Author: Charles Taylor
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: secular
Number of Pages: 896
Published: 2007-09-20
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0674026764
ISBN-13: 9780674026766

What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we--in the West, at least--largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean--of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is only one human possibility among others. Taylor, long one of our most insightful thinkers on

Author: Robert Coles
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: mind, secular
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: $47.50
ISBN-10: 0691058059
ISBN-13: 9780691058054

Does the business of daily living distance us from life’s mysteries? Do most Americans value spiritual thinking more as a hobby than as an all-encompassing approach to life? Will the concept of the soul be defunct after the next few generations? Child psychiatrist and best-selling author Robert Coles offers a profound meditation on how secular culture has settled into the hearts and minds of Americans. This book is a sweeping essay on the shift from religious control over Western society to the scientific dominance of the mind. Interwoven into the story is Coles’s personal quest fo

Author: C. John Sommerville
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: university, secular, decline
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-06-29
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0195306953
ISBN-13: 9780195306958

The American university has embraced a thorough secularism that makes it increasingly marginal in a society that is characterized by high levels of religious belief. The very secularization that was supposed to be a liberating influence has resulted in the university’s failure to provide leadership in political, cultural, social, and even scientific arenas.In The Decline of the Secular University, C. John Sommerville explores several different ways in which the secular university fails in its mission through its trivialization of religion. He notes how little attention is being given to

Author: William J Federer
Publisher: Amerisearch, Inc.
Keywords: god, america, reasons, secular, three
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2004-05-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0975345516
ISBN-13: 9780975345511

"All men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" - Declaration of Independence, 1776 Do you like having rights the government cannot take away? Do you like being equal? Do you like a country with few laws? Then you want America under God! "The Rights of man Come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God" - John F. Kennedy, 1961, Inaugural Address "We believe that all men are created equal, because they are created in the image of God" - Harry S Truman, 1949, Inaugural Address "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religio

Author: George G. Hunter
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Keywords: people, secular
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 1992-01-23
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0687179300
ISBN-13: 9780687179305

"Should be required reading for everyone who wants to communicate the gospel effectively to unchurched persons". --Robert H. Schuller, Founder, the Crystal Cathedral.

Author: J. P. Moreland
Publisher: Baker Academic
Keywords: christianity, defense, city, secular, scaling
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1987-02-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0801062225
ISBN-13: 9780801062223

Here are up-to-date arguments for God’s existence and for Jesus’ deity and resurrection, answers to objections to Christian theism, and discussions of four key issues.

Author: Robert Audi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: reason, secular, commitment, religious
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2000-03-13
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0521775701
ISBN-13: 9780521775700

Many religious people are alarmed about features of the current age--violence in the media, a pervasive hedonism, a marginalization of religion, and widespread abortion. These concerns influence politics, but just as there should be a separation between church and state, so should there be a balance between religious commitments and secular arguments calling for social reforms. Robert Audi offers a principle of secular rationale, which does not exclude religious grounds for action but which rules out restricting freedom except on grounds that any rational citizen would accept. This book desc