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Life-Widening Mission: Global Anglican Perspectives
A collection of young Anglican writings on the Five Marks of Mission, Vol 12: Life-Widening Mission provides a glimpse of the strengths and struggles of the Anglican Communion. This book serves as a reminder that there is no room for complacency while injustice and hardship exist in God's world today.
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Edinburgh 2010 Mission Today and Tomorrow
Edinburgh 2010 engaged in serious study and reflection on the current state of world mission and the challenges facing all those who seek to witness Christ today. Vol 3: Mission Today and Tomorrow shares the spirit of the conference, aiming to stimulate participation in God's mission in Christ.
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Contextualisation and Mission Training: Engaging Asia's Religious Worlds
How do contextualisation theories change the way we prepare and train cross-cultural workers? Contextualisation & Mission Training offers frameworks and explorations in order to enhance the Asian church's engagement with the complexity of Asian social, cultural and religious systems.
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Negotiating Peace: North East Indian Perspectives on Peace, Justice, and Life in Community
In Negotiating Peace, Shimreingam L. Shimray argues that peace cannot be derived from outside forces but that it must instead be created from within the local context. The author uses a deeply contextual reading of his own setting, resulting in a work whose value rests in revealing how the tribal people of North East India have used their own resources to work for a culture of peace amidst tension and difficulty.
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Diaspora Christianities: Global Scattering and Gathering of South Asian Christians
South Asians make up one of the largest diasporas in the world and Christians form a relatively large share of it. Christians from the Indian...
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Time of Troubles: A New Economic Framework for Early Christianity
Economic realities have been increasingly at the center of discussion of the New Testament and early church. Studies have tended to be either apologetic in tone, or...
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The Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the Shaping of New Testament Thought
Here an international team of scholars draws out the implications of the newest scholarship on the nature of apocalypticism for the variety of New Testament writings. Each...
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Apocalypses in Context: Apocalyptic Currents through History
Academic interest in apocalypticism is flourishing; indeed, the study of both ancient and contemporary apocalyptic phenomena has long been a focus of attention in scholarly research and a ready way to engage the religious studies classroom. Apocalypses in Context is designed for just such a classroom.
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Interreligious Learning and Teaching: A Christian Rationale for a Transformative Praxis
There is still resistance in Christian institutions to interreligious dialogue. this attitude belies the current culture in which we live, which constantly exposes us to the beliefs and practices of others. Kristin Johnston Largen sees this setting as an opportunity and seeks to provide not only the theological grounding for such a position but also some practical advice on how both to teach and live out this conviction.
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A Child Shall Lead Them: Martin Luther King Jr., Young People, and the Movement
Half a century after some of its most important moments, the assessment of the Civil Rights Era continues. In this exciting volume, Dr. Rufus Burrow turns his attention to a less investigated but critically important byway in this powerful story—the role of children and young people in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Partakers of the Divine: Contemplation and the Practice of Philosophy
Partakers of the Divine shows that Christian philosophical and contemplative practices arose together and that throughout much of Christian history, philosophy, theology, and contemplation remained internal to one another.
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The Age of the Sages: The Axial Age in Asia and the Near East
By setting traditions and thinkers such as Zoroaster, Gautama Buddha, Confucius, Pythagoras, and others side by side, we are able to see more clearly the questions with which they struggled, their similarities and differences, and how their ideas have influenced religious thought down to our day.
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Religious Studies: The Making of a Discipline
Since its inception almost 200 years ago, the study of religion has informed, enlightened, provoked, and challenged our notions of humanity's deepest beliefs...
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Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period, Volume 2: Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Qumran Sectarian Writings, Philo, Josephus
This volume describes that part of the rich literary production of ancient Judaism which was not contained in the Hebrew Bible nor in rabbinic literature....
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What Is African American Religion?: Facets series
Is there really a monolithic "black church"? Distilling the arguments of Pinn's important and provocative work in Terror and Triumph, this brief work asks the...
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The Invention of the Biblical Scholar: A Critical Manifesto
What is a "biblical scholar"? Stephen D. Moore and Yvonne Sherwood provide a thoroughly defamiliarizing and frequently entertaining re-description of this...
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Questioning Assumptions: Rethinking the Philosophy of Religion
Tom Christenson turns philosophy inside out in this remarkable new book. Starting with the ongoing public debate over God's existence, he approaches traditional...
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Contemporary Christologies: A Fortress Introduction
While many know of the signal contributions of such twentieth-century giants as Paul Tillich or Karl Barth or Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the important work...
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The Jewish Experience: An Introduction to Jewish History and Jewish Life
Steven Leonard Jacobs discusses his introductory textbook The Jewish Experience: Find more videos like this on Fortress Forum. This is a story of...
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Making Sense of the Sacred: The Meaning of World Religions
This work argues that there is a universal message that can be found in the study of religions. It offers a comprehensive examination of religions and their meaning, bound by the hope and affirmation that in some way they are universally connected. It affirms a universalism by wisdom, which contends that a moral and spiritual wisdom can be found in many of the world's religions.
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