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Decolonizing Revelation
A Spatial Reading of the Blues
Inbunden, 2018
1348 kr
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At a time when ideas like “post-racial society” and “#BlackLivesMatter” occupy the same space, scholars of black American faith are provided a unique opportunity to regenerate and imagine theological frameworks that confront the epistemic effects of racialization and its confluence with the …
Who Is an African?
Race, Identity, and Destiny in Post-apartheid South Africa
Av Roderick R. Hewitt, Chammah J. Kaunda
Häftad, 2020
618 kr
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The subject of race and identity is a burning issue which continues to occupy the attention not only of South Africans but also the wider residents of the continent of Africa and those who are Africans in the Diaspora. The outburst of xenophobic attacks against foreigners mostly of Black African …
Preaching to Nazi Germany
The Pulpit and the Confessing Church
Inbunden, 2023
1348 kr
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Preaching to Nazi Germany explores the history of Confessing Church preachers' engagement with the Nazi regime through an analysis of their sermons. William Skiles argues that clergy expressed various messages that aimed to limit Nazi interference in church affairs and at times even to undermine …
To Live in the Spirit
Paul and the Spirit of God
Av Nélida Naveros Córdova, CDP
Häftad, 2026
416 kr
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This book examines the apostle Paul's messages concerning p?e?µa’s (spirit) primary function in the acquisition of virtues and avoidance of vices. To Live in the Spirit: Paul and the Spirit of God brings to light a fresh understanding of the Greek concept p?e?µa (spirit) in Paul’s ethical teaching. …
Bonhoeffer’s New Beginning
Ethics after Devastation
Häftad, 2023
459 kr
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Bonhoeffer’s New Beginning investigates the ethics of making new beginnings after devastating moral rupture. The work argues that new beginnings must be made in order to sustain the fundamental convictions that it is good to exist and that life in the world with others should be loved without …
Cast Out of the Covenant
Jews and Anti-Judaism in the Gospel of John
Häftad, 2020
543 kr
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The Gospel of John presents its readers, listeners, and interpreters with a serious problem: how can we reconcile the Gospel’s exalted spirituality and deep knowledge of Judaism with its portrayal of the Jews as the children of the devil (John 8:44) who persecuted Christ and his followers? One …
Josephus, Paul, and the Fate of Early Christianity
History and Silence in the First Century
Häftad, 2021
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600 kr
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Flavius Josephus, the priest from Jerusalem who was affiliated with the Pharisees, is our most important source for Jewish life in the first century. His notice about the death of James the brother of Jesus suggests that Josephus knew about the followers of Jesus in Jerusalem and in Judaea. In …
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ethics of Formation
Av Ryan Huber
Häftad, 2021
515 kr
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer is many things to many people—committed pacifist, reluctant revolutionary, Protestant saint but in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ethics of Formation, Ryan Huber argues that Bonhoeffer should be engaged as a Christian ethicist of formation. Huber demonstrates that formation lies at the …
Between Being and Time
From Ontology to Eschatology
Av Andrew T. J. Kaethler, Sotiris Mitralexis
Häftad, 2023
515 kr
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This book explores the relationship between being and time —between ontology and history— in the context of both Christian theology and philosophical inquiry. Each chapter tests the limits of this multifaceted thematic vis-à-vis a wide variety of sources: from patristics (Maximus the Confessor, …
Bonhoeffer and Climate Change
Theology and Ethics for the Anthropocene
Häftad, 2023
515 kr
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Where is the voice of theology in the public discourse around anthropogenic climate change? How do we understand the human relationship to Earth and the ecology of which we are a part? How can we account for the human attempt to dominate nature and the devastation we have caused to our own home? …
Class Struggle in the New Testament
Häftad, 2021
515 kr
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Class Struggle in the New Testament engages the political and economic realities of the first century to unmask the mediation of class through several New Testament texts and traditions. Essays span a range of subfields, presenting class struggle as the motor force of history by responding to …
Philo of Alexandria’s Ethical Discourse
Living in the Power of Piety
Av Nélida Naveros Córdova, CDP
Häftad, 2026
416 kr
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This book illustrates the way Philo of Alexandria moves beyond Hellenistic Jewish and Greek philosophical traditions by developing reframing piety from a subordinate to a foundational virtue.Philo of Alexandria’s Ethical Discourse: Living in the Power of Piety proposes a fresh approach to better …
Museum of the Bible
A Critical Introduction
Av Jill Hicks-Keeton, Cavan Concannon
Häftad, 2019
628 kr
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Bringing together nationally and internationally-known scholars, The Museum of the Bible: A Critical Introduction analyzes the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., from a variety of perspectives and disciplinary positions, including biblical studies, history, archaeology, Judaic studies, and …
Scripture and Social Justice
Catholic and Ecumenical Essays
Av Stephen P. Ahearne-Kroll, Harold W. Attridge m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
515 kr
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The essays gathered here provide a panoramic view of current thinking on biblical texts that play important roles in contemporary struggles for social justice – either as inspiration or impediment. Here, from the hands of an ecumenical array of leading biblical scholars, are fresh and compelling …
Divine Revelation and Human Liberation
Inbunden, 2018
1207 kr
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Harry H. Singleton is concerned in this work with the disparate ways blacks and whites have experienced American history and subsequently the way they have fashioned God’s communication to humans, formerly referred to as revelation. This book makes the case that while white Christian leaders have …
