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A Revolutionary Jesus: Violence and Peacemaking in the Kingdom of God
This book demonstrates that Jesus's rejection of violence and emphasis on peacemaking were central to the eschatological nature of his ministry of proclaiming and inaugurating the kingdom of God. To follow Jesus's teaching and example is to completely disassociate violence from the character of both the kingdom and all who belong to it.
$36.00
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When the Spirit Is Your Inheritance: Reflections on Borderlands Pentecostalism
This book explores Latino Pentecostal racial identity by focusing on lived religious practices, sociological insights, and grounded theological reflection. Jonthan Calvillo addresses issues of immigration, Latinidad, anti-Black racism, and economic justice by presenting cross-generational snapshots of belonging in the United States.
$29.00
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Trauma-Informed Spiritual Care: Interventions for Safety, Meaning, Reconnection, and Justice
Tumminio Hansen offers a dynamic exploration of how trauma affects the spiritual lives of sufferers both individually and collectively. Blending cutting-edge research in both theology and psychology, she offers targeted interventions that caregivers can use to both ease pain and provide hope.
$30.00
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Historicism and Its Problems: The Logical Problem of the Philosophy of History
In this volume, Ernst Troeltsch embraces historical relativity while rejecting historical relativism, and thereby provides a model for the philosophy of history. The volume remains as relevant as it was in 1923.
$89.00
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We Have Plenty: A Womanist Theology of Communal Abundance for the Black Church
In We Have Plenty, Lorena Parrish traces the history of theologies of prosperity, the ways such theologies appear in the Black church, and the unique harms for Black women and communities. Parrish then offers a womanist way forward, a moral imagination for just social relations, Jesus-centered economic ethics, and Black communal thriving.
$35.00
Available January 21, 2025
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Desirable Belief: A Theology of Eros
This book offers an analysis of erotic love in the Bible, patristic theology, mystical writings, philosophy, and literature. Eschewing hyper-conservative shaming of lust and overly optimistic views of eros as sacred and liberating, the book demonstrates how eros illuminates core Christian beliefs about Jesus Christ, the afterlife, and the Trinity.
$45.00
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Shared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling, Revised and Expanded 20th Anniversary Edition
For twenty years, educators, caregivers, psychotherapists, and theologians have turned to Pamela Cooper-White's Shared Wisdom on the dynamics between caregivers and care seekers. Now, Cooper-White updates her groundbreaking book to present new insights on how understanding one's own emotional reactions remains a core competency for ministry.
$35.00
Available November 19, 2024
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Poverty in the Promised Land: Neighborliness, Resistance, and Restoration
Jesus said, "The poor will always be with you." While this has proven true, Walter Brueggemann challenges systemic and structural ways poverty is reproduced by pointing beyond charity and benevolence to the power of neighborliness as poverty's antidotes.
$19.00
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The Promise of Ecumenical Interpretation: Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox
The Promise of Ecumenical Interpretation achieves its ecumenical goals by returning to the unifying force of the Bible itself. The authors--one Protestant, one Catholic, one Orthodox--agree that consensus about the Bible is tied to the centrality of the Bible for the individual believer and the life of the church.
$45.00
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Healing Affluenza and Resisting Plutocracy: Luke's Jesus and Sabbath Economics
Myers offers fresh socio-literary analysis of, and engaged commentary on, the Third Gospel. He shows how, amid our modern crisis of socioeconomic disparity, Luke's vision of Sabbath Economics can build social imagination among communities of faith and justice and animate personal and political practices of systemic change.
$45.00
Available January 21, 2025
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Face to Face: Martin Luther's View of Reality
Kolb explores Luther's use of the Latin preposition coram - "face-to-face" - to demonstrate the foundational role of relationships in Luther's thought. For Luther, believers, fundamentally rooted in their relationship with the Creator of every person and thing, experience all of life's realities in relationship: with God, self, and others.
$39.00
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Old Words for a New World
Brueggemann moves between a description of the reality that appears in front of the church and the alternative that God is preparing for God's people that begins now and moves into God's eschatological future. In so doing, Brueggemann seeks to unleash the power of God's words to create a new world--here and now.
$28.00
Available February 4, 2025
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Nobody's Perfect: Redefining Sin and Mistakes in Adolescent Christian Education
Cynthia L. Cameron, Lakisha R. Lockhart-Rusch, and Emily A. Peck argue that some adolescents have the privilege to make mistakes in ways that others often do not. In Nobody's Perfect, the editors offer a curated volume that affirms adolescents as fundamentally good and presents pathways that help youth distinguish mistakes from sin.
$35.00
Available February 25, 2025
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Living Out of Control: Political and Personal Faith in Waning Christendom
Living Out of Control is an exploration of how American Christians can respond to our political situation amid waning Christendom. Clapp depicts how we may now live as Christians without the reassertion of Christendom. The book offers hopeful chapters on prefigurative politics, the Christian anarchic tendency, friendship, and resonance.
$25.00
Available February 18, 2025
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Meeting the Enemy: The Fossil Fuel Industry and the Power of Christian Climate Resistance
The catastrophic effects of climate change are overwhelming. What can we do? Who is responsible? In the tradition of Walter Wink, O'Brien reminds us that Christians have the power to name and oppose the enemies of God's creation. The fossil fuel industry is our enemy. We can confront this evil power and build a more faithful future.
$35.00
Available February 18, 2025
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Agapic Anger: Influencing Change While Navigating Gender
Christian culture often treats anger as problematic, conditioning women and gender-diverse people to act in ways that make others feel secure. If these groups do display anger, only constricted expressions like sadness seem acceptable. Jan R. Schnell argues that communities benefit when people fully explore anger as a vital part of vocation.
$29.00
Available February 25, 2025
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The Kingdom Among Us: The Gospel According to Dallas Willard
The Kingdom Among Us presents a comprehensive account of Dallas Willard's theology. By examining Willard's writings and hundreds of hours of audio recordings, Michael Stewart Robb both recovers and expands Willard's theological vision of the kingdom among us. Readers will encounter a complete picture of one of the giants of modern spirituality.
$49.00
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The Empathic God: A Clinical Theology of At-Onement
In The Empathic God, Frank Woggon constructs a clinical theology of "at-onement." Woggon calls for a caring participation in God's ongoing work of salvation through a praxis of spiritual care. The book will help practitioners and students of spiritual care as well as clergy to critically reflect on where spiritual care practice and theology meet.
$39.00
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A Rumor of Black Lutherans: The Formation of Black Leadership in Early American Lutheranism
The history of Lutheran engagement in the Black context in the US is regrettably thin. This book helps Lutherans in the United States, and other students of American history, assemble a complete account of the role of early American Lutherans in higher education among African Americans.
$24.00
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Ruptured Bodies: A Theology of the Church Divided
Ruptured Bodies is a systematic theological account of the divided church. It argues that no ecclesiology can ignore division, because in doing so, it fails to describe the church that actually is. Such an understanding must integrate the reality of division, while refusing to blunt its sharp edge.
$39.00
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