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Is God Christian?
Christian Identity in Public Theology: An Asian Contribution
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Is God Christian? Christian Identity in Public Theology: An Asian Contribution is a sequel to Niles‘s previous book, The Lotus and the Sun: Asian Theological Engagement with Plurality and Power, and continues the narrative of the social biography of Asian theology. It enters the theological efforts...
The Annotated Luther
Christian Life in the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This volume (volume 5) features Luther's writings that intersect church and state, faith and life lived as a follower of Christ. His insights regarding marriage, trade, public education, war and are articulated. His theological and biblical insights also colored the way he spoke of the "Jews"...
The Small Catechism,1529
The Annotated Luther
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Timothy J. Wengert provides detailed background into the development of Luther's popular Small Catechism, which began with Luther's early sermon series on the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, and the Apostles' Creed. Luther wrote his catechism because many requested he do so but also as a response...
by Timothy J. Wengert
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
As profound as Martin Luther's ideas are, this giant of church history was concerned above all with practical instruction for daily Christian living. Harvesting Martin Luther's Reflections highlights this concern of Luther, mining his thought in key areas of doctrine, ethics, and church practice....
A Formula for Parish Practice
Using the Formula of Concord in Congregations
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This book combines a rich description of the (Lutheran) Formula of Concord (1577) with experiences in today's Lutheran parishes to demonstrate how confessional texts may still come to life in modern Christian congregations. Timothy Wengert takes the Formula of Concord, traditionally used as ammunition...
by O. Wesley Allen
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
Preachers recognize that the homiletical landscape has continued to evolve in ways that influence how preaching ought to be done—e.g., the rise of postmodernity, the decline of the mainline church, cultural pluralism, biblical and theological illiteracy. Those considered to be the pillars of the...
The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to God
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Almighty
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Is God the First Cause? The Unmoved Mover? Mr. Miyagi? In this latest installment of the Homebrewed Christianity series, edited by Tripp Fuller, Eric E. Hall approaches the question of God from various perspectives, including philosophy, personal revelation, Christian tradition, and other religions.
The...
Redeeming Fear
A Constructive Theology for Living into Hope
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Fear is hardwired into our brains and is a common biblical theme. To be afraid and to act on that fear is to remember that something in life is worth living for. Whitehead helps readers find the roots of hope in the soil of our fears so that we can form lives and communities of hope in the midst of fear.
Telling Tales about Jesus
An Introduction to the New Testament Gospels
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
What are the Gospels and what does it mean to read them? Warren Carter leads the beginning student in an inductive exploration of the New Testament Gospels, asking about their genre, the view that they were written by eyewitnesses, the early church traditions about them, and how they employ Hellenistic...
The Embrace of Eros
Bodies, Desires, And Sexuality In Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
The topic of sexuality intersects directly with the most contested historical, theological, and ethical questions of our day. In this edgy yet profound volume, noted scholars and theologians assay the Christian tradition’s classic and contemporary understandings of sex, sexuality, and sexual identity....
Women's Socioeconomic Status and Religious Leadership in Asia Minor
In the First Two Centuries C.E.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Moving beyond discussions of patriarchy and prescribed “women’s roles” in the Roman world, Katherine Bain explores what inscriptional data from Asia Minor can tell us about the actual socioeconomic status of women in the first and second centuries C.E. Her findings suggest that outside of the...
Queering the Ethiopian Eunuch
Strategies of Ambiguity in Acts
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Were eunuchs more usually castrated guardians of the harem, as florid Orientalist portraits imagine them, or were they trusted court officials who may never have been castrated? Was the Ethiopian eunuch a Jew or a Gentile, a slave or a free man? Why does Luke call him a “man” while contemporaries...
Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus
A Window into Early Christian Reading Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Much of the contemporary discussion of the Jesus tradition has focused on aspects of oral performance, storytelling, and social memory, on the premise that the practice of communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE. Brian J. Wright overturns...
A Generous Symphony
Hans Urs von Balthasar's Literary Revelations
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Hans Urs von Balthasar, one of the preeminent theologians of Roman Catholic theology in the modern era, constructed a theological world suffused by the literary, a vision carried across over 16 volumes of his magnum opus. A Generous Symphony offers a balanced appraisal of Balthasar’s literary achievement...