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While I Have Being
Winterreise (Winter Journey)
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
This diary is a fine-grained, often daily, theological reflection on the author's final ponderings on his ordeal with a serious illness, a concluding sabbatical, a last year of teaching, a culminating lecture, presiding at Eucharist, and summarial notes about what God is doing in the world. Amid all...
Second Sermons
Intimations of the Eternal
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
While serving as Interim Pastor in the 1993-1994 church year, Kenneth Vaux announced a year-long sermon series entitled "Intimations of the Sacred." Building on the concepts of William Wordsworth that the simple items of nature--leaves, songs, snowflakes, and gestures of kindness--hint to us the mysteries...
by Kenneth L. Vaux
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Kenneth Vaux advocates an Abrahamic theology as a dynamic and ethical axis for science and technology and argues for its continuing salience for a vital and humane science. He demonstrates a historical correlation between an Abrahamic theological tradition (monotheism and venturism) and the rise of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
The Ministry of Vincent Van Gogh in Religion and Art surveys the historical venues where Van Gogh's life and work unfolded--Aldersgate, England, Amsterdam, Au Borinage, Antwerp, Asnieres-sur-Seine, Arles, Auvers-sur-Oise--culminating in an assessment of his legacy. Arguing that he is a painter-evangelist,...
For Such a Time as This
Evanston Killings, Election, Ethics Consult
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
This third volume of Ken Vaux's memoirs covers the calendar year of 2012 which focused on (1) teaching in the Evanston church as this body struggled to be both evangelical in theology and oriented to social justice in the community. We searched together for having what it takes to be a University...
A Greek Reader for Chase and Phillips
Selections from Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
This companion reader to Chase and Phillips, A New Introduction to Greek, (Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1961) is a compilation of slightly edited "real Greek" from Plato, Xenophon, Plutarch, Diogenes Laertius, and the Septuagint. The reader has a preface introducing...
Come Follow Me
Reflections on the Markan Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
The message of Jesus Christ is timeless, and has never been more relevant than in our own day. Jesus' life, ministry, and teachings have inspired billions of people throughout the ages to follow him. The Gospel of Mark was the first gospel written, and presents the story of Jesus in a way that is...
Pastoral Care, Health, Healing, and Wholeness in African Contexts
Methodology, Context, and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Pastoral theologians from Congo, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe address, in this book, the issues of leadership, Ubuntu (community), gender-based violence, political violence, healing, and deliverance faced by pastors and ministers in African contexts today. Drawing on biblical, theological,...
Shifting Allegiances: Networks of Kinship and of Faith
The Women’s Program in a Syrian Mosque
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
What happens when Muslim women gather together at the mosque to read the Qur'an, learn, and pray? How does family loyalty interact with mosque attendance for women? This book explores the growing Muslim women's piety movement through looking at one women's program in a Syrian suburban mosque. Community...
The Sacred Now
Cultivating Jewish Spiritual Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
The Sacred Now presents a contemporary Jewish spiritual philosophy that is founded in both the Jewish tradition and a commitment to contemporary culture. It synthesizes the sensibilities of Kabbalah, philosophy, and secular spirituality. While the great timeless questions that humanity has asked itself...
The Arms of God
Sisters of Saint Mary of Namur, Western Province
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
The Arms of God is a love story in which the author weaves together the life stories of the Sisters of St. Mary of Namur from their first call to religious life, to teaching and mission work, to a deeper sense of community during the challenging times that followed Vatican II. As beautifully expressed...
Ocean of Love, or Sea of Troubles?
Can We Find God in a Suffering World?
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
The title of Dr. Harris' book suggests that life is like a two-sided coin: it can be an Ocean of Love but can also be a Sea of Troubles. The subtitle clarifies this paradox: first, there are many signs of God's reality and activity in the world, and the first section of the book examines ways in which...
Out, Out, Brief Candle!
Macbeth Comes to Africa’s Children of Fire
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Out, Out, Brief Candle! is the remarkable story of African children who have survived terrible fires and gone on to thrive at Children of Fire, a charity based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Martin Klammer recalls his time helping the children develop their personal writing and rehearse and perform...
A Circle in the Dark
Daily Meditations for Advent
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
This book invites the reader to experience Advent as a spiritual journey to Bethlehem, a journey from darkness to light. Each week explores the traditional themes of Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love that are present throughout the season. It begins on the first Sunday of Advent inviting the reader to be...