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Asian Theology on the Way
Christianity, Culture, and Context
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
In this exciting volume, Peniel Rajkumar has assembled the work of nearly twenty prominent Asian theologians, making their writings accessible to the introductory-level student.
The result is an ideal introduction to the wealth of Asian theologies and the major questions they raise. It is ecumenical...
Revives My Soul Again
The Spirituality of Martin Luther King Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
MLK and the Practice of Spirituality
The scholarship on Martin Luther King Jr. is seriously lacking in terms of richly nuanced and revelatory treatments of his spirituality and spiritual life. This book addresses this neglect by focusing on King's life as a paradigm of a deep, vital, engaging,...
Liturgy as Revelation
Re-Sourcing a Theme in Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
A critical issue in modern Catholic theology has been the relationship between the doctrine of revelation and the church’s liturgical and sacramental practice. This volume argues that although in the twentieth century Catholic theology increasingly recognized the centrality of Christology—particularly...
by Timothy P. McConnell
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
If Basil of Caesarea receives mention in a standard course of lectures on Christian theology or history it is as the first person to write a dedicated discourse on the Holy Spirit. Ironically, the primary question about Basil for scholars is whether he fully believed in the divinity of the Holy Spirit...
Sacrifice and Atonement
Psychological Motives and Biblical Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Beneath the commonplace affirmation that Jesus “paid for our sins” lie depths of implication: did God demand a blood sacrifice to assuage divine anger? Is sacrifice (consciously or unconsciously) intended to induce the deity to show favor? What underlies the various metaphors for atonement used...
Memory and Covenant
The Role of Israel's and God's Memory in Sustaining the Deuteronomic and Priestly Covenants
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Memory and Covenant applies new insights into the meaning and function of social memory to analyze the two major “religions” of the Pentateuch (D and P) and their relationship to one another. Both these traditions regard memory as a vital element of religious practice and as the principal instrument...
Incarnation
On the Scope and Depth of Christology
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
This volume takes the reader on a journey from New Testament and early church views of incarnation to contemporary understandings of Christology. A prominent group of scholars explores and debates the idea of “deep incarnation”—the view that the divine incarnation in Jesus presupposes a radical...
Salvation in Continuity
Reconsidering Matthew's Soteriology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
It is clear that according to Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus came to “save his people from their sins” (1:21), to “give his life as a ransom for many” (20:28), to have his blood “poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins” (26:28). But if salvation as promised in 1:21 is achieved only...
Disputed Temple
A Rhetorical Analysis of the Book of Haggai
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The prophet Haggai advocated for the rebuilding of the temple, destroyed by Babylon, in the tumultuous period of reconstruction under Persian dominion; so much is evident from a surface reading of the book . John Robert Barker goes further, using rhetorical criticism of the prophet‘s arguments to...
In the Midst of Chaos
Caring for Children as Spiritual Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
How the daily practices of life with children can shape our faith
In the Midst of Chaos explores parenting as spiritual practice, building on Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore's fresh conceptions of children from her book Let the Children Come.
She questions conventional perceptions that spiritual...
Let the Children Come
Reimagining Childhood from a Christian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Explore what faithful parenting might look like today
In Let the Children Come, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore explores the question, What does faithful parenting look like today?
As she addresses this query, she updates outmoded and distorted assumptions about and conceptions of children...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 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. In 1 and 2 Corinthians, scholars from a variety of cultural and social locations shed new light on themes and dynamics in Paul’s most intriguing...
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
Pacifism, Just War, and Peacebuilding
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2019
This book is a contribution to the Christian ethics of war and peace. It advances peacebuilding as a needed challenge to and expansion of the traditional framework of just war theory and pacifism. It builds on a critical reading of historical landmarks from the Bible through Augustine, Aquinas, the...
Christian Ethics at the Boundary
Feminism and Theologies at Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In contemporary reflection on Christianity and politics, the work of realist, witness, and feminist theologians has been done in isolation. Christian Ethics at the Boundary offers the first collaborative approach to public and political theology. Extending the strong contextual work of Robin W. Lovin,...