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View book details for The Judge Is the Savior
Towards a Universalist Understanding of Salvation
This is a book Jean Wyatt felt compelled to write, as she has for many years wrestled with questions surrounding the love and the justice of God, his salvation and judgment through Jesus Christ, and the effect of our response …
View book details for The God Who Saves
A Dogmatic Sketch
Christian universalism has been explored in its biblical, philosophical, and historical dimensions. For the first time, The God Who Saves explores it in systematic theological perspective. In doing so it also offers a fresh take on universal salvation, one that …
View book details for History through Trauma
History and Counter-History in the Hebrew Bible
Our sacred texts have the potential to become texts of torture or texts of liberation. History through Trauma explores the symbolic function of religious, political, and national symbols that aid in the construction of historical narratives, and the psychological effects …
View book details for We've Been There
True Stories, Surprising Insights, and Aha Moments for Adopted Teens
Candid, unfiltered stories about how it feels to be a teen adopteeThe teen years are full of uncomfortable self-discovery for everyone. But adopted teens grapple with issues that make the coming of age journey immensely more difficult. Many don't have …
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View book details for Real Simple Organizing Basics
Declutter Now!
If you want to get organized but never have, or never have successfully, you need the no-fail organizing plan from the Real Simple team. Get motivated to declutter with real-life makeovers and then follow through using the three-step Real Simple …
View book details for The Magnificent Names of Jesus
Prayers and Praises to Love Him More
Names can tell us a great deal about people, and the names of Jesus are no exception. The Gospels alone offer more than one hundred names for Christ, presenting a beautiful picture of Him as our Teacher, King, and Lord. …
View book details for The Western Literary Tradition: Volume 2
Jonathan Swift to George Orwell
This compact anthologythe second volume in Margaret L. King's masterful introduction to the Western literary traditionoffers, in whole or in part, eighty key literary works of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. The texts provided here represent an unusually broad …
View book details for The Party
The Communist Party of Australia from heyday to reckoning
The long awaited second volume in Stuart Macintyre's definitive history of the Communist Party of Australia.Communism was unlike any other political movement Australia has ever seen. At its peak in the 1940s, unions led by communists could call a strike …
View book details for Through the Thicket
A Tangle with End Times
Unceremoniously dismissed from his lectureship in New Testament, Dr. Edward J. Sutherland uses his forced retirement to struggle through a thicket of end-times issues in a conservative church. Interaction with a defense lawyer induces him to reconsider his inherited eschatology …
View book details for Empire from the Margins
Religious Minorities in Canada and the South African War
At the beginning of the twentieth century, there were a number of smaller religious bodies that sought to develop religious and national identity on the margins--something especially difficult when the nation was at war in South Africa. This book examines …
View book details for The Jesus People Movement
A Story of Spiritual Revolution among the Hippies
Who would have imagined that the hippies, those long-haired, psychedelia-influenced youth of the 1960s, would have initiated a spiritual revolution that has transformed American Christianity? If you are unfamiliar with the 1960s, the counterculture, the hippie movement, and the Jesus …
View book details for The Question
A Survey of the Questions Asked by the World's Most Influential Leader
Two thousand years ago, Jesus challenged the religious system of his day. It had become infiltrated with traditions and man-made practices that had nothing to do with the word of God or the Lord's intervention for his people. Many of …
Many Pentecostal groups have forgotten their legacy of war resistance and doctrinal history opposing killing. To rectify this loss, we have catalogued Holiness and Pentecostal denominational statements on war and peace. Numerous Holiness groups and virtually all early Pentecostal groups …
Whenever we interact with other people, we influence them--and they influence us. Within this sphere, neutrality is an impossibility. Instead, we must learn to think in terms of good and bad ways of influencing, and here the keyword is respect. …
View book details for Weaving the American Catholic Tapestry
Essays in Honor of William L. Portier
Concerned that American Catholic theology has struggled to find its own voice for much of its history, William Portier has spent virtually his entire scholarly career recovering a usable past for Catholics on the U.S. landscape. This work of ressourcement …
View book details for The Architectonics of Hope
Violence, Apocalyptic, and the Transformation of Political Theology
The Architectonics of Hope provides a critical excavation and reconstruction of the Schmittian seductions that continue to bedevil contemporary political theology. Despite a veritable explosion of interest in the work of Carl Schmitt, which increasingly recognizes his contemporary relevance and …
View book details for Jesus after Modernity
A Twenty-First-Century Critique of Our Modern Concept of Truth and the Truth of the Gospel
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, modern thinkers came to believe that our notion of truth should be objective, certain, and precise. Mathematics became the model for how truth should be conceptualized, and we sought to eliminate ideas that were …
View book details for Jesus, the Prophets, and the End of the World
An Introduction to Biblical Eschatology
The Old Testament prophets and their writings were hugely instrumental in the formation of the second temple eschatology, so an appreciation of the Old Testament prophetic literature greatly helps us in understanding the life and ministry of Jesus and the …
View book details for The Non-Violent Radical
Seeing and Living the Wisdom of Jesus
This book interprets the wisdom of Jesus' sayings in the gospels in words and images. McCollough examines Jesus' wisdom in the context of the political and economic world of the Roman Empire and then applies it to our own time …
View book details for Reconciling Places
How to Bridge the Chasms in our Communities
Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers"--but in our increasingly polarized communities and nation, where can a person of faith begin? In Reconciling Places, pastor and scholar Paul Hoffman introduces laypeople and ministry leaders to a "theology of reconciliation" that equips …
View book details for God as Creator in Acts 17:24
An Historical-Exegetical Study
The Areopagus speech of Acts provides a helpful study of how Paul both engaged and confronted the contemporary culture of his day to present the message of Christianity to his hearers in Athens. How does Paul, as a Jew, contextualize …
View book details for American Crossroads
The Intersection of Christianity and Democracy
"Should Christians be concerned with faith and evangelism and not politcal affairs?" In answering this question, American Crossroads provides a thought-provoking look at what it means to submit to the governing authorities of the United States of America. Just as …
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Race, Identity, and Culture in the Spiritual-Moral Life of Young Asian Americans
Experiencing racial marginalization in society and pressures for success in family, Asian American Christian young adults must negotiate being socially underpowered, culturally dissonant, and politically marginal. To avoid misunderstandings and conflicts within and without their communities, more often than not …
View book details for Second Clement
An Introductory Commentary
The document called Second Clement was not a letter, nor was it written by Clement. It originated as an address to a congregation and is preserved among the group of writings known as the Apostolic Fathers. Unlike First Clement, it …
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