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The Rape of Eve: The Transformation of Roman Ideology in Three Early Christian Retellings of Genesis
In this surprising work, Celene Lillie examines core passages from three texts from Nag Hammadi, On the Origin of the World, The Reality of the Rulers, and the Secret Revelation of John, in which Eve is portrayed as having been humiliated by the cosmic powers, yet experiencing restoration.
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Existing Before God: Søren Kierkegaard and the Human Venture
Existing Before God introduces readers to one of the most important nineteenth century Christian thinkers, Søren Kierkegaard. In this volume, Paul R. Sponheim, unfolds Kierkegaard's Sickness unto Death— a key text outlining the problem of the human condition and the paradoxical heart of authentic Christian faith, the qualitative difference between God and creatures and its synthesis in the God-man. Sponheim also draws out the connections between this text and Kierkegaard's larger theological and ethical vision, and the reception and significance of this text in the modern and contemporary theological tradition.
$39.00
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The Tenderness of God
Capitalizing on the legacy of Francis and Clare and the energy of a visionary pope who raises critical questions about how to be faithful to the gospel, The Tenderness of God invites readers into a rich conversation across time and space about how to recapture our humanity and nurture our God-given capacity to live meaningfully and joyfully in communion with others.
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Bound Choice, Election, and Wittenberg Theological Method: From Martin Luther to the Formula of Concord
Galvanized by Erasmus' teaching on free will, Martin Luther wrote De servo arbitrio, or The Bondage of the Will, insisting that the sinful human will could not turn itself to God. In this first study to investigate the sixteenth-century reception of De servo, Robert Kolb unpacks Luther's theology and recounts his followers' ensuing disputes until their resolution in the Lutheran churches' 1577 Formula of Concord.
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A Time for Confessing
This book is about faithful witnesses—from the Reformation to South African apartheid to Bonhoeffer—to the promise of Jesus Christ. Even in the midst of trials, these faithful followers have testified that the gospel is authority enough for the church's life and unity.
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Luther’s Liturgical Music: Principles and Implications
Martin Luther's relationship to music has been largely downplayed, yet music played a vital role in Luther's life—and he in turn had a deep and lasting effect on Christian hymnody. In Luther's Liturgical Music Robin Leaver comprehensively explores these connections. Replete with tables, figures, and musical examples, this volume is the most extensive study on Luther and music ever published. Leaver's work makes a formidable contribution to Reformation studies, but worship leaders, musicians, and others will also find it an invaluable, very readable resource.
$59.00
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A Dual Reception: Eusebius and the Gospel of Mark
This volume argues that Eusebius? proposes a double solution to the problem that can be read as recognizing the authority of both the Longer and the Abrupt conclusions to Mark?s Gospel.
$49.00
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How Christianity Came to China: A Brief History
Foreign missionaries who served in China ran the gamut of Christians, with differing views of their religion and differing ideas of how to spread it. When all foreign missionaries were forced to leave China in 1949 many thought their effort had been in vain. Yet some scholars predict that soon China will be the country with the largest Christian population in the world. Kathleen L. Lodwick tells the story of Christianity in China. It's essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the contemporary phenomena that is Christianity in China.
$29.00
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Athanasius and the Holy Spirit: The Development of His Early Pneumatology
Kevin Douglas Hill looks at his earlier writing and argues that without that earlier work he would not have been prepared to confess the Holy Spirit’s divine nature and role in creating the world.
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A Generous Symphony: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Literary Revelations
A Generous Symphony offers an appraisal of Balthasar’s literary achievement and explicates his literary criticism as a distinctive theology of revelation.
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Early Christianity in Pompeian Light: People, Texts, Situations
The essays of this book explore different dimensions of Pompeii's potential to refine our lenses for interpreting the texts and situations of early Christianity.
$49.00
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Christian Understandings of the Future: The Historical Trajectory
With engaging sketches of the book of Daniel to contemporary America, Amy Frykholm offers a tour through more than two millennia of Christian thought on the future. Frykholm outlines the enduring fascination believers have had for future events and the myriad ways they have articulated their beliefs about what the future holds.
$24.00
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Comparing Judaism and Christianity: Common Judaism, Paul, and the Inner and the Outer in Ancient Religion
Few scholars have so shaped the contemporary debate on the relation of early Christianity to early Judaism as E. P. Sanders, and no one has produced a clearer or more distinctive vision of that relationship as it was expressed in the figure of Paul the apostle.
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Islam: What Non-Muslims Should Know, Revised & Expanded Edition
This revised and expanded edition of a trusted text offers updated information about Islam in an accessible and sympathetic presentation. Kaltner presents Islam as first and foremost a religion of practices. Showing the deep humanism of Islam and its most cherished commitments, Kaltner corrects many misconceptions about Islam.
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The Norwegian Synod 1853-1917: A Short History of a Premier Predecessor Church Body
This is the story of early organized Lutheranism of Norwegian background in America. It is an intriguing account of God's very capable pioneer servants. They founded congregations, built institutions, cared for the needy, instructed their people, sponsored mission work, and engaged their adversaries in controversy. Amazingly, these servant leaders did many things right. Humanly, several mistakes were made. The end result was that, with the grace of God, their work was highly effective.
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Gift and Promise: The Augsburg Confession and the Heart of Christian Theology
Gift and Promise shows how the theology of the Augsburg Confession presents the Gospel Promise as a gift for the world today.
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On the Road to Vatican II: German Catholic Enlightenment and Reform of the Church
Since some of the most important Catholic Enlighteners lived in Germany, this book concentrates on their endeavors, but also frequently points to other European players. Only an unpolemical historical assessment of the Catholic Enlightenment can help us to get out of the current gridlock of interpreting Vatican II: was there a break with tradition, or was there continuity?
$49.00
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The Holy One in Our Midst: An Essay on the Flesh of Christ
The Holy One in Our Midst: An Essay on the Flesh of Christ aims to defend the doctrine of the extra Calvinisticum?the doctrine that maintains the Son of God was not restricted to the flesh of Christ during the incarnation. . .
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The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, 1520: The Annotated Luther Study Edition
In his The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, Martin Luther set forth a reconsideration of the sacramental Christian life that centered on the word. His thesis is that the papacy had distorted the sacraments with its own traditions and regulations, transforming them into a system of control and coercion.
$16.99
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The Bondage of the Will, 1525 (abridged): The Annotated Luther Study Edition
In autumn 1525, Luther wrote The Bondage of the Will as a response to humanist and theologian Erasmus of Rotterdam, who had criticized Luther's teachings in the diatribe On Free Will. Luther's argument on the matter of the bound and free will poses a challenge and an invitation for constructive contemporary theology.
$25.00
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