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Esther in Exile

Christianne Meroz

Esther in Exile

The biblical book of Esther is the dark, yet marvelous, story of a Jewish girl deported with her uncle to the Persian Empire. They are in exile from Israel and from humanity, condemned to wander as nomads and strangers in a foreign land. Yet, almost in spite of herself, Esther becomes a queen, succeeding in saving her people from extermination. How hard it is when everything seems to be falling apart to stay true to one's identity! It might be even more difficult for these exiles to keep...

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Christianne Meroz

Theologies of Power and Crisis

Stephen Pavey

Theologies of Power and Crisis

Theologies of Power and Crisis provides a case study for Eric Wolf's research directive to better comprehend the interplay of cultural (webs of meaning) and material (webs of power) forms of social life. More specifically, the book demonstrates how theological discourse and practice engage with historical and material relations of power. It has been normative to speak of power in terms of political and economic processes and theology in terms of interpretive and symbolic experiences. This...

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Stephen Pavey

Setting the World on Fire

Laura R. Dejmek

Setting the World on Fire

Laypersons receiving a divine call to preach in the Roman Catholic Church may feel caught between a rock and a hard place–both figuratively and ecclesiastically. They may feel constrained between the Rock of Peter and the hard place of resistance to the preaching gift they believe they have and their desire to share it. At first glance, the Roman Catholic Church, with its two millennia of Sacred Tradition, seemingly offers little that favors the inclusion of lay preachers. In addition, many lay...

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Laura R. Dejmek

Pastoral Care, Health, Healing, and...

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Pastoral Care, Health, Healing, and Wholeness in African Contexts

Pastoral theologians from Congo, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe address, in this book, the issues of leadership, Ubuntu (community), gender-based violence, political violence, healing, and deliverance faced by pastors and ministers in African contexts today. Drawing on biblical, theological, social scientific, and cultural contextual perspectives, these African Christians offer much needed insights to assist in the care and counseling of persons towards healing, health, and well-being.

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Meet Me at the Palaver

Tapiwa N. Mucherera

Meet Me at the Palaver

Meet Me at the Palaver makes the case for a particular approach to pastoral counseling as a response to the destructive impact of colonial Christianity on indigenous African communities. The book opens with stories of destructive change brought to indigenous contexts (such as Zimbabwe, Africa), wherein the culture, values, religion, and humanity of African peoples were often marginalized. Mucherera demonstrates that therapy or counseling as taught in the West will not always suffice in such...

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Tapiwa N. Mucherera

Life After Death

Dick Tripp

Life After Death

Life After Death takes an in-depth look at the important issues surrounding death. Does it matter what we believe? Why do we avoid talking about it? Can we confidently assume there is life after death? This book presents the Christian view of death and what lies beyond. It doesn't avoid the difficult questions of judgment and the possibility of missing out on all that God has planned for his people. However, for those who are searching for a real relationship with the living God, Life After...

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Dick Tripp

The Prophetic Critique of the Prior...

Theresa V. Lafferty

The Prophetic Critique of the Priority of the Cult

When Jesus overturned the carts of the merchants in the temple, he was just the latest in a long line of people who decried the activities that took place there. To understand his actions better, one must go back in history to the eighth century BCE, to the first two prophets to criticize the temple cult: Amos and Isaiah. Their criticism of all worship activities came as a result of the people setting wrong priorities in their lives. What happens in the temple should extend into regular everyday...

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Theresa V. Lafferty

The Odyssey

Joseph Gonnella

The Odyssey

Is there an answer for suffering? Sometimes suffering is explicable, sometimes inscrutable, but even when there are no answers, there are responses. The Odyssey outlines one family's journey when their five-year-old daughter suffered a severe brain injury from viral encephalitis. Along the way, The Odyssey explores biblical responses to suffering, including laments, Job's suffering, faith healing, the devil, natural evil, discipleship, the ways God's glory may be revealed in...

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Joseph Gonnella

Listen More, Laugh Often, Love Alwa...

Dave Wasserman

Listen More, Laugh Often, Love Always

David Wasserman served the church in a time that was exciting, challenging, and made progress for the Kingdom. But he also saw church leaders who did not listen, laugh together, or love enough of God's world and people. This reality is bad for the gospel–yet there's hope. It is coming in the form of leaders who are taking the time to listen carefully, staying humble and humorous about themselves, and working harder than ever to embody a bit more of God's love, justice, and peace....

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Dave Wasserman

Cosmic Purpose and Human Consciousn...

Richard A. Mould

Cosmic Purpose and Human Consciousness

Scientists have constructed a vast and wonderful objective universe by building on the «quantitative» features of their experience. That universe cannot support cosmic purpose because it is without consciousness–it is completely inert. However, the «qualitative» features of human experience suggest the existence of an equally vast and wonderful subjective universe that complements the objective universe in scope and in reality. This edifice can and, I believe, does support a form of cosmic...

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Richard A. Mould

Persuading the Cretans

Aldred A. Genade

Persuading the Cretans

The Letter to Titus is often branded as incoherent, its salutation inchoate. Such premature conclusions are directly related to the authenticity debate that has marred analyses of the so-called Pastoral Epistles. From the corridors of academia echoes the cry to study the letters individually and independently of the authorship issue. This book does exactly that. It lays bare intricate and novel persuasive strategies, strategies that belie the charge of incoherency. In fact there is not one, but...

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Aldred A. Genade

Perichoresis and Personhood

Charles Twombly

Perichoresis and Personhood

Perichoresis (mutual indwelling) is a concept used extensively in the so-called Trinitarian revival; and yet no book-length study in English exists probing how the term actually developed in the «classical period» of Christian doctrine and how it was carefully deployed in relation to Christian dogma. Consequently, perichoresis is often used in imprecise and even careless ways. This path-breaking study aims at placing our understanding of the term on firmer footing, clarifying its actual usage...

