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As It Was in the Beginning
An Intertextual Analysis of New Creation in Galatians, 2 Corinthians, and Ephesians
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Paul's comments regarding the new creation in 2 Cor 5:17 and Gal 6:15 have tended to be understood somewhat myopically. Some argue the phrase "new creation" solely refers to the inward transformation believers have experienced through faith in Jesus Christ. Others argue this phrase should be understood...
Cosmic Commons
Spirit, Science, and Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Cosmic Commons explores terrestrial-extraterrestrial intelligent life Contact. It uses a thought experiment to consider the ecological-economic-ethical-ecclesial impacts of Contact, analyzing incidents around the world described by credible witnesses (two of whom are interviewed for the book), including...
Encountering ETI
Aliens in Avatar and the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Encountering ETI weaves together scientific knowledge and spiritual faith in a cosmic context. It explores consequences of Contact between terrestrial intelligent life (TI) and extraterrestrial intelligent life (ETI). Humans will face cosmic displacement if there are other complex, technologically...
Benedict’s Daughter
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
These poems offer a spiritual biography of a remarkable woman of faith, a Benedictine Oblate and spiritual adviser who lived her life according to St. Benedict's Holy Rule ("ora and labora"--pray and work). Juxtaposed with poems on her life, others reflect on Benedictine traditions such...
Reaching Forever
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Reaching Forever is Philip C. Kolin's ninth collection of poems, the sixth to focus entirely on spiritual poetry. Like the poet's most recent book, Benedict's Daughter: Poems (2017), the poems in this new collection are anchored in Scripture. Organized according to major Christian topics--sheep,...
Explaining the Holocaust
How and Why It Happened
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Seventy years after it took place, the Holocaust committed against the Jews of Europe during World War II continues to cast a giant shadow over humankind. Man's inhumanity to man is not a thing of the past. Genocidal action is still commonplace around the globe. Has humankind learned the lessons of...
Blessed Peacemakers
365 Extraordinary People Who Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
All of us yearn for a peaceable and just world, but some roll up their sleeves and set to work to make the dream real. Blessed Peacemakers celebrates 365 of them, one for each day of the year. Their stories are richly diverse. They share a commitment to peace and justice, but the various contexts...
The Form and Function of Mark 1:1–15
A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Markan Prologue
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Identifying the "scenes" of written texts is a critical skill for following the course set by an author. Even a small variation in course heading can result in compounding an error over time with regard to one's intended destination. Perhaps nowhere is this more important than in the opening...
Sermons to Self
Touching God
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The Christian faith is difficult--intellectually, morally, and spiritually. People struggle to make sense of it, and to live it. Many give up. Sitting in the pew (an increasing rarity), with a Christian upbringing and education behind him, Christopher Ward finds the practice and the preaching of the...
Fulfilling a Vision
The Contribution of the Church of Scotland to School Education, 1772–1872
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Education has contributed enormously to the Scottish national character. The emphasis has always been on making a good education available to all and on giving those with talent every opportunity of advancement. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, however, it was clear that the provision of...
Pure Worship
The Early English Baptist Distinctive
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Baptists are not often thought of as leading theologians and practitioners of worship. But forgotten in history is one crucial fact: the Baptist tradition formed out of a desire to worship God purely. Early Baptists devoted immense energy to questions of worship and drew conclusions of even contemporary...
The Question of John the Baptist and Jesus’ Indictment of the Religious Leaders
A Critical Analysis of Luke 7:18–35
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Since the time of Jerome, scholars have tried to explain why John the Baptist asks Jesus if he is "the one who is to come" (Matt 11:2-6; Luke 7:18-23) after he had apparently identified him as "the lamb of God" (John 1:29-34). The puzzling question is part of one of the longest...
by Steven Walker
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Humor smiles and chuckles and sometimes laughs so loud in virtually every book of the Bible, so it's remarkable how readers manage to overlook it. It's also unfortunate. Humor graces biblical texts at so many levels that to miss the humor is to miss not only much of the emotional impact of the Bible,...
Uncommon Friendships
An Amicable History of Modern Religious Thought
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Uncommon Friendships explores the often-overlooked dynamic of interreligious friendships, considering their significance for how we think about contemporary religious thought. By exploring the dynamics of three relationships between important religious thinkers--Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy,...