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We Have Been Believers: An African American Systematic Theology, Second Edition
Seeking to overcome the chasm between church practice and theological reflection, James H. Evans Jr., a major and distinctive voice in American religion...
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The Practice of Prophetic Imagination: Preaching an Emancipating Word
Walter Brueggemann declares that the necessary character of truly prophetic preaching today is "a contestation between narratives." If the dominant narrative of our time...
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Issues in Contemporary Christian Thought: A Fortress Introduction
Duane Olson's new textbook uniquely focuses on the central points at issue in contemporary Christian reflection. Olson's clear and concise overview roots...
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Holy Conversation: Spirituality for Worship
Despite widespread interest in spirituality, its most common corporate form, congregational worship, is rarely discussed in those terms.
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Shaping the Claim: Moving from Text to Sermon
Shaping the Claim helps the preacher discover the core of the message to be preached—the sermonic "claim." In order to be effective, says...
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Creating a Healthier Church: Family Systems Theory, Leadership, and Congregational Life
Ronald W. Richardson helps us to understand how congregations function emotionally. Without being simplistic, he gives clear directions on how to improve...
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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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The Mystified Letter: How Medieval Theology Can Reenchant the Practice of Reading
Reading has become a problem--not just of attention, comprehension, or illiteracy rates, but of politics, society, and religion. The Mystified Letter offers an alternative to this malaise: a theology of reading centered on mystical encounter. It retrieves medieval Christian reading culture to build a case for a mystical theology of literature.
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Unborn Bodies: Resurrection and Reproductive Agency
The afterlife is often a concern during fragile moments of reproductive loss. The historical church ignored the death of unborn beings and the precarity of pregnancy, focusing more on the soul than the body. A new approach to eschatology is needed that upholds emerging unborn life and the pregnant believer's moral agency.
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Renewing New Testament Christology
This book redefines "New Testament Christology" as content and as the discipline explaining that content. Behind this dual redefinition stands one conviction: instead of perpetuating the view of Christology as a theologically informed history of early ideas about Christ.
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Injustice and the Care of Souls, Second Edition: Taking Oppression Seriously in Pastoral Care
Injustice and the Care of Souls, Second Edition, explores injustices in church and society and their impact on pastoral caregiving. The book offers pastoral and spiritual caregivers broader contexts, knowledge, and skills to respond effectively to marginalized people and to reflect on how their own social locations affect their work.
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Jesus the Refugee: Ancient Injustice and Modern Solidarity
The book argues that the holy family has a limited set of legal options for protection, but under current law is unlikely to receive any. Along with the basics of modern refugee law and processes, Butner raises ethical challenges to the refugee system, indicting our moral failures and daring us to make amends.
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Irrevocable: The Name of God and the Unity of the Christian Bible
Irrevocable focuses attention upon a crucial but often misunderstood feature of the Bible--God's personal proper name. Author R. Kendall Soulen explores the implications of God's proper name for Christian faith and for Christianity's relationship to Judaism and Islam.
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Miracle in Isaiah: Divine Marvel and Prophetic World
Isaiah is a miracle. Divine wonder can be found in its testimonies to God's communication with people, in reminders of God's acts long ago, in reports of God's acts of rescue of his people, in God's promised acts of restoration in the future, and in God's extraordinary acts toward other peoples. The extraordinary binds the prophecy together.
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The Primacy of Love
In an age of anxiety where reason is deified, what is the role of love? From the cosmological to the theological dimensions of existence, love is the irresistible force of attraction to the heart of God. The book is divided based on a metaphysics of love: we are born out of divine love, exist in love, and are oriented toward love.
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Who Rules the World: Divine Providence and the Existence of Evil
How is it possible to reconcile the manifest evil and pain in the world with the biblical promise of hope and redemption?
To this question, Schwarz brings both pastoral sensitivity and scholarly acumen. Informed by decades in the classroom, Schwarz offers a sweeping survey across the broad span of Christian history.
The book aims to help readers understand the broad sweep of human thought and make informed assessments of the issue for themselves.
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Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church (Second Edition)
Joy Unspeakable focuses on the aspects of the Black church that point beyond particular congregational gatherings toward a mystical and communal spirituality not within the exclusive domain of any denomination. Holmes's research--through oral histories, church records, and written accounts--details not only ways in which contemplative experience is built into African American collective worship but also the legacy of African monasticism, a history of spiritual exemplars, and unique meditative worship practices.
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Writing Theologically
In a collection of brief, readable essays, this volume emphasizes the vital skills, practices, and values involved in writing theologically. That is, how might students prepare themselves to communicate effectively, creatively, and beautifully, the insights they gather during their time in seminary?
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Exploring Practices of Ministry
The authors share their wisdom with seminarians and other readers seeking to deepen theological reflection and expand skills as ministry practitioners. This book is a companion journal for pilgrims on the way to becoming confident practitioners of ministry.
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Uncovering Spiritual Narratives: Using Story in Pastoral Care and Ministry
Drawing on both theological approaches and real life experiences, Coyle creates a contextual pastoral theology that helps caregivers find the power of God in people's stories.
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