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Charles Twombly

Psalm 29 through Time and Tradition

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Psalm 29 through Time and Tradition

Psalm 29, a sacred text in Jewish and Christian Bibles, has been understood in a variety of ways through time and in different traditions. This volume presents a sample of the use and meaning derived from a single biblical text. From the earliest translations to contemporary African Independent Churches, this psalm has been an integral part of synagogue and church; but what it has meant and how it is used is a fascinating journey through human culture. Not only the understanding of the written...

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The Sacred Text

Ronald F. Satta

The Sacred Text

The advances of geologic science, Darwinism, theological liberalism, and higher textual criticism converged in the nineteenth century to present an imposing challenge to biblical authority. The meteoric rise in secular knowledge exerted tremendous pressure on the Protestant theological elite of the time. Their ruminations, conversations, quarrels, and convictions offer penetrating insight into their world–into their perspective on Scripture and authority and how their outlook was challenged,...

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Ronald F. Satta

Living In-Between

André Resner

Living In-Between

The community of faith finds itself located precariously between Jesus' first and second comings, between the promise and fulfillment, between what God has begun in the gospel and what God has yet to complete. It thus finds itself proclaiming a gospel of life, love, hope, and faith in a world more characterized by death, hate, despair, and fear. The gospel insists that Jesus' death has shut the door on the age of violence and death, even as his resurrection has opened the door on the...

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André Resner

Partners in Care

Frederick Reklau

Partners in Care

The needs for and the benefits of holistic health care–care that extends to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of individuals–have been well known for 2,500 years or so. But still, to quote the late Rodney Dangerfield, some caregivers «don't get no respect.» Fred Reklau is out to change that with this book, offered as an exploration of the synergies possible among those who care for persons. In the 1980s he wrote the theses that formed the core of this book. Since then...

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Frederick Reklau

Practice for Heaven

Gabriel C. Statom

Practice for Heaven

Do you wonder what our worship will be like in Heaven? The center of our faith is based on believing in Jesus Christ, with the assurance that we will live with him and the Father for eternity. God gives us a glimpse of what that will be like in heaven while we are on earth. Throughout the Bible, we see the pomp and circumstance that surrounds the throne of God. With angels and trumpets, white robes and crowns, we see that God is enthroned with true worship from beings that desire to give him...

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Gabriel C. Statom

Afflicting the Comfortable, Comfort...

Glenn L. Monson

Afflicting the Comfortable, Comforting the Afflicted

A classic theology and a contemporary school of preaching come together in this new work. Glenn Monson, an active Lutheran preacher, has taken the substantial concerns of Law and Gospel theologians and combined them with the insights of the New Homiletic School to come up with a guide to sermon development that helps any preacher deliver Law and Gospel sermons in a contemporary way. The author leads the reader through a step-by-step process in thinking about Law and Gospel preaching from...

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Glenn L. Monson

Gospel Without Borders

Jim Rotholz

Gospel Without Borders

To what degree does culture facilitate or distort the Christian faith, the gospel of Jesus, and the life of the church? In America, the distortion is enormous. Gospel Without Borders carefully examines the complex intersection of culture and faith in America, providing insights that allow for better understanding and a more genuine experience of biblical and historic Christianity. Gospel Without Borders analyzes the formative and interactive roles that human nature and cultural history play...

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Jim Rotholz

Freedom in Covenant

Robert D. Cornwall

Freedom in Covenant

In an age of decreasing denominational loyalty, questions of identity have become important. Both church members and inquirers wonder what to make of a denomination's core values, mission, and common practices. Because the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) was born as a movement of reform on the American frontier during the early nineteenth century, it is marked by the time and place of its birth. The message it offered at the time was one of Christian unity rooted in theological...

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Robert D. Cornwall

The Neighborhood Church

Robert G. Moss

The Neighborhood Church

The purpose of this book is to provide a theologically sound yet easy-to-use resource, based on the image of God, that can help congregations engage relationally in their neighborhoods. Rather than using the neighborhood as a resource to help make congregations successful, The Neighborhood Church contends that God places congregations in neighborhoods to help make neighborhoods successful in accordance with God's vision. This book is intended as a resource for pastors and other church...

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Robert G. Moss

The Doctrines of Grace from the Lip...

Dr. J. D. Watson

The Doctrines of Grace from the Lips of Our Lord

The doctrine of salvation is the watershed doctrine of Scripture. Flowing from that doctrine will be not only all other doctrine but also personal practice and Christian ministry. The major controversy concerning salvation is whether it is a result of the sovereign grace of God alone or a mixture of «God's part» and «man's part.» Addressing that issue is absolutely critical to the very foundations of Christianity itself. Whichever one of those premises is correct, we should expect...

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Dr. J. D. Watson

Giving Life to Vision

Marty Guise

Giving Life to Vision

Giving Life to Vision walks leaders through a biblical model for moving plans off paper to living and active ministry. Using the scriptural examples of Joshua, Solomon, Timothy, Esther, and Peter, leaders will be challenged to simply, yet strategically consider what God is calling them to do. They will then have a practical and powerful way to step out and implement God's vision for the Church. The goal is not bigger buildings or more programs. Our mission is to biblically equip...

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Marty Guise

UnCommon Preaching

Susan Cartmell

UnCommon Preaching

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today. Many people are seeking answers to life's hard questions. Many people come to church seeking inspiration, help for personal problems, or faith's perspective on life. They come seeking things you cannot find in a search engine. The church has exactly what they need, but too often there is a gap between our message and our ability to send it. Each week, as people pause to learn about faith and get a word of hope, a lot rides on the sermon. ...

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Susan Cartmell

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