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View book details for New Views on Pornography
Sexuality, Politics, and the Law
This book presents thought-provoking research and data about pornography that will prompt readers to reconsider their positions on a highly controversial and current issue.Why do people use pornography? Is porn addiction a fact or myth? What is revenge porn and …
View book details for Offender Profiling in the Courtroom
The Use and Abuse of Expert Witness Testimony
Offender profiling is mainly used by the police to narrow down suspects in cases where no physical evidence was left at a crime scene. Recently, however, this technique has been introduced into the courtroom as evidence, raising questions of its …
In every region of Latin America, there are sacred shrines that draw tens of thousands of pilgrims. At present, most of these pilgrimages are overtly Catholic, but the roots of the contemporary practice are numerous: European Christian, indigenous pre-Columbian, African …
View book details for Treaty of Versailles
A Primary Document Analysis
An indispensable resource on the Treaty of Versailles, one of the most influential and controversial documents in history, this book explains how the treaty tried to solve the complex issues that emerged from the destruction of World War I.This carefully …
View book details for Combating Terrorism in the 21st Century
American Laws, Strategies, and Agencies
This combination AZ encyclopedia and primary document collection provides an authoritative and enlightening overview of U.S. anti- and counterterrorism politics, policies, attitudes, and actions related to both foreign and domestic threats, with a special emphasis on post-9/11 events.This book provides …
View book details for The Ten Steps of Positive Ageing
A handbook for personal change in later life
Can ageing really be a positive experience? Yes.You can make a difference to your own ageing process. Research shows that how we think about ageing can have a significant impact on our health and wellbeing in later life. The Ten …
In the companion volume to this, The Resurrection in Retrospect, Peter Carnley focuses on the inadequacies for faith in Jesus Christ of an approach to his resurrection purely as an event of past historical time. The Reconstruction of Resurrection Belief …
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The Effect of American "Word of Faith" Culture on Contemporary English Evangelical Revivalism
Many twenty-first-century evangelical charismatics in Britain are looking for a faith that "works." They want to experience the miraculous in terms of healings and God-sent financial provision. Many have left the mainstream churches to join independent charismatic churches led by …
View book details for As It Was in the Beginning
An Intertextual Analysis of New Creation in Galatians, 2 Corinthians, and Ephesians
Paul's comments regarding the new creation in 2 Cor 5:17 and Gal 6:15 have tended to be understood somewhat myopically. Some argue the phrase "new creation" solely refers to the inward transformation believers have experienced through faith in Jesus Christ. …
View book details for Recognizing Other Subjects
Feminist Pastoral Theology and the Challenge of Identity
How do we care justly when selves suffer because of the identities that they inhabit? Pastoral theologian Katharine Lassiter approaches this interdisciplinary question from a feminist perspective in order to understand how suffering, subject formation, and social injustice are interconnected. …
View book details for Rediscovering Gods Grand Story
In a Fragmented World of Pieces and Parts
In the passage to modernity we in the West have lost the ability to see things whole. We've closed our minds to all things transcendent and default to unbelief, and can't make sense of the persistent echoes of the voice …
View book details for Theological Ethics in a Neoliberal Age
Confronting the Christian Problem with Wealth
Throughout his ministry, Jesus spoke frequently and unabashedly on the now-taboo subject of money. With nothing good to say to the rich, the New Testament--indeed the entire Bible--is far from positive towards the topic of personal wealth. And yet, we …
View book details for The Necessity of Witness
Stanley Hauerwass Contribution to Systematic Theology
The role of witness is a recurring theme in the work of Stanley Hauerwas: it is through enacting the truth in a world of lies, through seeking peace in a world of violence, that witnesses show who God is, who …
View book details for Evangelism and the Openness of God
The Implications of Relational Theism for Evangelism and Mission
In Evangelism and the Openness of God, Vaughn Baker argues that a dynamic concept of God as articulated in open theism better serves the evangelistic mission of the church than does conventional theology. Open theism affirms an ontology of love …
Reading the Bible in Australia invites reflection about how the Bible matters to Australia. Contributors probe intersections between vital debates about Australian identity (who we have been, are, and aspire to become) and the Bible, bringing a range of perspectives …
View book details for Christianity and the Art of Wheelchair Maintenance
A Dialectical Inquiry at the End of the World
After twenty years, Stephen Faller shares his journey into seminary and ordained ministry. This book reveals the story of how someone with a lifelong disability, cerebral palsy, might find his way into ministry as a hospital chaplain; there is a …
View book details for A Consuming Passion
Essays on Hell and Immortality in Honor of Edward Fudge
This diverse collection of essays in honor of Edward William Fudge explores the topics of hell and immortality, for which Fudge has been widely known through his magnum opus, The Fire That Consumes. Most Christians believe people will live and …
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A Contextualized Theological Study of Power and Humanity witin Akamba Christianity in Kenya
This is a book about Christianity in one particular region in Kenya. It walks into churches, listens to sermons, dances to music, and interviews the people sitting in the pews, all with the aim of understanding how spiritual power enables …
View book details for Answer the Prayer of Jesus
A Call for Biblical Unity
God has accomplished many great things through the church, but can the church be even more effective? Is there something the church can do to be both more pleasing to the Lord and more productive? Answer the Prayer of Jesus …
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Divine Agency and Augustinian Obstacles to the Dialogue between Theology and Science
The question of divine agency in the world remains one important unresolved underlying obstacle in the dialogue between theology and science. Modern notions of divine agency are shown to have developed out of the interaction of three factors in early …
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The Making and Remaking of a 21st-Century College Chaplain
With candor, passion, and deep love for her work, Lucy Forster-Smith takes us across the threshold as a chaplain on a college campus. This vocational narrative braids the story of her faith journey that began on a porch when she …
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An Examination of Various Perspectives: Paul and the Uprising of the Dead, Vol. 1
The Pauline Epistles have been claimed as a useful ally by parties across the political spectrum. Neoconservatives claim that Paul and his coworkers were law-abiding, authority-honoring, devoutly religious people oriented around their respect for hard work, private property, and family …
A world in which the lives of people are threatened and controlled either by an unpredictable megalomaniac or by a cold, unyielding legal system. A world of political skulduggery. A world in which people experience a personal identity crisis and …
View book details for An Ethiopian Reading of the Bible
Biblical Interpretation of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church
This book explores the biblical interpretation of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church (EOTC). In doing so, it illuminates the interpretation of the Bible in a particular historical and cultural context and presents a compelling example of the contextual nature of …
View book details for Preaching the Manifold Grace of God, Volume 1
Theologies of Preaching in Historical Theological Families
Preaching the Manifold Grace of God is a two-volume work describing theologies of preaching from the historical and contemporary periods. Volume 1 focuses on historical theological families: Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Anabaptist, Anglican/Episcopal, Wesleyan, Baptist, African American, Stone-Campbell, Friends, …
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