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  • Struggling With Evangelicalism

    $17.00

    When evangelicals make a mess, who cleans it up?

    Many today are discarding the evangelical label, even if they still hold to the historic tenets of evangelicalism. But evangelicalism is a space, not just a brand, and living in that space is complicated. As a lifelong evangelical who happens to be a biracial Asian/white millennial, Dan Stringer has felt both included and alienated by the evangelical community and has wrestled with whether to stay or go. He sits as an uneasy evangelical insider with ties to many of evangelicalism’s historic organizations and institutions. Neither “everything’s fine” nor “burn it all down,” Stringer argues that we need four postures to grapple realistically and redemptively with evangelicalism. Without awareness, we don’t know our identity. Without appreciation, we risk succumbing to cynicism. Without repentance, we capitulate to idolatry. And without renewal, future generations will find this space even less inhabitable. This even-handed guide offers a thoughtful appreciation of evangelicalism’s history, identity, and strengths, and also lament at its blind spots, toxic brokenness, and complicity with injustice. From this complicated space, we can move forward with informed vision rather than resignation, and with hope for our future together.

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  • Public Intellectuals And The Common Good

    $25.00

    In the midst of a divisive culture, public intellectuals speaking from an evangelical perspective have a critical role to play-within the church and beyond. Representing the church, higher education, journalism, and the nonprofit sector, these world-class scholars and practitioners cast a vision for intellectuals who promote human flourishing.

    Evangelical Christians are active across all spheres of intellectual and public life today. But a disconnect remains: the work they produce too often fails to inform their broader communities. In the midst of a divisive culture and a related crisis within evangelicalism, public intellectuals speaking from an evangelical perspective have a critical role to play-within the church and beyond. What does it look like to embrace such a vocation out of a commitment to the common good? Public Intellectuals and the Common Good draws together world-class scholars and practitioners to cast a vision for intellectuals who promote human flourishing. Representing various roles in the church, higher education, journalism, and the nonprofit sector, contributors reflect theologically on their work and assess current challenges and opportunities. What historically well-defined qualities of public intellectuals should be adopted now? What qualities should be jettisoned or reimagined? Public intellectuals are mediators-understanding and then articulating truth amid the complex realities of our world. The conversations represented in this book celebrate and provide guidance for those who through careful thinking, writing, speaking, and innovation cultivate the good of their communities. Contributors:

    *Miroslav Volf
    *Amos Yong
    *Linda A. Livingstone
    *Heather Templeton Dill
    *Katelyn Beaty
    *Emmanuel Katongole
    *John M. Perkins and David Wright

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  • Approaching Philosophy Of Religion

    $28.00

    Encountering philosophy of religion for the first time, we are like explorers arriving on an uncharted coastline. There are inviting bays and beaches, but rocky reefs and pounding surf as well. And what tribes may inhabit the land is anyone’s guess.

    But our cautious intrigue turns to confidence as Anthony Thiselton greets us as a native informant. Cheerfully imparting insider knowledge, mapping the major landmarks, and outlining the main figures and issues in its tribal debates, he teaches us the basics for gaining cultural fluency on these foreign shores.

    Approaching Philosophy of Religion is divided into three parts:

    Part I (Approaches) provides descriptions of the main entrance ramps to studying the subject, with lively case histories, working examples, and assessments of their lasting value.

    Part II (Concepts and Issues) gives us brief introductions to the origins and development of ideas, and highlights their significance in the work of major thinkers.

    Part III (Key Terms) supplies concise explanations of all the words and phrases that readers need to know in order to engage the subject.

    For students and anyone else reading and engaging philosophy of religion for the first time, Approaching Philosophy of Religion is the essential companion.

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  • Invisible Worlds : Death Religion And The Supernatural In England 1500-1700

    $28.99

    How did traditional beliefs about the supernatural change as a result of the Reformation, and what were the intellectual and cultural consequences? Following a masterly interpretative introduction, Peter Marshall traces the effects of the Reformers’ assaults on established beliefs about the afterlife. He shows how debates about purgatory and the nature of hellfire acted as unwitting agents of modernization. He then turns to popular beliefs about angels, ghosts and fairies, and considers how these were reimagined and reappropriated when cut from their medieval moorings. Contents PART 1: HEAVEN, HELL AND PURGATORY: HUMANS IN THE SPIRIT WORLD 1. After Purgatory: Death and Remembrance in the Reformation World 2. “The Map of God’s Word’: Geographies of the Afterlife in Tudor and Early Stuart England’ 3. Judgment and Repentance in Tudor Manchester: The Celestial Journey of Ellis Hall 4. The Reformation of Hell? Protestant and Catholic Infernalisms, c. 1560-1640 5. The Company of Heaven: Identity and Sociability in the English Protestant Afterlife PART 2: ANGELS, GHOSTS AND FAIRIES: SPIRITS IN THE HUMAN WORLD 6. Angels Around the Deathbed: Variations on a Theme in the English Art of Dying 7. The Guardian Angel in Protestant England 8. Deceptive Appearances: Ghosts and Reformers in Elizabethan and Jacobean England 9. Piety and Poisoning in Restoration Plymouth 10. Transformations of the Ghost Story in Post-Reformation England 11. Ann Jeffries and the Fairies: Folk Belief and the War on Scepticism

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  • Beyond The Modern Age

    $35.00

    The modern age has produced global crises that modernity itself seems incapable of resolving-deregulated capitalism, consumerism, economic inequality, militarization, overworked laborers, environmental destruction, insufficient health care, and many other problems. The future of our world depends on moving beyond the modern age. Bob Goudzwaard and Craig G. Bartholomew have spent decades listening to their students and reflecting on modern thought and society. In Beyond the Modern Age they explore the complexities and challenges of our time. Modernity is not one thing but many, encompassing multiple worldviews that contain both the source of our problems and the potential resources for transcending our present situation. Through an archaeological investigation and critique of four modern worldviews, Goudzwaard and Bartholomew demonstrate the need for new ways of thinking and living that overcome the relentless drive of progress. They find guidance in the work of Rene Girard on desire, Abraham Kuyper on pluralism and poverty, and Philip Rieff on culture and religion. These and other thinkers point the way towards a solution to the crises that confront the world today. Beyond the Modern Age is a work of grand vision and profound insight. Goudzwaard and Bartholomew do not settle for simplistic analysis and easy answers but press for nuanced engagement with the ideologies and worldviews that shape the modern age. The problems we face today require an honest, interdisciplinary, and global dialogue. Beyond the Modern Age invites us to the table and points the way forward.

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  • Witness Of Religion In An Age Of Fear

    $19.00

    We live in a world driven by fear. But should we allow fear to play such a large role in our lives? According to the religions of the world, the answer is no.

    In this helpful and illuminating book, Michael Kinnamon challenges readers to consider why we find ourselves in this age of fear and what we can do about it. Drawing on support from a diversity of religious traditions and teachers, Kinnamon argues that religious faith is the best way to combat a culture of fear. He explores fear in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the American political scene, and he shares courageous examples of individuals from different religions working for peace.

    Perfect for individuals or group study, this book helps readers understand the manipulative power of fear and how religious beliefs call us to reject fear at all costs. A study guide is included.

