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Nature Spirituality
Praying with Wind, Water, Earth, Fire
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
The presence of the Divine is everywhere. That is both a comfort and a challenge. We are consoled to know that God is with us, but being human we need a sign, something to touch, see, hear, taste, smell. We need something of the ordinary to name the non-touchable, invisible, unable-to-be-heard, tasteless,...
The Fire That Consumes
A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Evangelical Christians affirm together that a dreadful destiny awaits those who reject God's grace throughout life. According to the traditional view, that destiny will involve unending conscious torment in hell. However, believers are increasingly questioning that understanding, as both unbiblical...
The Devil behind the Surplice
Matthias Flacius and John Hooper on Adiaphora
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Between 1548 and 1551, controversies over adiaphora, or indifferent matters, erupted in both Germany and England. Matthias Flacius Illyricus in Germany and John Hooper in England both refused to accept, among other things, the same liturgical vestment: the surplice. While Flacius' objections to the...
by Stephen E. Fowl
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Christians have been interpreting Scripture with an aim of deepening their life with God and each other from the very beginning of the church. The past twenty years or so have witnessed an explosion of scholarly writing devoted to the theological interpretation of Scripture. Stephen Fowl, as an active...
The Shape of the Gospel
New Testament Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Most of the following essays reveal my interest in the significance of literary forms--both the short literary forms in the Gospels, such as pronouncement stories, and an entire Gospel as a formed narrative. I am interested in the significance of these forms, not just in literary classification systems...
Apostle Paul
A Polite Bribe
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
The Apostle Paul's dramatic and much-discussed conversion on the road to Damascus radically changed the course of his life--as well as the Christian religion. Can a new narrative, and a new perspective, be brought to this two-thousand-year-old story and centuries of critical thought and study? Writer...
by Liam Gearon, Joseph Prud'homme
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
This book explores recent calls to increase instruction of the Bible in American public schools. The work develops a distinctive philosophical and trans-Atlantic assessment of these proposals by critiquing European approaches to religious education and by reviewing the role of religion in contemporary...
Localism in the Mass Age
A Front Porch Republic Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
In the United States the conventional left/right distinction has become increasingly irrelevant, if not harmful. The reigning political, cultural, and economic visions of both the Democrats and the Republicans have reached obvious dead ends. Liberalism, with its hostility to any limits, is collapsing....
God’s Scoundrels and Misfits
Lessons Learned and Opportunities Missed
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
God's Scoundrels and Misfits examines the relationships of biblical characters with God and with each other. Some took advantage of the second chances God offered them while others missed the opportunities to change the direction of their lives. Lessons learned from the choices they made and the outcomes...
Questing for Understanding
Persons, Places, Passions
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Trying to articulate the ways in which one's life meshes with one's own time can be perilous, yet friends have encouraged me to do just that. Nevertheless, for one oriented to serving others as teacher and mentor in a context of faith, writing about oneself seems unnatural. Yet the self we have been...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The last few decades seem to have ushered in new levels of violence, challenging the notion that our globalized, interconnected world offers increased prospects for cooperation and peace. Many philosophers and theologians have offered various reasons for why this might be so, but none has come so...
Welcome as a Way of Life
A Practical Theology of Jean Vanier
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
This book is about the theology of Jean Vanier. Drawing from Vanier's writings, it situates Vanier's theological thinking on community, care, and what it means to be and become human in the context of "welcome." This book draws attention to how welcome, for Vanier, is a visible expression...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Theological Issues in Christian-Muslim Dialogue addresses the main theological topics of discussion that appear in Christian-Muslim engagement. Many of these topics originate in the medieval period and the earliest encounters between Christians and Muslims. Even so, the topics persist in contemporary...
Between the Monk and the Dragon
A Parable
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
A sixteen-year-old girl named Elspeth wakes one night to find a hatchling dragon in her father's bed. Elspeth's father, a hunter named John Fletcher, tells her she's had a bad dream, one she must not tell anyone about. Things deteriorate. The dragon reappears, each time growing in size and potency....