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  • - Resources for Ecumenical Hope
     
    24,00 €

    Marriage and families are becoming increasingly complex. No longer can any of us speak with simplicity about what a "typical" family is like, now that our vocabulary includes words like "single parent," "blended," and "multi-faith." Inerfaith Families is a brief, usable book designed for ministers and priests to use with congregants who are...

  • - A Theological Survival Guide for Youth, Adults, and Other Confused Christians
    von P. Alex Thornburg & Ted V. Foote Jr.
    23,00 €

    Ted Foote and Alex Thornburg, authors of the acclaimed Being Presbyterian in the Bible Belt, return with a book that engagingly and wittily examines Christian discipleship in the midst of the postmodern world. With chapter titles such as "Is God Eccentric or Comfortably Middle Class?" "How Much is Grace, or is it Just Cheap?" "What Would Jesus...

  • von Albert L. Blackwell
    42,00 €

    Religion and music are complementary resources for interpreting our lives. Music serves the sacred in ways that can be specified and articulated, yet the connection between them has been sorely neglected in the scholarly study of religion. In The Sacred in Music, Albert Blackwell brings the two subjects together in a celebration of the rich...

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    43,00 €

    This book provides ready access into and sure guidance through the marvelous, often convoluted, invariably rich world of Origen: the man, the ecclesiastical dynamics of his day, his extant works, the range of his theological explorations, his influence, and the controversies associated with him in life and in death. Included are recommendations...

  • - A Jewish-Christian Dialogue
     
    42,00 €

    Who Was Jesus? is a collection of articles revolving around the dialogue between Jewish New Testament scholar Peter Zaas and Christian apologist William Craig, with a focus on the differing Jewish and Christian assessments of Jesus of Nazareth, and the question of Jewish-Christian relations. Their points of agreement and disagreement, as well...

  • - A Guide to Spiritual Balance
    von N. Graham Standish
    26,00 €

    In a time when competing and often irreconcilable belief systems seem to dominate all religious conversation in Christianity, N. Graham Standish offers an alternative for leading a spiritual and faithful life. Providing models that embrace elements of many spiritual traditions within Christianity, Discovering the Narrow Path seeks to hold all...

  • von John A.T. Robinson
    36,00 €

    Originally published in 1963, Honest to God ignited passionate debate about the nature of Christian belief and doctrine in the white heat of a secular revolution. In addition, it articulated the anxieties of a generation who saw these traditional fundamentals as no longer acceptable or necessarily credible. Reissued on the 55th anniversary of...

  • von Karl Barth
    35,00 €

    Karl Barth is known as one of the greatest Christian theologians of modern times. While Barth's writings are permeated by biblical citations and exegesis, there are only a few examples of Barth's interpretation of an entire biblical book. In this anniversary edition of The Epistle to the Philippians, Karl Barth's exposition of the book of...

  • - The Yahwist as Historian in Exodus--Numbers
    von John Van Seters
    60,00 €

    This book will provide a better understanding of the unity and integrity of Exodus--Numbers in the context of other writings and the general history of the exilic...

  • - A Guide for Students and Pastors, Revised and Updated
    von David R. Stewart
    36,00 €

    This updated reference guide directs students to over five hundred significant theological resources across a wide area of theological research. It details bibliographic sources for encyclopedias, dictionaries, and electronic resources in biblical studies, historical studies, theology, and practical...

  • - A Guidebook for Parents, Teachers, Ministers, and Counselors
    von G. Wade Rowatt Jr.
    32,00 €

    Drawing upon personal experience, clinical knowledge, social research, and interviews, Wade Rowatt provides the layperson with the necessary tools to assess and provide spiritual help to adolescents in crisis. Rowatt discusses adolescent crises such as: family problems, sexual problems, substance abuse, depression, and suicide. He also takes an...

  • - Baseball, Religion, and American Culture
    von Evans
    46,00 €

    The Faith of 50 Million features essays by religion scholars who analyze the relationship between baseball and theology in American culture. Topics include the sense of national identity, baseball and civil religion, "saints and sinners," baseball and the American Dream with regard to racial integration, women and baseball, baseball as...

  • - Part Four
    von Aloys Grillmeier
    71,00 €

    A monumental work in scope and content, Aloys Grillmeier's Chirst in the Christian Tradition offers students and scholars a comprehensive exposition of Western writing on the history of doctrine. Volume Two covers the Council of Chalcedon (451) to Gregory the Great (590-604), with Part Four focusing on the Church of...

  • - Abridged Edition
     
    43,00 €

    This abridgement of Ford Lewis Battles' Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion will better acquaint readers with the seminal work in Reformed theology. In an easy-to-read, concise format, Donald McKim follows the main development of Calvin's thought, accentuating his contributions without lingering over matters whose importance has become...

