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View book details for The Crucible of Religion
Culture, Civilization, and Affirmation of Life
Religion is commonly viewed through the lens of the world's religious traditions, stressing the differences, and often the conflicts, among them. The author of this book instead presents religion as a common and universal human phenomenon, based deeply in a …
View book details for Speaking Church
A New Vision for the Sub/Urban Congregation
Language is the gift by which we shape our understanding and tell our story. But if we cannot see ourselves and our context in our language, our lives can be confused and our witness weakened through a kind of cognitive …
View book details for They Who Give from Evil
The Response of the Eastern Church to Moneylending in the Early Christian Era
They Who Give from Evil: The Response of the Eastern Church to Moneylending in the Early Christian Era considers St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory of Nyssa's fourth-century sermons against usury. Both brothers were concerned with the economic and …
View book details for Agape and Bhakti with Bataille and Mark at Loyola and St. Francis
The Mysticism of Reconciliation
David L. Goicoechea presents his fourth volume in a series on agape. The book focuses on the complementarity of agape (Christian love) and bhakti (Hindu love). First, he shows how the Jesuit Spirituality at Loyola in Chicago and the Franciscan …
View book details for Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Arnold Koster
Two Distinct Voices in the Midst of Germany's Third Reich Turmoil
Discipleship is the heartbeat of the Christian Church. This book explores how "following Jesus" was understood and lived by the Lutheran Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Baptist Arnold Koster during the Third Reich era. Baptists and Lutherans often define the tension …
View book details for The Road to Joy
Eight Pathways of Psychospiritual Transformation
In The Road to Joy, Kevin McClone invites us to join him in a personal and professional journey exploring eight core psychospiritual pathways that lay the foundation for more joyful living. Inspired by the death of his beloved wife, Grace …
View book details for Moving Beyond Individualism in Pastoral Care and Counseling
Reflections on Theory, Theology, and Practice
Despite astute critiques and available resources for alternative modes of thinking and practicing, individualism continues to be a dominating and constraining ideology in the field of pastoral psychotherapy and counseling. Philip Rieff was one of the first to highlight the …
View book details for My First Exorcism
What the Devil Taught a Lutheran Pastor about Counter-cultural Spirituality
What the scientific community dismisses as a mental disorder, Christians have often labeled "demon possession." While classifications may offer limited help in explanation, the Reverend Dr. Harold Ristau explores the nature and meaning of demonic activity by drawing from his …
View book details for Trajectories of Justice
What the Bible Says about Slaves, Women, and Homosexuality
The Bible proclaims a message of liberation. Though the Bible arose in an age when slavery and patriarchalism permeated society, the biblical authors sought to elevate the rights of slaves, the poor, and women. Their attempts to elevate the oppressed …
View book details for Anglican Manifesto
A Christian Response to Oneworld Religion
The Anglican Communion must address a central issue: that of the postmodern worldview growing in its midst and the corresponding development of a One World Religion. It is an issue of theological meaning and interpretation, of right doctrine and right …
View book details for The Crib, the Cross, and the Crown
Reflections on the Stories of the First Christmas and Easter
We are all familiar with the stories of what happened at the first Christmas and Easter--or are we? The Crib, the Cross and the Crown strips away the wrapping-paper of tradition and folk-lore from the stories of the birth and …
View book details for Luke-Acts and Empire
Essays in Honor of Robert L. Brawley
In recent years, scholars have explored anew the interface between the early Christian movements and the Roman Empire. Once thought to be quietistic, the early Christian movements turn out to have been critical of the Empire and significantly counterimperial. This …
Teaching is hard. External pressures are steadily increasing, leading to high rates of attrition and burnout. Unlike other resources that attempt to address those external factors, The Cry of the Teacher's Soul offers hope by focusing on the key factor …
Throughout the spiritual journey, God's love engenders within every Christian active, contemplative, and solitary inclinations. Consequently, each person wants to do some good, to have a basic receptivity to God, and at times to be alone with God. As life …
This issue of the Journal of Latin American Theology presents a selection of papers from the July 2017 conference, "Where is Protestantism in Latin America Headed? A Future-Oriented, Multidisciplinary Vision 500 Years after the Reformation." This event was cosponsored by …
View book details for King
A Mystery
Gospel in an age devoid of miracles, King: A Mystery is set in the year of Obama's first election, a year of catastrophic floods. Tom King, twin brother of religious leader Joshua King, tells the story of night watchman Arnie …
View book details for The Tradition of the Gospel Christians
A Study of Their Identity and Theology during the Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Periods
The Tradition of the Gospel Christians explores the post-Soviet tradition of evangelical Christians originating from the ministry of the Victorian revivalist preacher Lord Radstock in St. Petersburg in the 1870s. In an effort to resolve the current evangelical crises of …
View book details for Theopoetics
Spiritual Poetry for Contemplative Theology and Daily Living
Theopoetics is a collection of poetry filled with reflective inspiration from the heart and mind of a person filled with pathos over the plight of humanity. Each poem reflects his personal wrestling with theology and reality as he is determined …
View book details for Gospel Without Borders
Separating Christianity from Culture in America
To what degree does culture facilitate or distort the Christian faith, the gospel of Jesus, and the life of the church? In America, the distortion is enormous. Gospel Without Borders carefully examines the complex intersection of culture and faith in …
This book is critically important for Bible translation theorists, postcolonial scholars, church leaders, and the general public interested in the history, politics, and nature of Bible translation work in Africa. It is also useful to students of gender studies, political …
View book details for Dominion over Wildlife?
An Environmental Theology of Human-Wildlife Relations
For centuries Christians believed that God granted humanity dominion over the animal kingdom, meaning that we had a moral right to kill, manage, and eat animals including wildlife. Recently, however, environmental and animal rights activists have assaulted this traditional perspective. …
View book details for The Tragedy of Almightiness
Revaluing Ethical Life
The Tragedy of Almightiness encircles the theme of human yearning for omnipotence, as expressed in religion and various ideologies. The central question revolves around the matter of what--in pursuing such an extreme power of the will--man seeks to achieve. While …
View book details for A Future for American Evangelicalism
Commitment, Openness, and Conversation
This book proposes that participation in "God's Project of Reconciliation" is the "Center" that can hold evangelical Christians together in the midst of great diversity in belief and ecclesiastical practices. The author envisions a vibrant future for the Evangelical movement …
View book details for Depression and the Divine
Was Jesus Clinically Depressed?
David Wilson's initial research into the phenomenon of prophecy in the Hebrew Bible suggested that many of the passages featuring prophets, and hitherto considered to be bizarre myths (or much-edited collections of traditions) were, in fact, sequences of dreams. Moreover, …
View book details for A First Century Message to Twentieth Century Christians
Addresses based upon the Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia
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