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Sympathy for Jonah
Reflections on Humiliation, Terror and the Politics of Enemy-Love
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
The story of Jonah is sacred to all three Abrahamic faiths and remains a recognizable legend even in the most secularized corners of the West. And yet the maritime prophet's story has been trivialized as a quaint children's tale, his character has been blasted by unsympathetic commentators, and even...
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Theological Engagements with Entertainment
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Should Christians w00t or wail about the scope and power of modern entertainment? Maybe both. But first, Christians should think theologically about our human passion to be entertained as it relates to the popular culture that entertains us. Avoiding the one-size-fits-all celebrations and condemnations...
The Holy Spirit and the Renewal of All Things
Pneumatology in Paul and Jurgen Moltmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
This volumes explores the shape pneumatology takes when we develop the theology of the Holy Spirit within an eschatological framework that has a universal scope and an unlimited history. When we do so, we find that pneumatology deriving from questions about what the Spirit does for us needs to give...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
The academy and pop culture alike recognize the great symbolic and teaching value of the undead, whether vampires, zombies, or other undead or living-dead creatures. This has been explored variously from critiques of consumerism and racism, through explorations of gender and sexuality, to consideration...
In the Eyes of God
A Contextual Approach to Biblical Anthropomorphic Metaphors
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Throughout the Bible, divine interaction with humanity is portrayed in almost embarrassingly human terms. He sees, hears, thinks, feels, runs, rides chariots, laughs, wields weapons, gives birth, and even repents. Many of these expressions, taken at face value, seem to run afoul of much classical...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Preaching is a personal event: a minister or speaker prepares his or her sermon and presents it to the congregation. Preaching, however, also includes the Bible as a central source; this source comes from and provides a basis for the believing community. The preaching event is also personal for the...
Proleptic Pedagogy
Theological Education Anticipating the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Could we have imagined how much theological education would change in the new millennium? Shifting needs of students, classrooms, and churches have demanded constant revisions of the curriculum, course design, classroom technology, and pedagogical strategies. Saint Paul School of Theology felt the...
God in an Open Universe
Science, Metaphysics, and Open Theism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Since its inception, the discussion surrounding Open Theism has been dominated by polemics. On crucial philosophical issues, Openness proponents have largely been devoted to explicating the underlying framework and logical arguments supporting their perspective against competing theological and philosophical...
Love, Violence, and the Cross
How the Nonviolent God Saves us through the Cross of Christ
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Does God use violence to redeem us? What is the relationship between divine love and violence in regard to the saving significance of the cross of Christ? In Love, Violence, and the Cross, Gregory Love dialogues with two responses to this question, while presenting a third alternative in which Jesus's...
Disrupted
On Fighting Death and Keeping Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
I should not be writing this. I had a malignant brain tumor. I had an extremely malignant brain tumor. By all medical statistics, I should be dead. Last time I checked, dead people don't write. So begins Julie Anderson Love's memoir. It is the funny, horrifying, compelling story of her battle with...
Jesus and Marginal Women
The Gospel of Matthew in Social-Scientific Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The Gospel of Matthew recounts several interactions between Jesus and marginal women. The urban, relatively wealthy community to which Matthew writes faces issues relating to a number of internal problems including whether or how it will keep Jesus's inclusive vision to honor rural Israelite and non-Israelite...
Glocal
Following Jesus in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Three far-reaching global trends--terrorism, pluralism, and globalization--have irrevocably altered how we live, think, and communicate in the twenty-first century. We now live in a "glocal" world: what happens globally impacts us locally, and what happens locally impacts things globally....
The Dialogical Spirit
Christian Reason and Theological Method in the Third Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Contemporary proposals for Christian theology from postliberalism to Radical Orthodoxy and beyond have espoused their own methodological paradigms. Those who have ventured into this domain of theological method, however, have usually had to stake their claims vis-a-vis trends in what may be called...
Peacemaking and Religious Violence
From Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
From its very beginning, Christian faith has been engaged with religious violence. The first Christians were persecuted by their co-religionists and then by imperial Rome. Jesus taught them, in such circumstances, not to retaliate, but to be peacemakers, to love their enemies, and to pray for their...