A consensus among many scientists, educators, and members of mainline churches is that 'scientific creationism' does not warrant a place in the public school science curriculum. This book looks behind creationism's mask to provide an understanding of what creationists believe and what strategies they employ to achieve their sectarian goals.
Comparative Study of Contrast and Harmony in the Concept of God
This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. This intriguing book compares beliefs concerning the nature of God in a variety of world religions by focusing on a number of "polarities," or pairs of qualities in the divine character that are seemingly opposed. Carman examines such polarities as supremacy/accessibility, ......
This compelling study by J. Christiaan Beker provides a moving, triumphant answer to one of life's greatest mysteries - the presence of suffering in God's world. Now an established classic in the discussion of the problem of evil, Suffering and Hope plumbs the Old Testament's response to earthly pain as well as Paul's own dealings with ......
This detailed study of the different rates of growth of parts of the body relative to the body as a whole represents Sir Julian Huxley's great contribution to analytical morphology, and is still the basis for modern investigations in the field.
Breaking through the quagmire of confusion and obfuscation that often surrounds talk of God, La Croix distinguishes and prioritises the essential questions and relevant side issues that must be confronted if clarity is ever to be achieved in this area. Useful for professionals and laypersons alike, this work features his essays.
Is there a God? What is the evidence for belief in such a being? What is God like? Or, is God a figment of human inspiration? On 24 March, 1988 at the University of Mississippi, J P Moreland, a Christian philosopher and Kai Nielsen, an atheist philosopher, went head-to-head over these questions. This book records their entire lively debate.
This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. A book whose time has come, Nature, God, and Pulpit draws together and interprets, for the church and especially for preachers, the biblical materials on the relationship between God and his creation. The book is particularly timely because, as Elizabeth Achtemeier points out, few ......
"This is a fascinating study which confirms that there is as much support in the Fathers as in heterodox sources - though different! - for the idea of a suffering God." - Louis Dupre, Yale University "Joseph Hallman here makes a significant contribution to the perennial theological dilemma, how can an unchanging God relate to a changing ......
This study goes to the heart of ethics and politics. Strongly argued and lucidly written, the book makes a crucial distinction between two forms of democracy. The author defends constitutional democracy as potentially supportive of the ethical life, while he criticizes the plebiscitary form of democracyas undermiining man's moral nature. The book ......
