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Palestinian Christians: Realities and Hopes

Studies in Church History, 2000
As Palestinian society in the West Bank and Gaza has undergone political transformation from twenty-nine-year-long Israeli occupation to national authority rule, the fifty thousand Christians who make up two per cent of the total Palestinian population in these territories are also witness and party to this transformation.
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The Reality of Christian Ethics

2019
Abstract Reality is a central idea in Bonhoeffer’s Ethics. Ethics must deal with real human problems and choices. Bonhoeffer learned this as a participant in the German resistance to Hitler, but he believed the lesson applies to all conditions of modern life.
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Christian Realism and the New Realities

2008
Are religion and public life really separate spheres of human activity? Should they be? In this book, Robin W. Lovin criticizes contemporary political and theological views that separate religion from public life as though these areas were systematically opposed and makes the case for a more integrated understanding of modern society.
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The Spiritual Reality: A Christian World View

Journal of Family Social Work, 1998
SUMMARY Every human being must answer the question, does God exist? If the answer is no, God does not exist, the follow-up question is, where or how will I anchor myself in life? If the answer is yes God exists, the follow-up question must be, what is God's nature?
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Editorial: Christianity as Material and Virtual Reality

Studies in World Christianity, 2011
Augustine, writing to Jerome at the start of the fifth century after release of Jerome’s Latin translation of the Christian scriptures: A certain bishop, one of our brethren, having introduced in the church over which he presides the reading of your version, came upon a word in the book of the prophet Jonah, of which you have given a very different ...
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Charisma and Social Reality in Primitive Christianity

The Journal of Religion, 1974
In contemporary parlance "charisma" is scarcely more than a journalistic term used to explain a leader whose success is attributed, at least in part, to an unusually attractive public personality and style. This devalues a currency first circulated in our culture by the apostle Paul and fixed in the modern sociological imagination by Max Weber.
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Quantum Reality: Some Implications for Christian Theology

2023
Problem Science (and also the myths concerning science) plays a dom inant role in contem porary society. In this study, the epistemological implications of quantum physics were investigated in order to clear aw ay some of the m yths concerning science. Method Q uantum mechanics was studied.
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Returning to Reality

2015
Could it be that we have lost touch with some basic human realities in our day of high-tech efficiency, frenetic competition, and ceaseless consumption? Have we turned from the moral, the spiritual, and even the physical realities that make our lives meaningful?
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Delinquent Realities: Christianity, Formality, and Security in the Americas

American Quarterly, 2011
In response to growing postwar violence in Guatemala, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) cosponsored a reality television show in which ten former gang members were split into two teams, each of which was expected to build a sustainable business within Guatemala's formal economy.
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Christian Theology and Jewish Reality: An Essay-Review

Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1977
Reflection on the Holocaust, to which these collected papers from the 1974 symposium in New York contribute and invite us, has led to a new respect for Judaism that marks an important development in JewishChristian relations. Of the many valuable contributions, Prof.
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