiritualität Verstehe das: Wir sind alle wichtig Vergib dir selbst und vergib

Gotta Have It!

Gotta Have It! is every grown-up's guide for taming the inner two-year-old. Too many people spend so much time trying to get what they want that they have no energy left to get what they need. Dr. Gregg Jantz calls this phenomenon excessity--when excess becomes a "necessity." Excessities--whether they are activities, behaviors, or objects--promise protection in a difficult world. Yet they never satisfy. In Gotta Have It!, readers are invited to discover the truth about themselves that is hiding behind their secret desires. With real-life stories and guided sections for self-reflection, Gotta Have It will help readers see life as never before--and delight in the way God longs to fulfill true needs.

Governance and Multiculturalism: The White Elephant of Social Construction and Cultural Identities

A key intervention in the growing critical literature on race, this volume examines the social construction of race in contemporary Australia through the lenses of Indigenous sovereignty, nationhood, and whiteness. Informed by insights from white Australians in rural contexts, Koerner and Pillay attempt to answer how race shapes those who identify as white Australian; how those who self-identify thusly relate to the nation, multiculturalism, and Indigenous Sovereignties; and how white Australians understand and experience their own racialized position and its privilege. This “insider perspective” on the continuing construction of whiteness in Australia is analyzed and challenged through Indigenous Sovereign theoretical standpoints and voices. Ultimately, this investigation of the social construction of race not only extends conceptualizations of multiculturalism, but also informs governance policy in the light of changing national identity.

Governance, Institutional Change and Regional Development (Routledge Revivals)

This title was first published in 2000: This volume addresses the prominent role given to institution-building, institutional change and governance in the regional development strategies and policies. The establishment of the Scottish Parliament, Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies, and the arrival of regional development agencies in England highlighted the need to put the initiatives into some context, drawing on experience from across Europe on the critical factors in the determination of the potential and success of regions. Central to the discussions presented here by a group of European experts are the question of governance - how does an ongoing process of institution-building affect the ways in which regions and localities are governed, including questions of democracy, participation, regional self-determination, public-private partnerships, networks and accountability; and the consequences of new modes of governance and institutional change for regional development strategies and policies, particularly in the context of large-scale industrial restructuring and city-region and urban regeneration.

Governing Future Emergencies: Lived Relations to Risk in the UK Fire and Rescue Service

The 21st century has born witness to myriad changes in the way the world is secured from the many emergencies that continually threaten to disrupt it. This book concentrates on two such changes. First, it takes stock of the ever-increasing development and diversification of data and digital technologies that security organisations have at their disposal. Secondly, it examines how these digital devices have fostered a new direction in which security agencies primarily conceive of emergencies as so many risks of the future. Emergency governance has undergone what might be called an anticipatory turn here, with digitally rendered and imagined scenes of future contingency becoming cause and justification for intervention in the here and now. Rather than scrutinising this turn at its most spectacular heights in the domains, for instance, of warfare or counter-terrorism, the book explores the facilitation of risk governance through digital technologies in a more quotidian incarnation; namely by tracing the steps that the United Kingdom’s Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) take to govern fire emergencies whose potential has been identified but have yet to unfold. Delving into the FRS, the book maps out a digital infrastructure that includes various software, institutional processes, multiple forms of risk calculation but also human beings, relations and consciousness and an array of material spaces in which these things exist. Accentuated here is how these components assemble to produce projections of future emergencies on a number of sensorial registers. This infrastructure is shown, in turn, to inform and shape a catalogue of refined modes of action through which interventions on future emergencies are made in the present. Engaging in depth with this infrastructure, the FRS provides an understanding of risk as a lived relation, risk as an organisational ethos whose liveliness is founded upon and reverberates through the relations existing between those people and things operating in the FRS to make sense of potential fire emergencies. Using the concept of lived relation as a foundation, the book develops a critical understanding of anticipatory governance by grasping its resonance with issues emanating in the wider field of security, showing how security figures as a set of practices that rely upon and cultivates affective conditions, that enrols the force of elements like fire into its institutional arrangement, that draw on an array of knowledges to exercise power and, in the process, that instantiate new forms of subjectivity.

Governing Islam Abroad: Turkish And Moroccan Muslims In Western Europe (The\sciences Po Series In International Relations And Political Economy Ser.)

From sending imams abroad to financing mosques and Islamic associations, home states play a key role in governing Islam in Western Europe. Drawing on over one hundred interviews and years of fieldwork, this book employs a comparative perspective that analyzes the foreign religious activities of the two home states with the largest diaspora populations in Europe: Turkey and Morocco. The research shows how these states use religion to promote ties with their citizens and their descendants abroad while also seeking to maintain control over the forms of Islam that develop within the diaspora. The author identifies and explains the internal and foreign political interests that have motivated state actors on both sides of the Mediterranean, ultimately arguing that interstate cooperation in religious affairs has and will continue to have a structural influence on the evolution of Islam in Western Europe.

Governing Spirits

Freedom of religion did not come easily to Cuba or Puerto Rico. Only after the arrival of American troops during the Spanish-American War were non-Catholics permitted to practice their religions openly and to proselytize. When government efforts to ensure freedom of worship began, reformers on both islands rejoiced, believing that an era of regeneration and modernization was upon them. But as new laws went into effect, critics voiced their dismay at the rise of popular religions. Reinaldo L. Roman explores the changing relationship between regulators and practitioners in neocolonial Cuba and Puerto Rico.Spiritism, Santeria, and other African-derived traditions were typically characterized in sensational fashion by the popular press as "a plague of superstition." Examining seven episodes between 1898 and the Cuban Revolution when the public demanded official actions against "misbelief," Roman finds that when outbreaks of superstition were debated, matters of citizenship were usually at stake. He links the circulation of spectacular charges of witchcraft and miracle-making to anxieties surrounding newly expanded citizenries that included people of color. Governing Spirits also contributes to the understanding of vernacular religions by moving beyond questions of national or traditional origins to illuminate how boundaries among hybrid practices evolved in a process of historical contingencies.

Government Surveillance of Religious Expression: Mormons, Quakers, and Muslims in the United States (Routledge Studies in Religion)

Recent revelations about government surveillance of citizens have led to questions about whether there should be better defined boundaries around privacy. Should government officials have the right to specifically target certain groups for extended surveillance? United States municipal, territorial, and federal agencies have investigated religious groups since the nineteenth century. While critics of contemporary mass surveillance tend to invoke the infringement of privacy, the mutual protection of religion and public expression by the First Amendment positions them, along with religious expression, comfortably within in the public sphere.This book analyzes government monitoring of Mormons of the Territory of Utah in the 1870s and 1880s for polygamy, Quakers of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) from the 1940s to the 1960s for communist infiltration, and Muslims of Brooklyn, New York, from 2002 to 2013 for suspected terrorism. Government agencies in these case studies attempted to understand how their religious beliefs might shape their actions in the public sphere. It follows that government agents did not just observe these communities, but they probed precisely what constituted religion itself alongside shifting legal and political definitions relative to their respective time periods. Together, these case studies form a new framework for discussions of the historical and contemporary monitoring of religion. They show that government surveillance is less predictable and monolithic than we might assume. Therefore, this book will be of great interest to scholars of United States religion, history, and politics, as well as surveillance and communication studies.

Government and Christianity: A Sermon for the Times

Government and Christianity: A Sermon for the Times by Joseph Augustus Seiss is a thought-provoking and timely discourse on the relationship between civil authority and Christian faith. Delivered during a period of political and social upheaval in the 19th century, Seiss offers a compelling argument for the compatibility of governance and Christianity, emphasizing the role of faith in fostering justice, order, and moral responsibility within society.Seiss contends that effective governance must be rooted in divine principles, asserting that Christianity provides the ethical foundation necessary for laws and institutions to serve the common good. Through scriptural references and theological insights, he examines how Christian values—such as justice, mercy, and personal accountability—should inform both the actions of rulers and the behavior of citizens. He also addresses the dangers of secularism and the need for moral guidance in public life.The sermon speaks to the responsibilities of both leaders and the governed, urging individuals to align their civic duties with their religious convictions. Seiss emphasizes that true liberty is only sustainable when grounded in the principles of righteousness, warning that neglecting Christian ethics can lead to societal decay. His message resonates with those concerned about the balance between faith and politics, offering a vision for how Christianity can positively shape public policy and governance.Government and Christianity remains relevant for readers interested in the intersection of religion and politics, offering valuable insights into the role of faith in public life. Seiss’s sermon challenges modern audiences to reflect on how personal beliefs can influence civic responsibility, inspiring both leaders and citizens to pursue justice and truth within their communities. This work serves as a call to action for those seeking to integrate faith with public service and governance.

