Issue: Human Society

For the Glory of God: How Monotheism led to Reformations, Science, Witch Hunts and the End of Slavery

For the Glory of God: How Monotheism led to Reformations, Science, Witch Hunts and the End of Slavery

Posted by | Sep 3, 2020 | |

Rodney Stark’s provocative new book argues that, whether we like it or not, people acting for the glory of God have formed our modern culture. Continuing his project of identifying the widespread consequences of monotheism, Stark shows that the Christian conception of God resulted–almost inevitably and for the same reasons–in the Protestant Reformation, the rise of modern science, the European witch-hunts, and the Western abolition of slavery. In the process, he explains why Christian and Islamic images of God yielded such different cultural results, leading Christians but not Muslims to foster science, burn “witches,” and denounce slavery.

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Flourishing

Flourishing

Posted by | Sep 2, 2020 | |

More than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives, affecting everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of industry bosses and employees, to university curricula, all the way to the inner longings of our hearts. Integral to both globalization and religions are compelling, overlapping, and sometimes competing visions of what it means to live well.

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Evolution of the Word: The New Testament in the Order the Books Were Written

Evolution of the Word: The New Testament in the Order the Books Were Written

Posted by | Sep 2, 2020 | |

By presenting the New Testament books in the order they were written, bestselling Bible scholar Marcus Borg reveals how spiritually and politically radical the early Jesus movement began and how it slowly became domesticated. Evolution of the Word is an incredible value: not only are readers getting a deeply insightful new book from the author of Speaking Christian and Jesus, but also the full-text of the New Testament—and one of the only Bibles organized in chronological order and including explanatory annotations that give readers a more informed understanding of the Scripture that is so close to their hearts and lives.

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Dialogue in a Pluralistic World

Dialogue in a Pluralistic World

Posted by | Sep 1, 2020 | |

Pluralism is a characteristic features of the world we live in. People belonging to different cultures, religions, languages, traditions and ways of the together in reasonable harmony.These cultural and religious traditions and woven together in such a way that, while every culture and religion keeps its uniqueness, it is also enriched by other cultures and religions. But in recent years there has been an increased rupture in harmonious living.The communal conflicts and violence in the past few years is causing to the beautiful fabric of humanity.

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