In this groundbreaking examination of the antislavery origins of liberal Protestantism, Molly Oshatz contends that the antebellum slavery debates forced antislavery Protestants to adopt an historicist understanding of truth and morality ...
As Spong exposes and challenges what he calls the "terrible texts of the Bible," laying bare the evil done by them in the name of God, he also seeks to redeem these texts, hoping to recover their ultimate depth and purpose.
This landmark study of American religion, recipient of the National Religious Book Award in 1976, is being brought back into print with an updated bibliography.
Refutes every aspect of the deadly error that one religion is as good as another and that a person has a moral right to choose whichever religion suits him best. Cuts through the foggy religious thinking rampant today! Impr. 204 pgs, PB
Religious progressives Buehrens and Parker discuss the political and personal relevance of the progressive theological movement in the early twenty-first century, covering challenges such as the teachings of fundamentalists, with anecdotes ...
Liberalism forms the dominant political ideology of the modern world. Despite its pervasive influence, this is the first book-length treatment of liberal political thought from a Christian theological perspective.