One King One Faith

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Monsignor Johnson, a former Anglican minister and Catholic convert through reading and encountering the life and powerful witness of St. Therese of Lisieux (Author, Spiritual Childhood: The Spirituality of St. Therese of Lisieux), presents a systematic, clear and convincing treatment based on solid Scriptural evidence for the case that there is only one Lord, one faith and one baptism. An inspiring and lucid work of apologetics.

"Will be the definitive work on the Parlement in the Reformation and Wars of Religion."--Orest R. Ranum, author of The Fronde, a French Revolution

How do we make sense of the world's different religions? In this creative thought experiment, Peter Kreeft invites us to encounter dialogues on the major faiths with his characters Thomas Keptic, Bea Lever, and Professor Fesser. Ultimately Kreeft gives us helpful tools for thinking fairly and critically about competing religious beliefs and how they relate to one another.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3: 16). This book has selections of KJV 1611, accompanied with intriguing illustrations. As an untraditional artist, his work varies from subtle and simple to delicate but bold, using different textures and multimedia for contrast and flow. A picture tells a thousand words. Expand your mind and open your heart to all the gifts our God has given to each and every one of us. About the Illustrator Stephen Iandolo has received his creative gifts through the grace of God. A musician from the age of nine, his love of music started opening creative talents. Through the years, playing small venues to large, realizing that there was still more within himself unfulfilled. Being aware from a young age of his artistic talents, he decided again to explore there. Drawing then painting which he has actively been doing for several years. The Illustrator lives a quiet and simple life where he can enjoy nature, and he spends his free time playing Christian music on the drums, keyboards and guitar, painting fine art and studying the word of God. At these times, he feels God's spirit present. Being an artist, he uses all mediums""paints, pencils, oils and applied objects to create dimension, depth and symmetry. This is the first publication of Stephen's gift""a twenty-year-old dream finally brought to life.

The idea that religion has a dangerous tendency to promote violence is part of the conventional wisdom of Western societies, and it underlies many of our institutions and policies, from limits on the public role of religion to efforts to promote liberal democracy in the Middle East. William T. Cavanaugh challenges this conventional wisdom by examining how the twin categories of religion and the secular are constructed. A growing body of scholarly work explores how the category 'religion' has been constructed in the modern West and in colonial contexts according to specific configurations of political power. Cavanaugh draws on this scholarship to examine how timeless and transcultural categories of 'religion and 'the secular' are used in arguments that religion causes violence. He argues three points: 1) There is no transhistorical and transcultural essence of religion. What counts as religious or secular in any given context is a function of political configurations of power; 2) Such a transhistorical and transcultural concept of religion as non-rational and prone to violence is one of the foundational legitimating myths of Western society; 3) This myth can be and is used to legitimate neo-colonial violence against non-Western others, particularly the Muslim world.

We are saved by faith when we trust that Jesus died for our sins. This is the gospel, or so we are taught. But what is faith? And does this accurately summarize the gospel? Because faith is frequently misunderstood and the climax of the gospel misidentified, the gospel's full power remains untapped. While offering a fresh proposal for what faith means within a biblical theology of salvation, Matthew Bates presses the church toward a new precision: we are saved solely by allegiance to Jesus the king. Instead of faith alone, Christians must speak about salvation by allegiance alone. The book includes discussion questions for students, pastors, and church groups and a foreword by Scot McKnight.