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Slavery in Early Christianity: Expanded Edition
A classic work that exposed the centrality of enslaved people and slaveholders in early Christian circles. In this expanded edition, the distinguished scholar Jennifer A. Glancy reflects upon recent discoveries and future trajectories related to the study of ancient slavery's impact on Christianity's development.
$34.00
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Speaking of Rape: The Limits of Language in Sexual Violations
Rape survivors need words to recover and tell their stories. But the words available often fail to describe their experiences, which isolates and silences them, enables future perpetration, and lets rape remain unacknowledged. Tumminio Hansen offers fresh ways of speaking and listening that reframe how we can describe, discuss, and address rape.
$34.00
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Critical Faith: What It Is, What It Isn't, and Why It Matters
Critical Faith insists that critical race theory is a tool to grapple with the thorny issue of race in both society and the church. Schwartz-Chaney argues that CRT can help Christians can move past mischaracterizations and caricatures toward a more nuanced view of race, racism, and the tools available to make progress in the church and in society.
$28.00
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Bonhoeffer for the Church: An Introduction
Bonhoeffer for the Church offers an accessible but comprehensive introduction to Bonhoeffer's life and thought for those in ministry or interested in understanding their life in community better. In making Bonhoeffer accessible for the church, Kirkpatrick also reveals Bonhoeffer's astonishing message to the church.
$49.00
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World Christianity and Ecological Theologies
This volume showcases the intersection of religion and ecology, as approached by scholars of religious studies and theology in the Global South and the Global North. It points to what can be generated by these bodies of scholarship, engaged as dialogue partners to investigate new patterns of religious environmentalism.
$39.00
Available October 22, 2024
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In God's Presence: A Theological Reintroduction to Judaism
Alon Goshen-Gottstein offers a spiritual framework for understanding Judaism from its beginnings until today. Incorporating biblical, rabbinic, mystical, and philosophical sources, Goshen-Gottstein argues that Judaism is a religious tradition characterized by the effort to live within God's presence.
$40.00
Available October 29, 2024
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Ezekiel: The Prophet and His Message
This volume is a literary and theological analysis of a biblical document left behind by a prophet known as Ezekiel. His message about judgment and hope came at a critical moment of Israel's history. Ralph W. Klein analyzes the shape of the book, deciphers its imagery, comments on its technical vocabulary, and relates its parts to one another.
$36.00
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The Asianization of Christianity: New Models for Mission
The Asianization of Christianity is a catalyst to change the mission landscape of Asia by making the gospel more accessible to Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Animists, and others. It is hoped that a new generation of mission leaders will use these culturally specific principles to build bridges from the heart of God to the heart of Asian cultures.
$47.00
Available November 5, 2024
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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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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
Available November 12, 2024
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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
Available November 12, 2024
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Christians and Christianity in India Today: Historical, Theological, and Missiological Assessments
This book provides a panoramic view of Christians in India today. It deals with Christianity's history, major theological themes and approaches, and missiological issues in India within the framework of World Christianity.
$44.00
Available November 12, 2024
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Theology in Motion: Migration, History, and Responsibility
Theology in Motion helps us look to the future by analyzing how our past choices about immigration have left us with present responsibilities. Taking these responsibilities seriously and pursuing more just global relationships provides a way forward in which all people might participate and to which Christians are called.
$39.00
Available November 19, 2024
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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
Available November 19, 2024
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Beyond Equality: Women Leaders in Higher Education
Women desire to move past resistance--sticky floors, glass ceilings, glass cliffs--and fulfill their potential for leadership. This book shows that equality is necessary yet insufficient as evidenced by the experiences of women leaders. Responsive agency is the answer to the empty goal of equality.
$35.00
Available November 26, 2024
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Qoheleth: The Ironic Wink
James L. Crenshaw examines the mysteries of Ecclesiastes: the speaker's identity, his emphasis on hidden truths, and his argument of insubstantiality and futility. While exploring Ecclesiastes and its enigmatic author, Crenshaw joins the debate over the lasting relevance of Qoheleth's teachings and Ecclesiastes' place in the biblical canon.
$36.00
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Learning to Be Fair: Equity from Classical Philosophy to Contemporary Politics
Learning to Be Fair excavates the ancient origins of equity in classical Greek and Roman thought and traces their influence on lawyers, philosophers, America's Founding Fathers, and contemporary culture. He connects current debates about equity to long-standing questions about civil disobedience and the possibility of teaching people to be good.
$39.00
Available December 10, 2024
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Abraham: Trials of Family and Faith
Terence E. Fretheim guides readers through the intricacies of Abraham's story in Genesis, examines his family, and assesses the significant roles this family plays across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Fretheim frames the narrative as rooted in the trials of family and faith that define Abraham as the father of three religions.
$36.00
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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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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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