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  • Altars Where We Worship

    $35.00

    While a large percentage of Americans claim religious identity, the number of Americans attending traditional worship services has significantly declined in recent decades. Where, then, are Americans finding meaning in their lives, if not in the context of traditional religion? In this provocative study, the authors argue that the objects of our attention have become our god and fulfilling our desires has become our religion. They examine the religious dimensions of six specific aspects of American culture-body and sex, big business, entertainment, politics, sports, and science and technology-that function as “altars” where Americans gather to worship and produce meaning for their lives. The Altars Where We Worship shows how these secular altars provide resources for understanding the self, others, and the world itself. “For better or worse,” the authors write, “we are faced with the reality that human experiences before these altars contain religious characteristics in common with experiences before more traditional altars.” Readers will come away with a clearer understanding of what religion is after exploring the thoroughly religious aspects of popular culture in the United States.

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  • Occurence Of Revelation

    $16.00

    “The Occurrence of Revelation: A True Story of a Close Call Against the Secret Antichrist Organization and the Near Earth Flip” is an engaging and fascinating account of the author’s spiritual and supernatural experiences.

    Tracing her faith back to her childhood, Karen Saylor Johnson offers the reader a deeply personal portrayal of the struggles she has faced, both personally and on behalf of others. Her story gradually widens from an intimate perspective to one of worldwide proportion as she explores the meaning of biblical prophecies and the events leading to the end times. Ms. Johnson asserts that she was personally called to service under God as the Second White Horseman of the Book of Revelation. In 2009, Jesus was reborn, and He asked Ms. Johnson to get the word out to the people of the world.

    “The Occurrence of Revelation: A True Story of a Close Call Against the Secret Antichrist Organization and the Near Earth Flip,” Ms. Johnson presents a wide-ranging work intended to challenge and enlighten readers both spiritually and emotionally.

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  • Answer To Bad Religion Is Not No Religion

    $20.00

    If you think the only logical response to bad Christianity is to leave Christianity completely, this book is for you. In an effort to help those who’ve been hurt by or turned off by negative religion, Martin Thielen explains that there is an alternative to abandoning religion: good religion. Thielen uses personal stories to illustrate the dangers of religion that is judgmental, anti-intellectual, and legalistic. While addressing the growth of the new atheism movement and the “Nones” (people that have no religious affiliation), this book argues that leaving religion is not practical, not helpful, and not necessary. Thielen provides counterparts to the characteristics of bad religion, explaining that good religion is grace-filled, promotes love and forgiveness, and is inclusive and hope-filled. Perfect for individual, group, or congregational study, a Leader’s Guide and a Worship and Outreach Kit are also available to further the discussion and increase community involvement.

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  • Answer To Bad Religion Is Not No Religion Leaders Guide (Teacher’s Guide)

    $12.00

    If you think the only logical response to bad Christianity is to leave Christianity completely, this book is for you. In an effort to help those who’ve been hurt by or turned off by negative religion, Martin Thielen explains that there is an alternative to abandoning religion: good religion. Thielen uses personal stories to illustrate the dangers of religion that is judgmental, anti-intellectual, and legalistic. While addressing the growth of the new atheism movement and the “Nones” (people that have no religious affiliation), this book argues that leaving religion is not practical, not helpful, and not necessary. Thielen provides counterparts to the characteristics of bad religion, explaining that good religion is grace-filled, promotes love and forgiveness, and is inclusive and hope-filled. Perfect for group study, the leader’s guide provides everything needed to facilitate sessions and provide options based on the time and style of each group.

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  • Analogical Turn : Rethinking Modernity With Nicholas Of Cusa

    $41.99

    In the face of the late modern crisis of Western science and culture, The Analogical Turn recovers Nicholas of Cusa’s alternative vision of modernity, and, in doing so, develops a fresh perspective on the challenges of our time.

    In contrast to Cusa’s mainstream contemporaries, his appreciation of individuality, creativity, and scientific precision was deeply rooted in the analogical rationality of the Middle Ages. He revived and transformed the tradition of scientific realism in a manner which now, retrospectively, offers new insights into the completely ordinary chaos of postmodern everyday life.

    Johannes Hoff offers a new vision of the history of modernity and the related secularization narrative, a deconstruction of the basic assumptions of postmodernism, and an unfolding of a liturgically grounded concept of common sense realism in this original book.

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  • Psychology Of Religion

    $40.00

    This book is written by a theologian, or to be more precise, by a theologian who is concerned professionally with religion and with pastoral psychology. The coming to terms with developments in the field of psycho-analysis has a twofold significance for the theologian. As a pastor I am often faced with the question of what actual view to take of psycho-analysis, and sometimes also how to regard the psycho-analyst as a therapist. (I am thinking for example of the problem of passing on a member of my congregation to a psychiatrist.) Among theologians there is often a kind of fear, as well as lack of knowledge; the theologian gets ‘cold feet’. Investigation could probably eliminate both ignorance and fear. On the other hand, through its theories psycho-analysis has become an important factor in our modern civilization, and one that theology must not ignore. Without analysis much modern ‘unbelief’ remains incomprehensible. Under this aspect too it is important for theology to be well informed about developments in psycho-analysis, and also to learn to istinguish more clearly than is generally the case between analysis as a therapeutic method (which rests on an objective and empirical investigation of the patient) and the theories which are and have been upheld by analysis; the latter reveal themselves as more evanescent than is oftern assumed.

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  • Moral Case Against Religious Belief

    $35.00

    This short book is intended to be read in an evening or even a sitting, though it provokes reflections that will go on for far longer. What it has to say is largely directed at the Christian faith, though it may apply to Judaism and Islam as well. Professor Sharpe is a philosopher and writes as a post-Christian. He does not believe in God for moral reasons and argues that in some ways morality is corrupted by religion. He claims that religious belief does not necessarily make its possessor an authority on matters moral and that spokesmen and spokeswomen for religion are often badly wrong about moral questions as a result of their religious commitment. Some virtues cease to be virtues when given a religious context, and consequently a religious life is not, in many respects, a good life to lead. Professor Sharpe has few quarrels with the teaching of Jesus and has tried to develop his argument as far as possible on the basis of values shared by Christians and non-Christians. But he firmly believes in the autonomy of morality. God is not required to guarantee morality and all the sureties and recognizances of morality are internal.

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  • 12 Wisdom Steps

    $17.00

    SKU (ISBN): 9781434912282ISBN10: 1434912280Andrea TraversBinding: Trade PaperPublished: December 2011Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. Print On Demand Product

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  • Religion Gone Astray

    $18.99

    Virtually everyone acknowledges difficulty with some aspect of their own religious tradition, even if they are wholly devoted to their faith identity. These vulnerabilities can inhibit meaningful personal engagement with a faith tradition but they can also feed misunderstanding between religious institutions and undermine any hope of authentic interfaith dialogue.
    Expanding on the conversation started with their very successful first book, the Interfaith Amigos–a pastor, a rabbi and an imam–probe more deeply into the problem aspects of our religious institutions to provide a profound understanding of the nature of what divides us. They identify four common problem areas in the Abrahamic faiths–exclusivity, violence, inequality of men and women, and homophobia–and their origins. They explore the ways critics use these beliefs as divisive weapons. And they present the ways we can use these vulnerabilities to open the doors for more profound personal relationships, collaboration required to address our common issues, and true interfaith healing.

