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Playful, Glad, and Free: Karl Barth and a Theology of Popular Culture
This book offers a critical analysis and reinterpretation of Karl Barth's theology of culture--the least studied aspect of his work--revealing his significance for contemporary work in theology of culture by applying his approach to the study of popular culture and entertainment.
$59.00
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The Precious Gift: The Hymns, Carols, and Translations of Henry L. Lettermann
Henry L. Lettermann (1932-96) served as professor of English at Concordia Teachers College, River Forest, Illinois, from 1959 to 1988 where his talent for poetry became readily apparent. From 1979 to 1987 he served as a member and secretary of the Hymn Text and Music Committee which produced Lutheran Worship in 1982. His original texts, translations, and observations about the process of preparing this new hymnal provide fascinating insights.
$18.00
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Early Arabic Christian Contributions to Trinitarian Theology: The Development of the Doctrine of the Trinity in an Islamic Milieu
Ricks examines the exposition of the doctrine of the Trinity in a set of texts from key Arabic Christian thinkers from the eighth and ninth centuries.
$49.00
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The Interpreting Angel Motif in Prophetic and Apocalyptic Literature
Melvin traces the emergence and development of the motif of angelic interpretation of visions from late prophetic literature (Ezekiel 40-48; Zechariah 1-6) into early apocalyptic literature (1 Enoch 17-36; 72-82; Daniel 7-8).
$59.00
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Queering the Ethiopian Eunuch: Strategies of Ambiguity in Acts
As Sean D. Burke treats questions on the Ethiopian eunuch, he shows that eunuchs bore particular stereotyped associations regarding gender and sexual status as well as of race, ethnicity, and class.
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Resurrection as Anti-Imperial Gospel: 1 Thessalonians 1:9b-10 in Context
Pillar explores the evidence in Paul's letter and in aspects of the Roman imperial culture in Thessalonica in order to imagine what that proclamation of Jesus' resurrection would have evoked for its first hearers.
$69.00
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The Sign of the Gospel: Toward an Evangelical Doctrine of Infant Baptism after Karl Barth
A commanding volume for scholars and students in systematic theology, ecumenical studies, and sacramental theology.
$69.00
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We Are Who We Think We Were: Christian History and Christian Ethics
Conley calls into question the outdated historical methodologies in use in Christian social ethics and outlines the consequences stemming from them. By adopting the postmodern...
$59.00
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The Message of Jesus: John Dominic Crossan and Ben Witherington III in Dialogue
John Dominic Crossan and Ben Witherington III, along with a group of diverse scholars, explore points of agreement and disagreement on the message of Jesus.
$25.00
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Divine Eloquence and Human Transformation: Rethinking Scripture and History through Gregory of Nazianzus and Hans Frei
Ben Fulford argues for a densely historical and theological reading of scripture centered in a Christological rubric.
$59.00
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Models of Atonement: Speaking about Salvation in a Scientific World
Models of Atonement breaks new ground in the science-theology dialogue, going beyond questions about the doctrine of creation to speak about God's work of new creation through Christ in a world described by science. It discusses the concepts of original sin and the work of Christ which reconciles "all things" to God in ways that take seriously today's evolutionary and cosmic realities. It is a resource for proclaiming the Christian message in today's world.
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Tillich: A Brief Overview of the Life and Writings of Paul Tillich
Paul Tillich exercised a major influence on twentieth century Christian thought. In this brief introduction to his work, Dr. Daniel Peterson makes the case for Tillich's broader relevance again as a theologian who can take us beyond the extremes of fundamentalist religion and empty skepticism to a deeper religious faith or spiritual path open to doubt and questioning.
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Abraham Our Father: Paul and the Ancestors in Postcolonial Africa
Kamudzandu offers at last a model of multi-cultural Christianity forged in the experience of postcolonial Zimbabwe.
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August Crull and the Story of the Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book 1912
August Crull edited and compiled the first edition of the Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book (1889), thus playing a critical role in shaping the The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod as it transitioned from German to English. This study tells the story of Crull's pioneering labor in the formation of this seminal hymnal and documents the twenty-year journey to its final edition in 1912, which became the first, official English-language hymnal of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod.
$15.00
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1 and 2 Corinthians: Texts @ Contexts series
Subjects include race, identity, and privilege; ritual, food, and power; community, culture, and love.
$32.00
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eBook-Theologians in Their Own Words
Theologians in Their Own Words is a volume of 23 brief, straight-forward autobiographical statements from many of the most important theologians and scholars of religion of recent decades.
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Caiaphas The High Priest
Adele Reinhartz offers a thorough reconsideration of Caiaphas in the Gospels and other ancient texts as well as in subsequent visual arts, literature, film, and drama.
$39.00
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The Revised Common Lectionary: 20th Anniversary Annotated Edition
This edition includes the definitive list of RCL citations together with a new comprehensive introduction and notes to the reading sets, illuminating the origin and development of the lectionary...
$37.95
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Our Shared Witness: A Voice for Justice and Reconciliation
This collection of Munib A. Younan's writings, speeches, and sermons reveals his context, his perspective, and his hope. Readers will find his theology to be contextual deeply rooted in his daily reality as a Palestinian Christian while at the same time being universal, offering insights and principles that apply to other situations in vastly different parts of the world.
$24.00
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Dorothee Soelle - Mystic and Rebel: The Biography
Renate Wind has composed a well-researched and searching biography of Dorothee Soelle (1929-2003), who became a true religious provocateur...
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