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Lutherans in America: A New History
In this lively and engaging new history, Granquist brings to light not only the institutions that Lutherans founded and sustained but the people that lived within them. This shows the complete story—not only the policies and the politics, but the piety and the practical experiences of the Lutheran men and women who lived and worked in the American context.
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The Trinitarian Controversy
This volume explores the development of the doctrine of the Trinity in the patristic church as a result of the Arian controversy.
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Where God Meets Man, 50th Anniversary Edition: Luther's Down-to-Earth Approach to the Gospel
The fundamental theme of this book is the "down-to-earth" character of Luther's theology in the hope that it will help individual Christians today to be both faithful to God and true to their human and social responsibilities. This 50th Anniversary Edition includes a preface by Marianna Forde and a new study guide by Bradley C. Jenson, created to encourage new readings and conversations about Forde's influential take on Luther, theology, and the church.
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Martin Luther, the Bible, and the Jewish People: A Reader
The place and significance of Martin Luther in the long history of Christian anti-Jewish polemic has been and continues to be a contested issue. It is true that Luther's...
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Thomas and the Thomists: The Achievement of Thomas Aquinas and His Interpreters
Thomas and the Thomists, a new volume in the Mapping the Tradition series, serves as an introduction to the life of Aquinas, the major contours of his teaching, and the lasting contribution he made to Christian thought. Romanus Cessario and Cajetan Cuddy also outline the history of the Thomist tradition—the great school of Aquinas’s interpreters—from the medieval era through the revival of the Thomist heritage in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume affords its readers a working guide to understanding the history of Aquinas and his expositors as well as to grasping their significance for us today.
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A Church Undone: Documents from the German Christian Faith Movement, 1932-1940
The Deutsche Christen, or "German Christians," a movement within German Protestantism, integrated Nazi ideology, nationalism, and Christian faith. For the first time in English, Mary M. Solberg presents a selection of 'German Christian' documents.
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Postmodernity and Univocity: A Critical Account of Radical Orthodoxy and John Duns Scotus
Nearly twenty-five years ago, John Milbank inaugurated Radical Orthodoxy, one of the most significant and influential theological movements of the last two decades. This volume conducts a comprehensive examination and critical analysis of Radical Orthodoxy's use and interpretation of John Duns Scotus.
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Treatise on Good Works: Luther Study Edition
Luther's transformational idea of justification by faith alone was often misunderstood and misrepresented in the early years of the Reformation. In 1520, with his...
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Liberating Lutheran Theology: Freedom for Justice and Solidarity in a Global Context
Spanning the continents, three internationally respected theologians demonstrate how the thought and legacy of Martin Luther can serve in an ecumenical and...
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The Making of Paul: Constructions of the Apostle in Early Christianity
The influence of the apostle Paul in early Christianity goes far beyond the reach of the seven genuine letters he wrote to early assemblies. Paul was...
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Virtues and Values: The African and African American Experience
This brief volume is excerpted from Peter Paris's popular and influential work The Spirituality of African Peoples on African and African American Spirituality....
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Mystics, Visionaries, and Prophets: A Historical Anthology of Women's Spiritual Writings
Winner of Catholic Press Association Book-of-the-Year Award—Spirituality
Unique in its range and depth, this lavish anthology for the first time...$39.00
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The Psalms through Three Thousand Years: Prayerbook of a Cloud of Witnesses
Until now, no book has conveniently combined treatment of the origins of the Psalms with attention to their Jewish and Christian use through history. William...
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Unstoppable: Norwegian Pioneers Educate Their Daughters
When Lutheran church leaders came from Norway in the middle of the nineteenth century, educational plans for each gender were based on deeply held beliefs about what a man was and what a woman was. Those arguments lived on in this country while pastors were deciding how to build institutions for their children. Now they lived in a new land and culture in a new era when the role of women was changing.
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The Perfectly Simple Triune God: Aquinas and His Legacy
The Perfectly Simple Triune God challenges this critique and reading of Aquinas as a misunderstanding of his doctrine of God.
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Engaging Bonhoeffer: The Impact and Influence of Bonhoeffer's Life and Thought
Engaging Bonhoeffer documents the extraordinary impact of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's life and writing on later thought. Despite his lasting legacy, little substantial scholarship has been conducted in this area. In this magisterial collection, leading international scholars fill this striking gap and critically demonstrate the ways in which Bonhoeffer has been one of the most inspirational writers of the twentieth century. In addition to shedding light on the different trajectories that Bonhoeffer's work may forge, Engaging Bonhoeffer offers a critical window through which to view the ideas of many leading theological voices.
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Sister Elisabeth Fedde: To Do the Lord's Will: Elizabeth Fedde and the Deaconess Movement Among the Norwegians in America
Elisabeth Fedde, a deaconess from Norway, answered a call in 1883 to come and help sick and indigent Norwegians in Brooklyn. Her story includes the history of the Lutheran Deaconess movement as it began in Germany, Norway and here, along with the struggles of American Lutherans as women began to take more public roles in society. This book tells what she suffered and how she struggled to make her dreams bear fruit.
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Thea Rønning: Young Woman on a Mission
Thea Rønning had a burning desire to minister to Chinese women whose lives by all accounts were filled with oppression and cruelty. This is the story of how she learned of the needs in China, the establishment of the mission society that sent her, and the Ladies Aids from whom she had to garner interest and support.
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The Church Struggle in South Africa: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
This widely acclaimed and influential volume by internationally noted theologian John de Gruchy is now available in a greatly revised and expanded 25th...
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Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings: Third Edition
The best one-volume reader of Luther's writings—now revised. Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings, a single-volume introduction to Luther's most influential...
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