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  • Last Priesthood : The Secrets Of Our English Alphabet A Revelation From Jes

    $42.95

    Nearly 400 pages of Prophecy, Poetry, Scripture, and “New Knowledge”
    Pertaining to Mankind’s Last Days…

    Some will label these writings as “False Prophecy”
    Some will label it the workings of a “Cult”
    Call it what you will, it is the “WORD of GOD”

    INFANCY
    (from the apocrypha)
    And when the master threatened to whip him,
    the Lord Jesus explained to him
    the meaning of the letters Aleph and Beth;
    Also which were the straight figures of the letters,
    which the oblique, and what letters had double figures; which had points,
    and which had none; why one letter went before another;
    and many other things he began to tell him, and explain,
    of which the master had never heard, nor read in any book.

    Chapter XX 7-8

    The English letters have evolved from as far back as the Hebrew and Greek Languages. Learn what these letters hold in store for you, and how God uses them to give to each of us our traits, rewards, and punishments! It is the belief of this author that we have opened the “FIRST SEAL” You are now about to begin reading it!
    I must warn you however this book is not for the weak of heart.
    It does become quite frightening for those that are unprepared.< LORD HAVE MERCY ON US ALL…

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  • Last Priesthood : The Secrets Of Our English Alphabet A Revelation From Jes

    $27.95

    Nearly 400 pages of Prophecy, Poetry, Scripture, and “New Knowledge”
    Pertaining to Mankind’s Last Days…

    Some will label these writings as “False Prophecy”
    Some will label it the workings of a “Cult”
    Call it what you will, it is the “WORD of GOD”

    INFANCY
    (from the apocrypha)
    And when the master threatened to whip him,
    the Lord Jesus explained to him
    the meaning of the letters Aleph and Beth;
    Also which were the straight figures of the letters,
    which the oblique, and what letters had double figures; which had points,
    and which had none; why one letter went before another;
    and many other things he began to tell him, and explain,
    of which the master had never heard, nor read in any book.

    Chapter XX 7-8

    The English letters have evolved from as far back as the Hebrew and Greek Languages. Learn what these letters hold in store for you, and how God uses them to give to each of us our traits, rewards, and punishments! It is the belief of this author that we have opened the “FIRST SEAL” You are now about to begin reading it!
    I must warn you however this book is not for the weak of heart.
    It does become quite frightening for those that are unprepared.< LORD HAVE MERCY ON US ALL…

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  • Ministers Of The Law

    $34.99

    In Ministers of the Law Jean Porter articulates a theory of legal authority derived from the natural law tradition. As she points out, the legal authority of most traditions rests on their own internal structures, independent of extralegal considerations – legal houses built on sand, as it were. Natural law tradition, on the other hand, offers a basis for legal authority that goes beyond mere arbitrary commands or social conventions, offering some extralegal authority without compromising the independence and integrity of the law.

    Yet Porter does more in this volume than simply discuss historical and theoretical realms of natural law. She carries the theory into application to contemporary legal issues, bringing objective normative structures to contemporary Western societies suspicious of such concepts.

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  • Good And Bad Ways To Think About Religion And Politics

    $19.99

    Clear, useful guide to a subject too often characterized by confusion and loud rhetoric

    “There is nothing greater than indignation to stimulate a writer to write, and my outrage has been stirred mightily by reading so many wrongheaded ‘takes’ on how religion and politics ought to be related,” says Robert Benne.

    In this book Benne describes and analyzes the two main bad ways of relating religion and politics – “separationism” and “fusionism” – and offers a better way that he calls “critical engagement.” He first explains this approach in theoretical terms and then reflects on the practical ways in which such convictions reach the public sphere of policy. This better way derives in large part from the Lutheran tradition, with a few tweaks to adapt the tradition to deal with the new challenges of our present situation.

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  • Battle For Moses Dead Body

    $19.99

    This book does not allege to have all the answers concerning the mystery surrounding the dead body of Moses; it simly asks the relevant question and offers scriptural implications and applications. The book is intended to be a reference book, an inspirational book, and a workbook.

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  • Nag Hammadi Scriptures (Annotated)

    $39.99

    The definitive collection of the gnostic writings translated and annotated by an international team of leading scholars, including the recently discovered Gospel of Judas.

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  • Limits Of Liberal Democracy

    $21.00

    Table Of Contents
    Contents

    Acknowledgments

    1. Introduction: The End Of Convenient Stereotypes
    2. “The End Of Democracy?” The First Things Symposium And Its Critics
    3. American Catholics To The Rescue? Michael Baxter And The Notre Dame Theology Department
    4. Rival Versions Of Confessionalism: Neuhaus And Baxter
    5. Gertrude Himmelfarb And The Priority Of Democracy To Philosophy
    6. Sapere Aude! From Liberal Statecraft To Extraordinary Politics
    7. Extraordinary Politics Beyond The Culture Of Convenience
    8. Hospitality And The Culture Of Life

    Subject Index

    Additional Info
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    Scott H. Moore offers a bracing critique of the limits of liberal democracy that calls for and points the way toward a more faithful engagement of Christians with public life–a participation that takes seriously the reality of the Christian church and both the private and public moral teachings of its Scriptures.

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  • Human Nature Human Evil And Religion

    $51.99

    Part I – Becker’s Early Anthropological Perspective

    Chapter 1. The Human Situation And The Development Of The Individual Personality

    Chapter 2. The Vagaries Of Human And Cultural Construction

    Chapter 3. Human Evil And Religion

    Part II – Becker’s Mature Anthropological Perspective

    Chapter 4. The Human Situation And The Development Of The Individual Personality Revisited

    Chapter 5. Successes And Failures In Individual And Cultural Formation

    Chapter 6. Human Evil And Religion In Becker’s Mature Thought

    Part III – Ernest Becker’s Anthropology And Christian Theology

    Chapter 7. Classical Christian Perspectives On The Human Problem

    Chapter 8. Contemporary Christian Perspectives On The Human Problem

    Chapter 9. Christian Perspectives On The Solution To The Human Problem

    Chapter 10. The Human Problem And Its Solution: Ernest Becker And Christian Theology

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    In this book, Jarvis Streeter details Ernest Becker’s anthropological theories and compares them with traditional and contemporary Christian thought on human nature, sin, and salvation in order to see how the two approaches compare and where Becker might have insights to offer contemporary Christian thinkers.

    Ernest Becker was a pioneer in the interdisciplinary study of human nature and motivation, drawing from the fields of evolutionary biology, psychology, psychiatry, cultural anthropology, sociology, philosophy and religion to create what he termed a Science of Man. His goal was to understand the most basic human motives, particularly those that led to evil behavior in order to ameliorate them and create a more humane world. He concluded, following the thought of Alfred Adler, Otto Rank and philosophical and religious existentialism, that the related urges to avoid death anxiety, gain self-esteem and symbolically deny death were the key human motives–ones which were also responsible for human evil–and that religion has had a complex role to play for both good and ill in human history.

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  • Medici Et Medicamenta

    $68.99

    Foreword By Daniel P. Sheridan
    Preface
    Acknowledgements
    Introduction
    Part One: A Survey Of Modern Historiography Of Penance (ca. 1500-2000)
    Penance As Construct In The Modern History Of Religions
    From Dogmatic History To The History Of Dogma (ca. 1520-1920)
    Convergences And New Directions (ca. 1920-2000)
    Paradigms In The New Contemporary Historiography Of Penance
    Part Two: A Survey Of The Literature Of Penance (ca. 1650 B.C.-A.D. 650)
    Penance In Pre-Christian Antiquity
    The Origins Of Ritual Penance In Christian Antiquity
    The Transformation Of Penance In Late Antiquity
    The Monasticization Of Penance (ca. 450-650)

    Additional Info
    This book is a comprehensive historiographical survey on Christian penance and confession from the early sixteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. The author charts the change from medieval practices of penance to the modern rites of penance.

