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The New Testament
A Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Gerd Theissen describes the emergence of the New Testament canon out of the wide variety of early Christian literature, drawing on Max Weber’s discussion of the evolution of religious organizations. Theissen describes a series of phases in the life of the early Christian movement: the charismatic, the “pseudepigraphic,” the “functional,” and the “canonical.”
Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel
Meaning, Mystery, Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2003
Craig Koester's respected study uses the symbolic language of the Gospel of John as a focus to explore "the Gospel's literary dimensions, social and historical context, and theological import." This edition is fully revised and updated and includes a number of new sections on such topics...
by Kenyatta R. Gilbert, professor of homiletics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In many communities, both black megachurches and storefront congregations have been infected by a so-called prosperity gospel, far removed from the liberatory gospel that has been a mark of the black church since the earliest incarnation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and most celebrated...
We Have Been Believers
An African American Systematic Theology
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Seeking to overcome the chasm between church practice and theological reflection, James H. Evans Jr., a major and distinctive voice in American religion, situates theology squarely in the nexus of faith with freedom. There, with a sure touch, he uplifts revelatory aspects of black religious experience...
Dem Dry Bones
Preaching, Death, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
In an age when the so-called prosperity gospel holds sway in many Christian communities or the good news of Christ is reduced to feel-good bromides, it would seem that death has little place in contemporary preaching. Embracing the vision of the valley of dry bones in Ezekiel 37 as a metaphor for...
Extremist for Love
Martin Luther King Jr., Man of Ideas and Nonviolent Social Action
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In spite of extensive research and publishing on King, not nearly enough attention has been given to the convergence of ideas and action in his life. In an era where people are often sorted into the categories of ‘thinker’ and ‘doer’, King stands out—a rare mix of the deeply profound thinker...
The Emergence of Islam
Classical Tradtion in Contemporary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
This brief survey text tells the story of Islam. Gabriel Said Reynolds organizes his study in three parts in order to tell of Muhammad’s early life and rise to power, of the origins and development of the Qur’an, with a distinctive, if unique, juxtaposition between the Qur’an and biblical literature,...
Islam
What Non-Muslims Should Know
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Recent events have focused attention on Islam, the often- misunderstood faith of one billion people. Westerners are showing a new curiosity about Islam and other religions, in part, perhaps, because religion is arguably the single most important and volatile factor in geopolitics today. Islam needs...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Tim Dowley's masterful one-volume survey of church history is now available in a new concise format designed with today's student in mind. Each section of Dowley's Introduction to the History of Christianity has been reviewed and content edited to create a more compact summary of Christian history....
Thirsty for God
A Brief History of Christian Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
A landmark text on the history of Christian, this accessible history provides an excellent primer on the two-millennium quest for union with God. Holt traces the practice of Christian devotion, prayer, and contemplation from early Christianity through the Reformation and modern eras. Globally framed,...
There Is No Rose
The Mariology of the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Mary continues to be a source of theological interest and concern for Catholics and Protestants alike. For Catholics, Mariology was codified in a set of dogmas over the centuries; yet many Catholics remain unaware of the biblical, historical, and theological matrix that gave rise to the magisterial...
Pauline Perspectives
Essays on Paul, 1978-2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This companion volume to Paul and the Faithfulness of God and Paul and His Recent Interpreters brings together N.T. Wright's most important and influential articles on Paul over the last 35 years. This text includes previously unpublished exegetical essays on Paul's letters, specially written for...
People's History of Christianity
From the Reformation to the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
On its release, the seven volume A People’s History of Christianity was lauded for its commitment to raising awareness of the ways in which ordinary Christians have lived throughout more than twenty centuries of Christian History. Now, the essential material from that important project is available...
Liturgical Reform after Vatican II
The Impact on Eastern Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Sacrosanctum Concilium (SC) was the first document promulgated by the Second Vatican Council. The impact of this document was broad and ecumenical—the liturgical reforms approved by the Council reverberated throughout Christendom, impacting the order and experience of worship in Reformed and Orthodox...