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Political Agape
Christian Love and Liberal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
What is the place of Christian love in a pluralistic society dedicated to “liberty and justice for all”? What would it mean to take both Jesus Christ and Abraham Lincoln seriously and attempt to translate love of God and neighbor into every quarter of life, including law and politics?
Timothy...
Bringing the Word to Life
Engaging the New Testament through Performing It
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
The New Testament books were written to be read aloud. The original audiences of these texts would have been unfamiliar with our current practice of reading silently and processing with our eyes rather than our ears, so we can learn much about the New Testament through performing it ourselves.
Richard...
Wholeheartedness
Busyness, Exhaustion, and Healing the Divided Self
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
I’m being pulled in a thousand different directions.
As a therapist, Chuck DeGroat hears that line all the time. “I hear it from students and software developers,” he says. “I hear it from spiritual leaders and coffee baristas. And I hear it from my own inner self.”
We all feel that...
Reading Philo
A Handbook to Philo of Alexandria
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
Guidebook par excellence to a significant ancient Jewish scholar
A contemporary of both Jesus and the apostle Paul, Philo was a prolific Jewish theologian, philosopher, and politician -- a fascinating, somewhat enigmatic figure -- who lived his entire life in Alexandria, Egypt. His many books...
The Believing Scientist
Essays on Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
Elegant writings by a cutting-edge research scientist defending traditional theological and philosophical positions
Both an accomplished theoretical physicist and a faithful Catholic, Stephen Barr in this book addresses a wide range of questions about the relationship between science and religion,...
Wittenberg Meets the World
Reimagining the Reformation at the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Proposes creative implications of the 500-year Reformation tradition for today
As the global church assesses the legacy of the Lutheran Reformation, Alberto García and John Nunes in this book reimagine central Reformational themes from black, Hispanic, and other perspectives traditionally...
by Anthony C. Thiselton
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Covering everything from “Abba” to “Zwingli,” The Thiselton Companion to Christian Theology offers a comprehensive account of a wide sweep of topics and thinkers in Christian theology. Written entirely by eminent scholar Anthony Thiselton, the book features a coherence lacking in most multiauthored...
Dust Bound for Heaven
Explorations in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In Dust Bound for Heaven Reinhard Hütter shows how Thomas Aquinas's view of the human being as dust bound for heaven weaves together elements of two questions without fusion or reduction. Does humanity still have an insatiable thirst for God that sends each person on an irrepressible religious quest...
The God We Worship
An Exploration of Liturgical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
In The God We Worship Nicholas Wolterstorff takes a ground-up approach to liturgical theology, examining the oft-hidden implications of traditional elements of liturgy. Given that “no liturgy has ever been composed from scratch,” Wolterstorff argues that the assumptions taken into worship are...
Ecce Homo
On the Divine Unity of Christ
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Interacting with theologians throughout the ages, Riches narrates the development of the church’s doctrine of Christ as an increasingly profound realization that the depth of the difference between the human being and God is realized, in fact, only in the perfect union of divinity and humanity in...
Today When You Hear His Voice
Scripture, the Covenants, and the People of God
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Presents a doctrine of Scripture based on Hebrews in dialogue with Augustine and Calvin
What vision of biblical authority arises from Scripture’s own use of Scripture? This question has received surprisingly little attention from theologians seeking to develop a comprehensive doctrine of Scripture....
by Anthony C. Thiselton
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
In this concise, one-volume systematic theology, celebrated scholar Anthony Thiselton comprehensively covers the spectrum of Christian doctrine with an eye to practical application for Christian discipleship.
Written with students and busy ministers in mind, this book is readable and accessible,...
On Earth as It Is in Heaven
Cultivating a Contemporary Theology of Creation
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
With the 2015 publication of Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’, many people of faith have found themselves challenged to seek new ways of addressing serious ecological questions — issues essential to the flourishing of all creatures and not just human beings. This volume brings together...
Communion of Churches and Petrine Ministry
Lutheran-Catholic Convergences
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2014
Catholic Books Review
"An excellent scholarly overview of convergences between Lutheran and Catholic theologians and some promising developments between the churches."
William G. Rusch
— Yale Divinity School
"This work is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in overcoming...