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From Gratitude to Blessings and Bac...

Marilyn Price

From Gratitude to Blessings and Back

An exquisite combination of Judaism's common blessings, stories from everyday life, and tales and wisdom from Jewish tradition, this book is a source of inspiration and a cause for self-reflection. A resource of over fifty blessings in addition to thoughts about gratitude, this slim volume opens the door for readers to acknowledge the opportunities for thankfulness as they reflect on their personal history and their day-to-day lives. Seeing opportunities for blessings can lead the way to...

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Marilyn Price

All the Fullness of God

Bonnie Bowman Thurston

All the Fullness of God

All the Fullness of God: The Christ of Colossians focuses on the Christology of Colossians and its implications by examining the canonical text and answering the questions: What was the author's purpose in writing the letter? What is the letter's primary concern? How do its contents reflect or deviate from Paul's thought in his uncontested letters? The author of Colossians is favorably disposed toward the letter's recipients who have received the gospel from Epaphras, but now...

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Bonnie Bowman Thurston

Gender in Solomon’s Song of Songs

Alastair Ian Haines

Gender in Solomon’s Song of Songs

The thesis shows that the Song of Songs can be read as a circular sequence of sub-poems, that follow logically from one another if they are understood as contributing to two main points, made in a woman's voice. The woman urges men to take romantic initiative to be committed exclusively and for life, and urges women three times to wait until they are approached by such men. If this reading is the best explanation of the text of the Song, then the Song is a unified work centered on a woman...

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Alastair Ian Haines

Four Gospels, One Christ

Michael John Hooton

Four Gospels, One Christ

The four Gospels are the only books in the Bible to tell the same story from four different angles. Together, they show us not only what Jesus was like and how he lived, but how his life can become the model for our own. Four Gospels, One Christ offers an overview of the three years of Jesus' public ministry–what he did and how he did it–as seen through the eyes of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. And by exploring the themes that run through the four Gospels, it invites us to reflect on what...

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Michael John Hooton

Grace

Grace Roys

Grace

Grace Woodbridge Roys suffered from bi-polar disease before it was well understood. Her daughter feared that her children would also suffer mental illness. This annotation of Grace's diary opens the early 1900s missionary world in China and the personality of Grace to the reader. In December 1910 Grace married Harvey Curtis Roys, who was teaching physics at Kiang Nan government school in Nanking, under the sponsorship of the YMCA. Grace had had a mental breakdown weeks earlier when her...

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Grace Roys

Abiding Mission

Dick Brogden

Abiding Mission

Abiding Mission presents the discipline of abiding as the first priority of the Christian and the base methodology of mission. Based on an exegesis of John 15, Abiding Mission illustrates the definition of abiding by examining the abiding mission lives of seven key pioneers in mission to Muslims in North Africa, including Daniel Comboni (Catholic), Samuel Zwemer (Presbyterian), Oswald Chambers (YMCA/Pentecostal League), Lillian Trasher (Assemblies of God), Lilias Trotter (Algerian Missions...

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Dick Brogden

Identity and Ecclesiology

Stephanie A. Lowery

Identity and Ecclesiology

Questions of identity continue to intrigue theologians in Africa, and African intellectuals often note communal emphases in African thought. This raises the question, How do ecclesiologies in Africa engage with identity concerns, and how do they envision the Christian identity? Stephanie Lowery argues in this book that theologians in Africa provide theological and biblical arguments regarding Christian identity that are relevant to individual Christians and ecclesiologies in all contexts. She...

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Stephanie A. Lowery

The Crib, the Cross, and the Crown

Michael John Hooton

The Crib, the Cross, and the Crown

We are all familiar with the stories of what happened at the first Christmas and Easter–or are we? The Crib, the Cross and the Crown strips away the wrapping-paper of tradition and folk-lore from the stories of the birth and death of Jesus Christ, and takes a fresh look at what the Gospels themselves say. It describes the real Jesus of the New Testament, and reflects on the ways in which the recurring themes in his story can shape our own lives and faith.

