In this book, Bruce W. Winter maps out the role and obligations of Christians as benefactors and citizens in their society. Winter's scholarly insight is enhanced through the selective use of important ancient literary and nonliterary sources. Contrary to the popular perception that early Christians withdrew from society and sought to maintain a ......
''The three worlds theory is perhaps still the basis for our dominant assumptions about geopolitical and geocultural order,'' writes Frederick Buell, ''but its hold on our imagination and faith is passing fast. In its place, a startlingly different model--the notion that the world is somehow interconnected into a single system--has emerged, ......
Why do groups of talented and experienced individuals make disastrously bad collective judgments, such as the Kennedy administration's flawed decision to proceed with the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961? In his pioneering research on collective decision making, Irving Janis introduced the concept of ''groupthink''--a deliberately Orwellian ......
Why Sports Teams Move and Cities Fight to Keep Them
Can a sports franchise ''blackmail'' a city into getting what it wantsa new stadium, say, or favorable leasing termsby threatening to relocate? In 1982, the owners of the Chicago White Sox pledged to keep the team in Chicago if the city approved a $5-million tax-exempt bond to finance construction of luxury suites at Comiskey Park. The city ......
High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program
Inside NASA explores how an agency praised for its planetary probes and expeditions to the moon became notorious for the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger and a series of other malfunctions. Using archival evidence as well as in-depth interviews with space agency officials, Howard McCurdy investigates the relationship between the ......
''In this excellent, concise volume, Rothenberg reports his current views on this fascinating subject . . . Well argued and judicious . . . I cannot recommend this book too highly.''--Journal of the American Medical Association.''This intriguing theory will no doubt provoke lively debate both inand outside professional circles. For lay readers, ......
Awarded the Lewis Mumford Prize of The Society for American City and Regional Planning History and named Outstanding Book in Architecture and Urban Planning by the Association of American Publishers.''A major contribution to the scholarship on the history of urban America and the history of American city planning . . . [Wilson's] discussion of the ......
A Commentary on His Handbook for a Mixed Church Under Persecution
This commentary demonstrates Gundry's conviction that Matthew relied on the Gospel of Mark and the document "Q." Furthemore, Gundry argues for a combination of historical data and theological embellishments in passages such as those that present the birth of Jesus the Sermon on the Mount, and Peter's walking on the water.
A Pathway into the Holy Scripture contains revised versions of papers given at the jubilee meeting of the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical and Theological Research, an event that coincided with the 500th anniversary of the birth of the English reformer William Tyndale. The book includes a discussion of Tyndale as bible interpreter, surveys of ......
