Pickwick Publications imprint: 381 books
A Kairos Moment for Caribbean Theology
Ecumenical Voices in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
The project of developing a contextual theology for the Caribbean was first articulated in the early 1970s in Trinidad and Jamaica. In the years since, many evangelical churches and theologians in the Caribbean have been ambivalent about the validity of this project, assuming that an emphasis on context...
The Devil behind the Surplice
Matthias Flacius and John Hooper on Adiaphora
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Between 1548 and 1551, controversies over adiaphora, or indifferent matters, erupted in both Germany and England. Matthias Flacius Illyricus in Germany and John Hooper in England both refused to accept, among other things, the same liturgical vestment: the surplice. While Flacius' objections to the...
by Liam Gearon, Joseph Prud'homme
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
This book explores recent calls to increase instruction of the Bible in American public schools. The work develops a distinctive philosophical and trans-Atlantic assessment of these proposals by critiquing European approaches to religious education and by reviewing the role of religion in contemporary...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The last few decades seem to have ushered in new levels of violence, challenging the notion that our globalized, interconnected world offers increased prospects for cooperation and peace. Many philosophers and theologians have offered various reasons for why this might be so, but none has come so...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Theological Issues in Christian-Muslim Dialogue addresses the main theological topics of discussion that appear in Christian-Muslim engagement. Many of these topics originate in the medieval period and the earliest encounters between Christians and Muslims. Even so, the topics persist in contemporary...
Lift Up Your Heads
Nonverbal Communication and Related Body Imagery in the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
We are increasingly conscious of the significance of our body language in our everyday interactions. The writers of the Bible were also aware of the role this nonverbal form of communication played and have recorded aspects of this in their narratives, or used idioms based on such gestures as head...
Seeking in Solitude
A Study of Select Forms of Eremitic Life and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Seeking in Solitude examines select forms of contemporary Roman Catholic eremitic life and practice in the United States. Given the sustained presence of, and increased interest in, the eremitic life and practice, this book responds to the question of the place of the hermit in American Catholicism in a way that neither mystifies nor mythologizes it, but rather attempts to understand it.
The Logic of Incarnation
James K. A. Smith's Critique of Postmodern Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
With his Logic of Incarnation, James K. A. Smith has provided a compelling critique of the universalizing tendencies in some strands of postmodern philosophy of religion. A truly postmodern account of religion must take seriously the preference for particularity first evidenced in the Christian account...
Dispersing the Clouds of Temptation
Turning Away from Weakness of Will and Turning towards the Sun
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
In Romans 7:14-25, Paul declares, "For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want, is what I do" (KJV). St. Paul's statement is a universal truth for all human beings; humans--whether Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, or atheists--are prone to committing free actions...
Scottish Federalism and Covenantalism in Transition
The Theology of Ebenezer Erskine
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
How freely can salvation be offered to people? How do Law and Grace find balance? What influence does Federal Theology have on the overall theological enterprise? How does a confessional church interact with both the civil government and other religious communions? These are the questions roiling...
Interruption and Imagination
Public Theology in Times of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
As we are faced with recurring crises--financial, migration, climate, etc.--there is a need to reconsider public theology as both a practice and a field of study. By discussing public statements made by Christians faced with different kinds of crisis, this book contributes to the development and understanding...
Salvation for the Sinned-Against
Han and Schillebeeckx in Intercultural Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
The problem of the barbarous excess of human suffering is becoming the main question of global Christianity. In an intercultural, globalizing world, how do we envision the wounds of sin and God's saving work of healing, liberation, and redemption? Salvation for the Sinned-Against attempts to address...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Radical Orthodoxy, whose founding father is John Milbank, claims that God has been pushed to the margins in modernity and that a false and misleading neo-theology has taken hold that needs to be revisited and contested. It is this return to the premodern that often leads theologians to have reservations...
The God Who Lives
Investigating the Emergence of Life and the Doctrine of God
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Christian theology has affirmed throughout its history that God is a living God. But what does it mean that God lives? Why does it matter? Does God live like us? If God does not live like us what is the difference between our living and God's living? These are the questions Adam Pryor addresses in...