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Heresy in the Middle Ages: A History of Authority and Exclusion
Medieval Christianity evolved economic, intellectual, and theological structures to consolidate authority and test orthodoxy. This book investigates the relationships between the medieval church and the growing number of heretical groups, highlighting where they were motivated by overlapping concerns such as a zeal to live the apostolic life.
$45.00
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Poverty in the Promised Land: Neighborliness, Resistance, and Restoration
Jesus said, "The poor will always be with you." While this has proven true, Walter Brueggemann challenges systemic and structural ways poverty is reproduced by pointing beyond charity and benevolence to the power of neighborliness as poverty's antidotes.
$19.00
Available August 13, 2024
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Job: Understanding the Biblical Archetype of Patience
In Job: Understanding the Biblical Archetype of Patience, Samuel E. Balentine examines the rich and varied history of interpretation of Job by focusing on the principal characters in the story. Comparing the different interpretations from various time periods and cultures reveals a compelling understanding about the story of Job.
$39.00
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Solomon: Israel’s Icon of Human Achievement
Through Solomon and his place in the larger consciousness of Israel, Walter Brueggemann considers what narratives reveal about the ideals of the ancient Israelite people. Paying attention to nuances of the biblical text, he exposes the competing voices that claim to offer a reliable rendering of Solomon and invites critique of accepted beliefs.
$39.00
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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
Available October 22, 2024
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Singing Church History: Introducing the Christian Story through Hymn Texts
Christianity is a "singing church" with biblical foundations and centuries of examples in Psalms and canticles, hymns, and gospel songs. Rorem brings history to life through engaging tales of the stories behind hymn texts. This volume is an ecumenical history of the music that has us "singing church history" each Sunday.
$34.00
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The Promise of Ecumenical Interpretation: Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox
The Promise of Ecumenical Interpretation achieves its ecumenical goals by returning to the unifying force of the Bible itself. The authors--one Protestant, one Catholic, one Orthodox--agree that consensus about the Bible is tied to the centrality of the Bible for the individual believer and the life of the church.
$45.00
Available August 20, 2024
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A Rumor of Black Lutherans: The Formation of Black Leadership in Early American Lutheranism
The history of Lutheran engagement in the Black context in the US is regrettably thin. This book helps Lutherans in the United States, and other students of American history, assemble a complete account of the role of early American Lutherans in higher education among African Americans.
$24.00
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A New Song We Now Begin: Celebrating the Half Millennium of Lutheran Hymnals 1524-2024
We tend to remember hymns one at a time. We forget that the reason we can do so is because they have been made available throughout the centuries in hymnals. This edited collection explores the 500-year tradition of Lutheran hymnal production, illustrating how these books have influenced Lutheran faith and worship practice over time.
$39.00
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Historicism and Its Problems: The Logical Problem of the Philosophy of History
In this volume, Ernst Troeltsch embraces historical relativity while rejecting historical relativism, and thereby provides a model for the philosophy of history. The volume remains as relevant as it was in 1923.
$89.00
Available October 1, 2024
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The Kingdom Among Us: The Gospel According to Dallas Willard
The Kingdom Among Us presents a comprehensive account of Dallas Willard's theology. By examining Willard's writings and hundreds of hours of audio recordings, Michael Stewart Robb both recovers and expands Willard's theological vision of the kingdom among us. Readers will encounter a complete picture of one of the giants of modern spirituality.
$49.00
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Resurrected to Eternal Life: On Dying and Rising
In this daring meditation, Jürgen Moltmann interrogates dying, the nature of death, and the hope of eternal life. For Moltmann, the living soul that awakens to eternal life is not a ghost in a machine, but the Lebensgestalt, the shape and story of a life. Seasoned readers will find here a capstone to Moltmann's career of theological exploration, while those new to his thought will find a concise and elegant entry point into his work.
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The Proverbial Woman: Class, Gender, and Power in Hebrew Poetry
The Proverbial Woman offers a narrative and dialogical approach to the text of Proverbs 31 that unearths the poetry's social, sexual, and political silences and silencings. Chase excavates the power dynamics that promote elite ideologies even as gaps, ambiguities, and contradictions enable marginalized perspectives within the text to resist them.
$35.00
Available October 15, 2024
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Digital Homiletics: The Theology and Practice of Online Preaching
Digital Homiletics demystifies the art of online preaching and helps readers understand both the why and the how of engaging listeners in digital formats. After laying a concise and accessible theological foundation, Yang shares ten methods for effective digital preaching. Readers will find concrete tips and advice for sharing God's word online.
$19.99
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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
Available August 20, 2024
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The Identity and Mission of the Korean American Church
In this book, scholars of Korean American Protestant churches address key challenges concerning sociocultural and theological formation of identity and mission. The discussions are arranged in three areas: identity formation, missional and spiritual formation, and inter-cultural formation.
$36.00
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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
Available November 5, 2024
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The Augsburg Confession: With Introduction, Commentary, and Study Guide
The Augsburg Confession is a unique document in Christian church history: a succinct summary of the heart of Christian teaching and a defense of changes in practice. Kolb and Wengert invite readers into these riches in this annotated study edition based on Eric W. Gritsch's translation with new cross-references to the 1531 editio princeps.
$29.00
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Jeremiah: The World and the Wound of God
Jeremiah exposes the corruption of religious commitments, addresses national trauma and uncertainty, and proclaims the requirements of true lament and resolve. Daniel Berrigan's fiery, spiritual reading of the prophet Jeremiah evokes social action, religious courage, and personal witness.
$29.00
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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
Available October 22, 2024
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