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The Dionysian Gospel: The Fourth Gospel and Euripides - Hardcover

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by Dennis R. MacDonald (Author)"Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them." Dennis R. MacDonald offers a provocative explanation of those scandalous words of Christ from the Fourth Gospelan explanation that he argues would hardly have surprised some of the Gospel's early readers. John sounds themes that would have instantly been recognized as proper to the Greek god Dionysos (the Roman Bacchus), not least as he was depicted in Euripides's play The Bacchae. A divine ...

A Theology of the Third Article: Karl Barth and the Spirit of the Word - Paperback

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by Aaron T. Smith (Editor)Toward the end of his career, Karl Barth made the provocative statement that perhaps what Schleiermacher was up to was a theology of the third article and that he anticipated in the future that a true third-article theology would appear. Many interpreters, of course, took that to indicate not only a change in Barths perception of Schleiermacher but also as a self-referential critique. The author investigates this claim, contesting the standard interpretations, and ar...

Exquisite Desire: Religion, the Erotic, and the Songs of Songs

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Report copyright infringementby Carey Walsh (Editor)An examination of the erotic ideal in ancient IsraelThis provocative work investigates the character of the erotic in writings from ancient Israel and how the erotic is connected to the experience of the divine. Number of Pages: 264 Dimensions: 0.65 x 8.52 x 5.55 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: November 01, 2000

A Church Undone: Documents from the German Christian Faith Movement, 1932-1940 - Paperback

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by Mary M. Solberg (Translator)Decades after the Holocaust, many assume that the churches in Germany resisted the Nazi regime. In fact, resistance was exceptional. The Deutsche Christen, or German Christians, a movement within German Protestantism, integrated Nazi ideology, nationalism, and Christian faith. Marrying religious anti-Judaism to the Nazis racial antisemitism, they aimed to remove everything Jewish from Christianity.For the first time in English, Mary M. Solberg presents a selecti...

Feminist Theory and Christian Theology - Paperback

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by Serene Jones (Author)This long-awaited text charts clearly and comprehensively the enormously important area of feminist theory -- and brings it into fruitful conversation with Christian theology. Jones introduces the primary concerns that animate feminist theory through discussion of critical texts and through women's narratives. She shows how they pose uncomfortable questions, and leave no corner of the Christian tradition unchallenged. Jones unfolds feminist theory in three broad catego...

The Role of the Synagogue in the Aims of Jesus - Hardcover

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by Jordan J. Ryan (Author)No one disputes today that Jesus must be understood as a participant in the currents of Second Temple Judaism. However, his relation to the institution of the synagogue has received much less attention despite the clear depiction in all four Gospels of the synagogue as the site of his activity and the considerable recent scholarship on the place of the synagogue in Jewish life. Reviewing what we now know about actual synagogues in the land of Israel and what we under...

Mark as Story: An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gospel, Third Edition

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Report copyright infringementby David Rhoads (Author), Joanna Dewey (Editor), Donald Michie (Editor)In this third edition of Mark as Story, Rhoads, Dewey, and Michie take their treatment of the Gospel of Mark to new levels. While retaining their clear and thorough analysis of Mark as a narrative, they now place their study of Mark in the context of orality. The new preface explains the role of Mark in a predominantly oral culture. Throughout the study, they refer to the author as composer, th...

Hope in Action: Subversive Eschatology in the Theology of Edward Schillebeeckx and Johann Baptist Metz - Paperback

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by Steven M. Rodenborn (Author)This volume contends against a major lacuna in the story of eschatology in the twentieth century by offering a historical and comparative analysis of Edward Schillebeeckxs prophetic eschatology and Johann Baptist Metzs apocalyptic eschatology with the goal of identifying relative advantages and limitations of these divergent eschatological frameworks for rendering a Christian account of hope that prompts action in the public arena.Rodenborn provides a fresh angl...

You Made Us for Yourself: Creation in St. Augustines Confessions - Paperback

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by Jared Ortiz (Author)Augustines Confessions is probably the most commented-upon text of early Christianity. Yet, there is a general consensus that this justly famous work is neither well composed nor structurally unified. You Made Us for Yourself aims to challenge this common notion by approaching the Confessions in light of what Augustine himself would have considered most fundamental: creation, understood in a broad sense. Creation, for Augustine, is an epiphany, a light that reveals who ...

Planetary Solidarity: Global Women's Voices on Christian Doctrine and Climate Justice

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Report copyright infringementby Grace Ji-Sun Kim (Editor), Hilda P. Koster (Editor)Planetary Solidarity brings together leading Latina, womanist, Asian American, Anglican American, South American, Asian, European, and African woman theologians on the issues of doctrine, women, and climate justice. Because women make up the majority of the world's poor and tend to be more dependent on natural resources for their livelihoods and survival, they are more vulnerable when it comes to climate-relate...

