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Giving the Devil His Due
Demonic Authority in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Flannery O'Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky shared a deep faith in Christ, which compelled them to tell stories that force readers to choose between eternal life and demonic possession. Their either-or extremism has not become more popular in the last fifty to a hundred years since these stories were...
Spirit of Liberality
Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
The themes covered in this collection of essays span a wide area, from Christology and the doctrine of God to human rights and Christian spirituality, and they were written and delivered in a variety of contexts, from colleges to churches, on both sides of the Atlantic. Some have been published previously,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Dante, Mercy, and the Beauty of the Human Person is a pilgrimage to rediscover the spiritual and humanizing benefit of the Commedia. Treating each cantica of the poem, this volume offers profound meditations on the intertwined themes of memory, prayer, sainthood, the irony of sin, theological and...
Reading Karl Barth
A Companion to Karl Barth's Epistle to the Romans
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Karl Barth's 1922 The Epistle to the Romans is one of the most famous, notorious, and influential works in twentieth-century theology and biblical studies. It is also a famously and notoriously difficult and enigmatic work, especially as its historical context becomes more and more foreign. In this...
Practices of Wonder
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Wonder has often occupied a place of unique importance across a variety of human practices and intellectual activities. At different times and historical periods, it has been hailed as the beginning of philosophy and as the end that philosophy should aspire to pursue; as the motive force of scientific...
Theology, University, Humanities
Initium Sapientiae Timor Domini
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
This book discusses the relationship between theology and the humanities and their shared significance within contemporary universities. Taking up this complex question, twelve scholarly authors analyze the connections between theology and philosophy, history, scholarly literature, sociology, and...
Echoes of a Voice
We Are Not Alone
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Early evening, a young boy alone on his pony on the rim of the Nebraska Sandhills. Three darkening thunderclouds rising higher and higher on the horizon. An electric atmosphere, a quickening, light cooling breeze. A slight shiver and the boy wonders, Am I being pursued by the Father, the Son, and...
Being Human, Becoming Human
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Social Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Who are we? What does it mean to be human? What is the purpose of our existence? In our time these continue to be urgent questions. The German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer thought deeply about these questions out of a desire to understand the importance of Christ and the incarnation for modern culture....
Twelve Great Books that Changed the University
And Why Christians Should Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Twelve scholars take us on a journey through twelve books that have defined the methodologies and orthodoxies of key disciplines within the university curriculum. These books have not only been formative for their respective disciplines, but have reshaped the university and continue to reframe our...
The Hermeneutical Spirit
Theological Interpretation and Scriptural Imagination for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
In the contemporary biblical studies climate, proposals regarding the theological interpretation of Scripture are contested, particularly but not only because they privilege, encourage, and foster ecclesial or other forms of normative commitments as part and parcel of the hermeneutical horizon through...
The Missiological Spirit
Christian Mission Theology in the Third Millennium Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
The field of the theology of mission has developed variously across Christian traditions in the last century. Pentecostal scholars and missiologists also have made their share of contributions to this area. This book brings the insights of pentecostal theologian Amos Yong to the discussion. It delineates...
The Kerygmatic Spirit
Apostolic Preaching in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
This collection of fifteen sermons by one of the leading pentecostal theologians today provides insight into the form, style, and content of preaching in the pentecostal tradition while also being suggestive of normative homiletical theory and practice. The Kergymatic Spirit argues that Spirit-empowered...
The Spirit Renews the Face of the Earth
Pentecostal Forays in Science and Theology of Creation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
This collection of essays was first presented at the 37th annual meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, held jointly with the Wesleyan Theological Society at Duke University in March 2008, under the conference theme, Signs, Sighs, and Significance: Pentecostal and Wesleyan Explorations of...
Remembering Jamestown
Hard Questions About Christian Mission
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
For many Americans, Christian missionary efforts have usually involved distant and exotic places. Sometimes, however, we can learn more about missions and interreligious engagement by looking in our own backyard. This collection of essays deriving from a consultation on missionary history and attitudes...