Augsburg Fortress

Leading with the Spirit: A Handbook on Leadership and Management for Clergy

Clergy leading faith-based institutions will find in this book practical tools for becoming effective stewards of people and resources in their organizations while being rooted in the Spirit An experienced and ecumenical group of clergy, policy leaders, and academics offer specific tools on important topics such as discovering the leader within, leading through changes, multicultural mission and management, spiritual entrepreneurship, creating a shared vision and strategy, and various topics on the stewardship of organizations.

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The Complete Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works Series 17 Book set

This wonderful series is a translation from the German editions of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke.

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Indexes and Supplementary Materials: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 17

The completion of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, the definitive English translation of the Critical Edition, represents a milestone in theological scholarship. Now, the editorial team has offered an essential companion to the entire series in the form of an index volume.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Tillich: A Brief Overview of the Life and Writings of Paul Tillich

Paul Tillich exercised a major influence on twentieth century Christian thought. In this brief introduction to his work, Dr. Daniel Peterson makes the case for Tillich's broader relevance again as a theologian who can take us beyond the extremes of fundamentalist religion and empty skepticism to a deeper religious faith or spiritual path open to doubt and questioning.

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Christian Social Teachings: A Reader in Christian Social Ethics from the Bible to the Present, Second Edition

No question has been as persistently nettling as the proper relationship of Christians and the Christian church to political power, and the results...

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Martin Luther, the Bible, and the Jewish People: A Reader

The place and significance of Martin Luther in the long history of Christian anti-Jewish polemic has been and continues to be a contested issue. It is true that Luther's...

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Ecumenical, Academic, and Pastoral Work: 1931-1932: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 11

Volume 11 in the sixteen-volume Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition, Ecumenical, Academic, and Pastoral Work: 1931-1932, provides a comprehensive...

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Ethics of Hope

For a time of peril, world-renowned theologian Jürgen Moltmann offers an ethical framework for the future...

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

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Theological Education Underground: 1937-1940: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 15

With extensive commentary about their historical context and theological significance, this volume of writings covers a crucial time and an understudied period...

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A Field Guide to Contemporary Worship: How to Begin and Lead Band-Based Worship

This is a must-have guide for anyone thinking about starting a contemporary worship service and an essential reference work for those wondering about the nuts and bolts of instrumentation...

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The Art of Curating Worship: Reshaping the Role of Worship Leader

Written by Mark Pierson, one of the pioneers in worship curation, this exciting new book explains why effective worship needs to be seen as an art form made up...

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Transformative Lutheran Theologies: Feminist, Womanist, and Mujerista Perspectives

The first of its kind, this book is a systematic representation of Lutheran feminist, womanist, and mujerista theologies: systematic, in that it addresses...

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A People's History of Christianity: Byzantine Christianity, Vol 3

This third volume in the pioneering A People's History of Christianity series focuses on the religious lives of ordinary people and introduces the religion of...

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Proclaiming the Gospel

This volume captures central emphases of the Lutheran tradition for use in preaching, especially its distinctive use of the Bible, its Archimedean theological...

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Sanctorum Communio: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 1

Now in an affordable paper edition, Sanctorum Communio is more readily usable for teaching and scholarship. The work, available in this series for the first...

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Holy Ground: A Liturgical Cosmology

Now available in paperback, Holy Ground illumines how the central symbols and interactions of Christian liturgy yield a new understanding and experience of the...

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