  • - Pursuing Excellence in Theological Education
    von Carnegie Samuel Calian
    31,00 €

    Carnegie Calian addresses those who have a stake in theological schools and education, and who wish to enhance the role and influence of these schools among their churches and communities. He wishes to create a shared vision of ownership of theological education, and he encourages people to think theologically and organizationally about the aim...

  • - Radio and the Renaissance of Preaching
    von Jolyon P. Mitchell
    38,00 €

    What can preachers learn from the art of radio broadcasting? How can preachers develop more imaginative patterns of speaking? Jolyon Mitchell analyzes religious broadcasting in Britain and America, exploring how the speaker can create pictures with words and engage listeners in multisensory ways. This book offers theological insights and...

  • - Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie
     
    56,00 €

    This much-needed volume provides a comprehensive study of wisdom in the Hebrew Bible, in selected intertestamental and Rabbinic texts, and in the New Testament. An introductory essay summarizes the various meanings of wisdom in current research and offers an accurate understanding of the term. With seventeen essays by leading scholars, this...

  • - The Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian Believer
    von Carolyn J. Sharp
    33,00 €

    This lively book for introductory Old Testament classes offers an appealing illustration of how faith and academic study can work together, motivating and equipping Christian believers to turn to the Old Testament as a profound resource for their daily negotiations of faith, identity, and culture. Throughout, Carolyn J. Sharp focuses on the...

  • - Homiletic Theology and the Sermon on the Mount
    von David Buttrick
    38,00 €

    Once again, renowned homiletician David Buttrick has written a highly practical book that conveys and makes contagious his excitement for the theological task of preaching. In Speaking Jesus, Buttrick delineates the theological issues inherent in the Sermon on the Mount and presents a homiletical strategy for preaching its meaning and...

  • - Interpretation
    von M. Eugene Boring
    38,00 €

    Throughout the history of Christianity, the book of Revelation has had an enormous influence in religion, history, and culture, and it still has an urgently needed message for the church. M. Eugene Boring's critical assessment of Revelation enlightens readers as to just what that message is.Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and...

  • - Interpretation
    von James Limburg
    34,00 €

    Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching is a distinctive resource for those who interpret the Bible in the church. Planned and written specifically for teaching and preaching needs, this critically acclaimed biblical commentary is a major contribution to scholarship and...

  • - Interpretation
    von J. Clinton McCann Jr. & J. Clinton McCann
    33,00 €

    Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching is a distinctive resource for those who interpret the Bible in the church. Planned and written specifically for teaching and preaching needs, this critically acclaimed biblical commentary is a major contribution to scholarship and...

  • - Interpretation
    von Richard B. Hays
    45,00 €

    Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching is a distinctive resource for those who interpret the Bible in the church. Planned and written specifically for teaching and preaching needs, this critically acclaimed biblical commentary is a major contribution to scholarship and...

  • von Susan J. White
    45,00 €

  • von Brian Wren
    21,00 €

    Few can argue with the power of music to touch the heart. Voices shared in worshipful song allow us to honor God in a truly beautiful way. In Hymns for Today, renowned hymn writer Brian Wren helps us understand why this is so. Wren surveyed hundreds of hymns written since the 1960s to compile this discussion of forty hymn poems and to share the...

  • von Henry F. Knight
    30,00 €

    An ongoing issue for clergy as well as Christians in general is how to approach New Testament narratives about the crucifixion of Jesus in relation to Jews, Judaism, and the horrific events of the Holocaust. The events of Holy Week pose particular challenges for clergy and congregations. In this book Henry Knight helps us deal with Holy Week...

  • - The Early Christian Era
    von Lisa D. Maugans Driver
    47,00 €

    This third volume in the Westminster History of Christian Thought series is an accessible introduction to the main theological disputes and debates that helped shape the church in the period of early Christianity. Author Lisa Maugans Driver illustrates how early Christians' interactions with one another in worship, and in their care for...

  • - Essays in Honor of J. Deotis Roberts
     
    42,00 €

    Leading contemporary theologians and scholars present essays on the themes of liberation and reconciliation in tribute to J. Deotis Roberts. The essays are divided into the following sections: Theological Reflection, Faith in Dialogue, and Shaping the Practice of Ministry. The compilation presents an interesting array of perspectives on the...

  • - Essays in Memory of Donald Harrisville Juel
     
    37,00 €

    Among his many contributions to New Testament studies, Donald Juel was perhaps best known for his treatment of the ending of Mark's Gospel. He saw the open-endedness of Mark as powerfully unsettling for the reader who desires to tame and predict God's actions. In this series of essays, edited by Beverly Roberts Gaventa and Patrick Miller...

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