    The book’s title refers to the latin phrase medici et medicamenta, or, “spiritual doctors and medicines,” to indicate a unifying theme of this study.

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  • What Americans Really Believe

    $24.95

    A shocking snapshot of the most current impulses in American religion. Rodney Stark reports the surprising findings of the 2007 Baylor Surveys of Religion, a follow up to the 2005 survey revealing most Americans believe in God or a higher power. This new volume highlights even more hot-button issues of religious life in our country. A must-read for anyone interested in Americans’ religious beliefs and practices.

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  • Lost Apostle : Searching For The Truth About Junia

    $18.00

    In ” The Lost Apostle,” award-winning journalist Rena Pederson investigates a little-known subject in eary Christian history-the life and times of the female apostle Junia. Junia was an early convert and leading missionary whose story was “lost” when her name was masculinized to Junias in later centuries. “The Lost Apostle” unfolds like a well-written detective story, presenting Pederson’s lively search for the insight and information about a woman some say was the first female apostle.

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  • Why The Christian Right Is Wrong

    $14.95

    Introduction: The 9/11 Effect.
    Part One: The Speech Heard Round The World.

    Part Two: The Sin Of Hypocrisy: Line By Line.

    1. Christians Don’t Start Wars, They Try To Stop Them.

    2. Missing In Action: The Sermon On The Mount.

    3. Rich Chicken Hawks For Jesus.

    4. Terminal False Dichotomies.

    5. The National Debt, Family Values, And Why They Hate Us.

    6. Homosexuals And The Politics Of Death.

    7. “Pro-Life” Should Include Mother Nature.

    8. We Have Met The Enemy.

    9. Cleansing The Temple Of U.S. Health Care.

    10. Christian Fascism And The War On Reason.

    Part Three: A Call To Nonvolent Resistance: How To Save The Country And The Church.

    Notes.

    The Author.

    Additional Info
    “I join the ranks of those who are angry, because I have watched as the faith I love has been taken over by fundamentalists who claim to speak for Jesus but whose actions are anything but Christian.”
    -Robin Meyers, from his “Speech Heard Round the World”
    Millions of Americans are outraged at the Bush administration’s domestic and foreign policies and even angrier that the nation’s religious conservatives have touted these policies as representative of moral values. Why the Christian Right Is Wrong is a rousing manifesto that will ignite the collective conscience of all whose faith and values have been misrepresented by the Christian Right.

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  • Reformed And Always Reforming

    $30.00

    1. The Postconservative Style Of Evangelical Theology
    2. Christianity’s Essence: Transformation Over Information
    3. The Word Made Fresh: Theology’s Revisioning Task
    4. The Postmodern Impulse In Postconservative Evangelical Theology
    5. Postconservative Revelation: Narrative Before Propositions
    6. Tradition And Orthodoxy In Postconservative Evangelical Theology
    7. New Horizons In Evangelical Thinking About God

    Additional Info
    Introduces a postconservative evangelical theology

    Describes, explains, and mobilizes a movement

    Theologians, pastors, seminarians, and serious thinkers will find many depths to plumb in this exhaustive survey of critics, advocates, and fellow travelers on the evangelical journey.

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  • Pierced For Our Transgressions

    $29.00

    The belief that Jesus died for us, suffering the wrath of his own Father in our place, has been the wellspring of hope for countless Christians through the ages. However, with an increasing number of theologians, church leaders, and even popular Christian books and magazines questioning this doctrine, which naysayers have described as a form of “cosmic child abuse,” a fresh articulation and affirmation of penal substitution is needed. And Jeffery, Ovey, and Sach have responded here with clear exposition and analysis.

    They make the case not only that the doctrine is clearly taught in Scripture, but that it has an impeccable pedigree and a central place in Christian theology, and that its neglect has serious consequences. The authors also systematically analyze over twenty specific objections that have been brought against penal substitution and charitably but firmly offer a defining declaration of the doctrine of the cross for any concerned reader.

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  • Engaging Politics : The Tensions Of Christian Political Involvement

    $29.99

    This world or the next? In the world but not of it? Prophetic vision or grubbyengagement with the world as it is? These are the tensions Nigel Oakley grapples withas he shows how Christians can, indeed must, engage with politics and with politicaldebate. He shows, in chapters on Augustine, Liberation theology, Dietrich Bonhoefferand Stanley Hauerwas, how these tensions exist in every strand of Christian politicalthinking, and then he applies those tensions to case studies varying from todays highlycharged debates on sexuality to the war on terrorism. In every case, he demonstratesthat noninvolvement is a nonoption. This book is both an intelligent introduction tothe difficult world of Christian political theology and to some of the key debates that areshaping our times.

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  • Language Of God

    $18.99

    The head of the Human Genome Project and a former atheist, Collins makes a strong case for BioLogos—God-directed evolution—in comparison to atheistic evolution, Intelligent Design, and creationism. He offers an awe-inspiring tour of the complexities of biology, genetics, and DNA—and reveals a richly satisfying, harmonious melding of scientific and spiritual worldviews.

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  • Piety And Profession

    $76.99

    An unprecedented, comprehensive history of theological education

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  • Is Religion Dangerous

    $20.50

    Holy wars, crusades, discrimination, hate – these by-products of religion are all many contemporary commentators can see. But is religion dangerous? Is it a force for evil, something to oppose as a corrupt system that leads to terrorism and violence? Is it something to disdain as irrational and out of step with modern society? Keith Ward here addresses these concerns intelligently and insightfully. Looking at the evidence from history, philosophy, sociology, and psychology, he focuses on the main question at issue: does religion do more harm than good? He begins with a clear definition of what religion actually is, examining the key area of religion and violence. Ward goes on to assess the allegations of irrationality and immorality before finally exploring the good religion has engendered over the centuries. Without religion, the human race would be considerably worse off with little hope for the future. In fact, he argues, religion is the best rational basis for morality. Thought-provoking and powerful, Is Religion Dangerous? is essential reading for anyone interested in the confluence of truth, freedom, and justice.

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  • Belief And Bloodshed

    $49.00

    Intended for students as well as scholars of religion and violence, Belief and Bloodshed discusses how the relationship between religion and violence is not unique to a post-9/11 world-it has existed throughout all of recorded history and culture. The book makes clear the complex interactions between religion, violence, and politics to show that religion as always innocent or always evil is misguided, and that rationalizations by religion for political power and violence are not new. Chronologically organized, the book shows religiously motivated violence across a variety of historical periods and cultures, moving from the ancient to medieval to the modern world, ending with an essay comparing the speeches of an ancient king to the speeches of the current U.S. President.

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  • Belief And Bloodshed

    $133.00

    Intended for students as well as scholars of religion and violence, Belief and Bloodshed discusses how the relationship between religion and violence is not unique to a post-9/11 world-it has existed throughout all of recorded history and culture. The book makes clear the complex interactions between religion, violence, and politics to show that religion as always innocent or always evil is misguided, and that rationalizations by religion for political power and violence are not new. Chronologically organized, the book shows religiously motivated violence across a variety of historical periods and cultures, moving from the ancient to medieval to the modern world, ending with an essay comparing the speeches of an ancient king to the speeches of the current U.S. President.

