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View book details for Pharaohs on Both Sides of the Blood-Red Waters
Prophetic Critique on Empire: Resistance, Justice, and the Power of the Hopeful SizweA Transatlantic Conversation
After the civil rights and anti-apartheid struggles, are we truly living in post-racial, post-apartheid societies where the word struggle is now out of place? Do we now truly realize that, as President Obama said, the situation for the Palestinian people …
View book details for Taking Hold of the Real
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Profound Worldliness of Christianity
Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes in one of his last prison letters that he had "come to know and understand more and more the profound this-worldliness of Christianity." In Taking Hold of the Real, Barry Harvey engages in constructive conversation with Bonhoeffer, …
View book details for Becoming Two in Love
Kierkegaard, Irigaray, and the Ethics of Sexual Difference
This book draws Soren Kierkegaard and Luce Irigaray into conversation on the nature and ethics of sexual difference. While these two initially seem like doubtful dialogue partners, the conversation between them yields a rich and compelling account of intersubjectivity between …
Love in one form or another is the commanding force of this new collection of short fiction. The Servitude of Love holds the revelations of love in different manifestations--love of work, love of another, love of journey, love of mission, …
In this new edition of Gerhard von Rad's classic work on the Moses traditions, the reader is provided with a more polished text, cross-references to von Rad's other works, an updated bibliography, Scripture index, and a new foreword by Walter …
To what degree is Wesleyan theology part of the church's catholic witness? This book explores this question from a number of angles and goes on to embody some of these possibilities in conversation with other major traditions and figures within …
View book details for "Those Who Call Themselves Jews"
The Church and Judaism in the Apocalypse of John
The nature of Jewish-Christian relations at the end of the first century has been a subject of serious study and considerable debate. The time between 70 and 150 CE is held to be a volatile time in that Jewish-Christian relations …
Jeremy Halstead graduated from college with a degree in Specialized Ministries and an emphasis in Youth Ministry. Shortly after entering full-time ministry, he realized that even though he had earned a degree, he was truly ill-equipped for the ministry that …
View book details for Scaffolds of the Church
Towards Poststructural Ecclesiology
Unity is the categorical imperative of the church. It is not just the church's bene esse, but its esse. In addition to being a theological concept, unity has become a raison d'etre of various structures that the church has established …
The aim of this book is to promote more serious theological discussion in the Church, especially in the mainline Protestant churches and the Episcopal Church, on the issue of homosexuality. George Hobson provides a theological perspective informed by biblical insights, …
View book details for The Not-So-Intelligent Designer
Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does Not
Why do men's testicles hang outside the body? Why does our appendix sometimes explode and kill us? And who does the Designer like better, anyway--us or squid? These and other questions are addressed in The Not-So-Intelligent Designer: Why Evolution Explains …
View book details for Transformative Religious Experience
A Phenomenological Understanding of Religious Conversion
What makes a priest of one religion become a preacher of another religion? How could a person embrace a religion suddenly that he or she had up to then opposed? Why would young women risk their reputation and endanger their …
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A Guide for the Journey
Mike McNichols has created a marvelous fable about evangelism, spiritual formation, faith community, and ministry leadership in The Bartender. This is a study guide to that book. It was written by one who has led several discussion groups on The …
View book details for The Death of Secular Messianism
Religion and Politics in an Age of Civilizational Crisis
The Death of Secular Messianism argues that, the claims of secularists notwithstanding, modernity did not so much abandon humanity's historic search for the divine, but rather transposed it into a new, innerworldly key. This "secret religion of high modernity" came …
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How Superheroes Can Help Us Make Sense of a Polarized World
These days it seems like heroes fight each other more often than they fight villains. The hero-vs-hero trope so common in comic books and in superhero movies these days can provide us with a means of thinking about the deeply …
View book details for Touching the Reign of God
Bringing Theological Reflection to Daily Life
"You are not far from the reign of God," Jesus tells the scribe. Not far? In this collection of engaging essays, author and vocation consultant Mary Sharon Moore encourages fellow Christians to boldly travel through their own life experience from …
View book details for The Making of a Battle Royal
The Rise of Liberalism in Northern Baptist Life, 18701920
American Baptists emerged from the Civil War as a divided group. Slavery, landmarkism, and other issues sundered Baptists into regional clusters who held more or less to the same larger doctrinal sentiments. As the century progressed, influences from Europe further …
View book details for The Sunrise Liturgy
A Poem Sequence
Committing theology to poetry is not new, but it's not wildly common. The Sunrise Liturgy aims to do just that. It is a sequence, like liturgy, with a start and a procession and a finish. The sun does the processing, …
View book details for Mending the World?
Possibilities and Obstacles for Religion, Church, and Theology
Religion has played a major role in history, affecting the course of events and influencing individuals. Today one frequently hears the expression "the return of religion" but opinions differ as to how this "return" is to be understood. It is …
View book details for Trial Advocacy: The Art of Storytelling
Strategies for Winning a Trial in New York State Court
Carolina Academic Press
A trial is a storythe story of your client's truth, and there is an art to storytelling. To succeed, your story must mesmerize, entertain, and persuade the jury throughout every phase of trial. This book is a direct, to-the-point guide …
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The Extraordinary Life of Stephanie von Hohenlohe
Hold on to this letter, so that it will be evidence of how accurately I have kept you informed. Im serious; dont throw this letter away.BORN the illegitimate daughter of Jewish parents, Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe would rise to dizzying …
If not perhaps the most popular Highland clan, the Campbells are undoubtedly one of the most successful. The Campbell earls of Argyll have traditionally enjoyed a rather unsavoury historical reputation, viewed by their rivals with a mixture of fear, envy …
In viewing Galloway from the wider context of the northern British mainland, Irish Sea and wider Hebridean zone, it has been possible to explore the dynamics of state-building, dynastic interactions, and the close inter-relationships of the territories connected by the …
View book details for The Minority of James V
Scotland in Europe, 15131528
The defeat of the Scots in the Battle of Flodden in 1513 left many of the leaders of Scottish society, including King James IV, lying dead on the battlefield. The long and complex minority of King James V which followed …
View book details for Political History of Scotland 1832-1924
Parties, Elections and Issues
In this way it provides an illuminating perspective and serves as a corrective to both Scoto-centric and Anglo-centric interpretations of events. Previous studies have tended to concentrate on the resources of the main record repositories in London and Edinburgh, and, …
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