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  • von Michael Morgan
    28,00 €

    We lift up the psalms to God as our prayers. We borrow the language of these ancient texts, and they become our works. We are not secondhand recipients of Gods word but communicants actively in conversation with God. What seems to set the Psalms apart from the rest of Scripture is their...

  • von Justo L. Gonzalez
    52,00 €

    Historical events have long been the standard lens through which scholars have sought to understand the theology of Christianity in late antiquity. The lives of significant theological figures, the rejection of individuals and movements as heretical, and the Trinitarian and christological...

  • - Year C, Volume 2, Lent through Pentecost
    von Thomas Long
    52,00 €

    Designed to empower preachers as they lead their congregations to connect their lives to Scripture, Connections features a broad set of interpretive tools that provide commentary and worship aids on the Revised Common Lectionary. For each worship day within the three-year lectionary cycle, the commentaries in Connections link the individual...

  • - A Queer Guide to Christian Marriage
    von David Khalaf & Constantino Khalaf
    25,00 €

    Same-sex marriage may be legal in America, but its still far from the accepted norm, especially in Christian circles. So where can LBGTQ Christians who desire a lifelong, covenantal relationship look for dating and marriage advice when Christian relationship guides have not only simply ignored but actively excluded same-sex couples?David...

  • - Year C, Volume 3, Season after Pentecost
    von Thomas G. Long
    52,00 €

    Designed to empower preachers as they lead their congregations to connect their lives to Scripture, Connections features a broad set of interpretive tools that provide commentary and worship aids on the Revised Common Lectionary. For each worship day within the three-year lectionary cycle, the commentaries in Connections link the individual...

  • von Christine Helmer
    35,00 €

    No story has been more foundational to triumphalist accounts of Western modernity than that of Martin Luther, the heroic individual, standing before the tribunes of medieval authoritarianism to proclaim his religious and intellectual freedom, Here I stand! How Luther Became the Reformer returns to the birthplace of this...

  • - Transforming Your Congregation into a Powerhouse for Mission
    von Krin Van Tatenhove & Rob Mueller
    25,00 €

    How can we embody the values of love, grace, and justice? As faith communities, how can our collective embodiment of these values shine even brighter? The answers to these questions must always unfold right here, right now, exactly where God has planted us. Neighborhood Churchacts as a resource to inspire churches to become a vibrant and...

  • - Why and What We Sing
    von Walter Brueggemann
    25,00 €

    The Christian practice of hymn singing, says renowned biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann, is a countercultural act. It marks the Christian community as different from an unforgiving and often ungrateful culture. It is also, he adds, an "absurd enterprise in the midst of the hyper-busy...

  • - A Father's Transition and a Son's Redemption
    von Jonathan S. Williams
    24,00 €

    Jonathan S. Williams was three months into pastoring a new, evangelical church plant when his father confessed a secret: he was transgender. His father, Paul, a prominent evangelical pastor, soon became Paula, and Jonathan's life and ministry went into a tailspin. Feeling betrayed by his mentor and confidante and scared that his church would...

  • - Beyond the Theologies of Word and Culture
    von Ruben Rosario Rodriguez
    42,00 €

    RubA (c)n Rosario RodrA guez addresses the long-standing division between Christian theologies that take revelation as their starting point and focus and those that take human culture as theirs. After introducing these two theological streams that originate with Karl Barth and Paul Tillich...

  • - Contexts and Approaches
     
    46,00 €

    Christian ministries often struggle to account for urbanization's growing force, complexities, and reachaEURO"and to formulate theologically and sociologically appropriate responses. Urban Ministry Reconsidered features a collection of original essays by leading scholars and practitioners that explores current issues and challenges in urban...

  • - Cancer, Trauma, and Ministry
    von Deanna Thompson
    30,00 €

    In Glimpsing Resurrection, Deanna A. Thompson combines recent trauma research with compelling first-person narrative to provide insight into the traumatic dimensions of living with a serious illness. Her aim is to help those who are ill and those who care for and minister to them deepen their understanding of how best to offer support.aEUROoeThe...

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    50,00 €

    From a distinguished assembly of twelve internationally acclaimed scholars comes this rich, interdisciplinary study that explores the Protestant Reformation and its revolutionary impact on the church and the world. The Reformation revolutionized the church and spiritual life as well as art...

  • - God's Presence and Power in Creation
    von Luke Timothy Johnson
    52,00 €

  • von Shirley C. Guthrie Jr.
    42,00 €

    Christian Doctrine has introduced thousands of laity, students, and theologians to the tenets of the Christian faith. This edition reflects changes in the church and society since the publication of the first edition and takes into account new works in Reformed theology, gender references in the Bible, racism, pluralism, ecological...

