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Kingdom of God. --- Kingdom of God --- Biblical teaching. --- God, Kingdom of --- Eschatology --- God (Christianity)

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Particularism (Theology) --- Kingdom of God --- Christianity and politics --- Election (Theology) --- God, Kingdom of --- Eschatology --- God (Christianity) --- Biblical teaching. --- Political aspects

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Augustine's City of God has profoundly influenced the course of Western political philosophy, but there are few guides to its labyrinthine argumentation that hold together the delicate interplay of religion and philosophy in Augustine's thought. The essays in this volume offer a rich examination of those themes, using the central, contested distinction between a heavenly city on earthly pilgrimage and an earthly city bound for perdition to elaborate aspects of Augustine's political and moral vision. Topics discussed include Augustine's notion of the secular, his critique of pagan virtue, his departure from classical eudaimonism, his mythology of sin, his dystopian politics, his surprising attention to female bodies, his moral psychology, his valorisation of love, his critique of empire and his conception of a Christian philosophy. Together the essays advance our understanding of Augustine's most influential work and provide a rich overview of Augustinian political theology and its philosophical implications.

Kingdom of God --- Apologetics --- Augustine, --- 276 =71 AUGUSTINUS --- God, Kingdom of --- Latijnse patrologie--AUGUSTINUS --- Royaume de Dieu --- Kingdom of God. --- Apologetics. --- Augustin, --- Eschatology --- God (Christianity) --- Apologetics, Missionary --- Christian evidences --- Christianity --- Evidences, Christian --- Evidences of Christianity --- Fundamental theology --- Polemics (Theology) --- Theology, Fundamental --- Religious thought --- Theology --- Evidences --- Royaume de Dieu. --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy --- Augustine, - of Hippo, Saint, - 354-430. - De civitate Dei

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Denounced by some as a dangerous cult and lauded by others as a miraculous faith community, the International Churches of Christ was a conservative evangelical Christian movement that grew rapidly in the 1980s and 1990s. Among its followers, promises to heal family relationships were central to the group's appeal. Members credit the church for helping them develop so-called "awesome families"-successful marriages and satisfying relationships with children, family of origin, and new church "brothers and sisters." The church engaged an elaborate array of services, including round-the-clock counseling, childcare, and Christian dating networks-all of which were said to lead to fulfilling relationships and exciting sex lives. Before the unified movement's demise in 2003-2004, the lure of blissful family-life led more than 100,000 individuals worldwide to be baptized into the church. In Awesome Families, Kathleen Jenkins draws on four years of ethnographic research to explain how and why so many individuals-primarily from middle- to upper-middle-class backgrounds-were attracted to this religious group that was founded on principles of enforced community, explicit authoritative relationships, and therapeutic ideals. Weaving classical and contemporary social theory, she argues that members were commonly attracted to the structure and practice of family relationships advocated by the church, especially in the context of contemporary society where gender roles and family responsibilities are often ambiguous. Tracing the rise and fall of this fast-growing religious movement, this timely study adds to our understanding of modern society and offers insight to the difficulties that revivalist movements have in sustaining growth.

Christian sociology --- International Churches of Christ. --- Sociology --- Disciple (Christianity) --- Evangelicalism --- Family (biology) --- God --- the International Churches of Christ --- healing relationships --- therapeutic religious movements --- alternative religions --- conservative Evangelical Christian movement --- the Kingdom of God

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Little attention is usually given to the space or place of the kingdom. Yet Matthew employs the distinctive phrase "kingdom of heaven" and also portrays Jesus as Immanuel (God with us). In this volume Patrick Schreiner argues that by expanding one's view of space one can see that Jesus' purpose is to reorder the space of the earth in Matthew as the heavenly king. Jesus pierces the barrier between the two realms in his incarnation, and the spaces of heaven and earth begin to collide in his ministry. Therefore, in Matthew, Jesus does not just promise a temporal or ethereal kingdom, but one that is located, one that has a sense of rootedness. Jesus is granted authority over this space and inspires people to follow him in this construction project. The spatial kingdom begins in his body, and he extends it to his church by promising his presence

Kingdom of God --- Space --- Human geography. --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Biblical teaching. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Bible. --- Evangelie volgens Matteus --- Evangelie volgens Matthéüs --- Matʻae pogŭm --- Matai den --- Matai ni yoru fukuinsho --- Matius (Book of the New Testament) --- Mattá --- Matteo (Book of the New Testament) --- Matteus --- Matthäusevangelium --- Matthéüs --- Matthew (Book of the New Testament) --- Matthieu (Book of the New Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Kingdom of God - Biblical teaching. --- Space - Religious aspects - Christianity.