Radical Discipleship and the Way of the Cross in America's "Christian" Culture
Arguing for a reconceptualization of the theology of the cross and radical communal practices, the author explores some pervasive dangers of America's new Christendom and provocatively imagines alternatives to conventional Christianity - ones whereby the church embodies an alternative politic and where it commits to cruciform non-violence.
Donald M. MacKinnon has been one of the most important and influential of the post-World War British theologians. In this collection, MacKinnon's central writings on the major themes of ecclesiology, and especially the relationship of the church to theology, are gathered in one source.
Brian Bantum says that race is not merely an intellectual category or a biological fact. It is a deeply theological problem, one that is central to the Christian story and that plays out daily throughout the world. Our attempts to heal racism will not succeed unless we address a fallen understanding of our bodies.
Third Article Theology (TAT) is a constructive theology utilizing a distinctly pneumatological approach to dogmatics. Thinking through the theological loci relation to the Holy Spirit and drawing upon the trinitarianism of the Great Tradition.
Understandings of the Church explores the ways imagery is used by biblical-writers and early Christian teachers such as Cyprian, Ignatius of Antioch, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen to describe the concept of church. The volumes will provide a representative sampling of theological contributions from both East and West.
The End of Theology generates a discussion of the nature of theology. The volume highlights perspectives of contextual and systematic theology, missiology, world Christianity and history, biblical studies and hermeneutics, ethnography, pastoral practice, social justice, and evangelical identity.
Volume 3 of The Annotated Luther series includes The Babylonian Captivity of the Church (1520); The German Mass and Order of the Liturgy (1526); That These Words of Christ, "This is my Body," etc. Still Stand Firm Against the Fanatics (1527); Concerning Rebaptism (1528), and On the Councils andthe Church (1539).
In Goddess and God in the World, theologians Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow debate the nature of divinity. They agree that the transcendent, omnipotent male God of traditional theology must be reimagined. Rooting their views in experience and questioning each other, they offer a fruitful model of theological conversation across difference.
The Augsburg Confession and the Heart of Christian Theology
This volume establishes the "hub" of the Augsburg Confessionh justification by faith alone-which is traced to its source in Luther's theology of the cross. The remainder demonstrates how that central hub is articulated in the various articles of faith that comprise the Ausgburg Confession.
