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Institutionalization of Authority a...

Yolanda Dreyer

Institutionalization of Authority and the Naming of Jesus

This book is about the names given to Jesus by those followers responsible for putting his words and deeds into writing-the earliest «Christian scribes.» In the first-century Mediterranean world, the first name of male person was his proper name. The second name indicated the family or clan to which he belonged, whereas the third name was an «honorary title» bestowed on him because of some achievement, good fortune, physical attribute, or «special excellence.» Honorary titles were...

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Yolanda Dreyer

Walking as Mature Christians

Robert B. Callahan Sr.

Walking as Mature Christians

The Apostle Paul realized that he was an infant in the faith after his encounter with the Lord Jesus on the road to Damascus. He experienced what was required to become a member of Christ's body and to walk as a mature Christian. Therefore, he wanted to share these truths with the Ephesians and with us. What does he do? First, he presents doctrine regarding the Holy Spirit, the Lord Jesus Christ, and God the Father. Then, he focuses on the apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and...

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Robert B. Callahan Sr.

An Introduction to the New Testamen...

Charles B. Puskas

An Introduction to the New Testament, Second Edition

Studying the New Testament requires a determination to encounter this collection of writings on its own terms. This classic introduction by Charles B. Puskas, revised with C. Michael Robbins, provides helpful guidance. Since the publication of the first edition, which was in print for twenty years, a host of new and diverse cultural, historical, social-scientific, socio-rhetorical, narrative, textual, and contextual studies has been examined. Attentive also to the positive reviews of the first...

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Charles B. Puskas

The Life of a Galilean Shaman

Pieter F. Craffert

The Life of a Galilean Shaman

Historical Jesus research remains trapped in the positivistic historiographical framework from which it emerged more than a hundred and fifty years ago. This is confirmed by the nested assumptions shared by the majority of researchers. These include the idea that a historical figure could not have been like the Gospel portrayals and consequently the Gospels have developed in a linear and layered fashion from the authentic kernels to the elaborated literary constructions as they are known today....

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Pieter F. Craffert

Two Reformers

Caryn D. Riswold

Two Reformers

"By them we have been carried away out of our own land, as into a Babylonian captivity, and despoiled of all our precious possessions." Martin Luther, 1520 "Their goal is our deracination, which is 'detachment from one's background (as from homeland, customs, traditions).' Thus women and other Elemental creatures on this planet are rendered homeless, cut off from knowledge of our Race's customs and traditions." Mary Daly, 1984 What is this land, this world of...

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Caryn D. Riswold

Sourcebook of the Structures and St...

Sang-Hoon Kim

Sourcebook of the Structures and Styles in John 1-10

No other book in the New Testament compares to John in its complexity of style and structure. So many factors confuse Johannine scholars, including the complexity of styles, repetition, duplication, and seemingly distracted structures that are difficult to discern. Sourcebook of the Structures and Styles in John 1-10 is designed to scrutinize the structures and styles in John 1-10, reading John according to John's way, with the following integrated points of view: First, this reading is...

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Sang-Hoon Kim

A Treasury of Illustrations and Quo...

Robert B. Callahan Sr.

A Treasury of Illustrations and Quotations from Walking With Jesus

The Apostle Paul, in exercising his ineffable wisdom, draws this magnificent letter to a close in an extraordinary manner. Certainly, he could have concluded it after telling the masters and servants how to treat one another. But, no, he did not. He proceeded to challenge them to become Christ's Ambassadors and to be proficient in this high calling, despite the daily obstacles, pressures, and temptations. What does Paul boldly state after having told Christ's followers, [t]hat we...

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Robert B. Callahan Sr.

The Making of the Self

Richard Valantasis

The Making of the Self

A leading scholar of ascetical studies, Richard Valantasis explores a variety of ascetical traditions ranging from the Greco-Roman philosophy of Musonius Rufus, the asceticism found in the Nag Hammadi Library and in certain Gnostic texts, the Gospel of Thomas, and other early Christian texts. This collection gathers historical and theoretical essays that develop a theory of asceticism that informs the analysis of historical texts and opens the way for postmodern ascetical studies. Wide-ranging...

