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  • BAPTISTS AND BUSINESS
    PAUL R. WILSON
    This study of Baptist businessmen from Jarvis Street Baptist Church in Toronto breaks new ground. The challenges to faith exerted by the arrival of a new materialistic social ethic and a business-dominated culture in the last half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has received little attention from Canadian historians. Instead, historians have primarily focused on...

    $710.00

  • BETWEEN FAITH AND REASON
    JEFFREY L. MORROW
    The Roman Catholic Modernist Crisis erupted as the nineteenth century came to a close and the twentieth century began. Pope St. Pius X famously condemned "modernism" as "the synthesis of all heresies" in his 1907 papal encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis. Many may wonder whether or not modernism remains a relevant field of study. Roman Catholic Modernism and the Catholic Magist...

    $391.00

  • STEWARD OF A LIVING TRADITION
    JOHN SULLIVAN
    This book explores what is entailed in serving as a steward of the living tradition of the Christian faith in the world of education. It examines: •tradition as a resource •leadership •education as a spiritual endeavor •curriculum and Christian learning, and •the task of connecting tradition to culture John Sullivan engages with historical perspectives and contemporary professi...

    $905.00

  • THE POWER OF MATURE EMPATHY
    SUNG HYUN LEE
    Each day, approximately twenty-five thousand people die from hunger and related problems while on the other side of the globe people worry about how to reduce food waste. Looking at photos of children who are skin and bones, we wonder what is wrong, and how we can transform our polarized world into a just and caring one. This book finds one of the answers from the power of matu...

    $497.00

  • FAITHFUL INHERITANCES
    YAMIL ACEVEDO
    Faithful Inheritances bridges academic rigor and accessibility, inviting readers to deeply explore how Christian faith shapes the ethnic identity and sense of belonging among second-generation Puerto Ricans. Over the past four decades, social sciences have extensively examined Latino/a(s) identities, but the influence of Christian beliefs remains underexplored. This book addres...

    $515.00

  • HEBEL, JOY, AND THE FEAR OF GOD
    RYAN BALL
    Is life vanity? Does time erase our meaning? Are the evils of society and one's lot inescapable? Are we consigned to scavenge for scraps of enjoyment in our fleeting existence? In the end, does anything even matter? With refreshingly brutal honesty, Qoheleth (the primary speaker in the book of Ecclesiastes) delves into life's difficulties, evils, and mysteries. But he does not ...

    $532.00

  • CONTEMPLATION AND FREEDOM
    BENEDICT R. SHOUP
    How does prayer shape action? How does sustained engagement in deep prayer shape our very freedom to act? This volume explores the relationship between Christian contemplative prayer and the exercise of freedom. Over the past half century, the desire for a better integration of spirituality and theology has emerged as a significant theme in theological writing. While the questi...

    $532.00

  • LIVING MORE HUMAN(E)LY?
    REBECCA LEONG
    Does it really matter who one chooses to marry and how one makes a choice as to who to marry, or is it basically true that "you always marry the wrong person"? Was Jane Austen right in her portrayals of couples marrying for "love," for "comfort," or for both? What about arranged marriages? Does "the one" exist? How about soulmates?Will getting involved in casual sex or "hook-up...

    $798.00

  • DO NO HARM
    ERNEST VAN ECK
    This Festschrift in honor of Professor Charles Fensham aims to celebrate his remarkable contributions to the fields of missiology and systematic theology as well as his advocacy for the rights of the LGBTQI2+ community. His books include Emergence from the Dark Age Ahead (2011), To the Nations for the Earth (2013), Misguided Love (2019), and Mission as Penance (Pickwick Publica...

    $727.00

  • AT THE INTERSECTION OF HERMENEUTICS AND HOMILETICS
    YUNG SUK KIM
    While hermeneutics involves comprehensive study of the biblical text, whether through historical or literary or reader-focused approaches, homiletics is concerned with a selected theme/message and on the composition and delivery of sermonic discourse aimed at a particular audience. But the border between hermeneutics and homiletics is blurry because both disciplines require rea...

