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Communicating Pregnancy Loss
Narrative as a Method for Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This book is the Winner of the OSCLG Outstanding Book Award
The loss of a desired pregnancy or the inability to experience pregnancy are intensely personal phenomena; these losses are also, in our culture at least, extremely private. Communicating Pregnancy Loss is a collection of first-person...
by Damian Emetuche
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The Future of Church Planting in North America looks to Jesus as the model for life and ministry as he said, «As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you». In exploring this passage, the author asks, what does this passage mean in church-planting terms? How do we apply the concept of being...
Curriculum and the Culture Wars
Debating the Bible's Place in Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Curriculum and the Culture Wars offers a fresh perspective on perennial debates about the role of religion in public schools, focusing on the intersection of religion and curriculum. This debate has been renewed in part due to the growth of elective Bible courses in public schools in many parts of...
by Theodore N. Levterov
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Ellen G. White was a major figure of nineteenth-century American Christianity although she has not been widely studied or researched. Shortly after the second coming of Jesus predicted by the Millerites did not materialize on October 22, 1844, White became one of the principal leaders of a small remnant...
A Reconciled Community of Suffering Disciples
Aspects of a Contextual Somali Ecclesiology
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Church members among the ethnic Somali population in the Horn of Africa constitute a culturally marginalized and persecuted minority. Despite more than a hundred years of Protestant missionary efforts, the growth of the church has remained slow and protracted. The very concept of «Somali Christian»...
Preaching to Multiethnic Congregation
Positive Marginality as a Homiletical Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
The impact of globalization is widespread, affecting every sector of society, and the Church is not immune from such influence. Churches are awakening to diversifying pews and finding it difficult to insist on strict homogeneity. This shift in congregational composition has raised homiletical challenges...
by Kristin Swenson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Since 1997, advertisements for lifestyle drugs have saturated the U.S. airwaves, print media, and the Internet. Viewers are asked to see their children’s difficulty in school as attention deficit disorder, their worry as anxiety, and their flagging sex life as dysfunction. And for each disorder,...
Paul and the Apocalyptic Triumph
An Investigation of the Usage of Jewish and Greco-Roman Imagery in 1 Thess. 4:1318
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 has long been the quintessential Pauline text on the parousia of Christ. Nowhere else does Paul reveal a more vivid picture of Christ’s coming. The apostle Paul employs a number of images to describe the parousia to the Thessalonian congregation who have become anxious,...
The Digital Practices of African Americans
An Approach to Studying Cultural Change in the Information Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
How do social scientists study the impact of social networking sites on racial identity formation? How has the Internet impacted the accumulation of social and cultural capital? By synthesizing insights across a variety of disciplines, this book builds an original theoretical perspective through which...
by Douglas S. Huffman
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries have involved much discussion on overhauling and refining a scholarly understanding of the verbal system for first-century Greek. These discussions have included advances in verbal aspect theory and other linguistic approaches...
by James J. Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Within the context of the Lutheran Church in Nigeria, Gongola Diocese, this book examines the issues of the interpretation, transmission, and appropriation of the doctrine of justification by faith alone. Using contextualization as the main tool in this exploration, James J. Reynolds argues that intercultural...
Heaven and Humans Are One
The Witness of the Chinese Catholic Ministry in a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
When religious and political leaders debate the question of establishing diplomatic relations between the Vatican and China, they frequently misunderstand that religious relation inevitably intertwines with politics. For instance, the Vatican has to terminate any diplomatic relation with Taiwan if...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Schleiermacher maintained that «to make proselytes out of unbelievers is deeply engrained in the character of religion.» But why do religions proselytize? Do all religions seek conversions? How are religions adapting their proclamations in a deeply plural world? This book provides a detailed analysis...
Not «Who Is on the Lord's Side?» but «Whose Side Is the Lord On?»
Contesting Claims and Divine Inscrutability in 2 Samuel 16: 5-14
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Second Samuel 16:5–14 is an important text for defining the character of both King David and Yahweh, the God of Israel. In this scene, the points of view of the various speakers battle for control of the narrative, attempting in turn to align their perspective with some aspect of what has been revealed...