Pickwick Publications imprint: 381 books
Enflamed by the Sacramental Word
Preaching and the Imagination of the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Christian proclamation, says Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is the living Christ walking among the people. Preachers know that Jesus is the living Word, and that the Spirit of Jesus animates the preaching event. Preaching is an epiclesis, an invocation of the Holy Spirit over God's holy people. As such, it...
Three Skeptics and the Bible
La Peyrère, Hobbes, Spinoza, and the Reception of Modern Biblical Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Biblical scholars by and large remain unaware of the history of their own discipline. This present volume seeks to remedy that situation by exploring the early history of modern biblical criticism in the seventeenth century prior to the time of the Enlightenment when the birth of modern biblical criticism...
Pretensions of Objectivity
Toward a Criticism of Biblical Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Modern historical biblical criticism, while having many strengths, often operates under the pretensions of objectivity, as if such scholarship were neutral and disinterested. Examining the history and roots of modern biblical scholarship shows that such objectivity is elusive, and was never intended...
Theology, Politics, and Exegesis
Essays on the History of Modern Biblical Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Modern biblical scholars often view the methods they employ as objective and neutral, tracing the history of modern biblical scholarship to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In this volume, Jeffrey Morrow examines some earlier, lesser known roots of modern biblical scholarship. He explores...
by Anoop Gupta
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Is it possible to found a Heideggerian ethic around the notion of a relationship to being (Bezug zum Seyn)? Going against much of the Western tradition, Gupta considers if the being-relationship could result in a feeling or mystical experience that is the basis of ethics. Along the way, such an affective...
The Glory of Kings
A Festschrift in Honor of James B. Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Over the past several decades, Reformed theologian and biblical scholar James B. Jordan has produced a unique body of work. His electrifying commentaries and essays on Scripture, along with his penetrating writings on Trinitarian theology, liturgics, music, and culture have inspired a growing number...
Election, Atonement, and the Holy Spirit
Through and Beyond Barth’s Theological Interpretation of Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
This book examines the doctrines of election and atonement in Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics, taking up Barth's own challenge to his reader to surpass his argument and offer a better typological interpretation of the cultic texts. Barth's radical re-working of Calvin's doctrine of election is one of...
Thriving in Babylon
Essays in Honor of A. J. Conyers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This delightfully multifaceted volume, comprised of thoughtful essays by an esteemed array of cultural critics, probes the intersection of Christian faith and culture to honor the memory of A. J. Chip Conyers, a remarkably ecumenical Christian scholar and cultural warrior whose premature death in...
The Bible and Social Justice
Old Testament and New Testament Foundations for the Church’s Urgent Call
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Although the cry for justice in human society is an important theme in the Bible, in many church and academic circles action for and discourse about social justice is carried on without a thorough exploration of this theme in Scripture. This volume brings together chapters by experts in the various...
Dialogically Speaking
Maurice Friedman’s Interdisciplinary Humanism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
What makes us authentically human? According to Maurice Friedman, world-renowned Martin Buber scholar, translator, and biographer, it is genuine dialogue. When there's a willingness for dialogue, Friedman says, then one must 'navigate' moment-by-moment. It's a listening process. Friedman addresses...
Women and Christian Mission
Ways of Knowing and Doing Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
What are Christian women thinking about mission? How do they do mission? What informs their knowledge and action as they address issues in a complex world where religious proselytizing has become suspect? This empirical study explores those questions, finding congruence among women from diverse backgrounds...
Worship, Tradition, and Engagement
Essays in Honor of Timothy George
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Worship, Tradition, and Engagement is designed to honor the life, scholarship, and influence of Timothy George, the founding dean of Beeson Divinity School. Timothy George is one of the premier evangelical scholars and leading statesmen of this generation. This volume reflects on the many themes of...
Children before God
Biblical Themes in the Works of John Calvin and Jonathan Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
This work seeks to delineate a theological framework into which biblically informed imagery and language of children in relation to God can be placed. McNeill's aim is to offer a work of positive construction within the general Reformed tradition. The book shows that John Calvin has much to offer...
The Subjective Eye
Essays in Culture, Religion, and Gender in Honor of Margaret R. Miles
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2006
One of the great joys of the academic life is to pay homage in a Festschrift to a scholar who has influenced both colleagues and students over years of interaction and friendship both professional and personal. This volume honors a scholar and theologian of historical theology, a theorist and a practitioner...