Pickwick Publications imprint: 381 books
The Tangled Bank
Toward an Ecotheological Ethics of Responsible Participation
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
In response to the confluence of moral uncertainty with the increase of human power to alter nature, and through critical integration of the philosophical naturalism of Hans Jonas and the critical religious naturalism of James M. Gustafson, The Tangled Bank argues for an ecotheological ethics of responsible...
Marking the Church
Essays in Ecclesiology
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
More than one person has joked over the years that Evangelical believers do not have an ecclesiology. In one sense, that is absurd: Evangelical churches (especially if you include Pentecostals in that group) are some of the fastest-growing, most vibrant churches in the world. Evangelicals are proclaiming...
The Translatability of the Religious Dimension in Shakespeare from Page to Stage, from West to East
With Reference to The Merchant of Venice in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
This interdisciplinary study traverses the disciplines of translation studies, hermeneutics, theater studies, and sociology. Under the "power turn" or "political turn" in translation studies, the omission and untranslatability of religious material are often seen as the product...
One Nation Under God?
An Evangelical Critique of Christian America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Is America a Christian nation? This question has loomed large in American culture since the Puritans arrived on American shores in the early seventeenth century. More recently, the Christian America thesis has been advocated by many evangelical leaders across the denominational spectrum. This book...
Crossing Boundaries, Redefining Faith
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Emerging Church Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The Emerging Church Movement, an eclectic conversation about how Christianity needs to evolve for our postmodern world, has been breaking traditional bounds and stirring up controversy for more than two decades. This volume is the first academic work to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
In November 2010, three hundred faculty, students, and others interested in Christian mission gathered in Boston to consider how the world, the global church, and Christian missions have changed since the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in 1910 and to reflect on the three previous centennial...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Since the Second Vatican Council the place of Mary in theology and generally in the life of the Church has been at times muted. This is perhaps understandable given the debates concerning Mary's "place" in the documents of Vatican II. In an ecumenical age, it was argued, the church needed...
Inherited Land
The Changing Grounds of Religion and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Religion and ecology has arrived. What was once a niche interest for a few academics concerned with environmental issues and a few environmentalists interested in religion has become an established academic field with classic texts, graduate programs, regular meetings at academic conferences, and...
Warfare and Waves
Calvinists and Charismatics in the Church of England
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Why is the Church of England perceived by many as homophobic, misogynist, or just plain weird? Because two movements within it, the Calvinists and the Charismatics, have recently achieved a degree of influence disproportionate to their numerical strength. And how has this come about? Both movements...
Fundamentalism and Gender
Scripture—Body—Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
This anthology addresses the topic of fundamentalism and gender from inter- and trans-disciplinary perspectives. By referring to three major themes--Literalism, Religion, and Science, Nation, State, and Community, and Body, Life, and Biopolitics--the book focuses on the analytical diversification...
In Face of Reality
The Constructive Theology of Gordon D. Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This study of the work of noted liberal theologian Gordon Kaufman tracks his career from his first published book, Relativism, Knowledge, and Faith (1960) through his 2006 book, Jesus and Creativity, in light of recent conversations about divine action and modern scientific knowledge. James interprets...
Position and Responsibility
Jürgen Habermas, Reinhold Niebuhr, and the Co-Reconstruction of the Positional Imperative
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
What is the moral criterion for those who hold power positions and authority in governments, corporations, and institutions? Ahn answers this question by presenting the concept of the positional imperative. The positional imperative is an executive moral norm for those who hold power positions in...
Learning to Speak a New Tongue
Imagining a Way that Holds People Together—An Asian American Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Learning to Speak a New Tongue attempts to respond to a timely question facing America today: What holds people together in a fragmented world? The response comes from a religious community that has not been very visible: Asian Americans. The author employs the threefold epistemological scaffold familiar...
What Is This Babbler Trying to Say?
Essays on Biblical Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This book is a collection of revised-and-updated essays about the Hebrew Bible written by a North American scholar over a period of several decades. Subdivided into three parts--Torah, Prophecy/Apocalyptic, and Wisdom--these seventeen essays attempt to model for younger scholars and students what...