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Unborn Bodies: Resurrection and Reproductive Agency
The afterlife is often a concern during fragile moments of reproductive loss. The historical church ignored the death of unborn beings and the precarity of pregnancy, focusing more on the soul than the body. A new approach to eschatology is needed that upholds emerging unborn life and the pregnant believer's moral agency.
$28.00
Available October 17, 2023
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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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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
Available October 24, 2023
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Conversations about Divine Mystery: Essays in Honor of Gail Ramshaw
Here, in a fitting recognition of a life of scholarship, is an esteemed collection of writing by liturgical and homiletical scholars honoring and engaging with Gail Ramshaw's work and extending it to new questions, contexts, and concerns. The volume is organized around themes of her work: lectionary patterns, prayer forms, and theological horizons.
$49.00
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Real World Faith
Bodies, pain, suffering, hunger--and love. Politics, war, violence, hatred--and community. Walter Brueggemann, with wisdom and grace, weaves the story of our present time with God's good purposes. Real World Faith is a prophetic word.
$24.95
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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
Available November 28, 2023
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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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Erotic Defiance: Womanism, Freedom, and Resistance
Erotic Defiance considers the sacred and transformative power of the flesh, investigating the ethical and theological dimensions of the erotic experiences of Black women and performances of Black womanhood. Bryant approaches the erotic as a divine energy that manifests love through the flesh and makes healing, resistance, and self-making possible.
$29.00
Available November 7, 2023
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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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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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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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How to Think Theologically: Fourth Edition
Decades of use and refinement have confirmed How to Think Theologically as a guide for theology students realizing their call to be theologians. Focusing not on thinkers or thoughts, but on thinking, Stone and Duke induct readers into habits of mind that allow understanding of all things social, cultural, and personal in relation to God.
$22.00
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Renewing New Testament Christology
This book redefines "New Testament Christology" as content and as the discipline explaining that content. Behind this dual redefinition stands one conviction: instead of perpetuating the view of Christology as a theologically informed history of early ideas about Christ.
$34.00
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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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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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Everyday Wisdom: Interreligious Studies in a Pluralistic World
Everyday Wisdom is an introduction for lived religion, interreligious studies, and interfaith engagement and leadership. Tying together the aims and learning objectives of interreligious-studies courses, the book proposes a framework for interreligious studies and interfaith leadership, aiming to be a core text in undergraduate and graduate study.
$45.00
Available October 17, 2023
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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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Modern Chinese Theologies: Volume 2: Independent and Indigenous
From the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements in the mission-church landscape of the early twentieth century, to the Calvinist Reformed movement in the contemporary Protestant church, this volume presents a selection of new studies on the theology of the church in China, concentrating on independent and indigenous Chinese churches.
$39.00
Available October 31, 2023
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bell hooks' Spiritual Vision: Buddhist, Christian, and Feminist
Widely heralded as a leading feminist scholar, bell hooks also identified as a Buddhist Christian who believed that love was the antidote to oppression. In bell hooks' Spiritual Vision, Nadra Nittle traces the spirituality in hooks' writings. The book shows hooks as a feminist and a believer who knit together her political and spiritual practices.
$24.00
Available November 7, 2023
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