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Michael John Hooton

The Rise and Fall of the Complement...

Kevin Giles

The Rise and Fall of the Complementarian Doctrine of the Trinity

Since the late 1970s complementarian theologians have been arguing that the divine three persons in the Trinity are ordered hierarchically, and that this is the ground for the hierarchical ordering of the sexes. Suddenly and unexpectedly in June 2016 a number of complementarian theologians of confessional Reformed convictions came out and said that to so construe the Trinity is «heresy»; it is a denial of what the creeds and confessions of the church rule is the teaching of Scripture. A civil...

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Kevin Giles

The End of the Island

Jeffrey C. Tucker

The End of the Island

What if you were to look at human suffering, pain, and loss with another lens? Not as something that you merely make it through but as something that you move around within. In this fresh, creative, and provocative new book, Jeffrey Tucker explores suffering in new ways, challenging our existing beliefs and theologies while offering a healthier and more helpful approach to viewing ourselves, our faith, and others in the face of suffering. Tucker addresses specific and practical questions that we...

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Jeffrey C. Tucker

Political Demonology

Richard Faber

Political Demonology

"The structural core problem of the Gnostic dualism between the god of creation and the god of redemption governs not only every religion of salvation and redemption. It is immanently given in every world in need of change and renewal, inescapably and ineradicably. The lord of a world in need of change, that is, a misconceived world and the liberator, the creator of a transformed, new world cannot be good friends. They are, so to speak, enemies by definition." Whether Theodor W. Adorno and...

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Richard Faber

Development of an Icon

John W. Herbst

Development of an Icon

The most extensive royal accounts in the Hebrew Bible are those of kings David (the «Succession Narrative,» usually identified as 2 Sam 9-20 and 1 Kgs 1-2) and Solomon (the «Solomon Story,» 1 Kgs 3-11). Yet, even though Solomon immediately follows David in the Deuteronomistic History, little has been done to correlate these accounts. But what if these passages were meant to be read together? Utilizing the «Double Redaction» theory, Herbst proposes that an exilic «Deuteronomist» inserted the...

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John W. Herbst

Holy Fire Fell

Dirk R. Ellis

Holy Fire Fell

Why do we worship as we do? What are the forgotten practices once central to many early Nazarene congregations? Because historical events and other factors have shaped and molded the various worship patterns found in local congregations, the way in which contemporary Nazarenes worship is no accident. Like other descendants of the American holiness movement, Nazarene worship is influenced by events predating our denominational forebears. This text explores the history behind current worship...

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Dirk R. Ellis

Released Outward

David Lowry

Released Outward

Drawing from the experience of a church on Chicago's south side, Released Outward addresses the situation of congregations that have turned inward and become isolated from the needs of the world around them. It addresses the question of how churches, addicted to their cultural and ecclesial traditions, are set free to engage the world with God's justice, mercy, and faithfulness. The journey outward is a spiritual one. Like all who are in bondage to false dependencies, congregations...

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David Lowry

Teaching and Facilitating Retreats...

Meg Gorzycki

Teaching and Facilitating Retreats with Caesar

This manual provides educators and retreat facilitators with questions for guided reflection and discussion, and with ideas about how to orchestrate conversations based on these reflections. The material illuminates some considerations instructors and facilitators may address as they plan for courses and retreats. This guide will help instructors and facilitators plan lessons and activities that aim to enrich scholarship, critical thinking, and personal spiritual development.

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Meg Gorzycki

Ideology, Class, and the Hebrew Bib...

Norman K. Gottwald

Ideology, Class, and the Hebrew Bible

This brief volume brings together three of Norman Gottwald's classic essays that address issues of social class and ideology as they pertain to the interpretation of the biblical documents. The small format makes them useful for classroom and small-group use, providing definitions, theoretical concerns, and applications to specific texts. The author has been a leader in the social-scientific analysis of the Bible for almost fifty years. Contents Social Class as an Analytic and...

