Arts and Humanities Commons^™

The Marian Library Newsletter: Issue No. 45, University Of Dayton. Marian Library

Marian Library Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Review: Stuart Banner's 'The Death Penalty: An American History', William Vance Trollinger

History Faculty Publications

In this dispassionate but chillingly detailed survey of capital punishment, Banner, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, documents and explains the dramatic "changes in the arguments pro and con, in the crimes punished with death, in execution methods and rituals ... [and] in the way Americans have understood and experienced the death penalty."

The Marian Library Newsletter: Issue No. 44, University Of Dayton. Marian Library

Marian Library Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Live To Tell, Brad Kallenberg

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

In recent years, countless Christians have found evangelism a difficult and even baffling scriptural mandate. Those we encounter, particularly young people, are often entirely unfamiliar with the basics of the Gospel. Traditional means of communicating the faith, from cold-calling to mass-mailings, simply no longer speak the language of the culture.

Brad Kallenberg recognizes that evangelism, even in our own backyard, has become a cross-cultural task. Like missionaries serving in foreign countries, we must become "students of the host culture." Much more than a "sinner's prayer," conversion requires a change of social identity.

Indeed, becoming a follower of Christ involves gaining …