Sentences with phrase «challenging book by»

So I'm reading a really challenging book by Shane Claiborne and Shawn Perkins called Follow Me to Freedom.

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There was also a great book that was written by Andrew Grove called Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company.

«In The Little Book of Behavioral Investing, expert James Montier takes you through some of the most important behavioral challenges faced by investors.

Austin, who is currently working on a book tentatively titled Not for the Faint of Heart, which focuses on the challenges faced by those navigating the new economy, predicts that psychologists will be the next big class of business writers.

Written by a Buddhist philosopher, «this book speaks to the challenges and opportunities of aging,» explains Paul Tasner.

I was happy to see a real focus on preparing for tomorrow highlighted in a new book, Start a Successful Business, by Colleen DeBaise, who has made a career of studying and writing about entrepreneur challenges.

Strike up friendly competition by challenging your reps to see who can book the most meetings or demos this week.

He won an Apex Award for a book he wrote several years ago called Principled Profit, which was one of the first to challenge the conventional wisdom about the place of ethics and the environment in business successand that self - published book was republished by mainstream publishers in both India and Mexico.

Doug's book challenges us to look at disruption more than by assuming that one form of retail will win over another - simply put, the book forces us to understand the power of personalization and customer engagement - the lifeblood of our new retail world.»

And it should be on November the 2nd the day Theodoor «Theo» van Gogh was stabbed and killed by a Muslim for his writing of a book that challenged the beliefs of Islam.

I challenge you to read a nonfiction book named A Divine Revelation of Hell by Mary Baxter from front to back.

Among the books he had us read were two that really challenged my thinking and helped me see certain key texts in a new light: They are The Epistle of James by Zane Hodges and The Reign of the Servant Kings by Joseph Dillow (a revised and updated edition of the book is now titled Final Destiny).

Most of the 350 - plus books written by «creation scientists» consist in large part of discussions of the supposed errors of evolutionary teaching, reviewing vast amounts of technical scientific data and theory, challenging this or that piece of evidence, method of dating or use of data, while producing evidences and counterarguments of their own in favor of a young earth, recent humanity, worldwide flood, etc..

I have read some books a while back by a theologian named Walter Wink (the Powers trilogy) that challenged a lot of my thinking in this area.

This is the challenge offered by Chris Seay in his new book, A Place at the Table.

Choosing the truth in this book, the bible seems to be a challenge of all so many self - professed prophets and we know them by their fruits of richness do we not?

Even by the 16th century Martin Luther suggested dropping the NT books of James and Revelations because he felt that they posed challenges to his theological beliefs.

The most challenging idea of this book may be that the Powers are redeemable, and we humans are part of the means by which the Powers will be redeemed.

The second recent book to advance the response of process theology to liberation theology significantly is Delwin Brown's To Set at Liberty.7 This is not so much a critical response to the challenge of the liberation theologies as a reflection on freedom stimulated by this literature.

Miller's own faith was shaken while studying science at university and being challenged by the atheist agenda in the books he was reading.

This is an important and helpful book for the Catholic community as it struggles to respond appropriately to the challenge outlined by Watkin — and by Ronald Knox two years earlier in 1945 (see the first part of his God and the Atom, summarised in Faith Magazine Nov / Dec 2012).

In his book on Whitehead, Process Philosophy, and Education, Robert Brumbaugh takes up the Whiteheadian challenge and in so doing sees himself working «in the tradition of Platonic metaphysics that includes the new emphasis on the concrete introduced by process thought» (WPP 2).

The second thesis of my book was that homosexuals, rather than being somehow a menace to the values of society and the family, as Christians have tended to assume, have, as a part of God's creative plan, special gifts and qualities and a very positive contribution to make to the development of society (cf. also my article «Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and the Future: The Creative Role of the Gay Community in Building a More Humane Society,» in A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, edited by Robert Nugent [Crossroad, 1984]-RRB-.

That any attempt by the state to legislate morals must be illegitimate has become a platitude of contemporary political thought, and Robert George's new book, Making Men Moral, challenges it directly.

Historian Perry Miller, in Errand into the Wilderness (Harvard University Press, 1956), argues that the belief in impending world destruction has been paramount in the Christian West, and that Newtonian physics provoked a serious crisis by challenging that belief, Newton himself researched the Book of Revelation in hopes of restoring that eschatology.