  • von Jacqueline J. Lewis & John Janka
    21,00 €

    How do churches build immunity from racial and ethnic tensions that threaten to divide rather than unite congregations? Jacqui Lewis and John Janka believe that the answer lies in the development of multiracial, multicultural communities of faith.Born of the authors' work with...

  • - Faith and the Fight for Equality
    von Erin Wathen
    23,00 €

    Over the past few decades, the roles women play in public life have evolved significantly, as have the pressures that come with needing to do it all, have it all, and be all things to all people. And with this progress, misogyny has evolved as well. Today's discrimination is more subtle and indirect, expressed in double standards...

  • - 10 Values for the Modern Family
    von Erin Wathen
    23,00 €

    The values we live and raise our families by are grounded, first, in love. Contrary to many of today's so-called family values, our values go beyond one or two loaded social issues to a wholehearted lifestyle of practicing compassion, hospitality, justice, peace, and belonging. More than Words articulates ten values that forward-thinking...

  • von Denis R. Janz
    33,00 €

    This volume in the Westminster Handbooks to Christian Theology series provides a compact and lucid treatment of the main elements of the theology of Martin Luther (1483-1546). Janz, a top Luther expert, discusses the theological understandings that made Luther a leading figure in the sixteenth century Protestant Reformation. This splendid guide...

  • - Standing Up for Gay and Lesbian Inclusivity in The United Methodist Church
    von J. Philip Wogaman
    23,00 €

    In May 2017, after sixty years as an ordained United Methodist minister, Rev. J. Philip Wogaman surrendered his ordination, choosing to exit a community of clergy who will not allow an openly gay person to join. By surrendering his ordination, he chose to join the group of devoted Christians outside the clergy.

  • - Following a Radical, Refugee Messiah
    von Sheri Faye Rosendahl
    23,00 €

    Jesus is not white. Jesus is not American. Jesus does not want to make America great. While many of us grew up looking at gleaming portraits of Jesus with blond, flowing hair and hearing sermons reaffirming that we have the answers to save a fallen world, the real Jesusa Middle Eastern Jew preaching radical, humble, self-emptying...

  • - Diversity without Division in The United Methodist Church
    von Karen Oliveto
    23,00 €

    Together at the Table is the personal story and public message of Bishop Karen Oliveto, the first openly LGBTQ person to be elected a bishop in The United Methodist Church. Her election was and is controversial, with opponents seeking to have her removed and some even threatening violence against her.

  • von Tyler D. Mayfield
    29,00 €

    What's actually in the Bible? Where do we find the story of Moses or Jesus' parable of the Prodigal Son? A Guide to Bible Basics discusses important people, places, and terms for each biblical book so that the reader can quickly see its primary focus.

  • von Nancy J. Duff
    21,00 €

    By exploring the ethics of resisting and accepting death from a Christian perspective, Nancy Duff encourages Christians to talk about death in the context of Christian faith. Making Faithful Decisions at the End of Life helps readers use biblical and theological perspectives.

  • - Liturgies
     
    40,00 €

    A new worship resource in the acclaimed Feasting on the Word series

  • - Meditations on Faith at Midlife
    von Leonora Tubbs Tisdale
    24,00 €

    For many people at midlife the pace of life is so frenetic and full that we do not take the time to aEUROoelet the land lie fallow.aEURO But it is especially at this juncture that many want to ask some hard questions of God and of ourselves. Leonora Tubbs Tisdale presents this devotional book of...

  • von Michael Kinnamon
    22,00 €

    We live in a world driven by fear. But should we allow fear to play such a large role in our lives? According to the religions of the world, the answer is no.In this helpful and illuminating book, Michael Kinnamon challenges readers to consider why we find ourselves in this age of...

  • - Tracking the Spirit of Christian Faith
    von Amos Yong
    35,00 €

    Theology-the attempt to come to a deeper, more faithful understanding of oneAEs encounter with God-is something to which all Christians are called. In Learning Theology, Amos Yong invites the reader to lay claim to that calling and to see it as yet another opportunity to love God.

  • - Conflict, Faith, and Human Life
    von Ellen Ott Marshall
    37,00 €

    All Christians read the Bible differently, pray differently, value their traditions differently, and give different weight to individual and corporate judgment. These differences are the basis of conflict.

  • - Vivid Preaching for Visual Listeners
    von Alyce M. McKenzie
    33,00 €

    How can preachers ensure that their sermons continue to engage listeners in a world defined by visual media and the short, segmented delivery of information? Alyce McKenzie harnesses the element of drama and the human fascination with scenes to offer ministers a modern means of sermon development and delivery.McKenzie's core strategy is to...

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