A candid look at the Hellenistic origins of the Christian Church and how those origins formed Christianity into what it is today. What positive attributes were lost and what negative attributes were gained. Also, what a true position evolution of the Early Church would look like in modern times and the introduction to the path to Enlightenment based on how such a transformation has the potential to truly evolve humanity.

PART1, brings Biblical opposing viewpoints to the traditional monotheistic, trinitarian, beliefs of God. Other long held cornerstones of the establishment are also challenged such as the gender and sexuality of God. The Big-Bang is used as a source for creation and understanding the composition of God, Divine Beings (Angels and Demons) as well as Heaven, Hell, and Creation. The relationship between the Divine and Humanity is also completely redefined. As with all of the B.E.R. books, the discussion is candid and groundbreaking. PART 2, takes a candid look at the Hellenistic origins of the Christian Church and how those origins formed Christianity into what it is today. What positive attributes were lost and what negative attributes were gained. Also, what a true position evolution of the Early Church would look like in modern times and the introduction to path to Enlightenment based on how such a transformation has the potential to truly evolve humanity.

As primitive civilization developed, society has established cornerstones in our thought and reasoning. Things we are told repeatedly as fact from birth and are thus believed instinctively. Many of these cornerstones now date back many millennia such as the Bible. The BER Series takes a candid look into the Bible to explore how the theological beliefs within Institutional Religion have affected society in diabolical ways. These books also challenge the church's theological cornerstones to prove that they deviate from the Bible and truly have an obscured understanding of the Divine. Thus, the goal is to bring an overdue debate to organized religion. The hope is to remove the barriers that deny humanity the evolution of our species. No topic is out of bounds. A person could listen to ten lifetimes of sermons and never get even a fraction of the candor of these books. Love them or hate them, you will be unable to put them down and you will never see the World or the Divine the same way again.

Brings Biblical opposing viewpoints to the traditional monotheistic, trinitarian, beliefs of God. Other long held cornerstones of the establishment are also challenged such as the gender and sexuality of God. The Big-Bang is used as a source for creation and understanding the composition of God, Divine Beings (Angels and Demons) as well as Heaven, Hell, and Creation. The relationship between the Divine and Humanity is also completely redefined. As with all of the B.E.R. books, the discussion is candid and groundbreaking.

Socially engaged religion teaches that people of faith have a responsibility to address and reduce suffering in all its forms, both physical and spiritual, including suffering resulting from social injustice, exploitation, oppression, false faith, and so forth. True religion engages with society to alleviate suffering and bring transformation. In other words, religious violence is an obscenity, a deviation from the true character of religion. Martin Luther's Theology of Two Kingdoms in Buddhist and Christian Communities examines the principle of separation between religion and politics in the context of both Buddhist and Christian communities. In predominantly Buddhist contexts such as Myanmar, where a reciprocal relationship between religion and politics is expected, separation is not effective. Attempts by Christians to separate religion and politics cause the church to run away from tyranny and follow the state with blind obedience. Martin Luther’s model of two distinct but interconnected systems for religion and politics creates space for each institution to give constructive advice and criticism to the other for the health of all human beings.

The conflict between the natural sciences and Christian theology has been going on for centuries. Recent advances in the fields of evolutionary biology, behavioral genetics, and neuroscience have intensified this conflict, particularly in relation to origins, the fall, and sin. These debates are crucial to our understanding of human sinfulness and necessarily involve the doctrine of salvation. Theistic evolutionists have labored hard to resolve these tensions between science and faith, but Hans Madueme argues that the majority of their proposals do injustice both to biblical teaching and to long-standing doctrines held by the mainstream Christian tradition. In this major contribution to the field of science and religion, Madueme demonstrates that the classical notion of sin reflected in Scripture, the creeds, and tradition offers the most compelling and theologically coherent account of the human condition. He answers pressing challenges from the physical sciences on both methodological and substantive levels. Scholars, pastors, students, and interested lay readers will profit from interacting with the arguments presented here.

The interface between the current Shi'ite landscape and Christian thinking is of the greatest significance for the shifting political and religious dynamics of the Middle East. Sasan Tavassoli here examines Iranian Shi'ite thinkers' encounters with Christian thought since the Islamic revolution of 1979, and provides insight into the cultural and intellectual climate surrounding Christian-Muslim dialogue in contemporary Iran. The literature on Christianity in Iran reveals a wide range of approaches and attitudes, and Tavassoli demonstrates that traditional polemics are giving way to a more descriptive and subjective understanding of Christian thought. He also studies Muslim-Christian dialogue and research conducted and supported by governmental as well as non-governmental organizations, and offers a close examination, with interviews, of the work of three prominent liberal religious intellectuals - Abdol Karim Soroush, Mostafa Malekian and Mojtahed Shabestari. Placing contemporary Shi'ite thought in the broad historical context of pre- and post-revolution Iran, Tavassoli relates concrete religious, cultural and socio-political realities to the themes and orientations in the latest phase of the Shi'i Islam-Christianity encounter, and offers fresh insight into the dynamism of contemporary Islam and the religious complexities of the Muslim world.

Offers a view on the ideas, themes, and people engaged in the three-way dialogue between Christianity, Buddhism and the natural sciences.