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There Once Was a Prophet from Judah
Biblical Limericks for Fun and Prophet
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Limericks are, like the Bible, often funny and sometimes obscene. They shock us. They surprise us. They're not usually considered fitting for polite conversation. But perhaps the Bible has been tamed, has been polished of its rough edges. So let's take the Bible out of polite conversation and let it shock and surprise us again.
Christianity and the Culture Machine
Media and Theology in the Age of Late Secularism
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Christianity and the Culture Machine is a precedent-shattering approach to combining theories of media and culture with theology. In this intensive examination of Christianity's role in the cultural marketplace, the author argues that Christianity's inability to effectively contest the ideology of...
Writing Home, With Love
Politics for Neighbors and Naysayers
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
For the last two years, acclaimed theologian Amy Laura Hall has written a lively, wide-ranging, opinionated column for her local newspaper. In her column, Hall has sought--without flatly rejecting globalism--to think and act locally. She has also responded to what she sees as a disturbing Christian...
ReVisioning
Critical Methods of Seeing Christianity in the History of Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
ReVisioning: Critical Methods of Seeing Christianity in the History of Art examines the application of art historical methods to the history of Christianity and art. As methods of art history have become more interdisciplinary, there has been a notable emergence of discussions of religion in art history...
Abiding Faith
Christianity Beyond Certainty, Anxiety, and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Australian theologian Scott Cowdell explores how having faith has changed under the influence of modernity and post-modernity in the West. He returns faith from pious sentimentality and arid philosophy of religion to the realm of participating knowing, paradigmatic imagination, and personal transformation...
American Tricksters
Thoughts on the Shadow Side of a Culture's Psyche
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Tricksters are known by their deeds. Obviously not all the examples in American Tricksters are full-blown mythological tricksters like Coyote, Raven, or the Two Brothers found in Native American stories, or superhuman figures like the larger-than-life Davy Crockett of nineteenth-century tales. Newer...
Lift Up Your Heads
Nonverbal Communication and Related Body Imagery in the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
We are increasingly conscious of the significance of our body language in our everyday interactions. The writers of the Bible were also aware of the role this nonverbal form of communication played and have recorded aspects of this in their narratives, or used idioms based on such gestures as head...
Seeking in Solitude
A Study of Select Forms of Eremitic Life and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Seeking in Solitude examines select forms of contemporary Roman Catholic eremitic life and practice in the United States. Given the sustained presence of, and increased interest in, the eremitic life and practice, this book responds to the question of the place of the hermit in American Catholicism in a way that neither mystifies nor mythologizes it, but rather attempts to understand it.
The Logic of Incarnation
James K. A. Smith's Critique of Postmodern Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
With his Logic of Incarnation, James K. A. Smith has provided a compelling critique of the universalizing tendencies in some strands of postmodern philosophy of religion. A truly postmodern account of religion must take seriously the preference for particularity first evidenced in the Christian account...
Dispersing the Clouds of Temptation
Turning Away from Weakness of Will and Turning towards the Sun
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
In Romans 7:14-25, Paul declares, "For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want, is what I do" (KJV). St. Paul's statement is a universal truth for all human beings; humans--whether Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, or atheists--are prone to committing free actions...
Approaching the World’s Religions, Volume 2
An Evangelical Theology of Religions
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Evangelical theology strives to be evangelical, conservative, and contemporary. In a world in which everyone is "Christian," evangelical theology provides a balanced position between fundamentalism and liberalism. While theological debates within the family will occur, to be evangelical...
Scottish Federalism and Covenantalism in Transition
The Theology of Ebenezer Erskine
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
How freely can salvation be offered to people? How do Law and Grace find balance? What influence does Federal Theology have on the overall theological enterprise? How does a confessional church interact with both the civil government and other religious communions? These are the questions roiling...
A Theology of Literature
The Bible as Revelation in the Tradition of the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
With the tools of far-reaching revolutions in literary theory and informed by the poetic sense of truth, William Franke offers a critical appreciation and philosophical reflection on a way of reading the Bible as theological revelation. Franke explores some of the principal literary genres of the...
by Luther H. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
This selection of essays by Luther Martin brings together studies from throughout his career--both early as well as more recent--in the various areas of Graeco-Roman religions, including mystery cults, Judaism, Christianity, and Gnosticism. It is hoped that these studies, which represent spatial,...