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Women, Church, and Leadership: New Paradigms
Essays in Honor of Jean Miller Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
This book is about leadership, a scholarly and pastoral response to the urgent demand for the renewal of the contemporary Christian church. It challenges readers to articulate the identity and vision of the church in new ways, and encourages them to revitalize their ministry with fresh insight and...
My Quests for Hope and Meaning
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
This book is an autobiography tracing Rosemary Radford Ruether's intellectual development and writing career. Ruether examines the influence of her mother and family on her development and particularly her interactions with the Roman Catholic religious tradition. She delves into her exploration of...
Evangelical Peacemakers
Gospel Engagement in a War-Torn World
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
This book contains fifteen essays originally presented at a conference on evangelical Christianity and global peacemaking held at Georgetown University in September 2012, together with a critical analysis of the collection by the editor, David P. Gushee. The essays fall into two categories: the first...
Formation for Life
Just Peacemaking and Twenty-First-Century Discipleship
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
From all corners of the world, both inside cities and in the remote countryside, the cry for just peace rings out loud and strong. But, as many will note in this book, the cry for just peace isn't enough, for just peace requires active faith, working hands, and willing hearts. Gathered in this volume...
In the Fray
Contesting Christian Public Ethics, 1994–2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
In the Fray collects David Gushee's most significant essays over twenty years as a Christian intellectual. Most of the essays were written in situations of ethical conflict on the highly contested ground of Christian public ethics. Topics addressed include torture, climate change, marriage and divorce,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Cultural and ethnic diversity is the reality of our world, and much more so in this age of heightened globalization. Yet, do our ways of doing theological education match with our current reality and hopes for a colorful and just tomorrow? How shall we do theological formation so it helps give birth...
by Harold J. Recinos
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Recinos' love for poetry dates back to being abandoned by Latino parents at age twelve to live on New York City streets. When he turned sixteen, he was taken into the family of a white Presbyterian minister and guided back to school. After finishing high school, Recinos attended undergraduate school...
by Harold J. Recinos
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Recinos discovered a love for poetry after being abandoned by Latino immigrant parents and living on the streets dealing with drugs, poverty, violence, racial discrimination, and existential desolation. After several homeless years, he was taken into the family of a white Presbyterian minister and...
by Harold J. Recinos
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Recinos discovered a love for poetry living on the streets after being abandoned by immigrant Latino parents. At age sixteen, a White Presbyterian minister made him a part of his family and guided him back to school. Recinos finished high school, attended undergraduate school in Ohio and later graduate...
by Dwight N. Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Since its start in 1966, black liberation theology in the United States has continually engaged international developments with Africa and the entire world. But after Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February 1990, there has been an almost twenty-year break in books on black theology and...
by Dwight N. Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
What do African American men have to do with gender? In this collection of riveting and wide-ranging essays, Dwight N. Hopkins draws on over thirty-five years of wrestling with these questions. Too often gender is seen as a "woman's only" discussion. But in reality, men have a gender too....
Walk Together Children
Black and Womanist Theologies, Church and Theological Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Walk Together Children: Black and Womanist Theologies, Church, and Theological Education draws on the long religious, cultural, and singing history of blacks in the U.S.A. Through the slavery and emancipation days until now, black song has both nurtured and enhanced African American life as a collective...
John Calvin, Myth and Reality
Images and Impact of Geneva’s Reformer. Papers of the 2009 Calvin Studies Society Colloquium
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
The chapters in this volume were originally presented as papers at the 2009 colloquium of the Calvin Studies Society, held to mark the five-hundredth anniversary of John Calvin's birth. They offer a fresh evaluation of Calvin's ideas and achievements, and describe how others--from his contemporaries...
Justice Calls
Sermons of Welcome and Affirmation
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
This collection of sermons adds compelling clarity to the growing chorus of Christian voices that are passionate about LGBTQ justice and equality--not in spite of their faith but precisely because of it. With a combination of pastoral sensitivity, scholarly insight, and courageous vision, these sermons...