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The Collected Writings of James Leo Garrett Jr., 1950–2015: Volume Two
Baptists, Part II
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
James Leo Garrett Jr., has been called "the last of the gentlemen theologians" and "the dean of Southern Baptist theologians." In The Collected Writings of James Leo Garrett Jr., 1950-2015, the reader will find a truly dazzling collection of works that clearly evince the meticulous...
Children before God
Biblical Themes in the Works of John Calvin and Jonathan Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
This work seeks to delineate a theological framework into which biblically informed imagery and language of children in relation to God can be placed. McNeill's aim is to offer a work of positive construction within the general Reformed tradition. The book shows that John Calvin has much to offer...
The Making of the Self
Ancient and Modern Asceticism
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
A leading scholar of ascetical studies, Richard Valantasis explores a variety of ascetical traditions ranging from the Greco-Roman philosophy of Musonius Rufus, the asceticism found in the Nag Hammadi Library and in certain Gnostic texts, the Gospel of Thomas, and other early Christian texts. This...
Hitler, Jesus, and Our Common Humanity
A Jewish Survivor Interprets Life, History, and the Gospels
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
This book follows the journey of a Jew who fled Nazi Germany but could not exorcise its evils from his theological and literary imagination. Having spent his early years trying to escape from his encounters with Nazism, Rolf Gompertz spent his later years trying to interpret the contours of evil that...
by Richard Beck
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
According to Hebrews, the Son of God appeared to break the power of him who holds the power of death--that is, the devil--and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. What does it mean to be enslaved, all our lives, to the fear of death? And why is this fear described...
Unclean
Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
I desire mercy, not sacrifice. Echoing Hosea, Jesus defends his embrace of the unclean in the Gospel of Matthew, seeming to privilege the prophetic call to justice over the Levitical pursuit of purity. And yet, as missional faith communities are well aware, the tensions and conflicts between holiness...
Home and Away
Contextual Theology and Local Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Home and Away provides new vantage points in contextual theology. An initial stream looks at the significance of postcodes as a way of mapping local areas as situations for pastoral ministry and theological reflection. A second, but not ancillary, stream of essays considers the local within a range...
Planted
A Story of Creation, Calling, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
A Bird in the Hand is not a how to book, but a how so book in which the reader is invited to travel with Leah Kostamo on the wild ride of salmon saving, stranger welcoming, and God worshiping as she and her husband help establish the first Christian environmental center in Canada. Avoiding simplistic...
Faith, Form, and Fashion
Classical Reformed Theology and Its Postmodern Critics
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
This is a detailed examination of the theological innovations of Kevin Vanhoozer and John Franke. Each proposes that doctrinal and systematic theology should be recast in the light of postmodernity. No longer can Christian theology be foundational, or have a stable metaphysical and epistemological...
But These Are Written . . .
Essays on Johannine Literature in Honor of Professor Benny C. Aker
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Johannine Literature offers some of the most beautiful, majestic, and profound theology contained within the entire biblical text. Within its works can be found the highest Christology, the capstone of eschatology, and the heartbreaking struggles of a community committed to Christ. However, it does...
The Left Behind Fantasy
The Theology Behind the Left Behind Tales
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
The popular Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins has sold more than 62 million copies since the first volume appeared in 1995. Jerry Falwell pronounced it the most important series of books in the history of modern Christianity. Many readers have assumed it gives the true facts about...
Craft Brewed Jesus
How History We Never Knew Taps a Spirituality We Really Need
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
What if the modern American church has its Christian history wrong? According to ex-evangelical Michael Camp, most American believers fail Christian History 101. Drawing on his own historical research and missionary experience, he discovers that most popular Christian views of the Bible, church, sin,...
Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery?
The Secret Gospel of Mark in Debate: Proceedings from the 2011 York University Christian Apocrypha Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
In 1958, American historian of religion Morton Smith made an astounding discovery in the Mar Saba monastery in Jerusalem. Copied into the back of a seventeenth-century book was a lost letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150-215 CE) that contained excerpts from a longer version of the Gospel...
Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha in North American Perspectives
Proceedings from the 2013 York University Christian Apocrypha Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
North American study of the Christian Apocrypha is known principally for its interest in using noncanonical texts to reconstruct the life and teachings of Jesus, and for its support of Walter Bauer's theory on the development of early Christianity. The papers in this volume, presented in September...