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Preaching from Home
The Stories of Seven Lutheran Women Hymn Writers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This volume by Gracia Grindal introduces English-speaking readers to several significant yet unsung Lutheran women hymn writers from the sixteenth century to the present. After a brief introductory discussion of Elisabeth Cruciger, the first woman hymn writer of the Reformation, Grindal provides fascinating...
by Jeanne Hoeft, L. Shannon Jung
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Pastoral care in rural communities is different from care in other locales. Despite these differences, rural churches and communities also hold a particular wisdom from which the rest of the church might benefit. Small towns and rural areas have particular challenges, and in seeking to live out the...
Jesus' Sermon on the Mount
Mandating a Better Righteousness
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5‒7) is the best-known repository of the teachings of Jesus and one of the most studied. Amid the considerable erudition expended on the Sermon, however, Jack R. Lundbom argues that it has proven too easy to deflect or disregard the main thrust of the Sermon, which...
Theology of the Old Testament
Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
In this powerful book, Walter Brueggemann moves the discussion of Old Testament theology beyond the dominant models of previous generations.
Brueggemann focuses on the metaphor and imagery of the courtroom trial in order to regard the theological substance of the Old Testament as a series of...
Like Fire in the Bones
Listening For The Prophetic Word In Jeremiah
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
No scholar of this generation has had a greater fire in his bones for communicating the word of God than Walter Brueggemann. These essays on Jeremiah exemplify his insistence that criticism should lead to interpretation, and remind us again why prophets like Jeremiah still matter in the 21st century.
Women and Redemption
A Theological History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Rosemary Radford Ruether’s authoritative, award-winning critique, now updated and expanded, evaluates conflict over the meaning of the gospel for gender relations. Ruether highlights women theologians’ work, challenging the patriarchal paradigm of historical theology. She incorporates a plurality...
Teaching All Nations
Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
That Christian missionary efforts have long gone hand-in-hand with European colonization and American imperialist expansion. The role played in those efforts by the “Great Commission” – the risen Christ’s command to “teach all nations” – has more often been observed than analyzed. With...
Nurturing Hope
Christian Pastoral Care in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Trends and skills for those who offer pastoral care
Christian pastoral care has changed a great deal in the past few decades in response to many factors in our rapidly changing world. In part 1 of Nurturing Hope, Lynne Baab discusses seven trends in pastoral care--shifts in who delivers pastoral...
The Cry of Tamar
Violence against Women and the Church's Response
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In this comprehensive, practical, and gripping assessment of various forms of violence against women, Pamela Cooper-White challenges the Christian churches to examine their own responses to the cry of Tamar in our time. She describes specific forms of such violence and outlines appropriate pastoral...
The Dialogue Comes of Age
Christian Encounters With Other Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Increasingly world religious traditions present not just an intellectual or apologetic challenge to Christians but a daily encounter, a source of religious practices, and even live religious options. How are Christians to relate to these traditions and the neighbors and friends who live by them? This...
Surviving the Bible
A Devotional for the Church Year 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
A lot of us have tried to read the Bible. And we‘ve failed. Christian Piatt has too. But now, using the annual lectionary as his guide, he has put together a devotional that allows us to read through major parts of the Old and New Testaments and finally understand them in plain English. Every week...
Kenotic Ecclesiology
Select Writings of Donald M. MacKinnon
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Donald M. MacKinnon has been one of the most important and influential of the post-World War British theologians, significantly impacting the development and subsequent work of the likes of Rowan Williams, Nicholas Lash and John Milbank, among many other notable theologians. A younger generation largely...
by Timothy Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Current digital transformations of information technology have given rise to an explosion of scholarly interest in the history of the book. Although this research has focused predominantly on the rise of movable type after Gutenberg, the second-to-fifth-century-CE transition from scroll to codex warrants...
Parables Unplugged
Reading the Lukan Parables in Their Rhetorical Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
For far too long, Lauri Thuren argues, the parables of Jesus have been read either as allegories encoding Christian theology—including the theological message of one or another Gospel writer—or as tantalizing clues to the authentic voice of Jesus. Thuren proposes instead to read the parables “unplugged”...