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Radical Friendship
The Politics of Communal Discernment
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Radical Friendship explores the contours of communal discernment as a practice that is especially relevant to Christians seeking radical democratic alternatives to the predominance of political liberalism. Communal discernment is shown to be capable of generating conscientious participation in grassroots...
Bodies of Peace
Ecclesiology, Nonviolence,and Witness
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This book argues that Christian nonviolence is both formed by and forms ecclesial life, creating an inextricable relationship between church commitment and resistance to war. Examining the work of John Howard Yoder, Dorothy Day, William Stringfellow, and Robert McAfee Brown, this book explores how...
Planetary Solidarity
Global Women's Voices on Christian Doctrine and Climate Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Planetary Solidarity brings together leading Latina, womanist, Asian American, Anglican American, South American, Asian, European, and African woman theologians on the issues of doctrine, women, and climate justice. Because women make up the majority of the world’s poor and tend to be more dependent...
Redeeming a Prison Society
A Liturgical and Sacramental Response to Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The U.S. criminal justice system is in a state of crisis, from unprecedented (and increasing) rates of imprisonment and recidivism to the privatization of the prison system and the disproportionate representation of particular racial, ethnic, social, and economic groups within the penal system, all...
by Yon Gyong Kwon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The book of Acts recounts the birth of the church and the ministry of the earliest disciples. It occupies a place of critical importance in the New Testament, acting as a bridge between the Jesus of history and the Jesus of faith. It is a record of the early church, a rich source of theological wisdom,...
by Margaret Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The Formation of the Christian Scriptures is the second volume in a two-part introduction to the New Testament. The first volume, Jesus Christ: His Life and His Church, contains an account of events, beginning with the life and teaching of Jesus and ending with the leaders of the early church writing...
Christ the Light
The Theology of Light and Illumination in Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Light is one of the most ancient and significant metaphors adopted by Christianity by which to understand the significance of Jesus Christ. The Easter liturgy, for instance, is marked by beautiful and powerful rituals proclaiming Christ as the light of the world in his death and resurrection. That...
by InHee C. Berg
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Irony (as used here) is a rhetorical and literary device for revealing “what is hidden behind what is seen.” It thus offers the reader a superior understanding by means of the distinction between reality and its shadow. The book provides a history of different definitions of irony, from Aristophanes...
by Paul Badham
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
For many people belief in the afterlife has evaporated. Scientific discoveries about the history of our species, our growing understanding of the vastness of the universe, new findings in brain research; these things and many others conspire to make belief in immortality difficult.
In this...
by John Parratt
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
What is the relevance of the gospel in the modern world? How is it true in today’s world? How should we think about it? How should we discuss it? Whenever we ask these questions, and countless others like them, we are “doing theology.”
Writing for anyone who has asked these questions,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Writing Theologically introduces writing not just as an academic exercise but as a way for students to communicate the good news in rapidly changing contexts, as well as to discover and craft their own sense of vocation and identity. Most important will be guiding students to how they might begin...
Ain't I a Womanist, Too?
Third Wave Womanist Religious Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Third wave womanism is a new movement within religious studies with deep roots in the tradition of womanist religious thought—while also departing from it in key ways.
After a helpful and orienting introduction, this volume gathers essays from established and emerging scholars whose work...
This Risen Existence
The Spirit of Easter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Although Easter is the most significant event in the Christian year, we rarely take time to explore what it means in detail. So much attention is given to Lent, yet the theology of resurrection is central not only to what we believe about God and Jesus but to our understanding of ourselves. Following...
Cross Vision
How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Renowned pastor-theologian Gregory A. Boyd tackles the Bible’s biggest dilemma.
The Old Testament God of wrath and violence versus the New Testament God of love and peace—it’s a difference that has troubled Christians since the first century. Now, with the sensitivity of a pastor and...