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  • Misquoting Jesus : The Story Behind Who Changed The Bible And Why

    $18.99

    The New York Times bestseller that explores the mistakes and changes that ancient copyists made to the New Testament that greatly impacted the Bible we use today.

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  • Gnostic Discoveries : The Impact Of The Nag Hammadi Library

    $14.99

    The Meaning of the Nag Hammadi, now in paperback opens the with the thrilling adventure story of the discovery of the ancient Papyrii at Nag Hammadi. Muhammad Ali, the fellahin, discovered the sealed jar, he feared that it might contain a jinni, or spirit, but also had heard of hidden treasures in such jars. Greed overcame his fears and when he smashed open the jar, gold seemed to float into the air. To his disappointment, it was papyrus fragmenst, not gold, but for scholars around the world, it was invaluable.

    Meyer then discusses the pre-Christian forms of wisdom that went onto influence what Christians believe today. In addition, some Nag Hammadi texts are attributed to Valentinus, a man who almost became Pope, and whose rejection changed the church in significant ways. Text by text, Meyer traces the history and impact of this great find on the Church, right up to our current beliefs and popular cultural fascination with this officially suppressed secret knowledge about Jesus and his followers.

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  • Jesus And Utopia

    $23.00

    Scholarship on the historical Jesus and, now, on the “Jesus movement” generally divides into separate camps around two sticky questions: was Jesus an apocalyptic prophet and was the movement around him political, that is nationalistic or revolutionary? Mary Ann Beavis moves the study of the historical Jesus in a dramatic new direction as she highlights the context of ancient utopian thought and utopian communities, drawing particularly on the Essene community and Philo’s discussion of the Therapeutae, and argues that only ancient utopian thought accounts for the lack of explicit political echoes in Jesus’ message of the kingdom of God.

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  • Sharing Food : Christian Practices For Enjoyment

    $16.00

    Our everyday personal, familial, and communal practices of eating, says Jung, have the potential for making us more attentive to our life purposes, more attuned to our communal identities, and even more mindful of the presence of God.

    Juxtaposing practices with values, Jung explores how food and eating function culturally today. He explores the larger dimensions of personal and group eating, the great resonance that feasting and food and fasting have within the Christian tradition, and how all this figures very practically in Christian lifestyle. His work culminates in a chapter on the Lord’s Supper as a model for eating and the Eucharist as an occasion for sharing with the worldwide family of God.

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  • Gods Politics

    $14.95

    Since when did believing in God and having moral values make you pro-war, pro-rich, and pro-Republican? And since when did promoting and pursuing a progressive social agenda with a concern for economic security, health care, and educational opportunity mean you had to put faith in God aside?

    While the Right in America has hijacked the language of faith to prop up its political agenda-an agenda not all people of faith support-the Left hasn’t done much better, largely ignoring faith and continually separating moral discourse and personal ethics from public policy. While the Right argues that God’s way is their way, the Left pursues an unrealistic separation of religious values from morally grounded political leadership. The consequence is a false choice between ideological religion and soulless politics.

    The effect of this dilemma was made clear in the 2004 presidential election. The Democrats’ miscalculations have left them despairing and searching for a way forward. It has become clear that someone must challenge the Republicans’ claim that they speak for God, or that they hold a monopoly on moral values in the nation’s public life. Wallis argues that America’s separation of church and state does not require banishing moral and religious values from the public square. In fact, the very survival of America’s social fabric depends on such values and vision to shape our politics-a dependence the nation’s founders recognized.

    God’s Politics offers a clarion call to make both our religious communities and our government more accountable to key values of the prophetic religious tradition-that is, make them pro-justice, pro-peace, pro-environment, pro-equality, pro-consistent ethic of life (beyond single issue voting), and pro-family (without making scapegoats of single mothers or gays and lesbians). Our biblical faith and religious traditions simply do not allow us as a nation to continue to ignore the poor and marginalized, deny racial justice, tolerate the ravages of war, or turn away from the human rights of those made in the image of God. These are the values of love and justice, reconciliation, and community that Jesus taught and that are at the core of what many of us believe, Christian or not. In the tradition of prophets such as Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Day, and Desmond Tutu, Wallis inspires us to hold our political leaders and policies accountable by integrating our deepest moral convictions into our nation’s public life.

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  • Experience Of God

    $22.00

    Charts the paradoxes and possiblities of our experience of God.

    Probes human language and silence, adoration and alienation, to find the root of all our experience in God and its special character in Christian encounter with Jesus.

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  • Beyond Prisons : A New Interfaith Paradigm For Our Failed Prison System

    $19.00

    Traces the history and features of our penal system, offers strong ethical and moral assessment of it, and lays out a whole new paradigm of criminal justice based on restorative justice and reconciliation. Puts forward a 12-point plan for immediate changes.

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  • Confessions Of A Christian Humanist

    $19.00

    Answers the question – How can one genuinely follow Jesus today, and what does that mean about one’s lifestyle, social and politcal commitments, and ethical stance?

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  • Transforming The Powers

    $21.00

    Applies suggestive analysis to economics, politics, and government, war and peace, personal ethics and ecological and social justice.

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  • Bonhoeffer Legacy : Post Holocaust Perspectives

    $23.00

    Sequel to The Bonhoffer Phenomenon
    Analyzes the historical record and Bonhoeffer’s maturing theology and shows how Bonhoeffer’s self-critical theology relates to the later advent of post-Holocaust theologies, with their sharply posed challenges to traditional Christian supersessionism.

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  • Touched By Grace

    $13.95

    Ann Showalter invites readers along on a roller coaster ride called AIDS. Showalter began her fide the Saturday afternoon her husband Ray said, “I have AIDS.” After the first shock, Ray’s revelation became a breath of fresh air for the couple. This is their story. Seven weeks after diagnosis, Ray was discharged to go home to die. People from their congregation, even though aware of the diagnosis, embraced Ray and Ann by assisting with his care around the clock until his death. Ann’s grief was pervasive and complicated by the circumstances surrounding Ray’s death. She wrote her prayers because her mind was too distracted for verbal prayer. Her journal became a trusted friend in which she vented her anger, and wrestled through inner conflicts. She facilitated a bereavement support group of gay men whose loved ones had died. Together these varied activities moved her toward her own healing.

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  • Resurrection Of Jesus

    $24.00

    Two of today’s most important and popular New Testament scholars, John Dominic Crossan and N. T. Wright, here air their very different understandings of the historical reality and theological meaning of Jesus’ Resurrection. The book highlights points of agreement and disagreement between them and explores the many attendant issues.
    This book brings two leading lights in Jesus studies together for a long-overdue conversation with one another and with significant scholars from other disciplines.

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  • Christians And A Land Called Holy

    $15.00

    A clear account of the Israile-Palestinian situation and a compelling plea for Christian involvement in the area.
    Reveals the strong forces at work in the conflict and lays out the driving biblical notions of election and covenanat, the historical causes of the bitter and divisive clashes of the last 50 years, the complex demographic and political issues today, and how, finally, Christians must engage the future of justice and peace.

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  • Christian Beliefs

    $17.99

    A basic guide to twenty Christian beliefs that is solid, yet readable, and not intimidating for new believers and Christians in general. Includes chapter review questions.

    About the Author
    Elliot Grudem holds a degree from Reformed Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Kacey, live in New Orleans with their daughter.

