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Inventing Christic Jesuses: Rules and Warrants for Theology
Volume 2: Christological Recommendations
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
In the first comprehensive proposal for revisionist theology's deployment of historical Jesus research, Inventing Christic Jesuses rejects positions that insulate theology from Jesus research. By setting out theological methods, warrants, and rules, in dialogue with an analysis of the Jesus historians...
The Activist Impulse
Essays on the Intersection of Evangelicalism and Anabaptism
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Anabaptists have often felt suspicious of American evangelicalism, and in turn evangelicals have found various reasons to dismiss the Anabaptist witness. Yet at various points in the past as well as the present, evangelicals and Anabaptists have found ample reason for conversation and much to appreciate...
Waiting at the Foot of the Cross
Toward a Theology of Hope for Today
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
How do we hope in the face of modernity's failure and postmodernity's absence of foundations? How do we hope when the future seems fearful and no clear way forward appears? How do we hope when despair, indifference, and cynicism dominate the psychic landscape of English-speaking North America? In...
by David W. Bebbington
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The Nonconformists of England and Wales, the Protestants outside the Church of England, were particularly numerous in the Victorian years. From being a small minority in the eighteenth century, they had increased to represent nearly half the worshipping nation by the middle years of the nineteenth...
Defining Issues in Pentecostalism
Classical and Emergent
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
This book brings together the papers presented at the McMaster Divinity College 2007 Pentecostal Forum: "Defining Issues in Pentecostalism: Classical and Emergent." It highlights the defining topics, past and present, of Pentecostal theology. The chapters are grouped under Pentecostal theology...
Pentecostalism and Globalization
The Impact of Globalization on Pentecostal Theology and Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
In little over a century, the Pentecostal movement has emerged from small bands of revival seekers to become one of the largest Christian groups in the world. Primarily a movement within Western Christianity for much of its brief history, it is increasingly characterized as a global movement. Pentecostal...
Through with Kings and Armies
The Marriage of George and Jean Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
In an era of seemingly endless war, and similarly endless debates about the nature of marriage, Through with Kings and Armies offers a fresh look at what both war and marriage might mean for Christians. This is a love story: the tale of a sixty-three-year marriage grounded in the love of Jesus Christ...
Philosophy Begins in Wonder
An Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy, Theology, and Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Philosophy begins with wonder, according to Plato and Aristotle. Yet Plato and Aristotle did not expand a great deal on what precisely wonder is. Does this fact alone not raise curiosity in us as to why this passion or concept is important? What is wonder's role in science, philosophy, or theology...
Attacks on Christendom in a World Come of Age
Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer, and the Question of "Religionless Christianity"
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Though Soren Kierkegaard and Dietrich Bonhoeffer both made considerable contributions to twentieth-century thought, they are rarely considered together. Against Kierkegaard's melancholic individual, Bonhoeffer stands as the champion of the church and community. In Attacks on Christendom, Matthew D....
by Steve Mason
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
No field of study is livelier than the history of Roman-era Judaea (ca. 200 BC to AD 400). Bold reinterpretations of texts and new archaeological discoveries prompt us constantly to rethink assumptions. What kind of religion was Judaism? How did Jews--and Christians--relate to Roman imperial power?...
Envisioning the Good Life
Essays on God, Christ, and Human Flourishing in Honor of Miroslav Volf
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Who is God? What is God's relation to the world? How is God disposed towards us? What does God ask of us? These questions are not mere intellectual puzzles. They matter for us. A disinterested theology would be no theology at all, for we are fundamentally, at our very core, invested in God. God is...
Risking Proclamation, Respecting Difference
Christian Faith, Imperialistic Discourse, and Abraham
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
This is a work of Christian theology that Karl Barth might call an ad hoc or secondary apologetic. Relying on a paraphrase of Anselm--faith seeking the ethical--Boesel engages modern and postmodern theologians and philosophers--from Kierkegaard to Barth, Ruether, Hegel, Derrida, and Levinas--to analyze...
Misunderstanding Stories
Toward a Postcolonial Pastoral Theology
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
How can we work toward mutual understanding in our increasingly diverse and interconnected world? Pastoral theologian Melinda McGarrah Sharp approaches this multifaceted, interdisciplinary question by beginning with moments of intercultural misunderstanding. Using misunderstanding stories from her...
Interdependence
A Postcolonial Feminist Practical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This book calls attention to an urgent need for postcolonial feminist approaches to practical theology. It not only advocates for the inclusion of colonialism as a critical optic for practical theology but also demands a close look at how colonialism is entangled with issues of race, ethnicity, gender,...