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Let's Talk about Money before You Tie the Knot
A Guide to Premarital Financial Counseling
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
This book reviews the financial past, present, and future of couples contemplating marriage, with questions and text posed to highlight critical points. The work required in this financial counseling course for couples is purposely kept to a minimum to ensure that the task will be finished. Forms...
Voices in the Wilderness
Why Black Preaching Still Matters
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
FINALLY, a scholarly description of the development of Black preaching in the United States that is accessible to the average reader, but also contributes to the academic conversation about both style and theological content. Written from the perspective of a seasoned practitioner and tenured practical...
by Robert J. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
It's obvious that Jesus fulfilled prophecies about the promised Messiah--or so the gospels make it seem. But the real story is more complex, and more compelling. In hindsight we can see that Jesus had help fulfilling prophecy. The gospel writers skillfully manipulated prophecies--carefully lifting...
Jesus as Means and Locus of Worship in the Fourth Gospel
Sacrifice and Worship Space in John
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
"The anti-Semitic Gospel"--this is how the book of John is frequently described and perceived, thanks to the pervasive presence of "the Jews" as Jesus' enemies who harass the Son of God to his death. But how accurate is this assessment? This book presents John as Jewish to its...
The Saint John’s Bible and Its Tradition
Illuminating Beauty in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
In an age of e-books and screens, it may seem antiquated to create a handwritten, illuminated Bible. The Benedictine monks at Saint John's Abbey and University, however, determined to produce such a Bible for the twenty-first century, a Bible that would use traditional methods and materials while...
Telling the Stories Right
Wendell Berry’s Imagination of Port William
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Wendell Berry thinks of himself as a storyteller. It's somewhat ironic then that he is better known as an essayist, a poet, and an advocate for small farmers. The essays in this collection consider the many facets of Berry's life and work, but they focus on his efforts as a novelist and story writer....
Divine Healing: The Years of Expansion, 1906–1930
Theological Variation in the Transatlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
In the present volume James Robinson completes his trilogy, which deals with the history of divine healing in the period 1906-1930. The first volume is a study of the years 1830-1890, and was hailed as a standard reference for years to come. The second book covers the years 1890-1906, and was acclaimed...
Divine Healing: The Formative Years: 1830–1880
Theological Roots in the Transatlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Divine healing is commonly practiced today throughout Christendom and plays a significant part in the advance of Christianity in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Such wide acceptance of the doctrine within Protestantism did not come without hesitation or controversy. The prevailing view saw suffering...
Divine Healing: The Holiness-Pentecostal Transition Years, 1890–1906
Theological Transpositions in the Transatlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
In the present volume, James Robinson shows how the Holiness movement contributed to the rise of Pentecostalism, with emphasis on those sectors that practiced divine healing. Although other scholars have undertaken to explore this story, Robinson's treatment is by far the most thorough examination...
Awestruck
Life-Changing Encounters with Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Have you ever met someone who changed your life? Have you ever met someone who left you speechless? Have you ever met someone who left you amazed? Have you ever met someone that left you awestruck? It was an everyday occurrence when real people encountered Jesus for the first time. Time after time...
Miles Past Normal
Principles for the Journey
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
At each turn in life we are bombarded with the idea of normal. Normal finds a job he hates so it can pay for things he doesn't need while he wishes he was doing something else. Normal believes that creativity, imagination, innovation, and dreaming should cease after the fifth grade. Normal goes to...
Senses of Devotion
Interfaith Aesthetics in Buddhist and Muslim Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
This ethnographic study focuses on the religious imagery and practices of a sample of Buddhist temples and Muslim mosques in the greater Los Angeles area. As a way of expanding interfaith dialogue, it is framed as a conversation between the largely Christian researchers and the seventy-five respondents,...
Senses of the Soul
Art and the Visual in Christian Worship
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Senses of the Soul explores the way art and visual elements are incorporated into Christian worship. It incorporates research conducted in Los Angeles congregations. Through extensive interviews in a sample of Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox congregations it looks into the way visual elements actually...
The New Passover
Rethinking the Lord’s Supper for Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
A recent journal article stated, "There is something missing in the way the churches do Communion." Why is it that this central act of Christian worship is often so dull, dreary, and formal? Indeed at times it can be as somber as a funeral with people silently queuing cafeteria style in...