When I present anything that challenges their doctrine, they do not react by Scriptural argumentation, but by sending me books by Kim Riddlebarger, Finnis Dakes, etc..

In his book The Secular City, theologian Harvey Cox in 1965 presented a significant challenge to Western theological thought by highlighting the difference which existed between the natural agricultural environment in which biblical thought had developed and the urban social environment of modern life.

So while I enjoyed the book, and was challenged by it, I must conclude that most of us do not have the luxury to be a nomad.

Last week I reviewed The Challenge of Jesus by NT Wright, and announced that those who commented on the post would be entered in a drawing for a free copy of the book.

Christians will find this aspect of the book especially challenging and, in general, there is much to disagree with in Goodman's argument by both Christians and Jews.

I Challenge anyone who thinks Religion is not one of the most Evil task used by the Devil to Read the Book of Jude.

Pedigree of Atheistic and Creationist Philosophy of Science Ambiguous A very positive review in the science journal Nature affirms that the new book Worlds before Adam, by the «influential historian of Earth Science» Martin Rudwick, «challenges the view that geology's development is a story of secular progress.

This book is going to ruffle some feathers as I not only challenge the practices of baptism and communion (die to your rites), but also raise questions about the legal rights of Christians to the freedom of speech, to bear arms, and to various other rights guaranteed by the «First Amendment» and the «Bill of Rights.»

«The Powers» Trilogy by Walter Wink are three of the most challenging books I've read in a while.

I remember being challenged by his books, but they apparently didn't make a lasting impression on me, because I can't remember much about them.

One does not have to agree with all of Enns» conclusions to be challenged and inspired by this book, and one need only look to the list of sources in the back to dig deeper on one's own time.

(ENTIRE BOOK) Thirty - three authorities, representing both the clergy and professionals active in mental health programs, respond to the challenge to church and temple made by the community mental health revolution.

Several books have been published in recent years by «The New Atheists» which present challenges to Christians about God as presented in the Scriptures.

The unknown author of this book had the temerity to challenge this assumption in a drama in which God agreed to let Satan test the loyalty of Job, a righteous man, by stripping him of his possessions, his children, and his health.

Still, despite this weakness, by challenging judicial idolatry in constitutional law, Fisher's book opens an important avenue for dialogue.

I encountered the following poem in NT Wright's book, The Challenge of Jesus, and was so struck by the last stanza that this poem became my second favorite poem of all time.

This complacency, which Cobb acknowledges with his typical candor (supra), was being encouraged by Ford, albeit unconsciously, even before my use of the systematic approach had produced a significantly new interpretation of Whitehead's metaphysics — one gleaned from all of Whitehead's books from The Principles of Natural Knowledge to Modes of Thought, and one which, whatever its merits are finally judged to be, constitutes a strong, thoroughly argued, and well - documented challenge to the whole range of traditional interpretations.

Varieties of Moral Personality by Owen Flanagan Harvard University Press, 336 pages, $ 34.95 In this challenging book, Owen Flanagan addresses a number of important and neglected connections between ethics and psychology.

The attention Marsden's book will receive in the secular academy will challenge his claim that universities largely ignore or denigrate scholarship explicitly informed by religious perspectives.

Mark's recently published second book, Ethnic Blends, addresses some of the unique challenges faced by multi-ethnic churches.

Had I been able to read Larry Witham's book before I delivered the Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews, I would have been able to make my argument more compelling by locating the story I told in relation to Witham's account of addressing the challenges of science.

If, however, you like inspiring and thought - provoking stories which challenge you to live and think differently about following Jesus, Stories that Feed your Soul by Tony Campolo is a great book.

Those who have read the book know that Tickle goes into much greater detail about the questions and challenges raised by cognitive science, literary deconstruction, higher criticism, Freud, Jung, Campbell, Einstein, Heisenbuerg, and many other philosophical / scientific / cultural movements.

(ENTIRE BOOK) The Pentecostal challenge to historic churches in Latin America, prepared by 17 historians, theologians and sociologists of religion from the region.

The title alludes to that book of the Bible so beloved by skeptics and pessimists, for the questions Jarman poses in poem after poem are challenges to the Preacher's resigned acceptance, and to his famous assertion that «all is vanity.»