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The quiet rise of Christian dominionism
In 2015, Ted Cruz went to Liberty University to announce his run for president. Liberty had long been a bastion of dispensationalism, an evangelical worldview with a premillennial eschatology and a separatist attitude toward society. But the senator …
The new Bonhoeffer movie isn’t just bad. It’s dangerous.
Nov 21, 2024 · Bonhoeffer the movie, on the other hand, presents him as just this kind of moral agent who clearly recognizes good and evil, with the only real question being whether he has the stomach to do what he knows is right. By reducing moral deliberation to a question of will, the movie not only badly misreads Bonhoeffer. It also traffics in the dangerous idea of the Bonhoeffer moment, inviting its ...
January 2025 | The Christian Century
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December 2024 | The Christian Century
Here are some books and other wordy presents the CC staff will be putting under the tree this year.
Does the promise still hold? Israel and the land: An essay and ...
Jan 13, 2009 · How are Christians to understand this promise in the 21st century? We asked Gary Anderson to write an essay, and Walter Brueggeman, Marlin Jeschke and Donald E. Wagner to respond.Walter Brueggemann's responseMarlin Jeschke's responseDonald E....
Who is Jesus for Muslims? | The Christian Century
Jun 7, 2017 · Zeki Saritoprak’s book Islam’s Jesus examines the role of Jesus in the Qur’an and in Islamic theology.He has written about many Islamic theologians, mystics, and scholars, including the 13th-century poet and Sufi mystic Rumi and the early 20th-century Turkish Muslim scholar Bediüzzaman Said Nursî.
The religious aspect of the Israel-Palestine conflict
Jun 16, 2021 · In mid-May, violence between Gaza and Israel intensified to levels not seen for years, with Hamas shooting hundreds of rockets toward the Tel Aviv area and Israel retaliating with heavy strikes in the Gaza Strip. On May 20, Israel and Hamas agreed...
Lectionary essay for November 3 Ordinary 31B Mark 12 28 34 | The ...
Oct 28, 2024 · T his Sunday’s gospel reading captures a pivotal moment in the ministry of Jesus, in which he articulates the core of his ethical teaching in response to a question about the greatest commandment.. Immediately prior to this, the Sadducees question Jesus about the resurrection, which they deny (Mark 12:18–27). Jesus affirms the resurrection, states that earthly institutions like marriage do ...
Can a Jew be a Christian? The challenge of Messianic Judaism: The ...
May 3, 2005 · Can you be a practicing Jew and also believe that Jesus is the messiah? The customary answer is no. Though Christianity began as a Jewish sect, it quickly became an all-gentile affair. Indeed, Christians came to understand themselves as people who...