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Evangelical, Catholic, and Reformed
Essays on Barth and Other Themes
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
In this book prominent Barth scholar George Hunsinger presents fifteen essays on Karl Barth’s understanding of Christian doctrine across a wide spectrum of topics, concluding with suggestions as to how Barth’s theology might fruitfully be retrieved for the future.
Hunsinger discusses Barth’s...
by John M. G. Barclay
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
A fresh scholarly reading of grace in Paul's theology
In this book esteemed Pauline scholar John Barclay presents a strikingly fresh reading of grace in Paul's theology, studying it in view of ancient notions of "gift" and shining new light on Paul's relationship to Second Temple...
by Winter, Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1993
The Book of Acts in Its Ancient Literary Setting includes fourteen chapters devoted to the literary framework that undergirds the Book of Acts. Topics include the text as historical monograph, ancient rhetoric and speeches, the Pauline corpus, biblical history, subsequent ecclesiastical histories,...
by Joan Chittister
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Everyone longs to be happy, yet many wrongly believe that happiness comes from having enough money, fame, personal comfort, worldly success, or even dumb luck. Happiness all too often seems to be an elusive, arbitrary thing -- something that is always just out of reach.
Joan Chittister sees...
The Way of the Wesleys
A Short Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2014
Engaging, accessible survey of major Wesleyan theological themes
The Wesley brothers -- John (1703–1791) and Charles (1707–1788) -- are famous as the cofounders of the Wesleyan tradition and the Methodist family of churches. Their impact and legacy have been huge: what began as the excited...
Women in the Story of Jesus
The Gospels through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblical Interpreters
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
This volume gathers the writings of thirty-one nineteenth-century women on the stories of women in the Gospels—Mary and Martha, Anna, the Samaritan woman at the well, Herodias and Salome, Mary Magdalene, and more. Retrieving and analyzing rarely read works by Christina Rossetti, Harriet Beecher...
The Barmen Theses Then and Now
The 2004 Warfield Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
In 1934 Christian churches in Germany faced strong pressure to conform their belief and practice to the pillars of Nazi thinking -- respect for the authority of the Fuhrer and fervent devotion to the history and culture of the German race. Defying this ideological agenda, leaders in the German Evangelical...
The Whole Church Sings
Congregational Singing in Luther's Wittenberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Authoritative study by a renowned musicologist and Reformation scholar
Many scholars think that congregational singing was not established in Lutheran worship until well after the start of the Reformation. In this book Robin A. Leaver calls that view into question, presenting new research to...
by MaryAnn McKibben Dana
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
“We’re all improvisers,” says MaryAnn McKibben Dana, whether we realize it or not.
In this book McKibben Dana blends personal stories, pop culture, and Scripture into a smart, funny, down-to-earth guide to the art of living*.* Offering concrete spiritual wisdom through seven improv...
Amplifying Our Witness
Giving Voice to Adolescents with Developmental Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Nearly twenty percent of adolescents have developmental disabilities, yet far too often they are marginalized within churches. Amplifying Our Witness challenges congregations to adopt a new, practice-centered approach to congregational ministry -- one that includes and amplifies the witness of adolescents...
by Sarah Yates
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Lucky Lou Gets Game, a young adult novel from author Sarah Yates is a coming-of-age story that is both inspirational and down-to-earth funny. Yates pushes the limits of her unusual heroine Lous abilities. Seventeen-year old Lou Starr has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair but she is a bold and self-effacing...
Balthasar
A (Very) Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
The enormously prolific Swiss Roman Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) was marginalized during much of his life, but his reputation over time has only continued to grow. He was said to be the favorite theologian of John Paul II and is held in high esteem by Benedict XVI. It is...
by James H. Moorhead
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
The story of Princeton Theological Seminary, the Presbyterian Church's first seminary in America, begins in 1812, shortly after the United States had entered into its second war against Great Britain. Princeton went on to become a model of American theological education, setting the standard for subsequent...
The Prophet Jesus and the Renewal of Israel
Moving beyond a Diversionary Debate
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Debate over whether or not Jesus can be best interpreted within an "apocalyptic scenario" has continued to dominate historical Jesus studies since Schweitzer and Bultmann. In The Prophet Jesus and the Renewal of Israel Richard Horsley shows that the apocalyptic scenario -- with its supposed...