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by Mitzi J. Smith, Mark Allen Powell Powell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

p>Each volume in the Insights series discusses discoveries and insights gained into biblical texts from a particular approach or perspective in current scholarship. Accessible and appealing to today’s students, each Insight volume discusses how this method, approach, or strategy was first developed...
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The Cross before Constantine

The Early Life of a Christian Symbol

by Bruce W. Longenecker
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015

This book brings together, for the first time, the relevant material evidence demonstrating Christian use of the cross prior to Constantine. Bruce W. Longenecker upends a longstanding consensus that the cross was not a Christian symbol until Constantine appropriated it to consolidate his power in...
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Early Christianity in Pompeian Light

People, Texts, Situations

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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

Scholars of early Christianity are awakening to the potential of Pompeii’s treasures for casting light on the settings and situations that were commonplace and conventional for the first urban Christians. The uncovered world of Pompeii, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., allows...
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Stranger God

Meeting Jesus in Disguise

by Richard Beck
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017

When Richard Beck first led a Bible study at a maximum security prison, he went to meet God. His own faith was flagging, but Beck still believed the promise of Matthew 25, that when we visit the prisoner, we visit Jesus. And sure enough, God met him in prison. With his signature combination of biblical...
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Love Without Limits

Jesus' Radical Vision for Love with No Exceptions

by Jacqueline A. Bussie
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018

The love of God crosses all boundaries. Every. Single. One. Every day, millions of people lament the loss of civility, respect, and hope, and they wonder if it's possible to cultivate a love big enough to overthrow hate and heal our hurts. With courage, authenticity, and relevance, Jacqueline A. Bussie...
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by Miguel A. De La de Torre
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017

This book will attempt to explore faith-based responses to unending injustices by embracing the reality of hopelessness. It rejects the pontifications of some salvation history that move the faithful toward an eschatological promise that, when looking back at history, makes sense of all Christian-led...
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Luther and Liberation

A Latin American Perspective

by Walter Altmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016

With the approach of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s inauguration of the Protestant Reformation and the burgeoning dialogue between Catholics and Lutherans opened under Pope Francis, this new edition of Walter Altmann’s Luther and Liberation is timely and relevant. Luther and Liberation...
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Ways of the Word

Learning to Preach for Your Time and Place

by Sally A. Brown, Luke A. Rev. Powery, dean of the chapel
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016

Preaching, and the discipline of preaching, is at a crossroads. The changing realities of church and theological education, the diversity of our classrooms, and our increasingly complex community contexts leave us in search of tools to help train a rising generation of preachers for a future whose...
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Carnal Knowledge of God

Embodied Love and the Movement for Justice

by Rebecca M. M. Voelkel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017

Theologian, pastor, and seasoned activist Rebecca Voelkel offers a theological vision of embodied love, informed by her own experience, research, and pastoral and organizing work with gay, lesbian, transgender, and gender-queer persons. Voelkel lays out a theological vision interwoven with wisdom...
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by Todd Hartch
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019

Christianity is a global religion! It's an obvious fact, but one often missed or ignored in too many books and conversations. In a world where Christianity is growing everywhere but the West, the Understanding World Christianity series offers a fresh, readable orientation to Christianity around the...
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Christ Divided

Antiblackness as Corporate Vice

by Katie Walker Grimes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017

Bringing the wisdom of generations of black Catholics into conversation with contemporary scholarly accounts of racism, Christ Divided diagnoses "antiblackness supremacy" as a corporate vice that inhabits the body of Christ. Antiblackness supremacy operates as a unique form of oppression:...
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Deus providebit

Calvin, Schleiermacher, and Barth on the Providence of God

by Sung-Sup Kim
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014

This dissertation stages an intervention in Reformed readings of the doctrine of providence, particularly around Barth’s critical interpretation of the tradition stemming from Calvin and Schleiermacher, and provides a critical and constructive assessment of Barth’s contribution. The author argues...
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The Holy One in Our Midst

An Essay on the Flesh of Christ

by James R. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

The Holy One in Our Midst: An Essay on the Flesh of Christ aims to defend the doctrine of the extra Calvinisticum—the doctrine that maintains the Son of God was not restricted to the flesh of Christ during the incarnation—by arguing that it is logically coherent, biblically warranted, catholically...
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Radical Theology

An Essay on Faith and Theology in the Twenty-First Century

by Ingolf U. Dalferth
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

Ingolf U. Dalferth is the Danforth Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. He studied theology, philosophy, and linguistics in Tubingen, Edinburgh, Vienna, and Cambridge. His major areas of research and teaching century, ecumenical theology, and...
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