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Books
General
Alston, W.P., (1991) Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience, Cornell University Press, Ithaca & London, xii + 320 pp.
Bauckham, R., (2006) Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI & Cambridge, UK, xiii + 538 pp.
Bosch, D.J., (1991) Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission, Series ed. Scherer, J.A.; American Society of Missiology Series, No. 16; Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York, 587 pp.
Brueggemann, W., (1984) The Message of the Psalms: A Theological Commentary, Augsburg, Minneapolis, 206 pp.
Greenlee, J.H., (1964) Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI, 164 pp.
Hall, D.J., (1990) The Steward: A Biblical Symbol Come of Age, Revised Edition; W. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. & Friendship Press, Grand Rapids, MI & New York, xiii + 258 pp.
Johnston, D. and Sampson, C., (1994) Religion, the Missing Dimension of Statecraft, Oxford University Press, New York, xviii + 350 pp.
King, M.L., Jr., (1963) Strength to Love, Fortress Press edition published 1981, Philadelphia, 158 pp.
Küng, H., (1987) Why I Am Still a Christian, Abingdon Press, Nashville, 112 pp.
Küng, H. and Ching, J., (1989) Christianity and Chinese Religions, trans. Beyer, P.; SCM Press Ltd., London, 309 pp.
Küng, H., Van Ess, J., Von Stietencron, H. and Bechert, H., (1986) Christianity and the World Religions, trans. Heinegg, P., from 1984 German edition.; SCM Press Ltd., London, 460 pp.
Merton, T., (1967) Mystics and Zen Masters, The Noonday Press, New York, x + 303 pp.
Merton, T., (1999) The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals, edited by P. Hart & J. Montaldo; Lion Publishing, Oxford, 448 pp.
Moltmann, J., (1981) The Trinity and the Kingdom of God, trans. Kohl, M.; SCM Press, London, xvi + 256 pp.
Nash, J.A., (1991) Loving Nature: Ecological Integrity and Christian Responsibility, Abingdon Press, Nashville, in cooperation with The Churches' Center for Theology and Public Policy, Washington DC, 256 pp.
Plantinga, A. and Wolterstorff, N. (Eds.), (1983) Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN, 321 pp.
van Inwagen, P., (1995) God, Knowledge & Mystery: Essays in Philosophical Theology, Cornell University Press, Ithaca & London, 284 pp.
Volf, M., (2005) Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI, 247 pp.
Willard, D., (1988) The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives, Harper & Row, San Francisco, xii + 276 pp.
Faith & action
Bloesch, D.G., (1987) Freedom for Obedience: Evangelical Ethics for Contemporary Times, Harper & Row, San Francisco, xviii + 342 pp.
Bonhoeffer, D., (1959) The Cost of Discipleship, trans. Fuller, R.H., from the German Nachfolge, first published in 1937; SCM Press Ltd., London, 285 pp.
Hall, D.J., (1990) The Steward: A Biblical Symbol Come of Age, Revised Edition; Eerdmans & Friendship Press, Grand Rapids, MI & New York, xiii + 258 pp.
MacArthur, J.F., Jr, (1994) The Gospel According to Jesus: What Does Jesus Mean When He Says "Follow Me"?, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI, xxiii + 302 pp.
McGrath, A., (1986) Iustitia Dei: A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification - From 1500 to the Present Day, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, viii + 264 pp.
McGrath, A., (1986) Iustitia Dei: A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification - The Beginnings to the Reformation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, xiii + 252 pp.
Marshall, I.H., (1995) Kept by the Power of God: A Study of Perseverence and Falling Away, 3rd Edition; Paternoster Press, Carlisle, 302 pp.
Nash, J.A., (1991) Loving Nature: Ecological Integrity and Christian Responsibility, Abingdon Press, Nashville, in cooperation with The Churches' Center for Theology and Public Policy, Washington DC, 256 pp.
Romero, O., (1985) Voice of the Voiceless: The Four Pastoral Letters and Other Statements, trans. Walsh, M.J.; Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY, 202 pp.
Spencer, N. and White, R., (2007) Christianity, Climate Change and Sustainable Living, SPCK, London, xiv + 236 pp.
Wallis, J., (2005) God's Politics: Why the American Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get it, Lion, Oxford, xxx + 384 pp.
Wheeler, S.E., (1995) Wealth as Peril and Obligation: The New Testament on Possessions, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI, xviii + 158 pp.
The problem of evil
Reichenbach, B.R., (1982) Evil and a Good God, Fordham University Press, New York, xv + 198 pp.
