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by Martin Luther
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2003
This timeless little classic communicates essential teachings of Martin Luther. The subject of Freedom is both timely and poignantly relevant today. For the Christian, this freedom is liberty from sin and death, and the opportunity to serve one's neighbor. Written in a simple style, On Christian Liberty...
Mind the Gap
How the Jewish Writings between the Old and New Testament Help Us Understand Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Do you want to understand Jesus of Nazareth, his apostles, and the rise of early Christianity? Reading the Old Testament is not enough, writes Matthias Henze in this slender volume aimed at the student of the Bible. To understand the Jews of the Second Temple period, it’s essential to read what...
How God Acts
Creation, Redemption, And Special Divine Action
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
From providence and miracles to resurrection and intercessory prayer, Edwards shows how a basically noninterventionist model of divine action does justice to the universe as we know and also to central convictions of Christian faith about the goodness of God, the promises of God, and the fulfillment...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
For the first time in nearly 20 years, the essential theological writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer have been drawn together in a helpful and concise one-volume format. The Bonhoeffer Reader brings the best English translation to readers, students, and scholars and provides a ready-made introduction to the thought of this essential thinker.
Re-Visioning the Church
An Experiment in Systematic-Historical Ecclesiology
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2014
According to longstanding tradition, theology can be thought of as “faith seeking understanding.” Ecclesiology, then, seeks to understand the theological reality we call church. Re-Visioning the Church, the outcome of nearly two decades of research and writing towards constructing a systematic...
by Derek Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The questions of Christianity are perennial. For example: How are Judaism and Christianity related? Are Jesus and the Holy Spirit God? Is the end of the world imminent? How should we relate faith and reason? In this innovative work, Derek Cooper tells the story of Christian history by presenting the...
Onesimus Our Brother
Reading Religion, Race, and Culture in Philemon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Noel and Johnson make the point that Philemon is as important a letter from an African-American perspective as Romans or Galatians have proven to be in Eurocentric interpretation. Here they gather critical essays by a constellation of African-American scholars, highlighting the latest in interpretive...
The Lutheran Confessions
History and Theology of The Book of Concord
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In this important new volume, Arand, Kolb, and Nestingen bring the fruit of an entire generation of scholarship to bear on these documents, making it an essential and up-to-date class text. The Lutheran Confessions places the documents solidly within their political, social, ecclesiastical and theological...
The Captivation of the Will
Luther vs. Erasmus on Freedom and Bondage
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
The Captivation of the Will provocatively revisits a perennial topic of controversy: human free will. Highly esteemed Lutheran thinker Gerhard O. Forde cuts to the heart of the subject by reexamining the famous debate on the will between Luther and Erasmus. Following a substantial introduction by...
Jewish Interpretation of the Bible
Ancient and Contemporary
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Although Jewish tradition gives tremendous importance to the Hebrew Bible, from the beginning Jewish interpretation of those scriptures has been practiced with remarkable freedom. Karin Hedner Zetterholm offers a clear and concise introduction to the legal, theological, and historical presuppositions...
Acting for Others
Trinitarian Communion and Christological Agency
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This book explores why the metaphor of the church as a family is insufficient. In this, Arendt's concept of action and her criticism of privatizing the public political space by viewing it as a family are engaged through Bonhoeffer's ecclesiology and political theology and Staniloae's triadology and...
Passion for Nothing
Kierkegaard's Apophatic Theology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Passion for Nothing offers a reading of Kierkegaard as an apophatic author. As it functions in this book, “apophasis” is a flexible term inclusive of both “negative theology” and “deconstruction.” One of the main points of this volume is that Kierkegaard’s authorship opens pathways between...
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The completion of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, the definitive English translation of the Critical Edition, represents a milestone in theological scholarship. This wonderful series is a translation from the German editions of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke. The product of over twenty years of dedicated...
Original Blessing
Putting Sin in Its Rightful Place
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Of the world’s three major religions, only Christianity holds to a doctrine of original sin. Ideas are powerful, and they shape who we are and who we become. The fact that many Christians believe there is something in human nature that is, and will always be, contrary to God, is not just a problem...