Product Description: After almost a millennium and a half, scholars are rediscovering the theological roots of Christianity in ancient North Africa! But we still have a long way to go in bringing these insights to the Church's consciousness. What has been needed is a careful but accessible analysis of what the great theologians of the region prior to and contemporary with Augustine actually taught about the faith, and why what they said still matters today...read more

Product Description: Reclaiming Our Roots, the most inclusive church history textbook on the market today, pays special attention to such matters as Christianity in the southern hemisphere, Eastern Orthodoxy, the church among minority cultures in North America, and the role of women in church history...read more

Product Description: This second volume of Reclaiming Our Roots carries readers on a whirlwind journey from the eve of the Reformation to developments in Christianity in the twentieth century. As in the first volume, Mark Ellingsen gives special attention to the history of Christianity in the southern hemisphere, the church among minority cultures in North America, and the role of women in church history...read more

Product Description: Despite the results of the 2006 elections, the coalition between Conservative politics and American Christians remains a dominant force in setting the American socio-cultural and political agenda. Ellingsen argues that until this coalition is diminished we will remain a politically conservative nation to the detriment of the poor, the marginalized, the middle class, and nations around the world, as well as to the detriment of the spiritual life in America's churches! Unlike previous books lamenting this Neo-Conservative-Christian coalition, Ellingsen offers the first account of the root (Puritan) causes for this coalition and provides readers with concrete strategies that we can adopt to challenge the tragic pact between so many committed Christians and political leaders that value business and global domination above all else...read more

Product Description: In an inclusive reading of Augustine, Mark Ellingsen reveals a patterned conceptual richness in Augustine's thought. The Richness of Augustine is a wonderful introduction and a rich ecumenical and historical resource. It is the first introduction that places in focus the significance of Augustine's African cultural and ethnic roots...read more

Citing economic imbalances and social beliefs in America that can result in personal dissatisfaction, an examination of the nation's culture calls for a renewal of Christian values as part of addressing social problems.

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Product Description: Here at last is the true textbook for church history courses. Originally crafted as lectures in this country's premier African American theological institution, Reclaiming Our Roots represents the most inclusive church history text on the market today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ellingsen looks carefully at the many hundreds of often-controversial declarations made since 1964 by a wide variety of churches on nine "cutting-edge" issues: racism, development, ecology, war and peace, marriage, abortion, genetic engineering, social justice, and socio-political ideologies...read more

Product Description: There really is good new! God is still eager to save. Prepare yourself for his coming into your life. He is already present. It is all here; the secret to the good and happy life is already manifest and present. (from the sermon ""We Must Be Blind!"")The 21 sermons in this book are based on Gospel texts, primarily from Matthew and John...read more

Product Description: The new mainline Protestant "Whipping-Boy". Good morning friends, So glad you could join us. Let me introduce you around. The greetings are warm and apparently genuine - from introduction