Surin, K., (1986) Theology and the Problem of Evil, Basil Blackwell, Oxford & New York, xii + 180 pp.
Wright, N.T., (2006) Evil and the Justice of God, SPCK, London, x + 117 pp.
History
Boer, H.R., (1976) A Short History of the Early Church, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI, xiv + 184 pp.
Frend, W.H.C., (1982) The Early Church: From the Beginnings to 461, SCM Press, London, xi + 273 pp.
Gibbon, E., (1776-1788) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vols; Everyman's Library, 1910 edition; Alfred A. Knopf, New York, London & Toronto. [Still well worth reading 220 years later.]
González, J.L., (1984) The Story of Christianity: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation, Harper & Row, San Francisco, Vol. 1, xviii + 429 pp.
González, J.L., (1985) The Story of Christianity: The Reformation to the Present Day, Harper & Row, San Francisco, Vol. 2, xii + 414 pp.
González, J.L., (1987) A History of Christian Thought: From the Beginnings to the Council of Chalcedon, Revised Edition; Abingdon, Nashville, xii + 414 pp.
Oldenbourg, Z., (2001) The Crusades, Phoenix Press, London, first published in 1966 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, xviii + 650 pp.
Ye'or, B., (1996) The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude, trans. Kochan, M. and Littman, D.; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison, 522 pp.
Celtic Christianity
Adam, D., (1994) The Open Gate: Celtic Prayers for Growing Spiritually, Triangle - SPCK, London, 118 pp.
Finney, J., (1996) Recovering the Past: Celtic and Roman Mission, Dalton, Longman & Todd, London, viii + 148 pp.
Lehane, B., (1994) Early Celtic Christianity, First published 1968 by John Murray Ltd; Constable, London, 240 pp.
Mitton, M., (1995) Restoring the Woven Cord: Strands of Celtic Christianity for the Church Today, Dalton, Longman & Todd, London, xiii + 178 pp.
Simpson, R., (1995) Exploring Celtic Spirituality: Historic Roots for Our Future, Hodder & Stroughton, London, Sydney & Auckland, xii + 210 pp.
For recovering young-Earth creationists
Albritton, C.C., Jr., (1986) The Abyss of Time: Changing Conceptions of the Earth's Antiquity after the Sixteenth Century, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., Los Angeles, 251 pp.
Bailey, L.R., (1993) Genesis, Creation and Creationism, Paulist Press, New York & Mahwah, NJ, xi + 259 pp.
Dalrymple, G.B., (1991) The Age of the Earth, Stanford University Press, xvi + 474 pp.
Johnson, M.R., (1988) Genesis, Geology and Catastrophism: A Critique of Creationist Science and Biblical Literalism, The Paternoster Press, Exeter, 171 pp.
Ramm, B., (1954) The Christian View of Science and Scripture, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI, 256 pp.
Ross, H., (1994) Creation and Time: A Biblical and Scientific Perspective on the Creation-Date Controversy, Navpress, Colorado Springs, CO, 187 pp.
van Till, H.J., Snow, R.E., Stek, J.H. and Young, D.A., (1990) Portraits of Creation: Biblical and Scientific Perspectives on the World's Formation, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI, 285 pp.
Wonderly, D., (1977) God's Time-Records in Ancient Sediments: Evidence of Long Time Spans in Earth's History, Crystal Press, Flint, Michigan, 258 pp.
Wonderly, D., (1987) Neglect of Geologic Data: Sedimentary Strata Compared with Young Earth Creationist Writings, Interdisciplinary Biblical Research Institute, Hatfield, PA.
Young, D.A., (1988) Christianity and the Age of the Earth, Artisan Sales, Thousand Oaks, California, 188 pp.
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Papers
Dunn, J.D.G., (1992) "The Justice of God - A Renewed Perspective on Justification by Faith", Journal of Theological Studies, Vol. 43, No. 1, April, pp. 1-22.
Garlington, D.B., (1990) "The Obedience of Faith in the Letter to the Romans. Part I: The Meaning of 'upakoe pisteos (Rom 1:5; 16:26)", Westminster Theological Journal, Vol. 52, No. 2, Fall, pp. 201-224.
Garlington, D.B., (1991) "The Obedience of Faith in the Letter to the Romans. Part II: The Obedience of Faith and Judgment by Works", Westminster Theological Journal, Vol. 53, No. 1, Spring, pp. 47-72.
Garlington, D.B., (1993) "The Obedience of Faith in the Letter to the Romans. Part III: The Obedience of Christ and the Obedience of the Christian", Westminster Theological Journal, Vol. 55, No. 1, Spring, pp. 87-112.
