This edition offers research, statistics and stories that document-increased participation in religious groups in the US in the 21st century. New chapters chart

Impressive . . . bound to generate lively discussion--and not a little controversy--within the nation's church community.

This book offers the first modern theory of religion. A deductive theory, beginning with seven axioms about human nature and the world humans inhabit, it derive

Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984) was probably the single greatest intellectual influence on young evangelicals of the 1960s and '70s. He was cultural critic, popul

For centuries Christians have had the concept of the priesthood of all believers firmly engrained in their minds. The prophethood of all believers, on the other