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The Violence of Scripture: Overcoming the Old Testament's Troubling Legacy

No one can read far in the Hebrew Bible without encountering depictions of violence carried out by human beings, sometimes in the name of God, or indeed...

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Our Shared Witness: A Voice for Justice and Reconciliation

This collection of Munib A. Younan's writings, speeches, and sermons reveals his context, his perspective, and his hope. Readers will find his theology to be contextual deeply rooted in his daily reality as a Palestinian Christian while at the same time being universal, offering insights and principles that apply to other situations in vastly different parts of the world.

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Clothing: Compass: Christian Explorations of Daily Living

Reinhold Niebuhr argued that one of the fundamental challenges to human existence is the anxiety caused by our desire to be perfect and godlike while knowing...

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Making Love Just: Sexual Ethics for Perplexing Times

These days sexual sin is far less about sex and far more about the misuse of power and exploitation of vulnerability. It's time to redraw the ethical map...

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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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Thinking Christ: Christology and Contemporary Critics

Jane Barter Moulaison's remarkable book engages contemporary critical understandings of Jesus Christ—including postcolonial, feminist, pluralist...

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Dorothee Soelle - Mystic and Rebel: The Biography

Renate Wind has composed a well-researched and searching biography of Dorothee Soelle (1929-2003), who became a true religious provocateur...

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Grace, Faith, and the Power of Singing: The Alma Christina Lind Swensson Story

The captivating biography of Alma Christina Lind Swensson will inspire every reader. Her work at Bethany College and Bethany Lutheran Church in Lindsborg, Kansas, demonstrated that women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries provided leadership in the church, both locally and nationally.

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Bugenhagen's Jonah: Biblical Interpretation As Public Theology

Bugenhagen's Jonah makes several significant contributions to Reformation studies. It is the first book published in English about Bugenhagen in over 80 years. It integrates diverse fields of study (including biblical interpretation, ecclesiology, worship, social reform and church history), draws upon the latest international scholarship, and translates original sources. Finally, the emphasis on Bugenhagen as a public theologian highlights the relationship between faith and daily life for every age.

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Religion and Culture: Contemporary Practices and Perspectives

This rich, broad-reaching anthology explores everyday religious practices across several of the world's religious traditions. Organized thematically—politics...

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The Practice of Prophetic Imagination: Preaching an Emancipating Word

Walter Brueggemann declares that the necessary character of truly prophetic preaching today is "a contestation between narratives." If the dominant narrative of our time...

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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.

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

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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.

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