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For decades, two Old Testament interpretive giants, Walter Brueggemann and Brevard S. Childs, debated unity vs. diversity, canon vs. testimony, text vs. speech. Here in one place their respective approaches are contrasted and compared.

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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 t...

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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 ab...

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In The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going, Second Edition, Ryan P. Burge gives readers a nuanced, accurate, and meaningful look at the growing number of Americans who say they have no religious affiliation. This se...

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The first principle of ministry leadership is love: love that emerges from life rooted in God. Healthy leadership requires a spirituality that enlivens us to move beyond rigid, dualistic frameworks. Robinson provides practical tools for cultivatin...

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Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg in 1517. In the three years after, he clarified and defended his position in numerous writings. Chief among these are the three treatises written in 1520. In the writings...

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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 ...

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With sixteenth century Germany experiencing the ravages of the Bubonic Plague, Martin Luther was asked to comment on whether Christians could flee home and labors on account of the plague. Anna Marie Johnson introduces and comments on Luther's 152...

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These imagined dialogues between the elders on freedom, liberation, and more offer rich reflection and a unique vantage point for understanding the luminaries of liberation through the generations. An important resource for the contemporary task o...

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Charging Interest explores the explosive tract written by Martin Luther which summarizes his views on poverty caused by an economic system that stopped caring for the well-being of God's children. Luther exhorts clergy to ex-communicate those caus...

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The Bible offered a language-world through which African Americans have negotiated the strange land into which they were thrust. Vincent Wimbush outlines six African American readings that correspond to history and how they helped shape a collecti...

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The influential feminist theologian Rosemary Ruether glimpses into the souls of three medieval mystics: Hildegard of Bingen, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Julian of Norwich. Ruether's sympathetic overview evokes the new religious horizons they envis...

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Cain Hope Felder shows the ancient ambiguity in the Bible about what we call race. He uncovers misuses of the biblical text and shows how the Bible has been used to trivialize Black people in many ways. The book, a critical essay from Stony the Ro...

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The Faithfulness of Pluralism is an introduction to religious pluralism for a better understanding of its history and value. The book demonstrates how Christians can respond to religious diversity in faithfulness to scripture and tradition. It als...

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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 hol...

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Households and Holiness provides a clear overview of the religious lives of Israelite women. Carol Meyers stresses the diversity of religious practices in ancient Israel and argues we must examine practices as well as beliefs. The book explores an...

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Leading Faithful Innovation offers a practical, hands-on approach to addressing the challenges of change in the church and our culture. This three-step process is not another program or add-on to what readers are already doing. It is an ongoing wa...

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This book boldly articulates an open theology--progressive approaches that promote unorthodox theological reflection and the creation of inclusive communities. Brad Braxton outlines Christianity's capacity to foster healing, hope, and restorative ...

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Ted Loder continues to inspire readers with his powerful prayers, sermons, and reflections. This compilation includes Guerrillas of Grace, Wrestling the Light, The Haunt of Grace, and Tracks in the Straw. Loder's words speak to the human experienc...

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Receiving This Life offers devotional reflections, prayers, practices, and liturgies that seek the meaning inside experiences and create ways to embrace and rehearse meaning. Kara K. Root empowers the reader to embrace life as sacred and to practi...

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Sue Pizor Yoder and her team of scholars and ministry leaders interviewed over two hundred people under age forty in search of the lessons they might teach about belonging, adversity, legacy--and faith. Through collaborative storytelling, Hear Us ...

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"American Heresy uncovers the complex legacy of America's founding principles, demonstrating how the very same values have produced both good fruit and the bitter harvest of white Christian nationalism. Fanestil adeptly traces an early Americ...

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Precious Precarity is a spirituality of borders that embraces the challenges, differences, contrasts, unpredictability, vulnerability, and difficult choices that exist where the Global South meets the Global North.

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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 f...

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Ruptured Bodies is a systematic theological account of the divided church. It argues that no ecclesiology can ignore division, because in doing so, it fails to describe the church that actually is. Such an understanding must integrate the reality ...

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How to Think Philosophically invites reflection on curiosity, wonder, and inquiry. Part I explains philosophy as a way of developing the disciplines and intellectual virtues for seeing and inhabiting the world. Part II introduces the domains of ph...

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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 mi...

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The accusation that Jews executed Jesus is perhaps the most overlooked of all Christianity's troubling traditions. In this study, J. Christopher Edwards shines a light on this forgotten tradition in which Christians rewrite their history to blame ...

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Kathleen McShane and Elan Babchuck argue that empire-inspired leadership models hollow out faith institutions and exhaust their leaders. In Picking Up the Pieces, the authors offer a leadership model based on the conviction that power shared is po...

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Digital Homiletics demystifies the art of online preaching and helps readers understand both the why and the how of engaging listeners in digital formats. After laying a concise and accessible theological foundation, Yang shares ten methods for ef...

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