Pickwick Publications imprint: 381 books
Home and Away
Contextual Theology and Local Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Home and Away provides new vantage points in contextual theology. An initial stream looks at the significance of postcodes as a way of mapping local areas as situations for pastoral ministry and theological reflection. A second, but not ancillary, stream of essays considers the local within a range...
But These Are Written . . .
Essays on Johannine Literature in Honor of Professor Benny C. Aker
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Johannine Literature offers some of the most beautiful, majestic, and profound theology contained within the entire biblical text. Within its works can be found the highest Christology, the capstone of eschatology, and the heartbreaking struggles of a community committed to Christ. However, it does...
Thomas Merton and the Celts
A New World Opening Up
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Thomas Merton and the Celts offers a new lens through which to view Merton's life and spirituality. By examining unpublished letters, notebooks, and taped conferences for the Trappist novices--previously unavailable to the general reader--the author breaks new ground in Merton studies, revealing Merton's...
Weaving the American Catholic Tapestry
Essays in Honor of William L. Portier
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Concerned that American Catholic theology has struggled to find its own voice for much of its history, William Portier has spent virtually his entire scholarly career recovering a usable past for Catholics on the U.S. landscape. This work of ressourcement has stood at the intersection of several disciplines...
Paul, Apostle of Weakness
Astheneia and Its Cognates in the Pauline Literature, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
In this practical book every occurrence of astheneia and its cognates in the Pauline Epistles is examined, both in its immediate context and in its relation to Pauline thought as a whole. The analysis begins, first, by examining both secular and Septuagintal Greek usages of astheneia as well as its...
by Leonard Swidler
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Thinking beyond the absolutes Christians and other religious persons increasingly find "deabsolutized" in our modern thought world, Swidler reflects on the ways we humans think about the world and its meaning now that increasingly we notice that there are other ways of understanding the...
Subversive Meals
An Analysis of the Lord's Supper under Roman Domination during the First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Subversive Meals examines the Lord's Supper within the sociopolitical context of first-century Roman domination, and concludes that it was an anti-imperial praxis. Although the Christian communal meal looked much like a typical Roman banquet in structure, with a deipnon and a symposion, it was essentially...
Restorative Readings
The Old Testament, Ethics, and Human Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The Bible has the unfortunate legacy of being associated with gross human rights violations as evident in the scriptural justification of apartheid in South Africa as well as slavery in the American South. What is more, the Hebrew Bible also contains numerous instances in which the worth or dignity...
Kids and Kingdom
The Precarious Presence of Children in the Synoptic Gospels
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Kids and Kingdom challenges the traditional view that Jesus was deeply concerned over children. Instead, it is argued that despite the Synoptic authors' attempts to convince us that children are fully included in the kingdom of God--that Jesus loves the little children--their presentations fail to...
Dialogue Derailed
Joseph Ratzinger's War against Pluralist Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Joseph Ratzinger has shaped and guided the church's understanding of its mission to proclaim the good news, as well as to forge good relations with non-Catholic Christian communities, other religious traditions, and the secular world at large. Through a critique of Ratzinger's theology, this book...
Faith. Works. Wonders.
An Insider's Guide to Catholic Charities
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Written in preparation for the 2010 centennial of the national organization Catholic Charities USA, Faith. Works. Wonders. introduces the mission, scope, and impact of Catholic Charities agencies in communities across the nation. This book also describes the work, motivation, and spirituality of the...
Blood Cries Out
Pentecostals, Ecology, and the Groans of Creation
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
John McConnell Jr. was the famed founder and visionary of Earth Day. McConnell's vision was one of creating a day of remembrance, solitude, and action to restore the broken human relationship to the land. Little acknowledged are McConnell's religious convictions or background. McConnell grew up in...
by Craig L. Nessan
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The Vitality of Liberation Theology argues for the ongoing necessity of a liberating theology in a world of endemic poverty and economic globalization. Although some have declared liberation theology's demise, or even its death, Nessan articulates the imperative and logic of it for a new generation....
Descending on Humanity and Intervening in History
Notes from the Pulpit Ministry of P. T. Forsyth
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
This collection of forty-eight sermons, most of which have not been previously published, discloses the integration of vocation and imagination in the work of one of the greatest of Free Church theologians, P. T. Forsyth. At a time of fragmentation, when theological study has become too much removed...