Summary: Now identified mainly with Fundamentalism, the Evangelical movement that began in 18th-century Britain was an exuberant expression of Protestantism that quickly spread across the globe. What made it so compelling that slaves and slave-owners, the poor and the powerful alike, embraced it in America, Africa, and Asia? This program studies the cultural, theological, and political framework of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program brings viewers to exceptional sacred sites throughout the Near East and Asia to trace the first expansion of Christianity from Jerusalem - which was not to Rome with Paul, but to Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Armenia, and Ethiopia. After the Siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD followers of Jesus fled to Asia Minor, establishing a thriving ecclesiastical community at least 100 years before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: On July 16, 1054, a dramatic event occurred during the worship service in the Church of Hagia Sophia: a papal delegation delivered a document excommunicating the Patriarch of Constantinople, and the Patriarch promptly excommunicated the Pope in return. Known as The Great Schism, the act divided Eastern from Western Catholic Christianity. Going on location to the most venerated sites in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Two thousand years after the crucifixion of Jesus, Christianity has a greater number of followers than any other religion in the world. What are its essential beliefs? Where did they come from? How are they understood by different denominations? How do they affect the way we live? Zondervan Handbook of Christian Beliefs has been written by an international team of expert contributors with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 230 ZONSummary: In this TEDTalk, philosopher and scientist Daniel Dennett calls for religion - all religion - to be taught in schools so it can be addressed as a natural phenomenon. He then takes on Rick Warren's book The Purpose Driven Life, disputing its claim that to be moral, one must deny evolution. Dennett sums up his recent work with this statement: "You might say it's about the reverse engineering of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: If God exists, why is there so much suffering? What happens after you die? Does God hear our prayers? In this program a panel of teens pose the hard questions to a Catholic pilgrimage leader, a Sufi Muslim practitioner, and an Anglican minister as together they examine the relationship between the physical world and the spiritual. The group find areas of agreement between Christianity and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: For more than a millennium Western civilization looked to the Church for answers to questions about life’s meaning. But for many, acceptance of ecclesiastical doctrine wasn’t enough. This program traces the roots of modern religious skepticism back over 400 years to examine both the unraveling and the endurance of Christian belief. It explores challenges to established theologies in the ideas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The Reformation was a period of rebellion, upheaval, and war - all sparked by one man whose revolt against church authority led to the creation of Protestantism and ultimately, to a reinvigoration of the Catholic faith. This program travels to churches in Europe, Britain, and Mexico to explore the key figures, philosophies, and movements of the Protestant Reformation. It looks at the issues...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Ehrman, Bart D.
Summary: Presents a history of Christianity from the time of Jesus to the end of the fourth century. Includes examination of Jewish-Christian relationships, Christian relationships with the Roman Empire, persecution of Christians, and the development of church offices and theology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2004
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 230 EHR Part 1Call number: CD 230 EHR Part 2
Summary: Have you ever had a burning question that seemed off limits or inappropriate to ask about Christianity, the Bible, or Jesus? You Can't Ask That! gathers 50 of the most provocative, challenging, or otherwise taboo questions that many of us have wondered about but few have actually asked. Edited by Christian Piatt, who once had a bible thrown at his head for asking too many questions during a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chalice Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.6 YOUKruger, C. Baxter.
