Pickwick Publications imprint: 381 books
Biblical Interpretation
Theory, Process, and Criteria
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Yung Suk Kim asks important questions in Biblical Interpretation: Why do we care about the Bible and biblical interpretation? How do we know which interpretation is better? He expertly brings to the fore the essential elements of interpretation--the reader, the text, and the reading lens--and attempts...
The Rome of Peter and Paul
A Pilgrim’s Handbook to New Testament Sites in the Eternal City
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This handbook is a short guide for those who are interested in Roman sites that have something to do with the New Testament, and in particular with Peter and Paul. For more than ten years, Dr. Schmisek has led graduate ministry programs in the Eternal City. This book is informed by the questions,...
The Realignment of the Priestly Literature
The Priestly Narrative in Genesis and Its Relation to Priestly Legislation and the Holiness School
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Discussions of the Pentateuch still progress in the shadow of Wellhausen's classic source theory known as the Documentary Hypothesis. The theory continues to stimulate a lively and informative exchange in pentateuchal circles, even in the face of significant adjustments to the hypothesis and its alleged...
Illusions of Freedom
Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on Technology and the Human Condition
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Illusions of Freedom examines the opinions and ideas of two twentieth-century writers--Thomas Merton, a Catholic monk living in the United States, and Jacques Ellul, a French Protestant. Contemporaries, they never met or corresponded with each other, but their critique of the influence that technology...
Ratio et Fides
A Preliminary Intro-duction to Philosophy for Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
In the face of growing skepticism and relativism, "believe in reason" is the central message in Pope John Paul II's Fides et Ratio. Only by the two wings of reason and faith together can the human spirit soar. The current work, Ratio et Fides, is its philosophical counterpart. It is not...
Cross and Khôra
Deconstruction and Christianity in the Work of John D. Caputo
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This volume poses the question of the relationship between the two main influences on the thought of John D. Caputo, one of the most well-known philosophers of religion working in North America today: Jacques Derrida and Jesus Christ. Given the seemingly abstract character of Derrida's account of...
Building a Culture of Peace
Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, the First Seventy Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Around the world, thousands of grassroots movements are confronting issues like destruction of the environment, economic depression, human rights violations, religious fundamentalism, and war. This book tells the courageous story of one such group. Organizing in 1939, Northern Baptists formed the...
Making Good the Claim
Holiness and Visible Unity in the Church of God Reformation Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
The Church of God Reformation Movement (founded in 1881) has the distinction of having been founded on the two core principles of holiness and visible unity. Standard histories of the group proudly argue that the founder and pioneers exhibited a zeal for interracial unity that began to wane only in...
The Continuing Relevance of Wesleyan Theology
Essays in Honor of Laurence W. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
What does the Wesleyan message have to say to the greater theological world? This is a question that Laurence Wood has taken up as his concern throughout his career. In order to honor his work, this collection takes up this question through a series of essays designed to show how Wesleyan Theology,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Most accounts of Canada and the First World War either ignore or merely mention in passing the churches' experience. Such neglect does not do justice to the remarkable influence of the wartime churches nor to the religious identity of the young Dominion. The churches' support for the war was often...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
This collection of five essays is both a dialogical engagement with and critical assessment of Nancy R. Howell's book Constructing a Relational Cosmology. The collection includes three essays written from a Whiteheadian process perspective (by Marit A. Trelstad, Kathlyn A. Breazeale, and Marjorie...
From Aldersgate to Azusa Street
Wesleyan, Holiness, and Pentecostal Visions of the New Creation
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
Historians have noted the connections between the Wesleyan Methodist movement that began in the eighteenth century, the emergence of African American Methodist traditions and an interdenominational Holiness movement in the nineteenth century, and the birth of Pentecostalism in the twentieth century....
Those Who Weep Shall Laugh
Reversal of Weeping in the Gospel of Luke
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2018
The purpose of this study is to identify and develop appreciation for the theme of the reversal of weeping in Luke's gospel. Lukan scholarship has not fully recognized the reversal of weeping as a distinctive theme. By understanding Luke's third beatitude (6:21b) and third woe (6:25b) as two pegs...
Mother Tongue Theologies
Poets, Novelists, Non-Western Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Recognizing that one-third of the world's Christians practice their faith outside Europe and North America, the fourteen essays in Mother Tongue Theologies explore how international fiction depicts Christianity's dramatic movement South and East of Jerusalem as well as North and West. Structured by...