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Assesses the role of codes and ethics in marriage and family therapy, examining it from the perspective of a moral paradigm in order to demonstrate that therapists have responsibilities not only to their clients, but also to their society.

Engagement is the label increasingly embraced by higher education to describe activities associated with serving the public interest. This book describes how members of a faculty learning community have come to understand engagement as both intellectual endeavor and scholarly practice at the interface between academy and citizenry.

Grounded in research done by examining the clinical practices of five exemplary psychotherapists, On Holy Ground explores the relationship between psychotherapy and spirituality. This book addresses the religious and spiritual issues that mental health practitioners are not normally effectively trained to handle.

This work explores the growth and development of London, as a world city, capital of Britain and large metropolitan area, through its major functions, institutions, people and internal spatial structures.

A major task for social theory in the 1990s is to explain the relationship between individuals and social structures. This text makes two simple suggestions for forging micro/macro social processes, arguing that while they are related, their relationship is contingent and unpredictable.

The pro-hunting/anti-hunting debate is an issue that reaches from California to New York to Florida. Hunters defend their activity while anti-hunters violently condemn it. This study presents arguments from both groups and aims to help broaden the perspective of each side.

This book asks Christian educators-particularly those involved in the student affairs profession-to become more engaged with the idea that the programs offered, classes taught, disciplinary actions dispensed, policies framed, and the like, are the arenas in which Christianity must take shape.

This is a biography of Morgan Edwards, offering a detailed portrait of the most influential and perplexing man in American baptist history.

This text cites the failure to raise the issue of white violence in the race relations debate as the cause of the gap in the search for a solution to the race problem. It suggests that allowing history to teach us how to avoid mistakes of the past will make bridging the abyss more probable.

This book shows that the connections between philosophy and religion, especially Christianity, are illegitimate ones. The history of religious thinking has been created by philosophical reasoning. Breaking the grip of this thinking on religious life has an impact on thinking about God as well.

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Seeks to capture the familiar figures and symbols of Philadelphia's 18th-century past and American history's greatest scenes, from the meetings of the Second Continental Congress to the drafting of the United States Constitution, to Philadelphia's final days as the nation's capital.

Co-published with the Institute for Christian Studies, this volume provides a general categorical framework underlying a Christian worldview. The main components which make up this framework are world origin, world order, and ordered world.

This study recovers the Open Forum lecture movement and explores its relevance. Understanding this initiative broadens our awareness of personal and community courage and democratic planning. This study recovers the movement and shows what can be applied to our time.

In 1938, Virginia and Ray Garner began making films in the Belgian Congo and French Cameroons. This book features Virginia Garner's diaries, which highlight the challenges of making films in Africa in the 1930s and include rich descriptions of cross-cultural interactions and micro-negotiations with chiefs, headmen, and villagers.

This new and expanded third edition forcefully argues that influential historians have offered an incomplete account of antebellum-era American slavery because they are preoccupied with humanizing slaveholders. Skillfully weaving together firsthand accounts of ex-slaves, Neal permits the reader to see slavery in the United States from their point of view.

This second volume in the Come Along: We Are Truth-Bound series is a cross-examination of the concepts derived in Volume One, conducted by means of a dialogue with a representative thinker from each of the related bodies of knowledge. The study reveals reality to be an intricate, harmoniously-integrated whole.

Lipan Apache culture was studied by Morris Opler, one of the most eminent anthropologists of the twentieth century, but many questions remain. This book seeks to complete a comparative analysis of traditional Lipan Apache culture, combining information from Opler's theories with the insights of four eighteenth and nineteenth century observers.

This book discusses the varied geographical aspects of Southeast Asia, an area that has long been of interest to geographers and other academics. This collection identifies, organizes, and presents various scholarly publications on subjects ranging from cultural-social geography, economic geography, historical geography, physical geography, political geography, and urban geography.

Over the centuries, theological studies have grappled with the comprehension of Truth and Goodness. However, theology, unlike philosophy, has neglected serious scrutiny of the study of Beauty or Aesthetics. Jo Ann Davidson's Toward a Theology of Beauty investigates this omission.

Into the Value Zone provides business leaders with an uncomplicated approach to evaluate their own company and the competition. Professor Ron Wood explains strategies that will help managers to create and execute initiatives that achieve sustainable results with enduring value for their clients and to manage their company's assets with efficiency.

This dictionary provides mental health professionals with clear and concise definitions of legal and ethical terminologies. To enhance the professional's understanding, a professional significance section has been added after the definitions to further comprehension of practical dimensions of the words and to aid in legal and ethical decision making.

This book discusses government and private sector roles in American economy. Focusing on the mobilization of American economy against the threat of Axis ascendancy in Word War II, Carew places the mobilization in its political - economic context and evaluates its performance in terms of prevailing military and political realities.

Suitable for those working in patristic studies, theology, and the history of biblical exegesis, this work addresses Tertullian's Christology.

This book approaches the laws of the Pentateuch from theological, historical, moral, and spiritual perspectives. Biblical Law and Its Relevance, while taking into consideration the approaches of Reformed, Dispensationalist, Lutheran, and Theonomist scholars, proposes a distinctive hermeneutic of seeking to find the abiding moral and religious principles inherent in the laws.