    $834.00

  • VALOR AND VULNERABILITY
    ROBERT C. DYKSTRA
    Intimacy, vulnerability, precarity, resiliency, and loss are ingredients of any life, though they take on particular shape and tone when we listen to the experiences of boys and men. The voices and stories of men and boys are invitations for pastoral ministers and theologians to understand and respond to their joys, struggles, and sorrows, as well as to recognize and affirm the...

    $763.00

  • BAPTISM IN TIMES OF CHANGE
    HARALD HEGSTAD
    What happened to baptism in Nordic countries? Traditionally, most newborns were baptized into the Lutheran majority churches. The rapid decline of this practice in recent decades has sparked reflection on the church's role in society and on the cultural and theological meaning of baptism in a secularized society. The decline of infant baptism has made way for new practices and ...

    $852.00

  • RELUCTANT REVOLUTIONARY
    JOHN S. OAKES
    Andrew Eliot (1718-1778) was one of the most prominent Boston leaders in the second half of the eighteenth century. As minister of one of the city's biggest churches, his was an important political as well as religious voice into the earliest years of the American War for Independence. But Eliot has often been neglected or misunderstood. In this first full biography, John S. Oa...

    $497.00

  • THE BLACK BAPTIST EXPERIENCE IN CANADA
    GORDON L. HEATH
    This groundbreaking book is a history of the Black Baptist experience in Canada. It includes diverse and informative chapters on events, themes, and organizations such as the underground railway, gender, architecture, literature, civil rights, empire, and associations. It also focuses on several key early churches from the West Coast to the East Coast, along with important pers...

    $763.00

  • GOD AND FAITH
    IAN S. MARKHAM
    Discover the profound insights of Keith Ward, one of the most influential theologians of our time, through a dynamic collection of essays and responses.This seminar research textbook immerses readers in deep dialogue on some of the toughest theological questions. Explore philosophical idealism, process theology, epistemology, open theism, comparative theology, and the interplay...

    $461.00

  • STEPS TOWARD A TIBETAN UNDERSTANDING OF PURITY
    JAMES E. MORRISON
    Though of little concern to most westerners, notions of what is considered clean and unclean, pure and impure are of great importance to many cultures. Both ritual and moral purity and impurity are significant concerns for Tibetan Buddhists and Buddhists at large, being foundational to how they live their everyday lives. Steps Towards a Tibetan Understanding of Purity provides ...

    $710.00

  • JESUS AND PAUL IN THE CONTEXT OF JUDAISM AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY
    DONALD A. HAGNER
    In the late nineteenth century, Jewish scholars began to be interested in Jesus and eventually Paul as important figures in the history of the Jewish people. Rightly understood, they argued, Jesus and Paul belonged more to Judaism than to Christianity, as even radical-critical Christian scholars were concluding. The earliest believers in Jesus were exclusively Jews, forming som...

    $834.00

  • THE LONDON CORRESPONDENCE OF ANTHONY WILLIAM BOEHM
    ANTHONY WILLIAM BOEHM
    The world saw wave after wave of religious revival and spiritual renewal from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries, including Pietism, Methodism, and the Great Awakenings. German Lutheran Pietism, especially as represented by A. H. Francke's institutions at Halle, served as a clearinghouse for many of the swells of Protestant reformation. One of the hubs of that communi...

    $798.00

  • ANXIETY IN THE ERA OF UNCERTAINTY
    ALI CHAVOSHIAN
    The burgeoning field of Lacan studies critiques that most discourses have been formed in dominant cultures, considering the impacts of Western imperialism on the structure of non-Western or postcolonial human subjects. This groundbreaking work invites readers to read Jacques Lacan's Seminars in an interdisciplinary way with scholars from diverse backgrounds. Readers will see a ...

    $657.00

  • THE METAPHYSICS OF POWER
    ANTHONY E. MANSUETO
    Mounting a searing critique of Martin Heidegger and Carl Schmidt--and their broader influence on the contemporary Left, including the work of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Žižek--Anthony Mansueto's The Metaphysics of Power argues that the common flaw of all contemporary political projects--Left and Right--is a narrow strategic focus on achieving and holding state po...

