B B Publishing: 2042 books
by Thomas Kaufmann
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Accessible yet authoritative biography of the colorful character who instigated the Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther, the Augustinian friar who set the Protestant Reformation in motion with his famous Ninety-Five Theses, was a man of extremes on many fronts. He was both hated and honored, both...
Discovering Romans
Content, Interpretation, Reception
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
Concise, student-friendly introduction to Romans
This third volume in the Discovering Biblical Texts series offers readers a compact, up-to-date, and student-friendly introduction to Paul's letter to the Romans, focusing on its structure, content, theological concerns, key interpretive debates,...
The Stories We Live
Finding God's Calling All around Us
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
"Christian vocation," says Kathleen Cahalan, "is about connecting our stories with God's story." In The Stories We Live Cahalan rejuvenates and transforms vocation from a static concept to a living, dynamic reality.
Incorporating biblical texts, her own experience, and...
The Rest of Life
Rest, Play, Eating, Studying, Sex from a Kingdom Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
When was the last time you heard a sermon on the theological importance of play? What do rest, eating, studying -- and sex -- have to do with the Kingdom of God? Strangely, although these activities together take up much of our time, they seldom receive much discussion from a biblical point of view.
In...
Holy Spokes
The Search for Urban Spirituality on Two Wheels
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
After Laura Everett's car died on the highway one rainy night, she made the utterly practical decision to start riding her bicycle to work through the streets of Boston. Seven years later, she's never looked back.
Holy Spokes tells the story of Everett's unlikely conversion to urban cycling....
Way Below the Angels
The Pretty Clearly Troubled But Not Even Close to Tragic Confessions of a Real Live Mormon Missionary
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
When Craig Harline set off on his two-year Mormon mission to Belgium in the 1970s, he had big dreams of doing miracles, converting the masses, and coming home a hero. What he found instead was a lot of rain and cold, one-sentence conversations with irritated people, and silly squabbles with fellow...
George Bell, Bishop of Chichester
Church, State, and Resistance in the Age of Dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The story of a significant British church leader who fought for justice and freedom
during World War II
It was to George Bell, an English bishop, that Dietrich Bonhoeffer sent his last words before he was executed at the Flossenbürg concentration camp in April 1945. Why he did so becomes clear...
Discovering the Human Person
In Conversation with John Paul II
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
A longtime friend and student of the late Pope John Paul II, Stanislaw Grygiel in this book reflects on the life and thought of this extraordinary pope, giving new insight into his character and his vision of beauty as the path that leads us to God.
More than simply biographical information...
After Vatican II
Trajectories and Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Since the closing of Vatican II (1962-1965) nearly fifty years ago, several multivolume studies have detailed how the bishops at the council debated successive drafts and finally approved the sixteen documents published as the proceedings of the council. However, opinions vary, sometimes sharply,...
The Intolerable God
Kant's Theological Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The thought of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is often regarded as having caused a crisis for theology and religion because it sets the limits of knowledge to what can be derived from experience. In The Intolerable God Christopher Insole challenges that assumption and argues that Kant believed in God...
by Lisa DeBoer
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
Although numerous studies have examined biblical and theological rationales for using the visual arts in worship, this book by Lisa J. DeBoer fills in a piece of the picture missing so far — the social dimensions of both our churches and the various art worlds represented in our congregations.
The...
Politics for a Pilgrim Church
A Thomistic Theory of Civic Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Presents an innovative, constructive alternative to Christian involvement in the "culture wars"
Church leaders and scholars have long wrestled with what should provide a guiding vision for Christian engagement in culture and politics. In this book Thomas Bushlack argues that a retrieval...
Jesus Christ
The New Face of Social Progress
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Based on a careful reading of Pope Benedict’s 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate (“Charity in Truth”), the essays in this substantial volume explore how an encounter with the person of Jesus Christ is the true basis for economic and social progress. The authors are experts in a wide range of...
Women of War, Women of Woe
Joshua and Judges through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblical Interpreters
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The stories of such women as Rahab, Deborah, Jael, Delilah, Jephthah's daughter, and the Levite's concubine raised thorny questions for nineteenth-century female biblical interpreters. Could a Victorian woman use her intelligence to negotiate like Rahab? Was the seemingly well-educated Deborah an...