Goy Crazy

A hilarious novel about falling for the wrong goy. Rachel Lowenstein can't help it. She's got a massive crush on a goy: Luke Christensen, the gorgeous star of the basketball team at St. Joseph's prep.

Goyhood: A Novel

Funny, poignant, and revelatory while plumbing the emotional depths of the relationship between estranged brothers, Goyhood examines what happens when one becomes unmoored from a comfortable, spiritual existence and must decide whether coincidence is in fact destiny. When Mayer (nÈe Marty) Belkin fled small town Georgia for Brooklyn nearly thirty years ago, he thought he'd left his wasted youth behind. Now he's a Talmud scholar married into one of the greatest rabbinical families in the world - a dirt poor country boy reinvented in the image of God. But his mother's untimely death brings a shocking revelation: Mayer and his ne'er-do-well twin brother David aren't, in fact, Jewish. Traumatized and spiritually bereft, Mayer's only recourse is to convert to Judaism. But the earliest date he can get is a week from now. What are two estranged brothers to do in the interim? So begins the Belkins' Rumspringa through America's Deep South with Mom's ashes in tow, plus two tagalongs: an insightful Instagram influencer named Charlayne Valentine and Popeye, a one-eyed dog. As the crew gets tangled up in a series of increasingly surreal adventures, Mayer grapples with a God who betrayed him and an emotionally withdrawn wife in Brooklyn who has yet to learn her husband is a counterfeit Jew.

Gozo desafiante: Aferrarse a la esperanza, la belleza y la vida en un mundo que sufre

Estamos llamados a “estar siempre gozosos” (1 Ts. 5.16). ¿Qué significa esto, y cómo puede ser posible?Todos gastamos mucha energía buscando la felicidad, pero no somos capaces de aferrarnos a ella. Cosas suceden en la vida real, y nuestras circunstancias nos llevan por un viaje de altas y bajas. Entonces, el llamado que nos hace la Biblia a "estar siempre gozosos" parece una locura, y fuera de alcance. Pero no tiene que ser así.Debemos tener gozo, un gozo tan grande que desafíe a este mundo caído. Este gozo no es simplemente felicidad con esteroides; es la seguridad inquebrantable de que el dolor y la pérdida no tienen la última palabra. Es la firme determinación que se manifiesta en cualquier situación para interpretar tanto la bondad como el dolor a la luz de las Escrituras.En Gozo desafiante, Stasi Eldredge, con valentía, sinceridad y vulnerabilidad nos invita a un lugar más allá de la tristeza o la felicidad. Nos muestra cómo mantener una postura desafiante que no niega ni resta importancia a nuestro dolor, sino que se atreve a vivir con una esperanza inquebrantable.

GrATTITUDE: Practicing Contagious Optimism for Positive Change

To most making it through tough times is never financially easy. Those who got through the periods of “Great Depression” did so with grit, determination, a can-do spirit and a lot of courage. Best of all, they came out stronger too! Those who survive those challenges and come out with a solid self-concept, a loving family and grounded faith ridded themselves of spiritual and mental baggage that would have otherwise destroyed them. They had a lean mind to go with a toned body. As we gaze at the hard days in front of us, it is time to look back on some time-tested examples of those who thrived in tough times as well as those whose mental baggage caused them to crash and burn. The lessons in this book involve not as much what each of us can add to insure survival, but what we can shed from our minds to keep out spirits high and our attitudes on an even keel. In trying times or even when things are great a fit, lean, positive mind is the key to being happy.

