Pickwick Publications imprint: 381 books
Hope and the Longing for Utopia
Futures and Illusions in Theology and Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
At present the battle over who defines our future is being waged most publicly by secular and religious fundamentalists. Hope and the Longing for Utopia offers an alternative position, disclosing a conceptual path toward potential worlds that resist a limited view of human potential and the gift of...
Naked Faith
The Mystical Theology of Phoebe Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Now and then through the history of the church a great light appears, a prophet who calls the church back to its missional vocation. These reformers are lovers of God, mystics whose lives are utterly given to the divine vision. Yet as Jesus noted, a prophet is often without honor among her own people....
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The Centrality of Scripture in Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Preaching has fallen on hard times with many questioning its relevance and even its validity as a New Testament practice. This symposium of specially commissioned essays draws together an international team of thirteen scholars and pastors to address the importance of textual preaching in the history...
by Edwin D. Freed
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Abraham Lincoln did not take his family Bible to the White House. And the reason he did not use the Bible in his first inaugural address was not because it failed to arrive in his baggage. Freed concentrates on what Abraham Lincoln himself says instead of what others say about him, which yields insights...
The HTML of Cruciform Love
Toward a Theology of the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
The topic of the Internet is vastly underrepresented in the current literature on the intersection of technology and theology. Studies on Internet theology are certainly viewed as a topic of "special interest," relevant--it might be thought--only to eccentric academics and tech geeks. Yet,...
Considering Compassion
Global Ethics, Human Dignity, and the Compassionate God
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
In light of the numerous challenges posed by globalization, living together as humanity on one planet needs to be reinvented in the twenty-first century. To create a new, peaceful, just, and sustainable world order is vital to the survival of us all. In this regard, humankind will have to expand the...
Immigrant Neighbors among Us
Immigration across Theological Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
How do different Christian denominations in the United States approach immigration issues? In Immigrant Neighbors among Us, U.S. Hispanic scholars creatively mine the resources of their theological traditions to reflect on one of the most controversial issues of our day. Representative theologians...
Women, Church, and Leadership: New Paradigms
Essays in Honor of Jean Miller Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
This book is about leadership, a scholarly and pastoral response to the urgent demand for the renewal of the contemporary Christian church. It challenges readers to articulate the identity and vision of the church in new ways, and encourages them to revitalize their ministry with fresh insight and...
Formation for Life
Just Peacemaking and Twenty-First-Century Discipleship
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
From all corners of the world, both inside cities and in the remote countryside, the cry for just peace rings out loud and strong. But, as many will note in this book, the cry for just peace isn't enough, for just peace requires active faith, working hands, and willing hearts. Gathered in this volume...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
When religious diversity is our reality, radical hospitality to people of other faiths is not a luxury but a necessity. More than necessary for our survival, radical hospitality to religious diversity is necessary if we are to thrive as a global society. By no means does the practice of hospitality...
The Heart of the Gospel
A. B. Simpson, the Fourfold Gospel, and Late Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The Fourfold Gospel, most often associated with Albert B. Simpson, founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance, which focuses on the doctrines of Christ as Savior, Sanctifier, Healer, and Coming King, has been identified as a key contributing factor to the birth and development of the modern...
Acknowledging the Divine Benefactor
The Second Letter of Peter
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Acknowledging the Divine Benefactor is a sociorhetorical interpretation of the Second Letter of Peter. Using multiple interpretive perspectives and emphasizing the pictorial dimensions of 2 Peter, Terrance Callan understands the letter as making the following argument: since Jesus Christ has given...
Divine Therapeia and the Sermon
Theocentric Therapeutic Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Therapeutic preaching is badly in need of rehabilitation. Administering mini-doses of psychological self-help from the pulpit simply will not do. Therapeutic preaching that is theocentric draws listeners more deeply into God's healing love. It involves setting up a creative conversation between divine...
The Gospel Revisited
Towards a Pentecostal Theology of Worship and Witness
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This book is a constructive attempt at formulating a contemporary Pentecostal theology grounded in worship and witness. The theological vision expounded here is grounded in the Pentecostal story with its emphasis upon the fivefold Gospel. The doxological confession of Jesus as Savior, Sanctifier,...