Creation Compromises

An eye-opening and easy-to-understand Christian worldview response to the long history of evolutionary attack on the Word of God, and to the many recent churchian compromises with Genesis. Explains the battle of worldviews that underpins and transcends the modern creation-evolution debate. Shows the devastating results of not anchoring all our thinking on the Bible, and how we can avoid falling into the same trap today. Also highlights the baneful effects of evolution on society, culminating in the Nazi eugenics and Holocaust. In engaging language it shows that the tactics of God s opponents, in today s battle for hearts and minds, have not really changed since ancient times, and presents a clarion wake-up call to the church that strikes just the right note for this time in history. Second edition (November 2015), now includes scripture and subject indexes.

Specifics concerning creation are officially relegated into the realm of things indifferent to salvation or the life of the church. Various perspectives serve as popular alternatives to the six-day creation within circles that still concern themselves with the question of biblical inerrancy.

"Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version of the Bible" --T.p. verso.

This cogently argued and richly illustrated book rejects the dichotomy between the God of Abraham and the God of the philosophers to argue that the two are one. In God of Abraham, one of our leading philosophers of religion shows how human values can illuminate our idea of God and how the monotheistic idea of God in turn illuminates our moral, social, cultural, aesthetic, and even ritual understanding. Throughout Goodman draws on a wealth of traditional, philosophical, historical, and anthropological materials, and particularly on a wide range of Jewish sources. He demonstrates how an adequate understanding of the interplay of values with monotheism dissolves many of the longstanding problems of natural theology and ethics and guides us toward a genuinely humanistic moral and social philosophy.

Lenn E. Goodman is Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His prolific scholarship has covered the entire history of philosophy from antiquity to the present with a focus on medieval Jewish philosophy.

The concept and practice of civic service is deeply rooted in America's past, present, and future, and has been a featured component of recent presidential agendas. Yet despite ongoing debates about the methods and values of civic service, no recent book has systematically analyzed the effectiveness and outcomes of service programs in America. Civic Service: What Difference Does It Make? presents a thorough, research-based evaluation of public service programs in the United States. Divided into four key parts, this groundbreaking volume presents original information not found anywhere else.