Garlington, D.B., (1993) "The Obedience of Faith in the Letter to the Romans. Part III: The Obedience of Christ and the Obedience of the Christian (continued)." Westminster Theological Journal, Vol. 55, No. 2, Fall, pp. 281-297.
Houghton, J., (2007) "Global Warming, Climate Change and Sustainability: Challenge to Scientists, Policy-makers and Christians", Briefing Paper 14, Cheltenham, UK, The John Ray Initiative, 16 pp.
Snodgrass, K.R., (1986) "Justification by Grace - To the Doers: An Analysis of the Place of Romans 2 in the Theology of Paul", New Testament Studies, Vol. 32, No. 1, January, pp. 72-93.
Young, D.A., (1987) "Scripture in the Hands of Geologists (Part One)", Westminster Theological Journal, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 1-34.
Young, D.A., (1987) "Scripture in the Hands of Geologists (Part Two)", Westminster Theological Journal, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 257-304.
Young, D.A., (1988) "Theology and Natural Science", The Reformed Journal, Vol. 38, No. 5, May, pp. 10-16.
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Quotes
Biblical passages
Isaiah 10:1-4 "Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless."
Amos 5:21-24 "I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the offerings of well being of your fatted animals I will not look upon. Take away from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream."
Isaiah 58:6-7 "Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them, and not to hide yourself from your own kin? "
Micah 6:8 "He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?"
Proverbs 14:31 "Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him."
Proverbs 21:13 "If you close your ear to the cry of the poor, you will cry out and not be heard."
Matthew 7:21-23 "Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many deeds of power in your name?’ Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; go away from me, you evildoers.’ "
Matthew 25:42-45 Jesus said, "for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.' ... 'Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.' "
Romans 3: 22b-24: "For there is no distinction, since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; they are now justified by his grace as a gift through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus."
2 Corinthians 8:13-14 "I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but as a matter of equality your abundance at the present time should supply their want, so that their abundance may supply your want, that there may be equality."
Galatians 5:14 "For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' "
Ephesians 2:8-10 "For
by grace you have been
saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of
God -
not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what he
has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
beforehand to be our way of life."
James 5:1-5 "Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days. Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter."
1 John 3:17 "How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?"
Revelation 11:16-18 "Then the twenty four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God, singing, 'We give you thanks, Lord God Almighty, who are and who were, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign. The nations raged, but your wrath has come, and the time for judging the dead, for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints and all who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying those who destroy the earth.'"
Why social concern lies at the heart of the Christian faith
"The more fully we recognize that Paul’s teaching on divine righteousness is Old Testament through and through, the more we must also recognize the character of that righteousness as calling for a righteousness in response which is social in character and gives highest priority to sustaining the disadvantaged in society. Unless these two aspects of Old Testament thought are firmly grasped, the concept of righteousness is bound to become distorted: righteousness as essentially involving relationships, arising out of relationships expressed in relationships; and righteousness as both horizontal and vertical, as involving responsibility to the neighbour as part and parcel of one’s responsibility towards God. In Hebrew thought it would not be possible for someone to be righteous apart from, without reference to that individual’s responsibility to others; it would not be possible to be righteous before God while remaining involved in unjust relationships with fellow humans. And central in this understanding of righteousness was the recognition of society’s responsibility towards the disadvantaged and the concern to conform social relationships to the model of the caring family. In short, this discovery of the horizontal and social dimension of justification by faith indicates that social concerns lie at the heart of this so characteristic and fundamental Christian and Protestant doctrine. Which is to say that the obligation to such social and political concern lies at the heart of our faith."
Dunn, J.D.G., (1992) "The Justice of God - A Renewed Perspective on Justification by Faith", Journal of Theological Studies, Vol. 43, No. 1, April, pp. 1-22; pp. 20-21.
"[A]cceptability before the just and gracious God is inseparable from a lived out responsibility for the disadvantaged neighbour and the enemy."
Dunn, J.D.G., (1992) "The Justice of God - A Renewed Perspective on Justification by Faith", Journal of Theological Studies, Vol. 43, No. 1, April, pp. 1-22; pp. 20-21; p. 22.
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Links
Evangelicals for Social Action
Interlinear Bible software, including Greek & Hebrew - and it's free.
Iona Community - "The Iona Community is a dispersed Christian ecumenical community working for peace and social justice, rebuilding of community and the renewal of worship."
ISCAST - Institute for the Study of Christianity in an Age of Science and Technology
Science and Creationism - A view from the US National Academy of Sciences
Sojourners - Christians for Peace and Justice
Zadok Institute for Christianity and Society
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