Marty, Martin E.

"Drawing on literature as new as contemporary poetry and as old as the Bible, The Mystery of the Child encourages the thoughtful enjoyment of children Instead of the imposition of adult will and control. Indeed, Marty treats the impulse to control as a problem and highlights qualities associated with children - responsiveness, receptivity, openness to wonder - that can become sources of renewal for adults."--Jacket.

"Collisions of faiths are among the most threatening conflicts around the world at the beginning of the twenty-first century. In the face of these conflicts, this manifesto is a call to embrace religious pluralism. Tackling people's fears of religious pluralism, the author demonstrates that citizens, religions, and identities can in fact survive in radically pluralist settings. He argues that the first address to communities involved in collisions of faith should not be the conventional plea for tolerance, but a call that at least one party risk hospitality toward the other. The book deals with conflicts that affect or occur within those nations whose polities can be called republican, open, democratic, liberal, or free, particularly the UK, the US, and Western Europe."--BOOK JACKET

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"Martin Marty offers this book as a tool to "get started thinking" about religion in public, private, and denominational education at every level from kindergarten to postgraduate education. The book recreates a variety of questions and opinions from elementary and secondary school teachers, administrators, professor, and scholars. It wades fearlessly, with great respect and good humor, into the complicated crosscurrents of these controversial subjects."--Jacket.

Reflections for each day in Lent, with photographs of the arches and vaults; windows and doorways; cloisters, stairs, and aisles; niches and carvings of great Gothic cathedrals and also images of humble wooden churches, each paired with a hymn stanza.