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  • Jesus Or Jihad

    $13.49

    Jesus or Jihad? differentiates between the choice of fighting in a holy war of jihad or accepting Jesus Christ as Lord of your life. The author explores the connection of Abraham to today’s strife between the Middle East and the Western world. This book relates the differences between Christians and Muslims, showing the reasons why Muslims are intolerant of other religions and using Qur’anic verses to support this claim. Jesus is the answer to the world. He is the truth, the way, and the life. The Bible teaches peace unlike the Qur’an, which dedicates a whole chapter to the spoils of war. The Qur’an shows that strife should continue until the polytheists are gone and in their place are Muslims. It encourages the non-Christian to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior.

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  • Veneklassen Brick

    $18.50

    In 1848, the second year of the new Dutch kolonie in West Michigan’s Ottawa County, a much-needed brick manufacturing industry was begun in the rich clay fields between Groningen and Zeeland. From humble beginnings that included digging barefoot in the clay, the company created by Dutch immigrant Jan Hendrik Veneklasen and his son Berend flourished for more than seventy-five years and contributed to a unique architectural legacy.

    While Veneklasen Brick Co. (later Zeeland Brick Co.) remained in the family, success demanded that it expand beyond the Zeeland area. Strengthened by the purchase of clay pits elsewhere in West Michigan and benefiting from the arrival of railroad lines, Veneklasen eventually became one of the largest brick companies in the state. Veneklasen’s bricks were used in commercial, industrial, and public settings, but their residential application has drawn the most attention. Mixing traditional Dutch patterns and constantly changing American housing styles, local brick masons left behind a prime example of nineteenth-century Dutch-American material culture.

    Drawing from untapped primary sources, Michael Douma’s work traces the history of the Veneklasen family, the development of the Veneklasen company, and the impact of its products on local construction. The first-ever book-length analysis of West Michigan Dutch contributions to architecture, Veneklasen Brick also addresses issues of conservation and preservation. The volume contains numerous illustrations, graphs, maps, and a comprehensive listing of nineteenth-century brick houses in southern Ottawa and northern Allegan counties.

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  • Slaves In The New Testament

    $34.00

    In this exciting new analysis of slaves and slavery in the New Testament, Harrill breaks new ground with his extensive use of Greco-Roman evidence, discussion of hermeneutics, and treatment of the use of the New Testament in antebellum U.S. slavery debates. He examines in detail Philemon, 1 Corinthians, Romans, Luke-Acts, and the household codes.

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  • Divine Image : Envisioning The Invisible God

    $29.00

    1.The Image Of God As A Theological Problem
    2.The Ambiguity Of Images
    3.The Image Of God In Christ
    4.The Image Of God In Human Beings: Developing Protocols Of Discernment
    5.Discernment As Communal Discipline: The Protocols Of Service
    6.Discernment As Personal Discipline: The Protocols Of Chastity
    7.Discernment In Ecclesial Formation: The Sacraments As Protocols
    8.Seeing The Divine Image

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    Theologian Ian McFarland claims that Christians have mainly misappropriated the “image of God” language for 2000 years and thereby missed a rich resource for our knowledge of God.

    Rather than referring to some germinal divine element in humans, such as reason, McFarland claims that the image of God in us tells us something about God and how we know God. It tells us that God, though not identical with us, communicates Godself to us in creative love, in a way that offers precious clues about God’s transcendence, immanence, triune life, self-disclosure, incarnation, and intentions for human life. McFarland’s careful and exacting work builds from this kernel a powerful Christian vision of God’s life and our own destiny in Christ.

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  • Womans Place : House Churches In Earliest Christianity

    $31.00

    Acknowledgments

    1.Introduction
    2.Dutiful And Less Than Dutiful Wives Giving Birth: Labor, Nursing, And Care Of Infants In House-Church Communities
    3.Growing Up In House-Church Communities
    4.Female Slaves: Twice Vulnerable
    5.Ephesians 5 And The Politics Of Marriage
    6.Women Leaders Of Households And Christian Assemblies
    7.Women Leaders In Family Funerary Banquets By Janet H. Tulloch
    8.Women Patrons In The Life Of House Churches
    9.Women As Agents Of Expansion
    10.Conclusion: Discovering A Woman’s Place

    Abbreviations
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index Of Ancient Sources
    Index Of Modern Authors
    Index Of Subjects

    Additional Info
    This focused look at women in the household context discusses the importance of issues of space and visibility in shaping the lives of early Christian women. Several aspects of women’s everyday existence are investigated, including the lives of wives, widows, women with children, female slaves, women as patrons, household leaders, and teachers. In addition, several key themes emerge: hospitality, dining practices, and the extent of female segregation.

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  • Religion Politics And The Christian Right

    $17.00

    Introduction: Faith, American Empire, And Spirit

    1.Evil In Public Life Today
    2.The 9/11 Moment
    3.The Specter Of American Romanticism
    4.The Specter Of Contractual Liberalism
    5.The Specter Of Prophetic Spirit
    6.Revolutionary Belonging
    7.Revolutionary Expectation

    Epilogue: Christian Faith And Counter Imperial Practice

    Additional Info
    Princeton theologian Mark Taylor analyzes right-wing Christian movements in the United States amid the powers of religion, politics, empire, and corporate classes in post-9/11 USA.

    The real gift of Taylor’s book is his argument that this militant Christian faith must be viewed against a backdrop of the American political romanticism and corporatist liberalism of U.S. past and present. Taylor uses the best of cultural and historical studies, while deftly drawing lessons for American readers from theologian Paul Tillich’s analysis of power and religion during the rise of fascism and nationalism in Germany of the 1930s.

    The result is an innovative framework for interpreting how Christian nationalists, Pentagon war planners and corporate institutions today are forging alliances in the U.S. that have dramatic and destructive global impact. Moving beyond lament, Taylor also leaves readers with a new romance of revolutionary traditions and a new more radical liberalism, revitalizing American visions of spirit that are both prophetic and public for U.S. residents today.

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  • Junia : The First Woman Apostle

    $24.00

    The name “Junia” appears in Romans 16:7, and Paul identifies her (along with Andronicus) as “prominent among the apostles.” In this important work, Epp investigates the mysterious disappearance of Junia from the traditions of the church. Because later theologians and scribes could not believe (or wanted to suppress) that Paul had numbered a woman among the earliest churches’ apostles, Junia’s name was changed in Romans to a masculine form. Despite the fact that the earliest churches met in homes and that other women were clearly leaders in the churches (e.g., Prisca and Lydia), calling Junia an apostle seemed too much for the tradition. Epp tracks how this happened in New Testament manuscripts, scribal traditions, and translations of the Bible. In this thoroughgoing study, Epp restores Junia to her rightful place.

