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eBook-Fortress Commentary on the Bible set

A team of six scholar editors and seventy contributors provide clear and concise commentary on key sense units in each book of the Old Testament, Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each unit is explored through the lenses of three levels of commentary based on these critical questions. The result is a commentary that is comprehensive and useful for gaining insights on the texts for preaching, teaching, and research.

9781451489705
Sister Elisabeth Fedde: To Do the Lord's Will: Elizabeth Fedde and the Deaconess Movement Among the Norwegians in America

Elisabeth Fedde, a deaconess from Norway, answered a call in 1883 to come and help sick and indigent Norwegians in Brooklyn. Her story includes the history of the Lutheran Deaconess movement as it began in Germany, Norway and here, along with the struggles of American Lutherans as women began to take more public roles in society. This book tells what she suffered and how she struggled to make her dreams bear fruit.

9781932688986

$26.00
Encountering Jesus: Character Studies in the Gospel of John, Second Edition

Applying a comprehensive theory of character to the Gospel of John, Cornelis Bennema provides a fresh analysis of both the characters and their responses to Jesus.

9781451470062

$39.00
Gerhard O. Forde: A Life

Gerhard O. Forde was known for his teaching and preaching. Forde taught that theology is for proclamation. His classes were his form of evangelism. He used first order, primary discourse to speak directly to his hearers, not about God, but for God. He taught students to be preachers who would speak the unqualified word of grace and forgiveness. This book is an introduction to his teaching and witness.

9781932688962

$24.00
Saving Beauty: A Theological Aesthetics of Nature

With interdisciplinary verve, engaging systematic, philosophical, and art theory systems of aesthetics, this volume fosters the cultivation of the sense of beauty through creative, religious, and sacramental experience. All three types, in fact, are critically nec

9781451472233

$39.00
From Despair to Faith: The Spirituality of Søren Kierkegaard

This book not only offers a new way of approaching Kierkegaard's writings, but also shows how they might serve to illuminate and to deepen one's relationship with the divine.

9781451474695

$39.00
A Child Shall Lead Them: Martin Luther King Jr., Young People, and the Movement

Half a century after some of its most important moments, the assessment of the Civil Rights Era continues. In this exciting volume, Dr. Rufus Burrow turns his attention to a less investigated but critically important byway in this powerful story—the role of children and young people in the Civil Rights Movement.

9781451484540

$19.00
By Bread Alone: The Bible through the Eyes of the Hungry

Here biblical scholars take readings of the Old and New Testaments, exploring the dynamics of hunger and its causation in ancient Israel and the Greco-Roman world and revealing the centrality of hunger concerns to the Bible.

9781451465501

$29.00
Idols of Nations: Biblical Myth at the Origins of Capitalism

Roland Boer and Christina Petterson here produce a critical survey showing that the rise of capitalist theory was shaped by the way different economic philosophers read the Bible.

9781451465440

$29.00
The Future of the Word: An Eschatology of Reading

This book argues that texts--even literary texts--, have an eschatology, too, a part in God's purpose for the cosmos. This book tells the story of how readers participate in the future of the word, the eschatology of texts.

9781451470321

$39.00
Augustine's Theology of Preaching

How do the theological convictions that Augustine brought to his preaching challenge, sustain, or shape our work today? By presenting Augustine's thought on preaching to contemporary readers Sanlon contributes a major new piece to the ongoing reconsideration of preaching in the modern day.

9781451482782

$36.00
The Ethics of Death: Religious and Philosophical Perspectives in Dialogue

In The Ethics of Death, the authors undertake an examination of the deaths that we experience as members of a larger moral community. Unafraid of difficult topics, they fully engage suicide, physician assisted suicide, euthanasia, capital punishment, abortion, and war as areas of life where death poses moral challenges.

9780800699192

$34.00
A Study Companion to The Bible: An Introduction, Second Edition

This Study Companion is a handy complement to The Bible: An Introduction textbook, providing primary readings and a running glossary of terms keyed to the textbook along with exercises for further reflection.

9781451483628

$19.00
Before Nature: A Christian Spirituality

Here Santmire explores the pursuit of a theology bound up with nature and its condition, especially the fragility and fervent expectation of nature's redemption.

9781451473001

$39.00
Jesus and Temple: Textual and Archaeological Explorations

James H. Charlesworth gathers essays from world-renowned archaeologists and biblical scholars to address the current state of knowledge and to consider anew vital questions about the temple's significance for Jesus, for his followers, and for New Testament readers today.

9781451480368

$39.00
Uncovering Spiritual Narratives: Using Story in Pastoral Care and Ministry

Drawing on both theological approaches and real life experiences, Coyle creates a contextual pastoral theology that helps caregivers find the power of God in people's stories.

9780800699291

$29.00
The End of Hope--The Beginning: Narratives of Hope in the Face of Death and Trauma

A skilled and compassionate storyteller, McCarroll introduces readers to five expressions of hope through detailed and poignant case studies.

9780800699666

$29.00
A People's History of Christianity: One Volume Student Edition

The essential material from A People's History of Christianity is available for classroom use covering topics of Early Christianity.

9781451470536

$49.00
A People's History of Christianity, Student Edition: From the Reformation to the 21st Century, Volume 2

The essential material from A People's History of Christianity is available for classroom use covering topics from the Reformation to the Twenty-first Century.

9781451470253

$39.00
The Entangled Trinity: Quantum Physics and Theology

In this volume, Ernest Simmons asks what the current scientific understanding of the natural world might contribute to our reflection upon the relationship of God and the world in a Triune fashion.

9780800697860

$39.00