Drawing on the story of her own monastic community, a best-selling author shoes how to redfine the essentials of faith in a time when old ways and formulas no longer serve.

This book is a detailed presentation of the liberating stories of Jesus. They are offered in the context of the cultural, societal, economic, political and religious background against which Jesus proclaimed the imminence of the coming of the Kingdom of God. The purpose of this work is to immerse readers into a hearing of Jesus' parables from the perspective of 1st century Palestine so that their radical demands for personal conversion can be heard anew, as if for the first time. Hence, it ought to leave us all rather uncomfortable for who amongst us has converted to the ways of the Kingdom? Yet, who amongst us does not want to? This book tells you how. It represents a challenge to the Christian believer to clarify his or her Christian faith in the light of the ippsissimus verbum (The very word) of Jesus. A prayer exercise is offered at the end of each Parable to help personalize its point.

In this carefully wrought, meticulously documented study, Edward P. Wimberly and Anne Streaty Wimberly utilize the voices of slaves and former slaves to examine conversion experiences vis-a-vis the psychological, theological, and sociocultural worlds of blacks from 1750 to 1930. Unprecedentedly holistic in its treatment, Liberation and Human Wholeness provides a fascinating look at religio-mystic human liberation from the perspective of a uniquely Afro-American coming to Christ.

David Currie was raised in a devout Christian family whose father was a fundamentalist preacher and both parents teachers at Moody Bible Institute. Currie's whole upbringing was immersed in the life of fundamentalist Protestantism - theology professors, seminary presidents and founders of evangelical mission agencies were frequent guests at his family dinner table. Currie received a degree from Trinity International University and studied in the Masters of Divinity program. This book was written as an explanation to his fundamentalist and evangelical friends and family about why he became a Roman Catholic. Currie presents a very lucid, systematic and intelligible account of the reasons for his conversion to the ancient Church that Christ founded. He gives a detailed discussion of the important theological and doctrinal beliefs Catholic and evangelicals hold in common, as well as the key doctrines that separate us, particularly the Eucharist, the Pope, and Mary.

This volume addresses a theme long essential to feminist and liberationist theology: in what can we hope, and what role should hope play in our actions and our lives? It provides a constructive set of proposals and fills a crucial gap in theological resources as well-known contributors address the theme from their different contexts and fields.