Divine Revelation and Human Liberation
Häftad, 2020
543 kr
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Harry H. Singleton is concerned in this work with the disparate ways blacks and whites have experienced American history and subsequently the way they have fashioned God’s communication to humans, formerly referred to as revelation. This book makes the case that while white Christian leaders have …
For Theirs Is the Kingdom
Inclusion and Participation of Children in the Gospel according to Luke
Häftad, 2023
459 kr
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Images of Jesus blessing children adorn Sunday schools across the globe. Nevertheless, interpreters typically flatten Jesus’ interaction with children into a handful of scenes, suggesting that children were the exception rather than the rule in Jesus’ ministry. In contrast, historical evidence …
Being Subordinate Men
Paul's Rhetoric of Gender and Power in 1 Corinthians
Häftad, 2022
515 kr
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Being Subordinate Men offers a gender critical examination of Paul’s use of gender and power in the argument of 1 Corinthians. By elevating femininity and misperforming masculinity, Paul consistently undermines first century Roman norms of masculinity. Such norms of masculinity would have allowed …
Spirituality and Reform
Christianity in the West, ca. 1000–1800
Av Calvin Lane
Häftad, 2020
600 kr
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In colorful detail, Calvin Lane explores the dynamic intersection between reform movements and everyday Christian practice from ca. 1000 to ca. 1800. Lowering the artificial boundaries between “the Middle Ages,” “the Reformation,” and “the Enlightenment,” Lane brings to life a series of reform …
Evangelical Doctrine of the Church
The Church and Kingdom Communities of Those Who Belong to the Lord
Av Robert Doyle
Häftad, 2026
416 kr
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This book is a disciplined introduction to ecclesiology. With respect to the community which “the Lord purchased with his own blood (Acts 20:28), parts one and two focus on a critical-exegetical presentation of the New Testament’s descriptions and themes, locating their treatment within two …
Race in John’s Gospel
Toward an Ethnos-Conscious Approach
Av Andrew Benko
Inbunden, 2019
1278 kr
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Directly or indirectly, race makes many appearances in the Fourth Gospel. What is the meaning of all this attention to ethnic labels? Race in John's Gospel investigates how John reflects the racialized ideas current in its milieu, challenging some and adapting others. Ultimately, John dismisses …
Women's Work
The Transformational Power of Faith-Based Community Organizing
Häftad, 2021
515 kr
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In Women’s Work: The Transformational Power of Faith-Based Community Organizing, Susan L. Engh draws on her own experiences and those of twenty-one other women who work in the field of faith-based community organizing to describe how women have been transformed by their participation in organizing, …
Church in the Latin Fathers
Unity in Charity
Av James K. Lee
Häftad, 2022
515 kr
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What is the church? What does it mean to be a member of the church? This book examines how the earliest Christian theologians in the Latin West understood the nature, ends, and boundaries of the church. By analyzing the thought and practices of figures such as Tertullian of Carthage, Cyprian of …
Supporting Cast of the Bible
Reading on Behalf of the Multitude
Häftad, 2022
592 kr
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This book spotlights the Old Testament’s “supporting cast,” the vast array of nameless characters wedged in the margins of biblical stories. Often categorized as literary props or aspects of scenery, these anonymous figures (“laborers,” “a creditor,” “the crowd,” “servants,” “elders,” “a midwife,” …
Biblical ABCs
The Basics of Christian Resistance
Häftad, 2023
459 kr
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Biblical ABCs is a theological resistance primer. Its author, Kornelis Heiko Miskotte, was a Dutch pastor, theologian, and antifascist who lived and worked under the Nazi occupation of his country. Miskotte’s family hid Jews inside their home, and Miskotte facilitated underground Christian …
Unconscious Christianity in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Late Theology
Encounters with the Unknown Christ
Häftad, 2022
515 kr
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In the last years of his life, Dietrich Bonhoeffer began work on an idea that he called unbewußtes Christentum, "unconscious Christianity." While Bonhoeffer’s other ideas from this period have been extensively studied and are important in the field of theology and beyond, this idea has been almost …
Identity of John the Evangelist
Revision and Reinterpretation in Early Christian Sources
Av Dean Furlong
Häftad, 2022
515 kr
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This book examines the various Johannine narratives found in writings in the period from Papias (early second century) to Eusebius (early fourth century). Dean Furlong argues that the first major revision of the Johannine narrative was the identification of John the Evangelist with John the …
Bonhoeffer’s Religionless Christianity in Its Christological Context
Av Peter Hooton
Häftad, 2022
515 kr
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The German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer understood Western civilization to be “approaching a completely religionless age” to which Christians must respond and adapt. This book explores Bonhoeffer’s own response to this challenge—his concept of a religionless Christianity—and its place in his …
Black Theology and The Black Panthers
Inbunden, 2023
995 kr
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In Black Theology and The Black Panthers, Joshua S. Bartholomew deals with the relationship between economic justice and racial equality. By examining the economic philosophies and inter-communal survival programs of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense from 1967-1971, Bartholomew utilizes a …
Colonization of Land in Matthew's Gospel
A Land Promised
Inbunden, 2024
1278 kr
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In The Colonization of Land in Matthew's Gospel, Maziel Barreto Dani proposes that land is constructed as a colonized and subjugated entitl. Traditional scholarship claims that the Gospel of Matthew is detached from spatial-territorial discussions and that geographical land concerns are displaced …
