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Mission and Menace: Four Centuries of American Religious Zeal
Observing that Abraham Lincoln once described the United States as an "almost chosen nation," Robert Jewett offers a critical survey of the history of...
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Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature
Even as public interest is attracted to this esoteric religion, Escholars have debated its origins, its relationship to Judaism and Christianity, and even...
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The Horrors We Bless: Rethinking the Just-War Legacy
Is war inevitable? Is it so woven into the fabric of our being that it always was and always will be? "Early Christians," says Maguire, "were...
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Keeping the Faith: Essays to Mark the Centenary of Lux Mundi
In 1889 eleven Oxford dons prepared a volume of essays aimed at expounding "the Christian Creed" in a manner that "put the Catholic faith into its...
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When Children Became People: The Birth of Childhood in Early Christianity
Bakke paints a fascinating picture of children's first real emergence as people against a backdrop of the ancient world. Using theological and social history...
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Blow the Trumpet in Zion!: Global Vision and Action for the Twenty-First-Century Black Church
This volume's contributors — dynamic and progressive African American church leaders — advocate the prophetic powers of black theology, preaching, and...
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Face to Face: Portraits of the Divine in Early Christianity
Examining how God and eventually Christ are portrayed in early Christian art, Jensen explores questions of the relationship between art and theology, conflicts...
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Does the Bible Justify Violence?
Renowned biblical scholar John J. Collins asks tough questions about the relationship between the portrayals of violence in the Bible and how they have been...
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The God You Have: Politics, Religion, and the First Commandment
In this bracing call to serious thought, esteemed biblical theologian Patrick Miller looks to the First Commandment in the fight against the misappropriation of...
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From Paul to Valentinus: Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries
In this pathbreaking study of the rise and shape of the earliest churches in Rome, Lampe integrates history, archaeology, theology, and social analysis. He...
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God: A Brief History
This brief tour through three thousand years of religious history shows how the Christian doctrine of God evolved in response to tensions within the insights of...
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From Symposium to Eucharist: The Banquet in the Early Christian World
Table fellowship in the ancient Mediterranean was more than food consumption. From Plato on down, banquets held an important place in creating community,...
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The Bible and African Americans: A Brief History
The unique encounter of African Americans with the Bible has shaped centuries of spirituality and social engagement of a whole continent. Highly respected...
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The Sayings of Jesus: The Sayings Gospel Q in English
Presenting the Sayings Gospel Q succinctly. Taking the English text from the International Q Project's authoritative The Critical Edition of Q (Fortress...
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Christians in Society: Luther, the Bible, and Social Ethics
Disagreement on ethical issues overlays a lack of consensus today on even deeper issues of method and authority in ethics. Yet a major ecumenical resource and...
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The Religion of the Earliest Churches: Creating a Symbolic World
In these distinguished Oxford lectures, Theissen picks up where he left off in The Historical Jesus (1998). Employing the notion of religion as a...
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Mary: Glimpses of the Mother of Jesus
In this lucid account of Jesus' mother, Gaventa emphasizes a literary approach, addressing in turn: Matthew, Luke-Acts, John, and the second-century work, ...
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Varieties of African American Religious Experience
Anthony Pinn's engrossing survey highlights the rich diversity of black religious life in America, revealing manifestations of an ever-changing black...
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The Study of Anglicanism: Revised Edition
In this authoritative volume, thirty-one of the world's leading Anglican scholars present the first sustained and thorough account of the history and ethos...
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The Burden of the Flesh: Fasting and Sexuality in Early Christianity
Shaw's rich and fascinating work provides a startling look at early Christian notions of the body--diet, sexuality, the passions, and especially the ideal of...
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