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Healing Affluenza and Resisting Plutocracy: Luke's Jesus and Sabbath Economics
Myers offers fresh socio-literary analysis of, and engaged commentary on, the Third Gospel. He shows how, amid our modern crisis of socioeconomic disparity, Luke's vision of Sabbath Economics can build social imagination among communities of faith and justice and animate personal and political practices of systemic change.
$45.00
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A Dream Eclipsed: The Fractured Quest for Greater Lutheran Unity
Lowell G. Almen tells the story of the ELCA's birth, life, and growing pains as it sought to promote and embody Christian unity. A Dream Eclipsed is a memoir of the ELCA's first three and a half decades told from Almen's personal and professional experience. It offers a unique view of the ELCA's founding era as the church looks to what lies ahead.
$28.00
Available February 11, 2025
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Building a Moral Economy: Pathways for People of Courage
Moe-Lobeda develops a groundbreaking, practical, and visionary guidebook for building a moral economy: its urgency, the life-giving role of religious networks, and the varied forms of action needed. She skillfully traces pathways to follow in the sacred journey to equitable, ecological, and democratic economies: sustainable life in community.
$35.00
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God, Gender, and Family Trauma: How Rereading Genesis Can Be a Revelation
Driver uses trauma-informed scholarship and Jewish midrash to invite readers into new understandings of Genesis. Viewing figures such as Sarah, Joseph, Tamar, and Dinah through this lens sheds valuable light on what the Bible can teach us about gender and family trauma. These ancient stories have implications for our own lives in ministry.
$29.00
Available March 11, 2025
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The Africana Bible, Second Edition: Reading Israel's Scriptures from Africa and the African Diaspora
The second edition features an updated commentary on each book of the Hebrew Bible that is authoritative for African and African-diaspora communities worldwide. It highlights issues of the Black community (such as globalization and the colonial legacy) and the distinctive norms of interpretation in African and African-diaspora settings.
$59.00
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True to Our Native Land, Second Edition: An African American New Testament Commentary
True to Our Native Land is a pioneering commentary of the New Testament that sets biblical interpretation firmly in the context of African American experience and concern. The second edition includes updated commentaries and essays.
$49.00
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Old Words for a New World
Brueggemann moves between a description of the reality that appears in front of the church and the alternative that God is preparing for God's people that begins now and moves into God's eschatological future. In so doing, Brueggemann seeks to unleash the power of God's words to create a new world--here and now.
$28.00
Available February 4, 2025
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Eight Theories of Justice: Perspectives from Philosophical and Theological Ethics
Eight Theories of Justice presents ideas of justice in political philosophy and theological ethics: utilitarianism, liberalism, libertarianism, communitarianism, Catholic social teaching, Christian realism, liberation theology, and womanism. Each chapter introduces the major elements of a theory and an assessment of its value for living justly.
$30.00
Available April 1, 2025
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Living Out of Control: Political and Personal Faith in Waning Christendom
Living Out of Control is an exploration of how American Christians can respond to our political situation amid waning Christendom. Clapp depicts how we may now live as Christians without the reassertion of Christendom. The book offers hopeful chapters on prefigurative politics, the Christian anarchic tendency, friendship, and resonance.
$25.00
Available February 18, 2025
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Trauma-Informed Spiritual Care: Interventions for Safety, Meaning, Reconnection, and Justice
Tumminio Hansen offers a dynamic exploration of how trauma affects the spiritual lives of sufferers both individually and collectively. Blending cutting-edge research in both theology and psychology, she offers targeted interventions that caregivers can use to both ease pain and provide hope.
$30.00
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United with Christ: Martin Luther and Christian Mysticism
Leppin illuminates how Luther's emerging theology drew upon deep wells of personal mystical experience and the guidance of late-medieval mystics such as fourteenth-century priest and theologian John Tauler and others who influenced the reformer's views on a host of theological subjects, including such cornerstones as the Passion and the Eucharist.
$39.00
Available February 18, 2025
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Capernaum: Jews and Christians in the Ancient Village from the Time of Jesus to the Emergence of Islam
The book meets the needs of scholars and students of New Testament Studies, Rabbinics, Patristics/Byzantine Studies, and Galilean Studies for information on the localized historical development of Jewish-Christian interaction in the town of Capernaum through the integration of archaeological and literary sources.
$49.00
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Agapic Anger: Influencing Change While Navigating Gender
Christian culture often treats anger as problematic, conditioning women and gender-diverse people to act in ways that make others feel secure. If these groups do display anger, only constricted expressions like sadness seem acceptable. Jan R. Schnell argues that communities benefit when people fully explore anger as a vital part of vocation.
$29.00
Available February 25, 2025
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Shared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling, Revised and Expanded 20th Anniversary Edition
For twenty years, educators, caregivers, psychotherapists, and theologians have turned to Pamela Cooper-White's Shared Wisdom on the dynamics between caregivers and care seekers. Now, Cooper-White updates her groundbreaking book to present new insights on how understanding one's own emotional reactions remains a core competency for ministry.
$35.00
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Song of Songs: A Commentary
Berlin approaches the Song of Songs as a Jewish-Hellenistic work of love poetry. She notes Greek ideas throughout the book and shows how they have been adjusted into Jewish thought and literary forms. Going beyond previous studies, this volume emphasizes that the Song's blending of the Jewish and the Greek is part of its literary virtuosity.
$89.00
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Quiet Voices: Silence in the Hebrew Bible
Silence occurs between words during conversation and between musical notes in a composition, and is an indicator of mood and emotion. Examining silence in the context of the Bible gives the reader the opportunity to ask significant questions about why silence occurs, its value to life, and how it relates to our understanding of God.
$39.00
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The Reformations of Medicine: Early Modern Beginnings and Contemporary Possibilities
The Reformations of Medicine explores the transformations of religious approaches to medicine in early modernity, with a particular focus on Martin Luther's thought. Lomperis examines implications of these early modern developments for contemporary intersections of spirituality and healthcare.
$44.00
Available April 22, 2025
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Gospel as Letter: A Commentary on 1 Thessalonians
This reading of 1 Thessalonians--quite possibly the earliest text in the Christian canon--tracks the "media revolution" when the gospel moved from oral to written form. The commentary pays careful attention to ethics (how the gospel translates into Christian living) and theology (how the gospel resolves some of the basic fears of life).
$79.00
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When the Spirit Is Your Inheritance: Reflections on Borderlands Pentecostalism
This book explores Latino Pentecostal racial identity by focusing on lived religious practices, sociological insights, and grounded theological reflection. Jonthan Calvillo addresses issues of immigration, Latinidad, anti-Black racism, and economic justice by presenting cross-generational snapshots of belonging in the United States.
$29.00
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Everyday Encounters: Humanizing Dialogue in Theory and Practice
Everyday Encounters introduces the importance of dialogue to humanize others in healthy ways. Hans Gustafson presents dialogue as a versatile and vital tool for communication across diverse contexts. The book condenses practical insights about the theory and practice of dialogue and human engagement across difference into five short chapters.
$30.00
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