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  • Daring Trusting Spirit

    $21.00

    Introduction

    1.Only A Country Boy
    Called To Be A Pastor
    A Decisive Turn
    2.Beginnings Of A Friendship
    Finkenwalde
    The House Of Brethren
    3.Entering A New World
    A Growing Intimacy
    The Collective Pastorates
    4.Sharing A Double Life
    First Steps Into Resistance
    The Gossner Mission And Military Intelligence
    5.A ‘Singular Friendship’
    Friendship, Romance And Marriage
    Letters From Prison
    6.A Soldier In Italy
    Growing Disgust
    The ‘Theological Letters’
    7.Amidst The Ruins
    Imprisonment And Escape
    Pastor To The Desolate
    8.Post-War Reconstruction
    The Future Of The Church?
    Recovering The Truth
    9.Retrieving A Legacy
    First Steps In Publishing
    Abroad And At Home
    10.Interpreting Bonhoeffer
    Giving Structure To The Task
    Going Beyond Bonhoeffer?
    11.The Rengsdorf Years
    Teacher, Traveller, Host
    The Biography
    12.The Church Struggle Revisited
    A Confessing Church In South Africa?
    Confession And Resistance
    13.Remembering The Past Rightly
    Mediator Of Resistance Memories
    Bethge, Bonhoeffer And The Holocaust
    14.A Remarkably Fulfilled Life
    Senior Colleague
    ‘Church Father’
    Faithful Friend
    Mensch

    Photographs
    Index

    Additional Info
    How did Bonhoeffer’s fame and influence happen? Much of the credit goes to Bonhoeffer’s close friendship with his student and colleague Eberhard Bethge, says theologian John de Gruchy. In this important and fascinating work, de Gruchy narrates the course of that friendship, building on interviews and newly available primary sources.

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  • Being Human : Race Culture And Religion

    $29.00

    Introduction: Who Are We?

    1.Contemporary Models Of Theological Anthropology
    2.Culture: Labor, Aesthetic, And Spirit
    3.Selves And The Self: I Am Because We Are
    4.Race: Nature And Nurture
    5.Conclusion As Introduction

    Additional Info
    Dwight Hopkins, whose important work in Black Theology has mediated class theological concerns through the prism of African American culture, here offers a fresh take on theological anthropology. Rather than defined “the human” as one eternal or inviolable essence, however, Hopkins looks to the multiple and conflicting notions of the human in contemporary thought, and particularly three key variables: culture, self, and race. Hopkins’ critical reframing of these concepts firmly locates human endeavor, development, transcendence, and liberation in the particular messiness of struggle and strife.

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  • Creation And Double Chaos

    $22.00

    1.The Science-theology Dialogue: How?
    2.The Scientific Worldview
    3.The Theological Worldview: Creation Stories
    4.Creation Out Of Nothing: Origin And Problems
    5.Contemporary Creation Theologies
    6.Chaos Theology: An Alternative Creation Theology
    7.Chaos Theory And Chaos Events
    8.The Problem Of Evil
    9.God’s Action In The World
    10.The Cosmic Christ: Person And Work
    11.Human Ambivalence: Genetic Modification
    12.Disease: Punishment For Sin Or Chaos Event?
    13.Are We Alone?: Theological Implications Of Possible Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life
    14.Future And Destiny: Eschatology And Chaos Theology

    Additional Info
    Scientist and theologian Sjoerd Bonting offers a new overarching framework for thinking about issues in religion and science. He looks at the creation controversy itself, including biblical perspectives, traditional doctrines, and the particular potential contribution of chaos theory. Finally, Bonting extends this perspective, a combination of chaos theory and chaos theology he calls “double-chaos,” into a framework that addresses traditional questions about evil, divine agency, soteriology, the understanding of disease, possible extraterrestrial life, and the future.

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  • Moral Creed For All Christians

    $29.00

    Widely heralded for his bold and prophetic ethical thought,Maguire urges that Christianity’s real relevance for the renewal of American public life lies not in the myopic morality of the Christian Right nor in any particular program of the Left but in the enduring relevance of Jesus and biblical Christianity. His new work builds on his earlier volume, The Moral Core of Judaism and Christianity, with the benefit of a new generation of social studies of the New Testament and a keen appreciation for the radically changed situation Christians confront today.

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  • Primer On Pastoral Care

    $21.00

    Editor’s Foreword
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction

    1.The One-Room Schoolhouse
    2.The Grammar Of Care: Pointers And Precepts
    3.The Prism Of Pastoral Care: Scripture Refracted
    4.The Community As Classroom: Avoiding Compassion Fatigue
    5.The Open Classroom: Places Of Care
    6.The Open Classroom: More Places Of Care
    7.An Alphabet Of Grace

    Notes

    Additional Info
    Based on her twenty years of teaching and on her own experience in pastoral care, Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner has written a basic pastoral-care text to assist in the emotional and spiritual preparation of pastoral caregivers.

    Stevenson-Moessner sees pastoral care as the interconnection and interplay of love of God, love of neighbor, and love of self. Her brief book engenders confidence and caring in the initiate, and assuages the fear and anxiety that naturally occur when one accompanies people in life-changing pain and travail. Through bibical parables – especially the Good Samaritan and the Good Shepherd – and stories from her own experience, Stevenson-Moessner imparts genuine wisdom and meaningful support to those who courageously dare to offer caregiving ministry in whatever situation or through whatever method or paradigm.

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  • Economy Of Grace

    $22.00

    Preface
    Acknowledgments

    1.An Economy Of Grace?
    What Has Christianity To Do With Economics
    Money Means Grace And Grace Means Money
    The Dangers Of Semantic Analysis
    The Pros And Cons Of A Formal Analysis
    The Potential For Noncompetitiveness
    An Economically Irrelevant Pipe Dream?

    2.Imagining Alternatives To The Present Economic System
    Theological Economy’s Response To Capitalism
    Capitalist Exchange And Exclusive Property
    Locke, Inalienable Property, And Loan
    Grace, Gift Exchange, And The Freely Given Gift
    An Economy Of Grace

    3.Putting A Theological Economy To Work
    The Challenge Of A Theological Economy
    The Significance Of Economic Interdependence

    Additional Info
    Are there any fair and viable alternatives to global capitalism? University of Chicago theologian Kathryn Tanner offers here a serious and creative proposal for evaluating economic theory and behavior through a theological lens.

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  • Church Struggle In South Africa (Anniversary)

    $29.00

    Foreword

    Postscript To The Third Edition: Locating The Church Struggle In South Africa In The Wider Historiography Of The Church In South Africa
    1.Historical Origins
    2.Apartheid And The Churches
    3.The Growing Conflict
    4.Black Renaissance, Protest, And Challenge
    5.Resistance, Repression And The Transition To Democracy
    6.From Church Struggle To Church Struggles

    Appendix: Religious Affiliation In South Africa In 1996

    Additional Info
    This widely acclaimed and influential volume by internationally noted theologian John de Gruchy is now available in a greatly revised and expanded 25th anniversary edition that places the monumental religious struggle against South African apartheid into a larger and instructive global setting. Fully updated, John De Gruchy’s authoritative account of Christian complicity with and then resistance to one of the world’s most notoriously repressive regimes holds indispensable lessons and “dangerous memories” for all concerned about evil, justice, and racial reconciliation.

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  • Problem Of Evil And The Problem Of God

    $21.00

    Creative and original, D. Z. Phillips’s argues that the problem of evil is inextricably linked to our conception of God and that the concept of God in recent philosophy of religion is problematic, even harmful. An ideal text for students of philosophy, religion, or theology.

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  • C S Lewis A Short Introduction

    $22.95

    SKU (ISBN): 9780826484703ISBN10: 0826484700Binding: Trade PaperPublished: May 2005Publisher: STL/FaithWorks Print On Demand Product

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  • Flannery OConnor And The Christ Haunted South

    $30.99

    This is an excellent and lucid study of O’Connor’s theological and cultural convictions, with a study of the grotesque in her work as well as an elegant exploration of O’Connor as an engimatic Southern writer.

