Shantung compound: 2,000 men, women and children...

This book is about the life of a civilian internment camp in North China during the war against Japan. Unlike some other volumes dealing with such a subject, this one has no horrors to relate. We i…

Message and existence: an introduction to Christian theology

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1-57910-803-2

Collation

257p.; 22 cm.

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230 GIL m

Through the tempest: theological voyages in a pluralistic culture

Western society continues to be faced with numerous consequences of pluralism - ecological concerns, global imbalances, racial injustices, and gender discrimination. Christianity, at the same time,…

Nature, reality and the sacred: the nexus of science and religion, c.1-2

angdon Gilkey has been doing theology and writing since he was interned in China as a 20 year old in World War II. He compares the strengths and weaknesses of both theology and science in trying to…

Naming the whirlwind: the renewal God-language

This book, like the theological situation to which it addresses it-self, has been slowly ripening through various stages. It appeared first in the form of a paper on the radical. In that form, befo…

Society and the sacred

Society is inherently religious, and without religious criticism and concern society can become demonic. Religious myths answer the deepest questions of our identity: our origins, our destiny and t…

Reaping the whirlwind: a Christian interpretation..

Change is basic in human experience and in the world that is experienced. To be in time, as we in our world are, is to be subject to changing moments as day replaces day, to new relations between t…

Creationism on trial: evolution and God at little rock

As a theologian, Gilkey argued that creationism is religion, not science, and therefore inappropriate to a science curriculum. As an account of the trial, the book is lively reading; more important…

Religion and the scientific future

modernity has changed but by no means eradicated either the necessity for myth or the fundamental forms of its discourse. Scientific understanding through disciplined inquiry of the spatiotemporal …