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Silence: A User’s Guide, Volume Two
Application
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
To learn to read a text for the portals of silence that are implicit in it is to gain a powerful tool for supporting and expanding one's silence, and to open the reader to the insight that ensues. The sort of reading proposed in this volume is both costly and rewarding. These pages invite readers...
No Longer Bound
A Theology of Reading and Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
No Longer Bound is about the intersection of reading comprehension and interpretation that leads to the development of a powerful and transformative sermon. Reading facilitates the interpretive process, which is the essence of any sermon. The sermon is an interpretation of an interpretation and as...
Confronting Religious Judgmentalism
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Come to church or go to hell. That's religious bullying. It's judgmentalism. And it's a theological distortion, a distortion insisting that shame and self-loathing are morally appropriate. In Christian humanist tradition, God is not some cosmic judge eager to smite all of us for our sinfulness. God...
Confronting Religious Denial of Gay Marriage
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Writing in part for secular humanists, non-Christians, and ex-Christians, Wallace locates the beginning of religious vilification of LBGTQ Americans: these attacks recycle earlier, equally reactionary political opposition to racial desegregation and equal rights for women. Then, step by step, she...
Confronting Religious Denial of Science
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Confronting Religious Denial of Science: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination traces the cultural backstory of contemporary conflicts between biblical literalists who oppose evolution and "New Atheists" who insist that religion is so pernicious it should be outlawed, if not exterminated....
Where Do Broken Hearts Go?
An Integrative, Participational Theology of Grief
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Grounded in the narrative of the loss of his own wife, Ross Hastings seeks to provide insight into the universal human condition of loss and grief . . . and speaks comfort. All kinds of losses produce grief--loss of jobs, homes, friendships, health, losses through divorce, and loss through death of...
Echoes of Coinherence
Trinitarian Theology and Science Together
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This book re-imagines the universe (and the scientific study of it) through the lens of a triune Creator, three persons of irreducible identity in a perichoretic or coinherent communion. It modestly proposes that Trinitarian theology, and especially the coinherent natures of the Son in the incarnation,...
Famous Stutterers
Twelve Inspiring People Who Achieved Great Things while Struggling with an Impediment
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Moses, Aristotle, Civil War hero Joshua Chamberlain, King George VI, Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, distinguished historian Peter Brown, TV journalist John Stossel, Senator's wife Annie Glenn, ABC correspondent Byron Pitts, novelist John Updike. For all of these accomplished persons, stuttering...
Anarchy and Apocalypse
Essays on Faith, Violence, and Theodicy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In this wide-ranging collection of essays Ronald E. Osborn explores the politically subversive and nonviolent anarchist dimensions of Christian discipleship in response to dilemmas of power, suffering, and war. Essays engage texts and thinkers from Homer's Iliad, the Hebrew Bible, and the New Testament...
My God, My God
Is It Possible to Believe Anymore?
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Once upon a time, it was not so difficult to believe. Believing in God was like breathing. It was a second sense of which people were hardly aware. But in an age when our faith is mainly in science and technology, is it possible to believe anymore? Michael P. Jensen takes a searching look at what...
The Integrity of the Body of Christ
Boundary Keeping as Shared Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
For religious communities to have integrity and credibility they must flourish as places of love and respect. Every aspect of church life is defined and protected by essential boundaries: boundaries around space, time, thought, speech, will, emotion, and behavior--both for clergy and church members....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Karl Barth was one of the most important Christian theologians of the twentieth century, but his political views have often not been taken sufficiently into account. Beginning with a representative early essay by Karl Barth, this volume proceeds with essays by Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt, Helmut Gollwitzer,...
Seed Falling on Good Soil
Rooting Our Lives in the Parables of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Seed Falling on Good Soil is a unique book that combines a historically informed approach to Lucan parables with a critical understanding of social justice issues of our own age. The author proposes that the stories told by Jesus were narratives of resistance challenging audiences to participate in...
The Great Athanasius
An Introduction to His Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
The Great Athanasius is an introductory survey of the life and work of the most dynamic pastor-theologian of the fourth century. From his birth and early years in Alexandria to the "Golden Decade," the book charts the life and work of Athanasius through a close study of his main writings...