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  • - Strategies for Home, Community, and World
     
    35,00 €

    Today's complex social and economic problems leave many people in the affluent world feeling either overwhelmed or ambivalent. Even the small percentage of us who have examined the ethics behind our financial decisions and overcome the often-deterring factors of self-interest rarely know what to do to make any difference. By providing tools for...

  • von Marcia Z. Nelson
    24,00 €

    In this book, religion reporter Marcia Nelson explores the spiritual dimensions that are prevalent in all aspects of the Oprah Winfrey media empire. Though Oprah is rarely explicitly religious on her television show or in her magazine, Nelson points out that there are several major Christian themes that weave through these aspects of her life...

  • - From the Twilight Zone to the Final Frontier
    von Gabriel Mckee
    30,00 €

    In this thorough and engaging book, Gabriel McKee explores the inherent theological nature of science fiction, using illustrations from television shows, literature, and films. Science fiction, he believes, helps us understand not only who we are but who we will become. McKee organizes his chapters around theological themes, using illustrations...

  • von Bruce N. Fisk
    20,00 €

    In First Corinthians, Paul writes to a troubled church at Corinth, urging its members to live a life distinct from the ways of others, governed by the law of love, and affirming of the tenets of the faith. His direct responses to their shortcomings provide us a window into daily church life in the first century. But this letter also paints a...

  • - Spirituality in the Stories of the World's Favourite Seeker
    von Connie Neal
    25,00 €

    This is a light-hearted yet serious-minded consideration of the themes in the popular Harry Potter stories. It explores Harry's world alongside the biblical characters, stories and grand themes that can captivate our imaginations and satisfy our longings for another world beyond our own.

  • - Jesus and His Earliest Followers
    von Christopher Tuckett
    44,00 €

    Christology and the New Testament offers an up-to-date, comprehensive and critical survey of the whole question of the Christology of the New Testament writers. It covers recent discoveries in the area of Judaism and critiques older approaches to the subject. It looks at not only the Christological emphases of the individual writers, but...

  • von Anna Carter Florence
    41,00 €

    By exploring the historical, theoretical, and practical elements of the tradition of testimony, Anna Carter Florence seeks in this much-anticipated book to establish the historical and contemporary validity of women's preaching and to introduce testimony to a new generation of preachers and teachers. She begins with the stories of three women...

  • - A Radical Vision of Household and Kingdom
    von Halvor Moxnes
    41,00 €

    This is a study of the Historical Jesus that pays close attention to the role of space and place, from house to kingdom, for understanding Jesus' identity. Halvor Moxnes employs a sociological and anthropological approach that promises to give greater depth to our perceptions of...

  • - 52 Reflections on the Heidelberg Catechism
    von Neal D. Presa
    24,00 €

    This book is a collection of fifty-two devotions based on the Heidelberg Catechism, one of the foundational documents of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Former PC(USA) moderator Neal D. Presa begins each devotion with a few of the questions from the catechism, along with their Scripture references, and follows with a brief meditation on those...

  • von John Proctor
    38,00 €

    Books in the Westminster Bible Companion series assist leaders and students in their study of the Bible as a guide to Christian faith and practice. Each volume presents the text under discussion, explains the biblical book in its original historical context, and explores the text's significance for faithful living today. These books are ideal...

  • von Jennifer Bird
    24,00 €

    Millions of people around the world look to the Bible as a source of encouragement and faith formation, a reminder that God is love and is in control, and a guide to living one's life the way God desires. But this treasured book has also been misused and manipulated by many, placed on a pedestal of untouchability, and protected from...

  • - A Thematic Resource for Preaching and Worship
     
    34,00 €

    This new volume in the Feasting on the Word series provides an alternative to strict lectionary use for Advent, with six thematically-designed services for the four Sunday in Advent, as well as, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Four midweek services provide a supplemental study of John the Baptist to enhance the congregation's Advent...

  • - A Theological Commentary on the Bible
    von Deanna A. Thompson
    46,00 €

    In this fresh commentary, Deanna A. Thompson makes this important Old Testament book come to life. Recounting God's foundational relationship with Israel, Deuteronomy is set in the form of Moses' speeches to Israel just before entry into the promised land. Its instructions in the form of God's law provide the structure of the life that God...

  • - How Modern Historians View the Man from Galilee
    von Mark Allan Powell
    52,00 €

    This thoroughly revised edition of the best-selling textbook provides an in-depth survey of current historical Jesus studies.

  • - The Countercultural Nature of Scripture
    von Walter Brueggemann
    33,00 €

    World-renowned biblical interpreter Walter Brueggemann invites readers to take a closer look at the subversive messages found within the Old Testament.

