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Early Christian Spirituality: Sources of Early Christian Thought
These freshly translated documents cover the main trends of Christian spirituality from the second to the seventh centuries
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The Art of Empire: Christian Art in Its Imperial Context
The Art of Empire contends that the art and imagery of Late Antiquity requires a deeper understanding of the context of the imperial period before and after Constantine.
$49.00
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Sarah Coakley and the Future of Systematic Theology
Sarah Coakley is one of the most exciting and creative figures in contemporary theology, forwarding an integrated vision that coheres around the mystical and contemplative core of Christian experience. This volume brings together, around Coakley’s work, a gathering of established and emerging scholars and asks critical questions of Coakley’s systematic theology.
$79.00
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The Impassioned Life: Reason and Emotion in the Christian Tradition
The Impassioned Life argues that theology’s task today is to rethink the nature of emotions and their relation to human reason. At heart, this volume offers a holistic vision of the Christian life lived passionately in its full range of feeling as life in the Spirit.
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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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Messianic Exegesis: Christological Interpretation of the Old Test. in Early Christianity
Professor Juel defends a simple thesis: "The beginnings of Christian reflection can be traced to interpretation of Israel's scriptures, and the major focus...
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The Ancient Church as Family
The author explores the literature of the first three centuries of the church in terms of group identity and formation as surrogate kinship. Why did this...
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The Messiah: Developments in Earliest Judaism and Christianity
How did the Jews from 250 B.C.E. to 200 C.E. conceive and express their beliefs in the coming of God's Messiah? Why did the Jews closely associated with Jesus...
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Augustine and the Mystery of the Church
This book argues that the church for Augustine is a mystery that is both visible and invisible. Far from discarding the visible community, Augustine places greater emphasis on the empirical church as his thought develops. To demonstrate this, the author traces Augustine’s ecclesiology from early writings to later works. Further, this study explores Augustine’s exegesis of biblical images of the church, such as body of Christ, bride of Christ, city of God, and sacrifice, in order to show how the visible community is intrinsic to the mystery of the church.
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The Dionysian Mystical Theology
This book introduces the Pseudo-Dionysian "mystical theology," with glimpses at key stages in its interpretation and critical reception through the centuries.
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Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods: Two-Volume Set
In this two-volume set, David A. Fiensy and James Riley Strange have invited an international cast of experts to provide a comprehensive analysis of past and current research on Galilee and up-to-date commentary regarding ongoing site excavations.
$120.00
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The So-Called Jew in Paul’s Letter to the Romans
Decades ago, Werner G. Kümmel described the historical problem of Romans as its "double character": concerned with issues of Torah and the destiny of Israel, the letter is explicitly addressed not to Jews but to Gentiles. At stake in the numerous answers given to that question is nothing less than. . .
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Church and Empire
The history of the church's relationship with governing authorities unfolds from its beginnings at the intersection of apprehension and acceptance, collaboration and separation. This volume is dedicated to helping students chart this complex narrative through early Christian writings from the first six centuries of the Common Era. Church and Empire is part of Ad Fontes: Early Christian Sources, a series designed to present ancient Christian texts essential to an understanding of Christian theology, ecclesiology, and practice.
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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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The Wisdom and Foolishness of God: First Corinthians 1-2 in Theological Exploration
The first two chapters of 1 Corinthians have played a significant role in the history of Christian theology. Interpreting the central event in Christianity, the crucifixion of Jesus, Paul reflects on the wisdom and foolishness of God in the “word of the cross.”
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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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Irenaeus: Life, Scripture, Legacy
Champion of martyrs, scourge of heretics, erudite theologian, shrewd politician?no account of early Christianity is complete without careful consideration of Irenaeus...
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Justin against Marcion: Defining the Christian Philosophy
In a period where Christianity was only beginning to form a definitive identity, Marcion played a remarkable and generative role. Andrew Hayes takes the measure of his...
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Biblical Interpretation in the Early Church
Biblical Interpretation in the Early Church is part of Ad Fontes, a series designed to present ancient Christian texts essential to an understanding of Christian theology, ecclesiology, and practice. The books in the series will make the wealth of early Christian thought available to new generations of students of theology and provide a valuable resource for the Church. This volume focuses on how Scripture was interpreted and used for preaching, teaching, apologetics, and worship by early Christian scholars and church leaders.
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Athanasius and His Legacy: Trinitarian-Incarnational Soteriology and Its Reception
Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap., and Daniel A. Keating introduce readers to one the key thinkers of the fourth century and the chief architect of Christian doctrine: Athanasius. The authors carefully illuminate Athanasius's crucial text Against the Arians, unfolding the Trinitarian and incarnation framework of Athanasius's paramount concern (soteriology), and providing, in the second part, a robust map of the reception and influence of Athanasius's thought—from its immediate impact on the late fourth and fifth centuries (in the Cappadocians and Cyril) to its significance in the Eastern and Western traditions and its reception in contemporary thought.
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