Augsburg Fortress

Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah: Second Edition

Nickelsburg introduces the reader to the broad range of Jewish literature that is not part of either the Bible or the standard rabbinic works.

9780800699154

Like Fire in the Bones: Listening for the Prophetic Word in Jeremiah

9780800698287

Many Voices: Pastoral Psychotherapy in Relational and Theological Perspective

Many Voices is a must-read textbook for pastoral psychotherapists and pastoral counselors in clinical training as well as a guide for those in professional...

9780800698706

Ethics That Matters: African, Caribbean, and African American Sources

In light of globalization, ongoing issues of race, gender, and class, and the rapidly changing roles of institutions, this volume asserts that Christian social...

9780800619763

Kierkegaard: A Brief Overview of the Life and Writings of Soren Kierkegaard

The Danish philosopher wrote for that solitary individual, for every thoughtful reader everywhere, in every time. Kierkegaard indirectly offers three principal options that pervade the human condition. The human condition is a disability healed only by divine intervention based on one's eternal link to God. Albert Anderson provides substance to make the readier sit up and think, yet he does it with language that can easily be handled.

9781932688535

Lutheran Study Bible (Electronic Version)

The Lutheran Study Bible with NRSV spotlights introductions, commentary, and essays by more than 60 Lutheran pastors and professors. It's composed to invite readers...

9781451425604

Jeremiah: Pain and Promise

Whether dealing with collective catastrophe or intimate trauma, recovering from emotional and physical hurt is hard. Kathleen O'Connor shows that although...

9780800699307

The Hope of Eternal Life: Lutherans and Catholics in Dialogue XI

Catholics and Lutherans share the sure and certain hope that the justified departed are in Christ and enjoy the rest that belongs to those who have run the race. This common statement of Round XI offers fresh insights into some issues that proved contentious in the debates of the sixteenth century. Issues explored include the communion of saints, prayers for or about the dead, the meaning of death, purgation, an intermediate state, and the resurrection.

9781932688634

Teaching the Bible in the Parish (and Beyond)

These lectures raise awareness about the various ways the church has traditionally interpreted the Bible and explores a mixture of contemporary approaches to scriptural interpretation. Five ELCA scholars were invited to offer lectures out of their particular perspectives and scholarship. Each lecturer traveled to three sites where each delivered major presentations exploring important and innovative Lutheran perspectives on biblical interpretation, making a case for the promise of one, some, or even all of them.

9781932688580

The Quest for the Historical Satan

The figure of Satan has for centuries embodied or incarnated absolute evil. Existing alongside more intellectualist interpretations of evil, Satan has figured...

9780800663247

Rethinking Faith: A Constructive Practical Theology

What can practical theology contribute to other theological disciplines and the church about the nature of God and the church's witness to Jesus Christ in the...

9780800697549

Encountering the Jewish Future: with Wiesel, Buber, Heschel, Arendt, Levinas

Marc Ellis maintains that the most vital questions about Judaism are prefigured in the work of Elie Wiesel, Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Hannah Arendt,...

9780800697938

Great Christian Thinkers: From the Early Church through the Middle Ages

In brief portraits, Pope Benedict XVI offers engaging, perceptive, and edifying sketches of some of the great thinkers and writers of Christianity. Pope...

9780800698515

Christian Dogmatics: Volume 1

Christian Dogmatics is a two-volume survey of the twelve major loci of Christian doctrine, each treated extensively in terms of its biblical foundations,...

9780800698683

Christian Dogmatics: Volume 2

Christian Dogmatics is a two-volume survey of the twelve major loci of Christian doctrine, each treated extensively in terms of its biblical foundations,...

9780800698690

Working: Compass: Christian Explorations

Working. We spend most of our waking hours doing it but rarely consider its theological meanings or implications. Is work a punishment or curse, an avenue to...

9780800698102

Suffering and Salvation in Ciudad Juárez

Nancy Pineda-Madrid's powerful reflection on this destructive and dehumanizing violence, based on first-hand knowledge of the traumatic situation in Juárez,...

9780800698478

Preaching Christ in a Pluralistic Age: Sermons by Carl E. Braaten

Many of the sermons in this volume challenge the pluralistic theology of religion that effectively nullifies the Great Commission to preach the gospel to all the nations. These sermons are mostly didactic, doctrinal, and unabashedly Christocentric. In the long run the only thing that will sustain the church through is firm confidence in the biblical truth that God revealed himself in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

9781932688627

Liberating Lutheran Theology: Freedom for Justice and Solidarity in a Global Context

Spanning the continents, three internationally respected theologians demonstrate how the thought and legacy of Martin Luther can serve in an ecumenical and...

9780800697785

Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches

Disrupting Homelessness unmasks the futile assumptions of our present approaches to homelessness and suggests ways in which Christians and Christian communities...

9780800697976