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  • THE SPIRITUAL SOUL
    MATTHEW J. CHURCHOUSE
    What is the human soul? What does it do? How does it relate to the brain and body? What is happening in the soul when a person encounters the Holy Spirit? These are some of the questions addressed in The Spiritual Soul as it advances towards its overall goal of proposing a (re)new(ed) Pentecostal/Charismatic understanding of what constitutes a human being. In pursuing this over...

    $621.00

  • SOUL-MAKING BY GRACE
    MATTHEW S. HENDZEL SJ
    Purgatory holds a precarious position in the afterlife beliefs of most Christians. Often viewed as a doctrine that is held only by Roman Catholics, purgatory has historically been maligned by its detractors as unbiblical, theologically problematic, and a product (and source) of superstition. Moreover, it would appear that belief in purgatory has declined in the faith-lives of C...

    $586.00

  • OUTER ORIGIN
    LAURA JOHNSON DAHLKE
    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 currently being developed and will soon be a medical reality. This book offers readers information on the status of this technology and considers the ways in which it may one day ful...

    $532.00

  • THE IMPACT OF SHORT-TERM MISSIONS ON LONG-TERM MISSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    BRIAN BAIN
    Lead short-term mission trips (STMs) that catalyze trip participants into mission-oriented disciple-makers when they return home. STMs can be mutually beneficial service opportunities that have positive long-term impact on both trip participants and national hosts. While this is possible, it is not always the outcome of many STMs. STMs often prioritize the short-term experience...

    $444.00

  • THE GREAT OPEN DANCE
    JON PAUL SYDNOR
    The Great Open Dance offers a progressive Christian theology that endorses contemporary ideals: environmental protection, economic justice, racial reconciliation, interreligious peace, gender equality, and LGBTQ+ celebration. Just as importantly, this book provides a theology of progress--an interpretation of Christian faith as ever-changing and ever-advancing into God's imagin...

    $798.00

  • EVANGELICAL AND AFRICAN PENTECOSTAL UNITY
    HUGH OSGOOD
    As the millennium approached, the number of independent African Pentecostal churches in Britain increased rapidly. Having assimilated classical Pentecostalism and the charismatic movement, and having begun to find ways of working with the Caribbean Pentecostal denominations, it remained to be seen how UK evangelicalism would fare with African Pentecostals. This book looks at th...

    $710.00

  • MARAKWET
    SAMUEL K. ELOLIA
    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 of passage. Indeed, cultural education is critical in establishing a socially mature identity. By virtue of repetition, humans connect to the past and create a continuum. Also, throu...

    $444.00

  • THE SANDEMANIAN STORY
    DEREK B. MURRAY
    The Glasites or Sandemanians were a branch of the church with their roots in Scotland, but who spread much wider. This study seeks to explore their distinctives, both of theology and practice, and to place them in a wider context. The examination of a small sect serves to illuminate the wider story, and this particular community nurtured within it several eminent thinkers whose...

    $515.00

  • THE END OF MEANING
    WILLIAM A. SIKES
    Towards the end of the twentieth century books proclaiming the "closing" of America's mind, the "collapse" of her communities, and the "end" of her art, literature, education and more, began appearing with regularity. The underlying theme in all such works is the loss of those experiences that give our lives meaning. In The End of Meaning: Cultural Change in America Since 1945,...

    $816.00

  • PATTERNS OF REPETITION, STRUCTURE, AND MEANING IN THE BOOK OF HEBREWS
    MICHAEL C. CLARK
    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 been fully appreciated and its function has been largely unexamined. This study investigates the location and function of what we have termed "link clusters" within Hebrews from the pe...

    $852.00

  • POSTCOLONIAL HOMILETICS?
    WESSEL WESSELS
    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 South African context, apartheid. However, the endeavor of postcolonizing theology and homiletics is a contentious space that has not been settled. This book promotes a counterargume...

    $479.00

  • PACIFIC WELL-BEING
    JIONE HAVEA
    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. The critical topic that runs through the chapters is well-being, and the contributors were located at the time of writing in Pasifika--Aotearoa, Fiji, Kioa, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, ...

    $532.00

  • ENGAGING NEIGHBORS AND NATIONS
    TIM SILBERMAN
    Evangelical churches are widely known for their commitment to mission locally and to the ends of the earth. However, in the last century, there have been profound theological and sociological changes that have impacted mission practice. Church and mission leaders have encouraged Christians to respond to the need for mission locally, especially as church decline accelerates in m...

    $710.00

  • WOUNDED IMAGES
    KRISTINE M. WHALEY
    This volume works through deconstructing traditional models of the imago Dei in search of a more inclusive understanding of the doctrine, one that allows for literature to bring important questions to bear. Brief analyses of Karl Barth and Paul Tillich and then growing dissatisfaction with the two in various liberation theologies brings to light the problems of a perfected imag...

    $550.00

  • READING ROGER WILLIAMS
    LINFORD D. FISHER / SHEILA M. MCINTYRE / JULIE A. FISHER
    Roger Williams is best known as the founder of Rhode Island who was banished from Massachusetts in 1636 for his dangerous thoughts on religious liberty. But the city and colony Williams helped to found was deep in Native country situated between the powerful Narragansett and Wampanoag nations. The Williams that emerges from the documents in this collection is immersed in a dyna...

    $710.00

  • CONSCIOUSNESS AND MATTER
    KIRILL KOPEIKIN
    This volume represents a collective effort to advance research on the perennial problem of matter and consciousness, body and mind. It contains contributions from the fields of philosophy, psychology, physiology, cosmology, and physics. However, its distinctive emphasis is on the key role of theology. The modern natural sciences historically arose as an attempt to read the seco...

