Scholars of early Christianity are awakening to the potential of Pompeii's treasures for casting light on the situations that were commonplace and conventional for the first urban Christians. The essays explore different dimensions of Pompeii's potential to refine our lenses for interpreting the texts and situations of early Christianity.
The Development of the Doctrine of the Trinity in an Islamic Milieu
The doctrine of the Trinity is the keystone of Christian faith and teaching. In this volume, the author examines the exposition of the doctrine of the Trinity in a set of texts from key Arabic Christian thinkers from the eighth and ninth centuries.
The so-called "rural-urban divide" in the United States has, by many accounts, become increasingly wide and deep. Most attempts, however sincere, to find ways to heal, bridge, or otherwise help rural and urban Americans understand their interdependence fail to account for the deep--and disparate--symbolic layers that suffuse these landscapes. ......
With a yawn and a stretch, another day is delivered to you. Each day brings the possibility of new gifts. We welcome some gifts with delight. Others are the kind we'd rather return. Lyrical and explorative, Each Day Is a Gift gently reveals how gifts' purposes are not always clear immediately, and while we can't choose what gifts we receive, we ......
Empowering Individuals and Families Affected by Mental Illness
Dutiful Love explores the distinctive relationship between self-sacrificial love and caregiving when that duty to care extends over a lifetime due to social limitations on those with severe mental illness. The author draws upon her experiences as the sibling of someone with mental illness. Includes discussion questions for individuals and groups.
Hopkins contends that the lives of enslaved African Americans were the foundational source of liberating faith and practice for African Americans today. Down, Up, and Over draws on their religious experience, and the example of their faith and witness, to develop a constructive theology of liberation. "African American belief structures and hope ......
An Introduction to African American Religious History
This book provides an overview of African American religious history from the African traditional religions, slavery, the development of black churches, new black religious movements, and the Civil Rights movement to the emergence of black megachurches. It also examines issues and challenges facing the study of African American religion today.
