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Safeguarding a Truly Catholic Vision of the World
Essays of A. J. Conyers
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
A. J. Conyers (1944-2004) was a Baptist theologian with wide-ranging interests and a founding faculty member of the George W. Truett Seminary at Baylor University. He published books ranging from basic Christian doctrine to political theology, but his many essays show his true range and depth of insight....
Colin Gunton and the Failure of Augustine
The Theology of Colin Gunton in Light of Augustine
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Colin Gunton argued that Augustine bequeathed to the West a theological tradition with serious deficiencies. According to Gunton, Augustine's particular construal of the doctrine of God led to fundamental errors and problems in grasping the relationship between creation and redemption, and in rightfully...
Jesus Christ for Contemporary Life
His Person, Work, and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Jesus Christ for Contemporary Life is an understanding of Jesus as the Word of God, grounded in what can be known historically of Jesus and informed by subsequent reflection upon him, which hopes to help shape a Christian identity characterized by bounded openness. In Jesus Christ for Contemporary...
A Liberating Spirit
Pentecostals and Social Action in North America
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The historical ambivalence among Pentecostals about their relationship to culture and society needs evaluation. How do we understand Pentecostal engagement with society, and how are Pentecostals in North America engaging issues of race, class, gender, and ecology? What theologically motivates North...
by Anthony B. Pinn
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
What is the nature and purpose of the Black Church? What is the relationship of the scholar of religion to the Black Church? While black churches have been a major component of the religious landscape of African American communities for centuries, little critical attention has been given to these...
Living Existentialism
Essays in Honor of Thomas W. Busch
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Writing in the late 1990s about the tendency of encyclopedists to designate existentialism a finished project, Thomas W. Busch cautions that such hasty periodization risks distorting our understanding of the contemporary philosophical scene and of depriving ourselves of vital resources for critiquing...
America and Its Guns
A Theological Exposé
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
James Atwood contends that the thirty thousand gun deaths America suffers every year cannot be understood apart from our national myth that God has appointed America as the trustee of the civilization of the world and even Christ's light to the nations. Because these purposes are noble, and we are...
by James E. Atwood
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Gundamentalism and Where It Is Taking America is the work of James Atwood, a retired Presbyterian pastor and an avid deer hunter for half a century who has also been in the forefront of the faith community's fight for two constitutional rights: the right to keep and bear arms and the right to live...
Life Amid the Principalities
Identifying, Understanding, and Engaging Created, Fallen, and Disarmed Powers Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
"We are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness" (Eph 6:12). So Paul warns his Ephesian readers. And yet Paul also says that these principalities and powers were created in and for Christ...
The Morally Divided Body
Ethical Disagreement and the Disunity of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
At the same time as Catholic and evangelical Christians have increasingly come to agree on issues that divided them during the sixteenth-century reformations, they seem increasingly to disagree on issues of contemporary morality and ethics. Do such arguments doom the prospects for realistic full communion...
Remembering the Reformation
Commemorate? Celebrate? Repent?
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
In 1517, Martin Luther set off what has been called, at least since the nineteenth century, the Protestant Reformation. Can Christians of differing traditions commemorate the upcoming 500th anniversary of this event together? How do we understand and assess the Reformation today? What calls for celebration?...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
What is our destiny? The final end of humanity and the universe is a subject of perennial interest, especially for Christians. What are we promised? Will anyone finally be left out of God's intentions to bless humanity? What sort of transformation will be needed to enter the presence of God? These...
What Does It Mean to “Do This”?
Supper, Mass, Eucharist
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Jesus' best-known mandate--after perhaps the mandate to love God and neighbor--was given at the Last Supper just before his death: "Do this in memory of me." Indeed, a case can be made that to "do this" is the source and summit of the way Christians carry out Jesus' love-mandate....
The Beauty of God’s House
Essays in Honor of Stratford Caldecott
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
For thirty years, Stratford Caldecott has been an inspirational figure in liturgy, fantasy literature, graphic novels, spirituality, education, ecology and social theory. Hundreds of people have learned from his spiritual approaches to the great existential questions. The Beauty of God's House is...