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  • Centering Prayer And Inner Awakening

    $16.95

    Practitioners of Centering Prayer are known for the great enthusiasm they bring to the practice of this ancient discipline. Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening is a complete guidebook for all who wish to know the practice of Centering Prayer. Cynthia Bourgeault goes further than offering an introduction, however. She examines how the practice is related to the classic tradition of Christian contemplation, looks at the distinct nuances of its method, and explores its revolutionary potential to transform Christian life. The book encourages dialogue between Centering Prayer enthusiasts and those classic institutions of Christian nurture-churches, seminaries, and schools of theology-that have yet to accept real ownership of the practice and its potential.

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  • God Of Dirt

    $11.95

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for American Primitive, Mary Oliver has published numerous books of poetry and essays. Her poems are quoted in everything from Web sites to hymn books. Earthlight, a “Magazine of Spiritual Ecology,” has declared her an “earth saint.”
    In this engaging study, Thomas W. Mann shows Oliver to have keen eyes and ears for reading the book of nature. Readers will discover that the correspondence between Oliver’s poetry and traditional religious language provides a fresh perspective from which to enjoy her work. At the same time, Oliver’s reading from the Other Book of God invites us into nature’s “temple” where we may come into the presence of the holy and from which we may leave rejuvenated and blessed. God of Dirt is an important study of a contemporary poet whose work is as likely to be read by a preacher in a pulpit as by an activist at an environmental rally, and will help us experience a new vision of the beauty of our world.

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  • 3 Secular Reasons Why America Should Be Under God

    $20.00

    “All men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”-Declaration of Independence, 1776. Do you like having rights the government cannot take away? Do you like being equal? Do you like a country with few laws? Then you want America under God! “The Rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God” – John F. Kennedy, 1961, Inaugural Address “We believe that all men are created equal, because they are created in the image of God” – Harry S. Truman, 1949, Inaugural Address “Our constution was made only for a moral and religious people, it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”-John Adams, 1798.

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  • Varieties Of Religious Experiences

    $18.00

    The culmination of William James’ interest in the psychology of religion, The Varieties of Religious Experience approached the study of religious phenomena in a new way — through pragmatism and experimental psychology. The most important effect of the publication of the Varieties was to shift the emphasis in this field of study from the dogmas and external forms of religion to the unique mental states associated with it. Explaining the book’s intentions in a letter to a friend, James stated:

    “The problem I have set myself is a hard one: first, to defend…’experience’ against ‘philosophy’ as being the real backbone of the world’s religious life…and second, to make the hearer or reader believe what I myself invincibly do believe, that, although all the special manifestations of religion may have been absurd (I mean its creeds and theories), yet the life of it as a whole is mankind’s most important function.”

    Drawing evidence from his own experience and from such diverse thinkers as Voltaire, Whitman, Emerson, Luther, Tolstoy, John Bunyan, and Jonathan Edwards, The Varieties of Religious Experience remains one of the most influential books ever written on the psychology of religion.

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  • Touchdown Jesus : The Mixing Of Sacred And Secular In American History

    $38.00

    This book is an intriguing narrative of the interplay between American religion and patterns of American culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. R. Laurence Moore considers the ways nationalism, the separation of church and state, democratic pluralism, and shifts in boundaries between secular and sacred practice have shaped American religion for the past two hundred years.

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  • Christianity On Trial

    $15.95

    Vincent Carroll and David Shiflett do not shrink from confronting the tragedies that have been perpetrated in the name of Christianity. But they contend that the current fashionable emphasis on the dark side of the Christian record is an instance of willful historical illiteracy.

    In Christianity on Trial, Carroll and Shiflett dispassionately and systematically dissect the charges against Christianity-specifically that it has justified racism and misogyny, encouraged ignorance, and promoted the despoliation of the environment and even genocide. Then, in a narrative whose intellectual elegance and verve calls up comparisons to How the Irish Saved Civilization, they show how in fact the Christian tradition has not only injected morality into our political order, but softened brutal practices and confining superstitions, created the foundation for intellectual inquiry, and cultivated the charitable impulse.

    Christianity on Trial challenges readers of all beliefs-even those with a belief in disbelief itself-to question the anti-religious bigotry that thrives in our intellectual world and to reevaluate the role of Christianity not only as a source of consolation but of enlightenment and human liberation as well.

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  • Canaan Land : A Religious History Of African Americans

    $15.99

    Description
    Throughout African-American history, religion has been indelibly intertwined with the fight against intolerance and racial prejudice. Martin Luther King, Jr.-America’s best-known champion of civil liberties-was a Baptist minister. Father Divine, a fiery preacher who established a large following in the 1920s and 1930s, convinced his disciples that he could cure not only disease and infirmity, but also poverty and racism.

    An in-depth examination of African-American history and religion, this comprehensive and lively book provides panoramic coverage of the black religious and social experience in America. Renowned historian Albert J. Raboteau traces the subtle blending of African tribal customs with the powerful Christian establishment, the migration to cities, the growth of Islam, and the 200-year fight for freedom and identity which was so often centered around African-American churches. From the African Methodist Episcopal Church to the Nation of Islam and from the first African slaves to Louis Farrakhan, this far-reaching book chronicles the evolution of an important and influential component of our religious and historical heritage. African American Religion combines meticulously researched historical facts with a fast-paced, engaging narrative that will appeal to readers of any age.

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  • Religion And Literature

    $38.00

    1. History Of The Field And Theoretical Issue
    2. The Expoloration Of Origins
    3. The Interpretive Tradition Of Literature And Religion
    4. The Language And Literature Of Worship
    5. The Literary Structres Of Religious Text Genres
    6. Religious Dimesions Of Literary Text Genres
    7. The Great Themes Of Literature And Religion
    8. Interations New Challenges To And From Other Fields

    Additional Info
    Religion and literature contains selections from more than seventy sources, ranging from the ancient classics, the Bible, Western materpieces, and contemporary literature. Study questions for each chapter appear at the end of the book. The insights of two internationally renowned scholars in the field of religion and literature provide a magisterial and accessible entree into this important acedemic discipline. Religion and Literature is destined to become a classic in its own right.

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  • Feminist Ethic Of Risk (Revised)

    $29.00

    Rich and suggestive, distinctive and influential, A Feminist Ethic of Risk proposes a new model for ethics and new life-orientation for social justice. Directly addressing American and European “middle-class despair” over issues and challenges seemingly too large to tackle.

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  • Inspired Lives : Exploring The Role Of Faith And Spirituality In The Lives

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    SKU (ISBN): 9781893361331ISBN10: 1893361330Joanna Laufer | Kenneth LewisBinding: Trade PaperPublisher: Skylight Paths Publishing

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  • Perfect Strangers Guide To Funerals And Grieving Practices

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  • Perfect Strangers Guide To Wedding Ceremonies

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  • History Of Christianity

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    Since publication of the first edition in 1918, A History of the Christian Church by Williston Walker has enjoyed outstanding success and recognition as a classic in the field. Written by an eminent theologian, it combines in its narrative a rare blend of clarity, unity, and balance. In light of significant advances in scholarship in recent years, extensive revisions have been made to this fourth edition. Three scholars from Union Theological Seminary in New York have incorporated new historical discoveries and provided fresh interpretations of various periods in church history from the first century to the twentieth. The result is a thoroughly updated history which preserves the tenor and structure of Walker’s original, unparalleled text.

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