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Fruit of the Vine
A Biblical Spirituality of Wine
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Fruit of the Vine: A Biblical Spirituality of Wine is designed to help the reader grow in spirituality through reflecting on biblical vineyard stores, wine making, and wine as a metaphor for life. A spirituality of wine--categorized as a spirit--connects the spirit in wine to the universal spirit...
by Mark G. Boyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Mary, the mother of Jesus, is known in the Catholic Church as Our Lady of Grace, Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Our Lady of Sorrows, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of the Rosary, Our Mother of Perpetual Help, and more. Her various titles describe her various functions...
Christ Our Passover Has Been Sacrificed
A Guide through Paschal Mystery Spirituality: Mystical Theology in The Roman Missal
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Christ Our Passover Has Been Sacrificed examines the paschal mystery as it is presented throughout the liturgical year in The Roman Missal. After offering an in-depth definition of the paschal mystery the author guides the reader through Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Pentecost, and more, mining the riches...
From Contemplation to Action
The Spiritual Process of Divine Discernment Using Elijah and Elisha as Models
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Contemplation is a spiritual process involving long, thoughtful, steady, serious, and attentive consideration or observation in order to achieve closer unity with God and to discover and understand God's will for the contemplative. Contemplation gives rise to activity, and activity, in turn, gives...
The Self-Donation of God
A Contemporary Lutheran approach to Christ and His Benefits
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
In The Self-Donation of God, Jack Kilcrease argues that the speech-act of promise is always an act of self-donation. A person who unilaterally promises to another is bound to take a particular series of actions to fulfill that promise. Being that creation is grounded in God's promising speech, the...
Aquinas
God and Action, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This exploration of Thomas Aquinas's philosophical theology, decidedly "unorthodox" at the time of its original publication, had the good fortune to be employed extensively--notably at Yale and Cambridge--by my eminent colleagues George Lindbeck and Nicholas Lash. It essayed a "non-foundational"...
The Nature of the Will in the Writings of Calvin and Arminius
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Looking for deeper insights into an age-old debate on the question of the issue of free will in the theology of Calvin and Arminius? You've come to the right place. When the general question, "does man have a free will?" is directed to John Calvin and James Arminius, the received and oft-repeated...
Family Crucible
The Influence of Family Dynamics in the Life and Ministry of John Wesley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This book explores the life and ministry of John Wesley from the perspective of Murray Bowen's Extended Family Systems Theory and to a lesser extent from Alfred Adler's concept of family constellation. Throughout the book, the author uses concepts drawn from these theories to explore significant historical...
The Sunrise Liturgy
A Poem Sequence
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Committing theology to poetry is not new, but it's not wildly common. The Sunrise Liturgy aims to do just that. It is a sequence, like liturgy, with a start and a procession and a finish. The sun does the processing, and the play on sun and Son is never far from sight. Sunrise gives the cantus firmus...
Atheism for Christians
Are There Lessons for the Religious World from the Secular Tradition?
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
What can Mary Wollstonecraft teach Christians about sexual ethics? Can John Stuart Mill help the church understand toleration? Are there lessons for the Christian world from writers like Marx, Nehru, Shelley, Popper, and Hume? Atheism for Christians looks at the work of some of the most influential...
Exploring and Engaging Spirituality for Today’s Children
A Holistic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Exploring and Engaging Spirituality for Today's Children: A Holistic Approach answers questions about the most effective ways to help children, pre-teens, and teens develop spiritually. This collection of research gleaned from presentations during the Fourth Triennial Children's Spirituality Conference...
Freedom in Covenant
Reflections on the Distinctive Values and Practices of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
In an age of decreasing denominational loyalty, questions of identity have become important. Both church members and inquirers wonder what to make of a denomination's core values, mission, and common practices. Because the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) was born as a movement of reform on...
Stalking the Spirit
In a Do-It-Yourself Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
What happens when a church chooses to subdivide instead of getting bigger? In 1976, the Church of the Saviour in Washington, DC, did just that. Stalking the Spirit is the story of Seekers Church, a second-generation Church of the Saviour community known for its creative worship, open pulpit, shared...
Expect Great Things, Attempt Great Things
William Carey and Adoniram Judson, Missionary Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
William Carey, often dubbed The Father of Modern Missions, and Adoniram Judson, America's first intercontinental missionary, were pioneers whose missions overlapped in chronology, geography, and purpose. However, rarely are they both featured in the same volume or compared and contrasted. Here we...