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Richard Valantasis

The Power of God

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The Power of God

The book you now hold in your hands contains nearly everything the great American puritan Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) ever wrote on the book of Romans. It is collated into a verse-by-verse Bible commentary. Pastors, theologians, historians, and Bible study leaders will find a treasure of biblical insight along with practical application, as one of the great theologians of the Christian church expounds the book that Martin Luther called the «most important piece in the New Testament.» Jonathan...

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In Harm's Way

Kathleen Kern

In Harm's Way

In 1984 Evangelicals for Social Action founder Ron Sider posed the questions, «What would happen if we in the Christian church developed a new nonviolent peacekeeping force ready to move into violent conflicts and stand peacefully between warring parties? . . . Everyone assumes that for the sake of peace it is moral and just for soldiers to get killed by the hundreds of thousands, even millions. Do we not have as much courage and faith as soldiers?» Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) has been...

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Kathleen Kern

Risking Truth

Scott A. Ellington

Risking Truth

Ours is a world characterized by change. Often the most fundamental changes in our lives result from experiences of profound suffering and loss as we are wrenched from our familiar world and driven into one that is alien. In the midst of such loss, we are compelled to choose between trying to cling to the remnants of a reality that is passing away and trying to make a home in a strange new world. Biblical prayers of lament wait for us at this crossroad of loss and newness. Prayers of lament are...

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Scott A. Ellington

Greater Attention

Timothy Matthew Slemmons

Greater Attention

Liturgical Elements for Reformed Worship is a series of four liturgical resources: three consisting of liturgical elements for Years A, B, and C, and a fourth, the first such resource to support the implementation of Year D: A Quadrennial Supplement to the Revised Common Lectionary (Cascade Books). Each volume consists of a Call to Worship, Opening Prayer, Call to Confession, Prayer of Confession, and Words of Assurance, with Years A-C including additional elements (A Prayer in Preparation for...

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Timothy Matthew Slemmons

For the Souls of Black Folks

Cari Jackson

For the Souls of Black Folks

For the Souls of Black Folks examines the impact of black religious culture in shaping the ethical values and sociopolitical condition of U.S. blacks. The book reviews the nexus of theological traditions and historical factors that have formed black churches as environments where preachers serve as the moral compass for black churchgoers. For the Souls of Black Folks builds upon the work of sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois, who highlighted the presence of a double consciousness in the collective...

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Cari Jackson

Why, God?

Edward Hugh Henderson

Why, God?

A nineteen-year-old chemistry major at Rhodes College is selected to spend the summer after her freshman year doing research at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Instead, she finds herself a patient there, fighting a life-threatening form of pediatric cancer and suffering through a year of aggressive chemotherapy and surgery. Refusing to believe what many tell her–that the cancer was all part of «God's plan»–she finds solace in journaling and begins a discussion with her...

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Edward Hugh Henderson

The Vitality of Liberation Theology

Craig L. Nessan

The Vitality of Liberation Theology

The Vitality of Liberation Theology argues for the ongoing necessity of a liberating theology in a world of endemic poverty and economic globalization. Although some have declared liberation theology's demise, or even its death, Nessan articulates the imperative and logic of it for a new generation. Latin American liberation theology burst forth as the most original and compelling theological movement from the developing world in the modern period. The story of the emergence and...

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Craig L. Nessan

Disfellowshiped

Gerald W. King

Disfellowshiped

Employing studies in population ecology as a framework for understanding the growth of religious movements, Disfellowshiped traces the growth of the Pentecostal movement. The author explores how the Pentecostal movement developed in relationship to Fundamentalism from its roots in the Holiness movement to the formation of the National Association of Evangelicals. Particular attention is given to the various critiques and rebuttals exchanged between Fundamentalists and Pentecostals, exploring how...

