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Conception, Reception, and the Spirit
Essays in Honor of Andrew T. Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
A number of distinguished biblical scholars and theologians come together in this volume to honor the life and work of Andrew T. Lincoln. The title of this volume reflects Andrew Lincoln's lifelong interests in Christian origins, the reception of biblical texts in believing and scholarly communities,...
And the Word Became Flesh
Studies in History, Communication, and Scripture in Memory of Michael W. Casey
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
In his fifty-three years, Michael W. Casey made an indelible impact upon all his academic friends in the United States, Great Britain, and elsewhere in the world. His thirty some years of research and publications were multinational. Mike was especially adept at looking into archival details on the...
FBI Girl
How I Learned to Crack My Father's Code . . . With Love
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
In a house teeming with life, young Maura, voted the Most Quiet Girl in Catholic school, notices everything but says little. Eager to penetrate the secret world of her father, FBI agent Joe Conlon, she is drawn to the bureau drawer where he places his badge at night. The time is the late 1960s, and...
Flesh-and-Blood Jesus, Second Edition
Learning to Be Fully Human from the Son of Man
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Christians are prone to so focus on the realities of Jesus' divinity that we minimize or ignore the realities of his humanity. That he called himself the Son of Man more than any other title emphasizes that Jesus lived humanly in our fallen world, facing our temptations and living out the tensions...
Where the Water Goes Around
Beloved Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Where the Water Goes Around is a biblical and political reading of Detroit over the course of three decades by an activist pastor. Detroit is a place where one can take the temperature of the world. Think on the rise of Fordism and auto-love, the Arsenal of Democracy, the practice of the sit-down...
Between Kin and Cosmopolis
An Ethic of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
The nation-state is here to stay. Thirty years ago it was fashionable to predict its imminent demise, but the sudden break-up of the Soviet Union in the 1990s unshackled long-repressed nationalisms and generated a host of new states. The closer integration of the European Union has given intra-national...
Tailings
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
In August of 2001, Kaethe Schwehn needed her own, personal Eden. She was a twenty-two-year-old trying to come to terms with a failed romance, the dissolution of her parents' marriage, and her own floundering faith. At first, Holden Village, a Lutheran retreat center nestled in the Cascade Mountains,...
Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness
An Essay on Origins, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Many philosophers since Hegel have been disturbed by the thought that philosophy inevitably favors sameness over otherness or identity over difference. Originally published at a time when the issue was not so widely discussed in the English-speaking world, William Desmond here offers a constructive...
by Andy Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
In Holiness and the Missio Dei, Andy Johnson takes the reader on a biblical journey that explores the question of what holiness or sanctification has to do with God's mission in the world. He refuses to relegate the idea of humans becoming holy to the realm of individual inward piety or legalism,...
Religion and the Social Sciences
Conversations with Robert Bellah and Christian Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
More often than not it's a class in the social sciences that challenges the faith of students, not a class in biology. Does critical understanding of our religious traditions, institutions, and convictions undercut them? Or can a modern social scientific approach deepen faith's commitments, making...
The Vocation of Theology Today
A Festschrift for David Ford
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
What is the task of theology in a complex religious and secular world? What are theologians called to contribute to society, the churches, and the academy? Can theology be both fully faithful to Christian tradition and Scripture, and fully open to the challenges of the twenty-first century? In this...
Martin Luther as Youth Worker
Insights from the Great Reformer for Modern Youth and Children's Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Martin Luther is one of the most studied theologians in the history of the Christian church, so it is difficult to find areas that have been neglected when it comes to this great reformer. However, Luther's work with children and youth gets short shrift when compared to many other achievements. Martin...
by Walter E. Massey
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The contributors to this book address the theme of educating ethical leaders for the twenty-first century. They represent a wide range of fields, including philosophy, theology, law, science, and medicine. They all share the belief, however, that ethical leadership education is necessary in order...
Where is God?: A Theology for the Here and Now, Volume One
An Introduction to Basic Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
We are experiencing God always. The experience of God, however, transcends our capacity to comprehend it. We will never fully grasp what God is, but this does not mean we should stop trying. Our ideas about God set the tone for our spiritual development. The further we are willing to journey into...