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Paul, Philosophy, and the Theopolitical Vision
Critical Engagements with Agamben, Badiou, Zizek, and Others
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
The apostle Paul was a man of many journeys. We are usually familiar with the geographical ones he made in his own time. This volume traces others--Paul's journeys in our time, as he is co-opted or invited to travel (sometimes as abused slave, sometimes as trusted guide) with modern and recent Continental...
Apocalyptic and the Future of Theology
With and Beyond J. Louis Martyn
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Ernst Kasemann famously claimed that apocalyptic is the mother of Christian theology. J. Louis Martyn's radical interpretation of the overarching significance of apocalyptic in Paul's theology has pushed Kasemann's claim further and deeper. Still, despite the recognition that apocalyptic is at the...
The Spirit among the dissenters
Other Voices in Understanding the Spirit of God
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
This work examines the development of a "dissenting" perspective on the emerging doctrine of the Holy Spirit in Post-Reformation Protestant thought. By "dissenting," the author means "beyond the mainstream of thought, sometimes affirming but expanding orthodox positions, but...
Thomas Merton and the Celts
A New World Opening Up
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Thomas Merton and the Celts offers a new lens through which to view Merton's life and spirituality. By examining unpublished letters, notebooks, and taped conferences for the Trappist novices--previously unavailable to the general reader--the author breaks new ground in Merton studies, revealing Merton's...
Holy Curiosity
Cultivating the Creative Spirit in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
One passage, two verses, four words. As a writer and an adjunct professor of psychology, Amy Hollingsworth is on her way to becoming an expert on creativity. But just days before delivering her first professional seminar on the topic, she has an unsettling dream. The dream awakens her to the fact...
Weaving the American Catholic Tapestry
Essays in Honor of William L. Portier
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Concerned that American Catholic theology has struggled to find its own voice for much of its history, William Portier has spent virtually his entire scholarly career recovering a usable past for Catholics on the U.S. landscape. This work of ressourcement has stood at the intersection of several disciplines...
Paul, Apostle of Weakness
Astheneia and Its Cognates in the Pauline Literature, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
In this practical book every occurrence of astheneia and its cognates in the Pauline Epistles is examined, both in its immediate context and in its relation to Pauline thought as a whole. The analysis begins, first, by examining both secular and Septuagintal Greek usages of astheneia as well as its...
by Leonard Swidler
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Thinking beyond the absolutes Christians and other religious persons increasingly find "deabsolutized" in our modern thought world, Swidler reflects on the ways we humans think about the world and its meaning now that increasingly we notice that there are other ways of understanding the...
Subversive Meals
An Analysis of the Lord's Supper under Roman Domination during the First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Subversive Meals examines the Lord's Supper within the sociopolitical context of first-century Roman domination, and concludes that it was an anti-imperial praxis. Although the Christian communal meal looked much like a typical Roman banquet in structure, with a deipnon and a symposion, it was essentially...
Caesar and the Sacrament
Baptism: A Rite of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
When the earliest Christ-followers were baptized they participated in a politically subversive act. Rejecting the Empire's claim that it had a divine right to rule the world, they pledged their allegiance to a kingdom other than Rome and a king other than Caesar (Acts 17:7). Many books explore...
by Walter Brueggemann
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Those who serve as truth-tellers in the church, like those who listen to the truth-telling in the church, are a mix of yearning and fearfulness, of receptiveness and collusion. In the end, the work of truth-telling is not to offer a new package of certitudes that displaces old certitudes. This truth...
by Walter Brueggemann
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Like athletes, preachers carry inside them the voices of their most challenging coaches--people who have encouraged them to dig deeper, stretch farther, and more faithfully pursue their craft and calling. In these crystalline essays, Walter Brueggemann is that voice again, shaking us free of the dust...
David and His Theologian
Literary, Social, and Theological Investigations of the Early Monarchy
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Throughout Walter Brueggemann's career, he has repeatedly found his way back to the David and royal traditions. From some of his earliest articles and essays to monographs, commentaries, and sermons, he has explored this rich field in literary, social, and theological depth. As he has said, My preoccupation...
by Walter Brueggemann
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Contents 1. Social Criticism and Social Vision in the Deuteronomic Formula of the Judges 2. A Poem of Summons (Isa 55:1-3), a Narrative of Resistance (Dan 1:1-21) 3. Psalms 9-10: A Counter to Conventional Social Reality 4. Prophetic Imagination toward Social Flourishing 5. A Royal Miracle and Its...