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by David Craig
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Trouble in the Diocese is a petulant, funny book of poetry. Its contrary protagonist/antagonist, the Apprentice, embraces life in both the large and the absurdly small. At the same time, he emphatically rejects the easy rigidity of doily-headed orthodox Catholics as well as the impulse in the Catholic...
by David Craig
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
In the last twenty years, Orthodox Catholics have come to expect their art to be necessarily about beauty. They expect it always and everywhere to lift one up, to be tinged with, to linger in the dimly-lit rooms of old-moneyed Europe, to be passed around among the best families, among like-minded...
by Steve J. Havemann, Joe D. Batten
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales, meaning that each day more than fifteen million people earn their keep by persuading someone else to make a purchase. The Excellent Persuader has the unique ability to reach sales professionals, sales managers,...
Transforming Wisdom
Pastoral Psychotherapy in Theological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Transforming Wisdom offers an extensive, multidisciplinary introduction to pastoral psychotherapy from some of the most respected practitioners in the field. With special attention to theological perspectives on the practice of psychotherapy, this collection of essays will be useful to students seeking...
Village Green
Sermons from Asbury First United Methodist Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
The three cycles of sermons included here provide a spiritual geography, an announcement of the gospel set in New York State. The sermons were given life in the vibrant life of Asbury First United Methodist Church, Rochester, New York, over several years beginning in 2000. The collection is meant...
Dynamic Living in Desperate Times
A Study in the Book of Jeremiah
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2018
Who is showing us the way? In ancient Palestine, when Jesus Christ asked people who they thought he was, one of their top guesses was the Old Testament prophet, Jeremiah. "Who do people say that I am?" "Some say Jeremiah or one of the prophets." There was something about Jesus...
Elder Governance
Insights into Making the Transition
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
When the leadership of Patterson Park Church looked for a book explaining the process of transitioning from a board-run church to an elder led form of church government, a structure they had come to believe was more in line with Scripture, they found none. God honored their efforts and two of their...
Perspective Criticism
Point of View and Evaluative Guidance in Biblical Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
The narrative material of the Bible often presents characters engaged in actions without providing explicit guidance as to how those actions are intended to be evaluated. For example, Gideon lays out a fleece in an attempt to discern God's will, but is this intended as a model to emulate, or is it...
by Ted Noel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The Common Market is going to be the kingdom of the Antichrist! Jesus will return within 40 years of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948! The Battle of Armageddon will come when the Soviet Union invades Israel over oil! Those newspaper mileposts passed and the Soviet Union fell. The faithful...
Christian Spirituality and Ethical Life
Calvin's View on the Spirit in Ecumenical Context
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Christian Spirituality and Ethical Life offers a helpful study of the place of the Spirit in John Calvin's theology. It also discovers a notion of the spiritual life in connection with ethical life. It thus overcomes the prevailing popular pictures about the theology of John Calvin in several significant...
Christ’s Church
Her Biblical Roots, Her Dramatic History, Her Saving Presence, Her Glorious Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
The Church, who is she? asks Bo Giertz in this book, which, he adds, is first of all for those who have some notion of the life which is present within the church walls and also have some desire to understand that life better and know more about it. If you're among the tens of thousands who've read...
Immigrant Neighbors among Us
Immigration across Theological Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
How do different Christian denominations in the United States approach immigration issues? In Immigrant Neighbors among Us, U.S. Hispanic scholars creatively mine the resources of their theological traditions to reflect on one of the most controversial issues of our day. Representative theologians...
Preaching After God
Derrida, Caputo, and the Language of Postmodern Homiletics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Even though the postmodern return of religion is dramatically shaping the future of twenty-first-century theology, its riches for preaching are rarely mined. Preaching After God highlights the trajectories of the postmodern return of religion by introducing readers to the positive theological themes...
Preaching Gospel
Essays in Honor of Richard Lischer
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Teaching preaching, like preaching itself, is a noble endeavor. After nearly four decades of teaching, Richard Lischer has sent legions of preachers across the world to preach gospel. This volume pays tribute to his faith-filled life of preaching and teaching. The contributors, some of whom were taught...