A Tapestry of Faiths

A Tapestry of Faiths
Author: Winfried Corduan
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2009-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 172522626X

Christians find themselves in an increasingly diverse world. The new place of worship in our neighborhood might just as likely be a Hindu temple or a Muslim mosque as a church or a synagogue. How should we view other world religions, and more important, how should we engage our religiously oriented neighbors in conversation? Do all religions teach the same thing? Or are there significant differences? Do we try to minimize differences and just get along? Or do we hold out the Christian faith as the one true hope for all the world? Drawing on his wide experience and knowledge of other religions and how they are actually lived, Winfried Corduan helps us sort through the complex tapestry of faiths around the globe. He contends that there are common threads of understanding that can serve to link us in meaningful discussion. From these common threads we can go on to explore genuine differences. Through the course of the book, Corduan leads readers to explore the important issues of revelation and truth, morality and guilt, grace and redemption, eschatology and hope. Ultimately, Jesus Christ, he argues, stands unique among religious figures and Christianity unique among the world's religions. This is a book that strengthens Christians in their convictions while encouraging them to engage their neighbors with humility, loved, and discernment.

Heavenly Participation

Heavenly Participation
Author: Hans Boersma
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2011-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467434426

Surveying the barriers that contemporary thinking has erected between the natural and the supernatural, between earth and heaven, Hans Boersma issues a wake-up call for Western Christianity. Both Catholics and evangelicals, he says, have moved too far away from a sacramental mindset, focusing more on the "here-and-now" than on the "then-and-there." Yet, as Boersma points out, the teaching of Jesus, Paul, and St. Augustine -- indeed, of most of Scripture and the church fathers -- is profoundly otherworldly, much more concerned with heavenly participation than with earthly enjoyment. In Heavenly Participation Boersma draws on the wisdom of great Christian minds ancient and modern -- Irenaeus, Gregory of Nyssa, C. S. Lewis, Henri de Lubac, John Milbank, and many others. He urges Catholics and evangelicals alike to retrieve a sacramental worldview, to cultivate a greater awareness of eternal mysteries, to partake eagerly of the divine life that transcends and transforms all earthly realities.

Coming of Age Handbook for Congregations

Coming of Age Handbook for Congregations
Author: Sarah Gibb Millspaugh
Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2009
Genre: Church group work with youth
ISBN: 1558965408

Neighboring Faiths

Neighboring Faiths
Author: Winfried Corduan
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 1998-04-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830815241

Winfried Corduan describes both the beliefs and the real-life practices of major and minor world religions, including Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism Native American religions and Baha'i.

A Tapestry of Light (Dreams of India)

A Tapestry of Light (Dreams of India)
Author: Kimberly Duffy
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1493429949

Calcutta, 1886. Ottilie Russell is adrift between two cultures, British and Indian, belonging to both and neither. In order to support her little brother, Thaddeus, and her grandmother, she relies upon her skills in beetle-wing embroidery that have been passed down to her through generations of Indian women. When a stranger appears with the news that Thaddeus is now Baron Sunderson and must travel to England to take his place as a nobleman, Ottilie is shattered by the secrets that come to light. Despite her growing friendship with Everett Scott, friend to Ottilie's English grandmother and aunt, she refuses to give up her brother. Then tragedy strikes, and she is forced to make a decision that will take Thaddeus far from death and herself far from home. But betrayal and loss lurk in England, too, and soon Ottilie must fight to ensure Thaddeus doesn't forget who he is, as well as find a way to stitch a place for herself in this foreign land.

Pocket Guide to World Religions

Pocket Guide to World Religions
Author: Winfried Corduan
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2010-03-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830867082

Winfried Corduan offers brief, basic descriptions of twelve of the world's major religions. He also includes shorter descriptions of sixteen newer religions, and an overview of tribal and traditional religions.

Feminine Threads

Feminine Threads
Author: Diana Lynn Severance
Publisher: Focus for Women
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Women in Christianity
ISBN: 9781845506407

From commoner to queen, the women in this book embraced the freedom and the power of the Gospel in making their unique contributions to the unfolding of history. Wherever possible, the women here speak for themselves, from their letters, diaries or published works. The true story of women in Christian history inspires, challenges and demonstrates the grace of God producing much fruit throughout time.

The Tapestry

The Tapestry
Author: Edith Schaeffer
Publisher: W Publishing Group
Total Pages: 652
Release: 1984
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780849930164

We Got Here Together

We Got Here Together
Author: Kim Robert Stafford
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Total Pages: 38
Release: 1994
Genre: Air
ISBN:

A short bedtime story that uses geometric patterns in cut-paper compositions.