By Dr. Arnold R. Fleagle & Dr. Donald A. Lichi The “Broken Windows Theory” suggests that a community can reduce crime and maintain social order when small problems are fixed promptly. Alternatively, minor vandalism (such as broken windows) left unrepaired, sends the message that no one cares-inviting more serious crimes. Fleagle and Lichi have applied this theory to the problem of sexual temptation and moral failure....
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By Grace D. Cumming Long Grace Cumming Long provides us with a Christian ethics from the perspective of women’s experience, rooted in passion and reason, emotion and research. Through a collage of autobiographical narratives and feminist theologies Cumming Long constructs an unconventional approach to moral questioning, using the arts of cooking, painting, quilting, and weaving to illuminate how Christians must be creative in...
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By Daniel J. Levinson The first full report from the team that discovered the patterns of adult development, this breakthrough study ranks in significance with the original works of Kinsey and Erikson, exploring and explaining the specific periods of personal development through which all human begins must pass – and which together form a common pattern underlying all human lives. (Publisher’s description) Available at Christian...
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Edited by Stephen B. Boyd, W. Merle Longwood, & Mark W. Muesse Contributors to this book – historians, biblical specialists, theologians, ethicists, and scholars of comparative religions – examine the relationship between religious tradition and manhood. The essays cover a broad range of topics – from the dynamics of power in shaping masculine identity, to the role religion plays in shaping masculine identity, to the experience of...
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By Christopher Love The height of hopelessness is to be without Christ. And the despair felt by such a person in this world pales in comparison to what they will feel in the next one. In this scarce Puritan volume, never reprinted since the 17th century, Christopher Love describes the misery of being without Christ and the benefits of being in Christ. He distinguishes true hopes from false hopes, and gives evidences for knowing that...
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