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The Hebrew Bible: Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives
This volume provides an introduction and essays on the four key sections of the Hebrew Scriptures from the perspective of top female biblical scholars: Part...
$19.00
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Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition
In Nothing Gained Is Eternal, Anne Carpenter argues for a theory of tradition firmly moored to the ambiguities, contradictions, and varied fruits of the past. She challenges readers to wrestle with whether tradition can persist despite its colonialist practices. In asking this question, she offers hope for transforming tradition in its wake.
$34.00
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Mother of the Lamb: The Story of a Global Icon
Mother of the Lamb tells the remarkable story of a Byzantine icon: the Virgin of the Passion. Matthew Milliner traces the history, evolution, and theological significance of one of the most pervasive images of our time.
$28.00
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The Kingdom Among Us: The Gospel According to Dallas Willard
The Kingdom Among Us presents a comprehensive account of Dallas Willard's theology. By examining Willard's writings and hundreds of hours of audio recordings, Michael Steward Robb both recovers and expands Willard's theological vision of the kingdom among us. Readers will encounter a complete picture of one of the giants of modern spirituality.
$46.00
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Storied Witness: The Theology of Black Women Preachers in 19th-Century America
Kate Hanch conducts a careful reading of these 19th-century Black women preachers' narratives and their texts, both written and spoken, to make explicit their theology. Storied Witness calls attention to the essential lived witness of Zilpha Elaw, Julia Foote, and Sojourner Truth.
$28.00
Available October 18, 2022
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Language for God: A Lutheran Perspective
Language for God explores the ways language and images influence who we are and how we live. It declares the necessity of language and images for God that are expansive and inclusive of all genders. Lutheran perspectives are used as a compass to offer scriptural, theological, and historical insights to advance the reformation of Christian language.
$26.00
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Theology in the Capitalocene: Ecology, Identity, Class, and Solidarity
Joerg Rieger takes a new look at the things that cause the growing destruction and death of people and the planet. And yet, understanding is only a start. Solidarity and the willingness to work at the intersections--the triad of gender, race, class, and more--must mark the work of theology.
$22.00
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Loving Creation: The Task of the Moral Life
Gary Chartier offers an alternative to natural-law theories that disregard people's welfare and embrace impartiality. He envisions Christian love as focused on creation to enrich social practices and personal life. Loving Creation contributes to theological understanding, personal moral reflection, church practice, and participation in public life.
$39.00
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Batman Is Jesus
Artist-theologian Siku introduces the concept of Narrative Theology--and the specific subset of Graphic Theology--that informs his unique work and ministry. Through visual language, he demonstrates a contemporary method of engaging with the Bible that resonates with how the Hebrew sages and prophets of pre-antiquity read Scripture.
$16.99
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The Arc of Truth: The Thinking of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s significance for humanity cannot be considered only his contributions as a preacher, pastor, civil rights leader, and world figure--he was and remains equally impactful as a theologian, philosopher, and ethicist whose life and thought evince an enduring search for and commitment to truth.
$35.00
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Irrevocable: The Name of God and the Unity of the Christian Bible
Irrevocable focuses attention upon a crucial but often misunderstood feature of the Bible--God's personal proper name. Author R. Kendall Soulen explores the implications of God's proper name for Christian faith and for Christianity's relationship to Judaism and Islam.
$34.00
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The Politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social Justice, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
This anniversary edition of The Politics of God includes a major new preface, in which Tanner addresses the changes in the social and political situation that have accumulated in the decades since the book's publication and resituates her argument for a new generation of theologians and activists.
$29.00
Available November 15, 2022
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The Prophetic Lens: The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier
The Prophetic Lens takes an important look at the use of the video camera as an indispensable prophetic tool for the security of Black lives and greater possibility for racial justice. The book highlights both the prophetic potential of the camera and the context of Blackness as a liminal existence amid a context dominated by whiteness.
$28.00
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The Church in the Public: A Politics of Engagement for a Cruel and Indifferent Age
The Church in the Public shows how church/state dualism has corrupted the church's social witness and allowed neoliberal and neocolonial ideas to assert control of public and political life. Ahn argues for a public church, one that collaborates and cooperates with other public actors and entities in the promotion of a just social order.
$26.00
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An Ecumenical Priesthood: The Spirit of God and the Structure of the Church
The question of whether Protestant ministers are validly ordained remains a barrier for ecumenical reconciliation between Roman Catholics and Protestants. In An Ecumenical Priesthood, Karl Rahner proposes that the nature of the church and the affirmation of the presence of grace among Protestants may open a door to renewal and healing.
$28.00
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Terror and Triumph: The Nature of Black Religion, 20th Anniversary Edition
What is the heart and soul of African American religious life? Anthony Pinn searches out the basic structure of Black religion, tracing the Black religious spirit in its many historical manifestations. In this new edition, Pinn reflects on the argument and invites a panel of five scholars to examine what it means for current and future scholarship.
$29.00
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Confessing and Believing: The Apostles’ Creed as Script for the Christian Life
Confessing and Believing offers a faithful and compelling account of the Christian faith using the Apostles' Creed as a framework. In this book Trevor Hart helps readers, both within and outside the church, understand core Christian beliefs, and how these are related to one another and to the intellectual and cultural contexts of today.
$28.00
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The Audacity of Peace
Scot McKnight sketches a peace ethic that embodies the self-denial of Jesus to the point of the cross and then vindicated by God. Through God's grace and the indwelling Spirit, the participant in the way of Jesus is transformed. A peace ethic is a lived theology whose discerning witness transcends the specific principles and ideas of that theology.
$12.75
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An Evolving God, An Evolving Purpose, An Evolving World
Modernity must be able to absorb the notion of a cosmic and evolving God. The old notions of who is in charge, who is superior and whose theology is paramount is in a state of flux. Unless, or until, a new vision comes into play, directs our hearts, guides our business, underlies our technology, the world is not ready for the horizon of Newness.
$12.75
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Interrupting a Gendered, Violent Church
Working at the intersections of gender studies and Christian theology--particularly diverse feminist and queer theologies--this book points to the real ways churches foster violence around gender. This volume discusses this violent reality while also exploring church as a nexus for resistance to gender-based violence.
$23.00
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