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Martin Luther as He Lived and Breathed
Recollections of the Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Luther's oft-recounted life made a profound impact on his contemporaries. Some revered him; some hated him. This volume provides a brief narrative of the unfolding events that took place from his birth to a young entrepreneurial family through his turbulent career as university professor and public...
Fresh Wind Blowing
Living in God's New Pentecost
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
A fresh wind of God's Spirit is blowing on the earth today, and as in times past, God is inviting us to raise our sails and move forward with the power and direction that reflects our commitment to God's will. Some are calling it a new pentecost, but whatever name is given, we are living in a time...
Longing for Spring
A New Vision for Wesleyan Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Delving into the widespread, contemporary longing for a more serious and communal experience of Christianity, this book provides important theoretical underpinnings and casts a vision for a new monasticism within the Wesleyan tradition. Elaine Heath and Scott Kisker call for the planting of neo-monastic...
The Politics of Penance
Proposing an Ethic for Social Repair
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
"Bless me Father, for I have sinned," says the penitent to open the dialogue in Catholic confessionals across the globe and throughout the ages. Along with the priest's words, "For your penance . . ." this encounter is an icon of Catholic life. But does the script, and the practices...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The theology of Karl Barth has been a productive dialogue partner for evangelical theology. For too long, however, the dialogue has been dominated by questions of orthodoxy. The present volume seeks to contribute to the conversation through a creative reconfiguration of both partners in the conversation,...
Atonement for a Sinless Society
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
"Sin isn't relevant anymore." Alan Mann takes seriously this oft-heard assertion and instead goes in search of the real plight at the heart of contemporary Western society. What he finds there is a personal, pervasive, and self-diminishing dis-ease impacting the lives of millions of people--shame....
The Oral Ethos of the Early Church
Speaking, Writing, and the Gospel of Mark
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
To experience the gospel message as first-century people heard it is to move into an oral world, one with very little reliance on manuscripts. The essays in this book explore this oral world and the Gospel of Mark within it. They demonstrate the oral style of Mark's gospel, which suggests that it...
Faith Forming Faith
Bringing New Christians to Baptism and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church in Seattle discovered that by forming the faith of new Christians and leading them to the waters of baptism, they as a parish were renewed and revitalized for mission in the world. Faith Forming Faith describes the year-long process of faith mentoring that has become...
by Paul E. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
What happens after a congregation welcomes new Christians into its ministry? Building on the work of the first volume in this series, Faith Forming Faith, Paul Hoffman interprets how a congregation that intentionally practices baptism and its renewal is itself re-formed. Pastors, teachers, lay leaders,...
The Dying of Jesus
Words and Thoughts from the Cross
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
The liturgical season of Lent and Good Friday are very important for Christians as they meditate and reflect upon the dying of Jesus. These are traditions that take us back to the very beginnings of the Christian tradition. From early times, pilgrims have made their way to the Holy Land, especially...
Faces By the Wayside—Persons Who Encountered Jesus on the Road
A Month of Daily Meditations for Advent, Lent, and Other Seasons of the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
If I could only have been there . . . Did you ever wish you could have been among those who actually encountered Jesus in person; mingled, perhaps, with those throngs beside the lake; feasted among the five thousand in a Galilean meadow; crowded along the village street as the carpenter from Nazareth...
Beyond Old and New Perspectives on Paul
Reflections on the Work of Douglas Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
New Testament studies are witnessing many exciting developments. And Douglas Campbell's groundbreaking publications are an important contribution to future discussions relating to Paul. Familiar problems relating to justification, old and new perspectives, and much more besides, have been tackled...
Forgiveness
A Theology
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Many endorse the idea of personal forgiveness without fully understanding its complexity and subtlety. This book is a careful and detailed theological exploration of personal forgiveness. It sets forgiveness in its ancient and biblical context, as well as drawing on contemporary debates among philosophers,...
Being the Church
An Eastern Orthodox Understanding of Church Growth
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
If the divine liturgy really is as beautiful as we claim, wouldn't more people attend? Wouldn't the church grow? Driven by our desire for growth, we count, we analyze, we make charts, and we strategize, but often with few discernible results. That is probably the result of focusing on secondary...