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Excavating Women: The Archaeology of Leaders in Early Christianity
Excavating Women investigates the leadership of women in Christian churches in the first six centuries CE through a study of archaeological remains. Carina Prestes surveys the role of women in Greco-Roman society and examines funerary remains of the first Christian centuries to understand the role of women in Christian communities.
$79.00
Available June 17, 2025
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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
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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
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Faithful Exchange: The Economy as It's Meant to Be
Faithful Exchange offers a careful review of the biblical and historical materials and a critical appraisal of the current debate about capitalism versus socialism. The book suggests perspectives from Christian theology that provide both prophetic critique of and missional engagement with various economic structures.
$39.00
Available June 24, 2025
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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
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The Repentance of YHWH: Mark's Gospel of Universal Inclusion
The Repentance of YHWH reads the Gospel of Mark as understanding itself to be the latest installment in a long, complex, multivolume story, complete with atmosphere, setting, genealogies, ancient friends and foes, and all the other facets normal and natural to such epic tales. Mark believes he wrote the next chapter of a true, mythological history.
$34.00
Available July 1, 2025
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Food Theology: Nourishing Faith in Local Communities
Weaving together scriptural reflection, compelling stories, best practices, and satisfying recipes, Food Theology introduces a gospel-centered food theology and provides a user-friendly "how to" guide for those who want to explore and deepen the transformative role of food in their mission and ministry.
$29.00
Available September 9, 2025
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Luteranismo en el Caribe: La misión luterana en Puerto Rico
Luteranismo en el Caribe cuenta la historia de la iglesia luterana en Puerto Rico desde una perspectiva caribena. Rodriguez combina la investigacion de archivo con comentarios y relatos, realzando el poder y la agencia de luteranos puertorriquenos y antillanos en medio del legado multifacetico de los esfuerzos misioneros euroamericanos en la isla.
$28.00
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Jesus, History, and Revelation: Karl Barth and N. T. Wright in Dialogue
This is the first book to bring Karl Barth into dialogue with N. T. Wright. Mallary clarifies the relationship between Jesus's humanity and the content of divine revelation, explains the conditions whereby humans can discern this revelation, and unpacks the implications of both for the limits of historical study for Christian theology.
$95.00
Available July 22, 2025
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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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Alphabet of Faith: Prophetic Prayers for a Chaotic World
In Alphabet of Faith Brueggemann offers exemplars of prayers that reverence what it means to believe, point to the gritty faith required to confront the powers of this world in prayer, and follow biblical examples in engaging the world for good and for God. In the end, Brueggemann challenges followers of God to make their own book of prayers.
$26.00
Available July 29, 2025
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Marcion: The Gospel of a Wholly Good God
This comprehensive portrait of Marcion's life, thought, and work measures heresy reports by the rod of Marcion's scriptures to create a new paradigm for understanding the Pontian as a believer in one good God, Christ truly crucified, the importance of celibacy, the reality of Christian sacraments, and a Pauline canon.
$34.00
Available August 19, 2025
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The Dove and the Dragon: A Cultural History of the Apocalypse
The Dove and the Dragon is the first comprehensive history of Western apocalypticism. Ed Simon introduces a new system for classifying the movements between hopeful "doves" and violent "dragons." This way of interpreting history gives a full scope of apocalypticism as a genre. The book promises to be the standard introduction for years to come.
$39.00
Available August 12, 2025
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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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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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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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Lost in Translation: Recovering the Origins of Familiar Biblical Words
Two millennia of time, translation, and interpretation mean that what we read and understand in English today is often very different from what the Hebrew would have meant to the Bible's authors and earliest readers. This book recovers those original meanings and explores their relevance for today.
$28.00
Available August 19, 2025
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Apocalypses in Context: Apocalyptic Currents Through History, 2nd Edition
Apocalypses in Context is designed for the classroom, bringing together the insights of scholars and using different methods to discuss the manifestations of apocalyptic enthusiasm in different ages. The second edition includes four new chapters on topics relevant to the modern student and revisions based on classroom feedback.
$55.00
Available August 19, 2025
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1 Samuel: A Conceptual Feminist Interpretation
Susanne Scholz here offers a new interpretation of the historical narrative in 1 Samuel in ways that sharply illuminate its archaeological, historical, and exegetical dimensions and its treatment of women, men, the monarchy, and the ethnic and national rivalries that drive the narrative.
$39.00
Available November 4, 2025
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A Revolutionary Jesus: Violence and Peacemaking in the Kingdom of God
This book demonstrates that Jesus's rejection of violence and emphasis on peacemaking were central to the eschatological nature of his ministry of proclaiming and inaugurating the kingdom of God. To follow Jesus's teaching and example is to completely disassociate violence from the character of both the kingdom and all who belong to it.
$36.00
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