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The Jewish Pseudepigrapha: An Introduction to the Literature of the Second Temple Period
Designed with the beginning student in mind, this volume introduces the reader to the books that did not make it into the Bible or the Apocrypha but that remained popular among Jews and early Christians for centuries.
$49.00
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The Divine in Acts and in Ancient Historiography
In this excellent book, Scott Shauf compares the portrayal of the divine in Acts with portrayals of the divine in other ancient historiographical writings.
$49.00
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Jesus' Sermon on the Mount: Mandating a Better Righteousness
Through careful attention to the structure of Matthew's Gospel and the place of the Sermon within it, keen sensitivity to the patterns and themes of Israelite prophecy, and judicious comparisons with other Jewish and rabbinic literature, Jack R. Lundbom elucidates the meaning of the Sermon and its continuity with Israel's prophetic heritage as well as the best of Jewish teaching. By deft appeal to Christian commentators on the Sermon, Lundbom brings its most important themes to life for the contemporary reader.
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Viva Vox: Rediscovering the Sacramentality of the Word through the Annunciation
In failing to take the sacramentality of the word of God seriously, the preaching of the church has suffered negative consequences, particularly failing to bring about divine participation with Jesus' corporeal humanity in his living word. In order to recover this sacramental reality, this volume argues that one should consider the annunciation to Mary as the paradigm of the corporeal Christ taking up residence in the flesh of his hearer and delivering the fullness of the Godhead.
$59.00
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Portrait of the Kings: The Davidic Prototype in Deuteronomistic Poetics
By examining the narrative techniques used in the Deuteronomistic History to portray Israel's kings, Joseph offers a deepened understanding of the worldview and theology of this important biblical work.
$39.00
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The Sense of the Universe: Philosophical Explication of Theological Commitment in Modern Cosmology
This book proposes a new approach to the dialogue between science and theology based in a thorough philosophical analysis of acting forms of subjectivity involved in the study of the world and in religious experience. The book contributes to the synthesis of appropriation and incorporation of modern philosophical ideas in Christian theology, in particular its Eastern Orthodox form.
$59.00
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Hezekiah and the Dialogue of Memory
Examining the different accounts of Hezekiah's reign in 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, and Isaiah, Song-Mi Suzie Park describes a "Hezekiah complex" in which the king served as a symbol for the vicissitudes of Judah's history.
$59.00
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Antiochene Theōria in the Writings of Theodore of Mopsuestia and Theodoret of Cyrus
This work uncovers rich distinctives in the Syrian Antioch school and the school of Alexandria's approach that apply deeply to modern interpretive questions.
$69.00
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The Power and Vulnerability of Love: A Theological Anthropology
Gandolfo constructs a theological anthropology that begins with the condition of human vulnerability as a site to answer why human beings experience and inflict terrible suffering. This volume argues that vulnerability is a dimension of human existence that causes us great anxiety, which forms the basis for violence but also affords the possibility of human openness to the redemptive work of divine love.
$39.00
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The Transformative Church: New Ecclesial Models and the Theology of Jürgen Moltmann
Throughout the course of his theological career, Moltmann has been interested in the ecclesial and societal consequences of systematic theology and what each doctrine means for our life in this world. This book explores these concerns in Moltmann?s major texts and highlighs themes relevant for a transformative ecclesiology.
$69.00
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Repentance at Qumran: The Penitential Framework of Religious Experience in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Mark A. Jason offers a detailed investigation of the place of repentance in the Dead Sea Scrolls, addressing a significant lacuna in Qumran scholarship. Jason establishes the importance of repentance as a fundamental way of structuring and describing religious experience within the Qumran community, lacuna, Pseudepigrapha, daily life in ancient Judea
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Cleansed Lepers, Cleansed Hearts: Purity and Healing in Luke-Acts
Pamela Shellberg shows that Luke's use of the language of "clean" and "unclean" has particular first-century medical connotations that make it especially powerful for expressing his understanding of the universal salvation prophesied by Isaiah and by Jesus.
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Christian Doctrine and the Grammar of Difference: A Contribution to Feminist Systematic Theology
McRandal argues that the doctrinal narrative of creation, fall, and redemption provides resources to resolve the theological impasse of difference in contemporary feminist theology.
$59.00
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Effective Social Learning: A Collaborative, Globally-Networked Pedagogy
Here Nathan Loewen moves beyond surface questions about technology in the classroom to a problem best addressed by educators in bricks-and-mortar institutions: if students are social learners, how do we teach in a way that promotes actual dialogue for learning?
$24.00
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Environment, Economy, and Christian Ethics: Alternative Views on Christians and Markets
Economist Alistair Young argues that environmental policy raises important ethical and theological issues around uncertainty, inequality the rights of traditional communities, and the obligation to respect nonhuman creation.
$39.00
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Genealogies of New Testament Rhetorical Criticism
Rhetorical criticism is now an established discipline in New Testament interpretation, but "rhetorical criticism" means very different things to different practitioners. This book gathers critical appreciations of five pioneers of rhetorical criticism and responses from the pioneers themselves or their representatives, along with an evaluation of 'the rhetoric of rhetorical criticism."
$59.00
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Creativity as Sacrifice: Toward a Theological Model for Creativity in the Arts
This book argues for a theological methodology in engaging the arts and puts forward a theological model for understanding human creativity in the light of Jesus' sacrificial redemption.
$59.00
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Forgiveness and Reintegration: How the transformative process of forgiveness impacts child soldier reintegration
Children were both victims and perpetrators of horrendous crimes during Sierra Leone's ten-year civil war, which ended in 2002. Forgiveness and Reintigration examines forgiveness and reintegration from psychological, theological, philosophical and anthropological perspectives and asks if forgiveness can facilitate reintegration for former child soldiers.
$22.99
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Exploring Church History
Derek Cooper invites readers to consider the purpose and significance of church history in the lives of individuals and communities today. Cooper brings history to life by emphasizing how past events, individuals, and movements shape how we understand the world around us.
$19.00
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The Making of Modern English Theology: God and the Academy at Oxford, 1833-1945
This book is the first historical account of theology's modern institutional origins in the United Kingdom. It explores how Oxford theology, from the beginnings of the Tractarian movement until the end of the Second World War, both influenced and responded to the reform of the university.
$34.00
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