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From Bards to Biblical Exegetes
A Close Reading and Intertextual Analysis of Selected Exodus Psalms
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
A cursory glance through the Psalter reveals numerous allusions to events in Israel's literary history. While a range of literary and oral sources were obviously available to psalmists, the relationships between these sources and the psalmists' final work are more obscure. Concerning these relationships,...
The Globalization of Christianity
Implications for Christian Ministry and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
While Christianity appears to be in decline in the West it is growing robustly in the global South. What does this mean for the Christianity that was once considered to be the religion of the West? The new contexts and trajectories require innovative responses and relevant theological reflection in...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
The centenary of America's declaration of war in 1917 is a fitting time to examine afresh the reaction of the American churches to the conflict. What was the impact of the war on the churches as well as the churches' hoped-for influence on the nation's war effort? Commenting on themes such as nationalism,...
Christian Responses to Terrorism
The Kenyan Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
How should Christians respond to terrorism and terrorists in their midst? Terrorism is a global problem, and no society on earth faces it alone. The mainly Christian society of Kenya has suffered more than most as it attempts to counter the threat of al-Shabaab. Some pastors have asked for permission...
Empire from the Margins
Religious Minorities in Canada and the South African War
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
At the beginning of the twentieth century, there were a number of smaller religious bodies that sought to develop religious and national identity on the margins--something especially difficult when the nation was at war in South Africa. This book examines rich and varied extant sources that provide...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Public discussion about the relationship between religion and public life in Canada can be heated at times, and scholars have recently focused on the historical study of the many expressions of this relationship. The experience of Canada's smaller Protestant Christian groups, however, has remained...
The Way to Love
Reimagining Christian Spiritual Growth as the Hopeful Path of Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
"Love people." An oft-proclaimed rallying cry for Christians, but what does it look like, in practice, to love? We may believe that love is "the greatest" (1 Cor 13:13). Love may be our destination. But do we know how to get there? This book addresses essential questions about...
After Saturday Comes Sunday
Understanding the Christian Crisis in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
The post-Christian West is in decline, revived Islam is on the rise, and Mesopotamia (Syria-Iraq), the cradle of civilization, has become ground zero in a battle for civilization. Despised as infidels (unbelievers) and kafir (unclean), Mesopotamia's indigenous Christian peoples are targeted by fundamentalist...
The Sword of Eden
Eve and Mary Speak
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
The Sword of Eden tells the story of Eve and Mary from their points of view. It connects their lives--Eve as the mother of us all, looking forward to the birth of one who is promised to bruise the head of the serpent in the garden, and Mary as the New Eve whose son will do so. They tell their own...
For the Unity of All
Contributions to the Theological Dialogue between East and West
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
For the Unity of All offers significant and new contributions for the furthering of dialogue and the path to unity between East and West. In this excellent example of ecumenical theology, the author utilizes the resources of contemporary philosophy in an effort to shed some new light on centuries-old debates that perpetuate the division between the Christian churches.
Living without a Why
Mysticism, Pluralism, and the Way of Grace
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
In this book Paul O. Ingram adds his voice to a long list of writers seeking to relate Christian tradition to the hard realities of this post-Christian age of religious and secular pluralism. As a Lutheran, Ingram thinks grace flows over this universe like a waterfall. So he brings Christian mystical...
Holy Cooperation!
Building Graceful Economies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The first Christians immediately set about creating a social structure based on democratic control of their collective resources, which were shared freely. While this was a voluntary system, it carried great spiritual weight and was a continuation of values that were clearly encouraged in the stories...
Mending a Tattered Faith
Devotions with Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Although Emily Dickinson is sometimes seen as a religious skeptic, she never gave up on God, struggling with issues of faith and doubt throughout her life. Many of her poems depict such struggles, sometimes with humor and sometimes with despair. Reading and reflecting on these poems can be a powerful...
Music as Theology
What Music Says about the Word
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The conversation between music and theology, dormant for too long in recent years, is at last gathering pace. And rightly so. There will always be theologians who will regard music as a somewhat peripheral concern, too trivial to trouble the serious scholar, and in any case almost impossible to engage...