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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.
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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.
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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
Available January 7, 2025
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The Beauty of Souls: Aesthetic Encounters with Marilynne Robinson
The Beauty of Souls dialogues with scriptural, theological, and philosophical interlocutors to illuminate Marilynne Robinson's unique vision. It shows that Robinson's fiction does more than simply display and evoke beauty; it offers a philosophical-theological framework to discover and express the beauty of our own souls.
$36.00
Available March 18, 2025
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We Have Plenty: A Womanist Theology of Communal Abundance for the Black Church
In We Have Plenty, Lorena Parrish traces the history of theologies of prosperity, the ways such theologies appear in the Black church, and the unique harms for Black women and communities. Parrish then offers a womanist way forward, a moral imagination for just social relations, Jesus-centered economic ethics, and Black communal thriving.
$35.00
Available January 21, 2025
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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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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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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
Available February 25, 2025
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Obstacles to Stillness: Thoughts, Hindrances, and Self-Surrender in Evagrius and the Buddha
This book compares the "obstacles" to prayer discussed by the 4th-century monk Evagrius of Pontus with similar "hindrances" found in the scriptures of Buddhist tradition. Offering a fresh approach to Buddhist-Christian dialogue, Geiman focuses on the difficulties faced, and tools used, by both communities in their forms of contemplative practice.
$32.00
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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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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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Vast as the Sea: Hebrew Poetry and the Human Condition
The poetry of the Old Testament articulates the painful experiences of being human. Vast as the Sea shows how texts like Job, Jeremiah, and the Psalms provide honest and healing expressions for life's struggles. This book is a rich resource for scholars and readers of the Bible, as well as for psychologists and pastoral counselors.
$28.00
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Experiencing Gospel: The History and Creativity of Martin Luther's 1534 Bible Project
Jensen's analysis of the 1534 Luther Bible uncovers a central truth of Luther's translation: his commitment to producing this object was founded in his desire that receiving the gospel might become a lived experience. Jensen demonstrates how the seven words and phrases Luther highlighted in his edition summarize his entire theological message.
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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 Chronicles: A Commentary
Ralph W. Klein's magisterial commentary on 1 and 2 Chronicles is now complete. Klein brings to lively expression the unique theological voice of the Chronicler...
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Jonah: A Commentary
In the Hermeneia Jonah translation and commentary, Susan Niditch considers Jonah as a complex reflection upon the heavy matters of life and death, good and evil, and human and divine relations. Her technical study examines the text through the lens of international folklore, and special attention is paid to a legacy of interpretive scholarship.
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Carrying Them with Us: Living through Pregnancy or Infant Loss
Carrying Them with Us: Living through Pregnancy and Infant Loss is a reflection on what pastors David M. Engelstad and Catherine A. Malotky have learned...
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Israel: A Christian Grammar
Israel: A Christian Grammar proposes and defends the theses that the church and the synagogue together constitute Israel; that each is irrevocably promised intimacy with the same God; and that the synagogue should be understood by the church to be more intimate with that God than she is herself.
$28.00
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