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Cover of Pedagogies for Student-Centered Learning
by Cari Crumly
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014

What comes to mind when you hear student-centered learning? Do you immediately see a classroom without a teacher? Do you see students teaching other students? How do you know which pedagogies to use when designing the best learning environment? The question of determining what pedagogies to use within...
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Understanding Bible by Design

Create Courses with Purpose

by G. Brooke Lester
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014

[ Today’s seminary and religious-education instructors are expected to design and redesign their courses more nimbly than in the past. We have to adapt our courses to novel learning environments, for more diverse learners, toward more diverse vocations. At the same time, institutional rewards...
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Interreligious Learning and Teaching

A Christian Rationale for a Transformative Praxis

by Kristin Johnston Largen
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014

There is still resistance in Christian institutions to interreligious dialogue. Many feel that such a practice weakens Christian faith, and promotes the idea that Christianity is merely one among many different religious options. When it comes to higher education, there is the fear that both college...
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Christian Social Teachings

A reader in Christian Social Ethics from the Bible to the Present

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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

No question has been as persistently nettling as the proper relationship of Christians and the Christian church to political power, and the results have often been calamitous. This classic collection of Christian statements on social ethics, now fully revised and augmented, provides a panoramic view...
Cover of Discipleship DBW Vol 4
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2003

Freshly translated from the German critical edition, Discipleship provides a more accurate rendering of the text and extensive aids and commentary to clarify the meaning, context, and reception of this work and its attempt to resist the Nazi ideology then infecting German Christian churches.
Cover of Theological Education Underground 1937-1940 DBW 15
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011

Nearly all in translation for the first time, these documents shed special light on Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s work from the time of his underground seminary teaching, through his sojourn at New York City, and his return to the church struggle in Germany.
Cover of Theological Education at Finkenwalde
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

In the spring of 1935 Dietrich Bonhoeffer returned from England to direct a small illegal seminary for the Confessing Church. The seminary existed for two years before the Gestapo ordered it closed in August 1937. The two years of Finkenwalde's existence produced some of Bonhoeffer's most significant...
Cover of Letters and Papers from Prison
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015

Despite Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s earlier theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world six years after his death in 1945. The materials gathered and selected by his friend Eberhard Bethge in Letters and Papers from Prison not...
Cover of Ethics
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015

Ethics is the culmination of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theological and personal odyssey and one of the most important works of Christian ethics of the last century. Using the acclaimed DBWE translation, adapted to a more accessible format, this new edition features an insightful introduction by Clifford...
Cover of Discipleship
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015

“Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of our church. Our struggle today is for costly grace.” And with that sharp warning to his own church, which was engaged in bitter conflict with the official Nazified state church, Dietrich Bonhoeffer began his book Discipleship (formerly entitled The Cost of Discipleship)....
Cover of Fiction from Tegel Prison
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010

This book discloses a great deal of Bonhoeffer’s family context, social world, and cultural milieu. Events from his life are recounted in a way that embodies and illuminates his theology. Characters and situations that represent Nazi types and attitudes are a form of social criticism and help to...
Cover of Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life
by Bruce C. Birch, Jacqueline E. Lapsley
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018

Earth is changing in ways it hasn't for hundreds of thousands of years. At the same time, Christianity is breaking away from its millennium-long geographical and cultural center in the Euro-West. Its growth is in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, primarily in Pentecostal, evangelical, and independent...
Cover of The Practice of Hope

The Practice of Hope

Ideology and Intention in 1 Thessalonians

by Nestor O. Miquez
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012

In Not Like Those Who Have No Hope, Nestor O. Miguez brings the insights of historical-critical study and political analysis together with incisive theological reflection. Taking on European philosophical interpretations of Paul, the “North Atlantic consensus” regarding social stratification in...
Cover of Exodus and Deuteronomy
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light. Exodus and Deuteronomy focuses attention on two books of the Torah that share themes of journey and of diverse experiences in or upon the land;...
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