Pickwick Publications imprint: 381 books
Struggles for Shalom
Peace and Violence across the Testaments
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Struggles for Shalom is a collection of essays by biblical scholars about peace, justice, and violence in ancient Jewish and Christian texts, written to honor the life work of Mennonite scholars Perry B. Yoder and Willard M. Swartley. In this volume, twenty-three authors--colleagues, former students,...
Music as Theology
What Music Says about the Word
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The conversation between music and theology, dormant for too long in recent years, is at last gathering pace. And rightly so. There will always be theologians who will regard music as a somewhat peripheral concern, too trivial to trouble the serious scholar, and in any case almost impossible to engage...
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 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...
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...
Reconsidering Gender
Evangelical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Questions related to the issue of gender remain insufficiently acknowledged and explored in contemporary theological literature. These issues form the basis of significant unresolved tensions among evangelicals, as evidenced in debates over the nature of the Trinity, Bible translation, church practice,...
The Anointed Son
A Trinitarian Spirit Christology
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Spirit Christology complements Logos Christology in the same way in which Christ and the Spirit are mutually constitutive. Or at least this should be the case. The history of Christian thought shows that Logos Christology has dominated, resulting in both an eclipse of Trinitarian doctrine and a diminution...
Korean Resources for Pastoral Theology
Dance of Han, Jeong, and Salim
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
In a time of life-and-death challenges to the human spirit--global economics, nuclear dangers, environmental threats, and religious polarization and war--Christians must look for resources that provide new insights of God's power and care for all people. What are the forms of suffering and hope in...
C.S. Lewis and Christian Postmodernism
Word, Image, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Employing a postmodernist literary approach, this book identifies C. S. Lewis both as an antimodernist and as a Christian postmodernist who tells the story of the gospel to twentieth- and twenty-first-century readers. Lewis is popularly known as an able Christian apologetic writer, talented in explaining...
Ezekiel in Context
Ezekiel’s Message Understood in Its Historical Setting of Covenant Curses and Ancient Near Eastern Mythological Motifs
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
One of the most perplexing and misunderstood books of the Bible, Ezekiel has left many scholars and exegetes scratching their heads regarding its message, coherency, and interpretation. Brian Peterson's look at the book of Ezekiel as a unified whole set within an exilic context helps explain some...
Union with God in Christ
Early Christian and Wesleyan Spirituality as an Approach to Islamic Mysticism
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
A significant number of Muslim communities throughout the world reflect varying degrees of involvement in Islamic mysticism. What bridges are present in this context that will facilitate not only evangelism, but also discipleship and community formation? Matthew Friedman guides the reader on a journey...