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Dominus Mortis
Martin Luther on the Incorruptibility of God in Christ
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Modern interpreters typically attach revolutionary significance to Luther’s Christology on account of its unprecedented endorsement of God’s ontological vulnerability. This passibilist reading of Luther’s theology has sourced a long channel of speculative theology and philosophy, from Hegel...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
A Guide to Religious Thought and Practices devotes a chapter to each of the world religions, all but one of which are written by a member of that faith community. Readers thus gain insiders’ views into the theology, spirituality, and religious practice of each faith.
The introduction encourages...
Systematic Theology
The Doctrine of God
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The mystery of Almighty God is most properly an explication of the oneness of God, tying the faith of the church to the bedrock of Israel’s confession of the lord of the covenant, the lord of our Lord Jesus Christ. The doctrine of divine attributes, then, is set out as a reflection on Holy Scripture:...
Intersectional Theology
An Introductory Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Intersectional Theology: An Introductory Guide offers a pathway for reflective Christians, pastors, and theologians to apply the concepts and questions of intersectionality to theology. Intersectionality is a tool for analysis, developed primarily by black feminists, to examine the causes and consequences...
On Earth as in Heaven
The Lord's Prayer from Jewish Prayer to Christian Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Convinced that we no longer have immediate access to the sense of Jesus' words but must account for the history of its “effects,” David Clark seeks to trace the meaning of the Lord's Prayer through the early centuries of the faith. Clark begins by arguing that the prayer's origin in Jesus' oral...
4 Ezra and 2 Baruch
Translations, Introductions, and Notes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Fresh translations of early Jewish texts 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch, written in the decades after the Judean War, which saw Jerusalem conquered, the temple destroyed, and Judaism changed forever.
This handy volume makes these two important texts accessible to students, provides expert introductions, and illuminates the interrelationship of the texts through parallel columns.
The Boundary-Breaking God
An Unfolding Story of Hope and Promise
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Tenth Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface by the Author
A fresh, new exploration of who God is and what God wants for creation.
Danielle Shroyer introduces us to a God who delights in breaking through boundaries, loves to pop up in unexpected places, and favors the outsider over...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light. Joshua and Judges focuses attention on themes and tensions at the beginning of Israel’s story in the Bible. How do these books represent conquest,...
Martin Luther’s Table Talk
Abridged from Luther's Works
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Introduce your child to the practice of ending the day with a prayer with this calming bedtime book. Children give thanks for family, friends, and nature before saying good night. A parent page in the back helps moms and dads use this book to cultivate a prayer practice that lasts a lifetime.
What Is Christianity
An Introduction to the Christian Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Gail Ramshaw frames this new introduction to Christianity around the basic questions that students ask. Investigating Christianity as a lived experience, she opens each chapter with a voice from the field of religious studies and then presents answers to each chapter’s question by surveying the...
Athanasius and the Holy Spirit
The Development of His Early Pneumatology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Athanasius was one of the first writers to argue for the Holy Spirit's divinity, and the majority of his seven dozen works include at least one reference to the Holy Spirit. Yet, Athanasius is mainly remembered for his Christological writings and role in the so-called "Arian" controversy....
Waiting for Good News
Living with Chronic and Serious Illness
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Support and wisdom when serious illness strikes
Sally Wilke gets it. She has lived with and through the serious chronic illness of someone she cared deeply about. And she has provided pastoral care to individuals and families in similar situations. Waiting for Good News captures her hard-won,...
Paul and Economics
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The social context of Paul's mission and congregations has been the study of intense investigation for decades, but only in recent years have questions of economic realities and the relationship between rich and poor come to the forefront. In Paul and Economics, leading scholars address a variety...
by Ronald Charles
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
It is a commonplace today that Paul was a Jew of the Hellenistic Diaspora, but how does that observation help us to understand his thinking, his self-identification, and his practice? Ronald Charles applies the insights of contemporary diaspora studies to address much-debated questions about Paul’s...