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The Structure of Romans
The Argument of Paul's Letter
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
We increasingly recognize that Paul did not write his letter to the Romans primarily out of doctrinal concerns. Paul B. Fowler presses that insight home in this attentive, yet eminently readable, study of the letter's structure. The principles of Fowler's reading are that rhetorical questions in Romans...
God Ahead of Us
The Story of Divine Grace
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Pope Francis has stated that his own vocation as a Christian came to him as an awareness that “God is ahead of us,” that God thinks about us and looks after us before we even realize it. This is the essence of grace, a love story that begins with God. The present book is an introduction and exploration...
Comparative Religious Ethics
Everyday Decisions for Our Everyday Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Christine Gudorf is at the forefront of rendering comparative religious beliefs meaningful for students, especially in the area of ethics. No teacher is better situated to explain the source and value of religious belief for ethical conduct and to provide insight and wisdom for the range of moral...
by Nancy Pineda-Madrid
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Nancy Pineda-Madrid re-conceives traditional Christian notions of salvation by closing attending to the experience of the embattled women of Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, where hundreds have been slain and where survivors have found healing and salvation in solidarity and community practices that resist rather than acquiesce in the violence.
Altogether Lovely
A Thematic and Intertextual Reading of the Song of Songs
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The frank eroticism of the Song of Songs has long seemed out of place in the Hebrew Bible. As a result, both Jewish and Christian interpreters have struggled to read it as an allegory of the relationship between God (as husband) and Israel or the church (as bride). Havilah Dharamraj approaches the...
Walking in Love
Moral Progress and Spiritual Growth with the Apostle Paul
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Across the history of Christianity, Paul’s letters have been mined for doctrines like original sin and the “Fall” of Adam or for arguing that justification is by faith, not by works. J. Paul Sampley’s concern is not first with doctrines but with how Paul instructed, encouraged, built up—and,...
Making Sense of Martin Luther
Participant Book
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Making Sense of Martin Luther uses a conversational format to explore how Luther’s dynamic understanding of God’s life-changing gospel informs day-to-day faith and life in the world today.
Introduction: Luther as Monk, Myth, and Messenger
Chapter 1: The Reluctant Reformer—Introducing “the...
By Bread Alone
The Bible through the Eyes of the Hungry
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Important ecclesiastical documents have stressed the urgency of world hunger and put in the foreground its natural and historical causes, from famine to global austerity measures and welfare. These concerns have not always affected the way the biblical texts themselves have been read, however. Here,...
Johannine Ethics
The Moral World of the Gospel and Epistles of John
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The Gospel and Epistles of John are often overlooked in discussions of New Testament ethics; indeed, it has been asserted that the Fourth Gospel is of only limited value to such discussions--even that John is practically devoid of ethical material. Representing a range of viewpoints, the essays collected...
Partakers of the Divine
Contemplation and the Practice of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2014
One of the important ecclesial developments over the last century has been the extraordinary rediscovery, retrieval and reinvigoration of the Christian contemplative tradition, a recovery that has been extraordinarily influential Theologians have begun to explore how aspects of the Christian contemplative...
Embodied Liturgy
Lessons in Christian Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Embodied Liturgy marks a “return to the body” in thinking about Christian liturgy and sacramental practice. Rooted in phenomenology and incarnational theology, the book gives primary focus to the body as it considers the prayer offices and the liturgical calendar, sacrifices and sacraments, initiation...
by David M. Young, Michael Strickland
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Young and Strickland analyze the four largest discourses of Jesus in Mark in the context of Greco-Roman rhetoric in an attempt to hear them as a first-century audience would have heard them. Their analysis uncovers how the discourses are constructed; what issues each discourse seeks to treat; how...
by John J. Pilch
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Often, readers and commentators read the Proverbs as “timeless” observations and recommendations regarding human nature, valid for all cultures and places. This blunts their cultural relevance, argues John J. Pilch. For example, proverbs regarding the “good wife” and the “quarrelsome wife”...
Living By Faith
Justification and Sanctification
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
"Living by faith" is much more than a general Christian precept; it is the fundamental posture of believers in a world rife with suffering and injustice. In this penetrating reflection on the meaning of "justification," Oswald Bayer shows how this key religious term provides a...