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The West and China in Africa
Civilization without Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The West and China in Africa: Civilization without Justice is an outcome of Dr. Alemayehu Mekonnen's personal intellectual struggle, life experience, and an attempt to understand Christ and his message within the cultural context of Africa. The intellectual struggle has to do with the paradoxical...
Fully Human in Christ
The Incarnation as the End of Christian Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Thomas F. Torrance's theology included a thoroughgoing, albeit implicit, ethic of reconciliation. It focused on the personalizing and humanizing mediation of Christ in all realms of life--including not only a supposed private dimension of human life but also the social, historical, and political structures...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Nurturing the Prophetic Imagination searches through biblical scholarship, theology, economics, sociology, politics, ecology, and history to discern the strands of God's justice and reconciliation at work in the contemporary world. Nurturing the Prophetic Imagination challenges Christians to engage...
Partnering with God
Being a Missional Salvationist
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
God has an epic plan for the flourishing of all people and places. Want to join in? Partnering with God will help you find your place in that quest as we join in building God's kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. Mission is no spectator sport, and God invites our participation in the millennia old...
Encountering Images of Spiritual Transformation
The Thoroughfare Motif within the Plot of Luke-Acts
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Luke-Acts is an impressive two-volume narrative seeking to convince and engage readers regarding the spiritual impact of Jesus of Nazareth on the Jewish people and other nations. To this end, Luke employs an impressive arsenal of literary and narrative techniques. This book focuses on a motif and...
On This Rock
A Call to Center the Christian Response to Child Abuse on the Life and Words of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Jesus was the descendant of sexually exploited women, narrowly survived a child homicide, and grew up to be the world's most prominent defender of children. Jesus reserved his harshest words for those who abused or neglected children and went so far as to say our treatment of children says everything...
Designing Religious Research Studies
From Passion to Procedures
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Have you ever been frustrated with or perhaps even frightened about writing a religious research proposal? This book demythologizes the religious research design process by beginning with the writer's passion for ministry and then guiding the writer through a series of questions and exercises that...
Hugh Schonfield
A Case Study of Complex Jewish Identities
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
With this book, Owen Power offers the first full-length intellectual history of the thinker Hugh Schonfield (1901-1988). Power contextualises Schonfield and his work in the spheres of Jewish ideology and Messianic Jewish politics as a means to explain the complicated nature of Messianic Jewish identity....
by John Shortt
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
The Bible can and should be an environment in which we live and move and have our being, an environment in which we are shaped by God in different and interrelated ways. As with aspects of our physical environment, we may have never noticed many elements of this spiritual environment before or may...
Depression and the Divine
Was Jesus Clinically Depressed?
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
David Wilson's initial research into the phenomenon of prophecy in the Hebrew Bible suggested that many of the passages featuring prophets, and hitherto considered to be bizarre myths (or much-edited collections of traditions) were, in fact, sequences of dreams. Moreover, it was possible to compare...
Pastoral Care for Survivors of a Traumatic Death
A Challenge for Contemporary Pastors
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Modern life has led to an increase in traumatic deaths, such as accidents, murders, suicide, and other types of unanticipated, violent death. Family members and friends grieving a traumatic death face enormous shock, numbness, and despair, as well as the need to find hope and God's mercy and grace...
Journey Towards Home
The Christian Life According to C. S. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Clives Staples Lewis (1898-1963) called his theological writings as that "of a layman and an amateur" who merely attempted to restate "ancient and orthodox doctrines." However, S. Steve Park argues that Lewis's theological reflections are well-informed, thoughtful and weighty....
Christian Education Curriculum for the Digital Generation
A Case Study of Second-Generation Korean Australian Youth
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
This book is about exploring and presenting a model of digital-based curriculum for Christian education suitable for the digital ways of learning, communicating, and thinking. Park discusses the limitations of analog-based curricula, most of current curricula, and necessities for digital-oriented...
Creation, Character, and Wisdom
Rethinking the Roots of Environmental Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
While the traditional Christian engagement with environmental ethics too often begins and ends with Genesis, this project joins numerous recent efforts by biblical scholars to identify new foundations on which Christians can make ethical choices about creation. Wisdom literature, a largely untapped...