BOOK SEEKS TO SHIFT FOCUS OF BIBLE STUDY

The Boston Globe;  June 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......nitroglycerin to conservative Protestants who had long revered...one referred to "God the Father-Mother...among evangelical or conservative Protestants. The Southern Baptist...humans rather than God. Q. No "God the Father-Moth...Bible." Some very conservative ...

Faith Influences Wealth Accumulation

USA Today;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......amassing the most and conservative Protestants the least. Mainline...median net worth for conservative Protestants (which included...ways. For example, conservative Protestants often emphasize prayer and trust in God, which may reduce...desire to invest. Conservative ...

US study: Jews richer because of religion

Jerusalem Post;  September 21, 2003 ;     700+ words ......population and that of conservative Protestants is half of the average...median net worth for conservative Protestants (which included...Keister. For example, conservative Protestants often emphasize prayer and trust in God, which may reduce...desire to invest. ...

`None' and `Other' Gaining Ground; Major Churches Losing Members, Study...

The Washington Post;  January 8, 1994 ;     700+ words ......religion. Catholics and conservative Protestants are the most loyal...In that period, conservative Protestants, such as Southern...the Assemblies of God, surpassed Catholics...adults raised as conservative Protestants said they remained conservative Protestants, ...

Religion Helps Shape Wealth of Americans, Study Finds.

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  September 17, 2003 ;     700+ words ......most wealth and conservative Protestants the least. Mainline...median net worth for conservative Protestants (which included...Keister. For example, conservative Protestants often emphasize prayer and trust in God, which may reduce...desire to invest. Conservative ...

God: A Guide for the Perplexed

Anglican Theological Review;  July 1, 2003 ;     499 words ...God: A Guide for the Perplexed. By Keith Ward. Oxford: Oneworld, 2002. vii + 264 pp. $24.95 (cloth). The trouble with God these days, according to Keith Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford, is not that God's existence has become untenable, but rather that God has...

NATURE OF GOD IS SPIRIT, NOT HUMAN

Wyoming Tribune-Eagle;  August 1, 1998 ;     585 words ...CHEYENNE -- The attributes of God can easily be divided into groups of three...most basic group of three include: 1. one god, seen in three distinct persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit; 2. an eternal god with no beginning or ending. 3. a god who...

Bible-Carrying Christians: Conservative Protestants and Social Power.(Book...

Church History;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Bible-Carrying Christians: Conservative Protestants and Social Power. By David Harrington Watt. New York...narrative that dominates the academy's approach to conservative Protestants. This narrative, Watt asserts, assumes that fundamentalist...behavior within very limited parameters was sanctioned by ...

Interfaith services to mourn terror attacks pose dilemma

Sunday Gazette-Mail;  December 2, 2001 ;     553 words ......struck America have unsettled some conservative Protestants, who feel joint worship violates...Seminary in Hamilton, Mass., said conservative Protestants base their view on John 14:6, in...Jesus and all authentic prayer to God also has to be through Christ," Jefferson...religions - would be ...

Facing an unknown future: turning to the God of grace.("Turn to God -...

The Ecumenical Review;  April 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Turn to God. This exhortation is repeated over and over...times of crisis in the life of the people of God. As the World Council of Churches prepares...they come insurmountable. The cry Turn to God is an acknowledgment of the failure of human...

Before God

Interpretation;  July 1, 2006 ;     443 words ...Before God by George Stroup Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2004. 210...States. The problem is not the loss of belief in God. Rather, Christians no longer understand their daily lives as lived "before God." They eat dinner, enjoy a sunrise, read the newspaper...

God

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      350 words ...God / gäd / • n. 1. [without article ] (in Christianity...and source of all moral authority; the supreme being. 2. ( god ) (in certain other religions) a superhuman being or spirit...animal, or other object worshiped as divine or symbolizing a god. ∎  used as a conventional ...

The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God. By John Piper. Revised and expanded. Sisters: Multnomah, 2000, 340 pp. + 30 pp. study guide, $14.00, paper. No greater delight exists than the unsurpassable and all-satisfying delight...

Here's looking at you, God--whoever you are

Chicago Sun-Times;  September 12, 2003 ;     700+ words ...What if God was one of us? Just a slob like one of us...daughter of the local police chief, can see God. Not just in a spiritual, metaphorical way...the cafeteria steam trays. In one encounter, God appears as a hunky slacker boy in a hooded...

The FUTURE of GOD.(how God fits into society)

The Futurist;  October 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Is God Dead? Not according to philosopher Robert MeLLert...scientific progress may change our conception of God rather than extinguish faith. Toward the end...madman who went about the town proclaiming that God is dead. Nietzsche's story is illustrative...