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View book details for Tracing the Lines
Spiritual Exercise and the Gesture of Christian Scholarship
Tracing the Lines takes on the project of what Christian scholarship is, and should be, today. It does so, however, with an eye to locating similarities in the rich tradition the last nearly two thousand years of Christian scholarship has …
View book details for The Resilient Pastor
Ten Principles for Developing Pastoral Resilience
Ministry is challenging, complex, and costly. Too many pastors and church leaders are getting spread thin, burned out, and walking away! In an ever-changing church culture that includes social media, blurred denominational lines, and an increased demand for relational ministry, …
View book details for Grasping Power
Re-Thinking the Active Ingredient in Leadership, Education, Parenting, Global Survival, Forgiveness, Restraint, Identity
Bertrand Russell defines power as the ability to produce intended effects. Robert Vecchio defines it as the ability to change the behavior of others. Dacher Keltner defines power as your capacity to make a difference in the world by influencing …
View book details for Gods Absence and the Charismatic Presence
Inquiries in Openness Theology
The author's theological inquiry is intended to raise questions of interpretation within the camp of openness theology and to direct a discussion on the implications of this movement for the charismatic/Pentecostal community. Open theism or openness theology affirms that the …
View book details for The Naked Christ
An Atonement Model for a Body-Obsessed Culture
The cross of Christ is undeniably central to the Christian faith. But, how can the cruelty and brutality of a two-thousand-year-old Roman cross touch base with a hedonistic world that has been so desensitized towards violence? Within the postmodern setting …
View book details for The Cappadocian Mothers
Deification Exemplified in the Writings of Basil, Gregory, and Gregory
The Cappadocian Fathers had great influence on the church of the fourth century, having brought their passion for Christ and theological expertise to life in their ministry. Their work was not devoid of influence, including that of their immediate family …
View book details for System and Story
Narrative Critique and Construction in Theology
System and Story is intended to develop a means for bridging the gap between critics of system and those who may find value in doing systematics from a Biblically oriented context. Narrative theologians have rightly identified and critiqued the development …
Beginners scanning Leviticus will find much detail about rituals and sinful situations, but little enlightening context or rationale. This study explores how scholars imagine that these rituals and moral laws made sense to those living back then, even though many …
View book details for Psyche, Soul, and Spirit
Interdisciplinary Essays
A spirit runs through the interdisciplinary essays of this book--a spirit that lives within them and hovers above them, at once intelligent and profoundly simple. Although each essay focuses on a certain topic, whether it is the Buddhist saint Milarepa, …
View book details for Everyday Thoughts
A Collection of Devotional Readings for Thinking Christians
Everyday Thoughts is a devotional for thinking Christians, for those who seek to hear and know God in the present through contemplation on scripture and reality. Each essay is preceded by a poem or an inspirational piece. In relation to …
View book details for The Secret Transcript of the Council of Bishops
A Dialogue on Homosexuality and Church Unity
What would Wesley say? United Methodists have always looked to their founder for an example or a quick quote to justify their actions. The Secret Transcript of the Council of Bishops takes the readers inside the debate over homosexuality and …
View book details for Wisdom and the Renewal of Catholic Theology
Essays in Honor of Matthew L. Lamb
For more than fifty years, Fr. Matthew L. Lamb has been one of the major figures in American Catholic theology through his writing, teaching, and involvement in scholarly societies. Over a decade ago, Fr. Lamb moved from the Department of …
View book details for The Beauty of the Unity and the Harmony of the Whole
The Concept of Theosis in the Theology of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
This book traces the emergence and development of the deification theme in Greek patristic theology and its subsequent transformation into the theology of theosis in Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. This volume dwells on the deification theme as it is situated in …
In 1906 at 312 Azusa Street in Los Angeles a revival began that set in motion a global movement that has affected half a billion people. In The Azusa Street Revival and Its Legacy, twenty writers, representing the international scholarship …
View book details for Thinking With the Church
Toward a Renewal of Baptist Theology
Over the centuries, Baptists have labored to follow Christ in faithful devotion and service. More recently, they have occasionally partnered with fellow Christians from other traditions in these efforts while learning from each other along the way. In Thinking With …
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Sexual Harassment in a Divinity School
Not everyone is surprised at the rumor suggesting that Karl Wolfe, Dean of The University School, recently told Rebecca Swingle, new professor at the school, that a promotion could be more easily attained were she to sleep with him. Certainly …
View book details for God, Science, and Religious Diversity
A Defense of Theism
Two major obstacles to belief in God in the twenty-first century are the idea that science is incompatible with religious faith, and the idea that the diversity of religions undermines the credibility of belief that any one religion could be …
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A New Testament Study
Slave markets, temple courts, prophetic lawsuits, diplomatic treaties, imperial victory processions, dying and rising deities. These and more are the pictures painted by the New Testament writers as they search for language to describe their life-changing experiences of God through …
View book details for Localism in the Mass Age
A Front Porch Republic Manifesto
In the United States the conventional left/right distinction has become increasingly irrelevant, if not harmful. The reigning political, cultural, and economic visions of both the Democrats and the Republicans have reached obvious dead ends. Liberalism, with its hostility to any …
View book details for That We Might Become God
The Queerness of Creedal Christianity
Is it possible for orthodox, creedal Christianity to change its views on matters of sexuality and gender? In order to do so, must it simply incorporate elements of the secular world that are foreign to it? In That We Might …
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Understanding Historic Leadership Development Practices of the Black Church to Prepare Tomorrows Leaders
When it comes to learning necessary ministry leadership skills, African Americans are unique in their view towards traditional theological education. They have a historical educational experience that requires anyone attempting to teach them ministry skills to acknowledge the differences in …
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Renewing the Doctrine of God for Twenty-First-Century Christians
In this most up-to-date study, Aaron Yom provides a comprehensive analysis of the doctrine of God, particularly from a pneumatological perspective. He focuses on retrieving the order of God that has been consistently misunderstood and mistreated by modern scholars. The …
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Is There a Christian Politics for the Twenty-First Century?
How would politics be different if Christians acknowledged Jesus Christ as the archetype of all rulers, democratic and nondemocratic? How would our practice of politics change if we recognized the suffering love of Christ as the truest exercise of power? …
View book details for Mission from the Perspective of the Other
Drawing Together on Holy Ground
Christian mission involves God, the missionary, and the other, the recipient of mission. This book argues for the centrality of this other in the practice of mission. The other as child of God is presented, not as an empty vessel …
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An Introduction to the Theology of Beauty
What if there is more to beauty than meets the eye? What if beauty named more than the human response to a thing's appearance, but instead named the very presence of God in the world? And what if beauty provided …
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