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Oedipus Redeemed
Seeing through Listening
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
An initial play, Oedipus in Jerusalem, related the narrative of Nathan, the biblical prophet, encountering the blinded Oedipus wandering alone outside of Thebes. Nathan brings him to Jerusalem to be tried at the Jewish Sanhedrin. The Greek playwright Sophocles is the prosecutor, and Nathan serves...
Oedipus in Jerusalem
A Play in Two Acts
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Oedipus in Jerusalem begins with the unexpected meeting of the blinded Oedipus and the biblical prophet Nathan outside of Thebes. As the play unfolds, Nathan brings Oedipus to the Great Sanhedrin in Jerusalem for a formal trial with regard to his actions of patricide and his subsequent incest with...
Salvation for the Sinned-Against
Han and Schillebeeckx in Intercultural Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
The problem of the barbarous excess of human suffering is becoming the main question of global Christianity. In an intercultural, globalizing world, how do we envision the wounds of sin and God's saving work of healing, liberation, and redemption? Salvation for the Sinned-Against attempts to address...
“In an Inescapable Network of Mutuality”
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Globalization of an Ethical Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
The scholarship on Martin Luther King Jr. has too often cast him in the image of the Southern black preacher and the American Gandhi, while ignoring or trivializing his global connections and significance. This groundbreaking work, written by scholars, religious leaders, and activists of different...
The Domestication of Martin Luther King Jr.
Clarence B. Jones, Right-Wing Conservatism, and the Manipulation of the King Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Clarence B. Jones, close King advisor and draft speechwriter, has done much to reinforce a conservative hijacking of King's image with the publication of his controversial books What Would Martin Say? (2008) and Behind the Dream (2011). King emerges from Jones's books not as a prophetic radical who...
When Religious Faith Collides with Science
A Navigational Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
A 2014 Gallup Poll indicated that 26 percent of Americans believe that humans came into existence less than 10,000 years ago, with a much larger 37 percent believing the world was created in six 24-hour days. Those percentages represent around 83 million and 118 million people respectively, suggesting...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Radical Orthodoxy, whose founding father is John Milbank, claims that God has been pushed to the margins in modernity and that a false and misleading neo-theology has taken hold that needs to be revisited and contested. It is this return to the premodern that often leads theologians to have reservations...
The God Who Lives
Investigating the Emergence of Life and the Doctrine of God
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Christian theology has affirmed throughout its history that God is a living God. But what does it mean that God lives? Why does it matter? Does God live like us? If God does not live like us what is the difference between our living and God's living? These are the questions Adam Pryor addresses in...
The Tangled Bank
Toward an Ecotheological Ethics of Responsible Participation
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
In response to the confluence of moral uncertainty with the increase of human power to alter nature, and through critical integration of the philosophical naturalism of Hans Jonas and the critical religious naturalism of James M. Gustafson, The Tangled Bank argues for an ecotheological ethics of responsible...
Dog-Kissed Tears
Songs of Friendship, Loss, and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
It is 4:00 a.m. the day after Rosa died. I am wide-awake from a brief and troubled sleep. This book explores the loss of a dear friend and companion-a remarkable fifteen-year-old retriever named Rosa. Many people form deep attachments to their pets. Yet we wonder how to celebrate our friendships with...
Tension in the Tank
Embracing Interfaith Mysticism Without Leaving the Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Tension in the Tank meets us where we are on a faith journey that includes doubt and pain. Here is a voice that speaks to the beauty and value of interfaith understanding and liberal social values while digging deep into the heart of Christian mysticism. If we are living a spirituality that matters,...
Maine Metaphor
Experience in the Western Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
S. Dorman began Maine Metaphor with The Green and Blue House. She continued her explorations in the Western Mountains of Maine, studying Maine's characteristic ways and natural realm, possessing the experience, studies, and journaling of rural life and creation. And she wanted to learn about the character...
God Is . . .
Meditations on the Mystery of Life, the Purity of Grace, the Bliss of Surrender, and the God beyond God
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
Your God is too small--way too small! What if God is not a human-like personal being but the God Beyond God of the Christian mystical traditions? What if God is the ultimate reality beyond all beings, including beyond all divine beings, indeed beyond all Being? It's a mind-bending idea. Speaking of...
Teaching to Justice, Citizenship, and Civic Virtue
The Character of a High School Through the Eyes of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
In Teaching to Justice, Citizenship, and Civic Virtue, a group of teachers considers how students learn and what students need in order to figure out what God is requiring of them. The teachers hear from experts in the fields of civic education, the arts, politics, business, technology, and athletics....