Pickwick Publications imprint: 381 books
African Proverbs Reveal Christianity in Culture
A Narrative Portrayal of Builsa Proverbs Contextualizing Christianity in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
In many oral cultures local proverbs are highly regarded for their wisdom and prized for their aesthetic expression. In this study Jay Moon provides an in-depth look at the use of local proverbs among the Builsa culture of Ghana, West Africa. In particular, the author's research shows how local proverbs...
The Artist and the Trinity
Dorothy L. Sayers’ Theology of Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
The Artist and the Trinity aims to create a Christian theology of work based on Dorothy L. Sayers' analogy of the Trinity to the process of artistic creation. Sayers' analogy gives us an account of the person that does not collapse into the atomism of the individual of modern liberal capitalism, but...
Praying Curses
The Therapeutic and Preaching Value of the Imprecatory Psalms
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Public reading of the psalms facilitates corporate worship, but it can also create a degree of awkwardness as a number of passages in the Psalter contain curses, asking God to avenge enemies. The presence of vengeful speech seems antithetical to Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. What are these psalms really...
The Nature of Things
Rediscovering the Spiritual in God’s Creation
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
In 2015 a conference on "Rediscovering the Spiritual in God's Creation" was held at the Serafino winery complex in the McLaren Vale region of South Australia. The aim of the conference was not to seek consensus but to survey the landscape with a view to intentional responsible action in...
Saving Wisdom
Theology in the Christian University
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Is theology possible within a Christian university? Beneath the emphasis of contextual, philosophical, and ecclesial pluralism, what is its academic nature? Further, who can participate in it? Recent debates and discussions by theologians that touch upon these questions seem to run in circles: theology...
by Joseph Ogbonnaya
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Secular contemporary development discourse deals with the problems of societal development and transformation by prioritizing the human good in terms of vital and social values with the aim of providing the basic necessities of life through social institutions that work. While such an approach is...
The Church and Development in Africa, Second Edition
Aid and Development from the Perspective of Catholic Social Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
In this book, Stan Chu Ilo offers an integral theology of development and a critical social analysis of different development theories and practices in the world, especially in Africa. Ilo offers a comprehensive biblical, anthropological, and theological foundation of the principles and praxis of...
In Counterpoint
Diaspora, Postcoloniality, and Sacramental Theology
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
What does postcoloniality have to do with sacramentality? How do diasporic lives and imaginaries shape the course of postcolonial sacramental theology? Neither postcolonial theorists nor sacramental theologians have hitherto sought to engage in a sustained dialogue with one another. In this trailblazing...
Soul Recreation
The Contemplative-Mystical Piety of Puritanism
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Spiritually there is a great hunger today for contemplative and more satisfying experiences with God. Puritanism might seem to be an unlikely source for this, yet few groups in the history of Christian spirituality have written more extensively or wisely on the subject. Isaac Ambrose (1604-64), a...
Surviving the State, Remaking the Church
A Sociological Portrait of Christians in Mainland China
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
This sociological portrait presents how Chinese Christians have coped with life under a hostile regime over a span of different historical periods, and how Christian churches as collective entities have been reshaped by ripples of social change. China's change from a centrally planned economy to a...
Resurrecting Interpretation
Technology, Hermeneutics, and the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Hermeneutics is the work of Hermes, the Greek demigod, a messenger from the gods and from the dead. Simon Perry sets out to explore the contemporary face of Hermes through a reading of Jesus' parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31). This parable has one distinguishing feature that marks...
Interweaving Innocence
A Rhetorical Analysis of Luke’s Passion Narrative (Luke 22:66—23:49)
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
In this study Heather Gorman analyzes Luke's portrayal of Jesus' death in light of the ancient rhetorical tradition, particularly the progymnasmata and the rhetorical handbooks. In addition to providing a detailed, up-to-date exegetical study of Luke 22:66--23:49, she argues three things. First, through...
Resurrection and Responsibility
Essays on Theology, Scripture, and Ethics in Honor of Thorwald Lorenzen
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
This collection of studies by friends, colleagues, students, and associates of Thorwald Lorenzen centers on his pivotal research interests--the theological and ethical implications of a relational understanding of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. In two major works on the resurrection, Lorenzen demonstrated...
Border-Crossing Spirituality
Transformation in the Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Border crossing is a significant experience in the global era when many people cross borders, whether in cultural, geopolitical, relational, or existential terms. Border crossing can provide a great opportunity for spiritual growth, yet it is often a violent and dangerous process. Thus there is a...