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by Robert Wild
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
This reading guide to some of the philosophical and theological literature on universalism offers practical help in providing informed material on a topic that is often treated in a superficial and unenlightened manner. The reader may be surprised to learn that universalism was the predominant belief...
Being Church
Reflections on How to Live as the People of God
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
What modern church doesn't call itself a community? Yet for how many is it real? How many churches form disciples intimately connected enough to call themselves Christ's body? How many form disciples who know the relational arts that create a robust unity? How many form disciples practiced in the...
Black Fire Reader
A Documentary Resource on African American Pentecostalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
This compendium of primary resources reflects the important but often overshadowed contribution of African American believers to the dynamic growth of the modern Pentecostal movement--the fastest-growing segment of global Christianity. The doctrinal statements, sermons, songs, testimonies, news articles,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Historical writings on Our Lady of Guadalupe, the most revered sacred figure indigenous to the western hemisphere, have tended to focus on the sixteenth-century origins of her cult. But recent publications have increasingly extended Guadalupan studies beyond the origin debates to analyses of the subsequent...
The God We Proclaim
Sermons on the Apostles’ Creed
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Throughout history, Christians have found the summary of their faith in the three ancient creeds. The God We Proclaim explores that faith as it is found in the shortest of them: the Apostles' Creed. The contributors are among Britain's foremost Christian communicators and teachers. Written with...
Let's Talk about Money before You Tie the Knot
A Guide to Premarital Financial Counseling
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
This book reviews the financial past, present, and future of couples contemplating marriage, with questions and text posed to highlight critical points. The work required in this financial counseling course for couples is purposely kept to a minimum to ensure that the task will be finished. Forms...
Miles Past Normal
Principles for the Journey
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
At each turn in life we are bombarded with the idea of normal. Normal finds a job he hates so it can pay for things he doesn't need while he wishes he was doing something else. Normal believes that creativity, imagination, innovation, and dreaming should cease after the fifth grade. Normal goes to...
Christianity Outside the Box
Learning from Those Who Rocked the Boat
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
A major aspect of the history of Christian missions is the way groups who have jumped the ecclesiastical ship have renewed and recalled their parent bodies back to biblical roots and a biblical vision. This book examines fourteen such vibrant Christian movements which operated outside the box. Each...
The Dean’s Demise
Sexual Harassment in a Divinity School
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Not everyone is surprised at the rumor suggesting that Karl Wolfe, Dean of The University School, recently told Rebecca Swingle, new professor at the school, that a promotion could be more easily attained were she to sleep with him. Certainly those least surprised were several female students who...
The Legend of Death
Two Poetic Sequences
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
The Earth's thin crust of organic matter and the still thinner crust of the spirit is the most concentrated, the most suggestive part of the cosmos. It in every way exceeds itself by pointing above its horizontal surface towards vertical transcendence. However, it can never leave itself behind and...
Christian Dying
Witnesses from the Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
We human beings are mortal. Our lives in this world inevitably terminate in death. This reality, however, need not cause us to despair, since Jesus Christ has gone before us into the far country of death, giving us hope that this defining feature of our earthly lives is not the end, but instead is...
Working with Words
On Learning to Speak Christian
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
The crucial challenge for theology is that when it is read the reader thinks, This is true. Recognizing claims that are true enables readers to identify an honest expression of life's complexities. The trick is to show that theological claims--the words that must be used to speak of God--are necessary...
A Pacifist Way of Knowing
John Howard Yoder's Nonviolent Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In A Pacifist Way of Knowing: John Howard Yoder's Nonviolent Epistemology, editors Christian Early and Ted Grimsrud gather the scattered writings of Yoder on the theme of the relationship between gospel, peace, and human ways of knowing. In them, they find the beginnings of a pacifist theology of...
Beyond the Borders of Baptism
Catholicity, Allegiances, and Lived Identities
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
People worldwide find themselves part of overlapping communities of identity and belonging--racial, political, cultural, sexual, ideological. Some identities, like brand loyalties, are chosen; some, like class identity, are imposed.