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Loss is something everyone experiences in different ways. Love Is! is the moving story of one man? journey of grief, grace, and gratitude following the loss of the person he loved the most, his wife...

In this book Larry Harwood situates and evaluates Bertrand Russell?s thought on religion within the context of Russell?s biography. His well-known animus toward religious belief is highlighted and...

If we take a good look around us, it may become clear that our world doesn't appear to be the way God initially intended it to be. This deterioration happened initially in the garden of Eden and...

Making Sense of It All invites us to experience a good God who actively woos us to himself, even (or especially) through our heartaches and setbacks. With a pastor?s heart and fifty years of pastoral...

This book attempts to provide an ethnography of the Marakwet and its encounter with colonizers and missionaries. The core of the book concerns the formation of the Marakwet person through the rites...

The Math Mystic?s Guide to Creative Spirituality is unique, provocative, engaging, and a masterpiece of philosophical and mystical exploration. It offers gourmet treats for those with spiritual...

Despite centuries of scholarly and popular engagement, much confusion still hangs over Jesus? Olivet Discourse. There is no consensus on the nature and meaning of the disciples? question in Matt 24:3...

Congregations are shrinking and in decline. Fewer people are part of communities of faith. Michael Plekon's previous book, Community as Church, Church as Community, traced the factors behind this as...

Few missiologists have impacted mission theory and practice among Churches of Christ as significantly as has Dr. Gailyn Van Rheenen, yet his global missiological influence has extended far beyond the...

God has not only created us with the ability to multiply through having children, he has also given us the power to multiply disciples who multiply disciples through the preaching of the gospel in...

The Old Testament features only one God, YHWH, electing only one people, Israel, not only for its own benefit but also to be eventually a light to the nations. Unfortunately, this singular people...

The relationship between nature and grace is a key debate in Fundamental theology. The understanding of how nature and grace relate to each other is also a critically important part in comprehending...

Neighborhood Transformation is a Christian reimagination of compassionate ministry through the application of the practice of biblical hospitality. This book advocates the creation of community...

Reasoner?s Now Shown Mercy is the first commentary in 500 years that returns to the quadriga (literal sense plus threefold spiritual sense) in its exegetical approach. The commentary shows how Paul...

In our world, there?s a lack of clear middle ground. It?s a divided place, with political affiliations drawing lines between the left and the right. Being in the middle is challenging; our...

It is common opinion in biblical scholarship that the biblical documents functioned in a sociocultural context dominated by the spoken word. Detextification is the result of addressing the complex...

This book offers the first English translation of the essential writings of Christophe Munzihirwa, SJ. Munzihirwa was a Congolese Jesuit priest and archbishop who was assassinated for his outspoken...

Outer Origin examines the individual, social, and spiritual implications of ectogenesis, also known as artificial womb technology. Formerly considered the topic of science fiction, such devices are...

This book makes space (1) for Pasifika contributions to academic conversations on critical topics and (2) for influencing the conversations to account for, and thus reflect, Pasifika ways and modes...

Pain in the Belly : The Haugean Witness in American LutheranismAuthor: Thomas E. JacobsonPublisher: Wipf and Stock PublishersPublication Date: Jan 02, 2024Number of Pages: 411 pagesLanguage:...

Many of our current, lasting controversies in American Christianity are due, in part, to the willingness of liberals to champion reason and experience while leaving Scripture and tradition to...

While many have recognized unusual patterns of repetition within the book of Hebrews, which seem to play a range of important functions within the text, the consistency of this patterning has not...

Although baptized as a child and serving faithfully as a pastor and theologian in the German Evangelische Kirche, Paul Leo was persecuted, removed from his church position, and imprisoned by the Nazi...

In a moment of great crisis, the apostle Paul gave new meanings to characters and events within Genesis 16-21 without completely denying or replacing their prior meanings. This interpretive practice,...

Some of the most heated contests around the apostle Paul today concern the effort to understand him wholly ?within Judaism,? and the effort to interpret him over against the culture and ideology of...

Philo of Byblos in the early Roman imperial period claimed to have translated the work of an ancient author Sanchuniathon who recorded stories of the ancient Canaanite gods, stories that resemble the...

These essays by John Nevin, theologian of Mercersburg Theology, are united by two primary themes: Part 1 documents Nevin?s noteworthy and innovative application of idealist philosophy to Reformed...

Extreme poverty can be alleviated one village at a time. The current practices of global aid agencies, governments, and NGOs all focus on the same failed strategy: transfer payments. The problem is...

E. Jill Riley is not a good victim. However, she is a triumphant survivor who has scars to prove that wounds do not have to stay open forever. An orphan who was adopted into a culture of chaos and...

This book pursues the question of consciousness and thought through the art of preaching in a postcolonial era. Indeed, the past has bestowed upon the present the legacy of colonization and, in the...