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This leading textbook for world religions is now available in a more concise version. Many of the features of Introduction to World Religions are retained in this volume but with focus on the religious traditions themselves. The section on religio...

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Why did Christianity begin, and why did it take the shape it did? To answer this question -- which any historian must face -- renowned New Testament scholar N. T. Wright focuses on the key points: what precisely happened at Easter? What did the ea...

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Postmodernism. Secularism. Pluralism. These are the words often used to describe the tumultuous changes that have affected our culture and our churches. But what do they really mean? More importantly, what challenges and opportunities do they prov...

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<P>Decades after the Holocaust, many assume that the churches in Germany resisted the Nazi regime. In fact, resistance was exceptional. Almost all Germans were Christians, and almost all Christians in Germany stood by, becoming intentionally...

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This new book, written with all the freshness that made his 'Between the Testaments' a classic which is still widely read today, provides a short but comprehensive guide to the latest state of research into apocalyptic.

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With simplicity and elegance, Tanner sketches a historically informed vision of the faith. Chapter 1 recovers strands of early Christian accounts of Jesus and his significance for a very different age. Chapter 2 situates Christology in a religious...

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Whether born in the Mideast, Africa, Asia, or brought home to the streets of America, violent hatreds often threaten to swamp the minimal cooperation needed to foster life and health. Does Christianity have anything besides warmed-over pieties to ...

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The remarkable thing about the Old Testament is the persistence of its visions of a better humanity and a better world. Rather than seek to establish what people may or may not once have believed in ancient Israel, John W. Rogerson addresses the h...

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Imagine a story, whispered at a cocktail party near midnight and given with greatest assurances, about a man who could not die-rumors of someone of consequence, passing through the centuries devoted, discreet and unscathed. Would you dismiss it? O...

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The essential field guide for all things Lutheran. Confirmands or anyone hiking the trails of lifes adventures and challenges will want to pack this handy illustrated field guide to Lutheran theology and culture. This enjoyable, easy-to-read, reli...

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Playing often connotes frivolity. But James Evans, in this insightful study, offers another view: playing lies at the heart of Christian faith in the triune God. Through a close examination of African-American literature and experience, and a re-e...

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Originally published in 1985, this bestselling, essential book about management and motivation has over 1 million copies in print and remains relevant for today.Alan Loy McGinnis, author of the award-winning, international bestseller The Friendshi...

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With more than two million copies in print, this international bestseller,The Friendship Factor, explains the essential ingredients at the heart of every relationship.With its basic message for nurturing healthy and lasting friendships, this award...

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This definitive analysis of the theology of Martin Luther surveys its development during the crises of Luthers life, then offers a systematic survey by topics. Containing a wealth of quotations from less-known writings by Luther and written in a w...

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In this bestselling novel, three pastors learn the necessity of relying on Gods grace. They fall short of their pastoral duties through public humiliation, self-doubt, inability to accept Gods promises in their own lives, and divisions and quarrel...

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This monumental work is the first comprehensive biblical theology to appear in many years and is the culmination of Brevard Childs lifelong commitment to constructing a biblical theology that surmounts objections to the discipline raised over the ...

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Christian Dogmatics is a two-volume survey of loci of Christian doctrine, each treated extensively in terms of its biblical foundations, historical tradition, and contemporary significance. Volume 1 discusses dogmatics, the Trinity, the identity o...

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Christian Dogmatics is a two-volume survey of loci of Christian doctrine, each treated extensively in terms of its biblical foundations, historical tradition, and contemporary significance. Volume 1 discusses dogmatics, the Trinity, the identity o...

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Carol Robb brings an ecological ethics in theological perspective, and it integrates economic theory, environmental policy, and most distinctively New Testament studies. Alongside deliberation on scenarios for the future in light of climate change...

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With immediate impact and deep creativity, Catherine Keller offers this brief and unconventional introduction to theological thinking, especially as recast by process thought. Keller takes up theology itself as a quest for religious authenticity.&...

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Visionary yet practical, Nessan's influential book makes a persuasive case for the centrality of mission in the life of the church. Nessan's model of mission-driven leadership is strongly centered on the community of faith's worship and draws uniq...

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Craig Nessan's important new work retrieves biblical metaphors of the body of Christ and, following Dietrich Bonhoeffer, sees church today as ';Christ existing as community.' To theological probing Nessan then adds contextual analysis and describe...

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Craig Koesters respected study uses the symbolic language of the Gospel of John as a focus to explore the Gospels literary dimensions, social and historical context, and theological import. This edition is fully revised and updated and includes a ...

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From providence and miracles to resurrection and intercessory prayer, Edwards shows how a basically noninterventionist model of divine action does justice to the universe as we know and also to central convictions of Christian faith about the good...

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Black women in America have carved out a distinctive and instructive faith stance that is influential well beyond the historic black church. Diana L. Hayes, a leading commentator and forger of womanist thought, especially in the black Catholic set...

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Freshly translated from the German critical edition, Discipleship provides a more accurate rendering of the text and extensive aids and commentary to clarify the meaning, context, and reception of this work and its attempt to resist the Nazi ideol...

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Volume 11 in the sixteen-volume Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition, Ecumenical, Academic, and Pastoral Work: 19311932, provides a comprehensive translation of Bonhoeffer's important writings from 1931 to 1932, with extensive commentary abou...

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The crown jewel of Bonhoeffers body of work, Ethicsis the culmination of his theological and personal odyssey. Based on careful reconstruction of the manuscripts, freshly and expertly translated and annotated, this new critical edition features an...

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This book discloses a great deal of Bonhoeffer's family context, social world, and cultural milieu. Events from his life are recounted in a way that embodies and illuminates his theology. Characters and situations that represent Nazi types and att...

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Despite Dietrich Bonhoeffer's prior theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world six years after his death in 1945. The materials gathered and selected by his friend Eber...

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