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Memory and Covenant:The Role of Israel's and God's Memory in Sustaining the Deuteronomic and Priestly Covenants
Memory and Covenant applies new insights into the meaning and function of social memory to analyze the two major "religions" of the Pentateuch (D and P) and their relationship to one another.
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Waiting and Being: Creation, Freedom, and Grace in Western Theology
This volume traces out the problem of creation and grace in modern Catholic and Protestant dogmatics and provides a historical genealogy that situates the origin of the problem.
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Jewish-Christian Interpretation of the Pentateuch in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies
Carlson's interest is in the unusual theory expressed in the Homilies that the Pentateuch is saturated with "false pericopes," and that the teaching of Jesus is the criterion for establishing what the Pentateuch really means.
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Chosen Nations: Pursuit of the Kingdom of God and Its Influence on Democratic Values in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States
At the heart of the biblical myth of chosenness is the idea that God has blessed a people to be a blessing to others. It is a mission of solemn responsibility.
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Christ and Analogy: The Christocentric Metaphysics of Hans Urs von Balthasar
As one of the pillars of the nouvelle théologie movement, a main influence upon the Second Vatican Council,...
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Christ Crucified in a Suffering World: The Unity of Atonement and Liberation
Nathan Hieb gives an innovative study that bridges the boundaries of method, doctrine, and praxis, creating a strong theological and action-oriented relationship between systematic and liberation theology.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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Grace, Faith, and the Power of Singing: The Alma Christina Lind Swensson Story
The captivating biography of Alma Christina Lind Swensson will inspire every reader. Her work at Bethany College and Bethany Lutheran Church in Lindsborg, Kansas, demonstrated that women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries provided leadership in the church, both locally and nationally.
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Memoirs in Exile: Confessional Hope and Institutional Conflict
"John Tietjen's close account of the conflict within a Christian body moves with the skill, the drama, and the characterization of a novel. But there is no...
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Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings 2nd Ed.: Stand-alone CD-ROM
The best one-volume reader of Martin Luther's writings, this work has become the gold standard for use in seminary and college environments. It not only offers...
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A People's History of Christianity: Modern Christianity to 1900, Vol 6
After the Reformation, Christians found themselves living amidst wars of religion, Enlightenment, and colonization. This volume explores the spread of...
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