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Transformative Lutheran Theologies
Feminist, Womanist, And Mujerista Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The first of its kind, this book is a systematic representation of Lutheran feminist, womanist, and mujerista theologies: systematic, in that it addresses classical loci of systematic theology; contemporary, in that it is resoundingly constructive and relevant for the contemporary church; and feminist,...
Quivering Families
The Quiverfull Movement and Evangelical Theology of the Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
American evangelicals are known for focusing on the family, but the Quiverfull movement intensifies that focus in a significant way. Often called "Quiverfull" due to an emphasis on filling their "quivers" with as many children as possible (Psalm 127:5), such families are distinguishable by their practices...
Israel's Last Prophet
Jesus and the Jewish Leaders in Matthew 23
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Jesus’ words of indictment and judgment in the Gospel according to Matthew have fueled centuries of Christian anti-Judaism and the horrors of the twentieth-century Holocaust. The solemn parables and pronouncements of judgment in chapters 22‒23 come to a climax in Jesus’ ironic command that the...
Strangers or Co-Pilgrims?
The Impact of Interfaith Dialogue on Christian Faith and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This book argues that interfaith dialogue begins with the basic goal of improving Christian relationships with people of other religious traditions. But gradually we become aware that this new ministry, when taken seriously, presents many new challenges, forcing us to reexamine our approach to religious...
Memories of Asaph
Mnemohistory and the Psalms of Asaph
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Although the Psalms of Asaph (Pss. 50, 73‒83) contain a concentration of historical referents unparalleled in the Psalter, they have rarely attracted sustained historical interest. Karl N. Jacobson identifies these psalms as containing cultic historiography, historical narratives written for recitation...
The Pentateuch
Introducing the Torah
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The Pentateuch is the heart of the Hebrew Bible and the foundational document of Judaism. It is also the focus of tremendous scholarly exploration and debate today regarding the complex history of its composition. This history will be explored along with analysis of the historical background and ancient...
by Leah Rediger Schulte
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
In this groundbreaking work to identify and address God’s absence in three key rape narratives in the Hebrew Bible, Leah Rediger Schulte finds a pattern that indicates a larger community crisis. With a careful look at Genesis 34, Judges 19, and 2 Samuel 13, this study outlines God’s absence, a...
Recognizing the Gift
Toward a Renewed Theology of Nature and Grace
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Recognizing the Gift puts twentieth-century Catholic theological conversations on nature and grace, particularly those of Henri de Lubac and Karl Rahner, into dialogue with Continental philosophy, notably the thought of Jean-Luc Marion and Paul Ricoeur. It argues that a renewed theology of nature...
The Nation That Fears God Prospers
A Critique of Zambian Pentecostal Theopolitical Imaginations
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Through its strength in numbers and remarkable presence in politics, Pentecostalism has become a force to reckon with in twenty-first-century Zambian society. Yet, some fundamental questions in the study of Zambian Pentecostalism and politics remain largely unaddressed by African scholars. Situated...
The Annotated Luther: The Interpretation of Scripture
The Interpretation of Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
This volume features Martin Luther the exegete and Bible teacher. His vast exegetical writings and lectures on Scripture are introduced through important examples from both the Old and New Testaments. Included in the volume is his brief treatise "On Translating" and his prefaces to both...
Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods
Life, Culture, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This first of two volumes on ancient Galilee provides general surveys of modern studies of Galilee and of Galilean history followed by specialized studies on taxation, ethnicity, religious practices, road system, trade and markets, education, health, village life, houses, and the urban-rural divide.
The...
My Flesh Is Meat Indeed
A Nonsacramental Reading of John 6:51-58
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Readers have long puzzled over the absence from the Johannine “Last Supper” of any words by Jesus over bread and wine—suggesting to some that John is indifferent or even hostile to sacramental thought or action—and the apparent dislocation to the feeding miracle, in John 6, of Jesus’ declaration...
Enkindling Love
The Legacy of Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Enkindling Love chronicles the journey toward a living partnership with God, as articulated by two of Christianity's great mystical teachers. Excerpts from the seven moradas (dwelling places) of Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle are held together with selections from John of the Cross’s Dark Night...
by Michael Novelli
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
After ten years in youth ministry, Michael Novelli felt like he had tried everything to help his students connect with the Bible. Then a missionary taught him the art of Bible “storying,” an imaginative way to engage in the scriptures through storytelling, creative reflection, and dialogue. When...