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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
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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.
$34.00
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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
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The Augsburg Confession: With Introduction, Commentary, and Study Guide
The Augsburg Confession is a unique document in Christian church history: a succinct summary of the heart of Christian teaching and a defense of changes in practice. Kolb and Wengert invite readers into these riches in this annotated study edition based on Eric W. Gritsch's translation with new cross-references to the 1531 editio princeps.
$29.00
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The Africana Bible, Second Edition: Reading Israel's Scriptures from Africa and the African Diaspora
The second edition features an updated commentary on each book of the Hebrew Bible that is authoritative for African and African-diaspora communities worldwide. It highlights issues of the Black community (such as globalization and the colonial legacy) and the distinctive norms of interpretation in African and African-diaspora settings.
$59.00
Available October 22, 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.
$36.00
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What Is African American Religion?: Expanded Edition
Is there really a monolithic "Black church"? Distilling the arguments of Anthony Pinn's important and provocative work in Terror and Triumph, this brief volume asks the central question: What really is African American religion? In this expanded edition, Pinn offers new reflections on the state of the Black church.
$14.99
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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
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Christianity and Transforming States: Mapping Varied Christian Experiences and Responses
Christians can be both victims and victimizers, and herein lies this volume's unique contribution. Offering a two-sided approach, this book examines what it means to live as a Christian minority both in non-Christian societies, and in societies where other forms of Christianity are dominant.
$49.00
Available October 1, 2024
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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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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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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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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.
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Indexes and Supplementary Materials: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 17
The completion of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, the definitive English translation of the Critical Edition, represents a milestone in theological scholarship. Now, the editorial team has offered an essential companion to the entire series in the form of an index volume.
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Walter Brueggemann's Prophetic Imagination: A Theological Biography
Walter Brueggemann's The Prophetic Imagination emerged seemingly out of nowhere in 1978. Its appeal took even the author by surprise. But its message and relevance, and the enigmatic prophet from Missouri, were just what the American church needed. This book addresses the mystery of a prophetic breakthrough that remains relevant and necessary.
$24.95
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Elements of Christian Thought: A Basic Course in Christianese
In the spring of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic disrupted classrooms around the world, Eugene Rogers transcribed the lectures that make his Introduction to Christian Thought course justly famous.
The result is an engaging introduction to the language--"Christianese"--that participants use to discuss God's activity in and for our world.
From Anselm to Wyschogrod, Rogers introduces us to the most interesting speakers of Christianese, enabling us to take part in the living conversation.
$6.25
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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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Holywood: Lights, Cameras, and Catholics in the Age of American Spectacle
Americans grew to accept their Catholic neighbors not through attending mass, but by going to the movies, to the theatre, and to the press. Holywood examines three striking episodes of interwar Catholic visual culture and shows what they reveal about the mutual influence of Catholicism, American religiosity, and popular culture.
$36.00
Available May 6, 2025
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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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A Documentary History of Lutheranism: Volumes 1 and 2
This unique collection of excerpts from Lutheran historical and theological documents—many translated here for the first time—presents readers with a full picture of how the...
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