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by Jeff Hood
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
God is Queer. In a world of normative paradigms, God will never fit in and nor should we. That twitching and itching for something more will consistently be present until we step out of our closets and into the Queer. The Courage to Be Queer is about the wildness and beauty of an indescribable and...
by Preston M. Browning
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Struggling for the Soul of Our Country is a book in search of answers: what does it mean to struggle for the soul of a country and how does the life of citizenship influence our common future? While discussing major cultural and political issues, Browning addresses the deeper questions haunting many...
by John H. Leith
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The responsibility to bear witness to the gracious presence of God in Jesus Christ in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth has been the perennial task of the Christian community from the beginning. But the style and form of evangelism has varied according to time and...
A Future for American Evangelicalism
Commitment, Openness, and Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
This book proposes that participation in "God's Project of Reconciliation" is the "Center" that can hold evangelical Christians together in the midst of great diversity in belief and ecclesiastical practices. The author envisions a vibrant future for the Evangelical movement if...
The Spiritual Condition of Infants
A Biblical-Historical Survey and Systematic Proposal
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
What is the spiritual condition of infants? According to the Augustinian-Calvinist view, all people inherit from the first Adam both a sinful nature and his guilt. The result is that all infants are subject to the judgment of God against their nature before they knowingly commit any sinful actions....
Jesus as Man, Myth, and Metaphor
Beyond the Jesus of History Debate
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Current New Testament scholarship has done much to advance knowledge of Jesus's authentic words and message. The works of Crossan, Borg, Vermes, Mack, and many others attest to this movement. In this process, however, the Christ of the Gospels, or the so-called Christ of faith, has been caught in...
By the Waters of Babylon
Meditations on the Psalms for the Solace and Renewal of the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
The Psalms have long been the preferred prayer book of souls in quest of God's guidance and comfort. It has been a hymnbook for the soul and a trove for canticles and verses of the heart. The Psalms have served both Judaism and Christianity's religious communities as a favored source of rich and magnificent...
Transcendence and Fulfillment
A Critique of Paul’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom and Their Enduring Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Farley's Transcendence and Fulfillment captures one's immediate attention, especially with his designation of Paul's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom." Readers will find his selection intriguing and illuminating. While being faithful to Paul's self-understanding and theological views, Farley offers...
Fairest Lord Jesus
Meditations on the Gospels for the Poor in Spirit and the Contrite Heart
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The Gospels portray Jesus as one who often sought solitude, whether for himself or in quietude before his Father. To do so he had to withdraw from both his disciples and others. Such moments enabled him to renew his inner strength, to find God's consolation for himself, as well as to imbue him with...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Close our eyes and most of us can recite the Lord's Prayer by heart. It is as familiar as childhood memories. In some church traditions, we say the prayer together nearly every week, as a community standing before God. We call on those so familiar words and the comfort and direction they offer. The...
The Day after Domesday
The Making of the Bishops’ Bible
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Though more than four hundred years have elapsed since the Bishops' Bible was first published in 1568, its story has never been adequately told. No book-length evaluation has been published, and no adequate bibliography is available for guidance in studying this least known of the Tudor-period Bibles....
An African Pentecostal Hermeneutics
A Distinctive Contribution to Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
The face of African Christianity is becoming Pentecostal. African Pentecostalism is a diverse movement, but its collective interest in baptism in the Spirit and the result of Pentecost in daily living binds it together. Pentecostals read the Bible with the expectation that the Spirit who inspired...
Interfaith Activism
Abraham Joshua Heschel and Religious Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Abraham Joshua Heschel was the towering religious figure of American Jewry in the twentieth century. In Interfaith Activism, Harold Kasimow, who is known for his work on Heschel and on interfaith dialogue between Jews and members of other faiths, presents a selection of his essays on Heschel's thought....
African Catholicism and Hermeneutics of Culture
Essays in the Light of African Synod II
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
The study of Christianity in the non-Western world reveals a demographic shift in the center of Christianity from the Northern Hemisphere to the South. But the contradictory aspect of the massive African conversion to Christian faith is the grinding poverty level in Africa. This condition raises important...