Biblical Citizenship

Biblical Citizenship
Author: Keith Downey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-09-26
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This study guide provides first a scriptural understanding of citizenship, and second, practical insights to help Christians faithfully participate as citizens of the United States. The focus is on God's revealed will for ordering our earthly lives and administering human affairs. Glimpses in the Old Testament combined with the full revelation of the New Testament provide important principles and instruction regarding freedom, government, and citizenship. From that scriptural vantage point, the study evaluates the founding principles of our own form of government, diagnoses what is happening today in our society, and identifies the ways that churches, pastors, families, and individual Christians can and should faithfully participate. Table of Contents Lesson 1: What the Bible says about freedom, government, and citizenship - Part 1 Lesson 2: What the Bible says about freedom, government, and citizenship - Part 2 Lesson 3: Ordered Liberty: the founding principles of our form of government - is it biblical? Lesson 4: "A Republic, if you can keep it" - the role of the church, pastors, and families Lesson 5: The Christian U.S. citizen Lesson 6: Political, economic, and cultural angles of attack against God Lesson 7: The Christian and politics: Ways to engage Lesson 8: The Christian response to tyranny

Citizenship

Citizenship
Author: Lon Fendall
Publisher: Barclay Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2003-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781594980008

How does being a follower of Christ affect your relationship with government? What do Solomon, Joseph, Nehemiah, Gideon, and other biblical characters teach us about citizenship? Lon Fendall profiles contemporary people who illustrate what it means to be an active Christian citizen and he shares biblical models.

The Good Citizen

The Good Citizen
Author: Josh Hershberger
Publisher:
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Release: 2020-10-08
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ISBN: 9780578776316

As Christians, we are called to be followers of Jesus in every area of our lives, including in our role as citizen (Matt. 28:16-20; Phil. 1:27). But, how exactly are we supposed to do that in an increasingly polarized and secular society? How can we engage in public life without jeopardizing the gospel? Here's how. In The Good Citizen, Josh Hershberger reviews Biblical principles and historical examples of Christian citizenship across continents and ages. Then, he applies those principles and examples to citizenship in the United States and sets out a practical, four-step plan for gospel-centered citizenship in a divided America. This book includes a Bible study guide for small group or classroom use. Most American Christians want to see the American republic strengthened and renewed for the next generation. But, that will not come through novel political strategies. Rather, it will come by prayer and by engaging government in God's way. Let's get to work.

The Christian Citizen in Modern America

The Christian Citizen in Modern America
Author: David Craig
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2014-10-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781502842848

The Christian Citizen in Modern America is a simple guide for how we live as citizens of two kingdoms: the kingdom of this world, and the Kingdom of heaven. Through a series of essays, Dr. Craig outlines the Christian response to a variety of issues and topics facing the Church in America today.

Lonely Minds in the Universe

Lonely Minds in the Universe
Author: Giancarlo Genta
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2007-11-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0387690395

This interdisciplinary book probes the subject of extraterrestrial intelligent life, offering scientific and technological implications, discussing the philosophical and religious connotations and rebuffing pseudo-scientific assertions such as ‘rare earth’. The author discusses such philosophical questions as: What is intelligence? What is consciousness? Should we expect ETIs to be conscious beings? Also discussed is the viability of future astronautics which would enable closer human contact with ETI.

The Fluxus Reader

The Fluxus Reader
Author: Ken Friedman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1998-11-18
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Part I. Three histories : Developing a fluxable forum: Early performance & publishing / Owen Smith -- Fluxus, fluxion, flushoe: the 1970's / Simon Anderson -- Fluxus fortuna / Hannah Higgins -- Part II. Theories of Fluxus: Boredom and oblivion / Ina Blon -- Zen vaudeville: a medi(t)ation in the margins of Fluxus / David T. Doris -- Fluxus as a laboratory / Craig Saper -- Part III. Critical and historical perspectives: Fluxus history and trans-history: competing strategies for empowerment / Estera Milman -- Historical design and social purpose: a note on the relationship of Fluxus to modernism / Stephen C. Foster -- A spirit of large goals: fluxus, dada and postmodern cultural theory at two speeds -- Part IV. Three Fluxus voices : Transcript of the videotaped Interview with George Maciunas -- Selections from an interview with Billie Maciunas / Susan L. Jarosi -- Maybe Fluxus (a para-interrogative guide for the neoteric transmuter, tinder, tinker and totalist) / Larry Miller -- Part V. Two Fluxus theories : Fluxus : theory and reception / Dick Higgins -- Fluxus and company / Ken Friedman -- Part. VI-- Documents of Fluxus : Fluxus chronology : key moments and events -- A list of selected Fluxus art works and related primary source materials -- A list of selected Fluxus sources and related secondary sources.