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Silence and Praise: Rhetorical Cosmology and Political Theology in the Book of Revelation
Cosmology is a central focus in John's Apocalypse, Ryan Leif Hansen argues, but not in the sense that John envisions a stable cosmos. Rather, John employs cosmological themes for persuasive purposes that include a critique of Roman imperial cultic discourse.
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Teaching All Nations: Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission
That Christian missionary efforts have long gone hand-in-hand with European colonization and American imperialist expansion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is well recognized. The "Great Commission" has more often been observed than analyzed, however.
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Partakers of the Divine: Contemplation and the Practice of Philosophy
Partakers of the Divine shows that Christian philosophical and contemplative practices arose together and that throughout much of Christian history, philosophy, theology, and contemplation remained internal to one another.
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Newman and Life in the Spirit: Theological Reflections on Spirituality for Today
Newman and Life in the Spirit collects essays from leading theologians and scholars examining the theology and spirituality of one of the most important and beloved nineteenth century theologians, the recently beatified John Henry Newman.
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Rumors of Resistance: Status Reversals and Hidden Transcripts in the Gospel of Luke
In Rumors of Resistance, Amanda C. Miller uses Scott's theory to explain tensions within the narrative of the Gospel of Luke, between more accommodationist narratives and poetic or parabolic passages that announce a dramatic eschatological reversal.
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Practices of Power: Revisiting the Principalities and Powers in the Pauline Letters
Robert Ewusie Moses traces the distinct function of "power-practices" in each of Paul's letters and draws illuminating comparisons with traditional African religious practices.
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The Spirit of God and the Christian Life: Reconstructing Karl Barth's Pneumatology
JinHyok Kim challenges this prevailing paradigm, reconstructing Barth's pneumatology and proposing the possible contours it would have taken in the final volumes of Church Dogmatics left incomplete at Barth's death.
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Re-Visioning the Church: An Experiment in Systematic-Historical Ecclesiology
Establishing a critical framework for understanding the structures of the church, the work explores the religious, cultural, and social dimensions of what it means to be the church and what structures and ministries form the foundation of ecclesial life.
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Abraham in the Works of John Chrysostom
The first comprehensive examination of John Chrysostom's view of the patriarch Abraham. Tonias reveals the ways in which Chrysostom used Abraham as a model of philosophical and Christian virtue, familial devotion, philanthropy, and obedient faith.
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The Figure of Adam in Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15: The New Creation and Its Ethical and Social Reconfiguration
Felipe Legarreta gives careful attention to patterns of exegesis in Second-Temple Judaism and identifies, for the first time, a number of motifs by which Jews drew ethical implications from the story of Adam and his expulsion from Eden.
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Christ the Miracle Worker in Early Christian Art
Images of Christ performing miracles or healings functioned as advertisements for Christianity and illustrated the nature of Christ.
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Extremist for Love: Martin Luther King Jr., Man of Ideas and Nonviolent Social Action
Martin Luther King Junior is a rare mix of the deeply profound thinker and intellect who put the fruit of that reflection into the service of direct social action.
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Embodied Words, Spoken Signs: Sacramentality and the Word in Rahner and Chauvet
Rhodora Beaton examines the work of Rahner and Chauvet to articulate the relationship between word and sacrament within the context of language, culture, and an already graced world as the place of divine self-expression, and analyzes the implications for Trinitarian theology, sacramentality, liturgy, and action.
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Fullness Received and Returned: Trinity and Participation in Jonathan Edwards
Seng-Kong Tan argues that human participation in the divine--a classical theological axiom most notably associated with the Eastern Orthodox tradition--is a central theme in the theology of Jonathan Edwards.
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Augustine on War and Military Service
Philip Wynn uncovers a nuanced story of Augustine's thoughts on war and military service, and gives us a more complete and complex picture of this important topic.
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Embedded Grace: Christ, History, and the Reign of God in Schleiermacher's Dogmatics
The author takes up the coordination of grace and history in Schleiermacher, arguing for its significance in understanding the dynamics of Schleiermacher's dogmatics and its grounding and realization in Christology.
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eBook-Introduction to the History of Christianity: Second Edition
Combining the accuracy and readability of the first edition of this highly acclaimed text, Dowley has enhanced the second edition with new contributions.
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eBook-A Study Companion to Introduction to the History of Christianity: Second Edition
The Study Companion is a valuable additional resource for introductory courses in church history that use Tim Dowley's popular Introduction to the History of Christianity.
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Esther and the Politics of Negotiation: Public and Private Spaces and the Figure of the Female Royal Counselor
Hancock's attention to the narrative of Esther and comparison with Hellenistic and Persian historiography depicting "wise women" acting in royal contexts reveals that Esther is in fact representative of a wider tradition.
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Judgment According to Works in Romans: The Meaning and Function of Divine Judgment in Paul's Most Important Letter
In his letter to the Romans, Paul opposes justification by works of law, but simultaneously affirms--as did most of the early Christian movement, McFadden argues--a final judgment according to works.
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