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Reaching Forever
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Reaching Forever is Philip C. Kolin's ninth collection of poems, the sixth to focus entirely on spiritual poetry. Like the poet's most recent book, Benedict's Daughter: Poems (2017), the poems in this new collection are anchored in Scripture. Organized according to major Christian topics--sheep,...
Explaining the Holocaust
How and Why It Happened
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Seventy years after it took place, the Holocaust committed against the Jews of Europe during World War II continues to cast a giant shadow over humankind. Man's inhumanity to man is not a thing of the past. Genocidal action is still commonplace around the globe. Has humankind learned the lessons of...
Blessed Peacemakers
365 Extraordinary People Who Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
All of us yearn for a peaceable and just world, but some roll up their sleeves and set to work to make the dream real. Blessed Peacemakers celebrates 365 of them, one for each day of the year. Their stories are richly diverse. They share a commitment to peace and justice, but the various contexts...
by Steven Walker
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Humor smiles and chuckles and sometimes laughs so loud in virtually every book of the Bible, so it's remarkable how readers manage to overlook it. It's also unfortunate. Humor graces biblical texts at so many levels that to miss the humor is to miss not only much of the emotional impact of the Bible,...
Uncommon Friendships
An Amicable History of Modern Religious Thought
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Uncommon Friendships explores the often-overlooked dynamic of interreligious friendships, considering their significance for how we think about contemporary religious thought. By exploring the dynamics of three relationships between important religious thinkers--Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy,...
Where the Sacred and Secular Harmonize
Birmingham Mass Meeting Rhetoric and the Prophetic Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Among pivotal historical moments in the United States, the civil rights movement stands out. In Where the Sacred and Secular Harmonize: Birmingham Mass Meeting Rhetoric and the Prophetic Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, David G. Holmes offers an original rhetorical analysis of six speeches delivered...
Master Kierkegaard: The Complete Journals
Summer 1847, Fall / Winter / Spring 1847–1848, and Summer 1848
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
In this serial work of religious historical fiction, Magda, a fallen woman from Berlin turned maidservant in the house of Soren Kierkegaard, seeks the full life that has thus far eluded her. Two journals set in the summer of 1847 record Magda's responses to the Luther Bible, Goethe's Faust, and her...
Seek the Peace of the City
Christian Political Criticism as Public, Realist, and Transformative
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Seek the Peace of the City provides a robust engagement with the theological foundations and practices of Christian social and political criticism. Richard Bourne identifies a theological realism found in the work of John Howard Yoder. This realism bases social and political criticism in the purposes...
Ministry Among God’s Queer Folk, Second Edition
LGBTQ Pastoral Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
This practical pastoral care handbook, written by two self-described queer people of faith, covers the basic skills that religious caregivers and ministry students need in order to be effective, enlightened, and supportive pastoral care providers to LGBTQ persons in congregational and other community...
The Philosophy of Literature
Four Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
The Philosophy of Literature: Four Studies puts forth the question of the extent to which philosophers must go to school with the poets. It begins with a new interpretation of the famous Platonic quarrel with the poetic wisdom of Homer. It brings this question forward through the humanism of thinkers...
by Donald Phillip Verene
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Metaphysics and the Modern World makes the abiding questions of the nature of the self, world, and God available for the modern reader. Donald Phillip Verene presents these questions in both their systematic and historical dimensions, beginning with Aristotle's claim in his Metaphysics that philosophy...
by Donald Phillip Verene
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
This work raises for the contemporary reader the ancient and abiding question of the nature and meaning of human virtue. In Part 1, it draws upon Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero and the works of Renaissance Christian humanists who were influenced by them, such as Pico, Vives, and Erasmus. The moral act...
Raising Spirits
Stories of Suffering and Comfort at Death's Door
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Raising Spirits: Stories of Suffering and Comfort at Death's Door springs from Michael Goldberg's experiences serving dying patients as a hospital and hospice chaplain. Previously, he had held positions as a management consultant, a chaired university professor, and a congregational rabbi. Although...
Finding Our Voice
Embodying the Prophetic and Other Misadventures
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Finding Our Voice is a series of meditations on how to express the deepest sense of who we are in a troubled world. What is the core of our being? How do we find the language to name that core? If the core of our faith is identifying and embodying the prophetic for our time, surviving that naming...