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Living the Gospel of Jesus Christ: Orthodox and Evangelical Approaches to Discipleship and Christian Formation

Mark Oxbrow (Editor), Tim Grass (Editor)

Authors from around the world bring together insights from their Evangelical and Orthodox traditions to enrich the journey of witness and martyrdom, a faithful daily living of the Christian gospel which speaks with integrity to a world seeking truth.

Witnessing to Christ in a Pluralistic Age: Christian Mission among Other Faiths

Lalsangkima Pachuau (Editor), Knud Jørgensen (Editor)

The relationship of Christian faith and mission to other living faiths is a core issue in contemporary mission. Vol 7: Witnessing to Christ in a Pluralistic Age provides insight on the theology of religious plurality needed to strengthen our understanding of our own faith.

Christian Understandings of Christ: The Historical Trajectory

David H. Jensen (Author), Denis R. Janz (Editor)

David Jensen offers an engaging tour through more than two millennia of thought on Christ. From the earliest portrayals to contemporary Christologies, Jensen outlines the myriad beliefs, developments, and questions encompassing the attempts to understand Christianity’s most central—and most mysterious—figure.

Theology and the Globalized Present: Feasting in the Future of God

John C. McDowell (Author), Ashley John Moyse (Editor), Scott A. Kirkland (Editor)

Theology and the Globalized Present focuses on the world's future in God and God's creativeness. In response to a globalized economy that reconfigures time to the...

Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice

Stephanie Paulsell (Author)

In Honoring the Body, Stephanie Paulsell speaks to those who have ever wondered how to celebrate the body's pleasures and protect the body's vulnerabilities in a world that seems confused about both. What we need, she shows, are practices that honor the body.

Paulsell invites readers to explore how we might honor the body in daily activities, seeking wisdom from Scripture, history, and contemporary experience, in story and song and poetry/

Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People

Dorothy C. Bass (Editor)

Practicing Our Faith offers help to Christians who are asking how our faith can help us discern what we might do and who we might become. Practices are shared activities that address fundamental needs of humankind and creation and that, woven together, form a way of life. The twelve practices explored in this book are practices that human beings simply cannot do without, particularly at this time in history.

A Brief Introduction to Jainism and Sikhism

Tim Dowley (Editor), Christopher Partridge (General Editor)

This brief introduction to Jainism and Sikhism is designed to help readers understand these important religious traditions. With both nuance and balance, this text provides...

Marriage and Sexuality in Early Christianity

David G. Hunter (Editor)

Marriage and Sexuality in Early Christianity is part of Ad Fontes: Early Christian Sources, a series designed to present ancient Christian texts essential to an...

Christian Understandings of Creation: The Historical Trajectory

Denis Edwards (Author)

Throughout the two-thousand-year span of Christian history, believers in Jesus have sought to articulate their faith and their understanding of how God works in the...

Insights from Archaeology: Reading the Bible in the Twenty-First Century

David A. Fiensy (Author)

Each volume in the Insights series presents discoveries and insights into biblical texts from a particular approach or perspective in current scholarship. Accessible and appealing...

Biblical Interpretation in the Early Church

Michael Graves (Editor)

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.

Harvesting Martin Luther’s Reflections on Theology, Ethics, and the Church

Timothy J. Wengert (Author)

As profound as Martin Luther's ideas are, this giant of church history was concerned above all with practical instruction for daily Christian living. Harvesting Martin Luther's Reflections highlights this concern of Luther, mining his thought in key areas of doctrine, ethics, and church practice. Gathering noteworthy contributions by well-known Luther scholars from Europe and the Americas, this book ranges broadly over theological questions about baptism and righteousness, ethical issues like poverty and greed, and pastoral concerns like worship and spirituality.

The Captivation of the Will: Luther Vs. Erasmus on Freedom and Bondage

Gerhard O. Forde (Author), Steven D. Paulson (Editor)

The Captivation of the Will provocatively revisits a perennial topic of controversy: human free will. Highly esteemed Lutheran thinker Gerhard O. Forde cuts to the heart of the subject by reexamining the famous debate on the will between Luther and Erasmus. Following a substantial introduction by James A. Nestingen that brings to life the historical background of the debate, Forde thoroughly explores Luther's "Bondage of the Will" and the dispute between Erasmus and Luther that it reflects. 

How Christianity Came to China: A Brief History

Kathleen L. Lodwick (Author)

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.

Insights from Performance Criticism

Peter S. Perry (Author)

Peter S. Perry describes the rise of performance criticism and its application to biblical studies and theology. He discusses the new understanding of biblical texts, particularly Gospel writings, that performance criticism has proposed, and presents challenges for the future of performance criticism and its role in biblical interpretation generally.

Hebrews, the General Epistles, and Revelation: Fortress Commentary on the Bible Study Edition

Margaret Aymer (Editor), Cynthia Briggs Kittredge (Editor), David A. Sánchez (Editor)

This commentary on the Hebrews, the General Epistles, and Revelation, excerpted from the Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The New Testament, engages readers in the work of biblical interpretation. Contributors connect historical-critical analysis with sensitivity to current theological, cultural, and interpretive issues. Each chapter (Hebrews through Revelation) includes an introduction and commentary based on three lenses: ancient context, the interpretative tradition, and contemporary questions and challenges. Hebrews, the General Epistles, and Revelation introduces fresh perspectives and draws students, preachers, and interested readers into the challenging work of interpretation. 

Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging

Maia Kotrosits (Author)

Maia Kotrosits challenges the contemporary notion of "early Christian literature," showing that a number of texts usually so described are "not particularly interested" in a distinctive Christian identity. By appealing to trauma studies and diaspora theory and giving careful attention to the dynamics within these texts, she shows that this sample of writings offers complex reckonings with chaotic diasporic conditions and the transgenerational trauma of colonial violence.

Rupturing Eschatology: Divine Glory and the Silence of the Cross

Eric J. Trozzo (Author)

Rupturing Eschatology is Eric Trozzo's constructive retrieval of Luther's theology of the cross for the purpose of establishing a contemporary Lutheran and "emerging" account of the cross, silence, and eschatology.

Christian Economic Ethics: History and Implications

Daniel K. Finn (Author)

Daniel Finn reviews insights provided by a large number of texts on economic ethics, from the Bible and the early church, to the Middle Ages and the Protestant Reformation, to treatments of the subject in the last century.

Changing Horizons: Explorations in Feminist Interpretation

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (Author)

The second of two volumes highlighting the ways in which Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza's work constructs a critical feminist theory and praxis of liberation, in relation to the biblical text and its legacy.