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The Apocryphal Sunday: History and Texts from Late Antiquity
The overriding importance of Sunday as a Christian feast day is emphasized by many apocryphal and pseudepigraphic texts from Late Antiquity, above all the broadly received Letter from Heaven. This volume presents versions of this letter together with other texts, partly based on a new edition, including introduction, translation, and commentary.
$49.00
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Jewish Paideia: Education and Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora
Jewish Paideia examines the diverse and complex views on education in the Hellenistic and early Roman Diaspora and how these understandings of education were inextricably bound to continually evolving constructions and reshapings of self- and communal identity.
$49.95
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Kabbalah as Literature: The Revolution of Interpretation
Kabbalah as Literature celebrates the mysterious complexity of the Kabbalah while demonstrating its inherent intertextual comprehensibility. In an age of algorithms that limit social interaction, this book offers a literary-theological worldview that champions an interplay of perspectives and promotes a true exchange of ideas.
$45.00
Available September 10, 2024
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Desirable Belief: A Theology of Eros
This book offers an analysis of erotic love in the Bible, patristic theology, mystical writings, philosophy, and literature. Eschewing hyper-conservative shaming of lust and overly optimistic views of eros as sacred and liberating, the book demonstrates how eros illuminates core Christian beliefs about Jesus Christ, the afterlife, and the Trinity.
$45.00
Available September 10, 2024
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Christians and War: A Brief History
James Reimer's thoughtful survey of Christian teachings and practices on issues of war, violence, and the state takes readers from classical Greco-Roman times to postmodernity. Reimer encourages readers to think about difficult subjects and to hold their own position that promotes both peace and justice.
$16.00
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Toward a Public Theology in Myanmar
This volume reflects the journey of a team from Myanmar and India listening and learning from each other. At a fundamental level, the book will trigger a rethinking of Mission in Myanmar in the context of re-imposed military rule.
$32.00
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Injustice and the Care of Souls, Second Edition: Taking Oppression Seriously in Pastoral Care
Injustice and the Care of Souls, Second Edition, explores injustices in church and society and their impact on pastoral caregiving. The book offers pastoral and spiritual caregivers broader contexts, knowledge, and skills to respond effectively to marginalized people and to reflect on how their own social locations affect their work.
$39.00
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Crucified: The Christian Invention of the Jewish Executioners of Jesus
The accusation that Jews executed Jesus is perhaps the most overlooked of all Christianity's troubling traditions. In this study, J. Christopher Edwards shines a light on this forgotten tradition in which Christians rewrite their history to blame Jews for the crucifixion of Jesus.
$28.00
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Great Cloud of Witnesses: How the Dead Make a Living Church
Protestants should venerate the saints: this shocking claim is at the heart of Great Cloud of Witnesses. Readers will learn creative ways of reading Scripture, how important doctrines developed, and how to live like a monk, even with a job and a family. They will gain appreciation of the saints and saint veneration.
$29.00
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Radical Kinship: A Christian Ecospirituality
Rachel Wheeler offers compelling testimony for the value--and the life-giving power--of "rewilding." Drawing on the Bible, Christian spirituality, and environmental disciplines, Radical Kinship provides theoretical foundations and practical strategies for restoring the life-generating and life-sustaining norms in which we were created to dwell.
$35.00
Available September 24, 2024
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Alterity and the Evasion of Justice: Explorations of the “Other” in World Christianity
This volume considers overlooked "others" in the field of World Christianity. Contributors point to gender, sexuality, and race as themes ripe for exploration, while also identifying areas that have fallen outside the dominant World Christianity narrative, such as the Middle East and postcolonial indigenous and aboriginal theological expressions.
$36.00
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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
Available September 24, 2024
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Reading the Margins: Encounters with the Bible in Literature
Reading the Margins engages with literature to offer a kind of commentary on biblical ethics. Using Matthew's Beatitudes and sheep and goats parable as an organizing principle, Gilmour argues there is much to learn about Jesus's "peacemakers" and the call to feed the hungry from aspirational fiction and poetry.
$39.00
Available September 24, 2024
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Paragon of Excellence: Luther's Sermons on 1 Peter
Ngien demonstrates that, for Martin Luther, the apostle Peter stood alongside John and Paul as a preacher of "the genuine and pure gospel." Luther's sermons on 1 Peter illustrate the range and depth of the reformer's mature theological thought. Peter's epistle stands as what Luther considered one of the "foremost books" of the New Testament.
$32.00
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The Bible Is Not Enough: Imagination and Making Peace in the Modern World
The Bible. Neither a rule book nor a manual. Neither theology nor simply anthology. The Bible is a beginning, but not an end. The Bible imagines what a peaceful world might look like and then depends upon its readers to realize that world.
$19.95
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Bearing Witness: The Wounds of Mass Trauma at Memorial Museums
Bearing Witness is a poignant account of the global movement to commemorate the dead at memorial museums. Dr. Stephanie Arel offers an insightful look into the professional lives of those who remember and an inspiring argument for tenderness when tending the wounds of mass trauma.
$28.00
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The Ethics of Protection: Reimagining Child Welfare in an Anti-Black Society
In the US, Black children are twice as likely as white children to be removed from their parents and adopted out to strangers. The Ethics of Protection responds to this dire reality with a liberationist approach to child welfare ethics. This book reframes child welfare by centering the stories, challenges, failures, and victories of Black families.
$34.00
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Early High Christology: John among the New Testament Writers
Over the past forty years, scholarship on John's Gospel has explored its theological vision and literary coherence. Marianne Meye Thompson's scholarship has contributed richly to this field of study. Here, some of today's top scholars advance our understanding of the Fourth Gospel by studying its relationships to other biblical texts.
$55.00
Available October 1, 2024
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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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Pilgrim Journey: Instruction in the Mystery of the Gospel
In Pilgrim Journey, Curtis W. Freeman guides newly baptized Christians to discern the mysteries of the gospel. It is a sequel and companion volume to Pilgrim Letters: Instruction in the Basic Teaching of Christ (Fortress, 2020).
$26.00
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