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Finding God among Our Neighbors: An Interfaith Systematic Theology
This supplemental theology text prepares students for articulating their Christian beliefs in a religiously and culturally diverse world.
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The Emergence of Buddhism: Classical Traditions in Contemporary Perspective
This brief survey text tells the story of Buddhism as it unfolds through the narrative of the Brahmanical cosmology from which Buddhism emerged, the stories and...
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World Christianity and Interfaith Relations
World Christianity and Interfaith Relations makes the case that religion is not partitioned off from the secular in the Global South the way it is in the Global North. Rather, religion is deeply integrated into the lives of those in the Global South, even though "secularism" officially predominates.
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Christian – Zen Dialogue: Sacred Stories as a Starting Point for Interfaith Dialogue
Christian - Zen Dialogue aims to inspire and help Christian and Zen adherents, especially laity, to enter into meaningful interfaith dialogue using their own sacred stories. The book focuses on narratives of faith in both Christianity and Zen. Can these sacred stories--gospel stories of Jesus and Chan/Zen stories (Kōans)--be a starting point for dialogue between Christianity and Zen?
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The World's Religions: A Contemporary Reader
This wide-ranging reader combines some of the best and most valuable contemporary perspectives from leading and significant writers, teachers, and thinkers who...
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An Asian Introduction to the New Testament
As the Asian context is the cradle of many of the world's religions, the New Testament writings should be interpreted and reinterpreted by accepting their pluriform religious and ideological aspects. Moreover, the existence of multiple Christian denominations demands a doctrinally and conceptually balanced interpretation of the Scriptures. This book will demonstrate inclusive biblical claims within multireligious and multidenominational contexts.
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Jewish Interpretation of the Bible: Ancient and Contemporary
Although Jewish tradition gives tremendous importance to the Hebrew Bible, from the beginning Jewish interpretation of those scriptures has been practiced with remarkable freedom...
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TANAK: A Theological and Critical Introduction to the Jewish Bible
Though "biblical theology" has long been considered a strictly Christian enterprise, Marvin A. Sweeney here proposes a Jewish theology of the Hebrew Bible,...
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Introducing the Qur'an: For Today's Reader
Watch John Kaltner discuss his new book, Introducing the Qur'an. Find more videos like this on Fortress Forum. Award-winning professor John...
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The End of College: Religion and the Transformation of Higher Education in the 20th Century
The End of College chronicles the transformation of religion's role in higher education in the US during the first half of the twentieth century. This period witnessed an end to the religious college and its decidedly religious ends. In its place, the American university ushered in religion departments and religious studies, which sought to make a more complete democracy.
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Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods, Volume 1: Life, Culture, and Society
This accessible volume includes modern general studies of Galilee and of Galilean history, as well as specialized studies on taxation, ethnicity, religious practices, road systems, trade and markets, education, health, village life, houses, and the urban-rural divide.
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The Quest for the Historical Satan
The figure of Satan has for centuries embodied or incarnated absolute evil. Existing alongside more intellectualist interpretations of evil, Satan has figured...
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The Emergence of Christianity: Classical Traditions in Contemporary Perspective
This brief survey text tells the story of early Christianity. Cynthia White explores the emergence of Christianity in Rome during the first four centuries of...
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Fortress Introduction to the Gospels
With clarity and verve, Mark Allan Powell describes the contents and structure of the Gospels, their distinctive characteristics, and their major themes. An...
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One Gospel, Many Cultures: Doing Theology in Context
While the gospel is static, cultures of the world vary. The Bible exhorts the believer to present the gospel to all nations (ethnos). One Gospel, Many Cultures addresses the theories and practices involved in presenting the gospel to different cultures from biblical, theological, and missiological perspectives.
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Toni Morrison's Spiritual Vision: Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in Her Life and Literature
Toni Morrison's Spiritual Vision unpacks an oft-ignored but essential element of her work--her religion--and in so doing gives readers a deeper, richer understanding of her life and her writing. Nadra Nittle's wide-ranging, deep exploration of Morrison's oeuvre reveals the role of religion and spirituality in her life and literature.
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Picking Up the Pieces: The Church and Conflict Resolution in South Africa and Rwanda
Picking Up the Pieces reflects on the church's involvement in two historical moments of history at the end of the twentieth century: the end of apartheid in South Africa, in which the church was able to aid a peaceful resolution, and the Rwandan genocide, in which it wasn't.
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Sighs and Signs of the Spirit: Ghanaian Perspectives on Pentecostalism and Renewal in Africa
In Sighs and Signs, Asamoah-Gyadu often points out how mission-founded churches in Ghana have fallen behind their Charismatic/Pentecostal counterparts and the need for the former to learn from the latter. He dialogues with other scholars and theological leaders, documenting a learning process that has already started.
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Strategy Coordinator: Changing the Course of Southern Baptist Missions
In 1976, the Southern Baptist Convention adopted its Bold New Thrusts in Foreign Missions with the goal of sharing the gospel with everyone in the world by 2000. Strategy Coordinator traces the historical development of this paradigm and its significant impact on Southern Baptist missiology.
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Towards Global Missional Leadership: A Journey Through Leadership Paradigm Shift in the Mission of God
Today, leaders within global church and mission movements are challenged to respond to effects of globalisation and other factors upon the mission of God. Towards Global Missional Leadership shines light on key elements contributing to the development of a global missional mindset within the context of the mission Dei.
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