The Delicate Kingdom of Heaven is a thought provoking self-help book on how to cope with the loss of a loved one. You grieve because of the love in your heart for the dearly departed and their love for you. Our personal devastation is due to love not death. The tears in your eyes, the pain and sadness in your heart reflect the loving devotion you shared together. These feelings are now the painted strokes, the woven fabric and the pottery clay that make up the artwork of your life. You are an extremely dynamic individual and by making small modifications in the way you think can encompass a positive affect on the healing process as you slowly recover.Those of you who are now confronted with a life changing transition due to age, terminal illness, disease or any other life-threatening circumstance. The Delicate Kingdom of Heaven illustrates just how important the power of your love is to your family and friends. Your embraces consol their aniety and although fragile your strength radiates through and touches their lives warmly. Your bravery, courage and devotion hold our loving respect and deepest admiration.

“Perhaps the best book on Christian anarchism since Jacques Ellul . . . a timely and valuable addition to resurgent interest in political theology.”—Eric Gregory, Princeton University Anarchy and the Kingdom of God reclaims the concept of “anarchism” both as a political philosophy and a way of thinking of the sociopolitical sphere from a theological perspective. Through a genuinely theological approach to the issues of power, coercion, and oppression, Davor Džalto advances human freedom—one of the most prominent forces in human history—as a foundational theological principle in Christianity. That principle enables a fresh reexamination of the problems of democracy and justice in the age of global (neoliberal) capitalism.

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For centuries, the Christian churches and Christian theology have sought to forge their own identity by challenging the identity of Judaism. Christians often inquired whether Israel was still the people of God, whether the church had replaced Israel. An affirmative answer to the latter inquiry is often described as the "theology of substitution": the church has taken Israel's place. The implication is that there is no longer any place for Israel in God's plan of salvation. The history of Christian anti-Judaism is dramatic proof of the violent potential that is implicit in this Christian theology of substitution. After Auschwitz, the search for an alternative to this theology, a search which touches the heart of Christianity, has become a necessity. The central question of this book is whether - and how - Christianity can maintain its identity if it no longer understands itself as a substitute for Judaism. Didier Pollefeyt shows how the theme of substitution constitutes the basic theological problem for Christians in the encounter with Judaism. Bertold Klappert develops an alternative for the Christian theology of substitution by drawing on the work of Protestant theologians. Leon Klenicki offers a Jewish perspective, as he seeks to develop a theory of dialogical encounter for Jews and Christians. Terrence Merrigan reflects on the way in which the Christian rediscovery of Judaism can be significant in the light of the postmodern challenge of religious pluralism. Rik Hoet analyzes biblical metaphors which might serve as an alternative for the Christian theology of substitution.