Grab, Gather, Grow: Multiply Community Groups in Your Church (Grab, Gather, Grow)

Jim and Jen Cowart, authors of Start This, Stop That, offer a fresh strategy for developing community groups for your whole church and beyond. Harvest Church (www.harvestchurch4u.org), a young United Methodist congregation twenty miles southwest of Macon, met for seven years (on Sundays) on the move in a rented theatre. They learned about adaptive systems, digital tools, and flexible overhead. Since building a multipurpose facility on 43 acres near Warner Robins, Georgia in 2007, Harvest Church applied what they learned about mobility and sustained rapid growth to 2700 in worship attendance, with seven weekend services. They dispensed with a typical education wing (at significant cost savings) and classrooms in favor of four multipurpose rooms. They adapted a community groups strategy, which meets primarily in homes. They have expanded from 72 community groups to more than 300 in one year.In this leadership book, Jen and Jim offer a five-part method for transforming a congregation through launching community groups. Community groups become a multiplication strategy because they nurture an urgent expectation outside the congregation to share the good news with persons not yet professing faith, while creating a well defined path for growth in discipleship. The book will include the following themes: Group Explosion – New Strategy for 100% plus group participation Overcoming Obstacles – Structuring for Maximum Growth vs Control – Crowd to Core Group Growth The Power of the Pulpit – This system is driven from the stage Living the 5 through Group Life – How the CG lives into Fellowship, Discipleship, Ministry, Evangelism, and Worship Creating Infrastructure for Facilitators

Grace (Eventually)

The world, the community, the family, the heart: these are the beautiful and complicated arenas in which our lives unfold. Wherever you look, there's trouble and wonder, pain and beauty, restoration and darkness. Yet if you look carefully, in nature or in the kitchen, in ordinariness or in mystery, beyond the emotional muck we all slog through, you'll find it eventually: a path, some light to see by, in other words, grace. Here, Anne Lamott describes how she copes with the missteps, detours, and roadblocks in her walk of faith. Book jacket.

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: Or, A Brief And Faithful Relation Of The Exceeding Mercy Of God In Christ, To His Poor Servant John Bunyan

Composed and published while John Bunyan (1628-1688) was in prison for his religious principles, Grace Abounding is an extraordinary spiritual autobiography. It was written in an age when religious radicalism was regarded as socially subversive, and is a haunting, often harrowing and ultimately inspiring account of his inner life: his long struggle with and eventual triumph over doubt and despair, his spiritual regeneration and his subsequent emergence as a preacher and writer of great imaginative power. God and Satan are the chief protagonists in Bunyan's drama, existing not as theological concepts but as terrifyingly immediate adversaries in the competition for his soul. Yet he finds his spiritual defences in the Bible, and Grace Abounding charts his passionate and imaginative involvement with this ultimate source of wisdom.

Grace Abounds: The Splendor of Christian Doctrine

What do Christians believe? Christianity is one of the top five religions in the world. But if you're a Christian and someone asked you what makes Christianity different from the other four (Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism), what would you say? What do Christians believe and teach? All Christian teaching is rooted in what God says in his Word—the Bible. In Grace Abounds, author Daniel Deutschlander goes straight to this ultimate source and lets the Bible have the final word as he examines the teachings that define Christianity. The two main arguments that Deutschlander brings out in this book as he explains what Christians believe and teach are: Every teaching in Christianity is related to God's saving grace, or love, in Christ Jesus. Every teaching in Christianity is practical for every believer's faith and life. If you're wondering how to respond to the question of what Christianity is all about, this engaging book will serve as a helpful reference for you and will strengthen and reaffirm your faith and trust in Jesus.

