Stock imprint: 1176 books
by Cédric Gras
Language: French
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: February 4, 2015
C’est à un joyeux exercice de « géographie narrative » que nous invite Cédric Gras. Une pérégrination glacée aux confins de l’extrême orient russe où, six semaines durant, il a arpenté le pays de l’« avenir lumineux » à la poursuite d’un automne sans fin. À trois reprises, entre...
by Vincent Duluc
Language: French
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: May 21, 2014
« J’ai dépensé tout mon argent en filles, en verres et en voitures. Tout le reste, je l’ai gaspillé. »
George Best a été la première popstar du football, un joueur d’une grâce infinie, un génie, une gueule d’ange qui a débarqué dans la nuit en même temps que la minijupe...
The Games People Play
Theology, Religion, and Sport
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
In The Games People Play, Robert Ellis constructs a theology around the global cultural phenomenon of modern sport, paying particular attention to its British and American manifestations. Using historical narrative and social analysis to enter the debate on sport as religion, Ellis shows that modern...
Laughter in a Time of Turmoil
Humor as Spiritual Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Here's a different angle on humor--it can be a spiritual practice, an expression of a theology of joy, hope, and grace. Humor is so valuable, for it offers self-care, healing, and renewal, precious gifts in times of pressure and tension. Olson begins by telling of three unforgettable friends who lived...
A First Step into a Much Larger World
The Christian University and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
How do Christian students approach their years at a Christian college or university? What are the connections between all those hours of study and the Christian life? A First Step into a Much Larger World invites students, parents, and educators into a broad conversation about faith and learning in...
Jewish and Christian Views on Bodily Pleasure
Their Origins and Relevance in the Twentieth-Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
At the beginning of the Common Era, Jewish renewal movements, including Jesus' ministry, had similar views: embracing moderate ascetic behavior. Over the next three centuries, however, they moved in opposite directions. Christianity came to firmly privilege anti-pleasure views and female lifelong...
The Courageous Gospel
Resources for Teachers, Students, and Preachers of the Fourth Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
The Courageous Gospel is intended for use alongside a commentary (Ashton, Brown, Bultmann, Barrett, other) in a class introducing the Fourth Gospel. The book has four parts: • A succinct summary of key matters of introduction; • A collection of sermons on the Gospel's core chapters, with reflective...
The Word Became Flesh
A Rapprochement of Christian Natural Law and Radical Christological Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Is following Jesus natural? Many would say no, but this book argues yes. Saying no suggests that grace and human nature are alternate moral categories. Saying yes implies that our humanity is gracious in origin, capacity, and intent. Much of this discussion hangs on what is meant by "nature"...
Church, Capitalism, and Democracy in Post-Ecological Societies
A Chinese Christian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Most ecotheologies build their arguments on the Bible's creation-story and resurrection-narrative in the hope to save the ecology through spiritual meditation, reforming capitalism, and/or deliberative democracy. However, based on a Chinese Christian social scientist's perspective, this book argues...
Breaking and Entering
Unexpected Sermons for an Unfinished World
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
When Elizabeth Goodman first arrived at the tiny congregation that would become her home as a pastor--a congregation of about seven people in a town of just under a thousand--the longest-standing member told her that though the congregation was small, her preaching need not be. In this collection...
by John Raymaker, Godefroid Alekiabo Mombula
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Bernard Lonergan is a world-renowned philosopher, methodologist, and theologian. The complexity of his work has tended to limit his accessibility to average readers. Bringing Bernard Lonergan Down to Earth seeks to remedy this limitation by showing how Lonergan did address problems of community life....
Singing with Jesus
The Lord’s Psalm
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
We shouldn't be too surprised if Jesus, the Son of David, was also a song writer. The Lord's Prayer is a psalm, and reading the prayer as a psalm opens up its meaning. To read the Lord's Prayer as a psalm, you have to be able to read a psalm as a psalm. So this book is first of all an adventure in...
Husband, Wife, Father, Child, Master, Slave
Peter through Roman Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
When the New Testament speaks of slaves and masters, is it affirming an institution that we find reprehensible? Biblical scholars across the theological and political spectrum generally conclude that the answer is "yes." And in the same passages the Bible seems to affirm male dominance in...
The Certainty of Uncertainty
The Way of Inescapable Doubt and Its Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
The world is full of people who are very certain--in politics, in religion, in all manner of things. In addition, political, religious, and social organizations are marketing certainty as a cure all to all life's problems. But is such certainty possible? Or even good? The Certainty of Uncertainty...