How can biblical authority be a reality for those shaped by the modern world? This book treats the First World as a mission field, offering a unique perspective on the relationship between the gospel and current society by presenting an outsider's view of contemporary Western culture.
Firmly based on psychological and sociological reality, this book presents marriage as a developing relationship with recognizable cycles. The penultimate section deals with breakdown, which is the end point of between a third and a quarter of all marriages. The final section gives the Christian dimension of hope. Dr Jack Dominian was Senior Consultant Psychiatrist at the Central Middlesex H…
“The Church is a lucid, balanced, and readable book—a work of integration that is always reasonable, well informed, honest, and deeply hopeful.” —Commonweal In The Church, renowned religious historian and Vatican expert Richard P. McBrien offers a sweeping history of the evolution of the Roman Catholic Church, its influence and power in an ever-changing world. From Jesus’s …