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Parting Knowledge
Essays after Augustine
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
There are forms of knowing that seem either to come from a parting or to require one. Paradigmatically in Genesis, Adam parts from God in order to join in knowledge with his partner, the flesh of his flesh, and the result is a bereft but not unpromising knowledge, looking like a labor of love. Saint...
Doing Theology in the Age of Trump
A Critical Report on Christian Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
This book is a work of theological resistance. It is not so much about the presidency of Donald Trump as it is about what his popularity and rise to power reveal about the state of Christianity and the moral character of the evangelical Right in the United States today. More specifically, it is about...
The Future of Love
Essays in Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
With a newly written preface relating his theology to the current global situation, The Future of Love contains revised versions of eighteen of John Milbank's essays on theology, politics, religion, and culture--ranging from the onset of neoliberalism to its current crisis, and from the British to...
The Legend of Death
Two Poetic Sequences
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
The Earth's thin crust of organic matter and the still thinner crust of the spirit is the most concentrated, the most suggestive part of the cosmos. It in every way exceeds itself by pointing above its horizontal surface towards vertical transcendence. However, it can never leave itself behind and...
Christian Dying
Witnesses from the Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
We human beings are mortal. Our lives in this world inevitably terminate in death. This reality, however, need not cause us to despair, since Jesus Christ has gone before us into the far country of death, giving us hope that this defining feature of our earthly lives is not the end, but instead is...
Catholics and Evangelicals for the Common Good
A Dialogue in an Historic Convergence
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
For centuries, evangelical Protestants and Catholics have hurled harsh epithets at each other. But that has changed dramatically in the last forty years. In 1960, many prominent evangelicals opposed John Kennedy for president because he was a Catholic. Today, Catholics and evangelicals work together...
Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary
Conversations between a Radical Democrat and a Christian
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
In Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary, theologian Stanley Hauerwas and political theorist Romand Coles reflect about possibilities and practices of radical democracy and radical ecclesia that take form in the textures of relational care for the radical ordinary. They seek to shift political...
Working with Words
On Learning to Speak Christian
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
The crucial challenge for theology is that when it is read the reader thinks, This is true. Recognizing claims that are true enables readers to identify an honest expression of life's complexities. The trick is to show that theological claims--the words that must be used to speak of God--are necessary...
Minding the Web
Making Theological Connections
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
For over forty years Stanley Hauerwas has been writing theology that matters. In this new collection of essays, lectures, and sermons, Hauerwas continues his life's work of exploring the theological web, discovering and recovering the connections necessary for the church to bear faithful witness to...
Beatitudes, Not Platitudes
Jesus’ Invitation to the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Beatitudes, Not Platitudes shows that the Beatitudes are not overused, well-worn answers to the question, "What would Jesus do?" Rather, they are undervalued and hardly touched claims that transform our destinies. More than spiritual nuggets for personal devotion, practical advice, or propositions...
New Wine Tastings
Theological Essays of Cultural Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This collection of essays provides samplings of a theological engagement of culture that Paul Louis Metzger has been developing over the years in his work as founder and director of The Institute for the Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins at Multnomah Biblical Seminary of Multnomah University....
by Paula Gooder
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Heaven is one of those great mysteries that somehow symbolize what we don't know about ourselves and the world around us. At the same time it lifts our vision from the mundane realities of our everyday lives and reminds us that beyond the daily grind of our existence there is another, unseen reality....
Sawdust and Soul
A Conversation about Woodworking and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
An American ethicist and a South African theologian reflect on their work with wood and how it has helped them find creativity and meaning in experiences of both loss and transformation. Through their friendship, correspondence, and work together they have developed a rich narrative about the way...
John Calvin
Christian Humanist and Evangelical Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
2009 is the 500th anniversary of the birth of Calvin, the Reformed theologian whose legacy has played such an important role in the shaping of modern South Africa. The popular understanding of him as grim moralist, proponent of predestination and a tyrannical God is a caricature, but one that does...