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Gerald W. King

Her Gates Will Never Be Shut

Brad Jersak

Her Gates Will Never Be Shut

Everlasting hell and divine judgment, a lake of fire and brimstone–these mainstays of evangelical tradition have come under fire once again in recent decades. Would the God of love revealed by Jesus really consign the vast majority of humankind to a destiny of eternal, conscious torment? Is divine mercy bound by the demands of justice? How can anyone presume to know who is saved from the flames and who is not? Reacting to presumptions in like manner, others write off the fiery images of final...

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Brad Jersak

Religious Influences in Thai Female...

Runchana Pam Suksod-Barger

Religious Influences in Thai Female Education (1889-1931)

In this study Runchana Pam Suksod-Barger examines the impact of religion on female access to education in Thailand from 1889 to 1931–the early Modernization Period in Thailand. Although Thailand had traditionally been a Buddhist nation-state, Protestant missionaries during this era arrived in the country to convert Thais to Christianity. The Protestant belief in literacy so that everyone could read the Bible opened up educational opportunities for Thai girls that were not previously available to...

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Runchana Pam Suksod-Barger

Living Spiritual Praxis

Eric J. Kyle

Living Spiritual Praxis

Christian ministers working in congregations and with nonprofits seek to discern what it is that God has been doing and where it is that the «Spirit» might be leading them. In Living Spiritual Praxis Eric Kyle looks to address the lack of resources on the work and dynamics of Christian spiritual formation that actually develop a specific process for spiritual formation programs. Kyle strives to provide a guide for spiritual formation by using the «praxis-oriented» fields of action research and...

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Eric J. Kyle

Christ’s Prisoner

Robert B. Callahan Sr.

Christ’s Prisoner

Paul proclaimed he was in prison because he was Christ's prisoner. Why? Because he proclaimed the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ uncompromisingly without fear of retribution. He served the living Christ and succumbed neither to the wiles of Satan nor to the demands of the secular world. He gives all the glory to God and in so doing proclaims: the grace of God; knowledge in the mystery of Christ, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; that the Gentiles...

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Robert B. Callahan Sr.

Theological Themes of the Old Testa...

Marty E. Stevens

Theological Themes of the Old Testament

The Old Testament is an ancient collection of theological reflections on life with God that the church has claimed as authoritative Scripture. Whereas most introductory books march from Genesis to Malachi, this book engages four prominent themes across the breadth of the Old Testament canon: creation, covenant, cultus, and character. By taking this approach, Stevens is articulates key issues that impact the reading of the entire Old Testament. This engaging volume is intended for laypeople who...

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Marty E. Stevens

Jesus and the Cross

Peter Laughlin

Jesus and the Cross

According to the Nicene Creed, Christ died for us and for our salvation. But while all Christians agree that Christ's death and resurrection has saving significance, there is little unanimity in how and why that is the case. In fact, Christian history is littered with various accounts of the redemptive value of Christ's death, and new models and motifs are constantly being proposed, many of which now stand in stark contrast to earlier reflections. How then should contemporary...

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Peter Laughlin

The Wheat and the Tares

Andrew Allan Chibi

The Wheat and the Tares

In 1500 Christians knew that God gave them the church to shepherd believers toward salvation and that it was centered at Rome and ruled by a pope. Today, that church is but one of forty thousand Christian denominations, each with distinctive structures and doctrines. How did this happen? Then, as now, all aspects of the church–from its divine mission to its offices and operations, hierarchy, and bureaucracy–were of interest to theologians, thinkers, and troublemakers alike, but for ages there...

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Andrew Allan Chibi

Toward a Culture of Freedom

Thorwald Lorenzen

Toward a Culture of Freedom

The Ten Commandments belong to the «classics» of Western culture. They are an authoritative part of the Hebrew and the Christian Scriptures. Since they come to us from an ancient past, it is both necessary and worthwhile to inquire what they may mean for us today. Thorwald Lorenzen contends it is important to hear God's invitation to an alternative lifestyle: «you shall not kill,» «you shall not commit adultery,» «you shall not covet.» His thoughtful reflections on the commandments for...

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Thorwald Lorenzen

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