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Evil and Pain
A Critique of the Materialistic Account of Evil
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
A specific form of understanding of evil, in the problem of evil debate, gets assumed among a variety of materialistic naturalists. Owing to their physicalist and, in some cases, behaviorist philosophies, this understanding assumes a hedonistic view of pain that reduces valuation to pleasure and pain....
Rational Piety and Social Reform in Glasgow
The Life, Philosophy, and Political Economy of James Mylne (1757–1839)
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
James Mylne (1757-1839) taught moral philosophy and political economy in Glasgow from 1797 to the mid-1830s. Rational Piety and Social Reform in Glasgow offers readers Mylne's biography, a summary of his lectures on moral philosophy and political economy, several interpretative essays, and a collation...
The Book of Job
A Modern Translation and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
The book of Job is the most challenging--and most engaging--of all the books in the Hebrew Scriptures. It challenges one's faith in the essential goodness of God and humanity. In this volume, Rabbis Kravitz and Olitzky provide an original, modern translation and commentary while also inviting classic...
by Wayne Allen
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
In 1924, an Australian minister observed that while the world may be getting better off, the world is not getting better. Almost one hundred years have passed and little has changed. No doubt people today are healthier and wealthier than ever before. But people do not seem to be any more virtuous....
A Dangerous Mind
The Ideas and Influence of Delbert L. Wiens
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
A Dangerous Mind is a celebration of the ideas and influence of Delbert L. Wiens. It contains tributes to him, essays inspired by him, and some of his unpublished works. This effort has been brought together by his students, colleagues, and friends at the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of...
by Jeff Hood
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
God is Queer. In a world of normative paradigms, God will never fit in and nor should we. That twitching and itching for something more will consistently be present until we step out of our closets and into the Queer. The Courage to Be Queer is about the wildness and beauty of an indescribable and...
The Psychosis of God
An Exploration of Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Psychosis has taken over. God's brain is gone. There is no cure. There is only God. There is only us. The Psychosis of God is about exploring the divine through the mentally ill amongst us. The image of our creator is the only tool we have for liberating God. The prison of our normative expectations...
by Preston M. Browning
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Struggling for the Soul of Our Country is a book in search of answers: what does it mean to struggle for the soul of a country and how does the life of citizenship influence our common future? While discussing major cultural and political issues, Browning addresses the deeper questions haunting many...
by John H. Leith
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The responsibility to bear witness to the gracious presence of God in Jesus Christ in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth has been the perennial task of the Christian community from the beginning. But the style and form of evangelism has varied according to time and...
A Future for American Evangelicalism
Commitment, Openness, and Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
This book proposes that participation in "God's Project of Reconciliation" is the "Center" that can hold evangelical Christians together in the midst of great diversity in belief and ecclesiastical practices. The author envisions a vibrant future for the Evangelical movement if...
The Spiritual Condition of Infants
A Biblical-Historical Survey and Systematic Proposal
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
What is the spiritual condition of infants? According to the Augustinian-Calvinist view, all people inherit from the first Adam both a sinful nature and his guilt. The result is that all infants are subject to the judgment of God against their nature before they knowingly commit any sinful actions....
Jesus as Man, Myth, and Metaphor
Beyond the Jesus of History Debate
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Current New Testament scholarship has done much to advance knowledge of Jesus's authentic words and message. The works of Crossan, Borg, Vermes, Mack, and many others attest to this movement. In this process, however, the Christ of the Gospels, or the so-called Christ of faith, has been caught in...
By the Waters of Babylon
Meditations on the Psalms for the Solace and Renewal of the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
The Psalms have long been the preferred prayer book of souls in quest of God's guidance and comfort. It has been a hymnbook for the soul and a trove for canticles and verses of the heart. The Psalms have served both Judaism and Christianity's religious communities as a favored source of rich and magnificent...
Transcendence and Fulfillment
A Critique of Paul’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom and Their Enduring Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Farley's Transcendence and Fulfillment captures one's immediate attention, especially with his designation of Paul's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom." Readers will find his selection intriguing and illuminating. While being faithful to Paul's self-understanding and theological views, Farley offers...