    $621.00

  • THE DIASPORA RETURNS HOME
    BRYAN M. WOODS
    In recent years, the Vietnamese diaspora, including some of whom are Protestant Christian Việt Kiều, have returned to their natal homeland of Vietnam in large numbers. This book investigates the phenomenon of the Protestant Christian Việt Kiều who have returned and reestablished belonging in Vietnam with a missional purpose and the perspective of non-migrant local Protestant Ch...

    $568.00

  • SHAKESPEARE ON SALVATION
    DAVID ANONBY
    This cutting-edge book explores Shakespeare's negotiation of Reformation controversy about theories of salvation. While twentieth century literary criticism tended to regard Shakespeare as a harbinger of secularism, the so-called "turn to religion" in early modern studies has given renewed attention to the religious elements in Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Nevertheless, ...

    $710.00

  • HEBRAICA VERITAS VERSUS SEPTUAGINTA AUCTORITATEM
    IGNACIO CARBAJOSA
    At the end of the fourth century, Jerome decided to translate the Old Testament into Latin from the Hebrew manuscripts that were available to him, and not from the "traditional" Greek text. This fact provoked a reaction from Augustine, who considered that the Greek translation of the LXX must be the starting point of every translation, since it had the authority of the apostles...

    $426.00

  • THE HOLY PEOPLE OF GOD
    SVETLANA KHOBNYA
    This collection of essays addresses aspects of Christian identity formation as God's holy people in a global context in the midst of various challenges. The contributors offer interdisciplinary explorations on what it means to live as God's holy people in different settings and consider challenging questions from biblical, historical, theological, missiological, and pastoral pe...

    $639.00

  • CROWNED WITH IMMORTAL GLORY
    MATTHEW HUTTON HARTLINE
    The doctrine of glorification is a biblical teaching that has been neglected within the Protestant church and, therefore, underdeveloped in our day. For whatever reason that may be, glorification is a doctrine that will affect every aspect of one's overarching theology, especially the doctrine of soteriology. What one ultimately believes about the future will significantly impa...

    $497.00

  • PRACTICE-LED THEOLOGY
    NEIL K. FERGUSON
    Following a series of economic and political changes in the late 1980s, art/design schools and performing arts academies were incorporated into the university system. To justify their teachings as academic research, they developed the idea of practice‐led research. Practice-led research recognizes two or more languages--that is, the validity of both explicit/propositional knowl...

    $692.00

  • MISSIOLOGY REIMAGINED
    KENT MICHAEL SHAW I
    In this compelling research, Kent Michael Shaw I reveals a concise and comprehensive work on the development of Missions Theology informed by the perspectives from early African American missionaries. Missiology Reimagined unveils the hidden and ignored missions history of enslaved and free African Americans during the antebellum period of the United States. This book helps the...

    $550.00

  • CHRISTIAN ETHICS INTRODUCED
    HANS O. TIEFEL
    Christian Ethics Introduced asks why humans count as ends in themselves. The biblical answer was/is that humans have standing--inherent worth--as creatures in the image of God. This traditional answer yielded to seventeenth and eighteenth century enlightenment secularism. To these secularists, human reason promised to be a surer and more peaceable foundation for a just culture ...

    $621.00

  • LAMENT-DRIVEN PREACHING
    ELIANA AH-RUM KU
    This book challenges Christian communities to engage in lament--a mode of existence characterized by impassioned expression, witnessing, and personal or social protest in the face of evil and injustice, reflecting a profound yearning for God's saving presence. Divine lament responds to, and expresses solidarity with, human suffering, unveiling multiple facets of God's image and...

    $639.00

  • CATCH THE BIRD BUT WATCH THE WAVE
    FATILUA FATILUA
    This contextual biblical reading of Luke 18:18-30 (the encounter between Jesus and the rich ruler) foregrounds the political and economic context of the Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs). The reading carefully explores the biblical text's context, an exploration that includes looking at specific intertextual sources and engaging scholars from Asian and African co...

    $603.00

  • THE EPISTLE TO DIOGNETUS
    HENRY G. MEECHAM
    In this volume Henry G. Meecham provides a critical edition of the Greek text of the Epistle to Diognetus, accompanied by a translation, notes, and introductory material. The original publication has been lightly revised for a contemporary audience. ...

    $603.00

  • CHARACTER THEOLOGY
    TOM STEFFEN / RAY NEU
    Character Theology provides a natural, universal way for the world to engage God through his chosen cast of characters.As the media eras continue to change (oral to print to digital-virtual), too many Bible scholars, and consequently pastors and Bible teachers in the West and beyond, lack capability to effectively communicate Scripture to Millennials, Gen Z, and Gen Alpha. Thes...

    $710.00

  • RECLAIMING MEN’S SPIRITUALITY
    CHRISTOPHER FELIX BEZZINA
    Reclaiming Men's Spirituality is a study that investigates men's spirituality by exploring three research questions: Can a form of spirituality about men be identified and described, how can this spirituality be examined, and what is it that needs to be reclaimed? To answer these questions and at the same time remain committed to the importance of lived experience, this study o...

    $692.00

  • TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION
    THOMAS E. MALEWITZ
    Framed within the lens of Robert Greenleaf's Servant Leadership model, Truth and Reconciliation examines and explores trends through global historical accounts and examples of diplomatic leadership surrounding the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions of South Africa and Canada, as a guide to approach America's divided identity and racial tensions. Through the wisdom and diploma...

    $515.00