This volume contains some of the most importantand enduring work of Gerhard von Rad, the mostinfluential Old Testament theologian of the twentiethcentury. The chapters cover a broad range of topics,including the doctrine of creation, memory and tradition inDeuteronomy, historical writing in ancient Israel, culticlanguage in the Psalms, and the Old ......
A Daily Discipline for Physical and Spiritual Wellness
In this book, Finck provides a step-by-step guide to fortystretches, movements, and postures to improve physicaland spiritual well-being. The book features photographs anddevotional reflections for individuals to use to create theirown routines. While on a pilgrimage trek through Thailand, Finckdiscovered the benefits of daily stretching and ......
Tomson has written an accessible, responsible analysis of the biblical accounts of Jesus' death, demonstrating how, through compounded misunderstandings, they contributed to anti-Jewish sentiment in the early church and later history.
Callahan suggests that scholars have wrongly placedthe sequence and therefore the importance of the workscollectively known as the Johannine tradition - the Gospel ofJohn and the Johannine Epistles. His proposal includesliterary, theological, and historical analysis as he argues forthe reevaluation of a significant part of the biblical canon.
Stiller argues that Jesus' parables, through theirnarrative, personal, and oral dimensions and reversal ofexpectations, provide unique access to Christianity for thosewhose experience and hopes we label "postmodern." Aligning contemporary scholarship with today's culturalassumptions, Stiller offers preachers a working knowledge ofpostmodern ......
Coordinated by Serene Jones of Yale Divinity School and Paul Lakeland of Fairfield University, fifty of North America's top teaching theologians (members of the Workgroup on Constructive Christian Theology) have devised a text that allows students to experience the deeper point of theological questions, to delve into the fractures and ......
Mannermaas revisionist work on justification in Luthers theology - a notable contribution from oneof the most influential Finnish scholars of Luther studies - is now available in English. His book opens up new interpretive questions for historical theology with striking implications for ecumenism, ethics, and spirituality. He writes, "the idea ......
Global Vision and Action for the Twenty-First-Century Black Church
This volume's contributors--dynamic and progressive African-American church leaders--advocate the prophetic powers of black theology, preaching, and evangelism in support of community and economic development, ministerial and lay leadership, and enhancement of church life.
In this bestselling novel, three pastors learn the necessity of relying on God's grace as they fall short of their pastoral duties through public humiliation, self-doubt, inability to accept God's promises in their own lives, and divisions and quarreling among their parishioners.
