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Christmas
Theological Anticipations
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Christmas cheers the birth of Christ with a fresh look at the festive season. English engages the rich theological and biblical themes of Advent as well as family traditions, popular carols, and legends of the holidays. Topics range from a theology of the incarnation of the Word, the role of Mary,...
Theatrical Theology
Explorations in Performing the Faith
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Theology is inherently theatrical, rooted in God's performance on the world stage and oriented toward faith seeking performative understanding in the theatre of everyday life. Following Hans Urs von Balthasar's magisterial, five-volume Theo-Drama, a growing number of theologians and pastors have been...
by Steven C. van den Heuvel
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
There is widespread understanding of the close connection between religion and the ecological crisis, and that in order to amend this crisis, theological resources are needed. This monograph seeks to contribute to this endeavor by engaging the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. His theology is particularly...
The Shame Factor
How Shame Shapes Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
This volume deals with the varied forms of shame reflected in biblical, theological, psychological and anthropological sources. Although traditional theology and church practice concentrate on providing forgiveness for shameful behavior, recent scholarship has discovered the crucial relevance of social...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
What does the Bible say about the American future? Does it contain an apocalyptic vision in which conflicts are to be resolved by war? Or does it contain a vision of coexistence under some system of conflict management? While both visions have biblical foundations, the apocalyptic alternative has...
Toward Decentering the New Testament
A Reintroduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Toward Decentering the New Testament is the first introductory text to the New Testament written by an African American woman biblical scholar and an Asian-American male biblical scholar. This text privileges the voices, scholarship, and concerns of minoritized nonwhite peoples and communities. It...
I Found God in Me
A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
I Found God in Me is the first womanist biblical hermeneutics reader. In it readers have access, in one volume, to articles on womanist interpretative theories and theology as well as cutting-edge womanist readings of biblical texts by womanist biblical scholars. This book is an excellent resource...
The Literary Construction of the Other in the Acts of the Apostles
Charismatics, the Jews, and Women
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Too often the negative characterization of others in the biblical text is applied to groups and persons beyond the text whom we wish to define as the Other. Otherness is a synthetic and political social construct that allows us to create and maintain boundaries between them and us. The other that...
Warlike Christians in an Age of Violence
The Evangelical Case against War and for Gospel Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
How should Christians respond to war? This age-old question has become more pressing given Western governments' recent overseas military interventions and the rise of extremist Islamist jihadism. Grounded in conservative evangelical theology, this book argues the historic church position that it is...
Heaven
An Inkling of What’s To Come
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
What if heaven is more real, physical, exciting, and compelling than anything we have ever heard? And what difference would it make? Myk Habets takes readers on a journey of discovery into what God has in store for those who love him. Forget playing harps on fluffy clouds. The reality of what God...
Evangelical Calvinism
Essays Resourcing the Continuing Reformation of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
In this exciting volume, new and emerging voices join senior Reformed scholars in presenting a coherent and impassioned articulation of Calvinism for today's world. Evangelical Calvinism represents a mood within current Reformed theology. The various contributors are in different ways articulating...
The Spirit of Truth
Reading Scripture and Constructing Theology with the Holy Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Among the theological loci pneumatology is one of the most stimulating, exciting, and difficult topics to study; it is also one of the most rewarding. The identity and mission of the Holy Spirit is pervasive throughout Scripture and the Great Tradition, and within contemporary Christianity it is one...
Evangelical Calvinism
Volume 2: Dogmatics and Devotion
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Continuing the discussion initiated in volume one, volume two of Evangelical Calvinism further articulates the central motifs of this mood within Reformed theology by examining themes having to do with dogmatics and devotion. After further clarifying the methodological and dogmatic aspects common...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The most outstanding theological thinker of the twentieth century is proving to be the most pivotal theological figure of the twenty-first century as well. It is no wonder some have referred to Karl Barth as a "Father" of the Church. Karl Barth, widely acknowledged as the most influential...