    $727.00

  • A CHORUS OF FAITH
    CARRIE FREDERICK FROST
    In honor of his career--his teaching and his scholarship--and his wide influence, among both scholars and nonacademic audiences, comes this Festschrift for Orthodox Christian theologian and ethicist Vigen Guroian. Guroian's depth and breadth are unique; he has made singular contributions to the fields of ethics and theology as well as composed popular works on gardening. He has...

    $550.00

  • LEVITICUS AS DISCOURSE
    ALLISON K. HAMM
    Leviticus as Discourse is an inquiry into textual interpretation as an activity of self-orientation. It explores how readers orient themselves to texts they do not understand, why they do it, and what happens in the process. Drawing on the work of Paul Ricoeur, George Steiner, and a range of voices across disciplines and faiths, Part I develops a hermeneutic of discourse in whi...

    $568.00

  • THE TRINITARIAN DHARMA
    PABITRA MANI BHANDARI
    As the gospel continues to spread to the farthest corners of the world, the Christian faith encounters an array of diverse cultures, religions, philosophies, and belief systems. This encounter serves as a catalyst for transformation, as Christianity both influences and is influenced by the new frontiers it reaches. The book at hand endeavors to explore this dynamic process, par...

    $515.00

  • SECULARISM AND THE PURSUIT OF TRANSCENDENCE, VOLUME I
    STANLEY E. PORTER
    We live in a secular age, or so we have been told. Nevertheless, the Christian church strongly believes that we still experience--and in fact are surrounded by--acts of transcendence, encounters with God that often defy imagination and explanation. And yet we do try to explain such phenomena, whether theologically, experientially, biblically, historically, philosophically, lite...

    $1,029.00

  • SECULARISM AND THE PURSUIT OF TRANSCENDENCE, VOLUME II
    STANLEY E. PORTER
    We live in a secular age, or so we have been told. Nevertheless, the Christian church strongly believes that we still experience--and in fact are surrounded by--acts of transcendence, encounters with God that often defy imagination and explanation. And yet we do try to explain such phenomena, whether theologically, experientially, biblically, historically, philosophically, lite...

    $1,064.00

  • IN THE PROVINCE OF THE DRAGON
    ROBERT BANKS / LINDA BANKS
    This book provides a close-up account of a singular woman's life and work. Sophie Newton's desire to serve God led her to the forefront of missionary work in Southeast China from the last years of the Imperial Dynasty. She lived through the tumultuous events of the Boxer Rebellion, the Nationalist Revolution, the Warlord Conflicts, and the rise of the Communist Movement. Newton...

    $461.00

  • BETWEEN THE PSALMS AND THE TWELVE
    MATTHEW I. AYARS
    This book initiates dialogue between recent scholarship on the Psalms and on the Book of the Twelve. While these two biblical corpora are seemingly similar, the scholarship on them has not been brought into fruitful conversation, until now. This volume seeks to demonstrate that insights gained from reading the two sets of biblical texts, even if done separately, can productivel...

    $763.00

  • THE DOCTRINE OF THE COVENANT OF REDEMPTION ACCORDING TO JOHN GILL (1697–1771)
    WANG YONG LEE
    What is the doctrine of the covenant of redemption? Why does John Gill (1697-1771), an English Baptist pastor and theologian, regard this doctrine as the kernel in his systematic theology? This book explicates how core theological doctrines in the Bible, e.g., the doctrine of God the Trinity, Christology, and soteriology, are integrated in the doctrine of the covenant of redemp...

    $639.00

  • DIGITAL TOGETHERNESS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
    CHANMIN CHUNG
    In an era when digital relationships define social landscapes, Digital Togetherness in the Middle East and North Africa offers a unique exploration into how these technologies impact ministries with young adults in the regions. Authored by ChanMin Chung, this compelling work delves into the effective use of social media, instant messaging, and video communication platforms to f...

    $515.00

  • CHAPLAINS INVESTIGATE THEIR PRACTICE
    MARTIN WALTON
    Chaplains Investigate Their Practice presents a collaborative study that analyzes more than a hundred instances of care by chaplains in various fields of chaplaincy in the Netherlands. The research provides an answer to the question: What do chaplains do--why, and with what results? Part 1 describes the method of the project. Part 2 consists of nine exemplary case studies illus...

    $834.00