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Luther's Liturgical Music
Principles and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Martin Luther's relationship to music has been largely downplayed, yet music played a vital role in Luther's life -- and he in turn had a deep and lasting effect on Christian hymnody. In Luther's Liturgical Music Robin Leaver comprehensively explores these connections. Replete with tables, figures,...
Eros and the Christ
Longing and Envy in Paul's Christology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The self-emptying of Christ (kenosis) in Philippians 2 has long been the focus of attention by Christian theologians and interpreters of Paul’s christology. David E. Fredrickson sheds dramatic new light on familiar texts by discussing the centuries-old language of love and longing in Greek and Roman...
Bible in Human Transformation
Toward A New Paradigm In Bible Study
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
"Historical biblical criticism is bankrupt." That startling affirmation began The Bible in Human Transformation when it first appeared in 1975. Wink asserts that despite the valuable contributions of the historical-critical method, we have reached the point where this method is incapable...
Becoming an Anti-Racist Church
Journeying Toward Wholeness
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Christians addressing racism in American society must begin with a frank assessment of how race figures in the churches themselves, leading activist Joseph Barndt argues. This practical and important volume extends the insights of Barndt’s earlier, more general work to address the race situation...
A Child Shall Lead Them
Martin Luther King Jr., Young People , and the Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Half a century after some of its most important moments, the assessment of the Civil Rights Era continues. In this exciting volume, Dr. Rufus Burrow turns his attention to a less investigated but critically important byway in this powerful story—the role of children and young people in the Civil...
Good Grief
A Companion for Every Loss
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Timeless wisdom for all who grieve
For more than fifty years Good Grief has helped millions of readers, including NFL players and a former first lady, find comfort and rediscover hope after loss. This classic text includes a foreword by Dr. Timothy Johnson, a leading communicator of medical...
Luther's Wittenberg World
The Reformer's Family, Friends, Followers, and Foes
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In conversations about the Reformation, the name Martin Luther towers above all others. And rightly so. His work, vision, and writings set Christianity on a course of events that would forever change the way that most believers live and understand their faith. And yet, the Reformation was far more...
by Lee M. Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Artistic representations were of significant value to early Christian communities. In Christ the Miracle Worker in Early Christian Art, Lee Jefferson argues that images provided visual representations of vital religious and theological truths crucial to the faithful and projected concepts beyond the...
Crispina and Her Sisters
Women and Authority in Early Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Discovering reliable information about women in early Christianity is a challenging enterprise. Most people have never heard of Bitalia, Veneranda, Crispina, Petronella, Leta, Sofia the Deacon, and many others even though their catacomb and tomb art suggests their authority was influential and valued...
Luther the Anti-Semite
A Contemporary Jewish Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The problem of "Luther and the Jews" has received much attention since World War II. Many consider there to be a direct line leading from Martin Luther's later anti-Jewish recommendations to policies carried out in the Third Reich. This has led contemporary Lutheran Churches worldwide to...
Paul in the Grip of the Philosophers
The Apostle and Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
One of the remarkable developments in the contemporary study of Paul is the dramatic interest in his thought amongst European philosophers. This collection of leading scholars makes accessible a discussion often elusive to those not already conversant in the categories of European philosophy. Each...
Future of the Prophetic
Israel's Ancient Wisdom Re-presented
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Future of the Prophetic argues that in the persistence of the prophetic, the legacy of the ancient Jewish world spread beyond the boundaries of the Jewish community and took root throughout the world. As a way of wisdom and hope, this dual rooting—its grounding in the tradition of ancient Israel...
Interpreting Abraham
Journeys to Moriah
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The story of Abraham and Isaac is a story of near universal importance. Sitting near the core of three of the world’s great religious traditions, this nineteen verse story opens a world of interpretive possibilities, raising questions of family, loyalty, faith, and choices that are common to all.
This...
Rising
The Amazing Story of Christianity's Resurrection in the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Pundits regularly declare that Christianity is dying. And in a way they are correct. Its golden age of influence is long gone in Western Europe, and similar trends are happening in North America. But while it slowly dies in the West, Christianity has been coming to life in Asia, Africa, and Latin...