Wilberforce Press

Revised and Updated: Taming the Beast

Summary

A highly original book that combines humor, imaginative narratives, and fresh, newly-mined explorations of biblical teaching on the topic of corruption. The Revised and Updated edition includes a fresh new cover, new content, crisply-edited text that enhances readability, and a first-ever Bibliography. Taming the Beast: Can We Bridle the Culture of Corruption? answers 12 questions that every social activist, anti-corruption campaigner, religious leader, businessman, and bureaucrat needs to know about bridling one of the great menaces of our time: the culture of corruption. The carefully–crafted question at the beginning of each chapter yields answers that combine humor, deep reflection on the human condition, and extensive biblical teaching about corruption, bribery, and integrity. The results point to four interlocking forces that sustain the current epidemic of corruption: premodern animism, modern institutions, postmodern suspicion, and primordial sin. The book proposes that the only enduring solution is found in Kingdom-centered faith in Jesus Christ. Readers are invited to dialogue with the conclusion in a spirit of global friendship welded together by shared disdain for the seemingly-unstoppable tide of corruption. Written with a global audience in mind, the book is designed to spark new conversations about corruption, whether in study groups, university classrooms, in public fora, in the media, business boardrooms and the offices of government ministers. Each of the 12 chapters end with chapter summaries and short study guides. A newly-updated multi-page appendix offers the latest ideas for taming and tackling corruption, including best practices for bridling corruption, while also ensuring the humanity of everyone—offenders and the offended—who are caught in the clutches of this beast.

Developing Redemptive Change Agents: Discipleship That Helps Nations Flourish Rather Than Flounder

Summary

With the term the priesthood of all believers, Martin Luther led a 16th century revolution that, among other things, reshaped the understanding of our political responsibilities. Likewise, in the 21st century, the term redemptive change agent offers a refreshed vision for Christian discipleship that can help societies experience the renewing potential and power of the gospel. This book not only introduces the idea of the redemptive change agent, but also their attributes and core practices, as well as the processes by which they are developed, the strategies they employ, and the risks they face. Case studies of notable redemptive change agents, including William Wilberforce, Charles Colson, and James Yen, bring the concept to life.

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Taming the Beast: Can We Bridle the Culture of Corruption?

Summary

A highly original book that combines humor, imaginative narratives, and fresh, newly-mined explorations of biblical teaching, Taming the Beast: Can We Bridle the Culture of Corruption? answers 12 questions that every social activist, anti-corruption campaigner, religious leader, businessman, and bureaucrat needs to know about conquering one of the great menaces of our time: the culture of corruption.  

Written with a global audience in mind, the book is designed to spark new conversations about corruption, whether in study groups, university classrooms, in public fora, in the media, business boardrooms, and the offices of government ministers.  Each of the 12 chapters ends with a chapter summary, short study guide, and endnotes.  A multi-page appendix offers the latest ideas for taming and tackling corruption. 

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Foreign Language Translations

French

How to Order

Taming The Beast was published May 2016 and can be purchased on Amazon HERE. For the French edition, order HERE. If ordering 5 or more copies, send check to Wilberforce Press, 1473 Clarmar, Roseville MN 55113. Include email and phone. Price: $10 each (postage paid by Wilberforce Press).

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Creating the Better Hour

Summary

A compelling, practical 349 page guide to redemptive change, based upon the example of William Wilberforce and his colleagues in the Clapham community edited by Chuck Stetson.

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To order, send check to Wilberforce International Institute, 1473 Clarmar, Roseville MN 55113 with book title and how many copies you are ordering. Include email and phone. Price: $10 each (postage paid by Wilberforce Press).  Regularly priced $24.95