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Norman K. Gottwald

The Leviathan Factor

Lawrence E. Burkholder

The Leviathan Factor

The Leviathan Factor tells the incredible story of how Satan, created as Lucifer the morning star, self-transformed into Leviathan, God's serpentine arch foe. When he tried to achieve immortality by tweaking creation's lowest-level laws (a sophisticated computer/automaton) he created death instead. As the serpent he reappeared in the Genesis tree of good and evil, where he seduced humans to attempt immortality apart from covenant with God. Leviathan is responsible for the false belief...

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Lawrence E. Burkholder

An Abecedarian of Sacred Trees

Mark G. Boyer

An Abecedarian of Sacred Trees

Every person has seen a tree and maybe planted or climbed one! In all world religions, various trees are considered sacred. Trees have the ability to help us reach wholeness if we learn their wisdom and integrate it into our lives. This abecedarian–a book whose contents are in alphabetical order–explores the spiritual growth that is possible by reflecting on the wisdom of woody plants, which help humans experience the divine. In these pages you can explore trees from Acacia to Zaqqum. For each...

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Mark G. Boyer

Divine Presence

Mark G. Boyer

Divine Presence

"The glory of the LORD," a phrase used over one hundred times in the Bible, describes God's greatness and transcendence. This complex theological concept exhibits several natural elements which describe a theophany, a personification of God in the forces of nature. Thus, a theophany–the appearance of God in a visible form–is the physical manifestation of the divine presence most frequently associated with a storm. Of all the biblical accounts that illustrate the glory of the LORD, the...

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Mark G. Boyer

Social Science and the Christian Sc...

Anthony J. Blasi

Social Science and the Christian Scriptures, Volume 3

Sociologist Anthony Blasi analyzes early Christianity using multiple social scientific theories, including those of Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Max Scheler, Alfred Schutz, and contemporary theorists. He investigates the canonical New Testament books as representative of early Christianity, a sample based on usage, and he takes the books in the chronological order in which they were written. The result is a series of «stills» that depict the movement at different stages...

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Anthony J. Blasi

Social Science and the Christian Sc...

Anthony J. Blasi

Social Science and the Christian Scriptures, Volume 2

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Anthony J. Blasi

Praying the Language of Enmity in t...

Aran J. E. Persaud

Praying the Language of Enmity in the Psalter

How is it possible to hold a New Testament ethic to love one's enemies and pray for their physical infliction, shame, death, and suffering of family members? And yet, the Psalter, the prayer book of the Church, contains such prayers. In modern times, the Church has adopted a semi-Marcionite attitude towards these troubling texts, excluding whole psalms or parts from liturgies and private use. But as the age of «terror» dawns upon us, we are finding that these texts speak of unchanging...

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Aran J. E. Persaud

Q, the First Writing about Jesus

Yoseop Ra

Q, the First Writing about Jesus

This book shows readers the formation of Q by exploring how the texts were subjected to redaction four times. As author Yoseop Ra demonstrates, the first redaction of Q conveys the words and deeds of the historical Jesus and then the rest of redactors imposed their own theological interpretation to the words and deeds of Jesus. His argument will provide readers with a fresh look on how the earliest «Jesus movement» was formed in the thirties of the first century CE. Q is a hypothetical document...

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Yoseop Ra

A Christian Utopia

Stephen J. Gaudet

A Christian Utopia

In the first century of the Common Era, the Romans could boast of being the most pious society in the known world. They possessed a highly structured societal organization with a well-defined hierarchy where everyone knew their place and the personal and interpersonal duties associated therewith. It was understood that their success was due in large part to maintaining a relationship with the gods. Yet at the same time, social inequality and lack of justice for its members was ubiquitous and...

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Stephen J. Gaudet

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