  • - Reflections on Lent and Easter
    von Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    20,00 €

    "This is my second Passiontide here. When people suggest in their letters . . . that I'm 'suffering' here, I reject the thought. It seems to me a profanation. These things mustn't be dramatized. I doubt very much whether I'm 'suffering' any more than you, or most people, are suffering today. Of course, a great deal here is horrible, but where is

  • - The Old Testament for Beginners
    von Donald L. Griggs & W. Eugene March
    21,00 €

    Organized in seven chapters with seven accompanying lessons, this book will help readers and small groups more fully understand the book of Exodus and see the work of a God who desires justice, freedom, and faithfulness for all.

  • - Exploring the Sacred in Comics, Graphic Novels, and Film
    von Greg Garrett
    26,00 €

    Spider-Man. Batman. The X-Men. The Fantastic Four. Comic books and the characters they have spawned have become twenty-first-century mythology. Greg Garrett helps us see the profound depth that can be found in the glossy, fast-paced, and often violent world of comics, graphic novels, and the films they inspire. Holy Superheroes! provides...

  • - Performing the Drama of Doctrine
    von Kevin J. Vanhoozer
    44,00 €

    In this volume, highly esteemed scholar Kevin Vanhoozer introduces readers to a way of thinking about Christian theology that takes the work he began in the groundbreaking 2005 book, The Drama of Doctrine, to its next level. Vanhoozer argues that theology is not merely a set of cognitive beliefs, but is also something we do that involves speech...

  • - Resources for Pastoral Care
    von Herbert Anderson & Kenneth R. Mitchell
    29,00 €

    Grief as a lifelong human experience is the scope of this absorbing book. Kenneth Mitchell and Herbert Anderson explore the multiple dimensions of the problem, including the origins and dynamics of grief, loss throughout life, caring for those who grieve, and the theology of grieving. This examination is enriched by vivid illustrations and case...

  • von Robert Bruce Mullin
    48,00 €

    Church historians have long known and appreciated Christianity's global history. Until recently, however, introductory textbooks on the history of Christianity focused almost exclusively on Europe and North America. Robert Bruce Mullins's A Short World History of Christianity, by contrast...

  • - Doing Justice, Loving Kindness, and Walking Humbly
    von James C. Howell
    19,00 €

    Veteran pastor James C. Howell skillfully unpacks one of the most powerful verses in the Old Testament, Micah 6:8: "What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" Howell illuminates the original context in which this verse was written, while demonstrating how it can still guide us...

  • - A Story of Disability, Parenthood, and Faith in an Age of Advanced Reproduction
    von Ellen Painter Dollar
    27,00 €

    In No Easy Choice, Ellen Painter Dollar tells her gut-wrenching story of living with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI)a disabling genetic bone disorder that was passed down to her first childand deciding whether to conceive a second child who would not have OI using assisted reproduction. Her story brings to light the ethical dilemmas...

  • - The Canon and Christian Imagination
    von Walter Brueggemann & Tod Linafelt
    52,00 €

    In this updated edition of the popular textbook, Walter Brueggemann and Tod Linafelt introduce the reader to the broad theological scope of the Old Testament, treating some of the most important issues and methods in contemporary biblical interpretation. This clearly written textbook focuses on the literature of the Old Testament as it grew out...

  • von Walter Brueggemann
    47,00 €

    In addition to being one of the world's leading interpreters of the Old Testament, Walter Brueggemann is a skilled and beloved preacher. This collection of sermons demonstrates Brueggemann's fidelity to biblical texts, which come alive with meaning in our contemporary world. Throughout, Brueggemann also reflects on his preaching.The book...

  • - Interpretation
    von Robert W. Jenson
    28,00 €

    Robert Jenson offers a systematic theologian's careful reading of the Song of Songs. Jenson focuses on the overt sense of the book as an erotic love poem in order to discover how this evocative poetry solicits a theological reading. Jenson finds a story of human love for God in this complex poetic book and offers a commentary that elucidates...

  • - Interpretation
    von Dennis T. Olson
    35,00 €

    Numbers chronicles a community faced with many competing interests, groups, and issues, endeavoring to define itself and its mission in the world. Dennis Olsen offers readers a comprehensive interpretation of this often overlooked book. He provides a thoroughly contemporary reading of Numbers that enlightens the modern church as it navigates...

  • - Interpretation
    von J. Gerald Janzen
    42,00 €

    In this volume, J. Gerald Janzen examines the text of the book of Job as a literary text within the context of the history of the religion of Israel and within the broader context of the universal human condition. He approaches the basic character of the book from a literary perspective which enables him to identify human existence as...

  • - Interpretation
    von Paul D. Hanson
    40,00 €

    The latter half of the sixth century BCE found the Jewish community fragmented and under great strife after having been conquered by the Babylonian armies. As a response to a growing despair over life in servitude and exile, Isaiah 40-66 was written. Paul Hanson examines the writings of Second and Third Isaiah. What he discovers is a poetic...

  • - Interpretation
    von D. Moody Smith
    33,00 €

    This careful and thoughtful book unlocks the door to the theological and ethical treasures contained in the Epistles of John. It is an invitation to a journey of discovery, from the well-known and familiar to the less familiar but...

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