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World Christianity and Interfaith Relations
World Christianity and Interfaith Relations makes the case that religion is not partitioned off from the secular in the Global South the way it is in the Global North. Rather, religion is deeply integrated into the lives of those in the Global South, even though "secularism" officially predominates.
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One Gospel, Many Cultures: Doing Theology in Context
While the gospel is static, cultures of the world vary. The Bible exhorts the believer to present the gospel to all nations (ethnos). One Gospel, Many Cultures addresses the theories and practices involved in presenting the gospel to different cultures from biblical, theological, and missiological perspectives.
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How Isaiah Became an Author: Prophecy, Authority, and Attribution
In How Isaiah Became an Author, David Davage places the "book" of Isaiah in the context of ancient conceptions of authorship and traces the complex process by which paratextual information in the prophecy--which originally portrayed the prophet as a link in a chain of transmission--was reimagined into a statement about the book's origins.
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An Ecumenical Priesthood: The Spirit of God and the Structure of the Church
The question of whether Protestant ministers are validly ordained remains a barrier for ecumenical reconciliation between Roman Catholics and Protestants. In An Ecumenical Priesthood, Karl Rahner proposes that the nature of the church and the affirmation of the presence of grace among Protestants may open a door to renewal and healing.
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Textual Rivalries: Jesus, Midrash, and Kabbalah
In Textual Rivalries Gilad Elbom offers a theology of textuality. By following the prompts provided by medieval kabbalistic exegesis, he argues that the universe is forged of words, God is a linguistic presence, and biblical interpretation is a semiotic practice, one endowed with a self-perpetuating power to repair an imperfect world.
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Interrupting a Gendered, Violent Church
Working at the intersections of gender studies and Christian theology--particularly diverse feminist and queer theologies--this book points to the real ways churches foster violence around gender. This volume discusses this violent reality while also exploring church as a nexus for resistance to gender-based violence.
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The Cross in the Midst of Creation: Following Jesus, Engaging the Powers, Transforming the World
The Cross in the Midst of Creation asserts that the crucifixion is ongoing as institutional powers diminish human life and destroy creation, and that the resurrection is ongoing as faith overcomes despair and the Spirit equips people to follow Jesus and to struggle for a transformed world.
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Language for God: A Lutheran Perspective
Language for God explores the ways language and images influence who we are and how we live. It declares the necessity of language and images for God that are expansive and inclusive of all genders. Lutheran perspectives are used as a compass to offer scriptural, theological, and historical insights to advance the reformation of Christian language.
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The Way of Abundance: Economic Justice in Scripture and Society
In The Way of Abundance, economist and minister Edith Rasell examines the Old and New Testament teachings on economic justice through the evolution of ancient economic orders and systems. While scriptural instructions address economies in the past, Rasell identifies consistent, recurring principles to construct a vision for a just economy today.
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Forgiveness and Reparation, the Healing Journey
Reparations is an element in a process of atonement and restorative justice that sees the need for acknowledgment of the damage done to the enslaved and colonized, healing and restoration of the lost humanity of the perpetrators, and repair of the violated relationships between the human and ecological victims and the human perpetrators.
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Letters to a Young Theologian
In this volume, Van der Westhuizen has assembled an outstanding and diverse array of theologians who offer their wisdom and reflection on what it means to be a theologian. Each contributor's brief letter considering the vocation is as unique as its author. Together the letters form a rich symphony on the art and craft of being a theologian.
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The Liberation of Method: The Ethics of Emancipatory Biblical Interpretation
The field of biblical studies has championed the historical-critical method as the only way to guarantee objective interpretation. But in recent decades, scholars have pursued hermeneutical approaches that provide interpretations useful for marginalized communities who see the Bible as a resource in their struggles against oppression. Such liberative strategies remain on the margins. The Liberation of Method argues that this marginality must end, and that liberative methods should become central to biblical studies.
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Pilgrim Letters: Instruction in the Basic Teaching of Christ
In Pilgrim Letters, Curtis Freeman takes disciples on a contemporary journey into an ancient faith. The volume comprises a series of letters written by "Interpreter" to "Pilgrim" that provide "instruction in the basic teaching of Christ" for candidates preparing to be baptized. In these letters, Freeman lays the building blocks for the life of a disciple. He blends historic Christian teaching with illustrations from literature to form a guide to belief and practice.
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Faith-Based Health Justice: Transforming Agendas of Faith Communities
In Faith-Based Health Justice, scholars mine critical insights into the promotion of health justice across Christian and Islamic faith traditions and beyond. Contributors consider what health justice might mean today, if developed in accordance with faith traditions whose commandment to care for the poor, ill, and marginalized lies at the core of their theology. And what kind of transformation would be needed in the face of the health justice challenges today?
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Open Wounds: A Story of Racial Tragedy, Trauma, and Redemption
On December 10, 1953, tragedy struck when Nathaniel Allen was murdered on the Sampit River by his white employer. Allen's death was recorded as an accidental drowning, a deliberate cover-up of the bullet hole seen by more than one witness.
Three generations later, Phil Allen Jr. revisits this harrowing story through interviews, difficult conversations, and deep theological reflection, naming racism for what it is and working to chart a path toward reconciliation.
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With Courage and Compassion: Women and the Ecumenical Movement
With Courage and Compassion celebrates the contributions of women to nations, societies, churches, and the ecumenical movement. While recounting the progressive stance the World Council of Churches has taken in recognizing the leadership and theological gifts of women, this book is honest about the many forms of exclusion and even violence against women in societies in the church and the ecumenical movement that persist. It calls for a transformation of unjust attitudes and systems.
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Shaking the Gates of Hell: Faith-Led Resistance to Corporate Globalization, Second Edition
Shaking the Gates of Hell: Faith-Led Resistance to Corporate Globalization, Second Edition breaks new ground by describing the global economy and its effects from the perspective of an integrated theology of "the earth as primary revelation" and the institutional powers of this world. It argues that hope lies in the direction of nonviolent resistance and ecological and social responsibility based on God's action in Jesus and in the triumph of God over the powers.
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Migration and Public Discourse in World Christianity
This volume identifies and address key topics in the discourse on world Christianity and migration. A combination of senior and emerging scholars and researchers of migration from all regions of the world contribute chapters on the central issue, including the feminization of international migration, the theology of migration, south-south migration networks, the connections between world Christianity, migration, and civic responsibility; and the complicated relationship between migration, identity and citizenship.
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Christian Understandings of Christ: The Historical Trajectory
David Jensen offers an engaging tour through more than two millennia of thought on Christ. From the earliest portrayals to contemporary Christologies, Jensen outlines the myriad beliefs, developments, and questions encompassing the attempts to understand Christianity’s most central—and most mysterious—figure.
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Theology and the Globalized Present: Feasting in the Future of God
Theology and the Globalized Present focuses on the world's future in God and God's creativeness. In response to a globalized economy that reconfigures time to the...
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