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Ascent into Heaven in Luke-Acts: New Explorations of Luke's Narrative Hinge
In Ascent into Heaven in Luke-Acts, leading scholars discuss the ancient, literary and theological contexts of the ascent-into-heaven accounts for the next generation of interpreters.
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A Dual Reception: Eusebius and the Gospel of Mark
This volume argues that Eusebius? proposes a double solution to the problem that can be read as recognizing the authority of both the Longer and the Abrupt conclusions to Mark?s Gospel.
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How Christianity Came to China: A Brief History
Foreign missionaries who served in China ran the gamut of Christians, with differing views of their religion and differing ideas of how to spread it. When all foreign missionaries were forced to leave China in 1949 many thought their effort had been in vain. Yet some scholars predict that soon China will be the country with the largest Christian population in the world. Kathleen L. Lodwick tells the story of Christianity in China. It's essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the contemporary phenomena that is Christianity in China.
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Encountering Reality: T. F. Torrance on Truth and Human Understanding
Encountering Reality argues for a new appreciation of T. F. Torrance on epistemology and reality. Torrance emphasizes the distinction between truth and truthfulness, thereby reorienting the discussion from a focus on statements to a focus on being.
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Athanasius and the Holy Spirit: The Development of His Early Pneumatology
Kevin Douglas Hill looks at his earlier writing and argues that without that earlier work he would not have been prepared to confess the Holy Spirit’s divine nature and role in creating the world.
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The Vocation of Lutheran Higher Education
Through rich discussions at the annual Vocation of a Lutheran College Conference and robust debate within the journal Intersections, many now agree that, at best, ELCA colleges and universities principally educate students so that they can discern the material, social, and spiritual needs of others and then respond with committed service and out of a sense of gratitute. In short, the vocation of Lutheran higher education is to educate for vocation.
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A Generous Symphony: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Literary Revelations
A Generous Symphony offers an appraisal of Balthasar’s literary achievement and explicates his literary criticism as a distinctive theology of revelation.
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Early Christianity in Pompeian Light: People, Texts, Situations
The essays of this book explore different dimensions of Pompeii's potential to refine our lenses for interpreting the texts and situations of early Christianity.
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Love Itself is Understanding: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theology of the Saints
Matthew Rothaus Moser presents Balthasar as an alternative to Idealist philosophy, a thinker who develops a religious metaphysics in which the saints’ practices of prayer and contemplation are the chief mode of knowing that the Truth of Being is divine love.
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Divine Wrath and Salvation in Matthew: The Narrative World of the First Gospel
Anders Runesson sets out to show, through careful study of Matthew's composition and comparison with contemporary Jewish literature, that the theme of divine judgment plays very different and distinct roles regarding diverse groups of Jews (including Jesus' disciples) and non-Jews in this Gospel.
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Christian Understandings of Evil: The Historical Trajectory
Charlene Burns offers a brief but thorough tour through more than two millennia of thought on the nature of evil. Starting with the contexts of the Hebrew Bible and moving forward, Burns outlines the many ways that Christian thought has attempted to deal with the reality of evil and suffering.
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Christian Understandings of the Future: The Historical Trajectory
With engaging sketches of the book of Daniel to contemporary America, Amy Frykholm offers a tour through more than two millennia of Christian thought on the future. Frykholm outlines the enduring fascination believers have had for future events and the myriad ways they have articulated their beliefs about what the future holds.
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Insights from Filmmaking for Analyzing Biblical Narrative
In this volume, Gary Yamasaki develops an innovative approach to biblical narrative, exploring the way stories are treated in filmmaking, and using that as a...
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Ethical Self: Christology, Ethics, and Formation
This volume argues that Bonhoeffer’s early work, particularly his Christocentric anthropology, grounds his later expressed commitments to responsibility and faithfulness in a “world come of age."
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Comparing Judaism and Christianity: Common Judaism, Paul, and the Inner and the Outer in Ancient Religion
Few scholars have so shaped the contemporary debate on the relation of early Christianity to early Judaism as E. P. Sanders, and no one has produced a clearer or more distinctive vision of that relationship as it was expressed in the figure of Paul the apostle.
$39.00
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Islam: What Non-Muslims Should Know, Revised & Expanded Edition
This revised and expanded edition of a trusted text offers updated information about Islam in an accessible and sympathetic presentation. Kaltner presents Islam as first and foremost a religion of practices. Showing the deep humanism of Islam and its most cherished commitments, Kaltner corrects many misconceptions about Islam.
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The End of Theology: Shaping Theology for the Sake of Mission
The End of Theology highlights perspectives of contextual and systematic theology, as well as missiology, world Christianity and history, biblical studies and hermeneutics, ethnography, pastoral practice, and social justice.
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Third Article Theology: A Pneumatological Dogmatics
Third Article Theology (TAT) is the name given to a new movement in constructive theology utilizing a distinctly pneumatological approach to dogmatics. Trinitarian in its foundation, pneumatological in its impetus, and comprehensive in its scope, TAT specifies both a method and a theology.
$59.00
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Horror and Its Aftermath: Reconsidering Theology and Human Experience
Theological anthropology often brings psychology to bear on the contingent nature of human existence in relationship to God. In this volume, Sally Stamper articulates one modern trajectory of theological recourse to psychology. . .
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Apocalypses in Context: Apocalyptic Currents through History
Academic interest in apocalypticism is flourishing; indeed, the study of both ancient and contemporary apocalyptic phenomena has long been a focus of attention in scholarly research and a ready way to engage the religious studies classroom. Apocalypses in Context is designed for just such a classroom.
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