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Paul and the Stories of Israel
Grand Thematic Narratives in Galatians
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Much recent scholarship on Paul has searched for implicit narratives behind Paul’s scriptural allusions, especially in the wake of Richard B. Hays’s groundbreaking work on the apostle’s appropriation of Scripture. A. Andrew Das reviews six proposals for “grand thematic narratives” behind...
A Place for Hagar's Son
Ishmael as a Case Study in the Priestly Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
The profound ambivalence of the biblical portrayals of Hagar and Ishmael—dispossessed, yet protected; abandoned, yet given promises that rival those of the covenant with Abraham—belies easy characterizations of the Pentateuch’s writers. In particular, John T. Noble argues, conventional characterizations...
The End of Theology
Shaping Theology for the Sake of Mission
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Missiologists and theologians do not often talk to each other, which has resulted in increased ignorance of each other’s questions and concerns about how to do theology in ways that effectively serve the Church’s mission. Under the auspices of the Tyndale Fellowship Christian Doctrine study group,...
How Christianity Came to China: A Brief History
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
“The story of the foreign missionaries who served in China between 1809 and 1949 is one of fervent religious commitment and of the loss of faith, of determined perseverance and of angry frustration, of accepting people as they are and of cultural superiority . . . of human kindness and of narrow...
A Council for the Global Church
Receiving Vatican II in History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The year 2015 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the close of the Second Vatican Council. this volume provides an analysis of Vatican II, the most decisive and far-reaching event in the modern Catholic Church. Explicating pivotal elements of the Council, its decision-making process and the deep consequences...
Johannes Bugenhagen
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Martin Luther did not reform the church by himself. Throughout his life, and in the decades after it, many others spent their careers and risked their lives in the pursuit of a renewed church. They, too, made crucial contributions to the Wittenberg reform movement.In this landmark...
Shopping
Christian Explorations Of Daily Living
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
What could be more mundane or less religious than shopping? Yet shopping asks us to choose our values and weigh the good in everyday terms. It also brings us instantly in contact with the myriad relationships and labor of people all over the world who have grown, harvested, or crafted the food, clothes,...
Moral Choice
A Christian View of Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This survey text for Christian ethics courses traces the sources and traditions which define the history and development of contemporary ethical principles and laws. Distinctive in her approach, Dee Christie takes seriously the importance of narrative in reaching out to students who seek to understand...
by Patricia Beattie Jung, L. Shannon Jung
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Previously published by Cengage/Wadsworth, this popular anthology for the study of Christian ethics has been a mainstay of undergraduate courses for nearly thirty years. Shannon and Patricia Jung provide an introduction to contemporary moral issues from decidedly, yet diverse, Christian moral perspectives....
Standing in the Shoes my Mother Made
A Womanist Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Black women in America have carved out a distinctive and instructive faith stance that is influential well beyond the historic black church. Diana L. Hayes, a leading commentator and forger of womanist thought, especially in the black Catholic setting, here offers strong brew for what ails the church, the Christian tradition, and the world.
Abraham Our Father
Paul and the Ancestors in Postcolonial Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
“Father Abraham had many sons . . .” So goes the chorus that the Shona people learned from European missionaries as part of the broader experience of colonization that they share with other African peoples. Urged to abandon their ancestors and embrace Christianity, the Shona instead engaged in...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
In this exciting volume, Diane B. Stinton has assembled the work of nearly twenty prominent African theologians, making their writings accessible to the introductory level student.
The result is an ideal introduction to the wealth of African theologies and the major questions they raise. Topics...
Doing Justice
Congregations and Community Organizing
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Doing Justice introduces readers to "congregation-based" community organizing rooted in the day-to-day struggles and hopes of urban ministry. It draws from the author's decades-long career of personal experience in community organizing ministries.
Illustrated with examples from the...
Silence and Praise
Rhetorical Cosmology and Political Theology in the Book of Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In Silence and Praise, Ryan Leif Hansen begins with the premise that cosmology is a central focus in John’s Apocalypse. However, John’s intention in reflecting theologically on the nature, existence, and destiny of the created world is not in order to explicate a stable system. Rather, John’s...