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by Phyllis Trible (Author)Phyllis Trible examines rhetorical criticism as a discipline within biblical studies. In Part One she surveys the historical antecedents of the method from ancient times to the postmodern era: classical rhetoric, literary critical theory, literary study of the Bible, and form criticism. Trible then presents samples of rhetorical analysis as the art of composition and as the art of persuasion.In Part Two, formulated guidelines are applied to a detailed study of the bo...

Micah: Continental Commentaries - Hardcover

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by Hans Walter Wolff (Author), Gary Stansell (Editor)Wolff's commentary on Micah is one of the most thorough works available in English. His insightful observations on the message of the prophet make this book a standard commentary on Micah for years to come. It is highly recommended to scholars, ministers, and theological students as an indispensable aid. Number of Pages: 272 Dimensions: 0.87 x 9.68 x 6.2 IN Publication Date: March 14, 1990

A Theory of Character in New Testament Narrative - Paperback

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by Cornelis Bennema (Author), R. Alan Culpepper (Author)In this study in three-dimensional character reconstruction, Cornelis Bennema presents a new theory of character in the New Testament literature. Although character has been the subject of focused literary-critical study of the New Testament since the 1970s, Bennema observes that there is still no consensus regarding how character should be understood in contemporary literary theory or in biblical studies.Many New Testament scholars seem...

Creativity as Sacrifice: Toward a Theological Model for Creativity in the Arts - Paperback

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by James M. Watkins (Author)Theological interest in art is at a premium. However, theological engagement with art is often enacted without a clear sense of method. This text argues for a theological methodology in engaging the arts, and, specifically, the author puts forward a theological model for understanding human creativity in the light of Jesus sacrificial redemption. In dialogue with theology, philosophy, psychology, and art theory, the author establishes the relevance and applicabilit...

Saving Beauty: A Theological Aesthetics of Nature - Paperback

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by Kathryn B. Alexander (Author)Kathryn B. Alexander argues that natural beauty is a source of religious insight into the need and way of salvation, and this project develops a theological aesthetics of nature and beauty with an aim toward cultivating a theological and ethical framework for redeemed life as participation in ecological community.With interdisciplinary verve, engaging systematic, philosophical, and art theory systems of aesthetics, the volume fosters the cultivation of the sens...

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Report copyright infringementby Nicole Wilkinson Duran (Editor), James P. Grimshaw (Editor)The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light. Matthew sheds new light from new perspectives on themes in the Gospel including community; land, labor, and Empire; children, parents, and families; health and disabilities; and border-crossings. The authors challenge us to consider how we deal wit...

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by Philip L. Culbertson (Author)Culbertson has built his text around the ideal of Christian wholeness and maturitya healthy interconnectedness of self-within-community. The heart of the book lies in its presentation of the three schools of counseling theory that Culbertson finds most helpful: family systems theory, narrative counseling theory, and object relations theory. Each of these is explained in detail, and then applied to the most common and challenging of counseling situations: pre-ma...

Christian Theology: An Introduction to It's Traditions and Tasks - Paperback

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by Peter C. Hodgson (Editor), Robert H. King (Editor)This highly acclaimed and widely used volume now in its third edition, is a collaborative presentation of the chief Christian doctrines in light of their traditional theological formulations, their historical development, and contemporary challenges. Joined by David Tracy, Langdon Gilkey, Edward Farley, Sallie McFague, and many others, Hodgson and King explore the task of theology, method, scripture and traditions, God, revelation, creation...

God and Cosmology: William Lane Craig and Sean Carroll in Dialoge - Hardcover

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by Robert B. Stewart (Editor)The question of God and cosmology is far from abstract. In fact, the subject raises the deepest questions of human existence: "Why is there something rather than nothing?" Or, to put it more personally, "Why am I here?"Structured as a debate, the 2014 Greer-Heard Forum focused on the issue of God and cosmology and its impact on life and self-understanding. Christian philosopher William Lane Craig and atheist cosmologist Sean Carroll presented their views before a ...

Reconstructing Christian Theol - Paperback

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by Rebecca S. Chopp (Author), Mark Lewis Taylor (Author)Christian theology needs to be reconstructed in light of recent and momentous intellectual changes, social revolutions, and steep pedagogical challenges. That is the conviction of many of North America's leading theologians whose close collaboration over several years bring us this exciting volume.Reconstructing Christian Theology introduces theology in such a way that readers can discern the relevance of historical materials, pose theol...

The World in the Trinity: Open-Ended Systems in Science and Religion - Paperback

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by Joseph A. Bracken (Author)Joseph A. Bracken argues that the failure of theology and science to generate cohesion is the lack of an integrated system of interpretation of the Christian faith that consciously accords with the insights and discoveries of contemporary science.In The World in the Trinity, Bracken utilizes the language and conceptual structures of systems theory as a philosophical and scientific grammar to show traditional Christian beliefs in a new light that is accessible and ...