Grace Alone---Salvation as a Gift of God: What the Reformers Taughts...and Why It Still Matters (The Five Solas Series)

Historians and theologians alike have long recognized that at the heart of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation were the five solas: sola scriptura, solus Christus, sola gratia, sola fide, and soli Deo gloria. These five solas do not merely summarize what the Reformation was all about but have served to distinguish Protestantism ever since. They set Protestants apart in a unique way as those who place ultimate and final authority in the Scriptures, acknowledge the work of Christ alone as sufficient for redemption, recognize that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone, and seek to not only give God all of the glory but to do all things vocationally for his glory. 2017 will mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. And yet, even in the twenty-first century we need the Reformation more than ever. As James Montgomery Boice said not long ago, while the Puritans sought to carry on the Reformation, today “we barely have one to carry on, and many have even forgotten what that great spiritual revolution was all about.” Therefore, we “need to go back and start again at the very beginning. We need another Reformation.”[1] In short, it is crucial not only to remember what the solas of the Reformation were all about, but also to apply these solas in a fresh way in light of many contemporary challenges. [1]James Montgomery Boice, “Preface,” in Here We Stand: A Call from Confessing Evangelicals (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1996), 12.

Grace Before Meals: Recipes and Inspiration for Family Meals and Family Life

With just a few ingredients and a few hours of time, your kitchen can become the perfect setting not only for a delicious meal but for experiencing the greatest blessings in life. In Grace Before Meals: Recipes and Inspiration for Family Meals and Family Life, Father Leo Patalinghug (yes, the same Father Leo who defeated Bobby Flay on Throwdown!) helps you make family meals a way of life. Combining more than 30 simple but delicious recipes related to personal milestones, family holidays, and faith observances, along with scriptural references and short essays offering wisdom on faith, values, and family togetherness, Father Leo shows that mealtime is the perfect setting for discussing the major issues all families face. In fact, research shows that frequent family dinners can reduce many risks facing children, including drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, depression, eating disorders, and poor academic performance. These are meals that nourish body and spirit.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Grace Beyond Salvation: Revealing God's Love from Genesis to Revelation

Everything is rooted and grounded in the grace of God. From the first verse in the Bible to the very last, there&’s a thread that holds humanity&’s story together—that thread is grace. In Grace Beyond Salvation, pastor and teacher Dr. Kyle DiRoberts invites readers to understand and experience the biblical story of God&’s extraordinary grace. This story is the key to understanding and fully living our own stories.Kyle believes that we cannot navigate this life, striving to love God with all our heart, soul, and mind, without understanding the design and purpose of God's grace. But what is grace? It&’s likely so much more than you might think.This book is for all who don&’t fully understand the grace of God and the freedom it gives us. It&’s for anyone living with shame and guilt, constantly reminded of past mistakes. It&’s for those who believe in God but struggle with the evil in this world and how God&’s grace fits into the picture. It&’s for hurting people—both believers and seekers—who&’ve believed lies because they don&’t understand God&’s design for grace and its purpose in their lives.The grand story of grace is full of drama, pain, and suffering, but also, hope, expectation, and pursuit. Grasping and absorbing His grace is the secret to living an intimate, confident relationship with God and others.

Grace Bomb: The Surprising Impact of Loving Your Neighbors

In Grace Bomb, Pastor Pat Linnell equips us to join a movement of simple obedience with world-changing impact. Grace Bombs are intentional acts of love prompted by the Holy Spirit—offering an extra tip to a hardworking server, giving up a seat on an airplane, or making a meal for the ER nurse next door. When we grace bomb our neighbors, our spouses, or strangers on the street, we are responding to God&’s call to love those people in generous and surprising ways. Drawing on rich examples from Scripture and everyday life, Grace Bomb shows us how we can: Go beyond cultural expectations of kindnessDeepen our sensitivity to the Holy SpiritOvercome barriers such as fear, busyness, and prejudiceHave fun while exercising our faith beyond SundaysBreak the ice with our neighbors today With inspiring stories from people around the world who have discovered the joy of Grace Bombing, this energizing book helps you put your love into action right away. Most importantly, it helps you use that action to show others the true source of love with no strings attached: Jesus.

Grace Filled Marriage: The Missing Piece. The Place to Start.

Surveys show that only 10% of all marriages are truly happy. The simple truth is the absence of grace leaves a gaping hole in the husband-wife relationship. An instant classic, Grace Filled Marriage shows grace to be the missing piece-and the only place to start building a happy marriage.