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Precious Precarity: A Spirituality of Borders
Precious Precarity is a spirituality of borders that embraces the challenges, differences, contrasts, unpredictability, vulnerability, and difficult choices that exist where the Global South meets the Global North.
$36.00
Available May 21, 2024
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The Progressives' Bible: How Scriptural Interpretation Built a More Just America
Progressive movements have rooted themselves in the Bible as much as conservative. This book examines how abolitionism, women's rights, and civil rights movements used scripture for their arguments, featuring the work of Maria Stewart, Septima Clark, Fannie Lou Hamer, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
$29.00
Available May 21, 2024
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God Trauma and Wisdom Therapy: A Commentary on Job
This volume challenges readers to recognize an alternative interpretation of the book of Job that is based on wisdom and not covenant. In doing so, it provides a basis to explore the role of trauma and its healing.
$30.00
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The Emancipation of God: Postmarks on Cultural Prophecy
Understanding the gospel as emancipation has been central to Walter Brueggemann's biblical interpretation. This book illustrates the theme's centrality, addressing the emancipation of God from our attempts to control, the emancipation of the church to be the people of an emancipated God, and the emancipation of the gospel to be a cultural prophecy.
$28.00
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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
Available May 28, 2024
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Face to Face: Martin Luther's View of Reality
Kolb explores Luther's use of the Latin preposition coram - "face-to-face" - to demonstrate the foundational role of relationships in Luther's thought. For Luther, believers, fundamentally rooted in their relationship with the Creator of every person and thing, experience all of life's realities in relationship: with God, self, and others.
$39.00
Available May 28, 2024
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Caribbean Lutherans: The History of the Church in Puerto Rico
Caribbean Lutherans tells the story of the Lutheran church in Puerto Rico from a Caribbean perspective. Rodriguez intersperses archival research with cogent commentary and personal accounts, highlighting the power and agency of Puerto Rican and West Indian Lutherans amid the multifaceted legacy of Euro-American missionary efforts on the island.
$28.00
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Proverbs 1-15
The book of Proverbs is more than the sum of its parts. Even if some proverbs could be older, the overall composition stems from the late Persian or early Hellenistic period. By introducing the scribal student to the foundations of sapiential knowledge and its critical reflection, the book of Proverbs comes close to the critical wisdom of Job and Qohelet. In addition to a detailed exegesis of the biblical text, this commentary presents new parallels from Egyptian wisdom literature.
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2 Maccabees: A Critical Commentary
The second-century B.C.E. Maccabean revolt against Seleucid oppression was a watershed event in early Jewish history and Second Maccabees is an important...
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Walking with Our Ancestors: Contemplation and Activism
Contemplation is a necessary step of activism. Barbara Holmes reveals that the justice movements in the twentieth century came from consistent contemplation practices of those seeking liberation. Through both contemplation and activism, our ancestors paved the way while showing us how to continue the fight for justice.
$14.99
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Poor Technology: Artificial Intelligence and the Experience of Poverty
Artificial intelligence (AI) has demonstrated such advancement that people ask if it should be granted the moral status of personhood. This book argues that this view assumes that personhood corresponds to how well one's thinking mirrors the biases, worldview, and intelligence of the middle class, relegating the poor to the status of "nonhuman."
$46.00
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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
Available July 2, 2024
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End Time Politics: From the Moral Majority to QAnon
End Time Politics shows how popular beliefs about God's impending judgment on the world--rooted in millenarian ideologies, Cold-War grandstanding, racial antipathy, and nuclear build-up--shaped an economic movement that led to white evangelicals' unflinching support of Donald Trump.
$39.00
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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
Available July 16, 2024
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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
Available July 16, 2024
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The Mystified Letter: How Medieval Theology Can Reenchant the Practice of Reading
Reading has become a problem--not just of attention, comprehension, or illiteracy rates, but of politics, society, and religion. The Mystified Letter offers an alternative to this malaise: a theology of reading centered on mystical encounter. It retrieves medieval Christian reading culture to build a case for a mystical theology of literature.
$34.00
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Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition
M. Shawn Copeland demonstrates how Black women's historical experience casts a different light on our theological ideas about being human. This new edition incorporates recent theological, historical, and political scholarship; engages with current social movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo; and presents a new chapter on the body.
$26.00
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The Odes of Solomon
Known until the 18th century only from fragmentary quotations and references in patristic literature, more recent discoveries of Greek, Coptic, and Syriac...
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Faithful Teaching: Lutherans and Catholics in Dialogue XII
Faithful Teaching is the twelfth dialogue of the U.S. Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue. It seeks greater mutual understanding of the two communions' respective processes of faithful teaching. In challenging times, the call to continue to preach and teach the gospel together resounds with new urgency.
$24.00
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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
Available August 6, 2024
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