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Hoping Against Hope
Confessions of a Postmodern Pilgrim
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
John D. Caputo has a long career as one of the preeminent postmodern philosophers in America. The author of such books as Radical Hermeneutics, The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida, and The Weakness of God, Caputo now reflects on his spiritual journey from a Catholic altar boy in 1950s Philadelphia...
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Despite Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s prior theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world six years after his death in 1945. The materials gathered and selected by his friend Eberhard Bethge in Letters and Papers from Prison not...
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
The crown jewel of Bonhoeffer's body of work, Ethicsis the culmination of his theological and personal odyssey. Based on careful reconstruction of the manuscripts, freshly and expertly translated and annotated, this new critical edition features an insightful Introduction by Clifford Green and an...
Ecumenical, Academic, and Pastoral Work
1931-1934
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Volume 11 in the sixteen-volume Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition, Ecumenical, Academic, and Pastoral Work: 1931—1932, provides a comprehensive translation of Bonhoeffer’s important writings from 1931 to 1932, with extensive commentary about their historical context and theological significance....
Grace in Auschwitz
A Holocaust Christology
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The postmodern human condition and relationship to God were forged in response to Auschwitz. Christian theology must now address the challenge posed by the Shoah. Grace in Auschwitz offers a constructive theology of grace that enables twenty-first-century Westerners to relate meaningfully to the Christian...
Reading Scripture as a Political Act
Essays on the Theopolitical Interpretation of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Although scholars increasingly understand Scripture to contain political dimensions and implications, the interpretation of Scripture is often marginalized in most scholarly discussions of political theology. Reading Scripture as a Political Act takes a step toward remedying this situation by exploring...
by Peter T. Sanlon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Scholarship has painted many pictures of Augustine—the philosophical theologian, the refuter of heresy, or contributor to doctrines like Original Sin—but the picture of Augustine as preacher, says Sanlon, has been seriously neglected. When academics marginalize the Sermones ad Populum, the real...
Resisting Structural Evil
Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
The increasingly pressing and depressing situation of Planet Earth poses urgent ethical questions for Christians. But, as Cynthia Moe-Lobeda argues, the future of the earth is not simply a matter of protecting species and habitats but of rethinking the very meaning of Christian ethics. The earth crisis...
A More Radical Gospel
Essays on Eschatology, Authority, Atonement, and Ecumenism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Gerhard O. Forde has stood at the forefront of Lutheran thought for most of his career. This new collection of essays and sermons—many previously unpublished— makes Forde's powerful theological vision more widely available.
The book aptly captures Forde's deep Lutheran commitment. Here...
Philosophy
A Short, Visual Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Philosophy: A Short, Visual Introduction is the ideal path to understanding the philosophical ideas that influence Christian theology.
Scott Paeth’s fast-paced introduction covers the most important movements and thinkers with precision and clarity. The major ideas are creatively illustrated...
Existing Before God
Soren Kierkegaard and the Human Venture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Soren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), the Danish theologian, philosopher, and preacher, in his last years issued a blistering attack on the established Christianity of the nineteenth century. That challenge was also a summons to an authentic life of Christian faith. With intensity and acumen, Kierkegaard...
Theologian of Resistance
The Life and Thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Since Dietrich Bonhoeffer's death in 1945, executed by the Nazis as a political dissident, he has continued to fascinate and compel readers as a theologian, witness, and martyr. Bonhoeffer's theological brilliance, committed discipleship, ecumenical insight, and courageous participation in the struggle...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In the early twenty-first century, interest in the life and work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is increasing significantly. In this environment, how should we understand and interpret Bonhoeffer? Interpreting Bonhoeffer explores the many questions surrounding the complexities of Bonhoeffer’s life, work,...
Engaging the Powers
25th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
In this brilliant culmination of his seminal Powers Trilogy, now reissued in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Walter Wink explores the problem of evil today and how it relates to the New Testament concept of principalities and powers. He asks the question, "How can we oppose evil without creating...