Who is Jesus for Muslims? | The Christian Century
Jun 7, 2017 · Zeki Saritoprak’s book Islam’s Jesus examines the role of Jesus in the Qur’an and in Islamic theology.He has written about many Islamic theologians, mystics, and scholars, including the 13th-century poet and Sufi mystic Rumi and the early 20th-century Turkish Muslim scholar Bediüzzaman Said Nursî.
Grace in the face of suicide: Theological questions and hopes
Mar 8, 2000 · Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, by Kay Redfield Jamison.Every 17 minutes someone in America takes his or her own life. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students, and the third among teenagers. In 1995 more young...
Called but not ordained: The need for lay pastors
Jul 13, 2010 · For the sake of discretion, call him Hank—just don’t tell him that he’s not a real pastor. He has been serving churches for 30 years and has never been busier than he is today. A calendar posted in the foyer of the church he serves bears him...
Does the promise still hold? Israel and the land: An essay and ...
Jan 13, 2009 · How are Christians to understand this promise in the 21st century? We asked Gary Anderson to write an essay, and Walter Brueggeman, Marlin Jeschke and Donald E. Wagner to respond.Walter Brueggemann's responseMarlin Jeschke's responseDonald E....
Paul wrote 1 Corinthians to a community in the middle of a culture …
Jan 3, 2018 · Underlying this mess, there were four main difficulties: a basic failure in relating to one another in love; a dramatic failure of the local church leaders to act considerately in the face of their competition for status and influence; arrogant theological reasoning that denied the importance of the body (which we might call “Christian …
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Sep 1, 2024 · Thoughtful, Independent, Progressive. Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.
Why did Paul prefer singleness for himself and others?
Jul 18, 2018 · But Paul rejects the notion that married Christians should remain permanently celibate (1 Cor. 7:1–3). After all, to say that married couples should avoid sexual expression altogether would be to deny that marriage and human sexuality were created goods, designed and given to us by God.
On Luther and his lies about the Jews | The Christian Century
Oct 25, 2017 · But the story does not end there. From the hell of the Shoah came Christian self-reflection on centuries of Christian anti-Judaism and culpability that enabled the persecution of the Jews throughout the ages, culminating with the Holocaust.
Signs of Mary Magdalene in John 11 | The Christian Century
E lizabeth Schrader Polczer is assistant professor of New Testament at Villanova University. Her research focuses on textual criticism, Mary Magdalene, and the Gospel of John. Hear the full version of this interview on the C entury podcast In Search Of.. Your path into biblical studies is a strange one, and it goes directly through Mary Magdalene.
The biblical Amalekites are the Israelites’ enemies—and their kin
Apr 21, 2019 · A reading practice of cutting and stitching back together will not serve us well in our encounter with the story of the Amalekites. For ancient Jewish readers, Amalek is swept into the long story of God’s faithfulness to Israel, the complicated choosing of a king, and the protection of God’s people from their enemies.