The Word That Redescribes the World: The Bible and Discipleship

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Brueggemann (Author)In the last several years, Walter Brueggemann's writingshave directly addressed the situation of Christiancommunities in today's globalized context, with itsconsumerist lifestyles, vast inequalities, and near-imperialexercises of power. His insights, forged in rugged encounterswith the texts of the Old Testament, are sharp, painful, andindispensable. In the People of Israel Brueggemann finds amodel of an alternative community - anchor...

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Report copyright infringementby Bard Thompson (Author)The liturgies of the Word and the Lord's Supper that are included in this volume range from those of the church fathers Justin Martyr and Hippolytus through the Roman Mass (in both Latin and English), to the great Reformation liturgies of Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, Knox, Baxter, and Wesley, as well as the Middleburg Liturgy of the English Puritans and the Westminster Directory. In addition to his translations, Thompson draws upon copies of m...

Christian Dogmatics: Volume 2 - Hardcover

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by Carl E. Braaten (Author), Robert W. Jenson (Author)Volume 2 treats atonement, the Holy Spirit, ecclesiology, the sacraments, justification by faith, and eschatology. Number of Pages: 624 Dimensions: 2.07 x 9.29 x 6.39 IN Publication Date: February 01, 1984

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Report copyright infringementby Frank C. Senn (Author)Designed as a general introduction to Christian liturgy, this book explores the meaning, history, and practice of worship in Eastern and Western, Catholic and Protestant traditions. Its chapters cover the theology of worship, the historical development of Eucharist and the Prayer Offices, the lectionary and customs of the church year, other sacramental rites, and the use of music and the arts. As such, it is a perfect textbook for students...

Song of Songs: Continental Commentaries - Hardcover

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by Othmar Keel (Author), Frederick J. Gaiser (Editor)In addition to a comprehensive introduction and an analysis of text and form, Othmar Keel focuses on the metaphorical and symbolic language of the Song of Songs. He makes full use of parallelstextual and iconographicfrom Palestine, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. More than 160 illustrations, prepared by Hildi Keel-Leu, add to the interpretation of the songs. Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 0.92 x 9.58 x 6.94 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: S...

Many Voices: Pastoral Psychotherapy in Relational and Theological Perspective - Paperback

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by Pamela Cooper-White (Author)Now in Paperback!Many Voices is a must-read textbook for pastoral psychotherapists and pastoral counselors in clinical training as well as a guide for those in professional practice. In it Cooper-White harvests the great potential of postmodern sensibilities to help, accompany, and support individuals, couples, and families in recognizing and healing especially painful psychic wounds or longstanding patterns of self-defeating relationships to self and others. In...

Cross Examinations: Readings on the Meaning of the Cross Today - Paperback

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by Marit A. Trelstad (Editor)In today's theological landscape the significance ofthe cross has become strongly affirmed and radicallyquestioned. This exciting volume gathers theologiansand historians who have thought through these criticaland constructive issues: Do traditional understandingsof the cross valorize suffering or violence? Are the oldersoteriological models, which see redemption as a kind ofransom or debt satisfaction, fitting for the contemporaryworldview? Do they produce a piet...

Harvesting Martin Luthers Reflections on Theology, Ethics, and the Church

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Report copyright infringementby Timothy J. Wengert (Author)As profound as Martin Luther's ideas are, this giant of church history was concerned above all with practical instruction for daily Christian living. Harvesting Martin Luther's Reflections highlights this concern of Luther, mining his thought in key areas of doctrine, ethics, and church practice. Gathering noteworthy contributions by well-known Luther scholars from Europe and the Americas, this book ranges broadly over theological que...

Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins: Diversity, Continuity, and Transformation - Paperback

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by George W. E. Nickelsburg (Author)In the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, Christian scholars portrayed Judaism as the dark religious backdrop to the liberating events of Jesus' life and the rise of the early church. Since the 1950s, however, a dramatic shift has occurred in the study of Judaism, driven by new manuscript and archaeological discoveries and new methods and tools for analyzing sources. George Nickelsburg here provides a broad and synthesizing picture of the r...

Approaches to Paul: A Student's Guide to Recent Scholarship - Paperback

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by Magnus Zetterholm (Translator)What distinguishes the "new perspective on Paul" and what lies beyond it? What are scholars saying about Paul and the Roman Empire or about the intersection between feminist and postcolonial interpretation of Paul? Magnus Zetterholm provides a clear and reliable guide to these and other lively issues in the contemporary study of Paul, surveying the history of the principal perspectives on Paul's relation to Judaism and the Jewish law and showing the relationsh...

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by Robert O. Forde (Author), Mark C. Mattes (Editor), Steven D. Paulson (Editor)The Preached God speaks directly to preachers, calling them to deliver the truths of forgiveness, life, and salvation through both word and sacrament to all who listen. Number of Pages: 329 Dimensions: 0.71 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2017