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Tax Collector to Gospel Writer: Patristic Traditions about the Evangelist Matthew
Matthew, the tax collector-turned-apostle of Jesus, was identified as a Gospel writer as early as the beginning of the second century CE. Michael J. Kok weighs the internal and external evidence regarding Matthew's authorship of the "Gospel according to Matthew" and the "Gospel according to the Hebrews."
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Jesus the Refugee: Ancient Injustice and Modern Solidarity
The book argues that the holy family has a limited set of legal options for protection, but under current law is unlikely to receive any. Along with the basics of modern refugee law and processes, Butner raises ethical challenges to the refugee system, indicting our moral failures and daring us to make amends.
$25.00
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Honestly: Telling the Truth about the Bible and Ourselves
It's no wonder modern Christians have trouble with the truth after living for so long with lies about the Bible. This book aims to set the record straight and encourage honest conversation about the Bible and ourselves. It explores a number of big topics through the lenses of truth and faith.
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A New Song We Now Begin: Celebrating the Half Millennium of Lutheran Hymnals 1524-2024
We tend to remember hymns one at a time. We forget that the reason we can do so is because they have been made available throughout the centuries in hymnals. This edited collection explores the 500-year tradition of Lutheran hymnal production, illustrating how these books have influenced Lutheran faith and worship practice over time.
$39.00
Available May 14, 2024
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Singing Church History: Introducing the Christian Story Through Hymn Texts
Christianity is a "singing church" with biblical foundations and centuries of examples in Psalms and canticles, hymns, and gospel songs. Rorem brings history to life through engaging tales of the stories behind hymn texts. This volume is an ecumenical history of the music that has us "singing church history" each Sunday.
$32.00
Available May 14, 2024
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Sola: Christ, Grace, Faith, and Scripture Alone in Martin Luther's Theology
Leppin explores the four "solas" of the Reformation -- Christ, grace, faith, and scripture -- as both anchored in the culture of late-medieval devotion and representing new, firmly demarcated formulae. Leppin helps readers understand that in the journey toward new theological understandings, continuity and discontinuity were inextricably linked.
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Available May 14, 2024
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A Grief Received: What to Do When Loss Leaves You Empty Handed
In A Grief Received, JL Gerhardt offers a personal, authentic, and practical approach to weathering grief with hope. She draws on the loss of her younger brother when she was twenty-one and other experiences of grief. Through nine practices grieving people can adopt to position themselves to receive the gifts of grief, Gerhardt sheds light on a path to transformation. Readers will feel comforted, directed, and inspired to seek God's shaping in their grief.
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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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In the Midst of Chaos: Caring for Children as Spiritual Practice
In the Midst of Chaos, by Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, explores parenting as spiritual practice.
Both honest about the difficulties and attentive to the blessings present in everyday life, it explores how parents might use seven daily practices, such as play, reading, chores, and saying goodbye or goodnight, as rich opportunities to shape both parent and child morally and spiritually.
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Discipleship: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 4
"Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of our church. Our struggle today is for costly grace." And with that sharp warning to his own church, which was engaged in...
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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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Priestly Presence: A Church for the World’s Sake
Priestly Presence explores five dimensions of priestly service as a model for church-world relations. Nugent explores the meaning of each dimension and fleshes out practical implications for local congregations. In so doing, he provides a compelling approach to church-world relations that today's fractured church desperately needs.
$34.00
Available May 21, 2024
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Letters and Papers from Prison: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 8
Despite Dietrich Bonhoeffer's earlier theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world...
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Saving Images: The Presence of the Bible in Christian Liturgy
The Protestant Reformation emphasized the centrality of Scripture to Christian life; the twentieth-century liturgical movement emphasized the Bible's place at the heart of liturgy. But...
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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 USA 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.
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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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Ruptured Bodies: A Theology of the Church Divided
Ruptured Bodies is a systematic theological account of the divided church. It argues that no ecclesiology can ignore division, because in doing so, it fails to describe the church that actually is. Such an understanding must integrate the reality of division, while refusing to blunt its sharp edge.
$39.00
Available May 28, 2024
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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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Deconstructing Racism: A Path toward Lasting Change
Deconstructing Racism explores why change has been so difficult to come by and offers new paths toward lasting change through the deconstruction of racism's roots within systems and institutions. It speaks to people in both church and society who are or have been working to dismantle institutional and systemic racism.
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Bonhoeffer and King: Their Legacies and Import for Christian Social Thought
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King, Jr. -- these giants of recent Christian social thought are here reassessed for a new context and a new generation....
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