Summary: Young's novel, The Shack, has been embraced by Christians worldwide. Kruger explores this story of a man lifted from the depths of despair through his life-altering encounter with God, and guides readers into a deeper understanding of the core message of the novel: God is love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: FaithWords 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Levinovitz, Alan
Summary: "The widespread confusion of Nature with God and "natural" with holy has far-reaching negative consequences, from misinformation about everyday food and health choices to mistaken justifications of sexism, racism, and flawed economic policies"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 113 LEVMelilli, Julie
Summary: Written to make the truths of the gospel accessible to children, this book uses simple illustrations and concrete, easy-to-understand language to explain important theological ideas, such as sin, heaven, the Bible, and the Holy Spirit. Each of the 25 chapters introduces a biblical concept by asking a question and answering it with simple vocabulary and plenty of review to help the information...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossway 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 230 MELVoskamp, Ann
Summary: "New York Times best-selling author Ann Voskamp sits at the edge of her life and all of her own unspoken brokenness and asks: What if you really want to live abundantly before it's too late? What do you do if you really want to know abundant wholeness? This is the one begging question that's behind every single aspect of our lives--and one that The Broken Way rises up to explore in the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 VOSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Christ VoskampSummary: Those who wish to pursue a life of pure reason are often attracted to the movement known as secular humanism. This program explores the movement by presenting several humanist inquiries, including: How and why do religions develop? Can morality exist without religion? Is there a humanist narrative that can take the place of myth? How can public policy become truly rational? The film features...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Dallas, Joe
Summary: "You've based your understanding of today's sensitive social issues on the Bible's truth. Mainstream culture not only sees these issues differently but calls you bigoted for rejecting views they've deemed self-evident. So how do you witness Christ's love to those ready to write you off as hateful? Christians in a Cancel Culture breaks down how you can speak wisdom about politically charged and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 230 DALJones, Serene
Summary: "With a voice that is at once frank and poetic, humble and prophetic, intimate and practical, [Serene] Jones makes complex teachings around hatred, forgiveness, mercy, justice, death, sin, and grace understandable and immediately applicable for modern people. Excavating the wisdom of great theological voices--Soren Kierkegaard, Reinhold Niebuhr, John Calvin, James Baldwin, James Cone, Luce...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 234 JONMartin, Charles
Summary: "Writing as our guide, Martin uses a storyteller's imagination to illuminate key moments from the Scriptures, primarily from the life and ministry of Jesus. In addition, Martin shares key moments from his own life journey as a disciple--and bondservant--of Christ and a mentor to others. The result is a striking exploration of truth that helps us not just think differently, but live differently....
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Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It is a philosophy that seeks to replace religion with rites of passage based on compassion and rationality. Despite its overarching goals, Humanism divides into several groups-from hedonism to secularism. This program delineates viewpoints from five articulate humanist proponents who, through thoughtful explanations, evoke the multifaceted landscape of Humanist thought. Participants include...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Many of us find ourselves in the odd situation of not believing in religion - but nevertheless being interested in it, moved by it and sympathetic to some of its aims. We may enjoy religious art and architecture, music and community, and even some of the rituals - while being unable to believe in divine commandments or the existence of a higher being. This book is about those feelings and what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The School of Life Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211.6 REPDe La Torre, Miguel A.
Summary: "How curiously different is this white God from the one preached by Jesus who understood faithfulness by how we treat the hungry and thirsty, the naked and alien, the incarcerated and infirm. This white God of empire may be appropriate for global conquerors who benefit from all that has been stolen and through the labor of all those defined as inferior; but such a deity can never be the God of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8 DE LCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8 DE LEdman, Elizabeth M.
Summary: "Frustrated by the notion that “Christian love = tolerance,” Edman argues that Christianity, at its scriptural core, is not a tradition that is hostile to queer people but is, in fact, itself inherently queer. Edman reveals how “queering” Christianity—that is, disrupting simplistic ways of thinking about gender and sexuality--can illuminate contemporary Christian faith and shows why queer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 230 EDMRohr, Richard.
Contents: In the beginning is the end, overview of method and message -- God needs images, beyond separateness and shame -- Mutual mirroring, biblical truth as the other -- The stumbling stone, from requirements to relationship -- The paradox of power, all hidden things are made known by their opposites -- Bearing the mystery, knowing and not knowing -- The perennial mistake, beyond vengeance and victims...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Anthony Messenger Press 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 248.8 ROHSummary: What do modern art, a symphony, and a documentary film have in common? They all require aesthetic considerations. This program presents the ideas of key figures in the shaping and understanding of aesthetics-from Plato, Francis Hutcheson, and Kant to Leon Battista Alberti, Stendhal, and Tolstoy-and addresses pivotal writings, including Aristotle's Poetics and Morris Weitz's "The Role of Theory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005