Gospel Ideals

Gospel Ideals
Author: David O. McKay
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1970
Genre:
ISBN:

The Rise and Fall of the Christian Myth

The Rise and Fall of the Christian Myth
Author: Burton L. Mack
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-02-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0300227892

This book is the culmination of a lifelong scholarly inquiry into Christian history, religion as a social institution, and the role of myth in the history of religions. Mack shows that religions are essentially mythological and that Christianity in particular has been an ever-changing mythological engine of social formation, from Roman times to its distinct American expression in our time. The author traces the cultural influence of the Christian myth that has persisted for sixteen hundred years but now should be much less consequential in our social and cultural life, since it runs counter to our democratic ideals. We stand at a critical impasse: badly splintered by conflicting groups pursuing their own social interests, a binding common myth needs to be established by renewing a truly cohesive national and international story rooted in our democratic and egalitarian origins, committed to freedom, equality, and vital human values.

Women, Work, and the Gospel Values

Women, Work, and the Gospel Values
Author: Mary E. Head
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1996-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781556121999

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Gospel Principles

Gospel Principles
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Publisher: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1997
Genre:
ISBN: 1465101276

A Study Guide and a Teacher’s Manual Gospel Principles was written both as a personal study guide and as a teacher’s manual. As you study it, seeking the Spirit of the Lord, you can grow in your understanding and testimony of God the Father, Jesus Christand His Atonement, and the Restoration of the gospel. You can find answers to life’s questions, gain an assurance of your purpose and self-worth, and face personal and family challenges with faith.

God's Ideal Woman

God's Ideal Woman
Author: Clifford Lewis
Publisher: Sword of the Lord Publishers
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2000-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780873983037

This book provides answers to the questions and problems that baffle women of every age. First, it sets out to help the teen-age girl to wisely and discreetly set the course for her life. The second chapter is addressed to the woman who will not marry. Every girl should familiarize herself with the lessons on love, dating and marriage as set forth in chapter 3. How to have a happy, successful Christian home is portrayed in chapter 4. Chapter 5 deals with the responsibility of motherhood and its rewards. Chapter 6 closes the book with the challenge of Proverbs 31, God's concise description of the virtuous woman. The way of salvation is also clearly presented. - Commendation.

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Author: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2020-06-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1631495747

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “paradigm-influencing” book (Christianity Today) that is fundamentally transforming our understanding of white evangelicalism in America. Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism—or in the words of one modern chaplain, with “a spiritual badass.” As acclaimed scholar Kristin Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the centrality of popular culture in contemporary American evangelicalism. Many of today’s evangelicals might not be theologically astute, but they know their VeggieTales, they’ve read John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart, and they learned about purity before they learned about sex—and they have a silver ring to prove it. Evangelical books, films, music, clothing, and merchandise shape the beliefs of millions. And evangelical culture is teeming with muscular heroes—mythical warriors and rugged soldiers, men like Oliver North, Ronald Reagan, Mel Gibson, and the Duck Dynasty clan, who assert white masculine power in defense of “Christian America.” Chief among these evangelical legends is John Wayne, an icon of a lost time when men were uncowed by political correctness, unafraid to tell it like it was, and did what needed to be done. Challenging the commonly held assumption that the “moral majority” backed Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020 for purely pragmatic reasons, Du Mez reveals that Trump in fact represented the fulfillment, rather than the betrayal, of white evangelicals’ most deeply held values: patriarchy, authoritarian rule, aggressive foreign policy, fear of Islam, ambivalence toward #MeToo, and opposition to Black Lives Matter and the LGBTQ community. A much-needed reexamination of perhaps the most influential subculture in this country, Jesus and John Wayne shows that, far from adhering to biblical principles, modern white evangelicals have remade their faith, with enduring consequences for all Americans.

Archetypes and the Fourth Gospel

Archetypes and the Fourth Gospel
Author: Brian Larsen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2018-06-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 056767648X

Employing Northrop Frye's system of archetypal literary criticism - the use of romance, tragedy, irony and satire, and comedy - Brian Larsen offers a compelling summary of the essential governing framework and means of exchange between literature and theology. Characters in the Fourth Gospel are examined through a specific archetype, and, reciprocally, these characters illuminate and inform important theological aspects of their respective archetypes: Jesus and romance (hero story); Pilate and tragedy; the Jews and Thomas and irony; and Peter and comedy. This volume further clarifies the understanding of Frye's archetypesand identifies the key variable between each one: the relationship between (1) a belief or ideal and (2) experience or reality. Helping to advance dialogue between literature, biblical studies and theology, and providing insightful readings for a number of Fourth Gospel characters and texts, Larsen's examination will appeal to those seeking a new perspective on the themes of the New Testament or those seeking theological insights into literature.

Gender and the Social Gospel

Gender and the Social Gospel
Author: Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780252070976

This collection of essays examines the central, yet often overlooked, role played by women in the formation of the social gospel movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A practical theological response to the stark realities of poverty and injustice prevalent in turn-of-the-century America, the social gospel movement sought to apply the teachings of Jesus and the message of Christian salvation to society by striving to improve the lives of the impoverished and the disenfranchised. The contributors to this volume set out to broaden our understanding of this radical movement by examining the lives of some of its passionate and vibrant female participants and the ways in which their involvement expanded and enriched the scope of its activity. In addition to examining the lives of individual women, the essays in Gender and the Social Gospel contain broader analyses of the gender and racial issues that have caused the histories of movements such as the social gospel to be viewed almost exclusively in terms of their male, European-American, intellectual participants at the expense of the women, African Americans, and Canadians whose contributions were just as worthy of attention.

Christ's Ideals for Living

Christ's Ideals for Living
Author: Obert C. Tanner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2011-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781258002190

For The Sunday Schools Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints.